Weekly Update #8 - Back to work & Abbruzzo Irish Festival
... Aaaaand another double update, lmao. Full weeks at work, but still managed to sneak in a small roadtrip with S.O. and friends!
Roadtrip!
This time we went to Novaresco, in Abrruzzo, for the Abbruzzo Irish festival. It was fun, if a lil' bit too crowded towards the end, but we escaped in time.
Got a nice purse, on which I ironed a patch some friends got me. It's pretty neat.
"I knew it would not go undecorated for a long time."
- A friend of ours, after sending a pic in the groupchat.
Beep-boop computer thingies!
Installed a 2 TB SSD in my old laptop we were using at home for watching streaming services and local files and setup Xubuntu with Jellyfin on it for local medias. I went with Xubuntu since the laptop has "only" 8 GB of RAM and a hybrid architecture with a NVIDA GPU, and last time i tinkered with it it was the only distro that played well with that GPU. SURPRISE SURPRISE, support for the proprietary driver has been dropped in the last kernerls, so Nouveau driver it is. Had i known this maybe I would have gone with Debian or Arch on the poor old dude, but I don't have the time or strength to redo stuff. It works fine for media, no screen tear or anything, so, there's that.
Listening
In the spirit of the Irish festival we listened to No Need To Argue by The Cranberries and... i dunno man. The music is good, the singer is incredible. But To me every track compared to Zombie is so much less enjoyable, it's not even close. It feels pointless to listen to any of them. Kinda sad about it.
On a brighter note, the last Pachinko record, Gingko is great! I've listened to it 4-5 times after discovering it and I really like it. Dreamy and shoegazy, it's good contender for find of the year. We'll see if the enjoyment holds to the test of time.
I also bought a digital copy of their debut D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L, I haven't listened to it in a long time. I remember when the whole "let's find the non-corrupted versions" was a thing, and then listening to the original and going "huh? that's it?". It was OK, but the aura of mystique around it confused me. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood and this time I'll like it more. Worst case scenario I spent 5 euros on a OK release.
UPDATE: while drafting this post i listened to it. It OK. Better than I remember, but surely rougher around the edges than Gingko. Still has plenty of charms and a couple of bangers such as CUT and Kicking Cars.
In pure hipster fashion this has led me to put My Bloody Valentine's Loveless at work. My coworkers have not murdered me and appear to have liked it, so success!
A coworker suggested The Stone Roses, and their self-titled record is pretty nice.
I also recommend the BE/HOLD project, Where They Landed and Your Brain On Portals are fun background records.
Notable earworm is Indochine's last single, No Name. ABSOLUTE BANGER. Their last record from last year is also pretty good.
Reading
Books
Unfortunately, not much time to read, so I progressed a bit only with The Fall of Hyperion. THIS SHIT BETTER GO SOMEWHERE, because this bitch is tiring.
Comics
Mangas
Ichi The Witch keeps on being goated, and Juujika No Rokunin keeps on being passable in these full on violence chapters.
Chainsaw Man has been incredbile lately, tf is my man Fujimoto on because goddamn.
Also, Mieruko-Chan upload! Hooray! This arc is great, I'm sad it uploads so unfrequently.
Webcomics
Great week for Questionable Content, I loved every page that came out this week. Yay! (Pun intended.)
I keep on being on the fence for Dumbing of Age, I'm really not digging the tone with how it's being narrated. Let's see.
Watching
Man, the last Fringe episodes have been incredible, such good acting. The plot for now is great.
Also, we keep on going with Nadia, which is also really good. The more it goes on, the better it gets.
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