Books
Movies
TV Shows
TV Episodes
As usual, I don’t list favorites or ratings (I keep ratings, but most everything lands in the 6 – 8 out of 10, so it’s not very helpful – a couple of 1s this year).
This year I tried to add Museums and Cultural Events. I didn’t take the time to build a good database for them, so they’re a bit haphazardly recorded. But I’m glad to include them. I went to some great museums this year.
Music – No way to track this effectively anymore. My listening is spread across too many services to make it relevant. I usually listen to DJ sets on YouTube while I’m writing and world-building. I listen to Podcasts on Downcast. I bounce between Apple Music and Spotify for run-of-the-mill listening, both are mediocre experiences. And the king of the algorithm is still Pandora for set-it-and-forget-it streams. But my top internet music stations are on SomaFM.com.
Here’s a handful of DJs, Clubs, and labels I go to for long sets.
Cercle
Nora En Pure
Miss Monique
The Concourse Project
Anjunadeep
Beatport
Boiler Room
Arte Concert
Generally in alphabetical order.
BOOKS
Trust – Hernan Diaz
Sunshine Noir – Collection of Short Stories
Antimatter – Frank Close
Meru – S.b Divya
The Salt Grows Heavy – Cassandra Khaw
Cod – Mark Kurlansky
Compulsory: A Murderbot Story – Martha Wells (short story)
The Witch King – Martha Wells
Faith Hope and Carnage – Nick Cave & Sean O’Hagen
Siren Queen – Nghi Vo
System Collapse – Martha Wells
Neuromancer – William Gibson
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin
MOVIES
[in order of viewing]
Puss in boots: the last wish
Breakfast Club
The Big Lebowski
Wendel and Wild
Making of Wakanda forever
Particle Fever
Everything Everywhere All at once
Dune
The loneliest Whale
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor of Thieves
Spider-Man into the Spiderverse
John Mulaney: baby j
Tetris
Airplane
Guardians of the Galaxy 3
Still
Crater
Moonage Daydream
Glass Onion
Air
Clarence and Ginny Thomas
Dark Star
Electric Dreams
Indian Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning
Mama Mia!
The Secret of Kells
Pre Wee’s Big Adventure
Rushmore
Kubo
Peggy Sue Got Married
Astroid City
14 Peaks
Haunted Mansion
Pride & Prejudice
Shaun of the Dead
William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet
Pigeon Tunnel
Hunger Games 2
Escape from New York
Mike Berbiglia: old man and the pool
Little Women
Home alone
Museums
Louisana | Denmark
- Ragnar Kjaransson Retrospective
- Yahoi Kusama
- Permanent Collection
The Walker | Minneapolis, MN
- Pacita Abad
- Allan Sekula
- Permanent Collection
MoMA | New York, NY
- Ed Ruscha
The Met | New York, NY
- Permanent Collection
The Philadelphia Museum of Art | Philadelphia, PA
- Permanent Collection
TV Shows
S2 | E1 – E22
S1 | E1 – E9 – [rewatch]
Barry
S4 | E1 – E8
Baskets
S2 | E1 – E3
Interactive
Nothing this year.
VISUALIZATIONS
Take A Deeper Dive
Rollover the graphs and expand to explore the data further. Click on individual graph data points and drill down by more criteria.
Certain data sets also allow for customizing and changing the graph type.
PODCASTS
In 2023, I commuted to the office 4 – 5 days a week. So the podcasts are part of the mix. But it was mostly news.
Podcasts I Listened to Frequently in 2022:
The Daily – New York Times
How I Built This – With Guy Raz
Post Reports – Washington Post
One Notable Audio Drama I re-listened to:
These are still in my queue, but I don’t get to them often:
Search Engine
Confessions of a Creative Director [episode with me]