mari@macintosh.garden has been sunset! All pages will remain in place, though new content will be added to mariteaux.somnolescent.net as I return to using that domain like I always intended. Follow the changelog there for further updates from me as we return to the full mari.somnol domain!
The most recent eight updates will be featured on the front page of the site. Anything older goes here.
- July 12, 2023—Preparing more sections of the site! For now, have the Setter ref I finished up last night and a review of Marcy Playground's debut. I'm on a roll with the album reviews, they're super quick and easy and fun. More to come.
- July 9, 2023—I have gotten my art gallery up! This didn't take too long. I already had the images sorted and text written from when I built the mari.somnol version for funsies, and that's been sitting up on mari.somnol unlisted for long enough that it's rather outdated. I just updated it with everything I've drawn since and ported it to this site's layout. Glad to have it up! Still fun to see my art through nearly a year and a half of constant attempts and improvement. I think I'm in a really good spot with it now, and it's only getting better. Expect this one to update as I draw more, of course.
- July 8, 2023—a contact page appears! Yeah, easy shit, doing it between some other, bigger projects I've been working on. I also got two more album recommendations up for ya, Wilco's Summerteeth and Marcy Playground's Shapeshifter, both from 1999, only one of which is as remembered and respected as it should be, sadly.
- June 30, 2023—I have ported over almost all of my album recommendations, save for the ones I either don't like and need to rewrite or the low-bit ones, which I'm still feeling out how I want sorted in the listing, how I want to link to the original releases (support the artists), all that. I've also overhauled the way you browse them. They're now sorted by artist, and each artist gets their own page as opposed to the reviews being per-album, which made things a lot harder to look through. I anticipate doing more catalog recommendations for artists I've already done reviews of, so this will just make things a lot easier and cut down on the amount of pages you'll have to browse between.
- June 29, 2023—working on majorly overhauling the album recommendation sorting, but if you want a new review from me, here's one I did for Starflyer 59's Gold. Nostalgic album for me, nice to revisit. Definitely think I prefer Starflyer's later work, but that's probably just novelty. Silver and Gold are still quality heavy rock records.
- June 27, 2023—I have finally assembled a listing of the essays I've written over the years that I still like. Seriously, I neglected to do that for almost five years now, and it's made finding a huge chunk of the stuff I've written over the years impossible. Very preliminary, but good for right now.
- June 24, 2023—My old PS1 reviews have returned! These have all been edited to be even tinier and more concise, and on an occasion or two, rewritten to better reflect my current feelings on the games. I forgot how much I enjoyed this format, I'll absolutely be writing some new ones when the mood strikes.
- June 20, 2023—Got a bunch of my old album reviews posted for some stuff to look at, finally, plus a rough sitemap of other stuff you can expect to see in the future. The reviews have all been edited for length, clarity, and to be less edgy than when I wrote them as a teenager. There's also a new one, for Superdrag's Regretfully Yours, which is an album I like very very much.