september 11 2024

I've been on vacation for the past few weeks (thus the fact the weekly updates have not been weekly-oops!). I picked up a book of sci-fi and fantasy short stories in a secondhand bookshop and it had some real bangers in it! I thought the intention was supposed to be for it to be a scifi/horror thing, so heads up most of the stories do tend to be a little on the dark side. But i LIKE IT!!

If you want to, you can check out the whole collection on goodreads, but I have a few i want to recommend:

My 2 favorites were:

"Painlessness" by Kristyn McDermott - it's about a goth girl and her mysterious neighbor who's made an interesting business out of not being able to feel pain. it has loads of body horror and mystery, i read it 2 weeks ago and still haven't stopped thinking about how cool it is! PLUS, you can read for .50c here!

"Bitter Dreams" by Ian McHugh - a western horror story with a distinctively Australian voice. super spooky, gorey, and fucking COOL AS HELL. and the author published the whole thing for free to his blog!!

But I liked basically all of them except "Wives" by Paul Haines and "Gossel" by Margo Lanagan. So I feel comfortable recommending the whole book!

I got another book called "Dead" that I'm still reading but that'll probably be its own post. there's certainly a lot interesting about that one xD

august 26 2024

I found this youtube channel that does music videos & little skits--it's SO inspiring and fun. I love their animation style and original music!

and this is a song i can't stop listening to right now!

august 13 2024

I guess this is less of a find and more of a question/observation. I'm crowd sourcing this weeks's interesting thing AND talking about my dreams. Fun for everyone, right?

I had several slice of life dreams recently where I tried to do stuff like write down my phone number and use google maps, and each time it was SUPER difficult. You know how running feels like you're moving through molassas sometimes? It was a similar thing, but happening to my brain. In my dream i used up an entire sheet of paper and had to ask for a new one.

The google maps issue was interesting. The interface itsself held up fine, but the actual locations kept moving and shifting and i was never able to get ahold of where i was.

I don't know if anyone else has ever had a dream where they tried to write or interact with a common interface and i'm curious if your experiences were the same as mine! Let me know here: amphibiousfloridian@gmail.com

Also, this is a song i haven't been able to stop listening to this week:

august 7 2024

i found this band i REALLY love, Deviants! i'm a big fan of their music, as well as their home-made music video aesthetic. it's a really inspiring reminder to make cool stuff with your friends and reminds me of a lot of the stuff my friends and i got up to in college!

through this song, i found another artist they collabed with i really love as well. Images Last lists Ice Nine Kills as one of their musical influences and i can totally tell--and i mean that in the best way possible. as someone who eats up theatricore and anything with a female singer i was instantly sold.