I feel like this year's mixtape is a more globally eclectic than previous years, but looking back, not by much, really. I don't think I've put three Japanese tracks on a single mixtape before, but they're all doing very different things and I love all of them. The Eurovision influence is becoming a bit more evident here (although I did spare you DJ BoBo this year. It was a close thing).
I've got this down to a bit of a science by now, but even so I was a bit surprised how quickly this came together this year. I collect a pile of Christmas songs throughout the year and I just kinda listened through them while I was puttering around the house to make the mix. I have a lot of fun doing this. I hope you enjoy it too.
Okay, time to pull the trigger on this thing. It's not 100%, but it's good enough, and if I keep posting to my Wordpress blog, I'll never ship this thing.
Welcome to my new static blog. Built with Eleventy.
I'm still working on it. I'm not happy with how "themes" work in Eleventy. So I don't have one. It means I need to dust off my ancient CSS knowledge.
As well as fixing problems with old posts, I have plans to do more with the site, the idea being to make this the central repository of all my Internet nonsense. I don't know if anyone else cares about this, but I do. I want to have this as an archive. And if you enjoy reading any of it, great!
I'm happy to have my old 2001-2007 blog posts and my 2007-2025 Wordpress blog posts in one place. I've got the comments archived, but you can't see them. Debating if that's a bug or a feature. I love going back over the old comments, but I turned Wordpress comments off ages ago and haven't missed the spam. Comments on a static site is a total faff. But maybe I'll figure out some way to archive mastodon replies.
I've been busy the last few months working on the house. Painting, mostly. We are, amazingly, approaching the end. I'd love to tell you all about it. It's been a journey.
An exhausting journey.
I did eventually get into Cyberpunk 2077. And I finished it. Once I resigned myself to the nihilism, I found myself enjoying it.
At the moment I'm playing Hades. There may be a post about it later. Maybe!
Happy Doctor Who Day! The extent of my celebration was listening to Stranded while I painted.
The little guy managed to re-activate my Netflix subscription. At the end of the month, I’ll have to remember to uninstall the Chromecast app, because it’s apparently too easy for him to just click buttons until Blippi shows up.
K-Pop Demon Hunters is pretty great. I needed something to put on in the background while I was doing housework, and this was that. But I ended up being really drawn into it.
It reminded me a lot of Seeing Red, but also that K/DA Pop Stars video I’m still kind of obsessed with.
Anyway, recommended. The songs are still stuck in my head. I could criticise the autotune and the script maybe needed a polish, but honestly, it’s silly fun. It seems to be finding its audience, which is great, cuz I’d love to see more stuff like this.
