mari@macintosh.garden

Welcome! My main site is undergoing some turmoil at the moment, so I'm here using this one to prototype what I want on the next iteration. A screen width of 1024x768 is recommended here.

Site Updates

May 10, 2024—Today marks the official sunsetting of mari@macintosh.garden. I'm now putting effort into moving everything back to mari.somnol and doing the design and assets for it. This is for a few reasons, but mostly, Macintosh Garden was just never meant to be permanent in the first place. I'll be adding banners to the top of every page marking them as frozen. The pages will remain so the links stay working, but nothing new will be added. New content will be added to nofi.mariteaux.somnolescent.net first as part of the three-pronged all-browsers-supported building strategy I'm implementing, so Follow the changelog there for further updates from me as we return to the full mari.somnol domain!
March 18, 2024—happy six months without an update, lurkers! I just got back from Wales, and I do have some stuff for you to see. Firstly, check the art gallery as always, that's now up to date and there's some stuff there I haven't posted elsewhere. But! Six new album reviews, most of which were written on various planes and buses while I had nothing but music to occupy me: Ash's 1977, The Cardigans' Gran Turismo, John Gold's these are color days, Pine Marten's Beautiful Stakes and Powerpoles, Sebadoh's Harmacy, and Wrong Way Driver's Nonplussed, all from between 1997 and 2011 or so. Some of these I've been meaning to write for ages now, and some are long-standing favorites of mine, so it's nice to get 'em out there finally. I bought 25 new CDs while I was away, so I'm gonna try to listen through and get them all reviewed at some point this year. Keep an eye on this space!
September 30, 2023—I've been hard at work working on cammy.somnol, drawing stuff, writing for the blog, and at least for those last two, I have updates here: my art gallery and essays page now have all the drawings I've done in the last two months and links to everything I've written in the last two months, respectively. First time the art's been posted publicly too! I've been debating making a new FurAffinity, potentially, but for now, it's all still here exclusively.
September 6, 2023—Long time no see! I have dug up from my archives the entire run of the Rediscovering, a set of thirty essays on a bunch of albums I bought and never listened to. I've been working on porting these to basic HTML for a month or two now, five at a time, going back through them, reading them again for the first time in a while, and giving my commentary on thoughts looking back at them in a much different headspace. If you caught them the first time, read them again, they hold up. If you didn't, they're a treat, I think—pleasantly surprised with how they hold up.
August 18, 2023—The new Midwestern Dirt album Twilight at a Burning Hill is out today! It's fantastic, you should listen to it and buy a copy. I've been listening to it for months already for free and I still did. Here's my full review of it, and that page also now features catalog reviews for 2020's Sayonara and 2017's Amendments. Back to web stuff full throttle tomorrow, after I take a trip to my job to buy another ethernet cable.
August 15, 2023—Man, life's been weird lately. I'm happy to have the modding and level design section done and updated, even if I apparently linked it on this front page ages ago and thus some people probably went in there already, 404s and all. All good! This really leaves two sections, my music and my stories, and this site will have everything I want on it. Past that point, it's all just design work and migrating back to mari.somnol.
August 1, 2023—Quick little update—changing around the sorting of the music recommendations page and readding the four low-bit reviews I did! These were a lot of fun, I think they added some nice flavor to my reviews page and I'd like to do more (and get back to listening to netlabel stuff in general), but it felt odd sorting all these various artists together and it made the page extra long. Now I've got them split into the bigwigs that had a record deal and the weirdos who just put stuff out for fun on the internet. Like me.
July 29, 2023—Hi, sorry for the lack of updates! There's been a bunch of things going on in the background that I haven't gotten around to finishing, despite me working on this site most days of the week. I have one of them for you now: the first set of catalog recommendations, these for Beck. Catalog recommendations are just a bunch of reviews posted at once exploring a specific artist's discography. This isn't all the Beck albums I'd like to get to, but four of these are brand new and one is rewritten. That's plenty for right now. (I also separately did Earlimart's Treble and Tremble and Autolux's Transit Transit earlier in the month, I just didn't post them to this changelog.)

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