2020

Best books I read for the first time:

  • Emotional Dance Music – Miles Bradley
  • Slaughterhouse-Five (comic adaptation) – Ryan North & Albert Monteys
  • Solutions and Other Problems – Allie Brosh
  • The Black Flamingo – Dean Atta
  • and lots of short stories!

Best music I started listening to:

  • Mark Ronson ft Raissa – I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
  • Happy Spendy - You’re Doing Okay
  • Cold Specks - Fool’s Paradise
  • Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher & Stranger in the Alps
  • Orville Peck – Pony
  • Proper. - I Spent The Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better
  • Noah Reid - Gemini
  • Emmy the Great - April / 月音

Best gigs I went to:

  • Josie Long - Tender (in person first, and then over and over on twitch)
  • James Acaster - Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 (on stream)
  • Mark Watson’s Watsonathon & Watsonathon II (on stream)

Podcasts I listened to constantly:

  • The Boring Talks
  • 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy
  • Heist Podcast

Best TV/films I watched for the first time:

  • Knives Out
  • Kim’s Convenience
  • Derry Girls
  • No More Jockeys
  • Staged
  • Ted Lasso

Other new favourite content:

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Anna Atkins, Papaver Orientale; Poppy, from Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Flowering Plants and Ferns, 1854.

A botanist and an early photographer, Anna Atkins became the first person to print and publish a photographically illustrated book: British Algae, Cyanotype Impressions, part 1. [V&A]

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2019

Best books I read for the first time:

  • Sally Rooney, Normal People
  • Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
  • Kassia St Clair, The Secret Lives of Colour
  • Jen Wang, The Prince and the Dressmaker and Stargazing
  • Jerry Craft, New Kid
  • Kelsey Crowe and Emily McDonnell, There Is No Good Card for This
  • Simon James Green, Alex in Wonderland
  • Alice Oseman, Heartstopper, vol. 2
  • David Ziggy Greene, Times Like These: Scene & Heard

Best music I started listening to:

  • Noah Reid, Songs from a Broken Chair
  • Grace Petrie, Queer as Folk
  • Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards
  • Lizzo - Juice/Good as Hell/Scuse Me

Best gigs I went to:

  • Emmy the Great playing First Love at Union Chapel
  • June Tabor & Oysterband playing Fire and Fleet, also at Union Chapel

Best podcasts I started listening to:

  • Heist Podcast
  • Swindled
  • All Bad Things

Best TV/films I watched for the first time:

  • Schitt’s Creek
  • Paddington 2
  • John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch
  • Score: a Hockey Musical

Other new favourite things:

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The Good Place + Text Posts

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Schitt’s Creek + text posts
↳ David Rose (part five)

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