#nene thinks

90s music seems to have a distinct sound of “play this outside. on a big speaker. in the sun. in your car. on the street. on your balcony. let the people hear the music.” and music just does not sound like that anymore at all.

thinking hard about the fact that the extinction of the dinosaurs wasn’t some divine, inevitable, act of time and nature. it was a small chance travesty. it wasn’t always bound to happen. we could have very well have had dinosaurs roaming the earth with us, we could have had a planet with completely different ecosystems and flora and fauna. the fact that ONE. meteor impact completely and irreversibly altered the entire future of our planet is such a difficult thing to comprehend, but when you do. holy shit.

there is something about the way noah kahan sings “i hope you threw a brick right into that stained glass.” that i can vividly see the person, what they are wearing, the brick, the absolute lifetime of anger that is put into the throw and i can hear the glass shattering. noah kahan you wizard you.

so do we ever get any information about how / why the other two astronauts died and how the crew travelled through space and why Ryland wakes up without knowing a single thing. do we have ANY of that in between exposition??? or does the book not bring it up either?

i wanna get an office job where i send emails and shit and just sit at a computer and dilly dally all day and then i get into a car accident and i die for a bit and its 4:54pm (I’m out of office at 4:30) and they’re doing their absolute best to bring me back in the hospital but it’s not looking good but i somehow find the strength the reattach my soul to my body and i’m revived at 4:57 and i’m okay, and i can recover easily and its even a long weekend so i decide, against doctors advice of course, to return to work on the following tuesday and sit down at my desk. my back is sore, and I’m tired but at least I’m not dead. I boot up my computer and open my emails and I find an email from some correspondent and it opens with the line “I hope this email finds you well.” and I naturally check the time stamp it arrived ans it says 4:55 and I realize I have the opportunity to be hilarious and I open my response with “Hello, ____ Your email found me dead.”