Over the course of 2016, I wrote down the things I got really into.
An example of a page from my 2016 notebook dedicated to "Jags"
I know I kinda missed the boat on this timing-wise, but I've been meaning to share it, so here goes (in no particular order):
Books
- 10th of December / George Saunders
- Revolutionary Road / Richard Yates
- Patience / Dan Clowes
- Megahex / Simon Hanselmann
- All Who Go Do Not Return / Shulem Dean
- Wise Blood / Flannery O’Connor
- The Last Bad Man / Miranda July
- I Love Dick / Chris Kraus
- So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed / Jon Ronson
- On Beauty / Zadie Smith
- M Train / Patti Smith
- Prism / Various (queer comics anthology)
Movies
- Carol
- The Big Short (was shaking at the end)
- Spotlight
- Mustang
- Brooklyn
- Moonlight
TV / Series
- Transparent (best show of the last 2 years); related: the music of Dustin O’Halloran
- Togetherness
- The Americans
- BoJack Horseman
- Broad City
- Stranger Things
- The Night Of
- Horace and Pete
- High Maintenance
- The Fall
- Atlanta
- Silicon Valley
- Veep
- Orphan Black (so dumb, so good)
- Making A Murderer
- Top Chef
Art, Theater & Other Stuff
- The new Cooper Hewitt
- The new(ish) Whitney
- Brooklyn Botanical Garden
- Pipilotti Rist at The New Museum
- Mike Perry at Garis & Hahn
- Nan Goldin at MOMA
- Richard Serra & Agnes Martin at SF MOMA
- Streetcar Named Desire at St. Ann’s
- Tilda All Day in Clinton Hill (RIP)
- Chris Gethard’s Career Suicide
- Big Gay Ice Cream, forever
Articles
- What ISIS Really Wants / The Atlantic
- How Half of America Lost Its Fucking Mind / Cracked
Music
- Eleanor Friedberger / New View
- Biggie / Ready to Die (but also all the old 90s shit)
- Sufjan Stevens / Carrie + Lowell
- Fred Thomas / All Are Saved
- Father John Misty / Fear Fun (guilty pleasure)
- Vince Staples / Summertime ‘06 & Prima Donna
- Protomartyr / The Agent Intellect
- Deerhunter / Fading Frontier
- Thao & The Get Down Stay Down / A Man Alive
- Run the Jewels / RTJ2
- Kate Tempest / Everybody Down
- The Raincoats / Self-titled
- Big Thief / Masterpiece
- Day of the Dead / Various (Grateful Dead Tribute Album)
- Charlie Hilton / Palana
- Rihanna / Anti
- Hamilton Soundtrack / Various
- Childbirth / Women’s Rights
- Lower Dens / Escape From Evil
- LVL Up / Hoodwinked
- Courtship Ritual / Pith
- Don Mega & Young M.A. / Dope Gurl
- Milk Dick / Romantic Superstore
- Frankie Cosmos / Next Thing
- Nina Sings The Blues / Nina Simone
Podcasts
- Reply All (the best!)
- 2 Dope Queens
- Love + Radio
- More Perfect
- Beautiful / Anonymous (attended a live taping too!)
- Song Exploder
- There Goes The Neighborhood
- Startup (amazing coverage of American Apparel / Dov Charney)
- Election Profit Makers (the podcast that kept me semi-sane in October)
- You Must Remember This / 12 Part Series on Charles Manson
- Bad With Money
- Accused
- Heavyweight
- 99% Invisible
- The Intern
- Limetown
- Serial / Season 2 (not as good as Season 1 but probably still better than 90% of podcasts out there)
Apps
- Boomerang
- Neko Atsume, Cat Collector (played it obsessively until deleting it from my phone entirely)
- Trello (SAVED MY LIFE THIS YEAR)
- 7 Minute Workout
- NYT Now (RIP)
- Paper (RIP)