march 2024

• overview
• went hiking and bathed in a waterfall
• hadn't been hiking in a long time. saw little monkeys on the way too!
• celebrated a friend's birthday at a vegan tiki bar
• spent 3 hours on buses to get there
• spent too much money but the food was good
• saw dear friends i hadnt seen in a while again and drank beer
• im in my drink-what-is-cheapest era
• had my hair cut
• i have brown hair again for the first time since 2021
• went to lollapalooza
• hozier: 10/10
• king gizzard and the lizard wizard: 10/10
• limp bizkit: 9/10
• tulipa ruiz: 8/10
• supla: 6/10
• thirty seconds to mars: 2/10
• xamã: 0/10
• saw many movies, for some reason
• read very little
• i'm learning how to play heel turn 2 by the mountain goats and say yes by elliot smith on the guitar
• spent most of the month focused on trying to finish a demo reel so i can apply for a job in early april
• changed my phone's notification sound to that pikmin sound

input

books / texts

• reading mistborn by brandon sanderson
• reading it alongside friends!
• rereading the name of the wind by patrick rothfuss
• one of my favorite books of all time! i first read it before i went to college, and now i'm rereading having graduated
• much of the book takes place at a university, and it's interesting to remember my vision of what it would be like to be studying at one when I read it for the first time
• read and abandoned the left hand of darkness by ursula k le guin
• started it because of bookbug, and i found it interesting but i just didn't feel like continuing it and i didn't want to force myself to finish
• reading this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone
• i read very little of it this month, but I still want to finish it
• started notes from the underground by dostoevsky
• it's the april bookbug book, and i've been wanting to read it for a long time, ever since i received a copy as a gift from a dear friend

filmes

• watched dune (2021)
• didn't like it very much
• watched dune 2 (2024) twice
• liked it a lot!
• watched killers of the flower moon (2023)
• very good
• watched stop making sense (1984)
• veeeeeeery good
• watched the strange thing about the johnsons (2011)
• bad
• watched shinjuku boys (1995)
• veeeeeeeery good. i need to watch more movies about trans people
• watched carandiru (2003)
• very good
• watched crash (1996)
• veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery good
• watched glass (1958)
• very good

tv shows

• continued to watch dungeon meshi
• keeping up with anime is so good
• started to watch the walking dead
• more than 10 years late, but i'm enjoying it a lot... i'm a huge fan of post-apocalyptic media that focuses on the interpersonal relationships between the survivors...

games

• played a lot of ffxiv on the beginning of the month but that's it
• i stopped paying my sub with the intent of playing other games but i ended up occupying myself with other things in the meantime...

output

few drawings but quite a bit of animation