2025.01.03
Movies at the Cinema (3 (-2))
Amélie, Furiosa, Megalopolis: A Fable
Amélie was my birthday movie. Furiosa was too much like the other Mad Max movies I had binged. Megalopolis had a sousaphone.
Movies on Video or Streaming (61 (+33))
Sam Jay: Salute Me or Shoot Me, The Dreamer, Nope, Hard Day's Night, Bottoms, Meaning of Life, Eric Andre Live Near Broadway, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Hello Ladies: The Movie, Beverly Hills Cop, The Iron Giant, The Hateful Eight, Top Secret!, Dune Part 1, Dirt Nap, Hot Cross Buns, The Lego Batman Movie, Persepolis, Dune part 2, Dungeons&Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, X, The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, 2001, Mad Max,
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, Mad Max Fury Road, 1917, Hit Man, Bring It On, Love Lies Bleeding, Hellraiser, The Lost Daughter, @Zola, Beetlejuice, Drive My Car, Shadows and Fog, Goodbye, Columbus, Love Story, The Seventh Seal, Civil War, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, Between Two Ferns: The Movie, Watermelon Man, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Sleep With Me, Hemingway & Gellhorn, The Big Chill, Body of Evidence, Henry and June, Deadpool & Wolverine, Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine, Alien: Romulus, Tampopo, Violent Night, Moonstruck, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, A Muppet Christmas Carol, Silence of the Lambs, Genie, The Blues Brothers
One thing remarkable is how many more good movies I watched this year, which was kind of deliberate on my part. "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" is a delightful short story of a movie. "Tampopo" is Lynette's favorite and excellent, a multithreaded story of the pursuit of excellence in nurturing ramen
TV Show Seasons (20 (+2))
Lego Masters: Celebrity Holiday Bricktacular Season 2, Hello Ladies, Pluto, Rick and Morty Season 7, Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 16, Black Mirror Season 6, Conan Must Go, Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team, The Good Place Season 1, The Good Place Season 2, The Good Place Season 3, The Good Place Season 4, Big Mouth Season 6, Big Mouth Season 7, Brooklyn 99 Season 1, Brooklyn 99 Season 2, Uzumaki, Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance, Brooklyn 99 Season 3, Dandadan (1.1-12)
"The Good Place" stands out - while the middle two seasons weren't so necessary, it really stuck the philosophical landing with its finale.
Books (30 (-5))
Midlife,
The River of Consciousness, Beast in the Basement, RAW Memes, Helps to Holiness, Natural Law, Or Don't Put A Rubber On Your Willy And Other Writings From A Natural Outlaw, Queer, There, and Everywhere, Mr g, Complexity: A Very Short Introduction, Happy Snak, What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work?, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, The Diagnosis: A Novel, Life Worth Living, Once Upon Atari: How I made history by killing an industry, Things to Ponder While Taking a Shit, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Howard Stern Comes Again, The Mind of a Bee, I've Been Thinking, Prison Diary(a): A San Quentin Comedy, Kinda, Grooks, Pragmatism, Intermezzo, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Lemon Table, I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself, Time Out of Joint, Tik-Tok, Who's In Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain
I collected quotes from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals and Sally Rooney's Intermezzo.
Audiobooks/Podcast (12 (+0))
The Maid's Diary, My Brother, My Brother, and Me, Poetry Unbound, Retronauts, Into the Vertical Blank, Beef and Dairy Network Podcast, 99% Invisible, Sleeping with Celebrities, 2.0, Strong Songs, Get Played, Get Anime'd
"The Maid's Diary" is the only audiobook - I rated it poorly but mostly because of its comic-book-villain level diabolical resolution. For Podcasts "Get Played" (3 comedian/writers talking games) is still surpreme. 99% Invisible's year long deep dive into "The Power Broker" was great.
Comic / Graphic Novel (14 (+0))
Weapon Brown Aftershock, In., Artist, Tomboy, The Zen of Steve Jobs, The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer, Hogbook and Lazer Eyes, Mad Max Fury Road, Sex, My Lesbian Experience with Lonelines, Kingdom Come, Empowered and the Soldier of Love #1, Empowered Omnibus Volume 1, Dandadan 1-175
Will McPhail's "In" was totally brilliant and I thank john and Cordelia for bringing it to my attention..."The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage" was a great historical fantasia.
Video Games (3 (-3))
Super Mario Bros Wonder, Just Cause 3, Gat Out of Hell
Sometimes I miss video games. That Super Mario Bros was the only new one I played, the others were just comfort food.