favorites from 2024

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favorite games (that i first played in 2024)

favorite films (that i first watched in 2024)

  • zone of interest
  • tetsuo: the iron man
  • cleo from 5 to 7
  • totally f***ed up
  • burden of dreams
  • perfect days
  • maggie lee’s mommy
  • anatomy of a fall
  • the pianist
  • isaac goes’ worlds
  • as i was movinv ahead, occasionally i saw brief glimpses of beauty

favorite albums (2024 releases)

  • endlessness, nala sinephro
  • nonage, LI YILEI
  • everything squared, see feel
  • romanticism, hana vu
  • here in the pitch, jessica pratt
  • cycle, h to o (h takahashi & kohei oyamada)

not as much intentional listening this year

favorite books i read

  • ducks, newburyport (still reading lol)
  • white noise

  • my mother was a computer, katherine hayles
  • computer libs/dream machines, ted nelson
  • the atmospherics of the city, ross chambers
  • the real world of technology, ursuma m franklin (lectures book)
  • the intuition of the instant, gaston bachelard
  • interface fantasy: a lacanian cyborg ontology
  • ways of being, james bridle
  • programmed vision, software and memory
  • assemblage theory, manuel delanda
  • on the existence of digital objects, yuk hui

purchases

  • nicole saldaña fabiana
  • midi fighter twister
  • fino hair mask
  • brunch brother toast laptop case
  • my hangyodon airpods case
  • sandy liang x subu pink slippers
  • sandy liang dragon egg necklace
  • eechaeroi vintage red heart bag
  • my first eye prescription update in 6 years
  • paloma wool brown cayetano bag
  • paloma wool x alessandro furchino capria paola scarf
  • vivienne westwood heart silver lighter
  • my several mac minis for installation purposes
  • a toolbox from japan
  • little chopstick holder guys from japan
  • ribbed glass mugs

shows i saw

  • air (playing all of moon safari) in sf
  • fall out boy in sacramento
  • cornelius in berkeley

food

  • gyukatsu motomura, shibuya
  • okaeri, san francisco
  • ernest, san francisco
  • lampara, poblacion
  • COTE, new york
  • butternut squash dumplings from leleka, san francisco
  • costco steak packs thank you god
  • corn latte from on fleek in hongdae

scent

  • Eau Triple Tubéreuse du Mexique Buly 1803