post5/fun-news!
Hello guys! Whats up?
I probably look stupid asking that because there really isn't a clear way for any of you to answer but I feel like it would be mean not to. I dont know.
I'm very tired so I didn't really feel like posting but two super big things has happened and I thought I needed to share.
First of all -- I got my hands on my first Metal Gear Solid art book!!!! YAY!!!
I never EVER thought I would be able to get one but guess what?? I found it for super DUPER cheap at one of those second hand dot-com stores. And yeah, I just said dot-com like otacon in that one mgs2 codec
-- it's such a cute expression, by the way, I have to use it more often.
I wanted to show the book and scan some pages but work is sucking the energy out of me and I don't really want to leave my bed -- but definitely look out for that in the future.
Another big thing. Nettles! Is! OUT! If you didnt know you should go listen -- but if you don't care you can stay and read my thoughts, I guess -- okay i can't even pretend to be nonchalant, I still think you should listen. I LOVE THIS TRACK. I WISH I KNEW HOW TO IMPORT HEART EMOJIS.
Maybe this is just me connecting things that aren't related at all but the instrumental reminds me so SO much of my favoriteeeee music track from Red Dead Redemption 2. I don't think it has an official track name because it was never officially released -- in my household we simply call it "Chelonia music" -- it's the one from the mission We Loved Once and True II, I think? -- it's been a while since I played so im a little rusty. She did mention on her YouTube channel that she played through the game which I think is super cool and also kind of strengthens my belief that it's atleast a little inspired.
Other than that I don't really have much going on. I'm working as I said - and when i'm not i'm either playing videogames, listening to music or going on walks. I've started watching King of the Hill and that's really good. I haven't made any real progress on my cross-stitch yet -- but for those interested in more Gray Fox stuff, fret not -- I DID draw some fanart of him which you can find either on insta or bluesky.
I don't really care to link any of my stuff more directly because other than the future comic, I do not want to use this for marketing, at all. I'm still very much learning, but during my time on here I have genuinely fallen in love with coding and I want my portfolio and my comic site to be a expression of that rather than just another social media for me to be on. I hope you can see that.
That's all you will get out of me today, bye-bye friends. See ya!
--- kady jerry :)
todays date is 4th of june, 2025!
Review-Dump1
Hello neocities friends! There is 3 of you now, which blows my mind! Happy to see one of you liked my stickers page because that was SO fun to make. Anyway, here are some reviews
In the Shadows (Ambient Remixes by Justin Boyd) - written sunday 11th of may.
To those that don't know -- this is going to sound a little degrading, but I promise it's not.
This is one the first albums ever to remind me of the soundtrack for the Roblox game "Cult of the Cryptids".
I almost never get struck with nostalgia or feelings of that sort because I think I'm still a little too young to properly feel it - but I guess I was wrong. This brought me back to a not-so simple time - yet a very happy moment. Very atmospheric ambient music sometimes intercut with vocals -- making me, as a listener, feel like I'm stuck just scratching at the surface of what is real
-- like I have been hidden away from the real world with it's echo as a only reminder of how things used to be. Very touching.
The Cult of The Cryptids soundtrack isn't really available to listen to anywhere, I also remember being in the dev's discord server and hearing that he had to remove a BUNCH of his music from the game because of copyright or something, so I don't know if you can even properly recover it. If you want to hear something that made me feel similarly you should check this out.
HAVNTED WAVEBANDS - written sunday 25th of may.
When I have some time over or just can't sleep I like to skim through the Bandcamp library of music and see if anything catches my fancy. One night, many many weeks ago, I came across this album and was immediately stoked. Everything about this seemed to appeal to me -- HAVNTED WAVEBANDS its an experimental album by SILO TOWERS 13.2GHz based around the spooky things that can sometimes be heard and captured on short-wave radio broadcasts -- which is something I have been intrigued by for many years.
But when I put it on, I found myself feeling very disappointed, and a little annoyed. This is strange, since i'm normally more susceptible to things when i'm tired but it did not resonate with me at all that night so I just turned it off and went to sleep. Weeks passed. Despite not trusting my tired observations from that night I didn't really want to put it on again.
But today, when I saw it in my music library I thought --hey! Lets play this again and see what I think, and it's really not as bad as I remembered. But, it's still not satisfying. The titular track is great and a Long, Cold, Lonely morning (very nice ambient track) was a standout but the rest is just stuff that I could find elsewhere - which probably isn't ideal for an experimental album.
Something to check out if you're interested in the premise is this guy on Youtube. He seems to have an interest in capturing shortwave oddities such as number stations, this video is great in particular.
Jeepers Creepers and Texas Chainsaw Massacre - written sunday 25th of may.
This is very cool, two very similar movies I watched almost directly after each other, that I distinctly remember wanting to watch as a kid. Tripple the joy! I enjoyed them both. Surprisingly enough, they both seem to contain qualities in that the other lacks.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre is about a group of friends, running into trouble on the road in form of a family of cannibals that wants nothing more than to kill them, eat them and then turn their remains into cool furniture. The main villain of the film is Letherface, a big butcher looking guy with a mask made of someones skin.
I was positively surprised when I realized that this film was less gory then I thought it was going to be. Like I said, this was one of those films I always wanted to watch as a kid, but never did - and that was the reason why. I have trouble with super personal and torturous stuff, especially against bare skin (thank you, friend who I watched Terrifier with that one time many years ago without knowing what I was getting into). But this film wasn't like that at all, it was just cool.
Jeepers Creepers is about a brother-sister duo driving home for spring break, who foolishly gets themselves involved with a demon that becomes dead-set on killing them.
This film is so very charming. It gets a little too much for me during the scene in the police station but ends almost directly after it, so it never really got boring for me. It was super-duper late when I watched it but after I had turned it on I was determined to watch it through. It's a quick horror flick that you can watch with almost everybody and I truly think that's something that should be praised in an era where the most dull stories are stretched into a two part movies for no reason at all.
Now, for the meat of my review - My biggest gripe with Texas Chainsaw Massacre is that very little afterthought has been put into actually getting the characters in the situation they end up in. It seems like a kind of stupid thing to ask from a indie-70s slasher but this is MY blog, so I get to say that. The characters are all just airheads being dictated by the force that is the director leading them to their death, which can sometimes be fun but I feel like they should have at least came up with SOME kind of reason for having them be there.
I feel like Jeepers Creepers got that in the bag though. Not only does the two siblings feel immediately established, but their motivations for getting into the situations they do feels very believable as well. Even when they were doing stupid things it felt very natural because they feel like two young people who don't really know what they're getting themselves into - but those moments dont occur very often. These two are incredibly satisfying to watch, and I was genuinely rooting for them the entire time.
My biggest problem with Jeepers Creepers, that got very apparent as the film went on -- is that the villian is kind of all over the place.
I got the feeling they wanted The Creeper to act as a kind of homage to all of the classic 80s horror icons we know and love, but it just feels like you're trying to combine the weirdest looking puzzle pieces together instead of with the rest of the puzzle.
The Creeper lives in the sewers, under a church next to a highway. He is a demon in Reaper attire (looks more like a Scarecrow on the film poster) but also comes off as vampiric in the way he transforms into a bat and in the way he eats humans to regain his strength, which he does every 23 years. Like that's just a helluva lot of crazy, too much for me at least. Pick one please.
This is such a stark contrast to the family in Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which is a threat that feels very intentional, thought out and real -- very different from the cast of main characters. The threat is easily read as a criticism of family values and tradition that is often associated with the American south. I don't live there and I haven't visited so I don't really feel compelled to chime in on how that is like over there.
But what I can say though is that that same the isolation and alienation brought on by families that want to shield themselves from the outside world is something that seems to exist in every culture that i've been a part of. In a way, Leatherface exists, just not always like that. And that makes him and his family extremly compelling and interesting to watch, waaaay more than the people theyre butchering.
As you can probably tell from my lack of a proper statement in that last paragraph, my brain is running out of writing juice, so i'm just going to end it here I think. I normally don't compare films in this way but because of the reasons I stated earlier I thought it would be fun to do, and it was! These two movies are cool, and you should check them out if you haven't already, either alone or with a friend. Bye.
Post 4/Long-time-No-see
Look-ie to the right if you are inclined,
at all the IMAGES I have so CAREFULLY combined.
Maybe in that collection of stamps I have LINED,
the new Sinjin Drowning video you will FIND...
hello to my 1 follower, whats-up? I've been feeling really bad, like the "I have to stay off the computer because otherwise I will just get pissed off" kind of bad, but im getting out of it.
I've been meaning to create more pages and stuff - really want to make a shrine, but the css demons have been bothering me for a reason I can't figure out. I would describe the problem so that maybe you, the reader, could help me out but I dont know the correct terms to describe the issue so I guess i’m on my own.
I've been working on a cross-stitch and painting recently. My dad is cooking in the kitchen right now but after when dinner is done i'm gonna walk down the street and get myself a red bull - so if the sun is still up by then I will finish the painting today!
Metal Gear Solid news! I got accepted into the MGS fan listing which is SO NEAT!!! (look-ie look at the Naomi button over thereh!!)...ALSO! I'm currently playing through Peace-Walker on my iPhone, giving the old "psp-emulator" a try!---again. Got to say, not the best experience so far, because of the lack of physical buttons there isn't really anything to hold onto - and that causes the controls to be very unpredictable. Whatever, I always say that the hand controllers we have today were the peak of gaming innovation. I'm currently stuck on the first boss fight with the tank, hopefully I will beat it until the next update. But it's still super fun though, I love metal gear and this is one I'm not so familliar with --- I really want to look more into Paz, she is such a stand-out for me. Her and Ocelot are so similar.
I still haven't decided if I'm going to pre-order Delta or not, I still call it "MGS Triangle" in my head sometimes. I was planning on waiting for it to drop and THEN seeing if it was worth buying but im in a good finical position right now and I kinda want to get those big boxes with the dioramas or whatever.
Sorry to inform that I have not seen "Giant" or read any more Berserk since my last update. I did try and watch Giant at least but I was not prepared for how GIANT that movie was. So very long lol--- but next time I'm in a 2-and-a-half-hour-long-movie mood I will put that thing on! I have watched other movies though --- and I also finished Yellowjackets, but im not gonna speak on that now. I was actually thinking of compiling a bunch of reviews into one post. I really want to make special graphics and dividers for the occasion.
Thats all for now! Good-bye!
- kady
todays date is 17th of may, 2025!
Post 3/April 29th
hello earthlings! it is i, -- kady jerry, back with another BANGER post.
oh boy do I have an update for you. got accepted into ANOTHER art school -- still not the one im waiting on but im happy
regardless, its been hard validating myself in a vacuum but its also been liberating in a way.
Got to see "Rebel Without A Cause" a few days ago -- I had been a big fan of James prior to watching any of his movies
because of who he was as a person -- and now when I finally have some free time on my hands I felt it was about time.
Two words -- Holy Moly! there has always been something very special about Dean that resonates very strongly with me, I
feel a kind of kinship with him -- and this movie strengthened that for sure. From my knowledge this was also one of the first hollywood films to touch upon how the nuclear family doesn’t automatically guarantee you happiness and stability that also
featured (for the time) accurate portrayals of the dynamics between parents and teenagers. very queer movie too. This
isn't really something groundbreaking to say but I don't care because I'm really tired -- maybe one day when I have it all
figured out in real world I will go more in depth about what Dean means to me personally as an icon -- but for now,
this is all I got. I am so excited to see "Giant" and I was going to the same night but the torrent was HUGE for some reason
so it wouldn't download. Next time you see me I WILL have seen it though.
I've been reading more Berserk -- I'm going to have to check my iPad for the exact chapter. I also don't remember exactly
where I left of story wise either. Berserk is really fun in that way -- you can pick it up and immediately get sucked into the
story, regardless of how much you remember from an earlier reading session. (also hey! if you want some neat berserk
reading music).
Speaking of music -- I've actually been trying to add music to my page for the entire day but like. It just sucks so hard. Saving that hassle for the comic instead.
Hopefully soon I will find some kind of formula to these posts so I don't just have to word-vomit everything I can think of in the moment, like structure, but until then -- see ya!
jack, do you know what day it is tomorrow?
april 30th -- is there something special about it?
update 2/mostly filler
hello human! i am once again editing this blog so i decided to write a little.
was originally going to work on my portfolio but that went to shit because i dont have a full grasp on html and css yet.
i think i figured it out though - cant be good at everything i guess. big life update, by the way -- got into art school! crazy right?? im so relived. i was honestly really scared i wasnt goingt to make the cut, again.
i guess i just needed some time to figure shit out.
other stuff im doing? replaying mgs2, preparing for april 30th (solidus related) and im also continuing yellowjackets (currently on season 2, episode 3).
i hope i get the time to write something on it in the future - thats kind of what i want to use this blog for. i love posting my opinions on things because the idea of an audience helps me become more ambitious in my craft -- but the REALITY of an audience is...
something else entirely. so this can be good for me i think -- anyway, im very interested in shauna, jeff and misty. and nat, but mostly adult nat. i should probably end it here because i can't come up with something else to say.
bye for now!
-kady
todays date is 26 of april, 2025!
first ever post what the heck!!!??
hello. uhm. runs away. I dont know what i will do with this blog yet -- i wanted to make a hosting site for my
my webcomic (and i will...) but i got so furstrated when learning how to code that it
accidentally turned into a personal site instead. so whoops. but honestly learning to code has been pretty neat.
im really proud of myself for finally figuring it out! anyway, hope i can post some more soon!!
bye bye people!
