April 2024 Media Recap

[tullycat]

April wrap-up! (Yes we're halfway into May.)


Cat tax:



(This photo is lying to you. They spend 80% of their together-time tussling, 15% sitting near but not touching each other, and 5% cuddling.)

Anyway once again this is not an exact account of April but whatever. I'm attempting to be better for May??

Books

• Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century, Edited by Alice Wong
  • A selection of essays about different experiences with disability (I believe mostly/only in the US?). A lot of people were included, so each essay felt somewhat surface level to me, but it was still an interesting read. The one essay that stuck with me the most was a Deaf person's experience in prison, which I hadn't considered before and was worse than what I would've imagined had i considered it.
• Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, by Cho Nam-Joo
  • A pretty popular book, translated from Korean, about Kim Jiyoung, who is exhibiting signs of madness after the birth of her daughter. The story recounts three generations of women in her family, showing the inequalities they have all faced. I liked this book even though the subject matter made me mad and thought it was good for book club discussion!
• Station Eternity, by Mur Lafferty (DNF)
  • Well. DNF pretty much says it all. I got ~100 pages in and nothing about it seemed promising to keep going so I said goodbye.

I started off so strong with my reading this year and now my brain has been soup and I've barely been finishing anything, sigh. 


>Watched:

• Still watching Survivor, woo
• Anyone But You (2023)
• Shortcomings (2023)
• Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
• No Hard Feelings (2023)
• Bump Up Business (2023) (OnlyOneOf bl)
• Build Up (2024) (watching very slowly, like 1 ep when a friend comes over)

Again didn't track anything sorry~ But I'm not really watching any shows at the moment so it's just random movies I put on. Or in this case, a bunch of movies to get me through my flight back from London. I also lost access to Netflix and Hulu doesn't keep track of my watch history so I can't even look through that.



Music:

• Artists:
  • NCT Dream, 165
  • ONF, 155
  • Seventeen, 106
  • Ateez, 61
  • The Boyz, 38
• Tracks:
  
  • Bye My Monster, ONF 28
  • I will spare you the whole list because it's just the new ONF and NCT Dream albums

• Albums:
  • Dream()scape, NCT Dream, 130
  • Beautiful Shadow, ONF, 116
  • FML, Seventeen, 41
  • Love Effect, ONF, 25
  • 17 Is Right Here, Seventeen, 25

This month I turned off Spotify's autoplay....which then resulted in me forgetting every song that existed except for the most recent 10 that came out. Is there a happy medium here??? Granted, I am a 'listen to an album from start to finish' person. But I do also like the semi randomness that Spotify sometimes gives me - when I hear a song and say oh I forgot that existed but I love it! But the aggressive way they push songs at me annoys me. I don't know haha. So far I've been trying to play radios based on a song and let it give me the randomness that way.


Concerts:

• OnlyOneOf
  • My only concert this month! I had friends visit for the concert which was fun. I ended up getting VIP because Veronica wanted it, even though I was really just a casual fan. So I did high touch with the members before the concert, which logistically is when it needs to happen, but oh man did I know them much better after the show. I guess I'm Mill biased? Didn't know that going into the concert and was walking too quickly to recognize him in the high touch. After the concert we did watch their gay music video series and their BL so I guess I am full lyOn now.

Comments

[sleepypapercrowns]

Kim Jiyoung made me SO mad, but given that that is its intent I think it was incredibly successful.

I love the cat tax and can relate to the soup brain, sometimes it’s just like that… And yet you’re still doing these wrap ups! Are you having fun?

[tullycat]

I wouldn't call it 'fun' haha but it has been interesting to do some reflection on each month as it passes. Though I think I'm realizing the watching and fic categories just don't really work for me (which is fine) so I might stick to books, music, and concerts (which I already have consistent ways of tracking and thus are easier).