Same, kinda. This year I’ve been leaning into recreating that sense of childhood creativity in my writing/art; for me, it’s about bringing back the earnestness and enthusiasm that got dulled in my teen/adult years. I think we’re all still the same creative kid inside, we’re just embarrassed now about our ideas being “cringe” or “unoriginal”. Or we’re making stuff to appeal to an audience instead of ourselves.
Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left To Lose
Mitchell, Manos, and Pod People are probably a three-way tie for me. Some of my underrated favorites are Girls Town, The Incredible Melting Man, The Giant Spider Invasion, Teen-Age Crime Wave, and Kitten With a Whip.
Presto is amazing!!! So much of their 90s-00s discography is so slept on.
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Tool - 10,000 Days
Rush - Test for Echo
Metallica - Metallica
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Michael Jackson - HIStory
BIGBANG - MADE
[bodyendtag] - Information Superhighway
Kumi Koda - BEST 2000-2020
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
I saw BigBang on the MADE tour T__T So good! Probably biased since it was my first real concert ever. Taeyang and G-Dragon’s solo shows were also very good; pretty much all the kpop shows I’ve been to have been amazing (BigBang, Taeyang, CL, G-Dragon, Blackpink(x2), BTS(x2)). I would love to see Dreamcatcher, EXO, or Shinee!
Big Bang, 2NE1, Girls’ Generation, EXO, BTS, Blackpink, XG, Shinee, f(x), Wonder Girls…
Looking for BoA’s “Every Heart” song for Inuyasha, I discovered her Korean stuff too, then found out about DBSK, Lee Hyori, BigBang, and I never looked back. lol Yes I am old…
I’ve never done “complete” worldbuilding (cause it’s never been that interesting to me) so maybe I’m out of my depth here. I do enjoy worldbuilding when I tweak something about “our” world: adding soulmarks, magic systems, etc. It gives me a base to start with, and then I can extrapolate things from there. What would change? What would stay the same? Human greed and fallibility always shape the world, even if you have supernatural elements or beings in your story.
But my worldbuilding is usually “start writing and figure things out as I go along”. Sometimes you only realize what your story/world needs when you’re writing and run into a roadblock.
Yaaaas another Koda Kumi fan!!! <3 I discovered Japanese music around 2003; I got into the FLCL soundtracks by the pillows, and some of the JP DBZ OP/ED themes. Then more anime themes (Naruto, Death Note, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Fullmetal Alchemist). Around 2006 I think, I got into Jpop proper through BoA, Koda Kumi, Ayumi Hamasaki, and Namie Amuro. (That’s also how I got into Kpop too, with BoA’s Korean discography) I’ve also delved into Jrock a little through the Gazette, L’arcenCiel, Dir en grey, SADS, Porno Graffitti, and Ellegarden.
I’ve gotten way more sensitive to clothing textures as I get older, and I don’t remember having too much texture sensitivity as a kid (except for hating itchy tags). I’m also way too aware now of my clothes when I sleep, so sleeping in any kind of pajama bottoms or socks is impossible for me. That never used to be A Thing for me until a few years ago. It doesn’t really impact my life very much though.