me, playing Rock Band holding down a serviceable four-on-the-floor on the drums: maybe i'm secretly a Drums Genius. maybe there is a Drums Genius within me, begging to be unleashed me, when Rock Band asks me to do two quarter note kick drum hits in a row: wait. augh. fuck. ugh. balls. shit. augh.

i'm too unemployed for my usual hobonichi techo, so i'm working with a cheap planner from half price books this year. it's perfectly serviceable, the layout suits my needs just fine. needed some stickers tho

auld lang sine auld lang triangle auld lang sawtooth auld lang square

happy "adding the smallest possible amount of black eyed peas to your chilli to make your mom happy even though you're not really into black eyed peas" day to all who celebrate

Live by these fucking words in 2026. Be SPICY and lend a hand.

this year was successful professionally, but I feel like I let a few things fall by the wayside personally. in 2026 i'm hoping to find a new gig and build a more sustainable balance between the professional and the personal. and if I can't do that, I would at least like to release some new tunes 🎶

you may notice that there is a soft comfy cat bed in front of the fireplace. but our little Junie is too discerning for such things

over ten years ago, when Maff and I first started dating, we spent a day hitting up every used game shop in town because I had lost the little dongle that hooked up the plastic drums to my Wii and we couldn't fully enjoy Beatles Rock Band without it. none of the shops had one, of course.

Just a brief update for the dev log. 3.5 weeks until Perfect Tides: Station to Station is out! meredithgran.com/dev-log-dece...

update: it's genuinely impressive how well this thing can revitalize a two-day-old tonkatsu

shout out to my brother and his wife for aiding in my transformation into a machine that inputs hot DDR jams and outputs awkward stepping maneuvers

[smash brothers announcer voice] MICHAEL CLAYTON [tinny voice from wiimote] ᴵ’ᵐ ⁿᵒᵗ ᵃ ᵐᶦʳᵃᶜˡᵉ ʷᵒʳᵏᵉʳ ᴵ’ᵐ ᵃ ʲᵃⁿᶦᵗᵒʳ

we got an air fryer for christmas, so if any of y'all have any air fryer tips, tricks, strats, cheats, beatums, finishing moves, or secret techniques, i would love to hear about them

ME: team rocket will never steal these rare Pokémon! Not unless they wanna take on me and my fully evolved Miss Cigarettes! MISS CIGARETTES: miss cigarettes

made pizza and biscuits today 👍

we watched The Holdovers for the first time tonight, but i had Paul Giamatti confused with James Gandolfini, so i spent the whole movie all like "none of these people look like Tony Soprano, what's happening here"

Today I made a candy glass sugar cookie based on Ellsworth Kelly's 'Austin' chapel (2018) on the Blanton Museum grounds.

spending an evening at the theatre, excited to see how our old buddy Poirot thinks his way out of this one

Station to Station comes out in one month, I can't tell you how often I feel like this image

absolutely crazy to me that the new James McMurtry didn't make the top 10 here, but there are still lots of good tunes on this list. I haven't had a chance to listen to the new JaRon Marshall just yet, so it's #6 placement has me excited to check it out

Gundam Update: i bought tickets to an Endless Waltz/Urdr-Hunt double feature screening in January so now i have to shotgun all of Gundam Wing and Iron-Blooded Orphans as fast as i possibly can

now I'm on ZZ Gundam, which casually reveals that the Argama includes live animals in it's onboard food supply. who takes care of these animals? whose job is it to kill them? do they put the animals into animal-shaped normal suits during space battles?? the people demand answers (i'm people)

ɴᴏᴛ ɴᴏᴡ ʜᴏɴᴇʏ….ᴍᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ɪꜱ ᴡᴏʀᴋɪɴɢ ᴏɴ ᴀ ɢʟᴏᴄᴋᴇɴꜱᴘɪᴇʟ ᴘᴀᴛᴄʜ ꜰᴏʀ ʜᴇʀ ꜱʏɴᴛʜᴇꜱɪᴢᴇʀ !

#MusicMonday Industrial Music Edition device created by Scoliosis Rick scoliosisrick.tumblr.com

it's finally cold in atx, made pollo guisado about it

git gud is a common gamer phrase. it means "become a good person."

i am building custom reaper toolbars the likes of which have never been seen

"video game mechanics?" Actually, they're called developers.

DAILY RECORDING THREAD RULES: 1) i might miss a day every now and again and that's ok. 2) you can mute the thread at any time if you think it's annoying. i understand and support your decision. 3) you can stop the thread completely by offering me full time game audio employment.

there are Laura Palmers everywhere for those with the eyes to see

man, i'm out here, unemployed, pinching pennies to the point where i won't buy salmon at the grocery store or replace my mascara, and my car drops $6000 worth of repairs on me within the space of two months. more than completely negating any savings I've built up by denying myself treats.

no DDR for me today i guess

Zeta Gundam definitely has Thoughts and Ideas about gender, but in the way that a small child has Thoughts and Ideas about gender. "some girls don't want to be mommies." that's right buddy, good job. "but! but some girls DO want to be mommies." wow buddy, you're on a roll there

got a friend to watch this finally, and he loved it. you could love it too! come ponder the Orb

me, about to drive to Houston to take the N1 JLPT even though i haven't studied my Japanese regularly in like a year: my name is Emily Meo, welcome to Jackass

my Sylux amiibo arrived today! happy Metroid Prime 4 launch day to Sylux, my little buddy 💙

Today's the day! I hope everyone enjoys exploring Viewros and playing as Samus again. It was an absolute privilege working on Prime 4 with such an incredible audio team. I can't thank them enough for giving me the opportunity ❤️ (pst don't forget to play with rumble on) youtu.be/0R_e6GdaOwE?...

happy launch day to Metroid Prime 4!! i'm thrilled to finally see it out in the world. sending all my love to the incredible team at Retro Studios, and to every player turning up the volume today as they explore Viewros for the first time. happy hunting! 🧡💜💚

one cool way that i've become more powerful over the past year is that i've gotten much better at laying down basslines without feeling the need to make a bunch of timing edits right after. i used to slice and dice my basslines up like crazy to get them feeling "perfect"

i don't do Spotify, but I did get my Tidal Rewind recently. they tell me that i'm PENPALS's 25th biggest fan. but in my heart, i know that i'm really their 1st biggest fan. @tidal what will you do to correct this mistake

today i had to solve the mystery of "is my mix riddled with the worst phase issues i've ever heard in my life or do i just need to swap out the cable running to my avantone mix cube?" (it was, thankfully, the latter)

pretty good day

finally breaking out the rare waves Light2Sound microphone I bought a few months back; it's a microphone that uses a photo sensor, and converts any light that hits the sensor into sound. so far I'm picking up a lot of hums, buzzes, white noise.

my favorite thing to do is watch a movie and say "the sound designer went crazy on that one" every time a particularly unrealistic-but-evocative bit of sound design is audible. everyone thinks it's cool and interesting when I do this, and that it's not at all distracting or obnoxious

update on this: i have surpassed the DDR skill I had as an aughts-era teen, despite being 35 years old and in average shape. i'm clearing songs in Heavy for the first time. it's never too late, my friends. it's never too late to be unemployed and playing too much DDR

celebrated cheesy potatoes day a little early this year

🚨 BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all NYC students to carry a 3DS.