i was trying to stay strong against Big Nintendo and not cave to the allure of the switch 2 but i went over to my friends house the other day and she had one with pokopia on it. and then my friends kept sending info about different local eshop gift card deals to our discord server. so anyway i fear i have made a costly purchase
i went out today for a completely unrelated reason and then just happened to find that one of toronto's pet cafes was having a muscular male maid event. i wanted to go in sooooo bad but i was already running late meeting up with my friends. so long muscular male maids.......
years and years ago, when i was a little kid, i heard a song on a local radio station that i really liked. i specifically remember the host saying that the song was recorded by the winner of a song contest, maybe someone local to the greater toronto area (or surrounding areas)? i only remember hearing it once but the song left a big impression on me. i even wrote a poem about it. and i remember at the time making a specific effort to remember the title with the intent of looking for it later. and i did remember. for (what i now know was) 19 years i remembered the name of the song and the main part of the chorus, but i could never remember the singers name and thus, as it was a very obscure niche song, i could never find it.
i've made a few weak attempts at tracking it down over the years and always came up empty. i knew the exact radio station i heard it on (when i was a kid, we always listened to the local country music station, and it was a country song after all) and even considered writing to them about it a few times. i never ended up doing so but i think i probably would've eventually... except that i found it last night.
i got the brainworm again last night and put in some elbow grease to track it down and i found a random article written by some obscure local site based in one of the areas surrounding the GTA in 2007. as it turns out, the song had been played across national canadian stations and the singer even got a little attention from nashville but ultimately never really blew up. it's a big shame, the song is still really good! someone to be placed beside chris cummings in the list of underrated canadian country artists for sure.
anyway. i know it's not for everyone and i myself have a very complicated relationship with the overall "culture" of the country scene (that is to say, yuck), but if you're interested at all in country music i highly recommend giving "worth the wait" by brenda mullen a listen. i waited 19 years to hear it again and i can definitely say it was worth it. actually, i think you should take a listen whether you think you like country or think you hate it, but that's a ramble for another day.
you guys don't understand fujimoto like i do... he has a plan... i believe in the chainsaw man he wants the world to see you gotta let my man cook!!!!
i've been thinking for a while that i wanted to have some place on my site to upload mini thoughts and pictures that i want to share but are too small to warrant a diary post or that i don't want hanging out on the front page through status.cafe. to this point, i've been saving them and encorporating them into longer entries, but i don't really like the way that's been going and it still doesn't let me incorporate really really small thoughts. so here we are!
this page is made to be a "natalie feed" of sorts, a lot more casual and twitter or tumblr-like than my actual diary. it's going to function similarly to my media log in that i'm not going to update my rss feed every single time i post here but i may shout it out once in a while to remind people it exists and gets updated. the layout was built using a template by nomnomnami with my own tweaks, as usual. i really like the tagging system!! i wanted them in the sidebar instead of on top though so i moved them there. since there's only one post so far it's kind of hard to check if they work? i might have broke it. if i have to i'll put them back but i'm leaving it like this for now....
i'm not really sure what to do with the pinned post feature yet either. right now i've made it a spotlight thing that i shamelessly stole from mei, but i'm not sure i'll keep it. i think it's a nice idea so i wanted to give a shot but i don't know... maybe i'll switch it to a banner or something instead...
i may occassionally post about mature things here! such thoughts will be hidden behind a read more (like old tumblr cuts) and tagged with #r18 to maintain a pure facade overall.
anyway, that was a bit wordy for the first post on the so-called "mini" log!!!! next time i'll be back with something more brief and annoying i'm sure