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Today's high is somewhere in the low 50s and it's been raining off and on all day. Wanted to grill but there probably won't be a window. Making a fusion dish with wild rice, tuna, and mushrooms instead. Only wrote two articles today as the start of the long weekend. Both about GM vehicles lol. The most difficult one was making the Terrain sound good, it sounds pretty mediocre tbh. Being cheap is like it's only perk.. And the Hummer EV pickup just sounds ridiculous. 1,000 horsepower? Five tons??? 0 to 60 in just over 3 seconds??? Absord lol.
Listened mostly to Yutaka Hirasaka, the entire DATS disco, and now a Shinichi Osawa album. DATS is apparently considered citypop and i'd say i'm really into that genre. I saw that the dog behind the Doge meme died. It was like 18 or something though. I remember when that whole thing started and it annoyed me, but then later i found it funny lmao.
Breaking my show schedule to binge To The Wonder, which I started last night and is just fascinating to me. It's set in 2001 somewhere in China with a large Kazakh population??? It's just really fascinating to me. There's a lot of Kazakh spoken and I'm tryna figure out why they picked Yu Shi as the ML who is supposed to be Kazakh. It doesn't show any dubbers so i'm like, can he speak it? Is he part? Idk there's not much information in English on him, or the show tbh.
I continue to be somewhat underwhelmed by Young Babylon. In spite of Hou Minghao's face and lack of dubbing. It's just kinda...idk, too chirpy, too clean. The book was darker, more cynical, and didn't shy away from the grimy facts of these factories. So essentially the writer/director whoever whitewashed the show like crazy. Prolly bc something more like the book wouldn't have gotten past the censors who knows.
Oh the other thing I can't believe is the Spotify Car Thing business. Basically, Spotify is rendering the devices inoperable by December. It appears a lot of ppl bought them to use as a desktop music controller, not entirely sure how that works, but it's obviously a different demographic from those with older cars or whatever. But, ppl are rightly pissed bc they paid for these things and Spotify is turning them into garbage. I'm seeing ppl say that they could be at risk for a class action lawsuit too.
Listened mostly to Yutaka Hirasaka, the entire DATS disco, and now a Shinichi Osawa album. DATS is apparently considered citypop and i'd say i'm really into that genre. I saw that the dog behind the Doge meme died. It was like 18 or something though. I remember when that whole thing started and it annoyed me, but then later i found it funny lmao.
Breaking my show schedule to binge To The Wonder, which I started last night and is just fascinating to me. It's set in 2001 somewhere in China with a large Kazakh population??? It's just really fascinating to me. There's a lot of Kazakh spoken and I'm tryna figure out why they picked Yu Shi as the ML who is supposed to be Kazakh. It doesn't show any dubbers so i'm like, can he speak it? Is he part? Idk there's not much information in English on him, or the show tbh.
I continue to be somewhat underwhelmed by Young Babylon. In spite of Hou Minghao's face and lack of dubbing. It's just kinda...idk, too chirpy, too clean. The book was darker, more cynical, and didn't shy away from the grimy facts of these factories. So essentially the writer/director whoever whitewashed the show like crazy. Prolly bc something more like the book wouldn't have gotten past the censors who knows.
Oh the other thing I can't believe is the Spotify Car Thing business. Basically, Spotify is rendering the devices inoperable by December. It appears a lot of ppl bought them to use as a desktop music controller, not entirely sure how that works, but it's obviously a different demographic from those with older cars or whatever. But, ppl are rightly pissed bc they paid for these things and Spotify is turning them into garbage. I'm seeing ppl say that they could be at risk for a class action lawsuit too.