Sempiternal but NOT Suicide Season?!?!?!??!?! Yeah, I guess Sandpit Turtle is a bit less depressing. But still. Going home for a few days this week. Got some anime purchases waiting for me. I love collecting physical copies of things. I want to start a vinyl collection soon. EDIT: I'm a hoarder of high-art. Come at me plebs. I stick my nose up at thee!
To be honest, I haven't listened to all of Suicide Season. I have a couple songs from that album on my MP3, but I've never listened to it all the way though. I will, though, eventually, and hopefully I'll enjoy every song and buy the CD.
I like to make up 'mix tapes' on CD for when I'm driving. I go all out, create theme albums for different driving moods and print up CD covers with artwork (downloaded, though often I'll heavily modify it). Here's a few:
They're good, but I reckon you should recreate them as crappy photocopies as a homage to the original mix tape covers.
This impressively lively cashmere/ silk owl scarf. Got it as a birthday present for a friend. https://www.etsy.com/listing/187573278/owl-scarf-festival-clothing-silk-scarf
Cheesecake for Mom. It's her birthday today. Made her a card, too. Also ordered a Sena 10C Pro Bluetooth Headset & Camera, for my upcoming motorcycle adventures. If all goes well I'll be making trips across the nation for fun.
My friend could not understand such a mix. I explained to him that the term Season of the Witch has a very specific meaning—on one hand it's Halloween and the period around it—fall giving way to winter during a notoriously stormy season, and on the other it also means a time of seemingly supernatural trouble and woe in the life of a person or a society. So the music needs to reflect both the pleasant, serene aspects of autumn and the sudden intense storms. I've since decided to move away from the really long, mostly progressive rock songs I posted before (instead I'm planning a series of classic rock CDs) and made this version: Outer cover: Inner sleeve: If you search YouTube for White Rabbit* by Rob Zombie it's actually a segment of music from one of his movies, short and incredibly intense. Reminds me of the absolute worst storm or worst moment possible in a person's life. On this version I started mellow and worked up to stormage. *Edit—looks like it might actually be called Run Rabbit Run—I originally found it while searching for cover versions of the Jefferson Airplane song, called White Rabbit. Funny how YouTube does that.
I haven't gone crazy with the buying myself stuff lately. A couple of PlayStation games, that's largely it. I did do a book haul just now. I bought Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, again, but in Italian this time. I also picked up Equal Rites and Word Sisters from the Discworld series (I've been sticking with the audiobooks so far, but I wasn't happy with the available narrations for these two)
An Acer Aspire 5 Slim Laptop, to replace an eight-year-old HP desktop and a twelve-year-old Dell laptop, both using Linux. Hello again, Windows, my old friend.
New inspiration strikes... Hello Windows my old friend It's good to hear from you again But I hear that you keep crashing Your reputation takes a thrashing And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the spinning icon...
It's not very big or heavy, so I reckon it would be pretty useless. Though it could make an interesting bruise.
Flip it around so the stone is on the palm side of your hand and deliver a sweeping slap. I mean, if you get attacked by a pre-1945 German military officer caught in a time loop or something.
I think I'm getting an idea about why guys wouldn't traditionally have their own engagement ring. They'd only see it as worthwhile if it could do some damage in a bar fight.
Or like, take secret pictures or decode things. Or have a pill inside. Wow, this all sounds completely different in today's world.
