halfcactus | Recent background noise + short watches

How to Make 1 Dollar Indomie Taste 5 Dollars by FutureCanoe: Happy Indonesian Independence Day! The algorithm brought this to me and since I'm always thinking about ~elevating~ my Indomie breaks, I thought I might as well click it. XD It's a 10-minute video where OP shows popular Indomie recipes they found on the internet. The Sudanese one was interesting!

Songs that hit you hard (2023) from All Songs Considered (Spotify playlist here): I haven't finished this yet because I have the awful habit of switching out of podcasts even when I'm in the middle of them, but Kristine from 7th Grade was an excellent and unexpected addition. I was dubious until I got to the line We went to a good school, Kristine which is the exact thought in my brain whenever I happen upon the bewildering social media posts of people I went to school with:

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I'm not really sure what to say / Kristine from the seventh grade / The anger, the all caps / And all the pseudoscience / The misspellings, they must be on purpose / We went to a good school, Kristine / So what would you imagine I might / Take from this deluge of memes

Excited to go through to the Spotify playlist once I'm done with the episode!!!

Btw my personal off-the-top-of-my-head submission for this would be Quiet Light by The National and 平凡的一天 by Mao Buyi which hollow me out in different ways. (Neither is from 2023, though this extended version of Quiet Light appears to have just come out last year.)

Offline TV Guess the Asian Person: I was invested because there was a person who claimed to be Filipino in the mix and I didn't trust Michael Reeves's Filipino radar and needed to judge for myself. XD