2022's "numdar335 Awards"

Last year I made a post about 2021's "numdar335 Awards" on my tumblr blog

But this year's awards are about normal-people-stuff (^_^)

They are also a lot less "official-looking". Very underwhelming, compared to last year. Anyway, here goes:

• Best musical album: "Wanderlust" by Sugar For The Pill
• Best television show: Smiling Friends
• Best feature-length film: Taurus
• Best videogame: Soul Hackers 2

Aaand that's it.

My musical journey in 2022

In 2022 I finallyyy stopped being a hip hop fan. This is actually a huge deal to me, because I've listened to literally thousands of hours of hip hop in my life. And every time someone asked "so, what music do you listen to?" my honest answer would have to be some category of hip hop.

The issue is that, I've always been a mild & introverted suburbanite, who can't relate to many typical rap songs. So I did what every suburban kid did: I mostly listened to more accessible rappers such as Eminem, Logic, MGK, Hopsin, you get the gist.

In 2016 I started developing a little bit of a personality & I switched to subgenres such as cloud rap, emo trap, trap metal etc.

But over the years I got sick and tired of what the community had become, and I also got tired of how the underground scene I was once such a huge fan of had gone ultra mainstream & how there is now a gigantic supply of new music that is mediocre at best (quantity is seriously prioritized over quality nowadays, smh)

So, last January I went back to my roots! While I had spent my entire teenagehood (and a small part of my preteenagehood) bumping hip hop, until the age of 11 (and a little bit during the age of 12) I would constantly listen to stuff like pop punk, post-hardcore, nu metal, and (most importantly) 90s alt-rock.

So my "main genre" has switched to alt-rock 🙂

I discovered some awesome new bands too! I'm addicted to some of them 🤯

Happy Halloween

Gonna celebrate by doing a bit of a Silent Hill marathon. I've wanted to do this marathon for almost an entire year now, but I always kept postponing 🙄

Not gonna do anything pumpkin-related though. I don't really care about that stuff, but I'm somewhat nostalgic about how my grandpa used to make me some awesome pumpkin pies when I was younger. Some of his friends owned pumpkin patches so they used to give him free pumpkins 😋

Reviewing summer 2022

As of today (September 23 -- the first day of autumn), summer 2022 is over!

My main issue with it, much like with the past few summers, is that I was busy enough not to perceive the summer as special/different compared to the rest of the seasons. Actually it was even worse that that: I very-well noticed that this summer was special for everyone else, but definitely not for me. Maybe things would've been different if I had arranged more spare summertime for traveling and whatnot, but I passionately hate traveling (unless there's an important reason behind it). Maybeee things would've been different too if I had simply been to the beach a few times, but I passionately hate sea-swimming, and I hate other beach-related activities such as sunbathing (a.k.a. being voluntarily roasted by the super duper hot summer sun)

• You might've noticed I sound super whiny
• I think I sometimes sound a lot like Kyle's cousin Kyle

But me being busy is not always a bad thing. For example I got a lot of stuff done, I think it paid off fairly well 😃

Anyway, here's a list with my top three summer 2022 highlights:

• Sat down for 2 hours and watched all of Fooly Cooly

• A homie told me about Samurai Champloo (it's really fucking cool)

• Played a tiny bit of NFSU2, and one of the songs ("Celebration Song") in the soundtrack peaked my interest... so I ended up listening to it way too many times, aaand it's safe to say this fucking song will be forever stuck in my fucking head. Nothing will ever scream "summer 2022" to me more than this song

Hmm I guess I could say similar things about a few other songs too, but I'd rather not turn this post into a song playlist, haha

You might think that those highlights are too boring, and you might be right, but. There's no "but". I suck. 😐