"The times they were good, the times they were bad..." (11/11/2026)

...happy Remembrance Day. I don't really have anything to say about it, I just felt like pointing it out. I feel like if I tried to make any comment on the wars Canada has been involved in, it'd feel really insincere, you know? I couldn't do the topic of veterans justice.

...I swapped audio players today. Up to about the summer of 2024, I was using Winamp because I was a fuckin' nerd who liked old shit, and then that started crashing every 5 seconds for no reason, so I swapped over to MusicBee, which has served me well for the past two years, but now must sadly be retired, as it too has also begun crashing. I think it might be an issue with Wine, maybe MusicBee just doesn't play well with Linux. Regardless, Strawberry now takes its place as my go-to music player. I was considering moving over to it months ago but couldn't quite figure out how to make playlists, but I learned today and spent like 2 hours remaking my playlist full of albums. Wow, with the length of this paragraph this might as well be a Technology post.

...otherwise it has been a quiet yet busy week. I'm still overwhelmed with stuff I need to do for my graphic design course. Even now, writing this, it feels like I'm wasting time. That happens to me a lot whenever I'm trying to take a break from work; I feel constantly pulled back to it. It makes itself a burden. Otherwise life has been the same as it ever was, to badly paraphrase David Byrne.

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...now listening: "Antipop" by Primus: another example of a great early-90s band tripping over their shoelaces by the end of the decade, although decidedly less so than The Jesus Lizard's "Blue". It starts off decently: "Natural Joe" and the title track are winners, but then the quality of the songs takes a nosedive with "Eclectic Electric" and it becomes very hit-or-miss from there. "Greet the Sacred Cow" and "Ballad of Bodacious" are fantastic, grade-A Primus material though, and it would be very amiss of me to speak ill of the legendary "Coattails of a Dead Man". Tracks like "Dirty Drowning Man" and the aforementioned "Eclectic Electric" can piss right off though, and that middling remake of "The Heckler" doesn't really do the song justice.