Harley Hicks

@harley.hicks.house

Python/Golang software engineer, wannabe music critic. Always working on a side project. Currently building @soundchecking.bsky.social Keeps a curated list of absurd bug stories at https://500mile.email Writes sometimes at https://harley.hicks.house

I’ve heard two people in the last week mention that they love going to baseball games mainly for the people-watching. This gives new meaning to the term “spectator sport”.

🎥 Say Anything... (1989) ★★★★ I did not expect to have such connection to the characters and their stories. I watched this during a mild bout of depression. Flipping through the stack of Goodwill DVDs I haven’t watched yet, I decided against Full Metal Jacket,… View full review on @popfeed.social

A review of Say Anything... (1989)

I did not expect to have such connection to the characters and their stories. I watched this during

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“The past is not something fixed and unalterable. Its facts are rediscovered by every succeeding generation, its values reassessed, its meanings redefined in the context of present tastes and preoccupations.” - Aldous Huxley, Heaven and Hell

1/2 “History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, remitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always—eventually—manages to spring back into its old familiar shape.”

Me: Here’s a 45 minute playlist of songs from my favorite albums released over the last 4 months meticulously ordered from most chill to heaviest. Friend: Sick. *punches shuffle*

I’m playing Soul Blazer (SNES - 1992) and got stuck on a boss. I used YouTube to figure it out and realized YouTube is now your friend’s big brother who you watch for strategies.