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EVERYTHING LIST*

*Does not actually contain everything, only the books, games, albums, and TV shows I've consumed since 01/11/26

BOOKS I'VE READ

  • Football 17776 by John Bois
  • How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm (In Progress)

GAMES I'VE PLAYED

ALBUMS I'VE LISTENED TO


TV SHOWS I'VE WATCHED

Read about movies on my Letterboxd

Individual Reviews/Thoughts

What's Tonight To Eternity? Listened to on 1/16/26

An album by Cindy Lee (recommended to me by my friend)

Because of my recently gained motivation to begin listening to music again and fully gaining the means to do so independently, a few months ago I went around asking my friends if they'd be able to recommend their favorite albums for me to listen to. A friend of mine, who I'll just call Z for now, sent me What's Tonight To Eternity? citing that, if she had to choose, this album would represent himself in every aspect. Now this was months ago, I think in November, and I am a procrastinator, and so just today I finally got around to listening to this one in full while doing some project for my history class. In all honesty What's Tonight To Eternity? is something I wouldn't listen to on my own, when I listened to one of the first tracks with Z in November my exact thought was "This album sounds like Cindy Lee sang in the bathroom once and made it their entire personality" no insult to Z at all they thought this was funny. Some tracks in particular almost sound like tracks from the Disco Elysium soundtrack which was kind of a jump scare, ( track 2 "I Want You To Suffer" in particular ) I did enjoy listening to this album because its always fun to hear the songs that make up the people around you. My favorite track has to be the opener, it feels like the most deliberately produced out of the bunch.


The Phony Express Volume 1 Listened to on 1/13/26

An album based comprised of gameshow prizes.

Okay, so in me and my friend's collective persuit to find and listen to as many Ethan Geller songs as possible (because for some reason his music is amazing), my friend, Jersey, discovered this album that went along with this old canceled gameshow of Ethan's. In the gameshow, The Phony Express, contestants apparently answer questions to win a song made after any topic they ask, this gives you hilariously random songs like "Getting Divorced (From A Kardashian) [Yaz' Song]" and "Carter Family Passover (Andrew's Song)". The game was apparently hosted in discord voice chats and (sometimes) uploaded online. This gameshow was unfortunately abandoned after the first volume was (presumably) finished. I say "presumably" because the first volume on Bandcamp is still marked as a preorder and there's been no releases since. Which is honestly a shame because I do really enjoy these songs made about random topics. My favorite tracks are "Phony Express Theme", "Getting Divorced (From A Kardasian) [Yaz' Song]", and "Exit Music (For A Game Show)" <- LOL hi OK Computer.


He Fucked the Girl Out of Me Played on 1/13/26

A game for the Gameboy Color by Taylor McCue

Today I was home sick from school and came upon this game while looking around the web. It struck me terribly to my core. He Fucked the Girl Out of Me is an autobiographical visual novel that follows Taylor McCue's extremely traumatic experience as a sex worker. This game surreally expresses the authors terrifyingly real experience being forced to turn to sex work so she could afford basic needs as a recently out transgender woman. I don't know how to express how much I could unfortunatly see myself in this story. I was never in the position that Taylor was in but the ways she describes her deep-seeded guilt for everything she was put through were really comforting to me almost, it's the way she describes the type of guilt that makes you feel trapped, that roots itself deep inside of your mind.
Unrelated to the actual contents of the story, this game was an indie game made for the Gameboy Color in 2023, I was convinced to play it for this reason. While He Fucked the Girl Out of Me doesn't follow the typical "aesthetic" of Gameboy Games, it still uses a beautiful mixture of simple illustrations and real photographs for its art that makes up for it. I'd definitely say this game is worth playing if you feel you are in the right headspace to do so. It was a terribly gut-punching game for me to play.