Ooo podcast recs! I’ve only listened to a couple here or there, but my roommate LOVES podcasts so here is a mix of ones I love and the roomie loves as well
From Me:
1) Commit or Quit - a short run series from Eric Nam and his brothers, where during the Covid-19 lockdowns in 2020 they watch a suggested tv show or movie (such as Snowpiercer, Tiger King, or Train to Busan) and decide if it’s worth committing to watching fully OR quitting it entirely. Eric is such a delight and so funny.
2) Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me - a hilarious news quiz show where comedians have to guess the right answer about what happened that week in the news
From the roommate:
• Ridiculous History; • Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week; • Hello From The Magic Tavern; • Wonderful; • Judge John Hodgeman; • Dumb People Town
Hope that helps and that you enjoy them! 💜
added to the list~ 😊 thank you!
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I had kind of a tough 2019 and did not have the will/energy to write about most of the things that happened or the things I did. It was a Soldier Through And Hopefully Come Out The Other Side kind of year.
I can at least come up with some end of year lists though, and mention some of the things I never got around to posting here. Unless stated otherwise these lists are in order of preference but I did not sweat that order very much, so left them unnumbered.
Movies from 2019 that I recommend: (This is without a doubt my worst list, I did not see many movies this year. When I get caught up this list will be probably entirely different)
US
Little Women
Knives Out
Captain Marvel
IT Part 2
Velvet Buzzsaw
Toy Story 4
Endgame
Rocketman
Ten strongest albums from 2019
Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
Ladytron - Ladytron
Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated
Tyler, the Creator - IGOR
Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
Sigrid - Sucker Punch
Jamila Woods - Legacy! Legacy!
Sleater-Kinney - The Center Won’t Hold
Clairo - Immunity
Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell
Ten songs I loved in 2019 (that were not on the above albums)
King Princess - Prophet
Big Thief - Not / Cattails (a tie)
Billie Ellish - Bury A Friend
The National - Light Years
Aly & AJ - Church
Dua Lipa - Don’t Start Now
Ohmme - Give Me Back My Man
FKA Twigs - Cellophane
HAIM - Summer Girl
Hatchie - Stay With Me
Ten TV Shows I loved in 2019
Fleabag
Russian Doll
Watchmen (note: I am only on episode 2 but I am confidently placing it at Number 3 right now, to my UTTER SHOCK as I didnt even want this to exist)
The Expanse
The Good Place
Schitt’s Creek
Good Omens
True Detective
Los Espookys
Umbrella Academy
Also: His Dark Materials, Stranger Things, Dark, One Day at a Time
Ten bands I saw live in 2019:
Spiritualized (Wilbur Theater)
The National (Agannis Arena)
James Blake (House of Blues)
Hot Chip (Royale)
Carly Rae Jepsen (House of Blues)
Ladytron (Royale)
Mitski (Boston Calling Festival)
CHVRCHES (Boston Calling Festival)
King Princess (Boston Calling Festival)
Christine and the Queens (Boston Calling Festival)
also: Superorganism, Anderson Paak, Yaeji, Tame Impala, Hozier, Adia Victoria
Ten Amazing Sci-Fi/Fantasy authors I discovered in 2019 because I went on a rampage (not all of these books came out this year but they came out recently)
Martha Wells : The Murderbot Diaries (All Systems Red / Artificial Condition / Rogue Protocol / Exit Strategy)
Seanan McGuire : Wayward Children series (Every Heart a Doorway / Down Amongst the Sticks and Bones / Beneath the Sugar Sky / In an Absent Dream)
S. A Chakraborty : The Daevabad Triology (The City of Brass / The Kingdom of Copper)
Catherynne M. Valente: Space Opera / Radiance
Becky Chambers : A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet / A Closed and Common Orbit / Record of a Spaceborn Few
Liu Cixin : The Three-Body Problem / The Dark Forest / Death’s End
Mary Robinette Kowal : The Lady Astronaut Series (The Calculating Stars / The Fated Sky)
Ken Liu : The Grace of Kings / The Wall of Storms
(On deck for reading are Tender by Sofia Samatar, Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee, and The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolande so the rampage continues)
Comics Series I am Actually Following in 2019
The Wicked and The Divine (rip)
Die
Once and Future
Ginseng Roots
Love and Rockets
My Solo Exchange Diary
The Way of the House Husband
X-Men / House of X / Powers of X
The Immortal Hulk
Finder
Favorite Graphic Novels of 2019
Tillie Walden : Are You Listening?
Colleen AF Venable and Ellen T. Crenshaw : Kiss Number 8
Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O'Connell: Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me
Maia Kobabe: Genderqueer
Jen Wang : Stargazing
Jaime Hernandez : Is This How You See Me?
Brian McDonald and Les McClaine : Old Souls
Lucy Knisley : Kid Gloves
Jim Rugg : Street Angel - Deadliest Girl Alive
Podcasts I listen to regularly in 2019 but none of them are cool or anything
How Did This Get Made
Pop Culture Happy Hour
This Is Actually Happening
Judge John Hodgeman
Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend
Sawbones
How to Be a Girl
Dear Prudence
Beautiful / Anonymous
Unspooled
Video Games I logged the most time playing in 2019 (in the order I played them. In order of preference, RDR2 is #1 followed closely by Sekiro)
Spiderman (PS4 version)
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Red Dead Redemption II
Death Stranding
The fact that there are only 4 listed here should tell you how absorbed I was by all four of these. Next on deck: the Outer Worlds
And that was my year. I also traveled to Barcelona and Rome, got a big promotion, subsequently was left holding the bag when everything fell apart at work, a family member died fairly badly, was depressed, had a lot of writers block, also wrote more than I ever have, turned 40, and a whole lot of other stuff that is kind of a blur and other stuff too personal to get into, but it was A Lot. Here’s hoping 2020 is Not As Much, or at least I handle it better.
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