Properly-made a little web thing I half-made ages ago.
https://www.ryliejamesthomas.net/powerfulimages
Haven’t put many images in there yet.
Properly-made a little web thing I half-made ages ago.
https://www.ryliejamesthomas.net/powerfulimages
Haven’t put many images in there yet.
I thought I’d start a draft and do this over a few days, but I puked it all out in one go.
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I don’t think any films really impressed me. I guess The Look of Silence got to me. Plenty of films were good, but that’s it. I watched a lot of cat docos.
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Music: I spent a lot of time in the first couple of months making a holiday playlist and then trying to get it into a proper order, so burnt out my tolerance for some of these songs, but I’m enjoying going through them again. Like 2023 some of these have become all-time faves.
Links go to Youtube.
Maybe this year I’ll listen to some music that’s not from the 80s~
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In the 2023 post I said ‘2024 is the year of perfume so far, look out.’ I tried a lot of things. I feel a lot clearer about what kinds of things I like, mostly citrus when it’s hot; sharp, smokey, mediciny things when it’s cold; pink and powdery and musk sticky when I’m alone. I never seem to like leather, vanilla, nor white florals, but I think I’ll be able to find something flowery I like eventually.
Going through all these samples I haven’t smelt in a while, smelling the bottles, getting me all excited.
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I always forget games. But I really liked Cape Hideous by Jake Clover. Otherwise I think I played Earth Defense Force 4.1 and Earth Defense Force 6 a lot. I was enjoying Yakuza 0, but it killed my computer’s motherboard somehow. I swear last time I got into a Yakuza game it fucked my computer too.
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I made a little tap/click-on-things game when I was away: Sea of Earth. But that’s it for me and games.
I’d wanted to make an album last year, but only ended up finishing one song, and that was made in a few days for someone else’s game. And it wasn’t even really complete, I wanted to make a longer edit but then my computer broke. Still, I’m feeling pretty comfortable with the process with the gear I have here, and made plenty of bits of songs. This year . . .
I’ve been wanting a new website for a while now, but can’t settle on a design I like. Got so sick of looking at it I’ve put up something temporary. Which probably means it’s not temporary.
The old one feels really lifeless, and this isn’t much better, but at least feels like it has room to evolve.
Trying the Internet Archive for video hosting. They generate a very small, low quality MP4 version of the MOV files my camera makes, so I’ll need to experiment with my own MP4s next time, but at least they also store the original files. I think I’ll finally get round to getting off Youtube.
I never managed to settle on a set order for my holiday playlist, but the first three songs here are locked-in as the opening.
Also never managed to fit this in:
I’ve started a new blog to keep track of notes on perfumes I’ve tried.
???? https://plog.ryliejamesthomas.net/ ????
I still have to add some features, primarily tags, but it’s working fine for now.
Also I finally got tags setup on my music blog. The only downside of Textpattern is that tag support isn’t built-in, and you have to fiddle with a not very well documented plugin to use them.
Here’s my messy 2023 summary post ✨
I had good experiences watching a bunch of things I’d been meaning to watch for a while, or by directors I’d been meaning to check out for a while:
Lots of docos:
Highlight of MIFF was seeing Querelle again.
My 2022 post said ‘I didn’t listen to much I really liked’, but I guess I made up for it in 2023. Feel like I found some of my all-time favourite songs. Some highlights:
Started enjoying singles last year, bought lots of 7″.
Didn’t release much. Was commissioned to do a game mid-year and started another one in December, messed with music but nothing’s really come of it.
Read shit all.
2024 is the year of perfume so far, look out.