blogvember 2: when the melody is meant for me, i’m going to find it

2025-11-02

this post is part of a series: blogvember 2025.

1. the memories that grip me and pin me down
2. when the melody is meant for me, i’m going to find it

about the title: lyrics to “sing good” by ninajirachi. i discuss her album briefly later.

hello. work has been a little tough and i’m trying to get some blogging done before sitting down and attempting some work.

rise and steep

this morning i started my day off with a mug of harney and sons sweet azuki tea. the design and advertising copy are almost intended to pander to my demographic but i assure you, given the name of the tea, that it is in fact not very sweet at all. you do get a aftertaste of brown sugar, mixed in with a nutty flavor reminiscent of genmaicha. and the titular azuki is only really present on the nose, which is to say that this is a really pleasant tea to drink! being a black tea, it’s also very forgiving; you can steep it for a really long time and it still tastes pretty damn good. i suspect that most of the heavy lifting actually comes from the presence of natural safflower. i’m not complaining; it’s far better than the extremely heady and artificial-tasting flavored teas i’ve had in the past. for tea you can buy at the grocery store, it’s quite good.

some music

ninajirachi—i love my computer

the pop music of today is largely legible to me, because it’s the exact same kind of pop that was trending online back in the early 2000s. take i love my computer by ninajirachi: it’s definitely of this age. the music video for infohazard (strobe warning!) is essentially a sped up scrolling session, portraying a relationship to online almost like we’re all going to the world’s fair, until the end… but the musical genres are largely a mishmash of 1990s piano trance, 2000s electroclash, Japanese videogame soundtracks, 2012s EDM. the lyricism is classic love ballads, except the subject of affection is, well, the computer. i listened to this on the train today, and i loved it.

highlights to me: “f**k my computer”, “infohazard”, “sing good”

hmm, what’s next? i don’t know but i will post tomorrow!