Hey, it's me Bryce

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Some Things I have Been Working On

A video about Dracula and Nosferatu

1/11/2025

Today is the day after I uploaded my Fediverse video, it's a Saturday and I don't have much going on so I think I'll start all my research for my Dracula / Nosferatu video. That involves watching a lot of movies, some of which I have seen before and some of which I haven't, and I'm pretty excited. I need to make a definitive list of all the things that I want to watch, or read I guess. So far all I have is:

And for now that's about it. There are so many different adaptations and things that I'm probably missing so maybe I'll end up adding more to this list but I guess we'll see what happens. I'll be checking things off as I do them.

1/15/2025

The night that I made that list and put it on my site (? I think? maybe it was a day or two after that, I haven't really been keeping track) I went to the library, read the Matt Pagett Graphic Novel (which I did not like btw, and I don't seem to be alone in that), checked out a copy of the Dracula film with Bela Lugosi, and then watched the the Werner Herzog film with my wife.

I thought it was just okay? I know a lot of people really really like that one and even think it's their favorite adaptation of the Dracula story, and I don't blame them for that I see the appeal, but I thought it was kind of boring and it felt really long. Granted, the film as a whole felt like a fine length in my opinion, but I just feel like some individual shots and scenes went a bit long. It was really beautiful to look at, I like how it felt very saturated all the colors were very vibrant which was a really interesting choice that I think worked pretty well.

I borrowed a copy of the original novel from my sister in law a loooong time ago, like before I even planned on making this video. I just kind of wanted to read it. I've been making very slow progress, because I am just not a good reader, and when you combine that with the like old english and long drawn out ways of going about things that the novel tends to do sometimes, I just find it kind of difficult to read it. In fact, after I read the first two chapters I kind of just stopped for a really long time, but I picked it up again this past Monday while babysitting my niece, and made quite a bit of progress in it. I think it's gotten easier now that I'm through a lot of the opening exposition stuff.

I plan on watching the Bela Lugosi and Coppola films sometime during this week, I haven't had a chance to yet because my Monday and Tuesday were pretty busy, and I don't think I will today either, but we'll have to see what tomorrow and Friday bring.

2/3/2025

I've watched all the movies I planned on watching and I've started actually writing my script. A first draft anyways. I've been kind of toying with what I want to tackle specifically and I think it'll just be about the different themes from the original novel, how they're tackled in each film, and what differentiates the "Nosferatu" and the "Dracula" name because I think there's a lot to cover there. I'm hoping I'll have it uploaded before the end of this month.

Media that I've been consuming lately

Music, books, movies, tv shows, games, and other things that have been on my mind because I recently partook of it. I might also add my thoughts if I'm feeling crazy

I really love this game but I've had a complicated relationship with it at times. I've never finished it. I did my first playthrough around the time it came out in 2022 (April maybe?), I played it on an Xbox Series S through library sharing because my older brother had bought it. I made it pretty far, I think I stopped playing after I beat Fire Giant because I don't remember ever going to Farum Azula. Then I got a steam deck, my first real capable gaming pc, and bought the game again on Steam. I played through a bit and then quit at around the same point, just before the Morgott fight. I picked it back up around May of this year, got right up to the final boss and decided to take a break for a week or so, but when I went back I had lost my save file, so I quit in a fit of rage. I picked it up again just recently because of the announcement of Nightreign, I'm currently rocking a Moonveil spellblade build, but I'm not sure if I like it very much and might switch to something else, I will update if I do that.

Update as of 1/18/2025

I got back to a point pretty close to where I lost my save, yesterday I beat shardbearer mohg and the fire giant, so after I beat Godskin Duo, Maliketh, Ofnir and Horrah Loux I'll be caught up to where I left off last. I got my moonveil katana to +10 also, I think I'll stick with it I like it. I've been dual wielding it with a ~+20 Uchigatana with cold infusion which has been super fun. but I also got the greatsword that Ranni gives you and upgraded that to +8 and I think I like that too, I might just use both of them I dunno.

On December 26th 2024 I saw Robert Eggers' "Nosferatu" in theaters and thought it was awesome. I had been looking forward to it for a good long while and I plan on making a video about it similar to the one I did for "The Thing", so I also watched the 1922 version a few days later. I also started reading Bram Stoker's original Novel, and I will probably watch a few more versions of it. Right now I'm planning on watching the one with Bela Lugosi, Francis Ford Copolla's "Dracula", and the 1979 Nosferatu, but there's like a billion different releases so I'll probably watch even more. There's a Dracula graphic novel I keep seeing at the library I'll probably also read that.

I like listening to instrumental music while I write, and decided instead of just listening to a bunch of other people's playlists I'd just put all the different kinds of stuff that I like in one playlist. It's kind of just an amalgamation of a bunch of other playlists that I had already been listening to. Mostly hip hop and jazz instrumentals, it started as just the Vince Guaraldi "Peanuts" stuff because I really like that a lot but then I added the MF DOOM special herbs collection, a huge playlist of Madlib instrumentals (I should probably remove some (maybe even most) of those cuz a lot of them just straight up are not instrumental and it throws off my vibe), and some other jazz musicians, as well as some generic "lofi hip hop beats to study to" kinda stuff. I dunno it works for me.