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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[This Week in My Playlist&#xA;April 08, 2026&#xA;&#xA;A collage showing my top 10 most listened to albums of the past week, generated by ListenBrainz.&#xA;&#xA;I&#39;ve sort of floated through this past week, feeling progressively emptier as the days all blurred into one incoherent mess. I described it to my wife as it feeling like someone hollowed out my chest and head, carved out my organs, and stuffed the remaining cavities with dry, prickly straw. &#xA;&#xA;My dog, Chamich, had a bad reaction to his latest vaccine the Saturday before the last. This, combined with me rushing re-introducing him to somewhat-less-bland treats after his previous bout of diarrhea has lead to him spending this last week alternating between laying down and leaving numerous brown (actually, sickly neon-yellow) puddles everywhere.&#xA;&#xA;Everywhere.&#xA;&#xA;Anyway. This has meant that I&#39;ve needed to watch him closely, ensure he eats and takes his medication, encourage him to stay hydrated, comfort him, and clean up after him. I&#39;ve also been sleeping extremely lightly because I didn&#39;t want him to have an accident in his crate overnight. I&#39;ve woken up at least twice a night to rush him out the doors, down 5 floors, through the lobby, and out to somewhere suitable to have his bowel movement.&#xA;&#xA;Didn&#39;t always make it in time.&#xA;&#xA;Chamich is finally feeling better as of yesterday, and I now have two nights of uninterrupted sleep under my belt. Now that I have some energy back, I thought it would be interesting to go over the music that&#39;s kept me going through this week!&#xA;&#xA;My dog, Chamich&#xA;details style=&#34;border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 6px; padding: 0.5em 1em; margin: 1em 0;&#34;summary style=&#34;cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em;&#34;Boxer - The National/summary&#xA;I truly love this album. Somehow, though, Boxer slipped through the cracks when I was rebuilding my music situation. I&#39;d previously only kept music in haphazardly &#34;organized&#34; folders on my phone, but now I have a pleasant, well-tagged library served via Navidrome.&#xA;&#xA;Anyway! The highlights of this album are:&#xA;&#xA;Brainy: about a pathetic man longing for a woman who is too good for him.&#xA;Squalor Victoria: about a pathetic man who is in over his head at his job.&#xA;Slow Show: about about a pathetic man seeking validation from his love.&#xA;Apartment Story: about a pathetic man struggling to grow up.&#xA;&#xA;...Yeah. Look, I&#39;m being a little reductive but I don&#39;t think I&#39;m being unfair. I love all of these, though. Also, since re-adding this album to my library I&#39;ve taken a special liking to a song that I&#39;d previously completely ignored:&#xA;&#xA;Racing Like a Pro: I think it is about a corporate drone - or the transformation into one - and the depression and joylessness that comes with it.&#xA;&#xA;Good stuff.&#xA;/detailsdetails style=&#34;border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 6px; padding: 0.5em 1em; margin: 1em 0;&#34;summary style=&#34;cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em;&#34;viagr aboys - Viagra Boys/summary&#xA;This album was voted one of RED&#39;s top 10 albums of 2025, and that&#39;s how it came across my radar. It&#39;s surprisingly good! I wasn&#39;t expecting to like it much at all just based off the name and album art (I know, I know, book, cover, etc), but it absolutely delivers the vibes. &#xA;&#xA;The first track, Man Made of Meat, is definitely the best on this album, but The Bog Body, Uno II, Store Policy, and the rest of the record all slap. Store Policy especially gets stuck in my head about as often as Man Made of Meat does.&#xA;&#xA;This is the only upbeat and pleasant album on this list.&#xA;/detailsdetails style=&#34;border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 6px; padding: 0.5em 1em; margin: 1em 0;&#34;summary style=&#34;cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em;&#34;Alligator - The National/summary&#xA;Alligator contains the song that has successfully and consistently made me cry since I first heard it like 15+ years ago. It also has several other bangers:&#xA;&#xA;Baby, We&#39;ll Be Fine: the song. &#xA;Karen: Beautiful lyricism, longing for your lover, being unable to reconcile your inner self with your reality, leaning on alcohol to see any joy...&#xA;All the Wine: Beautiful imagery all tied together at the end by the reveal of the narrator&#39;s reason for drinking. &#xA;The Geese of Beverly Road: Captures the ephemeral moments where you&#39;re full of joy, carefree and living in the moment with someone you love. Emphasis on ephemeral, here.&#xA;City Middle: Again, I love the lyricism here. And just like much of the rest of this album, alcohol as a numbing agent plays a central role.&#xA;&#xA;I do not have a problem with alcohol. I do not drink often at all. If I did, though, I&#39;m sure Alligator would have a lot more listens documented on ListenBrainz. &#xA;/detailsdetails style=&#34;border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 6px; padding: 0.5em 1em; margin: 1em 0;&#34;summary style=&#34;cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em;&#34;The Race of a Thousand Camels - bôa/summary&#xA;Remember how I bragged that my music library is now &#34;well-tagged&#34;? Well... This is actually meant to be Twilight, not The Race of a Thousand Camels. Whoops. I never bothered to fix the incorrect MusicBrainz ID tagged into the tracks and this is what I get. &#xA;&#xA;Anyway, of course Twilight is full of bangers.&#xA;&#xA;Duvet: Did you think I&#39;d leave this off the list? Come on.&#xA;Duvet (acoustic version): Gee, Bill! How come your mom lets you listen to utwo/u Duvets?&#xA;Drinking&#xA;Twilight&#xA;&#xA;I don&#39;t have anything specific to say about any of these songs, but I love them all. Gorgeous pieces of music, all.&#xA;/detailsdetails style=&#34;border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 6px; padding: 0.5em 1em; margin: 1em 0;&#34;summary style=&#34;cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em;&#34;The National - The National/summary&#xA;The National&#39;s debut self-titled album comes out swinging with bummer after depressing bummer. It also happens to have the other song that has consistently made me cry for 15 years.&#xA;&#xA;Anna Freud: the other song.&#xA;The Perfect Song: Poetic lyrics that really resonate though I don&#39;t directly relate.&#xA;Cold Girl Fever: As above, certain lines here send shivers down my spine. &#xA;Pay for Me: I live for the absolute bitter despair this song oozes. &#xA;Bitters &amp; Absolut: Quietly depressing - about a wife wondering if her (likely cheating) husband truly loves her. &#xA;&#xA;The entire rest of the album is fantastic, too. &#xA;Special mentions: &#xA;ul&#xA;liemSon/em: I skip this song 99 times out of 100 because it makes me uncomfortable./li&#xA;liemTheory of the Crows/em: I now feel guilt and shame whenever I listen to this song. It is about a man working himself to the bone to support his family, at the expense of actually being able to spend time with them. I am not a hard worker, and I am failing my family, hence the shame./li&#xA;/ul&#xA;/detailsdetails style=&#34;border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 6px; padding: 0.5em 1em; margin: 1em 0;&#34;summary style=&#34;cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em;&#34;Sinister Grift - Panda Bear/summary&#xA;Sinister Grift is one of four albums on this list that are not by The National, and one of three that are new to me. It&#39;s... alright. Just as viagr aboys, it was voted as one of the top 10 best albums of 2025 on RED. &#xA;&#xA;I&#39;m not totally sure about how it ended up on this list, truth be told. I haven&#39;t given it the attention it deserves, but I suppose I&#39;ve listened to it in the background fairly frequently. Enough to land it on the list, apparently. &#xA;&#xA;I can&#39;t say much about it other than it&#39;s got calm melodies and doesn&#39;t feel intrusive. It&#39;s probably why I never really felt the need to skip any of its songs.&#xA;/detailsdetails style=&#34;border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 6px; padding: 0.5em 1em; margin: 1em 0;&#34;summary style=&#34;cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em;&#34;Return to the Moon - EL VY/summary&#xA;Okay, so technically there are five albums not by The National on here, with Return to the Moon being the fifth. However, to my mind, EL VY goes hand-in-hand with The National. I don&#39;t separate them, and this album&#39;s made it to every The National playlist I&#39;ve put together, whereas newer The National albums (post 2014 or so) have not. &#xA;&#xA;I&#39;m the Man to Be: a very catchy song about jerking off in a hotel room. Or, er, auto-erotic asphyxiation in a hotel room. &#xA;Paul is Alive&#xA;Need a Friend&#xA;Sleepin&#39; Light&#xA;&#xA;I don&#39;t have much to say about those songs in terms of specifics, I just enjoy them lots. &#xA;/detailsdetails style=&#34;border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 6px; padding: 0.5em 1em; margin: 1em 0;&#34;summary style=&#34;cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em;&#34;Trouble Will Find Me - The National/summary&#xA;The last The National album that I truly enjoyed. I mean, I never did end up giving the newer stuff a proper shot, but what I have heard, I haven&#39;t enjoyed. I think this is also the album that made my lovely wife start to fall in love with The National, too. If I had to guess, I&#39;d say this is her favorite album of theirs. Wish I still had the CD I bought in high school. It would make for a cute little gift, though there isn&#39;t a single CD player in the house. &#xA;&#xA;Graceless: about struggling to make it through the day, trying and trying and never quite making it, never feeling like yourself, and turning to drink to cope.&#xA;Demons: about being deep in depression and being unable or unwilling to escape. This song used to mean nothing to me in high school, but somewhere along the way certain lines began hitting like a gut punch from prime age Mike Tyson.&#xA;Don&#39;t Swallow the Cap: hopeless, yet numbly holding on to some tattered shreds of hope? Dunno, it&#39;s hard to analyze lyrics when you&#39;re busy weeping. &#xA;Pink Rabbits: think this is my wife&#39;s favorite song on this album. Beautiful lyrics, soul-crushing descriptions of grief.&#xA;&#xA;This album has a consistent through line of sea imagery/metaphors. Lotsa drownin&#39; happening here. I love it. &#xA;/detailsdetails style=&#34;border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 6px; padding: 0.5em 1em; margin: 1em 0;&#34;summary style=&#34;cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em;&#34;Lonely People With Power - Deafheaven/summary&#xA;The third and last album from RED&#39;s top 10 albums of 2025, Lonely People With Power opened my eyes to black metal. Or, to &#34;blackgaze,&#34; as the case may be. I dropped everything I was doing the first time I listened to this album and remained captivated for most of the entire runtime. &#xA;&#xA;I love nearly every song on this album, but Doberman, Magnolia, The Garden Route, Winona, and The Marvelous Orange Tree all stand out to me. &#xA;&#xA;All of the moving pieces on each of these songs (and the album as a whole, honestly) come together to make such incredible, emotional, badass pieces of music. The themes of moving on/growing past your flesh and trauma really resonate with me.&#xA;&#xA;Side note: if you feel inclined to do so, you should take a look at the genius.com page for this album. Genius usually sucks anyway, but it sucks in a particular way here... don&#39;t all of the &#34;meanings&#34; feel LLM-generated? &#xA;&#xA;Disgusting. &#xA;/detailsdetails style=&#34;border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 6px; padding: 0.5em 1em; margin: 1em 0;&#34;summary style=&#34;cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em;&#34;High Violet - The National/summary&#xA;I think High Violet only made it onto this list because it&#39;s in my &#34;The National VY&#34; playlist. Don&#39;t get me wrong: I do enjoy this album, but it&#39;s not one of my stand-out favorites from The National.&#xA;&#xA;Sorrow: this song&#39;s been hitting particularly hard lately. &#xA;Conversation 16: in the running for &#34;Best Song With the Worst Music Video&#34;&#xA;Little Faith: pleasant sounds wrapped around depressing lyrics describing a crumbling facade of a relationship.&#xA;&#xA;I liked this album a whole lot more as a kid, to be honest.&#xA;/details&#xA;&#xA;That&#39;s about it. I hope that this was in any way interesting for anyone at all. If not, that&#39;s okay because I enjoyed writing it and I&#39;m all that matters. ;)&#xA;&#xA;Supersonic (a media player) displaying several user made albums.&#xA;&#xA;It took a lot of restraint to not start rambling about specific verses and lines, you know. &#xA;&#xA;Until next time!&#xA;&#xA;#mirg #personal #music&#xA;&#xA;[1]:https://genius.com/albums/Deafheaven/Lonely-people-with-power &#34;Lonely People With Power on Genius&#34;&#xA;[2]:https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome &#34;Navidrome Music Server&#34;]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2 id="this-week-in-my-playlist">This Week in My Playlist</h2>

<h5 id="april-08-2026">April 08, 2026</h5>

<p><img src="https://shlor.tsiran.org/media/a2/a5/a4/a2a5a4767b050a33513fd6714ae3d9b996a1c8118b947f0e22aeb5ee884efc0f.webp" alt="A collage showing my top 10 most listened to albums of the past week, generated by ListenBrainz." title="My ListenBrainz Top 10 of the Week"></p>

<p>I&#39;ve sort of floated through this past week, feeling progressively emptier as the days all blurred into one incoherent mess. I described it to my wife as it feeling like someone hollowed out my chest and head, carved out my organs, and stuffed the remaining cavities with dry, prickly straw.</p>

<p>My dog, Chamich, had a bad reaction to his latest vaccine the Saturday before the last. This, combined with me rushing re-introducing him to somewhat-less-bland treats after his previous bout of diarrhea has lead to him spending this last week alternating between laying down and leaving numerous brown (actually, sickly neon-yellow) puddles everywhere.</p>

<p>Everywhere.</p>

<p>Anyway. This has meant that I&#39;ve needed to watch him closely, ensure he eats and takes his medication, encourage him to stay hydrated, comfort him, and clean up after him. I&#39;ve also been sleeping extremely lightly because I didn&#39;t want him to have an accident in his crate overnight. I&#39;ve woken up at least twice a night to rush him out the doors, down 5 floors, through the lobby, and out to somewhere suitable to have his bowel movement.</p>

<p>Didn&#39;t always make it in time.</p>

<p>Chamich is finally feeling better as of yesterday, and I now have two nights of uninterrupted sleep under my belt. Now that I have some energy back, I thought it would be interesting to go over the music that&#39;s kept me going through this week!</p>

<p><img src="https://shlor.tsiran.org/media/91/dd/3b/91dd3b9867a3417ccfba78b6abe0332ec6cb2187e6c4bbcb96835b11a2aa1082.webp?name=IMG_20260408_102257_HDR.webp" alt="My dog, Chamich" title="Chamich, the little idiot.">
<details style="border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 6px; padding: 0.5em 1em; margin: 1em 0;"><summary style="cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em;">Boxer – The National</summary>
I truly love this album. Somehow, though, <em>Boxer</em> slipped through the cracks when I was rebuilding my music situation. I&#39;d previously only kept music in haphazardly “organized” folders on my phone, but now I have a pleasant, well-tagged library served via <a href="https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome" title="Navidrome Music Server">Navidrome</a>.</p>

<p>Anyway! The highlights of this album are:</p>
<ul><li><em>Brainy</em>: about a pathetic man longing for a woman who is too good for him.</li>
<li><em>Squalor Victoria</em>: about a pathetic man who is in over his head at his job.</li>
<li><em>Slow Show</em>: about about a pathetic man seeking validation from his love.</li>
<li><em>Apartment Story</em>: about a pathetic man struggling to grow up.</li></ul>

<p>...Yeah. Look, I&#39;m being a little reductive but I don&#39;t think I&#39;m being unfair. I love all of these, though. Also, since re-adding this album to my library I&#39;ve taken a special liking to a song that I&#39;d previously completely ignored:</p>
<ul><li><em>Racing Like a Pro</em>: I think it is about a corporate drone – or the transformation into one – and the depression and joylessness that comes with it.</li></ul>

<p>Good stuff.
</details><details style="border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 6px; padding: 0.5em 1em; margin: 1em 0;"><summary style="cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em;">viagr aboys – Viagra Boys</summary>
This album was voted one of RED&#39;s top 10 albums of 2025, and that&#39;s how it came across my radar. It&#39;s surprisingly good! I wasn&#39;t expecting to like it much at all just based off the name and album art (I know, I know, book, cover, etc), but it absolutely delivers the vibes.</p>

<p>The first track, <em>Man Made of Meat</em>, is definitely the best on this album, but <em>The Bog Body</em>, <em>Uno II</em>, <em>Store Policy</em>, and the rest of the record all slap. <em>Store Policy</em> especially gets stuck in my head about as often as <em>Man Made of Meat</em> does.</p>

<p>This is the only upbeat and pleasant album on this list.
</details><details style="border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 6px; padding: 0.5em 1em; margin: 1em 0;"><summary style="cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em;">Alligator – The National</summary>
<em>Alligator</em> contains <strong>the</strong> song that has successfully and consistently made me cry since I first heard it like 15+ years ago. It also has several other bangers:</p>
<ul><li><em>Baby, We&#39;ll Be Fine</em>: <strong>the</strong> song.</li>
<li><em>Karen</em>: Beautiful lyricism, longing for your lover, being unable to reconcile your inner self with your reality, leaning on alcohol to see any joy...</li>
<li><em>All the Wine</em>: Beautiful imagery all tied together at the end by the reveal of the narrator&#39;s reason for drinking.</li>
<li><em>The Geese of Beverly Road</em>: Captures the ephemeral moments where you&#39;re full of joy, carefree and living in the moment with someone you love. Emphasis on ephemeral, here.</li>
<li><em>City Middle</em>: Again, I love the lyricism here. And just like much of the rest of this album, alcohol as a numbing agent plays a central role.</li></ul>

<p>I do not have a problem with alcohol. I do not drink often at all. If I did, though, I&#39;m sure <em>Alligator</em> would have a lot more listens documented on ListenBrainz.
</details><details style="border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 6px; padding: 0.5em 1em; margin: 1em 0;"><summary style="cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em;">The Race of a Thousand Camels – bôa</summary>
Remember how I bragged that my music library is now “well-tagged”? Well... This is actually meant to be <em>Twilight,</em> not <em>The Race of a Thousand Camels.</em> Whoops. I never bothered to fix the incorrect MusicBrainz ID tagged into the tracks and this is what I get.</p>

<p>Anyway, of course <em>Twilight</em> is full of bangers.</p>
<ul><li><em>Duvet</em>: Did you think I&#39;d leave this off the list? Come on.</li>
<li><em>Duvet (acoustic version)</em>: Gee, Bill! How come your mom lets you listen to <u>two</u> <em>Duvets</em>?</li>
<li><em>Drinking</em></li>
<li><em>Twilight</em></li></ul>

<p>I don&#39;t have anything specific to say about any of these songs, but I love them all. Gorgeous pieces of music, all.
</details><details style="border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 6px; padding: 0.5em 1em; margin: 1em 0;"><summary style="cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em;">The National – The National</summary>
The National&#39;s debut self-titled album comes out swinging with bummer after depressing bummer. It also happens to have the <strong><em>other</em></strong> song that has consistently made me cry for 15 years.</p>
<ul><li><em>Anna Freud</em>: the <strong><em>other</em></strong> song.</li>
<li><em>The Perfect Song</em>: Poetic lyrics that really resonate though I don&#39;t directly relate.</li>
<li><em>Cold Girl Fever</em>: As above, certain lines here send shivers down my spine.</li>
<li><em>Pay for Me</em>: I live for the absolute bitter despair this song oozes.</li>
<li><em>Bitters &amp; Absolut</em>: Quietly depressing – about a wife wondering if her (likely cheating) husband truly loves her.</li></ul>

<p>The entire rest of the album is fantastic, too.
Special mentions:
<ul><li><em>Son</em>: I skip this song 99 times out of 100 because it makes me uncomfortable.</li>
<li><em>Theory of the Crows</em>: I now feel guilt and shame whenever I listen to this song. It is about a man working himself to the bone to support his family, at the expense of actually being able to spend time with them. I am not a hard worker, and I am failing my family, hence the shame.</li></ul>
</details><details style="border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 6px; padding: 0.5em 1em; margin: 1em 0;"><summary style="cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em;">Sinister Grift – Panda Bear</summary>
<em>Sinister Grift</em> is one of four albums on this list that are not by The National, and one of three that are new to me. It&#39;s... alright. Just as <em>viagr aboys</em>, it was voted as one of the top 10 best albums of 2025 on RED.</p>

<p>I&#39;m not totally sure about how it ended up on this list, truth be told. I haven&#39;t given it the attention it deserves, but I suppose I&#39;ve listened to it in the background fairly frequently. Enough to land it on the list, apparently.</p>

<p>I can&#39;t say much about it other than it&#39;s got calm melodies and doesn&#39;t feel intrusive. It&#39;s probably why I never really felt the need to skip any of its songs.
</details><details style="border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 6px; padding: 0.5em 1em; margin: 1em 0;"><summary style="cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em;">Return to the Moon – EL VY</summary>
Okay, so technically there are <em>five</em> albums not by The National on here, with <em>Return to the Moon</em> being the fifth. However, to my mind, EL VY goes hand-in-hand with The National. I don&#39;t separate them, and this album&#39;s made it to every The National playlist I&#39;ve put together, whereas newer The National albums (post 2014 or so) have not.</p>
<ul><li><em>I&#39;m the Man to Be</em>: a very catchy song about jerking off in a hotel room. Or, er, <em>auto-erotic asphyxiation</em> in a hotel room.</li>
<li><em>Paul is Alive</em></li>
<li><em>Need a Friend</em></li>
<li><em>Sleepin&#39; Light</em></li></ul>

<p>I don&#39;t have much to say about those songs in terms of specifics, I just enjoy them lots.
</details><details style="border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 6px; padding: 0.5em 1em; margin: 1em 0;"><summary style="cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em;">Trouble Will Find Me – The National</summary>
The last The National album that I truly enjoyed. I mean, I never did end up giving the newer stuff a proper shot, but what I have heard, I haven&#39;t enjoyed. I think this is also the album that made my lovely wife start to fall in love with The National, too. If I had to guess, I&#39;d say this is her favorite album of theirs. Wish I still had the CD I bought in high school. It would make for a cute little gift, though there isn&#39;t a single CD player in the house.</p>
<ul><li><em>Graceless</em>: about struggling to make it through the day, trying and trying and never quite making it, never feeling like yourself, and turning to drink to cope.</li>
<li><em>Demons</em>: about being deep in depression and being unable or unwilling to escape. This song used to mean nothing to me in high school, but somewhere along the way certain lines began hitting like a gut punch from prime age Mike Tyson.</li>
<li><em>Don&#39;t Swallow the Cap</em>: hopeless, yet numbly holding on to some tattered shreds of hope? Dunno, it&#39;s hard to analyze lyrics when you&#39;re busy weeping.</li>
<li><em>Pink Rabbits</em>: think this is my wife&#39;s favorite song on this album. Beautiful lyrics, soul-crushing descriptions of grief.</li></ul>

<p>This album has a consistent through line of sea imagery/metaphors. Lotsa drownin&#39; happening here. I love it.
</details><details style="border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 6px; padding: 0.5em 1em; margin: 1em 0;"><summary style="cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em;">Lonely People With Power – Deafheaven</summary>
The third and last album from RED&#39;s top 10 albums of 2025, <em>Lonely People With Power</em> opened my eyes to black metal. Or, to “blackgaze,” as the case may be. I dropped everything I was doing the first time I listened to this album and remained captivated for most of the entire runtime.</p>

<p>I love nearly every song on this album, but <em>Doberman</em>, <em>Magnolia</em>, <em>The Garden Route</em>, <em>Winona</em>, and <em>The Marvelous Orange Tree</em> all stand out to me.</p>

<p>All of the moving pieces on each of these songs (and the album as a whole, honestly) come together to make such incredible, emotional, badass pieces of music. The themes of moving on/growing past your flesh and trauma really resonate with me.</p>

<p>Side note: if you feel inclined to do so, you should take a look at the <a href="https://genius.com/albums/Deafheaven/Lonely-people-with-power" title="Lonely People With Power on Genius">genius.com</a> page for this album. Genius usually sucks anyway, but it sucks in a particular way here... don&#39;t all of the “meanings” feel LLM-generated?</p>

<p>Disgusting.
</details><details style="border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 6px; padding: 0.5em 1em; margin: 1em 0;"><summary style="cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em;">High Violet – The National</summary>
I think <em>High Violet</em> only made it onto this list because it&#39;s in my “The National VY” playlist. Don&#39;t get me wrong: I do enjoy this album, but it&#39;s not one of my stand-out favorites from The National.</p>
<ul><li><em>Sorrow</em>: this song&#39;s been hitting particularly hard lately.</li>
<li><em>Conversation 16</em>: in the running for “Best Song With the Worst Music Video”</li>
<li><em>Little Faith</em>: pleasant sounds wrapped around depressing lyrics describing a crumbling facade of a relationship.</li></ul>

<p>I liked this album a whole lot more as a kid, to be honest.
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<p>That&#39;s about it. I hope that this was in any way interesting for anyone at all. If not, that&#39;s okay because <em>I</em> enjoyed writing it and <em>I&#39;m</em> all that matters. ;)</p>

<p><img src="https://shlor.tsiran.org/media/54/10/cb/5410cb3634996cae7cd809d0854b611b80726ef89ae661f8e449148f326fd947.webp" alt="Supersonic (a media player) displaying several user made albums." title="My albums are a constant work in progress. Don&#39;t judge!"></p>

<p>It took a lot of restraint to not start rambling about specific verses and lines, you know.</p>

<p>Until next time!</p>

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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Hello&#xA;March 10, 2026&#xA;&#xA;My name is Mirg. You can find me on Pleroma and pretty much nowhere else. I made this blog in an effort to counteract or at least nullify the figurative(?) brain damage I&#39;m clearly experiencing.&#xA;&#xA;You see, I have noticed that my ability to communicate my thoughts clearly and concisely has dwindled significantly, and only continues to do so. I believe this is in part because I let my writing skill completely rot and wither away. So it seemed like a sound conclusion that one way to work on this issue is to practice putting my thoughts down on &#34;paper&#34; in a way that wouldn&#39;t be off-putting or displeasing for a stranger to read. &#xA;&#xA;I intend to use this blog to write about whatever. These days more things bother me than excite me, and I&#39;m inclined to gravitate towards upsetting topics, but I will try to write about my interests as well.&#xA;&#xA;Currently those include, but are not limited to: &#xA;&#xA;Tech Shit &#xA;Sorcery: Contested Realm&#xA;The sky, when it&#39;s pretty&#xA;&#xA;Anyway, my hope is that with somewhat consistent posting here, I will manage to improve both my writing skill, as well as my ability to clearly communicate ideas to another human being. I do wish I could simply beam ideas into people&#39;s heads telepathically, but I have unfortunately not been granted this power.&#xA;&#xA;To close off, I wanted to throw out some random tidbits about me, just because.&#xA;&#xA;I have no formal education in anything tech related. My field is medicine, which I despise. I would like to change this. I know, I&#39;ve picked a great time to try and break into tech.&#xA;I have a home server hosting some stuff making my life easier that I access through WireGuard. Maybe I&#39;ll write about my stack at some point. I&#39;d have to go into why I think some people make &#34;hating Docker&#34; a core part of their personality, though.&#xA;Additionally: I have a remote server for sea-sailing activities/media hosting; an automated cloud backup situationship; and of course the VPS hosting this blog &amp; my Pleroma instance&#xA;I dabble (very basically) in programming but keep falling off due to unfortunate lack of discipline. Not counting learning assignments, the only real &#34;finished&#34; piece of &#34;code&#34; I&#39;ve written is a bash script which, among other things, gracefully backs up things that matter to me.&#xA;&#xA;------&#xA;&#xA;I&#39;m turning 30 soon, and I&#39;m deeply unhappy about it&#xA;I really enjoy Sorcery (the TCG mentioned earlier). The art is phenomenal, which is my main motivation, but the gameplay is very fun, as well! It&#39;s got a very &#34;kitchen table&#34; philosophy which allows it to have some very weird cards. Lots of wacky interactions to be found!&#xA;It also has a free official Tabletop Simulator mod, which is neat. Can&#39;t say the same for certain other money-grubbing TCGs. &#xA;&#xA;------&#xA;&#xA;I&#39;m in the middle of like fifty different books right now. Shit. Actively reading just these four:&#xA;    The Devils by Joe Abercrombie&#xA;    The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa&#xA;    Monk and Robot by Becky chambers&#xA;    Tao Te Ching by Laozi&#xA;I&#39;m doing The Devils via audiobook, but I&#39;m unsure that&#39;s the best way, and may switch to text instead.&#xA;The Tao is very far over my head, but I&#39;m trying. &#xA;&#xA;That&#39;s all, for now. I&#39;m sure if you&#39;ve slogged your way through this, you probably understand now what I meant when I said I have trouble communicating clearly and concisely. Like I said: I&#39;m working on it.&#xA;&#xA;Bye for now.&#xA;&#xA;#mirg #personal #tech #books #sorcery&#xA;&#xA;[1]:https://tsogol.tsiran.org/mirq &#34;I know I misspelled my own name here.&#34;]]&gt;</description>
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<h5 id="march-10-2026">March 10, 2026</h5>

<p>My name is Mirg. You can find me on <a href="https://tsogol.tsiran.org/mirq" title="I know I misspelled my own name here.">Pleroma</a> and pretty much nowhere else. I made this blog in an effort to counteract or at least nullify the figurative(?) brain damage I&#39;m clearly experiencing.</p>

<p>You see, I have noticed that my ability to communicate my thoughts clearly and concisely has dwindled significantly, and only continues to do so. I believe this is in part because I let my writing skill completely rot and wither away. So it seemed like a sound conclusion that one way to work on this issue is to practice putting my thoughts down on “paper” in a way that wouldn&#39;t be off-putting or displeasing for a stranger to read.</p>

<p>I intend to use this blog to write about whatever. These days more things bother me than excite me, and I&#39;m inclined to gravitate towards upsetting topics, but I will try to write about my interests as well.</p>

<p>Currently those include, but are not limited to:</p>
<ol><li>Tech Shit</li>
<li>Sorcery: Contested Realm</li>
<li>The sky, when it&#39;s pretty</li></ol>

<p>Anyway, my hope is that with somewhat consistent posting here, I will manage to improve both my writing skill, as well as my ability to clearly communicate ideas to another human being. I do wish I could simply beam ideas into people&#39;s heads telepathically, but I have unfortunately not been granted this power.</p>

<p>To close off, I wanted to throw out some random tidbits about me, just because.</p>
<ul><li>I have no formal education in anything tech related. My field is medicine, which I despise. I would like to change this. I know, I&#39;ve picked a great time to try and break into tech.</li>
<li>I have a home server hosting some stuff making my life easier that I access through WireGuard. Maybe I&#39;ll write about my stack at some point. I&#39;d have to go into why I think some people make “hating Docker” a core part of their personality, though.</li>
<li>Additionally: I have a remote server for sea-sailing activities/media hosting; an automated cloud backup situationship; and of course the VPS hosting this blog &amp; my Pleroma instance</li>
<li>I dabble (very basically) in programming but keep falling off due to unfortunate lack of discipline. Not counting learning assignments, the only real “finished” piece of “code” I&#39;ve written is a bash script which, among other things, gracefully backs up things that matter to me.</li></ul>

<hr>
<ul><li>I&#39;m turning 30 soon, and I&#39;m deeply unhappy about it</li>
<li>I really enjoy Sorcery (the TCG mentioned earlier). The art is phenomenal, which is my main motivation, but the gameplay is very fun, as well! It&#39;s got a very “kitchen table” philosophy which allows it to have some very weird cards. Lots of wacky interactions to be found!</li>
<li>It also has a free official Tabletop Simulator mod, which is neat. Can&#39;t say the same for certain <em>other</em> money-grubbing TCGs.</li></ul>

<hr>
<ul><li>I&#39;m in the middle of like fifty different books right now. Shit. Actively reading just these four:
<ul><li>The Devils by Joe Abercrombie</li>
<li>The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa</li>
<li>Monk and Robot by Becky chambers</li>
<li>Tao Te Ching by Laozi</li></ul></li>
<li>I&#39;m doing The Devils via audiobook, but I&#39;m unsure that&#39;s the best way, and may switch to text instead.</li>
<li>The Tao is very far over my head, but I&#39;m trying.</li></ul>

<p>That&#39;s all, for now. I&#39;m sure if you&#39;ve slogged your way through this, you probably understand now what I meant when I said I have trouble communicating <em>clearly</em> and <strong><em>concisely</em></strong>. Like I said: I&#39;m working on it.</p>

<p>Bye for now.</p>

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