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latespringI've been off twitter a lot recently, and cannot say that there has been a significant change in how much media I'm consuming, unless you count how many hours of d20 I've watched in the recent weeks. I hope this new month has been treating you kindly <3
Continuing the Michelle Yeoh watch with some good ones:
Silver Hawk (2004)
It's camp!!! Michelle Yeoh plays a vigilante hero fighting crime by night, a bored rich heiress by day. She has a star crossed romance with her childhood friend and handcuffs him to a lamp post. There are fight scenes that hinge entirely on bungee jumping. It's great!!!
This is 100% a movie that's so weirdbad it's good. I had so much fun with it!
True Legend(2010)
This was not, how do you say… good. The pacing is weird and it's like three movies in one, but with one one movie's worth of making sense. Three movies in a one movie trench coat!!!
It would have been mediocre if it ended halfway through, but it just Kept Going. Booo!!! Know when to end your movie!!
(Also despite being fairly high up the cast list, Michelle Yeoh was in maybe 5 minutes of this movie, alas. She's only as high up as she was because there are like, max five main/side characters who are important.)
Supercop 2 (1993)
Michelle Yeoh is back and is once again fighting crime. This is the sort-of sequel to Supercop (1992), and was released in Hong Kong as Project S.
It was pretty good! Not stunning but it's a solid movie to watch with friends. I don't know that I'd see it again without company though.
I don't think I finished anything this month?
Also did not watch any TV. I tried to start an episode of Hospital Playlist and it was pretty good, I just need to like, start watching it again! I am not a TV watcher generally--I need something to do with my hands, or some friends to watch with (hence me being like halfway through Vincenzo for months).
I spent basically all of my free time listening to dimension 20, haha.
In particular, I finished dimension 20: fantasy high sophomore year and started dimension 20: fantasy high, the seven. I also kept listening to things I had already been listening to, such as worlds beyond number and wow if true. I love a podcast!!!
I think d20 is sooooo engaging, especially now that I've really gotten into the cast dynamics. There's a certain parasocial element to ttrpg shows that's more similar to kpop (my last main fandom) than "traditional" media, which I found interesting. This is not a broad statement on the fanbase, more on how I relate to the media. It's definitely some element of "I trust these people to tell good stories" and "I like listening to what they say", which are both necessary for a ttrpg show. The way their social dynamics exist online is a lot more similar to streamers or youtubers than, say, book authors or TV animators.
TTRPGs are really fun, but (again, for me) they have a similar barrier to entry as podcasts, I think, which is that you have to be up for listening to some strangers goofing and doing bits for 1-2 hours. The stories of RPGs are inherently less "polished" and have way more of a "telling stories around a campfire" feel than "reading a book". It's a different mode of storytelling!
There's been some interesting crossover on this from Critical Role (I haven't personally watched any critrole stuff) where they animated one of their campaigns. It's definitely a different type of entry point into the fandom. Idk, thoughts!
Finished Yanyi's 2nd book of poetry in May, so I'll have thoughts then! I'm in the middle of a few other books too, so I'll have some thoughts on those if I finish them. Currently spending most of my free time listening to d20's Neverafter, which has been hitting the same meta-story stories-as-characters vibes as ORV, so I've been having a great time with that!
THANK YOU ADA LIMON… this month's poem a day was curated by her and wow it was good. Most of the month is favs:
[When night draws on, remembering keeps me wakeful] by al-Khansāʾ (translated from the Arabic by Reynold A. Nicholson)
Youth and Age by Khalil Gibran
Grass, 1967 by Victoria Chang
I Dare You by Dorianne Laux
Virginia, Autumn by Molly McCully Brown
Western Edge by Carl Phillips
I can tell I'll be incredibly normal about this one always.
My Lebanon by Edna K. Saloomey
from “The Ode of Ímr el Káis” by Imruʾ al-Qais (translated from the Arabic by Lady Anne Blunt and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt)
Prayer of the Shy Forest by Jennifer L. Knox
Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising by Paul Tran
yes the business folk by José Olivarez
After the Reading by Tiana Clark
I didn't initially think much of this one, but I did keep thinking about it for a while after, and that's worth something
Folk Song by Diane Seuss
Poem for a Suicide by Matthew Zapruder
The Head of the Cottonmouth by Roger Reeves
let grow more winter fat / wine-cup / western wild rose by Camille T. Dungy
Lullaby by John James
Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees by Ansel Elkins
Throwing Children by Ross Gay
The Splendid Body by Rebecca Lindenberg
Ledge by Kevin Young
Playing with Bees by RK Fauth
SCROBBLES: 2066
SCROBBLES PER DAY: 66
If you couldn't tell, I liked the new Hozier songs a lot! I also am just, marinating in the vibes of "notre dame" by Paris Paloma. Other than that, a lot of old favorites--the perfect atz album, the ray toro/gerard way cover of hazy shade of winter, etc!
Artists:
Albums:
Songs:
Movies
Continuing the Michelle Yeoh watch with some good ones:
Silver Hawk (2004)
It's camp!!! Michelle Yeoh plays a vigilante hero fighting crime by night, a bored rich heiress by day. She has a star crossed romance with her childhood friend and handcuffs him to a lamp post. There are fight scenes that hinge entirely on bungee jumping. It's great!!!
This is 100% a movie that's so weirdbad it's good. I had so much fun with it!
True Legend(2010)
This was not, how do you say… good. The pacing is weird and it's like three movies in one, but with one one movie's worth of making sense. Three movies in a one movie trench coat!!!
It would have been mediocre if it ended halfway through, but it just Kept Going. Booo!!! Know when to end your movie!!
(Also despite being fairly high up the cast list, Michelle Yeoh was in maybe 5 minutes of this movie, alas. She's only as high up as she was because there are like, max five main/side characters who are important.)
Supercop 2 (1993)
Michelle Yeoh is back and is once again fighting crime. This is the sort-of sequel to Supercop (1992), and was released in Hong Kong as Project S.
It was pretty good! Not stunning but it's a solid movie to watch with friends. I don't know that I'd see it again without company though.
Books
I don't think I finished anything this month?
TV
Also did not watch any TV. I tried to start an episode of Hospital Playlist and it was pretty good, I just need to like, start watching it again! I am not a TV watcher generally--I need something to do with my hands, or some friends to watch with (hence me being like halfway through Vincenzo for months).
MISC
I spent basically all of my free time listening to dimension 20, haha.
In particular, I finished dimension 20: fantasy high sophomore year and started dimension 20: fantasy high, the seven. I also kept listening to things I had already been listening to, such as worlds beyond number and wow if true. I love a podcast!!!
I think d20 is sooooo engaging, especially now that I've really gotten into the cast dynamics. There's a certain parasocial element to ttrpg shows that's more similar to kpop (my last main fandom) than "traditional" media, which I found interesting. This is not a broad statement on the fanbase, more on how I relate to the media. It's definitely some element of "I trust these people to tell good stories" and "I like listening to what they say", which are both necessary for a ttrpg show. The way their social dynamics exist online is a lot more similar to streamers or youtubers than, say, book authors or TV animators.
TTRPGs are really fun, but (again, for me) they have a similar barrier to entry as podcasts, I think, which is that you have to be up for listening to some strangers goofing and doing bits for 1-2 hours. The stories of RPGs are inherently less "polished" and have way more of a "telling stories around a campfire" feel than "reading a book". It's a different mode of storytelling!
There's been some interesting crossover on this from Critical Role (I haven't personally watched any critrole stuff) where they animated one of their campaigns. It's definitely a different type of entry point into the fandom. Idk, thoughts!
In Progress
Finished Yanyi's 2nd book of poetry in May, so I'll have thoughts then! I'm in the middle of a few other books too, so I'll have some thoughts on those if I finish them. Currently spending most of my free time listening to d20's Neverafter, which has been hitting the same meta-story stories-as-characters vibes as ORV, so I've been having a great time with that!
Poetry
THANK YOU ADA LIMON… this month's poem a day was curated by her and wow it was good. Most of the month is favs:
[When night draws on, remembering keeps me wakeful] by al-Khansāʾ (translated from the Arabic by Reynold A. Nicholson)
Youth and Age by Khalil Gibran
Grass, 1967 by Victoria Chang
I Dare You by Dorianne Laux
Virginia, Autumn by Molly McCully Brown
Western Edge by Carl Phillips
I can tell I'll be incredibly normal about this one always.
My Lebanon by Edna K. Saloomey
from “The Ode of Ímr el Káis” by Imruʾ al-Qais (translated from the Arabic by Lady Anne Blunt and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt)
Prayer of the Shy Forest by Jennifer L. Knox
Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising by Paul Tran
yes the business folk by José Olivarez
After the Reading by Tiana Clark
I didn't initially think much of this one, but I did keep thinking about it for a while after, and that's worth something
Folk Song by Diane Seuss
Poem for a Suicide by Matthew Zapruder
The Head of the Cottonmouth by Roger Reeves
let grow more winter fat / wine-cup / western wild rose by Camille T. Dungy
Lullaby by John James
Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees by Ansel Elkins
Throwing Children by Ross Gay
The Splendid Body by Rebecca Lindenberg
Ledge by Kevin Young
Playing with Bees by RK Fauth
Music
SCROBBLES: 2066
SCROBBLES PER DAY: 66
If you couldn't tell, I liked the new Hozier songs a lot! I also am just, marinating in the vibes of "notre dame" by Paris Paloma. Other than that, a lot of old favorites--the perfect atz album, the ray toro/gerard way cover of hazy shade of winter, etc!
Artists:
- Hozier - 146
- Fall Out Boy - 99
- My Chemical Romance - 83
- Stray Kids - 73
- ATEEZ - 61
- Seventeen - 60
- Paramore - 53
- Gerard Way - 51
- Meet Me @ The Altar - 49
- Nothing But Thieves - 47
Albums:
- Eat Your Young by Hozier - 141
- So Much (for) Stardust by Fall Out Boy - 81
- Past // Present // Future by Meet Me @ The Altar - 49
- This Is Why by Paramore - 44
- THE WORLD EP.1 : MOVEMENT by ATEEZ - 43
- Welcome to the DCC by Nothing But Thieves - 39
- GOOD ENEMY by PVRIS - 36
- Hazy Shade of Winter (feat. Ray Toro) by Gerard Way - 34
- notre dame by Paris Paloma - 33
- St. Vincent (Deluxe Edition) by St. Vincent - 31
Songs:
- Through Me (The Flood) by Hozier - 83
- Eat Your Young by Hozier - 58
- Hold Me Like a Grudge by Fall Out Boy - 46
- You First by Paramore - 42
- Welcome to the DCC by Nothing But Thieves - 39
- King of Everything by Meet Me @ The Altar - 36
- GOOD ENEMY by PVRIS - 36
- Hazy Shade of Winter (feat. Ray Toro) by Gerard Way - 34
- Heartbreak Feels So Good by Fall Out Boy - 33
- notre dame by Paris Paloma - 33