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Here's where I'll collect any writing: thoughts, blogs(!?) and maybe eventually reviews for albums and films or something like that. Writing is something I love, even if I'm not amazing at it, and here on SUNWRLD is a great opportuniy to get my hand in, so keep an eye out.
Late To The New Year.
Been a minute! Happy new year, I had a really amazing christmas break; seeing family and old friends and with term starting back up again, I am surprisingly: not at school. I'm off for prelim revision and have have already sat 2/5 with French tomorrow (yikes) and Art and Philosophy looming further on the horizon. I've been back climbing regularly which is a blessing and already seeing the benefits, alongside making friends with sort of new squad which has been a joy too, all in all a seemingly strong start to '25. Sticking to my drunk concieved new years resolution of :"Loving and respecting my friends" and already behind on my sober one of reading more :) I'm breezy tho.
Functions: Complete! Term is over and I'm in recovery mode after my back to back parties. Starting with the ceilidh on Thursday which was exhausting and house party the day after; drank far too much and ended up pissed in a ditch in hand to hand combat with a bramble bush (and lost my digital camera :( ). But despite all that still had a very fun and chaotic evening, I woke up the next day with a seeringly sore sprained ankle, likely a scar from #ditchgate, pain I hadnt been sober enough to notice the evening before. I hope that paints a picture of the vibes that day. And I ended in a silent disco with a combination of old childhood friends and my parents crew, which was easily the most fun I've had nearly all year. Dropped some absolute bangers on the dance floor and hardly stoppped moving the whole night. Safe to say I'm happy to relax until the new year now.
Feeling festive!School term is nearly over, I have: not one, not two but three confirmed festive functions at the end of the week (one of which I'm on aux for!). I'm feeling fully festive and I'm loving it. Fresh songs on all the playlists, no more tests until next year and locking in to do nothing but sit down and eat mince pies. What a beautiful world we live in!
Need to work more on the site. My main goals for this are: to have a blog that I update consistently, a site that looks relatively acceptable where all the links work and hopefully a place to host photos and reviews too. That'll probably hapen in early 2026 though, I need to actually do things to write about them and I've got exams, tests and family stuff on the horizon- so who knows? I did get spent a load of time in my school's greenhouse today though which was pretty sick (matching aesthetics with the site I can't lie) and I was given a bong in my secret santa, so its very difficult to be unhappy right now.
Made the blog! took a while to figure out scroll boxes and the layout for the whole thoughts page but very happy I did, spent an hour and a half on instagram reels and about twenty minutes revising for the human bio test i have in two days. That's neither here nor there I guess. Coding this was definitely the best bit of my day, especially making my site's button, really proud of that (everything feels so official). Definitely want to get as much of this website done and dusted before Christmas, because I know I'll have to lock in for prelims soon.
CDs and the nostalgic handicap of physical media in the 2020's
I used to be surrounded by CDs, I'm from a music loving household and we often drove cross country from Scotland to Wales, or down to visit grandparents in London. These journeys were punctuated with Paul Simon, Tracey Chapman, MJ and "Now That's What I Call Music" discs flying from glove box to disc drive and back, functioning as the soundtrack to a lot of my childhood. At home we were embracing the wonders of spotify and bluetooth but my dad did hold onto a penchant for vinyl, playing records from his childhood for the whole house to hear. I was like 7 so I didn't really care for any music that wasn't the ben 10 theme song but I still have intense memories of the care and adoration with which he treated those albums- far different than you interact with music by streaming. And that definitely stuck with me.
I also have strong and fond memories of watching movies on tape on the old CRT TV we had, bangers like "the Emperor's New Groove" and "Aladin", an even more obsolete medium, which has yet to "come back" at any point since it's hay-day. These core memories have remained with me throughout life and that core concept of care and consideration for media eventually developed into a fascination with physical media of my own. I now have a small, but growing, collection of Vinyl, DVDs and CDs amassing in my room. I ,tellingly, started collecting these before I had any personal means of using them, based solely off a desire to "keep" the things I like. It wasn't ever super rational, but now I have a better grasp of the internet's fragile ecosystem and had seen one too many of my favourite films slyly sequestered from Netflix's shelevs and I understand that: keeping what you love close to home may actually be the move.
Recently I've gotten into the habit of burning my own CDs aswell, which is obviously pretty mundane, but has yielded me the same almost-bureaucratic joy as making a concise and flawlessly analogous pinterest board. Thats same organisational elation as making an outfit where everything fits together just right. It's meaningless but I've always loved it and now, instead of my music collecting being relegated to a flimsy playlist: I could hold it in my hand. That's just awesome. So now my little shelf-top library of CDs has the extra personal touch of my own hand-crafted moments, bound into acrlyic plastic.
