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halfcactus) wrote2025-09-19 07:11 pm
halfcactus) wrote2025-09-19 07:11 pm
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August / September music
I've been thinking about how I've missed seeing music rotations and song recs and I realized I'm part of the problem because I just quietly update my streaming library and, if I'm not lazy, my journal.
(Don't mind the 不, I'm still relearning how to rewrite it lmfao)
Into the Woods - Moments in the Woods
But if life were only moments / then you'd never know you had one
Re: the show I just saw - it was the first time I've ever had a hard time purchasing tickets to a local production. I wasn't sure if it was the high-profile cast, the organizer purposefully limiting the tickets and making them difficult to procure, or the increased public interest in musicals... I had no knowledge of Into the Woods before I watched the show I paid for so I'm very glad I ended up loving it in spite of the strange bareness of the stage. 😂
NIKI - La La Lost You
I feel like this song equipped me with questions to ask a friend who'd moved from New York to LA (though my question of "so do you take drunk 2AM strolls in K-Town" has been rightfully ignored 😂)—we'd initially made plans to meet up in Vietnam in September (I've never been, but she goes back there to visit family), but she had to cancel because she suddenly had to move states for a new job. It worked out alright because I'd used up all of my "fun" money on the computer I bought in early 2025 and a series of musical tickets so travel would have sent me spiraling into financial anxiety... though I do feel kinda sad to not have made any vacation plans this year.
Tangentially, the podcast Song Exploder released an episode a couple months ago in which John Rzeznik of Goo Goo Dolls talks about Iris. I've always known it to be the theme song of City of Angels, but I didn't know that City of Angels was actually a remake of a movie that came out a decade before that, so it was a TIL moment! More importantly, he explains where the title of the song came from haha.
G.E.M. - 泡沫 Bubbles (G.E.M. version)
G.E.M. released an album of rerecorded songs in June of this year, which was how I found out that she had been fighting her now-former label. This one is my first and favorite song of hers so the new version has just been on looping in my playlists.
Laufey - Silver Lining
This song has actually been in my Justice in the Dark playlist since it came out earlier this year (for the lyrics "I've been falling into bad habits / "staring into the abyss / drowning in red wine and sniffing cinnamon" and "when you go to hell, I'll go there with you"), but I've been listening to it a lot more lately.
Zhang Xincheng - 喜劇 Comedy
I found it amusing that ZXC and Laufey's (mini-)albums came out on the same weekend... Girlfailure album meets boyfailure album... "I'm just a jester" meets "就當作是喜劇".
Ethel Cain - Nettles
Listened to this today when the weather and my state of mind were gloomy and gray and it hit SO GOOD. "To love me is to suffer me"—yeah, tell them!
Some relevant journal pages from August
(Don't mind the 不, I'm still relearning how to rewrite it lmfao)
But if life were only moments / then you'd never know you had one
Re: the show I just saw - it was the first time I've ever had a hard time purchasing tickets to a local production. I wasn't sure if it was the high-profile cast, the organizer purposefully limiting the tickets and making them difficult to procure, or the increased public interest in musicals... I had no knowledge of Into the Woods before I watched the show I paid for so I'm very glad I ended up loving it in spite of the strange bareness of the stage. 😂
I feel like this song equipped me with questions to ask a friend who'd moved from New York to LA (though my question of "so do you take drunk 2AM strolls in K-Town" has been rightfully ignored 😂)—we'd initially made plans to meet up in Vietnam in September (I've never been, but she goes back there to visit family), but she had to cancel because she suddenly had to move states for a new job. It worked out alright because I'd used up all of my "fun" money on the computer I bought in early 2025 and a series of musical tickets so travel would have sent me spiraling into financial anxiety... though I do feel kinda sad to not have made any vacation plans this year.
Tangentially, the podcast Song Exploder released an episode a couple months ago in which John Rzeznik of Goo Goo Dolls talks about Iris. I've always known it to be the theme song of City of Angels, but I didn't know that City of Angels was actually a remake of a movie that came out a decade before that, so it was a TIL moment! More importantly, he explains where the title of the song came from haha.
G.E.M. released an album of rerecorded songs in June of this year, which was how I found out that she had been fighting her now-former label. This one is my first and favorite song of hers so the new version has just been on looping in my playlists.
This song has actually been in my Justice in the Dark playlist since it came out earlier this year (for the lyrics "I've been falling into bad habits / "staring into the abyss / drowning in red wine and sniffing cinnamon" and "when you go to hell, I'll go there with you"), but I've been listening to it a lot more lately.
I found it amusing that ZXC and Laufey's (mini-)albums came out on the same weekend... Girlfailure album meets boyfailure album... "I'm just a jester" meets "就當作是喜劇".
Listened to this today when the weather and my state of mind were gloomy and gray and it hit SO GOOD. "To love me is to suffer me"—yeah, tell them!