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Weeknotes 26-12: Joyce Manor

Okay so I did play a bunch of Marathon again this week but I also did other things too!!!!! Talked about Metropolis (1949) at manga club which was interesting???? Very goofy and weird, not really at all like the Rintaro anime adaptation. On thursday I went to go see Project Hail Mary in 70mm which was super fun!!!! Really good movie, highly recommend to anyone and everyone. Seeing it in 70mm was really cool too

Friday we played mahjong (sorry, majiang) at work finally!!! It’s funny playing by the chinese rules my coworker knows because it’s so much more straightforward than how I learned in Mahjong Soul (riichi). Very fun, Snow had us saying all of the numbers and tile names in chinese so I know a bunch of words now, like how to say 1-9 and red. Can’t wait to play more tbh

Saturday my coworkers and I went to a free show in boston common with The Format, Joyce Manor, and Evan Greer, promoting a bunch of local political organizations. Very cool!! Lots of good causes!! It was kinda crazy hearing Nate Ruess’ voice from like 30ft away when I was a big fun. fan in high school (their first album specifically). Joyce Manor (really just Barry, the lead singer) played three songs acoustic which was fun. He was like “ohhh this one is gonna be so boring since it’s just me up here”, “any requests? constant headache? yeah it’s like shooting fish in a barrel haha”. Then we went to third time for a little ice cream snack, then off to get dinner and then to the actual Joyce Manor show, also really fun!!!! They’re so great live, it’s funny that since their songs are like 1:30-3:00 max they can fit in a huge number of songs, like basically all of their hits and a bunch of back-catalog stuff. For their encore they came out and played a song he said they’ve never played live before, Angel in the Snow, because Nate Ruess came out to do his guest vocals on it. Crazy! Funny how of every concert I’ve ever been to, all of the ones that had surprise guests have been in the last year-ish (Porter at Wavedash, Danny Brown at Frost Children, this).

Sunday was another Marathon day, I was sooooooooo sleepy from staying out so late (midnight lol!!!) I ended up watching this Ludwig video where him and Michael Reeves are crossing China from south to north with no map, “phones”, or translators. There’s some bits where I’m like “this is way too youtuber” but it kinda rules seeing how nice all of these people are to them and how much they genuinely want to help. I don’t even speak chinese and I can tell that ludwig’s pronunciation is awwwwwful lmao. Also crazy how much people apparently smoke cigs there???? I had no idea. Like people always talk about Japan as the smoker’s country but their rate has been steadily declining for decades, but in China 1/3 of male doctors are smokers??? insane to me

Things I’ve been into this week!!!