2023: Things

Movies

  • Past Lives
  • Spiderman: Across the Spider-Verse
  • The Prestige

Books

  • Project Hail Mary // Andy Weir
  • The Bonfire of the Vanities // Tom Wolfe
  • The Overstory // Richard Powers

New Music

  • Further Joy // The Regrettes
  • Diamonds and Dancefloors // Ava Max
  • Wet Tennis // Sofi Tukker
  • The Unraveling of PUPTHEBAND // Pup
  • Past Lives // L.S. Dunes
  • So Much (For) Stardust // Fall Out Boy
  • Mega Man II // Bit Brigade
  • Gag Order // Kesha
  • New Ruin // The Flatliners
  • Guts // Olivia Rodrigo

Old Music

  • The Artist in the Ambulance // Thrice
  • Wet from Birth // The Faint
  • The Downward Spiral // Nine Inch Nails

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2022: Things

Movies

  • jeen-yhus
  • Sonic 2

Books

  • The Dark Forest // Liu Cixin
  • Death’s End // Liu Cixin
  • The Deep Places // Ross Douthat
  • Amusing Ourselves to Death // Neil Postman
  • Recursion // Blake Crouch
  • Crossroads // Jonathan Franzen

New Music

  • Radical // Every Time I Die
  • Prioritize Pleasure // Self Esteem
  • Fortitude // Gojira
  • Metamorphosis // Cloud Cult
  • The Fall of Ideals // All That Remains
  • Welcome to Horrowwood // Ice Nine Kills
  • WE // Arcade Fire
  • Will of the People // Muse
  • Fred again…
  • Harry Mack
  • Midnights // Taylor Swift
  • Alpha Zulu // Phoenix

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2021: Things

Movies

  • Spider-Man: No Way Home
  • James Bond: No Time to Die
  • Inside
  • The Dawn Wall
  • Happiest Season
  • The Sound of Metal
  • Driveways
  • In and of Itself
  • Our Friend

Books

  • Will // Will Smith
  • The Three-Body Problem // Liu Cixin
  • Woke Racism // John McWhorter

New Music

  • Inside // Bo Burnham
  • Saosin // Saosin
  • Chuck // Sum 41
  • Duality // Duke Dumont
  • POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR // Bring Me the Horizon
  • Constellations // August Burns Red
  • Greatest Hits // Waterparks
  • Donda // Kanye West

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2020: Things

Movies

  • Sonic the Hedgehog
  • Tenet
  • Band Aid
  • She’s in Portland

Books

  • Humans by Brandon Stanton
  • Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • High Output Management by Andrew Grove
  • Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
  • Blood Work by Michael Connelly
  • Into the Magic Shop by James Doty

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2020: Two Lists of Two Things

Books

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2019: Things

Movies

  • Anna
  • Spiderman: Far From Home
  • To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
  • The Accountant
  • Irrational Man

Books

  • The Count of Monte Cristo 
  • The Smartest Guys in the Room
  • Talking to Strangers
  • Can’t Hurt Me
  • Sum
  • The Right Stuff
  • Wittgenstein’s Mistress

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