So this is June
and what have you done?
Another month over
a new one just begun

Films watched

• Guy Ritchie’s Snatch (2000) (A-)
• Barry Sonnenfeld’s Men in Black (1999): Ruthlessly efficient. Gets in and out in 90 minutes. (A-)
• Dreamworks’ Shrek (2001): Watched as it was meant to be seen, in the original Polish (C+)
• Peter Weir’s The Truman Show (1998): While sailing across the internet, i happened across a copy of the original draft of the script. It is so much darker, and so much weirder.
  • It’s set in a constructed version of New York City instead of a small town in Florida
  • He finds his own name in a dictionary
  • Truman threatens to kill a baby and it is played completely straight
  • Instead of ending when he disappears out the door it continues and he hijacks a tram and has a shoot-out on the roof of the studio????
  • He hires a prostitute to recreate his encounter with the girl who told him it was all a TV show
• Anyway, the cut that got released is a very good film to show to your friends who haven’t seen it before and watch their reactions. It’s also — for me personally — one of those Back to the Future-type films, where it’s all so immaculately put together that you can watch it over and over and there’s always something new to enjoy (A+)

Top 10 most viewed pages on the site this May

1. Index page: 219 views
2. Linkroll: 82 views
3. The Garden (front page): 59 views
4. Toaster shade generator: 46 views
5. About the author: 35 views
6. The log of changes: 26 views
7. Music i like: 21 views
8. Things i would like to add to my site: 20 views
9. What i believe: 16 views
10. Toaster: 15 views

The rest of the “primary” pages on my site (that is, those which aren’t part of any kind of regular series) are, in decreasing order of views, The foreſt of ſhrines, My coat of arms, Discord funny moments, the Marijn van Hoorn style guide, my bucket list, ‘There Are Two Continents’, the Gender Tetrahedron, interesting Wikipedia articles, yelling into the void, Heximal, the NEOcharts (RIP), Quotes and other assorted aphorisms, a calendrical table, My vinyl record collection, s → ſ, the log of dreams, my conlangs, noughts and crosses, ‘this’ll be on my videotape’, Kunstgalerie van Hoorn, A nicer ƿaȝ of ƿriting Engliſh, the Compendium of Good Words, country counting, and songs i have cried my silly little heart out to. Zero views were received by copypastables and holocene history, which… you know, fair enough, they’re both indescribably boring pages.

Top 5 most read entries on The Garden

1. Welcome to the new Garden
2. 7AM puzzles
3. Site statistics for April 2021
4. ‘Testing, testing… If this goes through, this should be my first successful blog post made from my phone.’
5. Links for the 22^nd of May

Top 10 countries where most people are reading from

1. The United States
2. The United Kingdom
3. Canada
4. France
5. India
6. New Zealand
7. Sweden
8. Germany
9. Hong Kong
10. Brazil