Perhaps a predictable answer, but it’s gotta be Twin Peaks: The Return for me- unafraid to completely push the limits of fiction. I still think about it all the time!

Saw Pallbearer for the 10th time on NYE 😌

Favorite records this year 😌 You can trust me over any given critic, because I would not hesitate to fight a sword duel over the honor of these albums, a la Bolaño’s self insert character in the savage detectives- ⚔️

the recapitulation in Cassandra Gemini after 30 minutes of diverging exploratory jam is so incredible- up there with the best of Yes. Frances the Mute getting a 2 is definitely the most embarrassing early pitchfork review lmao

It was just so sick to see the Mars Volta with their new squad shredding all new material- Philomena Tsoungui and Eva Gardner were incredible

teared up reading the lyrics to Frances the Mute while I was cooking dinner- some of the funniest possible lyrics to have that reaction to-

started Greedfall again cuz I never beat it- the enlightenment era inspired setting is stunning to look at, wildly creative, and provides such an interesting and complex moral backdrop- would for sure love to see more RPGs break out of the purely medieval mold and into varied historical settings 🙏

Got this incredible Götterdämmerung shirt at the gift shop, which I’m sure is meant to be a “got milk?” pun, but seems to me to be asking “anybody up for burning down Valhalla?”

Amazing show for SFopera’s final night of Parsifal! Some really mind blowing set design- that center piece rotates and morphs into various locations throughout the opera-

Parsifal- LFG!

RIP to Jack DeJohnette, a sui generis talent who completely changed how i conceptualized the drums. This is one of my favorite performances of his, on a record I'm absolutely in love with: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkou...

I adore this trend- 10 games, off the top of my head- I limited myself to one entry per series and probably forgot something important tho😊

ambient guitar progress- it is a strange feeling to know all the notes I should play but have to think for an eternity about keyboard to fret equivalence…

New Greyhaven record is extremely good- the way the guitarist polyphonically bifurcates his parts into riffs and melodies within the same sections 😌 youtu.be/9TpMPZ8FSBY?...

very cool sequence from Derek Remes' compendium

Durer 😌

joined the @deathsdynamicshroud.com mixtape club recently and have been breathing in the rarified air of an avalanche of incredible releases that somehow continuously thread the needle of being both compositionally and and conceptually interesting. 😮 deathsdynamicshroud.bandcamp.com/album/1982-1...

I am continually in awe of Dave Otero's mixing prowess- I discovered his work through the incredible albums he did with Archspire and he mixed both the Fallujah and Shadow of Intent records as well. His ability to make so so many layers clearly audible, yet not clinically sterile is second to none.

catching up on some releases i missed- new Fallujah and Shadow of Intent records both mind blowing- aesthetic maximalism is ascendant; long may it reign 🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Y3...

I could actually gush about this track forever- the rhythmic fragmentation in the guitars and the vocal layering- and one of the best TSOAF choruses in their discography- I’m really in awe of the construction youtu.be/s5-Pwlf07L4?...

The Anthony Green countermelodies in the chorus of this track bring tears to my eyes- that is all. 🙏 (one of the best albums of a very stacked year so far, and a transcendent live show) youtu.be/X9DB9pd9Uyo?...

New Vildhjarta record goes insanely hard youtu.be/75mCr7po6g4?...

Screwheads on bluesky?

Incredible art from Slaine: Warrior’s Dawn 😌

yungstar's throwback JRPG: bladed up expedition 33

me: thank god I finally know how to parse Shannon entropy vs thermodynamic entropy and understand when they’re conflated in rhetorically unsound ways… my email inbox: hey just wanted to circle back about the request I sent last week

junk crab #xenogears

finally collected every volume of the 36 Lessons of Vivec… “All language is based on meat. Do not let the sophists fool you.” #morrowind

I love this image in the character creation screen so much

sick pre-rendered background from Bloodnet

Tel Vos ran so Miquella’s Haligtree could fly 🙏😌

Extremely cool detail in Tel Vos where a Telvanni tower root is growing through the cell tile in an out-of-the-way hallway- this is the only place in the game I’ve seen it so far- 😮

Sadrith Mora sunset 😌

elly xenogears (kinda

Morrowind tourism: rainy evening in Dagon Fel- atmosphere still unmatched 2 decades on...

Morrowind, sunrise over Mar Gaan-

“Enter the rhapsody of the God-Poet” “Fate, monstrous and empty, the whirling wheel of evil.” “How black my heart, roasting”

“The Dunmer don’t have kings— That’s just Imperial foolishness.”

Morrowind tourism: Vivec is easily the coolest TES city imo, except for possibly Sadrith Mora, which I haven’t hit on this new playthru yet-

I really do like Oblivion, but oh man the metaphysical and narrative weight they jettisoned between games makes me so sad- nice little Hegelian passage about the Nerevarine prophecies here-

started morrowind again...

Appleseed

mfw I got banned from pinterest for saving too many artistic nudes for gesture drawing- #acephalepilled

Ink and watercolor practice I ended up liking quite a bit- the perspective is weird on the right structure, but I like the workflow of painting large shapes and then using ink to find underlying implied form… 🤔

sick skull in Dorohedoro

Doing the DiCaprio pointing thing at this Kathy Acker reference-

Started reading Dorohedoro again- I’ve got that enviable problem where I love it so much that I don’t want to finish it- I’m in awe of Hayashida’s wildly imaginative design in pretty much every panel- subtle body horror via turkey head and corncob arms?!

(Doom Patrol vol 1)

I wanted to hit this trend earlier, but hit an artblock. But now l want my Bluesky followers to help me decide how far this goes. Shirt cut strip meme: Nyanners. #nyanart

I cannot believe scalpers hit the SF Autechre show 8 months out- is nothing sacred?!