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2023 Favoritest Book Reads

Vineland - Pynchon, Thomas

Prophet - Blaché, Sin & Helen Macdonald

And the Ass Saw the Angel - Cave, Nick

Lou Reed: The King of New York - Hermes, Will 

The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1) - Pratchett, Terry

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative - Kleon, Austin 

Sonic Life: A Memoir - Moore, Thurston

The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) - Jemisin, N.K. 

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law - Roach, Mary

Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too - Sun, Jonny

The Night Masquerade (Binti, #3) - Okorafor, Nnedi 

Home (Binti, #2) - Okorafor, Nnedi 

Binti: Sacred Fire (Binti, #1.5) - Okorafor, Nnedi 

Binti (Binti, #1) - Okorafor, Nnedi 

Black Paradox - Ito, Junji

David Bowie's Low (33 1/3) - Wilcken, Hugo

Faith, Hope and Carnage - Cave, Nick

The Sirens of Titan - Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth - Aslan, Reza

Smashed - Ito, Junji

Time Shelter - Gospodinov, Georgi

Brian Eno's Another Green World (33 1/3) - Dayal, Geeta

Armageddon in Retrospect - Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Neverwhere (London Below, #1) - Gaiman, Neil 

The Committed (The Sympathizer #2) - Nguyen, Viet Thanh 

Into the Great Wide Open - Canty, Kevin 

Mongrels - Jones, Stephen Graham 

DisneyWar - Stewart, James B.

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex - Roach, Mary

The Left Hand of Darkness - Le Guin, Ursula K.

My Bloody Valentine's Loveless (33 1/3) - McGonigal, Mike 

Suttree - McCarthy, Cormac

Life's Work: A Memoir - Milch, David

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - Schwab, V.E.

Against the Day - Pynchon, Thomas

Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood - Ryan, Maureen 

Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA (33 1/3) - Himes, Geoffrey

La Moustache - Carrère, Emmanuel

Janelle Monáe’s The ArchAndroid (33 1/3) - Favreau, Alyssa 

Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea - Pinsker, Sarah 

The Man Without a Shadow - Oates, Joyce Carol

The City & the City - Miéville, China 

Mem - Morrow, Bethany C. 

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Harari, Yuval Noah

Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs (33 1/3) - Eidelstein, Eric

Gutshot - Gray, Amelia 

The Price of Time (Watch What You Wish For #1) - Tigner, Tim 

The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever - Sepinwall, Alan 

Just Kids - Smith, Patti 

Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir - Hindman, Jessica Chiccehitto 

Flicker - Roszak, Theodore

Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers - Miller, James Andrew 

Flashback - Simmons, Dan

Flaming Lips' Zaireeka (33 1/3) - Richardson, Mark 

The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer #1) - Nguyen, Viet Thanh 

Pavement's Wowee Zowee (33 1/3) - Charles, Bryan

Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) - Gibson, William

Invisible Cities - Calvino, Italo

Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2) - Jones, Stephen Graham 

The Wes Anderson Collection - Seitz, Matt Zoller

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Dick, Philip K.

Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly (33 1/3) - Maner, Sequoia

The Nineties - Klosterman, Chuck

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Zevin, Gabrielle 

Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age - Mitenbuler, Reid

A Heart That Works - Delaney, Rob 

Imago (Xenogenesis, #3) - Butler, Octavia E.

Cryptonomicon (Crypto, #1) - Stephenson, Neal 

Blacktop Wasteland - Cosby, S.A. 

Pearl Jam's Vs. (33 1/3) - Brownlee, Clint

Tracy Flick Can't Win - Perrotta, Tom

Devil House - Darnielle, John 

Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2) - Butler, Octavia E.

Heat 2 - Mann, Michael & Meg Gardiner

Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures (33 1/3) - Ott, Chris

Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1) - Butler, Octavia E.

The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer - Stephenson, Neal 

The Republic of Thieves (Gentleman Bastard, #3) - Lynch, Scott 

The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2) - Atwood, Margaret 

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2023 Favoritest TV Good Times

The best of times:

Barry

Beef

Dead Ringers

Fargo

Jury Duty

Mrs Davis

Paul T. Goldman

Primo

Reservation Dogs

Scavengers Reign

Servant

Somewhere Boy

Succession

Swarm

The Bear

The Last of Us

Yellowjackets

The plenty enjoyable times:

A Small Light

Abbot Elementary

Ahsoka

All the Light We Cannot See

Archer

Awkwafina is Nora From Queens

Beacon 23

Belascoarán

Big Door Prize

Black Butterflies

Black Mirror

Blue Eye Samurai

Bob’s Burgers

Bodies

Carol & the End of the World

Chestnut Man

Clone High

Cunk on Earth

Daisy Jones & the Six

Dark Winds

Dave

Dear Child

Dr. Death

Drops of God

Fall of the House of Usher

For All Mankind

Foundation

Full Circle

Gen V

Good Omens

Halo

Hijack

History of the World Part 2

I am a Virgo

Interview With the Vampire

Invincible

Justified: City Primeval

Kleo

Last Week Tonight w/ John Oliver

Loki

Lucky Hank

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Murder at the End of the World

One Piece

Painkiller

Party Down

Perry Mason

Platonic

Pluto

Poker Face

Reacher

Rick & Morty

Righteous Gemstones

Saturday Night Live

Schmigadoon

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

Secret Invasion

Shadow & Bone

Shrinking

Silo

Simpsons

Slip

Slow Horses

Somebody Somewhere

Sweet Tooth

Ted Lasso

The After Party

The Changeling

The Consultant

The Continental: From the World of John Wick

The Crowded Room

The Curse

The Great

The Great North

The Mandalorian

The Other Two

The Traitors

Twisted Metal

What We Do in the Shadows

White House Plumbers

Winning Time

Wu-Tang: An American Saga

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2023 Favoritest Flicks

Take out your five faves and it'd still be a dynamite year for movies. My tops = Poor Things. Fave performance = Da'Vine Joy Randolph in The Holdovers. Fave score = Poor Things. Fave G'lord WTF is This Wild Gem = Dug Dug. The movie I liked a lot more than I expected to = Air. The Can't Wait for Their Next One = Kristoffer Borgli's Dream Scenario. Congratulations to all winners, you've won special mention on this Tumblr page 🏆

Loved!

Air

American Fiction

Anatomy of a Fall

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

Asteroid City

Barbie

Beau is Afraid

Blackberry

Bottoms

Dream Scenario

Dug Dug

Ferrari

Godzilla Minus One

How to Blow up a Pipeline

Knock at the Cabin

M3GAN

May December

Napoleon

Oldboy (20th Anniversary Remastered)

Oppenheimer

Past Lives

Poor Things

Saltburn

Society of the Snow

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Stop Making Sense (rerelease)

The Boy and the Heron

The Holdovers

The Iron Claw

The Killer

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, The Swan, The Rat Catcher, Poison

The Zone of Interest

Liked!

65

A Haunting in Venice

A Thousand and One

Alice Darling

AKA

All of Us Strangers

Ballerina

Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020)

Biosphere

Blue Beetle

Boston Strangler

Broker

The Burial

Cassandro

Cat Person

Creed III

Dark Harvest

Dicks: The Musical

Dogleg

Dumb Money

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Eileen

El Conde

Elemental

Evil Dead Rise

Fair Play

Fallen Leaves

Fast X

Fingernails

Five Nights at Freddy’s

Flora and Son

Good Grief

Gran Turismo

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Halfway Home

Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.

If You Were the Last

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Inside

It’s a Wonderful Knife

John Wick 4

Joy Ride

Landscape with Invisible Hand

Leave the World Behind

Little Bone Lodge

Luther: The Fallen Sun

Lyla

Maaveeran

Maestro

Maggie Moore(s)

Missing

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

Mountain Woman

Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie

Mutt

Nairobby

Nimona

No One Will Save You

Nowhere

Nyad

Paint

Para Betina Pengikut Iblis

Plane

Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain

Priscilla

Quiz Lady

Raging Grace

Renfield

River

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

Sanctuary

Self-Reliance

Sharper

Shin Kamen Rider

Showing Up

Sisu

Skinamarink

Starling Girl

Still Time

Strays

Suzume

Talk to Me

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Tetris

The Boogeyman

The Book of Clarence

The Call

The Covenant

The Kitchen

The Last Voyage of the Demeter

The Machine

The Royal Hotel

The Strays

Theater Camp

There’s Something Wrong With the Children

They Cloned Tyrone

To Leslie

Vesper

Wil

You Hurt My Feelings

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2023 Favoritest True Stories

Good documentarian viewings, shared in a particular order (the order in which I watched them):

Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street

Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga

Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence 

Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty

Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker

Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

Love to Love You, Donna Summer

The American Gladiators Documentary

Natalia

Burden of Proof

Duggars

Angel City

Wham!

Project Greenlight

Stephen Curry: Underrated

Glitch: The Rise and Fall of HQ Trivia

Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York

Telemarketers 

The YouTube Effect

Wanted: The Escape of Carlos Ghosn

The Big Conn

Savior Complex

Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case

Last Stop Larrimah: Murder Down Under

Yellow Door: ’90s Lo-fi Film Club

The Pigeon Tunnel

aka Mr. Chow

Beckham

Till Murder Do Us Part: Soering vs Haysom

Albert Brooks: Defending My Life

The Greatest Show Never Made

American Symphony

The Great Heisman Race of 1997

20 Days in Mariupol

Bobi Wine: The People’s President

To Kill a Tiger

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2023 Favorites Shows

Judge John Hodgman - Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever (2/7)

Fever Ray - The Wiltern (11/3)

Nick Cave - The Orpheum (10/29)

M83 - Shrine Auditorium (10/10)

Run the Jewels play RTJ3 - Palladium (10/12)

Postal Service/Death Cab for Cutie - Hollywood Bowl (10/13)

The Walkmen - The Fonda (10/3)

Wilco - Ace Hotel (10/6)

US Girls - Teragram (9/7)

Sigur Ros - The Greek (8/28)

Tegan & Sara - Bellwether (8/14)

Big Thief - Hollywood Forever (8/9)

Taylor Swift - SoFi Stadium (8/5)

Kilby Block Party - Salt Lake City (5/12-14) - The Strokes, Pavement, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Pixies, Run the Jewels, Japanese Breakfast, The Walkman, Jean Dawson, Indigo De Souza, Deerhoof

Sunset Rubdown - Lodge Room (4/25)

Sharon Van Etten - Troubadour (3/19) - Angel Olsen special guest for "Like I Used To"

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2023 Favoritest LOLs

Nate Bargatze’s Hello World

Jamie Demetriou’s A Whole Lifetime with Jamie

Marc Maron’s From Bleak to Dark

Chris Rock’s Selective Outrage

Sarah Silverman’s Someone You Love

Amy Schumer: Emergency Contact

John Early: Now More Than Ever

Jim Gaffigan: Dark Pale

Michelle Wolf: It’s Great To Be Here

Django Gold: Bag of Tricks

Joe Pera: Slow & Steady

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2023 Favoritest Jams

THE FAVE

Home is Where’s The Whaler - Never heard of them two months ago, totally obsessed! 

THE MOST LISTENED TO

The Chemical Brothers’ For That Beautiful Feeling - Kings gonna 👑 Did not foresee hitting this point in my 40s where I listen to the Bros more than LCD, but here we are. Hooks for days, nary a missed beat, plus my single/jam of '23 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRtxogXp8sY).

LOVE LOTS

Black Country, New Road’s Live at Bush Hall - the future 😍

Fever Ray’s Radical Romantics - also fave show of the year, love them weird ass earworms like Wrath of Khan

MSPAINT’s Post-American - what a name and what an eardrum assault

Ulrika Spacek’s Compact Trauma - if you miss Deerhunter….

Wednesday’s Rat Saw God - oh we can have the whole wall of guitars don't mind if I do

Young Fathers’ Heavy Heavy - while we wait endlessly wondering if TVOTR will ever play again 🤷‍♂️

Yves Tumor’s Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) - fave new act of the last few years, bring the weird, bring the pop, tip cap to Prince

LIKE LOTS

boygenius’s the record; the rest

bar italia’s Tracey Denim

Blonde Redhead’s Sit Down For Dinner

Blur’s The Ballad of Darren

Bully’s Lucky For You

Deerhoof’s Miracle-Level

Danny Brown’s Quaranta

En Attendant Ana’s Principiia

feeble little horse’s Girl with Fish

Feist’s Multitudes

Fireworks’ Higher Lonely Power

Girl Ray’s Prestige

Hotline TNT’s Cartwheel

Indigo De Souza’s All of This Will End

Janelle Monae’s The Age of Pleasure

JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown’s Scaring the Hoes

Kevin Drew’s Aging

Grandaddy’s: Sumday Excess Baggage

Killer Mike’s Michael

The Kills’ God Games

M83’s Fantasy

Mandy, Indiana’s I’ve Seen a Way

Militarie Gun’s Life Under the Gun

Mitski’s The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We

MJ Lenderman’s Boat Songs

The National’s First Two Pages of Frankenstein; Laugh Track

The New Pornographers’ Continue as a Guest

Queens of the Stone Age’s In Times New Roman…

The Rural Alberta Advantage’s The Rise & The Fall 

Sigur Rós’s ÁTTA 

Sufjan Stevens’ Javelin

Tanukichan’s Gizmo

US Girls’ Bless This Mess

Wilco’s Cousin

yeule's softscars

Yo La Tengo’s This Stupid World

Youth Lagoon’s Heaven is a Junkyard

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2022 Favoritest Movie Theater Good Times

King of Hills

Faves

Aftersun

All Quiet on the Western Front

Apollo 10 1/2

Banshees of Inisherin

Barbarian

Bones and All

Crimes of the Future

Decision to Leave

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Holy Spider

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Men

Nope

Petite Maman

Piggy

RRR

TÁR

The Batman

The Fabelmans

The Menu

The Outfit

Top Gun: Maverick

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

Women Talking

Also Highly Enjoyable

A Man Called Otto

Adult Swim Yule Log

After Yang

Armageddon Time

Athena

Avatar: The Way of Water

Babylon

BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

Bitch Ass

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Bob’s Burgers

Bodies Bodies Bodies

Brian and Charles

Bros

Bullet Train

Causeway

Cha Cha Real Smooth

Chip ’n Dale’s Rescue Rangers

Clerks III

Confess, Fletch

Dayshift

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Don’t Worry Darling

Dual

Elvis

Emergency

Emily the Criminal

Empire of Light

EO

Fire Island

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Halloween Ends

Hellraiser

How it Ends

Hustle

I Love My Dad

Jackass Forever

Kill Boksoon

Kimi

Lamb

Lightyear

Living

Lost City

Mr. Harrigan’s Phone

Nanny

Neptune Frost

Nightmare

On the Count of Three

Orphan First Kill

Parallel Mothers

Pearl

Prey

Resurrection

Saint Omer

Scream V

She Said

Sick

Significant Other

Smile

Spiderhead

The Getaway King

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special

Spoiler Alert

Strange World

Terrifier 2

The Fall

The Justice of Bunny King

The Night

The Northman

The Novice

The Princess

The Stranger

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

The Whale

The Woman King

The Wonder

Thirteen Lives

Three Thousand Years of Longing

Triangle of Sadness

Turning Red

Vengeance

Watcher

We’re All Going to the World’s Fair

Wendell & Wild

Where the Crawdads Sing

White Noise

Windfall

X

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2022 Favoritest Televised Programming

Tops:

The Faves:

A League of Their Own

Andor

Archive 81

Atlanta

Barry

Better Call Saul

Black Bird

Los Espookys

LOTR: Rings of Power

Pachinko

Reservation Dogs

Righteous Gemstones

Severance

Station Eleven

The Dropout

The Offer

The Old Man

The Patient

The Rehearsal

Undone

White Lotus

Yellowjackets

Honorably mentioned:

1899

Abbot Elementary

Afterparty

Alice in Borderland

American Horror Story

Angelyne

Arcane: League of Legends

Archer

Bad Mouth

Bad Sisters

Better Things

Bob’s Burgers

Book of Boba Fett

Candy

D&D: The Legend of Vox Machina

Dahmer

Dicktown

Documentary Now

Dr. Brain

Five Days at Memorial

Fleishman Is in Trouble

For All Mankind

Friend of the Family

From

Gaslit

GDT’s Cabinet of Curiosities

Girls5eva

Handmaid’s Tale

Hawkeye

High Water

His Dark Materials

I Love That For You

Irma Vep

Kids in the Hall

Kindred

Landscapers

Late Night w/ John Oliver

Little America

Love Life

Made For Love

Master of None

Midnight Club

Minx

Mo

Moonhaven

Mr. Mayor

Murderville

My Brilliant Friend

Never Have I Ever

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Only Murders in the Building

Our Flag Means Death

Ozark

Pam & Tommy

Paper Girls

Peacemaker

Raised by Wolves

Rap Shit

Reacher

Rick & Morty

Russian Doll

Search Party

Servant

She-Hulk

Shining Girls

Slow Horses

Solar Opposites

Somebody Somewhere

South Side

Starstruck

Stranger Things

The Bear

The Boys Presents: Diabolical

The Crown

The English

The Great North

The Man Who Fell to Earth

The Peripheral

The Resort

The Shrink Next Door

The Staircase

The Thing About Pam

Tokyo Vice

Tuca and Birdie

Under the Banner of Heaven

We Own This City

Wednesday

Welcome to Chippendale’s

What We Do in the Shadows

Winning Time

Witcher: Blood Origin

Would It Kill You to Laugh?

Yellowstone

Your Honor

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2022′s Favoritest Great Reads

THE BEST

33 1/3 The National’s Boxer, Ryan Pinkard

Anthem, Noah Hawley

Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road, Kyle Buchanon

I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution, Craig Marks & Rob Tannenbaum

Liberation Day, George Saunders

Mickey7, Ashton Edward

Our Country Friends, Gary Shteyngart

Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard #2), Scott Lynch

Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel

Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson

The Candy House, Jennifer Egan

The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel

The Lincoln Highway Amor Towles

THE REST

33 1/3 Bjork’s Homogenic, Emily MacKay

33 1/3 Danger Mouse’s The Grey Album, Charles Fairchild

33 1/3 LCD Soundsystem’s Sound of Silver, Ryan Leas

33 1/3 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ Murder Ballads, Santi Elijah Holley

33 1/3 PJ Harvey’s Rid of Me, Kate Schatz

33 1/3 Portishead’s Dummy, RJ Wheaton

33 1/3 Sigur Ros’s (), Ethan Hayden

33 1/3 Siouxsie & the Banshees’ Peepshow, Samantha Bennett

All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr

Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies, Tom Perrotta

Deacon King Kong, James McBride

Metro 2033, Dmitry Glukhovsky

Metro 2034, Dmitry Glukhovsky

Metro 2035, Dmitry Glukhovsky

Oval, Elvia Wilk

The Adventurer’s Son, Roman Dial

The Book of Form and Happiness, Ruth Ozeki

The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Elephant Vanishes, Haruki Murakami

The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde

The Institute, Stephen King

The Lincoln Highway Amor Towles

The Regulators, Richard Bachman

Too Much Happiness, Alice Munro

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2022 Favoritest True Stories

The Tinder Swindler

jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy

The Invisible Pilot

One Perfect Shot

Our Father - fun fact my sis was delivered by Dr Cline

Val

George Carlin’s American Dream

Navalny

My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman

Unrivaled

Mind Over Murder

Light & Magic

Sins of our Mother

This Place Rules

Stutz

Fire of Love

Howard

How to Change Your Mind

This Much I Know to be True

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2022 Favoritest LOLz

Jerrod Carmichael: Rothaniel

Bo Burnham: Inside Outtakes

Mo Amer: Mohammed in Texas

Patton Oswalt: We All Scream

Hasan Minaj: The King’s Jester

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2022′s Favoritest Live Tunes

Aaaaaaaand 2022 = shows back praise be 😇 Plenty of gold in them hills, from a return to Indio to my first time seeing Sparks, Mitski, Nick Cave, IDLES, Danny Elfman, Japanese Breakfast, Turnstile, Bartees Strange, My Chemical Romance, Let’s Eat Grandma and The Smile, to a league-leading 14th time seeing The Smashing Pumpkins.

2023 = the year of the Kilby Block Party in Salt Lake City 😍

Sparks - Walt Disney Concert Hall (2/8)

The War on Drugs - Shrine Auditorium (2/26)

Mitski - Shrine Expo Hall (3/3)

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Orpheum (3/10)

Wet Leg - Fonda (3/30)

Coachella - 4/22-24

Phoebe Bridgers - Coachella (4/22)

Spiritualized - Coachella (4/22)

PUP - Coachella (4/22)

The Avalanches - Coachella (4/22)

Run the Jewels - Coachella (4/22)

IDLES - Coachella (4/22)

Billie Eilish - Coachella (4/23)

Danny Elfman - Coachella (4/23)

Hot Chip - Coachella (4/23)

Japanese Breakfast - Coachella (4/23)

Turnstile - Coachella (4/23)

Caribou - Coachella (4/23)

Fatboy Slim - Coachella (4/24)

Viagra Boys - Coachella (4/24)

David Letterman - Fonda Theater (5/6)

John Mulaney - Hollywood Bowl (5/7)

Liz Phair: Don't Holdyrbreath

Gen X Festival - Walt Disney Concert Hall (5/10)

Sigur Ros - Shrine Auditorium (5/19)

Wolf Parade - Troubadour (5/20)

Interpol, Modest Mouse, The Shins, MIA, Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, The Hives, Wolf Parade, Peaches, The Raveonettes - Just Like Heaven (5/21)

Jack White - YouTube Theater (6/1)

Cloud Cult - Lodge Room (7/8)

Sharon Van Etten, Angel Olsen, And Julien Baker - Greek Theatre (7/28)

The National/Bartees Strange - KettleHouse Amphitheater (8/8)

Chvrches/Grace Jones - Hollywood Bowl (9/25)

My Chemical Romance - Forum (10/15 & 17)

Tegan and Sara - Fonda Theater (11/15)

Smashing Pumpkins/Jane’s Addiction (11/19)

Let’s Eat Grandma - Regent (11/23)

Ginuwine - The Best Man Premiere (12/7)

Death Cab for Cutie/Yo La Tengo - Greek Theatre (10/21)

The Smile - Shrine Auditorium (12/21)

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2022′s Favoritest Tunes

My tops = Titus Andronicus’s The Will to Live as my favorite modern anthem kings reign again. 

Other favorites:

Bartees Strange’s Farm to Table

Beyoncé’s RENAISSANCE

Big Thief’s Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You

Black Country, New Road’s Ants From Up There

Ibibio Sound Machine’s Electricity

Nilüfer Yanya’s Painless

Porridge Radio’s Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky

Sharon Van Etten’s We’ve Been Going About this All Wrong

The Smile’s A Light for Attracting Attention

Best of the Rest

Alex G’s God Save the Animals

Arcade Fire’s WE

black midi’s Hellfire

Cloud Cult’s Metamorphosis

Destroyer’s LABYRINTHITIS

Jack White’s Fear of the Dawn

Just Mustard’s Heart Under

Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers

Let’s Eat Grandma’s Two Ribbons

Mitski’s Laurel Hell

PUP’s THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND

Special Interest’s Endure

Spiritualized’s Everything was Beautiful

Spoon’s Lucifer on the Sofa

Tegan and Sara’s Crybaby

Wet Leg’s S/T

Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cool it Down

Honorably Mentioned

Alt-J’s The Dream

Alvvays’ Blue Rev

Angel Olsen’s Big Time

Animal Collective’s Time Skiffs

Beach House’s Once Twice Melody

Beak>’s Kosmic Musik

Belle & Sebastian’s A Bit of Previous

Björk’s Fossora

Cate Le Bon’s Pompeii

Dry Cleaning’s Stumpwork

Fontaines DC’s Skinty Fia

Horsegirls’ Versions of Modern Performance

Hot Chip’s Freakout/Release

Jack White’s Entering Heaven Alive

Lizzo’s Special

Nova Twins’ Supernova

Phoenix’s Alpha Zulu

Pusha T’s It’s Almost Dry

Sault’s Air

The Beths’ Expert in a Dying Field

Weyes Blood's And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow

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2021′s Favoritest Flicks

Introduced by my favoritest and most watched scene from any 2021 movie, the opening to Annette:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWb3KpvAz8s

THE EXCEPTIONAL

Annette

C’mon C’mon

Censor

CODA

Drive My Car

Dune

Free Guy

King Richard

Licorice Pizza

Nightmare Alley

Nobody

Pig

Red Rocket

Spider-Man: No Way Home

The Card Counter

The French Dispatch

The Green Knight

The Harder They Fall

The Mitchells vs The Machines

The Night House

The Power of the Dog

The Suicide Squad

The Tragedy of Macbeth

Tick, Tick… Boom!

Titane

Together Together

West Side Story

The Worst Person in the World

Zola

THE REALLY GREAT

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

Belfast

Belle

Benedetta

Black Widow

Bond: No Time to Die

Breaking News in Yuba County

Coming 2 America

Coming Home in the Dark

Don’t Look Up

Encanto

Eternals

Finch

First Cow

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Godzilla vs Kong

Happily

A Hero

In the Heights

Luca

The Last Duel

The Lost Daughter

Malignant

Many Saints of Newark

Nine Days

No Sudden Move

Passing

Pieces of a Woman

Shang-Chi

Space Sweepers

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

The News of the World

The White Tiger

The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf

Werewolves Within

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2021′s Favoritest Docs

Allen vs Farrow

Attica

Belushi

Billie Eilish : Happier Than Ever

The Black Godfather

Derek DelGaudio’s “In & Of Itself”

Exterminate all the Brutes

Flee

Hard Knocks: Colts

History of Swear Words

Lady and the Dale

Murder Among the Mormons

Pretend It’s a City

Spike Lee’s NYC Epicenters 9/11-2021½

Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

The Beatles’ Get Back

The Crime of the Century

The Night Stalker

The Sparks Brothers

This is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist

Velvet Underground

Voir

Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rag

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2021′s Favoritest Standup Comedy

Quite probably I didn’t keep good track of all the standup watched, this feels light (although Chappelle’s very, very, very intentionally left off). Y’all know Bo Burnham, which is as A+ as hyped (now go watch everything else he’s ever done), so I’ll flag Nate Bargatze as the next favorite LOL-er

Bo Burnham: Inside

Brian Regan: On the Rocks

Jim Gaffigan: Comedy Monster

Nate Bargatze: The Greatest Average American

Rory Scovel: Live Without Fear

Tig Notaro: Drawn