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nathan wentworth ✨ — 2025 Favorites

2025 was pretty good overall!!! I had a great trip to Japan to start the year and it was fun visiting mariah over the summer. I didn’t achieve either goal I set out for myself, but whatever!! Next year I hope to lean a little more creative and less consumptive and spend less time scrolling twitter, but I’m also not going to be too hard on myself about it because whateverrrrrrrrr Hobbies and things I got into Got really into watching movies more this year, with 107 watched!! It’s been fun really keeping up with new releases and also filling in the gaps of stuff I’ve wanted to watch for a long time but haven’t Picked up guitar again after encouragement from one of my coworkers. Trying a different approach by following youtube tutorials instead of Rocksmith and honestly I feel much more confident with it already! Weeknotes has been really nice, it’s basically entirely replaced Posting to me, even if it’s not 100% the same thing, I still felt the desire to post but bluesky just wasn’t doing it for me, for some reason. Also no better feeling than posting a weeknote post and having one of my friends message me about some part of it!! Much more satisfying than likes Ever since we got a ping pong table at work I’ve been really into it, many days after work I’ll play for over an hour with one or a few of my coworkers. It’s surprisingly good exercise!!! Especially since I’m running all over the office to get balls that fly past me lmao. I’m sure part of this interest comes from the Gear aspect of the sport, like there’s so many types of rubbers and things to research, but it helps that it’s very easily accessible and now that I’ve bought a paddle, free to play Movies Top 2025 releases list is here, these are favorites I watched for the first time this year!! I watched a couple of Paul Thomas Anderson movies this year in preparation for One Battle After Another and I had one of those “wow why have I not watched these sooner” moments with both of them. Really excited to dig more into his films next year! I watched In the Mood for Love with Mariah when I was visiting her and I absolutely adored it!!!! Which to my surprise, when I watched Chungking Express, I just could not get into it?? The style felt so different and in a way that I just could not connect with. I’m so curious about other Wong Kar Wai movies now and which of the two they more align to. Got to see Linda Linda Linda in theaters which I had never seen before, really loved it. A Better Tomorrow Boogie Nights Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc Cocoon: Aru Natsu no Shoujo-tachi yori Collateral Hamnet In the Mood for Love Infernal Affairs La Chimera Linda Linda Linda Love Letter Magnolia Marty Supreme Nemurubaka One Battle After Another Ping Pong Shoplifters Strange Days Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald Albums Afternoon Bike Ride - Running With Scissors Baths - Gut caroline - caroline 2 Ethel Cain - Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You F5ve - Sequence 01 + deluxe version Frost Children - SISTER La Dispute - No One Was Driving the Car Ninajirachi - I Love My Computer Oklou - choke enough Peterparker69 - yo, RAY - White Skrillex - hit me where it hurts x tennyson - aka Songs Bandcamp playlist with a bunch of these songs! Afternoon Bike Ride - Miss Universe Caroline - total euphoria Ethel Cain - Dust Bowl f5ve - I Choose You Frost Children - WHAT IS FOREVER FOR ISOxo - FUCK THE SPEAKERZ UP Jonah Yano - Homerun 2021 LanPage - ack! Lil Texas & Irradiate - Highs in my Dreams NMIXX - Blue Valentine Oklou - blade bird Overmono - Paradise Runner Peterparker69 - Hey phone Quadeca - Monday Skrillex - voltage (see you again) Static Dress - face. Tourist - Outside 初星学園 - サンフェーデッド高木正勝 - Marginalia #209 Concerts I went to 22 this year, the most I have in one year! I saw Porter Robinson three times technically, which is really funny to me, and both Maruja and Haru Nemuri twice. Really glad I got to see ExWHYZ while we were in Tokyo with the announcement that they’re disbanding in 2026 :’) My favs Wavedash w/ hirihiri, lilbesh ramko, NUU$HI, Heaven’s Gate Crew @ Circus Tokyo Porter Robinson w/ Galileo Galilei @ Tokyo Garden Theater ExWHYZ w/ Haru Nemuri @ Shinjuku Loft Baths w/ Fashion Club @ The Rockwell Ichiko Aoba w/ Hayden Pedigo @ Berklee Performance Center Godspeed You! Black Emperor @ Roadrunner BLADEE w/ ripsquadd @ Roadrunner Lamp @ House of Blues Frost Children w/ Peterparker69 @ The Sinclair Porter Robinson (DJ Set) @ Big Night Live Books I started off the year blasting through a couple of these, but Never Let Me Go and The Housekeeper and the Professor slowed my reading to a halt. Second year in a row of reading 12 books, I hopefully can at least keep pace next year!! Not that the number itself is what matters, but it’s nice being able to read a good amount per year since my taste has been both broadened and solidified. Mariah has been getting me more and more into NYRB published literary fiction, and Stoner is easily one of my favorites I read this year!!!!! Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica The City & The City by China Mieville Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer The Secret History by Donna Tartt Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Earthlings by Sayaka Murata Bunny by Mona Awad The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa The Anthropologists by Aysegül Savas Stoner by John Williams The Summer Book by Tove Jansson Video Games I barely played any games this year, but I did enjoy the ones I played! Animal Well a perfect puzzle platformer type game, really fantastic puzzle and level design, great art style, highly recommend To a T cute and fun!!!!! while i wasn’t fully sold on where the plot ended up going, i really loved this. i hope keita takahashi can keep making games Deltarune Chapters 3 & 4 okay chapter 3 i admit i was not super into, but chapter 4 brought me back into it and i’m very curious where this plot is leading Peak Peak is peak, a perfect friendslop game, i finally reached the peak in a run and it’s immensely satisfying Despelote really cool autobiographical game, shocked by how invested i got in the world cup results by the end lol Art on the internet I looooooooove illustration I love art yay yay yay esoratetora yuruyuru unnti 横 yoko めばち: “【お知らせ】 kurayamisaka「sekisei inko」イラストを描かせていただきました。” fucca: “🫧 “ 𝙝𝙖𝙟𝙞 ✞: “◝✩ “ yan: “uwa “ coalowl(コールアウル): “僕の天使 “ fucca: 🪽

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nathan Dec 17

https://nathanwentworth.co/posts/weeknotes-2025-08/

nathan wentworth ✨ — Weeknotes 8

I’ve been playing Halo 3 (MCC) a good amount the last few months, and a couple weeks ago sean and I played Call of Duty Black Ops (2? I forget) and I joked that it would awaken something in me, bringing out my old COD-playing self. So obviously I bought Battlefield 6 which immediately scratches that itch, but thankfully I don’t feel as I once did playing COD4 in high school (lmao). It’s fun though!!! I haven’t played a Battlefield since 3 on the PS3, but this one feels like a middleground between that and later COD games in terms of TTK and speed. The sound design is unreal and combined with the visual effects it really sells the chaos that the larger-scale fights can be. I can’t see myself really getting into it the way I used to (that would require a constant group of friends to play with I think) but I’m enjoying my time with it!! Also full disclosure, I would not have bought this game at full price, but I have a friend who works at EA so I got it for 11 dollars. Speaking of video games, my work’s game club wrapped up our previous game, Junkbot Undercover, the lego flash game from 2003, and now our next one is What Remains of Edith Finch which I’m excited to play again! I’ve already played it 3 or 4 times, but it’s been a while so it’ll be nice revisiting it I think. Kind of a perfect narrative video game to me, honestly. Short and relatively small in scope, but engaging mechanically where each section feels unique. While obviously very different, it feels like it comes from the same design mentality as something like Inside, where each section has a dedicated mechanic that’s introduced, and then not repeated later. The fish scene!!!!!! Iconic!!!!! Speaking of video games again, on thursday I went to the pinball Howdy Partner event (co-op team-based pinball) which was fun! And the best part was that being there forced me to not pay attention to The G*me Aw*rds at all, a thing that I think deserves no attention from anyone, though I regrettably end up watching almost every year because I’m on my computer and my friends will want to talk over it while we watch together. I haven’t even watched the trailers that came out from it lol It snowed over the weekend for the first time this winter, so I got dinner with some of sean’s friends and we got yummy tofu soup n_n Things I’ve been into this week!!! One of my favorite Marginalias recently good post about the game awards [HOONIGAN] Gymkhana 2025: Aussie Shred obsessed with this honestly, i loooooove these videos, been watching since the second one in 2009 i have no actual use for a calendar but i love a rotating artwork on my wall, so i got the mebachi calendar for 2026 (not actually on the wall, but still nice) cute art i saw!! 全日制 ▲▲▲▲▲▲: Reze #chainsawman おいもち: 🍂🍁 rosie: January Mail :) New slots open now!! ひも mysig: 冬茜 fyuu: #dungeonmeshi #izutsumi 小島みどりこ: クリスマスの街一匹小马

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nathan Dec 10

https://nathanwentworth.co/posts/weeknotes-2025-07/

nathan wentworth ✨ — Weeknotes 7

Okay last week’s post was sooooooo lazy but I’ll just say it’s because this week was so busy!! Monday Sean and I got our christmas tree for the year! I’m generally a winter holiday Hater but I do love having a real tree inside, every day I’ve gotten home and it smells soooooo good inside. Some friends and I had a discord manga book club going for most of the year, but we all fell off over the summer for various reasons, but we had our first (mostly unplanned) meeting back finally :’))))))) really glad to be back doing it!!!!! And I’m next pick after this one and I have some Ideas :3c (probably something Taiyo Matsumoto) Wednesday I went out with some friends to get dinner and play pinball which was nice !! Thursday I had a ticket to see Claire Rousay but it was SO cold that once I got home I really could not be convinced to leave the house. If I was going with someone else or something I’m sure I would have gone, but I could not motivate, so instead I stayed inside and watched Shoplifters finally, which I really loved. It was announced that Hirokazu Kore-eda is directing a Look Back adaptation which feels like a perfect fit, really excited to watch that Friday was Bandcamp Friday and since everyone was posting their Sp*tify W*pped I had to mentally offset it by actually paying musicians ha ha What I got!!!!! Oxygen by Lontalius lovely track as always from lontalius :’) el prado by ann annie found via youtube algo rec because of the nice album art, the music matches it well! portrait of a dog by Jonah Yano one of those albums that i listened to once and enjoyed, but then came back a few months later and was like “oh wait i love this”, been listening to his stuff a bunch recently Tranquilizer by Oneohtrix Point Never really good OPN album!! Animaru by Mei Semones oh hey i posted about this a few weeks ago goodbye, world! by miffle oh hey i posted about this last week Racing Mount Pleasant by Racing Mount Pleasant i think sean would call this RYM-core but it’s good! After EP 2 by After was already into a couple of tracks on this but when i heard Baroque i knew i had to immediately buy Diamond Cut / Bby by Overmono Music Is Invisible by Tourist i fully embrace this trance revival i’m seeing!!!! I saw Wicked 2 (For Good) with a bunch of coworkers after work and it was Fine lol Saturday was my favorite day of the year, MICE day!!! As I always say, the best thing to do with a paycheck is to immediately give it to artists. Went with some friends (planned) and ran into some coworkers (one kinda planned, one not) which is so fun :’) the haul A Liang Chan didn’t get anything from this artist because they were doing a talk for the hour I was on the show floor which suuuuuucks because I realized later that they aren’t selling the prints I wanted online Ash S: let’s get burgers sticker sheet love Let’s Get Burgers, which was recommended by my friend Jane Peow2: yoichi nishikawa art book Jane Mai was there….. she’s so cool……………. Minha Lee: b&w zine bottom left gorgeous textures on this zine, also hand numbered/stamped which was fun molar: sticker sheet in the top left sooo nathan-core endokidd: zine in the center former intern at my work!!!! i also got a funny sticker not in the photo snailsprite: print in the top right love this!!! I REALLY need to buy some frames for the prints that don’t have frames (or frames that are the wrong size) and actually hang them up, I took down the ones on my walls recently and just never replaced them because a couple of the frames I got didn’t end up fitting the prints I had super well Afterwards we went out to get dinner and stopped by a bookstore where I got The Summer Book by Tove Jansson since I just finished my last NYRB book. Mariah was rapid-fire texting me author names to see if the store I was in had any of them and 90% of them was no until she named Tove Jansson and I recognized the cover lol. We went to two japanese grocery stores on that street and the entire time I was like “ohhhhhh why do no stores have a hot drink shelf where they sell warm canned drinks!!!!” crazy living in a city where it’s cold for like 5 months of the year and we somehow haven’t figured out this technology???? Then Sean and I went to my friend’s birthday party which was super fun! I knew some people there but I got to meet her cool grad school friends (bonded with one of them over our love of white monster) and I stayed a lot later than I expected but it was fun so it was worth it On Sunday I went to a coworker’s place for brunch and she made homemade bagels and they were sooooo good and yommy, I took a photo but my camera app didn’t save the photo so you’ll just have to believe me. After that I went to BFIG which I haven’t been to since maybe like 2015?? Which was extra funny seeing a game there that I remember seeing at the last BFIG I went to lmao. BUT I was mostly there to support friend and former coworker Owen and the game he’s currently making as a mostly-solo dev!!!!! Go sign up for his newsletter that exists just to email people when it goes up on steam, it’s fun trust me Oh also on the way to BFIG I got the new winter edition red bull and it’s my favorite seasonal flavor of theirs in a verrrry long time, I will definitely be picking some more up soon When I got home I watched 28 Years Later which was way different than I expected, really good though!! Even if the Call of Duty 360 headshot kill compilation camerawork was hilarious at times lmao Things I’ve been into this week!!! this guy’s outfits, those EG pants are so sick, i should get some…… some nathan-core art from the last week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

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nathan Nov 18

https://nathanwentworth.co/posts/weeknotes-2025-04/

nathan wentworth ✨ — Weeknotes 4

Okay I was out Having Fun monday night, unexpectedly, so I’m writing this tuesday morning in bed before work yay Saw Frost Children and peterparker69 this week!!!! Both so good live, honestly so impressed that Frost Children played for a full 90 minutes with how high energy they were the entire time. Peterparker69 (only Jeter was there) was great, really fun hearing their tracks adapted to a live show setting (blending the original of loloi into the aamourocean remix for example), though sad that they didn’t have any merch! Danny Brown came out to perform his verse on Shake It Like A which was sooooooo cool, I don’t think I’ve ever been to a show with a surprise guest like that??? (wait that’s not true, when I saw Wavedash in Tokyo and Porter Robinson came out for the last 30 minutes) peterparker69 I started (re-)playing Death Stranding, I played about 20 hours of it a while ago on Game Pass but since I don’t have that anymore I had to restart on my PS4. While I wasn’t huge into it when I played the first time, I realllllly want to play DS2 so, maybe I’ll like it more this time????? I feel like I’ve been really aware of just how much live-service games I’ve been playing (Fortnite, Skate, Halo Infinite (though rip lol)) which is great as a vehicle for socializing, but I’ve been craving a more singular experience in games. Like I’ve been playing Fortnite on and off for over three years, I just need something new!!! Finally did a handlebar swap on my orange bike! I did most of it myself, but when I got to the point where I needed to thread the brake cables, I realized that the brakes I bought needed the brake cables to be installed new, brake levers first and then through the rest of the housing, which I didn’t have the tools for myself, so I brought it to a shop where they charged almost the entire cost of the parts I bought to install the brakes 😭 oh well!!!!! So much better now :’) Went to my second Pops Pinball tournament this week, it was split flipper where you pair up with someone and one of you uses the left flipper, and the other person uses the right, which is fun~ I got out in two rounds, which is as fastest you could get out lmao. But it was fun! As sean always says, it’s just as much about the socializing and a good excuse to hang out with people and get out of the house! I went out for dinner with sean’s pinball friends twice this weekend and while I can’t see myself ever caring about tournament results or joining league, the casual tournaments are a fun excuse to hang out with them! yommy Things I’ve been into this week!!! This Mei Semones album that I had seen around but never actually listened to, really good! 15delicious’s very cute art (i gotta make my “fav artists” post sometime soon) f5ve’s new deluxe version of their album with three new really good tracks on there

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nathan Oct 27

bought Book, saw Frank