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:
- Plumbella
- Royalty Soaps
- MissBudgetBeauty
- Sims 4
- my mandolin!

