12 June 2025

I've spent the last 3 days trying to move my diary to blogspot because I thought it'd make my life easier + i have friends who use it. But oh my GOD i hate that d*** website. Everything is so unintuitive, I spent hours fiddling with the html to try to make my page look decent but I find it so difficult to not mess everything up with one click! I tried the (slightly) more html-based classic version and I found it just as weird, idk I'm not built for that place... I don't even like the post writer, I have more freedom with pure html!!!!! Will probably start to focus on just making my blog here actually readable and easier to manage. Unless I am convinced otherwise :P

9 June 2025

Shhhhh don't tell anyone but I snuck in a diary entry from 2024 and will probably sneak in more. It's a seekrit. Also got some javascript practice by expanding the ∼Melo-tech Frame Link Management System∼ to help my featured blog entries work as desired. It was fun and now you can click down there ↘ and get taken straight to that entry :0 Awesome!

8 June 2025

My homepage is finally at a place where I feel ok working on other stuff. Will write a new diary entry and song feature later today...

6 June 2025

Soooo it has been almost 2 years O_o I'll make a blog post soon to catch up but I have returned and with me I have brought a finished featured songs page. Yayyy! I hope to fill it out with tons of music soon. Check it out :P

12 December 2023

My new homepage is close to being done :-) I will miss the old one but I'm putting a lot more effort and close care into this one so I'm excited! Also reformatted my about page but I am unsure how to feel about it.

Ahhhhhh, where do I even start with this song? bad feelings ;^( literally means SO much to me. I don't think the day that I forget a single line of this song will ever come. I first discovered Kara's Walk Home through this song more than 6 years ago by pure coincidence. I'd been getting into emo music like, for real, none of that gay p!atd stuff I liked previously (still do), and hearing something like this was a truly new experience to me... The kind of whiny vocals, somehow sounding tired and full of energy at the same time, laid on top of the optimistic guitar, piano, and horn melodies and repeating bassline, all building up to somewhere after the 6 minute mark where the song becomes solidified as a masterpiece in my eyes.
The lyrics of this song were not only what younger teen me needed, but what I seem to need more every day as I grow up and try my hardest to get through college. The band members yelling "WE'RE STILL BREATHING" after the 45 seconds of quick spoken anecdotes building up never fails to make me cry, no matter the setting I'm in. This has gotten me fired from 7 jobs. As the band puts it shortly, "it's about being sad and envious when other people can survive more easily than you". I can't think of a song I've ever related more to -- every day of my life for the past who-knows how long has felt like it jsut consists of me trying to get by and decipher what I'm expected to do, what I expect myself to do, while it seems like the people around me have it all, or most of it, figured out. And I know that last part isn't true, which is why I feel like this is a song everyone should hear. I know, I know, it's not everyone's cup of tea. Kara's Walk Home's sound is kind of reminiscent of Brave Little Abacus in its sloppiness and borderline-annoying grandiosity. For me, it was love at first listen, but if nothing else I am of the belief that this song's lyrics should be lauded as classic contemporary poetry.
Don't even get me started on the rest of this band's catalog, though I'm sure the time will soon come that I once again write about them here or in the Kara's Walk Home eshrine I have had planned since 2022. This song is off their debut album, and they've since released two singles, a demo on a charity compilation, and a LONG-AWAITED second album in 2022. If you're still reading at this point I strongly encourage you (beg you) to (please) check out I don't want to look at the stars and anythign and everything Kara's Wak Home on bandcamp, Spotify, YouTube, or whatever your platform of choice for music purchase/streaming is.