7/17: Preparing for Otakon + Anitomo

7/17: Packed orders

7/17: DREAM: Visited my college, like the city in miniature... at a playground, bought from a flash merch sale (very unpopular), gave haircut to myself, underwater fish school (the school building was a giant fish), dinner reunion with 5th grade class; made teacher cry of joy, Adventure Time, The Croods, police trusting me to hold onto a clipboard, high school gym friend robbing the fish school, fat boy eating bananas, first person shooter game

7/16: Even more writing

7/16: DREAM: Homestuck meetups, plastic barbs stuck in my right foot

7/15: Writing

7/15: Mailed some orders

7/15: DREAM: Some kind of spaghetti kitten subway disaster, lost at school

7/14: Card order packing

7/14: Shower

7/14: Watched Restoration (1995)

7/14: Went out to record store for dad's birthday, ordered food, ate pizza

7/14: Shower

7/14: DREAM: In this large open orange birch forest with rivers connected to the ocean watched a huge ship sail above the sky on a wave, mom was there with me and a bunch of others enjoying nature, I left behind my sodas my camera and my wallet to go home for something but stayed too long and mom followed home without grabbing my things, so they were left in the forest, I went back the following morning to get them but got lost, and emotional, and cried, at that point the whole place was like a castle until night fell and these glowing flowers led us to the spot where I left my things. Woke up, fell back asleep: went on a train and hit my head, conductor was angry, ended up on a plane, then landed at the bottom of Manhattan, but in a spot where there were a lot of Nazis who wouldn't let me walk down the streets because I "looked Jewish"? I was going to go back into the airport and try to climb down a wall to find a safer place to go, but then woke up; a very strange one tonight wouldn't you say?

7/13: Kitty Forever writing progress: act 2 generally complete

7/12: Mom came home!

7/12: DREAM: Playing a game where you are on an island where you recieve packages with a blurb about when they will be used and you have to go against destiny and use them not at those times, there was a cave area and it was Undertale inspired also dogs that walked with you along the main path, it was dangerous at night. I kept trying to beat the game in different ways. At one point I was on the beach and stick figures were there and a friend gave me sheet music for a kalimba and I tried to play it but it was difficult. It eventually became like real life and I sent letters home. I looked up the endings and there was an ending where you don't leave for the island at all. At the end of the dream there was also an unrelated part where I found a giant store with pirated books also Morty from Rick and Morty hung out with a bunch of Vikings

7/11: Attempts at music

7/11: Showered

7/11: Watched A Clockwork Orange (1971)

7/11: More wall development for Kitty Forever

7/11: Card store restocked

7/11: DREAM: Various subjects as I continued to wake up and fall back asleep; dark backyard field of sorts, pillowing plushies, murder of some strange family, playing music before I woke up as the world shifted into the base of the television in my living room

7/10: More wall development for Kitty Forever

7/10: DREAM: A magpie got stuck inside the apartment, set it free, it turned into a monkey, fed it, went on a monkey adventure, did surgery on it, then ended up normal again at a Homestuck convention

7/9: Creating wall organization for comic and characters in comic, Kitty Forever

7/9: Finished card packs; restock imminent

7/9: Got rained on

7/9: Visited Central Park and watched a baseball game for the first time while eating a hotdog

7/9: Went to get teeth whitened, turned away and rescheduled because my gums were too sensitive

7/8: Rewatched/binged Inside Job

7/8: Cleaned room & desk

7/8: Bagged trash

7/8: Folded laundry

7/8: Lots more card packing

7/8: DREAM: About swapping bodies with a random lolita in the subway and having to find our way back to each other

7/7: More card packing progress

7/7: Watched Greenland (2020)

7/7: Watched To Die For (1995)

7/7: Finished Carol & The End of The World rewatch; ep 8 through 10

7/7: DREAM: Temporarily staying in an old large house where neighbors just walked in and had parties without my permission, having to hunt my own food via monsters that would come out into the house, there was a dog, my family was there, eventually shifted to trying to survive in the forest, just me and some strangers, when you die you get revived again, eventually made it out, I was living with a stranger, an animator for Alan Becker, and one of my old classmates who was making Homestuck props in the living room. Also I was apparently from the future and I had a pencil where I could draw stick figures into the world. And an award company reached out to me about putting awards on my artwork.

7/6: Continued Carol & The End of The World rewatch; ep 3 through 7

7/6: More new card art testing

7/6: 100 card packs labeled

7/6: Watched The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

7/6: Put up my new cassette rack



7/6: DREAM: About hard mode vs. easy mode and being displaced

7/5: Site redone

7/5: DREAM: Fireworks in a small town, stealing apples, selling collectibles and them being stolen, a running minigame competition with a stuck-up staff member, and Bill Wurtz

7/4: Some more writing got done

7/4: Began Carol & The End of The World rewatch; ep 1 & ep 2

7/4: Watched fireworks on TV

7/4: Watched Borat! (2006)

7/4: Hotdogs with mom and dad around stove flame, tried pickles on top, it was good

7/4: Went out with dad to store for pushpins, later attemped to put up poster with them, did not work

7/3: Some writing got done

7/3: Bought dad his birthday gift secretly

7/3: Downtown to pass off some card stock to vendor

7/3: DREAM: Rick and Morty convention

7/2: New card art style tests

7/2: Laundry

7/2: Dishes

7/2: DREAM: Anonymous messages, commissions, and being overworked

7/1: Went to Coney Island

7/1: Watched News From Home (1976)

Review (Spoilers)

This is a very patient film. I believe it's the sort of film my father would find gauche, and my mother would try to enjoy but become bored with. I was captivated by both the sights of my city and the emotions which were triggered in me. They were not very intense emotions. They were comfortably noticeable enough. At first I was restless, but quickly matched the pace of the film. This quiet summer morning with very little responsibility was a great time to become patient on the level of the film. Before I watched News From Home, I had not looked too far into the synopsis (in order to enjoy the surprise), but I did know the general premise of voiceover accompanied by New York City. I did not expect it to be of the mother towards her daughter, I was expecting the other way around. It was a pleasure to be surprised.
I was strangely growing angry at the mother's insistence, though then promptly embarrassed by my own feelings. It's not strange for a mother to fret over her daughter and yet it maddened me, just a bit. I found it an excellent touch that the noise of the city often blared over her letters. I was additionally frustrated at those passersby who stared intently and mildly confused at the camera, though I can't say I wouldn't be doing the same, but it broke partially that candid sense and I was then embarrassed again at my own frustration with the innocent. In totality I felt resonance with my city. Those were the happiest moments. The final scene drifting out into the ocean had me feeling dissociative. It did its job.
Later today, we go out to Coney Island to scope for an event I'm planning, so possibly this film will have me more connected with the past. I do wish I were alive at this time of the city, but then I'd miss a lot more.

7/1: DREAM: Homestuck characters playing a board game, a cat that turns into a turret, and a duck on my street

6/30: Flattening new poster

6/30: Organized cards for packing

6/30: DREAM: My old name, being trapped on an island, a survey, strange young animals, a large dance party, a man who took duck hormone therapy, and a market selling expired meat

6/29: Played Lethal Company with two friends

6/29: Visited vintage store in order to shill

6/29: Received gold and silver graduation gift from dad



6/29: Bought Speaking in Tongues limited edition vinyl, Yes cassette, R.E.M. cassette

6/29: Had glasses tightened

6/29: Picked up diploma

6/28: Laundry card machine is broken

6/28: Cleaned room

6/28: Put up movie posters for the first time



6/28: Camera file transfer wire arrived

6/28: Purchased P.O. box

6/28: Excessive organization of logins and purging of unused accounts

6/28: DREAM: Childhood friend, my name change, the woods, my animation teacher, a bear, building a web, and flying

6/27: Watched Pleasantville (1998)

6/27: Started reading coin magic book

6/27: First card from parents using proper name

6/27: Received new camera as graduation gift, named her Polka, found last owner's pictures

6/27: Started logging