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2024 Favoritest Tunes

Albums of L’Year….

fantasy of a broken heart’s Feats of Engineering

Los Campesinos!’s All Hell

Top-to-bottom fab….

Beak>’s >>>>

Cindy Lee’s Diamond Jubilee

Jack White’s No Name

Kendrick Lamar’s GNX

Mdou Moctar’s Funeral for Justice

Osees’ SORCS 80

The Cure’s Songs of a Lost World

Loved….

Astrel K’s The Foreign Department

Bibi Club’s Feu de garde

Dame Area’s Toda la Verdad Sobre Dame Area

Ekko Astral’s pink balloons

Father John Misty’s Mahashmashana

Foxing’s Foxing

Friko's Where We've Been, Where We Go from Here

IDLES’ TANGK

Kim Deal’s Nobody Loves You More

Kim Gordon’s The Collective

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ Wild God

Nilüfer Yanya’s My Method Actor

Porridge Radio’s Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There For Me

The Smile’s Cutouts

This Is Lorelei’s Box for Buddy, Box for Star

Trent Reznor’s & Atticus Ross’s Challengers (Original Score)

Vampire Weekend’s Only God Was Above Us

Waxahatchee’s Tigers Blood

Liked lots….

Beth Gibbons’ Lives Outgrown

Cloud Cult’s Alchemy Creek

Fontaine DC’s Romance

Hard Quartet’s The Hard Quartet

Mannequin Pussy’s I Got Heaven

Menomena’s INSULATION EP

SPRINTS’ Letter to Self

Wilco’s Hot Sun Cool Shroud

Wishy’s Triple Seven

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2024 Favoritest Flicks

My Best Pics….

A Different Man

Anora

The Brutalist

Challengers

Civil War

Dune: Part Two

Hit Man

Nickel Boys

Promised Land

September 5

Small Things Like These

The Substance

Loved….

A Complete Unknown

A Real Pain

Conclave

Cuckoo

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Heretic

His Three Daughters

I Saw the TV Glow

Interstellar Imax 10th Anniversary

Longlegs

Love Lies Bleeding

Monkey Man

Nosferatu

The Paragon

Rebel Ridge

Sing Sing

Strange Darling

Thelma

Wicked

Wicked Little Letters

Wild Robot

Liked….

Abigail

Alien: Romulus

Am I OK?

American Society of Magical Negroes

Babes

Babygirl

Back to Black

Beekeeper

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Better Man

Bikeriders

Blink Twice

Blitz

Carry-On

Deadpool & Wolverine

Dìdi 弟弟

Dogman

Drive-Away Dolls

Elevation

Emilia Perez

Evil Does Not Exist

Fall Guy

First Omen

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Gladiator II

Goodrich

Here

Hundreds of Beavers

I Used to be Funny

Immaculate

In a Violent Nature

Inside Out 2

It’s What’s Inside

Juror #2

Kalki 2898 AD

Kinds of Kindness

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Kneecap

La Chimera

Late Night With the Devil

MaXXXine

Megalopolis

Milk & Serial

My Old Ass

Oddity

Omni Loop

Orion and the Dark

Parallel

Piano Lesson

Queer

Quiet Place: Day One

Riddle of Fire

Roadhouse

Sasquatch Sunset

Saturday Night

Shirley

Slay

Sleeping Dogs

Slingshot

Smile 2

Spaceman

Stress Positions

Subject

Teacher’s Lounge

The Imaginary

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

The Watchers

Things Will be Different

Tótem

Touch

Twisters

Ultraman: Rising

Unidentified Objects

Universal Theory

We Live in Time

Wildcat

Wolfs

Woman of the Hour

Y2K

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2024 Favoritest Boob Tubes

Loved….

Baby Reindeer

Colin From Accounts

Day of the Jackal

Disclaimer*

English Teacher

Fallout

Fantasmas

Hacks

Interior Chinatown

Monsters: The Menendez Brothers

Mr & Mrs Smith

Mr. Bates vs the Post Office

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Pachinko

Rings of Power

Shōgun

Somebody Somewhere

Squid Game

What We Do in the Shadows

Liked lots….

Abbot Elementary

Acolyte

Agatha All Along

Agency, The

American Rush

Arcane

Bad Monkey

Bad Sisters

Batman: Caped Crusader

Black Doves

Bob’s Burgers

Bodkin

Chucky

Clipped

Confidante

Constellation

Creature Commandos

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Dark Matter

Dune Prophecy

Expats

Feud: Capote vs. The Swans

Franchise, The

Gentleman in Moscow

Girls5eva

Grotesquerie

Kaos

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Manhunt

Mothers’ Instinct

My Brilliant Friend

No Good Deed

Old Man

Penguin, The

Presumed Innocent

Ripley

Say Nothing

Secret Level

Shrinking

Silo

Simpsons

Skeleton Crew

Slow Horses

Somacell

St Denis Medical

Sunny

Sweet Tooth

Sweetie

Sweetpea

Sympathizer

Terminator Zero

The Boys

The Diplomat

The Great North

The Sticky

Them: The Scare

Time Bandits

Tokyo Vice

True Detective

Under the Bridge

X-Men ’97

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2024 Favoritest Great Reads

Loved….

Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1) / Miéville, China 

Man Who Invented Saturday Morning: And Other Adventures in American Enterprise, The / Owen, David 

Master Key, The / Togawa, Masako

Big Swiss / Beagin, Jen

Complete Maus / Spiegelman, Art

Children of Time (Children of Time, #1) / Tchaikovsky, Adrian 

Stone Sky, The (The Broken Earth, #3) / Jemisin, N.K. 

Interior Chinatown / Yu, Charles 

Crying in H Mart / Zauner, Michelle

Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) / Rothfuss, Patrick 

Trees, The / Everett, Percival

Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1) / Muir, Tamsyn 

Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1) / Scalzi, John 

Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3) / Jones, Stephen Graham 

Chain-Gang All-Stars / Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame 

Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1) / Sanderson, Brandon 

Stranger in a Strange Land / Heinlein, Robert A.

Liked lots….

33 1/3 Dinosaur Jr.'s You're Living All Over Me / Nick Attfield

Mason & Dixon / Thomas Pynchon

City and Its Uncertain Walls / Haruki Murakami

I Am Not Sidney Poitier / Everett, Percival

Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice & Vol. 2: International Flavor / Layman, John

Whalefall / Kraus, Daniel 

Life After Life (Todd Family, #1) / Atkinson, Kate

This Bright River / Somerville, Patrick 

Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears / Schulman, Michael 

Blankets / Thompson, Craig

Embassytown / Miéville, China 

Bloodchild and Other Stories / Butler, Octavia E.

Duma Key / King, Stephen 

High-Rise / Ballard, J.G.

Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood / Zwick, Ed

Paper Menagerie and Other Stories / Liu, Ken 

Klara and the Sun / Ishiguro, Kazuo 

My Sister, the Serial Killer / Braithwaite, Oyinkan 

Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player / Rodríguez, Robert

33 1/3 Jeff Buckley's Grace / Brooks, Daphne A.

The Scar (New Crobuzon, #2) / Miéville, China 

All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) / Wells, Martha 

From a Buick 8 / King, Stephen 

Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1) / Leckie, Ann 

Stories of Vladimir Nabokov / Nabokov, Vladimir

Anansi Boys / Gaiman, Neil 

Milkman / Burns, Anna

Hollywood: The Oral History / Basinger, Jeanine

Universe in Miniature in Miniature, The/ Somerville, Patrick 

33 1/3 Fleetwood Mac's Tusk / Trucks, Rob

Witch King (The Rising World, #1) / Wells, Martha 

Obelisk Gate, The (The Broken Earth, #2) / Jemisin, N.K. 

MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3) / Atwood, Margaret 

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2024 Favoritest LOLz

Rory Scovel’s Religion, Sex and a Few Things in Between

Tig Notaro’s Hello Again

Conner O’Malley’s Stand Up Solutions

Anthony Jeselnik’s Bones and All

Jim Gaffigan’s The Skinny

Joe Mande’s “Chill”

Hasan Minhaj’s Off With His Head

Nate Bargatze’s Your Friend, Nate Bargatze

Rachel Bloom’s Death, Let Me Do My Special

Kyle Kinane's Dirt Nap

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2024 Favoritest Live IRL

Older = fewer shows 🤷‍♂️ Fewer shows = higher quality 💪 

First show with favorite band in years (Los Campesinos!) + first show with Mt Rushmore-level all-timer in even more years (TVOTR) + Osees rip & shred + Pulp back at it like a crack addict + LCD still LCDing and alma mater wins an entire enchilada = five stars no notes.

TV on the Radio - El Rey (12/4)

LCD Soundsystem - Palladium (11/8)

Ohana Fest (Pearl Jam, Alanis Morissette, IDLES) - Doheny State Beach (9/29)

Pulp - Palladium (9/18)

Osees - Bellwether (8/30)

Los Campesinos! - Belasco (6/28)

Lion King - Hollywood Bowl (5/24)

Just Like Heaven (War on Drugs, Death Cab for Cutie, Postal Service, Tegan & Sara, Sleigh Bells, Phoenix, Passion Pit, Broken Social Scene) - Rose Bowl (5/18)

Seth Rogen Smokes The Bowl - Hollywood Bowl (5/7)

Magnetic Fields plays 69 Love Songs - Theater at Ace (4/23)

Rose Bowl (Michigan vs Alabama) - Rose Bowl (1/1)

CFP National Title (Michigan v Washington) - Houston NRG Stadium (1/9)

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2024 Favoritest Docs

Favoritestest: Remarkable Life of Ibelin 😍

American Nightmare

Lover, Stalker, Killer

The Truth vs Alex Jones

Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show

The Jinx 2

Freaknik

moviepass, moviecrash 

Beach Boys

Ashley Madison

Ren Faire

Brats

John Lennon: Murder Without A Trial

Skywalkers: A Love Story

Wise Guy: David Chase & The Sopranos

Chimp Crazy

Will & Harper

Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara

Road Diary Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band

Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

The Grab

Beatles '64

¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!

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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

Gilded Age

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

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

Dogleg

Double Blind

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

Four Souls of Coyote

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

Monk and the Gun

Mountain Woman

Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie

Mutt

Nairobby

Nimona

No One Will Save You

Nowhere

Nyad

Origin

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

Sometimes I Think About Dying

Starling Girl

Still Time

Stopmotion

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

The Taste of Things

Theater Camp

There’s Something Wrong With the Children

They Cloned Tyrone

To Leslie

Vesper

When Evil Lurks

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

Coffee Table

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