im typing out this on my phone as i listen to air 16bit arrangements and white album 2 encore (my dvd player came in and it is wonderful for 25 bucks)

i dont think i made a birthday post last year because 24 wasnt that crazy but 25 got some motion to it i think.. some real Type Shit if you will.. a whole quarter of a century to be alive! its also been a year and some change since i moved out and bossed up and kept a job and my own space which has been nothing short of life changing (duh). i jokingly declared that my late 20s would be defined by reading VNs and playing piano but honestly its been one of the best hobby phases so far. i think the only daily playing habit that has ever stuck is my playing schedule right now, which is 1-2 hours every night before bed starting at 12-1am. its a really fucked window and idk why it feels really good to play at such a late time but its genuinely been the only time where i can remember my body physcially itching to play once that time rolls around. maybe i just hated piano as a kid (not entirely false i wanted to play video games). its been a real trip to relearn practicing, which sounds stupid because i knew how to practice a long time ago, and applied those principles to speedrunning. however, knowing how to and actually applying are two wildly different things so for the first few months i was super inconsistent with my practice and struggled to finish anything. i will re record far one day (maybe before november). it took until like my 3rd attempt of doing anything in august when i actually tried practicing properly, as if i had my old teacher beside me telling me stuff like “this measure 5 times again please” and “please keep your left hand quiet, its so loud.” this attempt was also carried by my fondness of the pieces that i picked out, coming from the recent VNs that i read. there were some insane piano collection packs out there, notably the key super mega book which was like 170 pages of sheet music for 20 bucks. the AIR side is “only” 50-60 pages but i gladly paid up. side note stuff like musescore used to be a glorious bastion of free sheet music and now it is straight dogshit man what happened to that site. anyway i hope to stick to this attempt to piano for a long time. my perspective on the cycle of learning a piece has completely changed with how i dont need to “throw away” pieces in my head since theres no upcoming program/recital to prep new stuff for. ill be challenging myself to truly learn the pieces i pick out and commit them to memory for hopefully as long as possible. having the mental library to pick and play from a wide variety straight off the top sounds insane and i think i have the freedom to work towards that now.

alongside my newly acquired desk and cd player, i might also be focusing on traditional drawing aswell now that i have the space set up to listen to W music (on physical!) and just grind out boxes. i dont really remember the initial obsession with vinyls and physical media at first for me, but i think it definitely solidified itself after sony said they were stopping production on physical game discs. like wtf? i think along with the idea of “i should really spend more time away from a screen”, i set myself up really nicely somehow to have this drawing/piano corner of my living room with being able to listen to my favorite stuff on demand. this is also all defeated by the fact that my speakers are bluetooth, but its ok. we dont gotta worry about that. maybe ill make some post about my vinyl/cd collection at the end of the year. i havent really grown my vinyls much since march but i think cds will be my main focus for now since im interested in collecting more imports and VN ost. shit is just so much cheaper it kinda stinks that vinyl is that expensive but i get it. theres just so much aura behind pulling out the big ass 12 inch disc and putting that shit on the turntable.

other options that i could pursue in my mid 20s: Learn Japanese Lol. i mean i have the time right now so WHY NOT. maybe getting baited into reading but talked with a friend recently about it and the concept of a creation getting “lost in translation” has always been something ive been unconciously aware of but after hearing how some translations of JP works not being able to come close to the og work, and even internal debates between different translation teams of the same language (umineko project vs 07th mod), ive been mad curious to know if thats actually true. and it probably is. ive been a disgusting chud englishcel my whole life barring the few tagalog swears i know so i think maybe its about time i learned a different language. (high school spanish did not and will not count) having a medium to practice reading the language might not be half bad either! of course im all yapping right now so who knows if i ever get into it im still playing stupid ass 10 hour minecraft speedruns lmoa WHO CARES!!!

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