i am once again making an intro post to christen a new account, a new username, and the end of an era of my life!! so introduction once again
hi, my name is aen (he/him), i’m british-indian, almost finished with my masters degree in cyber security (specifically i wanna do blue team stuff as a soc analyst / security engineer) and almost out of an internship!! i have adhd so i have my fingers in a lot of hobbies that i can’t balance at all. right now, i’m into:
music:
i LOVE albums and love reviewing them (although i’m not exactly good at it) and my favourite artist is björk! my favourite album of all time is imaginal disk by magdalena bay though, and generally i just listen to a lot of art pop. i need to expand my horizons!
reading:
i struggle to make time to read because of adhd, but reading is a passion i’ve had for a very long time. right now my favourite book is the spear cuts through water by simon jimenez (literary fantasy) and you can also follow me on librarything if you wanna see the other books ive read - that’s where i track my books and occassionally review them
games:
i am not a pro gamer. im so bad at games. love them though. my favourite game of all time is one i actually played less than two months ago - disco elysium. still haven’t really finished it, but i love that game so much. took an entire week out of my life but i don’t regret it! other than that, i end up playing a lot of indie games and a lot of roguelikes and roguelites, even if i’m shit at them
dungeons and dragons:
i say dnd because i haven’t played any other ttrpgs, but man i love dnd so much. i especially love making characters, and in games i usually try to make characters that feel indian. in dnd there are no restrictions and its so freeing and i get to feel seen with every character i make! right now the two characters i’m playing are oasis whisper, a tabaxi fighter who’s an archaeologist on a mission, and jemadar baru, an ex-military minotaur who’s an enforcer for a gang. the best characters i’ve ever created i think.
pixel art:
you may have seen me occassionally post some pixel art on my old account, and i really want to try and learn, but i got into a bit of a rut. couldn’t really commit to drawing anything, it was super frustrating. my sister has convinced me now that i should try relearning the basics of art in general (since i haven’t done that since my gcses) so hopefully you’ll see some more pixel art from me this year!
other than that, you may also see me occasionally talk about dropout (and also smosh since i’ve been getting into them a lot) and hermitcraft, since that’s generally what my watching habits have gravitated towards. so if you’re into any of those, let’s be mutuals!! also heres my letterboxd, i do watch movies sometimes
you wont see me talk about cyber security that often though, im dumb and there are smarter people here
TLDR: im aen, i do cyber security, i have adhd, and i like music and reading and games and dnd and pixel art and dropout and hermitcraft and a lot of other things
anyway heres the wall of tags, im not skimping on them this time
I made my AOTY 2024 video for anyone interested in hearing some of my favorite albums from last year. It's fairly rock/metal leaning but there's a handful of jazzier, funkier, poppier albums in it too.
3. MGMT - Loss of Life “It’s difficult to believe that love conquers all and talk about it in a way that doesn’t make you seem like a weirdo religious fundamentalist person, but I believe it. We had fun dealing with that theme through these songs and trying to do it in an MGMT way. We are truly wrestling with sincerity; we’re these super ironic guys that grew up loving Beavis & Butthead, and now we’re 40 years old and wanting to make music that benefits the world in some way.” #AlbumOfTheYear
Nigdy nie robiliśmy topów, ale jak koledzy poproszą to czemu nie? Przedstawiamy nasz wybór albumów 2024 specjalnie dla @Anxious_Musick_Magazine!
Wśród tych albumów znaleźli się (alfabetycznie): Arooj Aftab - Night Regn Buzz' Ayaz - Buzz’ Ayaz Colin Stetson - The love it took to leave you Hizbut Jámm - Hizbut Jámm La Casa Fantom - Blizzard Mabe Fratti - Sentir que no sabes Moin - You Never End Polski Piach - Anomalia RZWD - GAPS Sabot - Clear
Great set of albums. In fact, I own most of these! So don't let that they are honorable mentions deter you from checking them out. Also, let me know if you have any favorites on here!
Look how bad ass some of the album art here is. One of the main reasons I collect vinyl. Its a print and an album in one. Plus all the cool colors.
Yo dawg I heard you like art, so we put art in your art so you can look at your art while you listen to your art.
Oh, I added genres next to each listing in case any of you are the picky types haha.
I listened to 690 albums as of today! It's been an amazing year for metal, and I am lucky to be able to listen to so much.
Gonna post this in 5 segments, one post per day. Segments 1 & 2 will be 50 honorable mentions total, all fantastic albums in the top 15%. Order is less important here. Segments 3-4 will be albums #30-50 and #20-30 respectively. Finally, my top 10 will get their own post. Also, because Im a huge nerd, when it's all done, there will be some stats <3