for notes in which i especially liked some line in them, whether it was written by me or by somebody else.
| Title | Folder | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| emacs meow | kyoumi | ⇒ Violets are blue, and I love you. |
| DJ Melodie – Aura (200X) | music | put me in a box late at night, on a boat, in the ‘90s. make me taste city lights, make me taste whatever those parents had at that restaurant in the remake of the parent trap. |
| DJ Melodie – Falling Stars (2003) | music | a common blessing, a shortbread cookie. |
| Dream Sequencer – Places that almost existed (2024) | music | (unlike the mundane future i’m living in, where i fall asleep to flashing lights connecting me to a global network and the scrape-scrape of eight hard disk platters) |
| Mikoto the Maid – Hopelessness (2024) | music | i get the image of the maid as someone who’s on the outside looking in – as someone tasked to clean up the debris of a class to whom they don’t belong. truly the maid is a tragic figure, then: bound to this world but not a member of this world, with everything about her circumstance reminding her of the distance between them and her. |
| Steven Halpern – Study & Learning (1985) | music | boy you know that if all those new age tapes i listened to actually worked i’d basically be like the dalai lama meets hulk hogan right now. |
| TAOC TEH WODNER DOG – SONG FOR THE STUPID RAVER SHITHEAD… (2012) | music | would i have really loved her if i knew more than her transness?: her sweet, dead transness that makes her absence regrettable? or would i have found some petty reason to wish death upon her, like i have with so many others? |
| Akiko Kiyama – 7 Years (2008) | music | and they will know me as someone obsessed with the act of reproduction and its various simulacra. |
| athazagoraphobia | neta | if something’s happened, it’ll never happen again. it’s lost forever, never will i experience it again. |
| DREAM DOLPHIN – atmospheric healing (1996) | music | i feel as if these artists are tampering with important and precious meanings, though i also have no way of actually knowing whether or not they are. |
| Final Fantasy X (2001) | game | To the Condemned |
| good discord server names (talktotransformer) | neta | Pinkie Pie stay da way ya do ho |
| Kaze no Naka no Shoujo: Kinpatsu no Jeanie (1992) | series | i feel like at some point this show became less about showing good morals and more about how the innocent get crushed by people who think they are good people. |
| on inspiration | neta | See note. |
| pLumsonic! – Atomic-girl (2010) | music | my goal is to be someone who listens to the most electrifying jpop, i think. my happiness should arrive in time, i think. i want to listen to the most electrifying jpop. i want to watch the most electrifying jav. i want to plug my finger into a socket and harness the energy – redirect the energy – control the energy. |
| Serial Experiments Lain (1998) | series | my first experience with the internet was during the 56k days. we soon moved and our new isp had a download accelerator that bumped speeds up to 70–80k. my current isp offers me 300,000k, though unless i buy a new modem i’m stuck at only around 250,000k. shouldn’t i switch? i’m leaving 50k of k on the table! that’s like 900 dialup connections! but at the same time, i don’t think my internet experience now is a thousandfold improvement over my childhood one. sure the people around me have grown and developed just as i have, but we’ve all just gone from being immature kids to being immature adults. sure the porn is clearer, but the pussies are the same. |
| Soutaisei Riron – Chiffonism (2008) | music | this is the kessoku band you want, right? they can be found in any livehouse or netlabel if you’re willing to take the time to explore, and then you can make the miracle happen to you! instead of living vicariously through the regurgitation of this miracle. it will be real and it will be authentic and it will be yours to love, just as they will be yours to be loved by… and lord knows they’re looking for love too. |
| The Field Mice – Skywriting + Singles (2005) | music | she deserves to have someone who loves her fully, wholeheartedly. i know that’s what she wants too, and it breaks my heart to see her come so close to it so many times. but i can’t be that person for her, though i wish i could be, because she deserves to have someone who loves her fully, wholeheartedly. |
| times of peace, times of war | prayer | See note. |
| Toughluck, trashcan! – magatamatsukiyo 勾玉月夜 (2003) | music | this is fuzzy and it makes me want to stay here, in your empty room, no light but that of the space heater’s amber glow. i’ll tell you about my life if you tell me about yours. |
| Warui Musuko – Hikikomori (2020) | music | when you’re outside it feels like there’s a magnet pulling you back into isolation, listlessness, insanity; when you’re at home it feels like there’s a magnet pinning you right where you are. |
| ハートカクテル Vol.2 | music | it tastes like a forgotten memory, it smells like the perfume aisle to one for whom the world is new. it walks like the gelatin of legs at rest, it loves like the synopses of romance films. |