Ladies and gentlemen, it’s that time again. Time for me to reflect on all the music I listened to this year and write my longwinded diatribes on my thoughts and feelings about them. This exercise is primarily for me, though, as this is one of the few times I sit down and write anything pertaining […]

Note to the Reader: Very similar to last year’s post, I started writing this post much earlier (off and on between December 2022 and February 2023), with the intention of posting it in early 2023, but that didn’t happen. Notes from my future self are noted in italics. I played more games in 2022 than […]

(Once again, I started this in 2022 but finished it here in the beginning of 2023, so just keep that in mind when I refer to “this year” throughout this post) Looking at my Last.fm stats, I listened to 25% more music in 2022 than I did in 2021, and that makes sense considering I […]

When people think of emo music (and, by extension, pop-punk, as they often get lumped together), they often tie those genres to a certain set of emotional concepts, generally around sadness and heartbreak. How people perceive that type of music also often influences the sounds and styles they associate with those types of bands, ranging […]

Note to the Reader: Much like my 2022 top albums list, I started writing this post back at the end of 2021, with intention of posting it in early 2022, but that didn’t happen. Notes from my future self are noted in italics. This past year, I found myself doing most of my gaming on […]

Note to the Reader: I started writing this post back at the end of 2021, with intention of posting it in early 2022. However, I never got around to finishing until much, much later in 2022, when you see this actually getting published. Sorry about that. In the areas I had to go back and […]