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My laptop is either dying from age or heat, so I need to buy a new one. In the meantime I have braved 5 sec Youtube page load times to bring you the monthly listening!

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I have two months to catch up on so this is pretty packed.

( Save me from summer weather )

Spent this month birding while taking photos of flowers, so a bit of a shorter one.

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Finally no. snow.

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At this stage of the competition, being chosen for the group has as much to do with group fit as it has to do with work ethic and talent.

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“They were labeling us as the ‘real girls,’ like we were gonna be very, very authentic,” she said. “So they thought the name [Faky] showed self-awareness—like, we’ll call this fake, because we’re so real.” Never mind, she added, that the name was made up by the company.

— Anna Sawai, in W

No No Girls is last year’s idol competition show from BMSG headed by pop/rap star Chanmina. “No No” stands for girls who ‘had been told no all their lives’, or more simply: “No FAKE, No LAZE, No HATE”.

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Just watched an entire Justin Trudeau press conference live for the first time ever.

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These past two months have been much busier than I was expecting D: Nowadays I usually compose this post as the month goes on but this time I did it all in one go last week.

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I spent a lot more time this year revisiting albums from last year and previous than listening to new stuff. The lack of pressure was nice? Nonetheless, I did find some new LPs & EPs to like (slash hyperfocus on) this year.

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Recently my mom wondered out loud why anyone would like No Party For Cao Dong as their music was so depressing.

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Oops, where has the time gone!

( To the birds (literally) )

My obligatory VIFF film of the year is Love Lies (我談的那場戀愛), a comedy about an online romance scam victim and her scammer. It’s a cleverly constructed film, mixing police interviews, flashbacks, and daydream sequences seamlessly. The cinematography on the daydream sequences — translating the uncanniness of Google Streetview into a film with real actors — was particularly inspired.

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