Coffee at Leblanc

So I'm sitting in a coffee shop drawing while listening to some music with my headphones. What am I listening to? Well, lately I've been on a binge of musical genres that were created by the nerd community or music genres that my fellow nerds seem to gravitate towards exclusively. There's future funk, chiptune, lo-fi, nerdcore, slowed & reverb, city pop, J-pop, and K-pop in my library. What makes these forms of music geek music? Well, it's just as I stated. Most of these music genres were either invented by geeks or music that tends to only be listened to by geeks. For some of these the origins are hard to trace, but in the case of chiptune it's quite obvious.  Chiptune derives its sounds from video games and dates back to the 80s when videos game really took off in the commercial space in the arcades and the home. Video games were limited in the sounds they could produce so musicians had to be more creative in their compositions. This lead to a unique sound and...

So WandaVision ended a little while ago. This is the first show to come out of the MCU on Disney's streaming now and out of the gate I say it was overall good. Originally before the pandemic happened Falcon and The Winter Solider was supposed to be the first show to hit Disney +, but the virus changed plans and WandaVision ended up coming out first. Before it hit I was excited about it because I knew how weird it was going to be. The trailer set that up enough for me, but it was also bits and pieces of information that came from news outlets. I didn't dig too deep into that however as I like to know as little as possible when I consume a new product. I knew there was going to be some reality warping, decade sitcom themes, and that it will lead into Doctor Strange and The Multiverse of Madness , but beyond that I knew nothing.   I loved that they were trying something new for the MCU so I quite enjoyed the first three episodes and them basically being a 50s sitcom. There were s...