🎥 Fear Street: Prom Queen (2025)

When the “it” girls competing for prom queen at Shadyside High start to disappear, a gutsy outsider discovers she’s in for one hell of a prom night.

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Music, Depression, & Chat GPT

To paraphrase Rob from High Fidelity, do I listen to metalcore because I am miserable, or am I miserable because I listened to metalcore?

Anyway…

Beartooth’s song Sunshine is one of my favourite songs at the moment, big and heavy breakdowns, catchy sing-a-long parts, screams, and all that good metalcore stuff. Pretty confident I knew what the song was about: seasonal depression, feelings of hopelessness, and the want to escape it all.

I asked Chat GPT to interpret it and explain it to me.

These lyrics paint a picture of someone at an emotional and psychological breaking point, stuck in a cold, dark place (literally or metaphorically), and teetering on the edge of giving in or giving up. Let’s break it down:

Intro

Ah, I’m like actually losing my voice though

This sounds off-the-cuff and humanizing. It suggests exhaustion—physically and emotionally. Losing one’s voice can also be symbolic: losing the ability to express pain or even be heard.

Verse 1

Killing my time in the dark inside / It’s a race to death for me

This screams depression or a feeling of hopelessness. “Killing time” implies a lack of purpose, and “race to death” adds a morbid edge—suggesting life feels like a slow march toward inevitable doom.

Try and unwind while I lose my mind / I got no place to be

Apathy and chaos coexist. The speaker is trying to relax while internally spiraling—a common symptom of burnout or depression. “No place to be” emphasizes isolation and aimlessness.

Pre-Chorus

The cold winds blowing / The lights not showing

These are metaphors for emotional numbness and lack of direction. The speaker’s life feels bleak and without guidance.

Excuses piling up / I can’t keep running / The end is coming

They’re exhausted from avoiding reality or responsibilities. There’s a sense of inevitable collapse or confrontation ahead.

Chorus

Sunshine that would finally show / I might die if I stay in this cold

Craving warmth (hope, love, clarity). Staying in this emotional “cold” feels life-threatening—not literally, but mentally/emotionally.

I finally admit it, I gotta be committed / To let this story unfold

Admitting to needing help, perhaps even mental health support (“committed” is a loaded word here). They’re ready to face reality and stop hiding.

I hear angels calling my name and / I better listen before I implode

That line walks the tightrope between spiritual awakening and suicidal ideation. It’s ambiguous: are the “angels” salvation, or a euphemism for death?

I don’t care for a minute / If no one’s gonna get it / Let’s try selling our souls

This could be sarcastic resignation or a metaphor for doing whatever it takes to escape this hell—possibly even abandoning principles or sanity.

Verse 2

Living in filth, can’t look at myself / ‘Cause I know what I’m gonna see

Self-loathing, shame, and neglect. The speaker is disgusted with their state but too broken to fix it.

The spirit I lost, the years it cost / The reasons I’m scared to sleep

They’ve lost something essential—perhaps hope, faith, or motivation. Sleep becomes scary, possibly due to nightmares or because sleep = confrontation with one’s own mind.

Bridge

The end is coming (repeated)

It’s not just a cry of defeat—it’s a countdown. Something big is about to give, whether it’s a breakdown, breakthrough, or both.

Overall Interpretation

This song is a raw cry for help. It’s about someone grappling with intense inner demons—depression, existential dread, burnout—and maybe flirting with self-destruction. But under the weight of all that pain, there’s a sliver of resolve: the urge to finally do something, even if it means drastic change or breaking every rule they lived by.

The “sunshine” they crave isn’t just weather—it’s relief, purpose, and self-acceptance. The idea of “selling our souls” might be cynical, but it’s also desperate: the speaker is ready to sacrifice anything to feel alive again.

It’s heavy stuff—but relatable to anyone who’s ever stared into their own abyss and said, “I can’t keep doing this.”

📺 Rick and Morty: Summer of All Fears

Rick left the kids in a matrix. Not chill, broh.

Oooh, new season!

Not waiting to find out what the final outcome is for Pocket, despite it having a couple of promising suitors, I’m moving to Raindrop.io for my read later and bookmark saving needs. At the moment the bookmarking on micro.blog doesn’t suit my workflow.

⚽️ With the Premier League season now closed, and Arsenal falling frustratingly short again, I should probably stop my Optus Sport subscription until the new season starts up in August. It’s only $75 saved, better in my bank though…

🎥 Candyman (2021)

A sequel to the horror film Candyman (1992) that returns to the now-gentrified Chicago neighborhood where the legend began.

Scary movie night.

🎥 The Final Destination

A horrifying premonition saves a young man and his friends from death during a racetrack accident but terrible fates await them nonetheless.

🔗 Mozilla is shutting down Pocket | The Verge // Emma Roth

Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, the handy bookmarking tool used to save articles and webpages for later. The organization announced that Pocket will stop working on July 8th, 2025

So now the auditions begin to replace Pocket, an app I’ve used everyday for 10 years…ugh

Crepuscular animal - Wikipedia

a crepuscular animal is one that is active primarily during the twilight period,[1] being matutinal (active during dawn), vespertine/vespertinal (active during dusk), or both. This is distinguished from diurnal and nocturnal behavior, where an animal is active during the hours of daytime and of night, respectively. Some crepuscular animals may also be active by moonlight or during an overcast day. Matutinal animals are active only after dawn, and vespertine only before dusk.

📺 Watching Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities (TV Series 2022)

Bizarre nightmares unfold in eight tales of terror in a visually stunning, spine-tingling horror collection curated by Guillermo del Toro.

I love a good anthology series!

With about 20mm of rain since midnight, and how leaky the roof has been the last couple of months, I’m afraid of what I’ll find when I head down to the sports club later this morning.

📺 Love Death + Robots

A collection of animated short stories that span various genres including science fiction, fantasy, horror and comedy.

New Season! 🙌

🔗 What Is a Planetary Alignment and How Do You Watch It?:

Let’s delve into this phenomenon and how you can watch when it happens next.

🔗 Ye Olde Blogroll - Because blogs are the soul of the web:

You are viewing a humanly curated list of 721 fine personal & independent blogs and sites that are updated regularly. No algorithms ever!

My Read, Comment, Share Workflow Still Sucks

This is a little rant born from the frustration of trying to connect and setup a couple of indieweb applications for subscribing to and reading RSS feeds, saving to a read later service, and posting commentary from either the RSS reader or the read later service, kind of like a social reader.

After logging into Aperture using my micro.blog hosted domain, I added it’s microsub endpoint to the head of my website, then added a few Channels, some RSS feeds to those Channels, and they seemingly pull in the entries from each of them…looks like progress!

Then I jumped over to Monocle, logged in via my domain again, and could see that the channels I added into Aperture were there, but none of the articles. Hmm. I wondered if Monocle might be playing up as I saw that it’s creator was using a different reader, so I tried Together and end up with the same result…hrmm

Back to IndieWeb I go, more reading, starting to think I need a service like Watchtower to poll the subscriptions, but I’m not certain as the directions aren’t super clear as to whether it’s needed or not.

So back to my micro.blog hosted domain, return the microsub endpoint back to the micro.blog default, log back in to Aperture and now the channels I added earlier are gone. Curiosity piqued, I logged into Monocle and confirmed the channels from Aperture are not just gone, but they’ve been replaced by micro.blog’s standard channels (Timeline, Mentions, Bookmarks, Discover). I do the same on Together, yep, same result.

My next question is, can you have multiple microsub endpoints in your website’s head? I couldn’t find a clear answer, but my own testing leads me to believe that it can, however, it’s not clear how you define what goes where (at least on micro.blog) so that’s a dead end.

Ugh! I give up!

All I want is an app / service where I can;

  • subscribe to RSS feeds
  • read those subscribed RSS feeds (replacing Feedly)
  • save articles of interest to read later (replacing Pocket)
  • share / post commentary from those saved articles to my website

It needs to be pretty seamless, easy to setup and maintain, and needs work on iOS and either MacOS or in a browser. It’s pretty much the indieweb reader that Aaron describes in his Building an IndieWeb Reader article.

Some things I’ve already tried;

NetNewsWire (RSS subs) shared to Micro.blog (both iOS and Mac) - was hit and miss whether the link was passed over, I couldn’t ever get any copied or highlighted text across. Also, on iOS it only works the first time with both apps freshly installed, but subsequent shares do nothing.

I had similar experiences sharing from anywhere iOS to Micro.blog’s iOS app, it works the very first time the app is opened from a fresh install, then it never works again. Delete the app, re-authenticate with Micro.blog, share to the Mb iOS app once and then it stops working again.

I also tried sharing from Feedly to Drafts to Micro.blog’s api, it works but it was a janky feeling workflow that I just couldn’t make part of my read / share / post routine. I would also forget how I was formatting things, and I’ll be honest, I was also too lazy to setup templates in Drafts for each type of post I wanted to share. This is probably an option I should revisit seeing as Drafts is essentially the same app no matter if it’s on iOS or MacOS and the workflow would be the same no matter the device I’m on.

What’s your workflow? Do you have any suggestions for me?

To be continued…

Trying to get Aperture, Indiepaper, Monocle, and micro.blog connected and working together so I can bring all my subscriptions over to Aperture, my ‘read later’ saves into Indiepaper, and then read the lot in Monocle so I can share / post back to micro.blog…not having much success so far 🤷‍♂️

⚽️ Congratulations to Crystal Palace Football Club on winning the English FA Cup overnight.

Another test from monocle, correct blog chosen this time…I think

Hopefully this forecast of 200mm over the next 4 days is wildly inaccurate!

🔗 Dylan Graves Surfed One of Australia’s Rarest Novelty Waves

The wave only breaks a few times a decade — when the swell direction, tide, and wind all align — and this was one of those magic days! At a spot I’ve always wanted to go!

Back in the 90’s I was lucky enough to surf Newcastle Harbour a bunch of times. You really don’t want to hit the bottom! 🤕

🏀 Did not see the Knicks making it past Boston…and then they did, pretty impressively too! 👏

📺 The Great North has been one of my favourite discoveries this year, super funny, really dry humour, and quite weird.

And there’s 5 seasons of it! 🐻

The rain continues to fall here in Newcastle. 30mm in the last 24 hours, that’s on top of all the rain we’ve had since mid-March. I’d guess we’ve had 1000mm fall across that period, April had >640mm alone.

No chance we’re playing football this weekend. That’ll be 6 rounds washed out so far! 🤯

We’re had so much rain this year. April was super wet, we had around 620mm of rain across the month. With the constant wet and humid conditions, mushrooms and other fungi have been popping up all over the place.

  • Auto-generated description: An orange mushroom is growing on a moss-covered, weathered wooden surface, with blurred greenery in the background.
  • Auto-generated description: A mushroom is growing between two wooden planks surrounded by grass and mud.

📺 Loved the second season of Andor! I think I’m going to rewatch it from the very first episode through Rogue One seeing as that portion of the arc is pretty much complete now.