monthly recap (march 2025)
i'm constantly so bored out of my mind that i need to put myself into situations that are only funny to me. thing is, it always ends with me being hurt— i've been going through an insane woke 2025 gintama plot for the past few weeks, but at what cost? it's exhausting on my spirit so i'm ready to return to being a stay-at-home otaku who doesn't socialize... until boredom gets the better of me again.
meal prep
it's easy to eat when you cook for yourself alone. i think the biggest factor is just having enough freezer space.
art log
media log
- lady gaga - ..., mayhem: basically relistened to every gaga album (aside from the film-related records) in preparation for the release of mayhem. dawn of chromatica remains peak, the fame monster is that girl, and joanne is, surprisingly, my third favorite. mayhem is really good! loved the first half. second half gets a bit slow, but i'll listen to it again sometime.
- puss in boots: the last wish: it was a good film but underwhelming after all the great news i had heard about it. the goldilocks storyline was definitely the highlight and i was fond of the nine lives and marriage plot threads as well. unfortunately i did not give a fuck about perrito who was the heart of the film. maybe it was his american accent or his grotesque character design that had nothing to do with the fantastical world of the film or his annoying humor. didn't care for the guy despite liking the role he played— a shame!
- impact pro wrestling - reckoning: first IPW show of the year. i was joking to someone about how pro wrestling is like drag for straight guys and IPW actually debuted a nonbinary pro wrestler who was a former drag queen. i like the new gimmick of jacked maximum; it helps separate his character from sir mr burns/james shaw and feels more accurate to new zealand. going into the event i was wondering what the hell a dog collar match was, but it really is just a fight where they chained up horus and spartan with dog collars and let 'em loose. you're treating these boys like animals and they're having the time of their lives!
- alien weaponry tour (with shepherds reign): i became a fan of the samoan-language band shepherds reign thanks to their song aiga being used by a local pro wrestler i like— so when i saw they were touring with alien weaponry i just had to see them live. crushed it. i'm not huge on alien weaponry but they were also exciting to watch. most surprising thing was how different metal concerts were from pop concerts in audience behavior. pretty much no phones out, everyone genuinely jumping and bumping about in enjoyment. it was a bit scary at first!
- sket dance C1-C100: i'm a massive gintama fan so i've been meaning to read sket dance for over a decade. it came to me in a dream so i finally got off my ass and began it. sket dance starts extremely slow and unfunny and feels like a carbon copy of gintama in a worse setting with a worse cast but i think it shines with its main character. bossun is painfully generic at first! but in sideM terms, he acts like a physical idol with the skills of an intelli who is really a mental. i like how soft and emotional he is without being pathetic or boring. the main trio dynamic seems weak at first because they lack a solid tsukkomi, but it works better once the side characters and plotlines become more interesting and the trio as a whole act as the tsukkomi. student council is great. love agata in particular he's literally me. sket dance is weird even for heartwarming gag manga standards because there are some chapters that are entirely sad without anything funny, some that are absolutely unrealistic and set in different time periods or involve shapeshifting, and some that are just sherlock holmes mystery stories. the tonal shift is extremely jarring but it keeps things fresh.
- nosferatu: excellent film with beautiful cinematography but a story that feels disjointed because it tries to have it both ways.
it's simultaneously about a woman being pursued by a man who violated her as a teenager and about a woman embracing her sexuality by engaging with a man who pleases her over her husband... except the man is the same person in both circumstances. unless it's meant to be a story about a woman dealing with her guilt of being sexually attracted to her abuser in which case idk. i was surprised to find out that this is the only version of dracula that centers around the mina character because it felt so natural that she should be the focus. despite that, she has a less active role than in other nosferatu films in that it's the professor who discovers the solution to killing orlok rather than herself.