The 1984 Music Project!

So, because I was turning 40 this past year, I started a bit of a project where I listen to a bunch of albums that are as old as I am.  I thought it would be fun to go through the year of 1984 and listen to the albums as they came out 40 years ago.  Basically, in chronological order.  I did a monthly report of the albums to a music server I’m on and then later decided I should collect my thoughts in a document.  Many of the albums are ones I've heard before, but I also threw in some ones that were new to me, spicing things up.  I tried to include each album's released date when I could, but some just had a month without a date (at least as best I as could tell).  Given my current listening tastes, a vast majority of this article is going to feature hard rock and heavy metal (though there are a few oddballs thrown in.)  This is going to be a long one, so settle in!

Recently Watched 2024 - Part Three

Well, dang.  I was hoping to get in a third film before the end of the year, but it didn't happen, for one reason or another, so here's two movie reviews to finish off last year.  Interestingly, they're both epic films building on franchises, and while neither were bad, they certainly had different ways of respecting the legacies they were building on.

Books I Read in 2024!

Yup, it's time for another one of these!  I had planned on doing two articles like I had in previous years, but I definitely did not read as much this year.  (I mostly blame the Nintendo Switch I picked up last December.)  Still, I did read some pretty interesting stuff, and I ended up having a lot to say about these books.  This one is a long one, but here are all the books I read in 2024.

Recently Watched 2024 - Part Two!

Dang, I guess I really dropped the ball in the second half of 2024.  While I wasn't going to repeat what I did for 2023, I would liked to have written just a little more than I have, but I guess this year I was busy with other things.  At the very least, I caught a few things to watch, and it turns out I had a lot to say about each of them, so settle in for a long one.

Recently Watched 2024 - Part One!

It's definitely been a while since I put something here, so let's talk about some movies!  Largely got a lot of sci-fi this time around, mostly of the epic space opera variety.  I thought about trying to squeeze a third space opera in here, but I couldn't decide what to watch and eventually Furiosa came to fill that slot.  So here's the movies I've seen so far this year!