Week Notes – Oct 01 to Oct 13 2025
- 🤘 I created a project to listen to the entire Nightwish discography. Yes, I’m obsessed with this band right now. I started with the first five albums, which mark the end of the Tarja Turunen era (1996–2005). Then I moved on to the two albums featuring vocalist Anette Olzon (2007–2012). Now I’m exploring the albums with the current vocalist, Floor Jansen and I’m still amazed by her. I’m not done yet!
- 🎧 It was a lovely surprise to finally receive the audiobook I’d placed on hold at the library nearly a year ago. I’d almost forgotten about it: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, narrated by Stephen Fry. I listened to it with my partner, who’s also a Douglas Adams fan. It’s excellent!
- 🎧 And then we started the second book in the series, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, narrated by Martin Freeman. It’s also excellent. It’s impressive how Freeman voices all the characters so distinctly. Highly recommended!
- 📖 These audio experiences have sparked a new interest in audiobooks. I don’t usually listen to books, but another title I had on hold was delivered this week, and I’ve started it. It’s a nonfiction book: Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis. I’ve been listening during my commutes and in the mornings before work. It’s been interesting so far!
- 🌳We also went for a 7km hike this weekend along Lime Kiln Trail and Beaver Trail to enjoy the fall colors.
📌 Cool online reads:
- Safari and iOS 26: PSA and a rant – Manu: I felt seen in this rant. My work phone updated automatically, and I immediately hated the new design. Now I want to avoid my personal phone to get the update.
- More Nothing, Please – Musings from a Tangled Mind: let's all do a bit of nothing for a change!
- My online experiment so far | Welcome to BASIC: a call to take a break from the online world.
- Bye bye, em dash (—) 👋 | Tadaima.: Maybe I'm late to the party, this is just one of the articles online I've stumbled upon talking about the em dashes. I don't usually use them; they are not a big thing in Portuguese so for me they were mostly used to indicate dialogues in a fiction book (at least in books written in Portuguese).
- Social network nitpicks by Joel: I totally get why we are turning back to blogs or smaller communities. I’m right there with Joel.
📺 Videos I enjoyed:
This list will exclusively include stuff related to the band Nightwish, so get ready (or skip it)!
- How Nightwish Popularized Symphonic Metal!: a video in French talking about Nightwish's story going through all their phases.
- NIGHTWISH – The Phantom Of The Opera (OFFICIAL LIVE): I love this live performance with the original vocalist! Also, let’s be honest, metal is the best version for this catchy duet.
- Nightwish – Élan | A Classical Musician’s FIRST Listen and Reaction: to my surprise (and big coincidence) the Virgin Rock channel had a Nightwish weekend!
- Nightwish, Wish I Had An Angel – A Classical Musician’s FIRST Listen and Reaction
- NIGHTWISH – Ghost Love Score (OFFICIAL LIVE): this is one of my favorite songs and this live performance with Floor Jansen is epic.
- NIGHTWISH – The Poet And The Pendulum (OFFICIAL LIVE): another cool live performance.
- Nightwish ( Decades ) ==== Live in Buenos Aires [ Full Concert ]: a tour they've done to support the band's compilation album “Decades” released in 2019. It's a great overview of their discography with songs from all their previous albums up to “Endless Forms Most Beautiful”. Excellent!
- Making of an album – Playlist: this is a playlist with all the videos Nightwish released about the recording and release of their 2015 album “Endless Forms Most Beautiful”.
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By Noisy Deadlines Minimalist in progress, nerdy, introvert, skeptic. I don't leave without my e-reader.