The totals:
- 37 books vs 64 last year.
- 55 new movies (plus several re-watches) vs 57 last year. More or less flat.
- 41 TV series completed — either finished them in 2016, watched the whole show, or watched a new season — along with endless political coverage, many nightly news shows, drop-ins on Emma’s shows (like Supergirl and Project Runway), and the Olympics. I counted this differently this year — last year I didn’t count new seasons of shows I’d already watched.
- 55 bands live vs 65 in 2015. Steadily declining.
- 246 new records (plus innumerable re-listens) vs 600 in 2015
- As last year, I read some 50+ ad economics research papers, but I’m not listing those here. Probably have about one more year of that for work on the book. The source list for my next book is now 142 items long, and that’s just the ones referenced in the manuscript so far.
- And one play: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Edit: My wife reminded me we also saw the Gillian Anderson/Ben Foster production of A Streetcar Named Desire at St Ann’s Warehouse. Whoops.
Thoughts
Unlike 2015, I wasn’t spending the bulk of 2016 listening to as many new albums as possible. I also watched less TV, saw (a few) fewer movies, and read (a few) fewer books. Down numbers all around. Not coincidentally to all the numbers being down, I worked a lot more this year.
I didn’t enjoy doing this nearly as much this year as I did last year. It’s exhausting. You miss things. You have to constantly remember to jot things down.
Didn’t come anywhere near my annual goal of a book a week, mainly because I took 2016 to plow through two large books I’ve been wanting to read: Robert Caro’s The Power Broker and Eric Barnouw’s Tower of Babel: History of Broadcasting in the United States Volume 1: to 1933 (thank you Dorothy McGivney Tim Hwang for the recommendations). I probably won’t hit it again in 2017 as I have it in my head to finally tackle Infinite Jest, the next two parts of Barnouw’s history and part one of Caro’s LBJ series. I might be able to make it up with shorter, smaller books throughout the year. I probably could have pulled it off this year if Bostrom’s Superintelligence didn’t bog me down for a month.
The number of bands seen live is ridiculously low for someone who used to see 300+ bands a year for many years. But I did get to see some old favorites for the first time: Faust, Bob Dylan, Sad Lovers and Giants. And I saw many old favorites again: Peter Hook, Guided by Voices, Silver Apples, The Dandy Warhols, Howard Jones, Mercury Rev, Blanck Mass, Metric, Yeasayer, Ex Hex. Some new favorites included Hinds, Charlie XCX, and Richard Pinhaus.
I think it’s funny 2016 started and ended with Star Wars novels.
Will I do this again next year? Yeah, I think so. The podcasts are uninteresting. Not the listening — they’re great — but the listing. Maybe I won’t do those next year? I don’t know. I guess I have 48 hours to decide. It’s exhausting, but I do find myself going back and looking at the lists with some regularity.
2016 Favorites
Everything here is chronologically ranked.
Books: Money’s Nothing by Lisa Crystal Carver, Lost Stars by Claudia Grey, A Tower of Babel by Eric Barnouw, One White Face by Hillary Corna, Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks, The Power Broker by Robert Caro.
Movies (Features): Midnight Special, Zootopia, Safety Not Guaranteed, One More Time With Feeling (this was so staged I can’t consider it a documentary), Arrival, and Moana. I still haven’t seen a few of the “contenders” and hope to get a few of those out of the way this week. Honestly, nothing this year was PERFECT.
Movies (Noble Effort): The Neon Demon, The Shallows, The Lobster, Roue One and Passengers.
Movies (Documentary): Lo and Behold: Reveries from a Connected World, Weiner, and Richard Linklater: Dream is Destiny. All three of these, in contrast to the features, are nearly perfect.
Albums (2016): David Bowie — “Blackstar,” Daughter — “Not to Disappear,” Kanye — “Life of Pablo” (sorry), Rihanna — “Anti,” School of Seven Bells — “SVIIB,” Daddy Issues — “Can We Still Hang?” Underworld — “Barbara, Barbara, We Face a Shining Future,” Sturgill Simpson — “Metamodern Sounds in Country Music,” Car Seat Headrest — “Teens of Denial,” Minor Victories — “Minor Victories” Paul Simon — “Stranger to Stranger,” Wye Oak — “Tween,” Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow — “Ex Machina Soundtrack,” Blood Orange — “Freetown Sound,” Angel Olsen — “My Woman,” Kacey Musgraves — “Spotify Sessions,” Carly Rae Jepsen — “Emotion Side B,” Haley Bonar — “Impossible Dream,” Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — “Skeleton Tree” Mitski — “Puberty 2,” How to Dress Well — “Care,” Bon Iver — “22, A Million,” Jenny Hval — “Blood Bitch” Dawes — “We’re All Gonna Die,” Psychic TV — “Alienist,” Waxahatchee — “Ivy Trip,” Anohi — “Hopelessness,” Leonard Cohen — “You Want it Darker,” Radio Dept — “Running out of Love,” Cerrone — “Red Lips,” and Tindersticks — “The Waiting Room.”
Albums (previously released but I just listened to them): Jawbreaker — “Bivouac,” Sunburned Hand of the Man — “Wedlock,” Savages — “Adore Life,” Clint Mansell — “Black Swan Soundtrack,” Glenn Campbell — “Ghost on the Canvas,” Codeine — “What About The Lonely?” Thalia Zydek — “Liars and Prayers,” Rivulets — “I Remember Everything,” Waxahatchee — “Early Recordings,” Sun City Girls — “Torch of the Mystics,” Mitski — “Bury Me at Makeout Creek,” Brad Laner — “Nearest Suns,” Chris Brokaw — “Now Forager,” The National — “A Lot of Sorrow,” Bedhead — New Box Set, The Books — “The Lemon of Pink,” and Nina Simone — “Nina Simone Sings the Blues.”
TV SERIES: Stranger Things, The 100, Fargo, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Documentary Now, People of Earth, Preacher, Ascension (shame that got cancelled), Bojack Horseman, The Fall, and Dirk Gentley’s Holistic Detective Agency.
The Full List
Once again following the system of Soderbergh: BOLD CAPS MOVIES, CAPS TV, Italics Books etc., “Plays Quotes”, “Italic Quotes Short Stories”, Bold LC Albums , BOLD ITALIC CAPS LIVE SHOWS, [comments in brackets], podcast bold all lower case, Plays Bold Capitalized no Quotes or Hyphens
1/1 — Nick Cave & Warren Ellis — “Loin Des Hommes Soundtrack,” FARGO (re-watch), SHERLOCK CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
1/4 — nerdist podcast — hostful funtime,
1/5 — Heathered Pearls — “Loyal Reworks”
1/6 — Jawbreaker — “Bivouac”
1/7 — Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens — Lost Stars by Claudia Gray, FARGO (3), Ned Rifle Screenplay by Hal Hartley
1/8 — David Bowie — “Backstar,” FARGO (4)
1/9 — THE REVENANT, FARGO (3)
1/10 — Various Artists — “Marfa Sounds Vol. 2,” Various Artists — “Marfa Sounds Vol. 1,” THE BIG SHORT
1/11 — FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD, ST VINCENT, @MIDNIGHT (3), ADVENTURE TIME (2), Money’s Nothing by Lisa Crystal Carver
1/12 -@MIDNIGHT (3)
1/13 — How Not to Write by Lisa Crystal Carver
1/14 — Post Malone — “White Iverson (Single),” Mike Posner — “The Truth EP,” “The Truth (Remixes)”, Journey to Star Wars the Force Awakens: Aftermath by Chuck Wendig
1/15 — Blessed Feathers — “There Will Be No Sad Tomorrow”
1/18 — STAR WARS EPISODE VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS (re-watch)
1/19 — Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell
1/20 — New Order — “Tutti Frutti EP,” Sunburned Hand of the Man — “Wedlock,”
1/21 — CAROL, @MIDNIGHT (2), ADVENTURE TIME
1/22 — Reservoir Dogs and True Romance Screenplays by Quentin Tarantino, @MIDNIGHT (2), FARGO (3)
1/23 — Daughter — “Not to Disappear,” PORTLANDIA, STAR WARS REBELS, WHITNEY CUMMINGS HBO SPECIAL
1/24 — Cerrone — “Afro EP,” X-FILES (2015), AGENT CARTER
1/25 — Flying Saucer Attack — “Instrumentals 2015,” X-FILES (2015), LUCIFER, RESERVOIR DOGS (re-watch), SUPERSTAR: THE KAREN CARPENTER STORY (re-watch)
1/26 — KINGSMEN THE SECRET SERVICE, Foundation by Isaac Asimov
1/27 — X-FILES (2015 re-watch) (2),
1/30 — A Life of Saturdays — “So How We Seem,” Arctic Coal — “Svalbard,”
2/2 — X-FILES (2015), LUCIFER, MSNBC IOWA CAUCUS COVERAGE
2/6 — AGENT CARTER (2), STAR WARS REBELS (2), SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, PORTLANDIA (2)
2/7 — Brad Laner — “Nearest Suns,” Chris Brokaw — “Now Forager,” SUPER BOWL 50,FARGO (2),
2/8 — X-FILES (2015), LUCIFER, FARGO (2)
2/9 — FARGO, @MIDNIGHT
2/10 — FARGO (2), AGENT CARTER
2/13 — THE MAGICIANS (4)
2/14 — SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
2/15 — Yanni — “Sensuous Chill,” BETTER CALL SAUL (3), X-FILES (2015), GRAMMY AWARDS, TALKING SAUL, @MIDNIGHT, PORTLANDIA
2/16 — AGENT CARTER, @MIDNIGHT
2/19 — THE MAGICIANS, STAR WARS REBELS (2)
2/20 — DEADPOOL
2/21 — Kanye — “The Life of Pablo,” BLACK MIRROR (2)
2/22 — Breakout — “Still Waters,” Mass Gothic — “Mass Gothic,” Obnox — “The Juke that Sat by the Door,” The Peach Kings — “5 Singles,” Animal Collective — “Painting With,” LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER, X-FILES (2015), FULL FRONTAL WITH SAM BEE, THE MAGICIANS, LUCIFER, PARKS AND RECREATION (2), @MIDNIGHT
2/23 — Rotting Christ — “Rituals,” Sia — “This is Acting,” STAR WARS EPISODE VII THE FORCE AWAKENS (re-watch), PARKS AND RECREATION, @MIDNIGHT
2/24 — Rihanna — “Anti,” Diiv — “is The Is Are,” The Jezebels — “Synthia,” CASTLE (2), PARKS AND RECREATION (2), @MIDNIGHT, Television is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media in a Digital Age by Michae Wolff, A Tower of Babel: History of Broadcasting in the United States Volume 1: to 1933 by Erik Barnouw
2/25 — CASTLE (2), AGENT CARTER, PARKS AND RECREATION (2), @MIDNIGHT
2/26 — School of Seven Bells — “SVIIB,” BLACK MIRROR, LOVE (2), TEACHERS (3), Natural Born Killers Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino
2/27 — LOVE (3)
2/28 — nerdist podcast: samantha bee, THE OSCARS, Mytro by John Biggs
2/29 — nerdist podcast: david duchovny, LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER, STAR WARS REBELS, SPOTLIGHT
3/1 — Yoko Ono — “Yes, I’m a Witch,” Yoko Ono — “Yes, I’m a Witch Too,” John Cale — “Music for a New Society/M:FANS,” MSNBC SUPER TUESDAY COVERAGE, AGENT CARTER
3/2 — Larry Shannon Hargrove — “I Need a Bailout,” @MIDNIGHT (2)
3/3 — Charlie XCX — “Vroom Vroom EP,” Low — “Joan of Arc 7”,” Helium — “American Jean 7”,” THE MAGICIANS, STAR WARS REBELS, PORTLANDIA, BLACK MIRROR, FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE
3/4 — REAL GENIUS (re-watch) LOVE (re-watch)
3/5 — Jesu/Sun Kil Moon — “Jesu/Sun Kil Moon,” THE IRON GIANT (re-watch), MYTHBUSTERS (2), ADVENTURE TIME (2)
3/6 — Santigold — “99 Cents,” Dead Stars — “Bright Colors,” CNN DEMOCRATIC DEBATE, TEACHERS (4), THE 100 (2), The Jaywalker by Lisa Carver
3/7 — Sia — “This is Acting,” Benefaktor — “Akademic” Auntie — “Boulevards in Blume,” ZOOTOPIA, THE 100, @MIDNIGHT
3/8 — nerdist podcast: justin theroux, JOYWAVE AND METRIC AT THE NATIONAL THEATER, RICHMOND
3/9 — wtf marc maron podcast: scott ian, YET ANOTHER INTERMINABLE DEBATE, MARVELS AGENTS OF SHIELD, THAT NIKKI GLAZER SHOW, @MIDNIGHT (2)
3/10 — Kendrick Lamar — “Unmastered Untitled,”
3/11 — CHIPPER JONES AND OCTOPUS PROJECT AT HOTEL VEGAS, AUSTIN
3/12 — GROUPLOVE, WILD BELLE, MOTHERS and KELELA AT MOHAWK, AUSTIN
3/13 — BANDIT, SPACESHIP, LONG NIGHT SHORT MORNINGS, RICHARD LINKLATER: DREAM IS DESTINY, MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, GHOSTFACE AND RAEKWAN, PEANUT BUTTER WOLF, OBERHOFER, BAYONNE, KB JONES & THE CONTRABAND AT MOHAWK
3/14 — GHOSTLAND OBSERVATORY @ GSD&M
3/15 — PUMAROSA, HINDS and EMPRESS OF AT THE HYPE HOTEL, AUSTIN, VAADET CHARIGIM, SEXTILE, GOLD CLASS and SAD LOVERS AND GIANTS AT BARRACUDA, AUSTIN,
3/16 — FROTH, GWENNO and AMBER ARCADES AT BARRACUDA, FAUST AT LUCILE, LITTLE SIMZ and EX HEX AT THE HISTORIC SCOOT IN, MERCURY REV AT ELYSIUM
3/17 — BLANCK MASS, FAUST, BOMBINO, NOURA MINT SEYMALI, CHOCOLAT and CAMERA AT HOTEL VEGAS, TEKLIFE AND THE ERA FOOTWORK DANCERS and CHARLIE XCX WITH SOPHIE AT THE HYPE HOTEL, AUSTIN
3/18 — REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHAR, PORTLANDIA
3/19 — THE 100 (2), ADVENTURE TIME
3/20 — THE 100 (2), MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD
3/21–10 CLOVERFIELD LANE, MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD, GIRLS
3/22 — Daddy Issues — “Can We Still Hang?”
3/25 — THE 100 (3)
3/26 — THE 100 (3), Great Expectations by Kathy Acker
3/27 — Jake and Elizabeth — “Too Much Sugar,” James — “Girl at the End of the World,” BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE
3/28 — THE 100 (5)
3/28 — nerdist podcast: iggy pop & josh homme, Iggy Pop & Josh Homme — “Post Pop Depression,” Bob Mould — “Patch the Sky,” Underworld — “Barbara, Barbara, We Face a Shining Future,” The 1975 — “I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet unaware of it,” THE 100 (3)
4/1 — CHRIS HAYES, RACHEL MADDOW
4/2 — nerdist podcast: biz stone, ev williams, jack dorsey, M Ward — “More Rain,” Savages — “Adore Life,” Pet Shop Boys — “Super,” Mogwai — “Atomic,” THE 100 (5)
4/3 — Sturgill Simpson — “Metamodern Sounds in Country Music,” THE 100 (4)
4/4 — COLLEGE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP THINGY, RACHEL MADDOW
4/5 — THE 100 (5)
4/6 — notes on doing podcast: the host, wtf with marc maron — ethan hawke
4/7 — nerdist podcast: dan trachtenberg and jj abrams, wtf podcast: richard linklater and sam rockwell, 99% invisible podcast: mojave phone booth, THE 100 (3)
4/8 — Tim Hecker — “Love Streams,” MARVELS AGENTS OF SHIELD (2), STAR WARS REBELS (2$)
4/9 — STAR WARS THE FORCE AWAKENS DIGITAL DOWNLOAD DOCUMENTARY FEATURE, ADVENTURE TIME (3)
4/10 — Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov, M83 — “Junk,” surprisingly awesome podcast: #8 frequent flyer miles, THE BOSS, DOCUMENTARY NOW (3)
4/11 — Yeasayer — “Amen & Goodbye,” Frightened Rabbit — “Painting of a Panic Attack,” Parquet Courts — “Human Performance,” Cave Singers — “Banshee,” THE FIRE RISES: THE CREATION AND IMPACT OF THE DARK KNIGHT TRILOGY, STAR WAES EPISODE VII THE FORCE AWAKENS (re-watch)
4/13 — Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov, STAR WARS THE FORCE AWAKENS (re-watch)
4/15 -STAR WARS THE FORCE AWAKENS (re-watch)
4/16 — ALIEN (re-watch)
4/18 — nerdist podcast: sam rockwell, nerdist podcast: gary oldman, HARDCORE HENRY, Foundation’s Edge by Isaac Asimov
4/19 — Moderat = “III”, Black Mountain — “IV,” Tombs — “All Empires Fall,” Vibracathedral Orchestra — “Joka Baya,”
4/20 — PJ Harvey — “The Hope Six Demolition Project,” Dandy Warhols — “Distortland,” Lush — “Blindspot,” Clint Mansell — “Black Swan Soundtrack,”nerdist podcast: patrick stewart, MAGICIANS (3)
4/21 — MAGICIANS (4), THE PEOPLE V OJ SIMPSON (2)
4/22 — nerdist podcast: judd apatow, THE BOURNE LEGACY
4/23 — wtf podcast: julia louise-dreyfus, BEYONCÉ LEMONADE HBO SPECIAL, AGENTS OF SHIELD (2), ADVENTURE TIME (2)
4/24 — GAME OF THRONES, SILICON VALLEY, THE 100 (2), VEEP, JOHN OLIVER
4/25 — The Last Shadow Puppets — “Everything You’ve Come to Expect,” wtf podcast: louis ck, 99% invisible podcast: taipei 101, nerdist podcast: jessica chastain & chris hemsworth, THE JUNGLE BOOK, Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov
4/26 — wtf podcast: nikki glazer, Joywave — “Swish,”
4/30 — WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS DINNER, FRIENDS (2)
5/1 — The Fugees — “The Score,” Nada Surf — “High/Low,”
5/3 — Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov, A Streetcar Named Desire with Gillian Anderson and Ben Foster at St. Ann’s Warehouse
5/5 — MARON (2)
5/6 — James Blake — “The Color in Anything,” Mike Posner — “At Night, Alone,” Matt & Kim — “We Were the Weirdos,” Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes — “Person A,” Glenn Campbell — “Ghost on the Canvas,” Velvet Underground — “Live With Lou Reed,” CAPT AMERICA CIVIL WAR, MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD, ADVENTURE TIME, Forward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov
5/7 — Harmonia 76 & Brian Eno — “Tracks and Traces,” Codeine — “What About The Lonely?” Thalia Zydek — “Liars and Prayers,” ADVENTURE TIME, @MIDNIGHT,
5/7 — Mark Van Hoen — “Where is the Truth,” Radiohead — “A Motion Shaped Pool,” GAME OF THRONES, SILICON VALLEY
5/9 — Craig Finn — “Faith in the Future,” Craig Finn — “Newmyer’s Roof EP,” DOCUMENTARY NOW (4), UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT
5/11 — MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD, I BREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT(2)
5/12 — Julianna Barwick — “Will,” Chelsea Wolfe — “Hypnos / Flame,” King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard — “Nonagon Infinity,” Annelise Monseri — “Drekka Remixes,” UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT (2), THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E
5/13 — MARON, ADVENTURE TIME, THE 100 (2), Star Wars Bloodline by Claudia Gray
5/14 — Various Artists — “Band of the Hand Soundtrack,” Bardo Pond — “Peri,” Bonny Billy — “More Revery,” Rivulets — “I Remember Everything,” MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (re-watch), THE UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT (2)
5/16- ERICA BAYDU AT CIPRIANIS WALL STREET, FUNKMASTER FLEX AND RAEKWAN AT HIGHLINE BALLROOM
5/17 — GAME OF THRONES, EX MAXHINA (re-watch)
5/19 — GAME OF THRONES (re-watch), SILVER APPLES, BLOOD ORANGE, GARY NUMAN, MIIKE SNOW AT MOOGFEST
5/20 — Xiu Xiu — “Plays the Music of Twin Peaks,” HEALTH, BOB MOSES, GRIMES, ODESZA AT MOOGFEST
5/22 — GAME OF THRONES, SILICON VALLEY (2)
5/23 — Sia — “Colour The Small One,” Olivier Messiaen — “Zion Park and the Celestial City (London Symphony),” MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD, THE 100 (2)
5/24 — Car Seat Headrest — “Teens of Denial,” CAPTAIN AMERICA THE WINTER SOLDIER (re-watch)
5/25 — Various Artists — “Day of the Dead,”
5/27 — GAME OF THRONES, SILICON VALLEY
5/30 — wtf marc maron podcast — “john c. reilly/sturgil simpson,” 99% invisible podcast — “there goes the neighborhood, east new york,” nerdist podcast- “duncan jones,” Minor Victories — “Minor Victories” Mark Kozelek — “Sings Favorite Songs,”
6/5 — GAME OF THRONES, SILICON VALLEY, SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED
6/7 — “One White Face” by Hillary Corna
6/8–99% invisible: h day, 99% invisible: holdout, Paul Simon — “Stranger to Stranger,” The Strokes — “Future Present Past,” Tegan & Sarah — “Love you to Death,” UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT (2)
6/12 — GAME OF THRONES, SILICON VALLEY
6/13 — X-MEN: APOCOLYPSE, @MIDNIGHT, SAMANTHA BEE
6/14 — The Monkees — “Good Times,” Band of Horses — “Why are you Ok?”, WARCRAFT, @MIDNIGHT
6/15 — Fitz and the Tantrums — “Fitz and the Tantrums,” Peter Bjorn and John — “Breaking Point,” PREACHER (3), MARON
6/16 — Wye Oak — “Tween,” Esme Patterson — “We Were Wild,” FINDING DORY, FINDING NEMO (re-watch),
6/17 — Mark Pritchard — “Under the Sun,” The Essence — “Dancing in the Rain,” DAREDEVIL (3)
6/18 — marc maron podcast: joran newsom, 99% invisible podcast: cassettes, 99%invisible podcast: the blazer, Wells Fargo — “Watch Out,” NBA FINALS, GAME OF THRONES, SILICON VALLEY, DAREDEVIL (2)
6/19 — Disclosure — “Moog for Love EP,” YG — “Still Brazy,” Swans — “The Glowing Man,” DAREDEVIL (2)
6/20 — Aretha Franklin — “Live at the Fillmore West 1971”, DAREDEVIL (3)
6/23 — Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Part 1
6/24 — Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Part 2
6/25 — ADVENTURE TIME, MARON, @MIDNIGHT (3)
6/26 — marc maron podcast — neil young, 99% invisible podcast — home on the legrange, Spectrum — “Live Chronicles Vol. 1,” Spectrum — “Live Chronicles Vol. 2,” GAME OF THRONES, SILICON VALLEY
6/27 — Todd Tejre & The Olsens — “The Big Cover Up,” Neko Case, K.D. Lang, Laura Viers — “case/lang/viers,” Waxahatchee — “Early Recordings,” Ladyhawke — “Wild Things,” Delorean — “Muzik,” INDEPENDENCE DAY RESURRECTION
7/2 — DAREDEVIL (2)
7/3 — Olga Bell — “Tempo,” Danny Wilson — “Meet Danny Wilson,” Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow — “Ex Machina Soundtrack,” DAREDEVIL (4)
7/4 — THE NEON DEMON, INDEPENDENCE DAY (re-watch)
7/5 — Wax Tailor — “Phonovisions Symphonic Orchestra,” Blood Orange — “Freetown Sound,” Sister Spaceman — “Here Right Now,” PREACHER (3)
7/8 — Superintelligence — Pathways and Strategies by Nicholas Bostrom
7/9 — marc maron wtf podcast — “jeff goldblum,” THE BFG, STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION (2) (Re-watch)
7/10 — GYMNASTICS US OLYMPIC TRIALS, PREACHER
7/11 — Will Butler — “Friday Night,” Echo and the Funnymen — “Meteorites,” Apex Twin — “Cheetah EP,” Wooding & Nils Frahm — “Ellis,” Mick Harvey — “Delirium Tremens,” Fennesz & Jim O’Rourke — “It’s Hard for me to Say I’m Sorry,” This American Life Podcast — “#586 — Tell Me I’m Fat,” Garbage — “Strange Little Birds,” THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS, ASCENSION (4)
7/12 — Black Moth Super Rainbow — “Seeful Lilac,” Ghost Box Orchestra — “High Plaine,” Them Are Us Too — “Remain,”
7/16 — GHOSTBUSTERS (2016)
7/17 — STRANGER THINGS (3)
7/18 — Badbadnotgood — “IV,” STRANGER THINGS (3), REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION
7/19 — REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION, STRANGER THINGS (2)
7/21 — REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION
7/22 — Neon Hitch — “Anarchy,” STAR TREK BEYOND
7/25 — DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION
7/26 — DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION
7/28 — DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION
7/31 — BAD MOMS
8/1 — GARBAGE AND KRISTEN KONTROL AT SUMMERSTAGE, NYC
8/2 — The Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen
8/5 — OLYMPICS OPENING CEREMONIES
8/6 — OLYMPICS
8/7 — OLYMPICS, Star Wars Aftermath: Life Debt by Chuck Wendig
8/8- OLYMPICS
8/9- OLYMPICS
8/10- OLYMPICS, JASON BOURNE
8/11- OLYMPICS
8/12- OLYMPICS
8/13- OLYMPICS, THE PEANUTS MOVIE
8/14- OLYMPICS
8/15 — HOW THE SAUSAGE GETS MADE
8/16 — SUICIDE SQUAD
8/17 — PETE’S DRAGON
8/18 — WAR DOGS
8/19 — OLYMPICS
8/20 — OLYMPICS
8/20 — OLYMPICS, @MIDNIGHT
9/1 — @MIDNIGHT (3)
9/2 — Angel Olsen — “My Woman,” Banks and Steelz — “Anything but Words,” BRAVEHEART (re-watch)
9/3 — Kacey Musgraves — “Spotify Sessions,” Carly Rae Jepsen — “Emotion Side B,” DUNE (re-watch)
9/5 — Dinosaur Jr. — “Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not,” Haley Bonar — “Impossible Dream,” Russian Circles — “Guidance,” Motion Graphics — “Motion Graphics,” Cass McCombs — “Mangy Love,” WIENER
9/7 — The Wedding Present — “Going, Going…”
9/8 — ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING
9/9 — Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — “Skeleton Tree”
9/10 — Wilco — “Schmilco,” The Head and the Heart — “Signs of Light,” Urusei Yatsura — “You Are My Urusei Yatsura,” @MIDNIGHT (2)
9/12 — Leon Vynhall — “Music for the Uninvited,”
9/14 -@MIDNIGHT (2)
9/15 — SAMANTHA BEE, WAR ROOM, DOCUMENTARY NOW
9/16 — @MIDNIGHT, PREACHER (3), PROJECT RUNWAY
917 — Sun City Girls — “Torch of the Mystics,” Thurston Moore and John Moloney — “Full Bleed,” MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD, RACHEL MADDOW, BILL MAHER
9/18 — My Morning Jacket — “Z,” BOJACK HORSEMAN (3)
9/19 — Viktoria Modesta — “Counterflow,
9/20 — Mitski — “Puberty 2,”Mitski — “Bury Me at Makeout Creek,” Frankie Cosmos — “Next Thing,” Japanese Breakfast — “Psychopomp,” White Lung — “Paradise,”
922 — Frank Ocean — “Blonde,” Trentmøller — “Fixion,” CHVRCHES — “Spotify Sessions,”
9/23 — BOJACK HORSEMAN (7), Bruce Springsteen — “Chapter and Verse,” De La Soul — “And the Anonymous Nobody…”
9/24 — BOJACK HORSEMAN (3), SUPER GIRL (2), Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez
9/26 — PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
9/27 — War Paint — “Heads Up,” How to Dress Well — “Care,” Devendra Banhart — “Ape in Pink Marble,”
9/28 — DANDY WARHOLS AT CATS CRADLE
10/2 — MISS PREREGRINES HOUSE FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN
10/3 — @MIDNIGHT (3), Bon Iver — “22, A Million,” SAMANTHA BEE
10/4 — Travels — “Robber on the Run,” VP DEBATE, STAR WARS REBELS, BOJACK HORSEMAN (3), STEPHEN COLBERT
10/5 — BOJACK HORSEMAN (7)
10/6 — PROJECT RUNWAY, BOJACK HORSEMAN, HURRICANE MATTHEW NEWS SHIT
10/7 — Tycho — “Epoch,” Jenny Hval — “Blood Bitch” A THREE HOUR CIVILIZATION VI PLAYTHROUGH, HARRY S PLINKETT REVIEWS STAR WARS EPISODE VII THE FORCE AWAKENS, BOJACK HORSEMAN (3)
10/8 — Dawes — “We’re All Gonna Die,” Eric Bachmann — “Eric Bachmann,” Treble Charger — “Maybe it’s Me,” Pixies — “Head Carrier,” Francis and the Lights — “Farewell, Starlite!,” Psychic TV — “Alienist,” GOTCHA (re-watch), CLOAK AND DAGGER (re-watch), SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
10/9 — Blonde Redhead — “Masculin Feminin,” Local Natives — “Sunlit Youth,” Silver Apples — Clinging to a Dream,” Daniel Lanois and Rocco DeLuca — “Goodbye to Language,” Teenage Fanclub — “Here,” Controlled Bleeding — “Larva Lumps and Baby Bumps,” SECOND PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, WESTWORLD, Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks,
10/10 — John Foxx — “The Complete Cathedral Oceans,” Dollar — “Shooting Stars: The Dollar Collection,” LUKE CAGE (3), SAMANTHA BEE, JOHN OLIVER
10/11 — Porcupine Tree — “The Incident,”
10/12 — PATRICK GALLAGHER, NORTHSIDE SYNDICATE, WUME, RICHARD PINHAUS AT NIGHTLIGHT
10/13 — Teeth of the Sea — “Highly Deadly Black Tarantula,” X-FILES (re-watch) (3)
10/14 — Wume — “Maintain,” Superchunk — “Come Pick Me Up,” Wye Oak — “Shriek,” Spoon — “Gimme Fiction (Deluxe Edition,” The Mountain Goats — “Beat the Champ,” The Clean — “Getaway (deluxe),” TOP GUN (re-watch), LUKE CAGE (3), @MIDNIGHT
10/15 — Richard Buckner — “Surrounded,” Waxahatchee — “Ivy Trip,” Mike Krol — “Turkey,” Wye Oak — “Tween,” Benji Hughes — “Songs in the Key of Animals,” Little Scream — “Cult Following,” A Giant Dog — “Pile,” HeCTA — “The Diet,” King Khan and the Shrines — “Idle No More,” Hiss Golden Messenger — “Heart Like a Levee,” Mount Moriah — “How to Dance,” Twerps — “Range Anxiety,” Lambchop — “Flotus”
10/16 — Reigning Sound — “Shattered,” Hiss Golden Messenger — “Lateness of Dancers,” William Tyler — “Modern Country,” Postiljonen — “Reverie,” Blackberry Smoke — “Like an Arrow,” INTERSTELLAR (re-watch), STAR WARS REBELS
10/17 — Cayetanna — “Freedom 1313 7”,” Drive Like Jehu — “Bullet Train to Vegas 7”,” Shelleyan Orphan — “Hellbourine,” Library of Sands — “Side to Side,” Library of Sands — “Wavy Heat,”Conor Oberst — “Ruminations,” WESTWORLD, SUPERGIRL, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, STEPHEN COLBERT
10/18 — Anohi — “Hopelessness,” Current 93 — “I am the Last of All the Field that Fell: A Channel,” MV & EE — “Root Void,” Big Star — “Complete Third,” MONO — “Requiem for Hell,” MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD, STAR WARS REBELS, LUKE CAGE, @MIDNIGHT
10/19 — THIRD PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, LUKE CAGE (2), @MIDNIGHT
10/22 — The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside our Heads by Tim Wu
10/23 — WESTWORLD, JOHN OLIVER, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
10/24 — Leonard Cohen — “You Want it Darker,” Radio Dept — “Running out of Love,” Dead or Alive — “Sophisticated Boom Boom,” DIRK GENTLEY’S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY, @MIDNIGHT (2), MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD
10/29 — THE FALL (6)
10/30 — WESTWORLD, @MIDNIGHT, DIRK GENTLEY’S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY
11/5 — STAR WARS REBELS, MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD
11/6 — BOB DYLAN AT THE BLUMENTHAL THEATER, CHARLOTTE, NC
11/7 — DOCTOR STRANGE, DIRK GENTLEY’S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY, @MIDNIGHT
11/8 — ELECTION MISERY
11/10 — PEOPLE OF EARTH (2)
11/12 — BETTER THINGS (2), YEASAYER AT CATS CRADLE
11/13 — DIRK GENTLEY’S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY, GUIDED BY VOICES AT CATS CRADLE
11/14 — ARRIVAL, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, SAMANTHA BEE, @MIDNIGHT
11/15 — Cerrone — “Red Lips,” WESTWORLD (2), LUKE CAGE (2), JOHN OLIVER, Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030: One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence, by the 2015 Study Panel, Stanford
11/17 — wtf podcast — kristin wiig, wtf podcast — lin manuel miranda
11/18 — wtf podcast — Werner herzog, wtf podcast: roger waters, story in a bottle — lindsey green, DIVERGENT: ALLEGIENT LUKE CAGE (2)
11/19 — Current Control — “Observations,” Adrien Lasalle — “Age,” SafetySuit — “SafetySuit,” The Japanese House — “Clean,” The Japanese House — “Swim Against the Tide,” Morgan Delt — “Phase Zero,” Lizzo — “Big Grrrl Small World,” Ciara — “Jackie,” The Regrettes — Four Singles, Honeyblood — “Babes Never Die,” DZ Deathrays — “Bloodstreams,” Tom Misch — “Beat Tape Two,” The Suffers — “The Suffers,”
11/20 — DEADPOOL (re-watch)
11/22 — LUKE CAGE, PETER HOOK AND THE LIGHT AT CAT’S CRADLE
11/23 — LUKE CAGE (2)
11/24 — SOME DUMB FOOTBALL, MILO MURPHY’S LAW (2)
11/25 — FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM, STAR WARS EPISODE VI: THE FORCE AWAKENS (re-watch)
11/26 — MOANA
11/27 — HOWARD JONES AT CAT’S CRADLE, WESTWORD
11/28 — Gillian Welch — “Boots №1: The Official Revival Bootleg,” The Magnetic Fields — “5 Selections From 50 Song Memoir,” Matt Pond PA — “Winter Lives,” Kacey Musgraves — “A Very Kacey Christmas,” The Pretty Reckless — “Who You Selling For,” Sia — “This is Acting,” Regina Spektor — “Remember Us To life,” The Power Broker by Robert Caro
11/29 — STAR WARS REBELS, THE FLASH, DIRK GENTLEY’S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY (2), MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD, DRUNK HISTORY, @MIDNIGHT, Ghosts of the Triangle by by Richard and William Jackson
11/30 — Warpaint — “Heads Up,” My Chemical Romance — “The Black Parade,” My Chemical Romance — “Living With Ghosts,” LO AND BEHOLD: REVERIES FROM A CONNECTED WORLD, THE LOBSTER
12/2 — RATTATOUILLE (re-watch), anais win podcast: amazon + erotica
12/5 — WESTWORLD, nerdist podcast: jeremy irons
12/9 — MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD
12/10 — DIRK GENTLEY’S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY (2)
12/11 — THE SHALLOWS, WESTWORD
12/12 — STAR WARS REBELS
12/14 — The National — “A Lot of Sorrow,” Bedhead — New Box Set, Brian Eno- “The Ship,”
12/16 — Lou Barlow — “Apocalypse Fetish,” The Dean Ween Group — “The Deener Album,” His Name is Alive — “Tecuciztecatl,” PEOPLE OF EARTH (6)
12/17 — SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, STEPHEN COLBERT
12/18 — ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY, STAR WARS REBELS, How Brands Grow Vol 2 by Jenni Romeniuk and Byron Sharp
1/19 — PEOPLE OF EARTH (2)
1/20 — Catalyst A Rogue One Story by James Luceno
12/23 — Kate Bush — “Before the Dawn”, THE OA
12/24 — DIE HARD (re-watch), 9 to 5 (re-watch), Star War: Tarkin by James Luceno
12/26 — PASSENGERS, THE MATRIX (re-watch)
12/27 — Tindersticks — “The Waiting Room,” Nothing — “Tired of Tomorrow,” ROGUE ONE A STAR WARS STORY (re-watch), WRECK IT RALPH (re-watch)
12/28 — The Books — “The Lemon of Pink,” Nina Simone — “Nina Simone Sings the Blues,” “Let Me be Me,” “It Is Finished,” “Baltimore,” “A Single Woman,” “Remixed & Reimagined,” “Emergency Ward,” “Here Comes the Sun” “Black Gold,” Nina Simone & Piano,” eden ahbez — “Eden’s Island,” Star Wars a New Dawn by John Jackson Miler
12/29 — Charlie XCX — “After the Afterparty,” Nine Inch Nails — “Not the Actual Events,” Run the Jewels — “Run the Jewels 3,”
