01.18.2026

Media Mini Jan 18 2026


Welcome friends to the first media mini post wahoo!

im setting a weekly goal for myself to
- watch at least one new (to me) movie
- listen to at least one new (to me) album
- read at least one new (to me) book (that i own already)

and post a blog post bout it on sundays moving forward. i think it’s a pretty reasonable goal and im excited! i’ll also share extra media ive consumed if there is any. but im a creature of habit as they say so sometimes there wont be. ok enough yappin lets get to the good stuff. 

Movie(s):

SLC Punk (1998):

ik ik im surprised i didnt watch it sooner too. this is one that has been on my list since like idk high school maybe? its free on youtube right now if anyone else is interested. i honestly enjoyed it more than i thought i would. for some reason... and maybe this is why i put off watchin it for so long.. i thought it was bouta be like kinda artsy and boring lol. like i said its been on my list since high school. which is when i first saw screengrabs of it on tumblr. and idk i guess i ended up watchin one too many movies i saw stills from on tumblr that ended up just makin me yawn. SO! but yeah na this was good and not boring. or maybe my brain has grown and i just get it now. i think both are true actually. anyway. this movie is obv aesthetically very pleasing (hence the tumblr posts i saw all those years ago). soundtrack is dope. story is solid, love some good irony. matthew lillard is great. yeah



Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (2025):

ive watched a very fair chunk of fnaf lore videos and lets plays over the years, though admittedly i was pretty late to the party. kinda wish i was payin attention to fnaf when the og games were comin out but that’ll just have to be added to my to do list for whenever i get a time machine. i did enjoy the first fnaf movie. it was bad but fun. fnaf 2 however... kinda sucked ngl. like what even happened. incredibly forgettable. just pretty lame. coryxkenshin got another cameo so it was nice to see him for a sec.. but it was basically just repeatin the same joke from the first movie. anyway this was a bummer tbh. theres so much potential for it to actually be fun and even good but it just felt like no effort went into the writing. they also set it up for a 3rd movie... and yep i just looked it up and that is happening.. alright... matthew lillard is great.  



Party Girl (1995):

another one that has been on my list since high school type shit. very iconic, and again i was pleasantly surprised at its ability to hold my attention. parker posey’s slay after slay definitely helped. idk it was a sweet lil movie. i love 90s nyc. i love the new york public library. 



Album(s):

First Day Back - Forward (2025)


yeah so i love music. i’ve fallen out of my old habits of constantly listening to new shit and tryna find the most underground bands and whatever and instead ive just had the bad habit of listening to the same crap over and over. dont get me wrong, i love that crap a lot but like there is sooo much music out there u know. but it rly is time consuming to go and look for new stuff and i just have other priorities these days i guess. 

that said, ive been meanin to check these guys out for a while now + finally actually got around to it. yeah i need to not do that like i need to listen to stuff sooner bc this is so good. if ur into febuary, train breaks down, emo etc. i definitely recommend. writing bout music isnt my strong suit lol. im like idk what to say it just sounds dope. anyway i linked their bandcamp above. check em out! rn!


Book(s)
Walking Dead

ok so reading has not exaclty been a priority either. like every time i have the chance to read i was just rather play games instead. but like i do love reading. and i have so many awesome books in my collection that ive been neglecting so its time to finally freaking read ok. 

first is the walking dead compendium one. shes thick. its prob gonna take me a few weeks. but im excited and so far so good. im obvi a big fan of the show and everyone says the comics even better. im just at the beginning rn so i’ll have more thoughts next week. 




Video games:

Celeste (2018):

i recently got a retroid pocket g2. its awesome. i havent gotten the chance to spend too much time on it so right now i just have gamehub lite which is what connects u to steam so u can play ur steam games. it syncs w ur cloud saves n everything too. pretty epic to have a pocketable steam deck thingy. it can do a whole bunch of emulation too but im not there yet. i downloaded celeste mostly to test out my new toy but ive been sucked back into it, tryna collect the strawberries i missed before.. there are a lot. i wasnt super worried bout collecting the strawberries in my first playthru. i wrote about it here if ur interested. its the perfect game to play on the train honestly. lol i say that like im not cursing under my breath every 2 seconds playin this. but yeah shout out once again to celeste. 


Inmost (2019):

i picked up this game in the steam winter sale after seein screenshots of it on pinterest. the pixel art is very beautiful to me!! its a lil narrative-focused puzzle platformer game. nothin too crazy but its sweet. the vibes are dark and mysterious, even a lil spooky sometimes. the themes get into grief and loss as u navigate the world, switching btwn 3 different characters. this might sound harsh but its not what i would call a fun game. i still enjoyed it for the story and the look + feel of the game, which is where it rly thrives-- but the actual gameplay is super slow, +not very involved. the platforming and combat are super minimal. there’s a lot of cutscenes too. its been a good game to play on my retroid i think-- it was worth the $5 i paid for it but i dont think i can recommend it at full price($15) so if ur interested i’d wait for the discount


Brotato (2023):

i love brotato. to copy +paste from the steam description: “Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite” and basically ur a potato w 6 guns and u shoot aliens. the art style is giving miniclip/addicting games and it rocks. as the levels progress, the waves of aliens get crazier and u have to get better guns and items to create a more epic build to defeat em. ive been playin local co-op w my boyfriend and its honestly so fun. i feel like theres not enough fun local co-op games... anyway its rly great game to just throw on for a run (or two or three). u can definitely get more nerdy bout ur build but its also not rly that serious if u dont want it to be. 

and that’s it for this week thanks for readin<3