2023 in review

Keeping this short and simple so that I can post it before April or May. (Turns out I still published this on May 12.)

Kind of a strange year. First half was quite bad (nothing serious), while the second half was increasingly adequate. Good enough for me.

Anyway, as per the annual custom, these are things I liked that I first experienced in 2023.

Games

• A Normal Lost Phone
• Beyond All Reason
• City of Muse
• Control Room Alpha
• Dead Cells
• Lil Gator Game
• New Star GP
• Self-Checkout Unlimited
• Wretched Depths

Books

• Cold Skin by Albert Sanchez Pinol
• Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett

Movies and TV

• Once Upon a Time in the West

Music

Albums

• Black Magick SS - Kaleidoscope Dreams
• Black Magick SS - Spectral Ecstasy
• Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
• Cavalar - As A Metal of Fact
• Dolentia - Sob a Égide das Sombras
• Leger des Heils - Gloria
• Satan's Hallow - Satan's Hallow
• Werkraum - Unsere Feuer Brennen!

Songs

• 10,000 Maniacs - Like the Weather
• Aztec Camera - Oblivious
• Bankroll Freddie - Last Real Trap Rapper
• Blood Axis - Bearer of 10,000 / Eyes Lord of Ages
• Giorgio Moroder - The Chase
• Grateful Dead - I Know You Rider (Europe '72)
• Grateful Dead - Scarlet Begonias
• Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F (album version)
• John Foxx - Metal Beat
• Leger des Heils - Solitude
• Ryan Peter Scott - Wheels
• Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner
• Tegan and Sara - Walking With A Ghost

Software I started to use

• make
• slock
• xmenu