What This Is

Inspired by Jen Myers:

it’s not just about list making and it’s not about reducing art to a number consumed. I suppose if either of those things are things you’re into, you can make it about that. But, for me, logging what I take in serves more purposes. It makes me think more deliberately about what I’m taking in. It makes me want to be well-rounded in what I choose to take in. And it reminds me that taking in art makes me happier. When I elevate it to a documented priority, I end up happier. Which is a valid enough of an output for me.

Key: 📚 = books read, 📽 = movies seen, 🎵 = albums bought, 🎤 = concerts attended, 📺 = TV series watched, ⚽️ = soccer season or tournament, 🎙 = podcast series

Previous year: 2019

2020

January

  • 3 – 🎵 Cerulean Blue, Waxahatchee
  • 📚 Your First Novel, Anne Rittenberg and Laura Whitcomb
  • 📺 The Crown, season 3
  • 4 – 📽 Dolemite is My Name
  • 10 – 📽 The Great Gatsby
  • 13 – 📺 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, season 4
  • 📺 Derry Girls, season 1
  • 15 – 📚 The Orphan Master’s Son, Adam Johnson
  • 17 – 📺 Derry Girls, season 2
  • 18 – 📽 Weathering With You
  • 📽 A Marriage Story
  • 19 – 📚 Cloud Native Patterns, Cornelia Davis
  • 26 – 📚 Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
  • 28 – 📚 Golden State, Ben Winters
  • 31 – 🎵 Likewise, Frances Quinlan
  • 📽 Honeyland

February

  • 1 📽 Harriet
  • 2 📽 Little Women
  • 4 📚 The Case of the Missing Finger, Cheri Baker
  • 5 📚 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Ian Fleming
  • 11 📚 Blackbirds, Chuck Wendig
  • 13 📽 Jojo Rabbit
  • 15 🎵 Hit Reset, The Julie Ruin
  • 📽 Snowpiercer
  • 19 📚 Vinland Saga (Omnibus 3)_, Makoto Yukimura
  • 21 📚 White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
  • 22 📽 Ford vs. Ferrari
  • 23 📺 Ozark, season 2
  • 28 🎵 Bath White, 50 Foot Wave
  • 📚 She Came to Slay, Erica Armstrong Dunbar
  • 📽 Blinded by the Light
  • 29 📽 This Is 40

March

  • 6 📽 Roots (2016)
  • 11 📚 You Only Live Twice, Ian Fleming
  • 13 📽 Game Night
  • 14 📽 The Florida Project
  • 17 📚 Emma, Jane Austen
  • 📚 Ruined by Design, Mike Monteiro
  • 🎵 Every Bad, Porridge Radio
  • 18 📽 Run Lola Run
  • 20 📽 Emma.
  • 🎵 Forfun, Juana Molina
  • 21 📽 La La Land
  • 22 📽 Clueless
  • 27 📺 Schitt’s Creek, season 5
  • 🎵 Saint Cloud, Waxahatchee
  • 28 📚 Green Hair Don’t Care (Snotgirl #1), Bryan Lee O’Malley

April

  • 2 📚 A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine
  • 3 📺 Ozark, season 3
  • 🎵 Space Cadet EP, beabadoobee
  • 6 📺 Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries, season 1
  • 8 📺 Barry, season 2
  • 10 📽 Fleabag (play)
  • 📚 The Miracle of Castel di Sangro, Joe McGinniss
  • 🎵 Printer’s Devil, Ratboys
  • 12 📽 Rocketman
  • 18 📽 The Gentlemen
  • 21 📚 The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry
  • 22 📺 Mad Men, season 1
  • 23 📚 Wake, Siren, Nina MacLaughlin
  • 27 🎵 2006, S

May

  • 1 🎵 Do You Wonder About Me?, Diet Cig
  • 2 🎵 Hi We’re Speedy Ortiz: Live from 2015, Speedy Ortiz
  • 5 📚 Bitchfest, Lisa Jervis (ed.)
  • 📺 Mad Men, season 2
  • 6 📽 23 Hours to Kill, Jerry Seinfeld
  • 9 📚 Secret Societies, Joel Levy
  • 14 📺 Mad Men, season 3
  • 15 🎵 Fetch the Bolt Cutters, Fiona Apple
  • 15 📽 Amy
  • 22 🎵 Kinship, She Keeps Bees
  • 24 📽 Jojo Rabbit again
  • 25 📚 Coders At Work, Peter Seibel
  • 📺 Mad Men, season 4

June

  • 1 📺 Queens of Mystery, season 1
  • 🎵 B-Sighs, Moving Panoramas
  • 2 📚 Maus I, Art Spiegdlman
  • 3 🎵 RTJ4, Run the Jewels
  • 5 🎵 Live at Roadburn 2018, Zola Jesus
  • 📽 The Lovebirds
  • 7 📺 Mad Men, season 5
  • 9 📚 The City We Became, N. K. Jemisin
  • 12 🎵 Memory, Vivian Girls
  • 🎵 The Besnard Lakes Are the Divine Wind, The Besnard Lakes
  • 21 📺 Mad Men, season 6
  • 📺 Hannah Gadsby’s Douglas
  • 24 📚 Sharks in the Time of Saviors, Kawai Strong Washburn
  • 26 🎵 APKÁ!, Ceu

July

  • 2 🎵 PITH, Melkbelly
  • 3 🎵 Mordechai, Khruangbin
  • 6 📚 California Screaming (Snotgirl #2), Bryan Lee O’Malley
  • 8 🎵 Slugger, Sad13
  • 9 📺 The Night Manager
  • 11 📚 Is This Real Life? (Snotgirl #3), Bryan Lee O’Malley
  • 14 📚 The Night Watchman,
  • 15 📚 So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
  • 18 🎙 This Land
  • 📽 Black Panther
  • 19 📽 Keanu
  • 22 🎵 Screaming Females
  • 24 🎵 Dream Wife
  • 24 📽 Portrait of a Lady on Fire

August

  • 1 📽 Aladdin

  • 6 🎵 No Horizon, Wye Oak

  • 🎵 Cha Cha Palace, Angelica Garcia

  • 7 📺 Home Before Dark

  • 8 📽 Frances Ha