Media log

I started this show because one of my friends really loves it and also because I want to watch more TV shows (I am very bad at watching TV shows). It took me, like, 2 months, but I finally finished the first season and liked it sooo much. My favourite episodes were 'Red Dress', 'Home Alone 4', and 'Funeral'!

I'm sure I've said this before, but the first two times I tried to read 'Annihilation,' I didn't really like it. I picked it back up on a total whim last year and found I couldn't put it down, which is, I guess, a testament to how tastes change. Anyway, I was sure this book couldn't possibly be *as* good as it, and then it was somehow even better. My good friend Control... Vandermeer has such an interesting cadence and I think that the unconventional chapters/chapter breaks really added to the whole thing. Can't wait to read the next one!!!

I have a hard time enjoying comics. I've never read them very avidly, so it's probably just an issue of not having found what's best for me—and I think this book *was* what's best for me! The story was simple but captivating and I loved the main character (I love failwomen forever...) I've seen other comics by the same author before and I took a few out because I liked this one so much! I like his artstyle a lot.

Reading this book was what I would call a uniquely infuriating experience, not because of the author's incompetence (which he definitely wasn't, as an aside) but because the subject matter being covered is so anger-inducing. Every few pages I'd have to look up and sort of glower at the floor of the bus. It's about the philosophy of Silicon Valley's AI crusaders, so I'm sure you can understand why. That being said, I highly recommend it—I learned a lot!

I'm about to say something deeply controversial: I thought the first 45 minutes or so of the FNAF movie were pretty good. Like, I elbowed my sister and went, Hey, if this is the FNAF movie, why's it so good so far? Anyway, this is not an opinion I maintained as the minutes progressed, but I did think it once and still do. Curious!

This movie was so unbelievably moronic but it is a great time *if* you watch it with someone who's going to throw peanuts at it with you. The plot twist is so ridiculous that you just have to laugh. However. In its favour. You can tell that James Wan was having a lot of fun with the camerawork and general cinematography, so good for him!

I liked this book soooo much. It's the perfect blend of comic and tragic and it spoke to me very deeply... it's *very* funny. I also wrote a longer, more serious review of it on my book reports page if you want to check that out!

Did not like this one. The art was really nice and I liked all the backgrounds and characters in it, but the story was stupid and overdone and didn't hold my attention at all. Also, I hate the main character so much. He's so lame.

Again, I watched Jerma play this (with J!) while I knit. I chose the stream because I'd seen this game around so I though it would be fun to watch him play something more recent, though I didn't think I would like it because I'm a horrible snob. I would up thinking it was pretty neat, though, and I might buy it if it ever goes on sale for cheap. It definitely wasn't what I was expecting, and that was nice.

Technically I didn't play this—I watched Jerma play it. However, it's 2025 and I feel like, as a society, we're past "does watching a streamer play a game count" discourse. I like how this game looks and sounds though I think I'd be very frustrated playing it, which is why it's a good thing my good friend Jerma985 played it in my stead.

I'm working on a page where I'll read and review and compile every popular creepypasta I can find and in the process of making it, I realized I've never read "Ted the Caver". I can see how it became such a cornerstone of online horror fiction and it's cool that it holds up so well today. I think a big part of that is how the original Angelfire site is still fully operational and so markedly of its time. It's a good, solid story, and I liked reading it!

I realized that, despite really liking the song "You Always Hurt the One You Love", I'd never listened to anything else by the Mills Brothers. Naturally, I had to rectify this at once. My favourites off this were the aforementioned, as well as "Basin Street Blues" and "Till Then".

This album isn't in the wheelhouse of what I normally listen to so it was very refreshing and I enjoyed it! My favourite songs were "Pájaro de fuego" and "La dueña ".

This movie is beyond incredible I love it sooo much. Absolutely wonderful dialogue and performances all along. 7 days of John... bear's can't climb trees... we had a truce... so good. Beyond good. Do yourself a solid and re/watch Cocaine Bear NOW!

This was such a bore. I do not understand why people like it. I hated all the characters and the horror part was lame, which is not something you want people to say about your *horror* movie, though I guess my opinion is irrelevant since this is one of the most well-known flicks of all time.

Watched this with my friend. It wasn't as good as I thought it would be because I know it as a cultural touchstone and was expecting more, but it was pretty good and I had a fun time watching it. I didn't know about the twist ending going in and I predicted it early on, but it was still fun watching it unfold.

Really good by webfiction standards and pretty good by others. The writing was definitely a bit cheesy at times and there were pacing issues throughout but I really liked the ending!

Alice made for a really interesting POV character though I think her roommate was a nonsense and superfluous plot device. I think, given the way the story ends, there was definitely a way to write it that cut him out, though I guess it’s possible the author didn’t know how the story would end when it started. I love characters who are manipulated by forces outside of their understanding but the revelation that that force in Alice’s case was herself but evolved into this inhuman thing with power over the road and driven by a need to know more was VERY exciting for me personality. The way that was revealed was subtle and I appreciated that, too!

I loved this movie and the funny thing is, I totally wasn't expecting to. I was thinking it'd be a sort of lame generic sci-fi slopfest and instead I got the most incredible 2-hour-long music video anyone has ever made. It has anything you could ever want: awesome CGI, light motorcycle and jet battles, evil clones, Michael Sheen being delightful, knock-off Mako and Raleigh of PacRim fame, and the most WONDEFUL soundtrack you've ever heard in your life. WHO GATEKEPT THIS FROM ME!

I watched this movie twice, once with one friend and once with another, and both of them were brought to tears by the sheer magic of Ice Cube's riveting, moving performance, the tense, high-stakes plot, and the gorgeous sound design and film editing. If you're going to die in an hour and a half, please watch 'War of the Worlds' so you can die knowing you watched the best art humanity is capable of producing.

I find this movie absolutely hysterical despite the fact that Fahad Mustafa's everything pisses me off. It has such a silly premise... it charms me! Consider me charmed! It is unfortunately very funny but only so long as you skip all the parts that are unfunny.

This movie is so dumb and so obscenely long, and for what? For what reason? We as a society have progressed past the need for stupid movies about giant sharks.

I've seen this movie a few different times and honestly consider it something of a comfort flick. It's not a very *good* movie but it charms me endlessly and I think Ed and Lorraine are very very cute. Obviously it doesn't scare me anymore but in my first watch the scene that scared me the most was probably the one where Lorraine dreams herself being stalked by the Nun in the study. Really, I think all the scenes at the Warren home are done really well, they all have a very particular atmosphere and I wish that the rest of the movie could've drawn on that so it could have been a good movie instead of just a fun one—but I guess we can't always get what we want now can we!!!

I liked this book SO much. I'm working on a longer review for my book reports page but I had a great time with it—it's such a clear portrait into an extraordinary life. I love the format Brandt used where he largely allows Sheeran's own words to speak for themselves and only intervenes to give them additional context. It makes for a very unique and immerssive read and I highly recommend it! + It's very funny.

I love absolutely everything Grant Green has ever played, and this album is one of my new favourites by him! It's fairly short but such a good time and such a treat to listen to :-) I've listened to it a few times over tonight, it's veryveryvery excellent! Plus the cover is very pretty.

This is a little cheating because I didn't see this play, but we did read it aloud in my playwriting class so I'm choosing to count it. I think I'd have liked it better if I saw a proper production of it—like this I thought it was alright, definitely a bit overwrought. I think most of its novelty and originality comes from the way it's performed, with the audience participation and whatnot, which I think is neat and I wish I could've seen it that way.

Decided to bite the bullet and finally read this in the interest of continuing my Magnificent Atwood Journey and I'm so glad I did. I felt queasy about every 5 pages so I consider this book a rousing success.

On a more serious note, I feel like this deserves a more serious review - one that shows more consideration on my part - but I don't really have anything to say because I feel like everthing I want to say is already right there in the book.

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

Listened to the audiobook while at work! The wonders of 1.5x speed...

This book is an overview of the moon landing through the lens of how people felt about it/what it meant to the world when it happened vs. today. I liked it -- I used to be really obsessed with space but it was more in the sense of facts so it was neat to get this more sociological (?) perspective. I thought it was funny that he brought up conspiracy theories because it feels like such a fringe idea to be like "oh the moon landings were fake", but apparently a lot more people believe in that than I thought o_o

He also discusses how astronauts are like modern-day knights in that they're so instantly recognizable and fuel jingoistic national pride and rhetoric which I'd never really thought about. All-American boys everywhere... I'd never thought about it that way before so I really appreciated the insight because now I can see that that's totally true.

Of course this isn't my first time listening to this album but I listened to the whole thing several times this week so I thought it would be good to add here. It's so quintessentially G&tH...

There's only 6 songs on this album and I like them all soooo much but my favourites are probably "Avalanche! Oh, Avalanche", "In Fact", and "Fin Song 8". Something about "Isabelle" makes me really sad...

I'd never listened to any Cocteau Twins before this for a very silly reason (my friend whose music taste I dislike on principle likes them). But then I sat down and listened to the whole album with them and UNFORTUNATELY. I really really liked it... -___-

My favourite songs off the top of my head are "Evangeline" and "Summerhead" but I'd have to relisten because I know there were more I liked that I can't remember right now. Whatever. Who knew that if you try new things you might like them.

The longer I think about this book the stupider I feel it was. Its premise was vaguely fun (what if there were wormhomes in pseudo-Ikea) but it's sooo heavy-handed with its nebulous theme of Capitalism Bad that it honestly felt like I was choking on it at times. The characters are insufferable partly because I think the author assumed you'd like them off the bat because they're Bravely Diverse and Tortured or whatever and they all use gratuitous therapy speech.

The whole thing pissed me off. I have a problem where right after I read a book I want to be nice to it and then my opinion of it plummets in the following days (if I disliked it) and then we wind up with reviews like this. READ SOMETHING ELSE!

This is going to be an extremely biased review because I have never seen an episode of Demon Slayer and I went to see this to make my siblings happy.

(Speaking of, we went to a theatre we'd never been to before and I liked it a lot...)

The guy sitting next to my brother was sooo stressed for the characters the entire time. At one point he actually started clutching his head which I thought was very funny because I could hardly understand the significance of whatever was going on. A guy in this gets his head chopped off like 12 times. The music was pretty good though :-) + I'm following this lawyer on Instagram whose current marketing tactic is making ads about this movie. Incredible sentence. Women love me btw.