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[#] September 6, 2023: Long time no see! I have dug up from my archives the entire run of the Rediscovering, a set of thirty essays on a bunch of albums I bought and never listened to. I've been working on porting these to basic HTML for a month or two now, five at a time, going back through them, reading them again for the first time in a while, and giving my commentary on thoughts looking back at them in a much different headspace. If you caught them the first time, read them again, they hold up. If you didn't, they're a treat, I think—pleasantly surprised with how they hold up.
[#] August 18, 2023: The new Midwestern Dirt album Twilight at a Burning Hill is out today! It's fantastic, you should listen to it and buy a copy. I've been listening to it for months already for free and I still did. Here's my full review of it, and that page also now features catalog reviews for 2020's Sayonara and 2017's Amendments. Back to web stuff full throttle tomorrow, after I take a trip to my job to buy another ethernet cable.
[#] August 15, 2023: Man, life's been weird lately. I'm happy to have the modding and level design section done and updated, even if I apparently linked it on this front page ages ago and thus some people probably went in there already, 404s and all. All good! This really leaves two sections, my music and my stories, and this site will have everything I want on it. Past that point, it's all just design work and migrating back to mari.somnol.
[#] August 1, 2023: Quick little update—changing around the sorting of the music recommendations page and readding the four low-bit reviews I did! These were a lot of fun, I think they added some nice flavor to my reviews page and I'd like to do more (and get back to listening to netlabel stuff in general), but it felt odd sorting all these various artists together and it made the page extra long. Now I've got them split into the bigwigs that had a record deal and the weirdos who just put stuff out for fun on the internet. Like me.
[#] July 29, 2023: Hi, sorry for the lack of updates! There's been a bunch of things going on in the background that I haven't gotten around to finishing, despite me working on this site most days of the week. I have one of them for you now: the first set of catalog recommendations, these for Beck. Catalog recommendations are just a bunch of reviews posted at once exploring a specific artist's discography. This isn't all the Beck albums I'd like to get to, but four of these are brand new and one is rewritten. That's plenty for right now. (I also separately did Earlimart's Treble and Tremble and Autolux's Transit Transit earlier in the month, I just didn't post them to this changelog.)
[#] July 12, 2023: Preparing more sections of the site! For now, have the Setter ref I finished up last night and a review of Marcy Playground's debut. I'm on a roll with the album reviews, they're super quick and easy and fun. More to come.
[#] July 9, 2023: I have gotten my art gallery up! This didn't take too long. I already had the images sorted and text written from when I built the mari.somnol version for funsies, and that's been sitting up on mari.somnol unlisted for long enough that it's rather outdated. I just updated it with everything I've drawn since and ported it to this site's layout. Glad to have it up! Still fun to see my art through nearly a year and a half of constant attempts and improvement. I think I'm in a really good spot with it now, and it's only getting better. Expect this one to update as I draw more, of course.
[#] July 8, 2023: A contact page appears! Yeah, easy shit, doing it between some other, bigger projects I've been working on. I also got two more album recommendations up for ya, Wilco's Summerteeth and Marcy Playground's Shapeshifter, both from 1999, only one of which is as remembered and respected as it should be, sadly.
[#] June 30, 2023: I have ported over almost all of my album recommendations, save for the ones I either don't like and need to rewrite or the low-bit ones, which I'm still feeling out how I want sorted in the listing, how I want to link to the original releases (support the artists), all that. I've also overhauled the way you browse them. They're now sorted by artist, and each artist gets their own page as opposed to the reviews being per-album, which made things a lot harder to look through. I anticipate doing more catalog recommendations for artists I've already done reviews of, so this will just make things a lot easier and cut down on the amount of pages you'll have to browse between.
[#] June 29, 2023: Working on majorly overhauling the album recommendation sorting, but if you want a new review from me, here's one I did for Starflyer 59's Gold. Nostalgic album for me, nice to revisit. Definitely think I prefer Starflyer's later work, but that's probably just novelty. Silver and Gold are still quality heavy rock records.
[#] June 27, 2023: I have finally assembled a listing of the essays I've written over the years that I still like. Seriously, I neglected to do that for almost five years now, and it's made finding a huge chunk of the stuff I've written over the years impossible. Very preliminary, but good for right now.
[#] June 24, 2023: My old PS1 reviews have returned! These have all been edited to be even tinier and more concise, and on an occasion or two, rewritten to better reflect my current feelings on the games. I forgot how much I enjoyed this format, I'll absolutely be writing some new ones when the mood strikes.
[#] June 20, 2023: Got a bunch of my old album reviews posted for some stuff to look at, finally, plus a rough sitemap of other stuff you can expect to see in the future. The reviews have all been edited for length, clarity, and to be less edgy than when I wrote them as a teenager. There's also a new one, for Superdrag's Regretfully Yours, which is an album I like very very much.

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