Second week of Advent starts today, time for some Christmas musicposting!

So, what’s it gonna be? Traditional carols? Hymns? Something elevated?

Screw that—you’re getting that REAL HARDCORE.

That’s right, it’s THUNDERDOME X-MAS EDITION! Just like Christmas Speed, it’s remixes of popular/traditional songs by the Thunderdome regulars. Put on your Santa costume, grab your candycane glowsticks, eat them Xmas edibles with milk, and GO NUTS to some real Dutch ‘90s hard gabber rave sound for a change!

Oh, and if you don’t know the Thunderdome series, you’re REALLY missing out, especially the older ones. If you want simple, unapologetically fun music, they’ve got it. And this is the season to have fun. God made the world for us to enjoy it, and enjoy this stupid hardcore bass I will.

flac+log 0% because that’s the best available online. People don’t know SHIT about ripping albums properly.

Have a great Monday, the holidays are just around the corner! Hang in there~

https://fixupx.com/pepe_salot/status/1866176960612753800?s=46&t=ezMUTAy6Q1FmU1r82LUAGw

source, by the way

currently thinking about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3AB-aL-C3o

what a real classic

Well then.

Seems i have been MIA again for a while. Whoops. This time around, more out of my hands than usual.
That being said, i did opt to stay offline for much of Christmas and spend it with family. If i didn't post anything about it, my apologies, but i opted to spend my time elsewhere for a change.

That being said, merry Christmas! I hope you had a chance to spend yours pleasantly. Beyond the materialistic aspect of it, which i never really cared for (to a fault, honestly) it is a time of respite and for sharing moments with loved ones, and i hope you got to spend yours doing that.

Thanks for reading and for lurking, even. I've lurked channels, websites, imageboards, forums, and the like all my life, silently, and i have been shaped more from what i've read from the unlikeliest of sources than from the more obvious ones, and i still remember a lot of what those places used to put up, so while this channel here is still something very much not in its final form (even though time goes by ever so quickly and cruelly without much changing) i hope this at least serves as a memory of something interesting your read once, somewhere, and liked. I kind of do it just for myself, these are all musings i could all just not write, but i think shared memories mean more, even in this odd para-social format.

Things will go on in the capacity that i can keep them going, but they will go on!

Enjoy your holiday continuation.

that being said, it's (belated) time for the "Stupid Traditional Christmas Videos"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuKft9LpL_0

and this one, which has been a tradition between me and a couple friends for like 13 years at this point

i miss the old newgrounds era shit, man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4hbVKsB3nM

Being offline has let me catch up to my movie backlog a bit. It has been accumulating things since decades, along with the anime one (which is worse) and the game one (which i've completely given up on clearing and i just play shmups and rhythm games endlessly. Or, lately, potion craft for some reason.

Anyways, one of the movies i've recently watched was The Grand Budapest Hotel, by Wes Anderson.
I love few movies more than The Grand Budapest, but I don't think I love The Grand Budapest like I do any other movie.

It's a marvelous movie. I was already familiar with Wes Anderson, by way of The Royal Tenembaums (which i watched part of when i was 14 during a school projection by request of a female classmate, which was sadly cut short because the whole class found the movie boring and incomprehensible, but i still remember parts of it vividly), Fantastic Mr. Fox (Roald Dahl was my favorite author growing up) and Isle of Dogs.
This is, however, his best movie i've watched so far.

It's a movie that has made me laugh unlike many other movies, and broke my heart in ways that almost no other work has managed to break it. Wes' distinct symmetrical visual style, his larger-than-life characters, the dry humor, it's all there, in service of a very fable-esque plot that with its odd protagonists is still, somehow, still grounded in reality. And while it is a comedy, it is only so for a part, because life at Lutz is not exempt from the bitter and harsh realities of life that, for better or for worse, we all have to deal with in one way or another, regardless of any sense of justice or merit to them, since things simply are the way they are, and oftentimes means uncaring.
I do think this is one of the western movie that, to my knowledge, understands and works better on the idea of mono no aware (bitterness because of the transcience of things). The idea of framing the titular story as a third person view of a third person view of a recounting of events works amazingly at infunding the entire work with a nostalgic, bittersweet feeling, and to be looking at something that seems from another world, but is just another time, and a happy ending or a sad ending simply depend on when you stop your story.

I've rewatched this movie a lot of times ever since my first screening of it, and i believe i'll keep rewatching it many more times still. I can see this having become my favorite movie at some point in time, but that noscript still belongs to Brazil. So far, at least.

For now, I'm just glad the Grand Budapest opened its doors to me. Please go watch this movie. I promise you'll love it.