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Welcome to my lists list. I like to keep track of the things I read, watch and listen to. You know, sort of based on that quote (which I have edited): “The person you will be in five years is based on the books you read, the movies you watch, the music you listen to, and the people you surround yourself with today.” It’s important to understand the things that you put in to your system. Think of it like a pop culture diet record. Or something like that. Feel free to follow along. Or don’t. Please feel free to interact and make suggestions. Or don’t. You can also browse lists from past years. Or don’t.

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Notable 2020 Albums I Didn’t Get To In Time Last Year (In order heard):

  • Live Drugs by the War on Drugs

  • Spring Break by Will Kimbrough

  • We Will Always Love You by the Avalanches

  • My Love Is A Hurricane by David Ramirez



Pre-2021 Music Discovered/Or At-Least Really Paid-Attention-To in 2021 (In order according to first heard):

  • Ruby Glass by Amelia Courthouse (2019)



Favorite Music Reissues/Box Sets in 2021/Misc. (in alphabetical order):

  • First by Kohsuke Mine (1970/2021)


Favorite Singles/Songs of 2021 (in alphabetical order):

  • Get Ready


Favorite Music Videos of 2021 (in alphabetical order):

  • Get Ready


Favorite Albums/EPs released in 2021 (in alphabetical order):

  • Social Music at Troost Vol.1 by 75 Dollar Bill

  • Jeffrey Alexander and the Heavy Lidders by Jeffrey Alexander and the Heavy Lidders

  • Elixor of Life by Jeffrey Alexander and the Heavy Lidders

  • Yol by Altin Gün

  • Strickly Ranking by Horace Andy

  • Khaira Arby in New York (Live in 2010) by Khaira Arby

  • Doomin’ Sun by Bachelor

  • Xalam by Ben Aylon

  • House Music by Bell Orchestre

  • Reason to Live by Lou Barlow

  • Valdez by Birds of Maya

  • Stranger Again by Blue Cactus

  • Lunar Tredd by Fimber Bravo

  • Gold-Diggers Sound by Leon Bridges

  • Break Into Blossom by Kirby Brown

  • Jah Is My Eyesight (Live Santa Cruz '80) by Burning Spear

  • Carnage by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

  • Live In Stuttgart 1975 by Can

  • Screen Violence by Chvrches

  • Cissoko Heritage by Maher Cissoko

  • -io by Circuit Des Yeux

  • The Tunnel and the Clearing by Colleen

  • All These Years by Phil Cook

  • Made Out Of Sound by Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt

  • Home Video by Lucy Dacus

  • Sweep It Into Space by Dinosaur Jr.

  • Kanawa by Nahawa Doumbia

  • New Long Leg by Dry Cleaning

  • Inclinations by Electric Octopus

  • The Golden Lag by Elkhorn

  • Admonitions by Endless Boogie

  • Yasuke by Flying Lotus

  • Drew Gardner by Drew Gardner

  • Beacon by Gerycz / Powers / Rolin

  • Ghost of Vroom 1 by Ghost of Vroom

  • Leap by Girls in Airports

  • Couleur by Dobet Gnahoré

  • G_d's Pee At States End! by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

  • Seeking New Gods by Gruff Rhys

  • Other You by Steve Gunn

  • Back of My Mind by H.E.R.

  • Windless Day by Scott Hirsch

  • Quietly Blowing It by Hiss Golden Messenger

  • The Dharma Wheel by Howlin’ Rain

  • Brian Jackson JID008 by Brian Jackson, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Adrian Younge

  • Jubilee by Japanese Breakfast

  • An Overview on Phenomenal Nature by Cassandra Jenkins

  • the Cinder Grove by Chuck Johnson

  • Bolenge Seben by Jupiter & Okwess

  • Black Ants Always Fly Together, One Bangle Makes No Sound by Kasai Allstars

  • Mood Ring by Kississippi

  • Heavy Sun by Daniel Lanois

  • Now by Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble

  • Hey What by Low

  • Keys by Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles

  • Sound Ancestors by Madlib

  • Flow by Wu Man, Kojiro Umezaki

  • Hope by Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog

  • Ghost Songs by Bachar Mar-Khalifé

  • Life, and Another and Mega Bog

  • The Exciting Sounds of Menahan Street Band by Menahan Street Band

  • Tezeta by Hailu Mergia

  • Afrique Victime by Mdou Moctar

  • Dark In Here by the Mountain Goats

  • World What World by Mountain Movers

  • Tropicale Moon by Mouth Painter

  • Sky Songs by Alena Murang

  • My Morning Jacket by My Morning Jacket

  • Topaz by Israel Nash

  • Teenage Dreams by Native Soul

  • descension (Out of Our Constrictions) by Natural Information Society/Evan Parker

  • Last Time I Saw Grace by New Bums

  • Another Side by Leo Nocentelli (1971)

  • Sympathy for Life by Parquet Courts

  • Soberish by Liz Phair

  • Making and Then Unmaking by Derek Piotr

  • Future Times by Plankton Wat

  • Death of a Cheerleader by Pom Pom Squad

  • Earth Trip by Rose City Band

  • East Pakistan Sky by Ustad Saami

  • Psalms by Nathan Salsburg

  • Nine by Sault

  • Let My People Go by Archie Shepp & Jason Moran

  • The Veiled Sea by Six Organs of Admittance

  • Valentine by Snail Mail

  • Electro Melodier by Son Volt

  • Black to the Future by Sons of Kemet

  • Entertainment Death by Spirit of the Beehive

  • Renewal by Billy Strings

  • Superwolves by Matt Sweeney and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy

  • Distractions by Tindersticks

  • Saskadelphia by the Tragically Hip

  • Understand by William Tyler

  • Deep Fried Grandeur by Ryley Walker And Kikagaku Moyo

  • Course In Fable by Ryley Walker

  • Post Wook by Andrew Scott Young/Ryan Jewell/Ryley Walker

  • I Don’t Live Here Anymore by the War on Drugs

  • Yaral Sa Doom by Wau Wau Collectif

  • Ignorance by the Weather Station

  • I Know I'm Funny haha by Faye Webster

  • Eau’d To A Fake Boogie Volume 4 by Wet Tuna

  • Broken Mirror: A Selfie Reflection by Matthew E. White and Lonnie Holley

  • Urban Driftwood by Yasmin Williams

  • Guanyin by Jah Wobble

  • Way Down in the Rust Bucket by Neil Young and Crazy Horse



Favorite Albums/EPs released in 2021 (in order first heard):

  • Inclinations by Electric Octopus

  • Sound Ancestors by Madlib

  • Deep Fried Grandeur by Ryley Walker And Kikagaku Moyo

  • Kanawa by Nahawa Doumbia

  • Ignorance by the Weather Station

  • the Cinder Grove by Chuck Johnson

  • Distractions by Tindersticks

  • An Overview on Phenomenal Nature by Cassandra Jenkins

  • Urban Driftwood by Yasmin Williams

  • Future Times by Plankton Wat

  • Yaral Sa Doom by Wau Wau Collectif

  • Eau’d To A Fake Boogie Volume 4 by Wet Tuna

  • Yol by Altin Gün

  • Drew Gardner by Drew Gardner

  • Way Down in the Rust Bucket by Neil Young and Crazy Horse

  • House Music by Bell Orchestre

  • Making and Then Unmaking by Derek Piotr

  • Heavy Sun by Daniel Lanois

  • Last Time I Saw Grace by New Bums

  • Strickly Ranking by Horace Andy

  • Lunar Tredd by Fimber Bravo

  • Course In Fable by Ryley Walker

  • Beacon by Gerycz / Powers / Rolin

  • G_d's Pee At States End! by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

  • Entertainment Death by Spirit of the Beehive

  • Made Out Of Sound by Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt

  • Ghost of Vroom 1 by Ghost of Vroom

  • Broken Mirror: A Selfie Reflection by Matthew E. White and Lonnie Holley

  • Keys by Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles

  • Now by Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble

  • Sweep It Into Space by Dinosaur Jr.

  • Bolenge Seben by Jupiter & Okwess

  • Flow by Wu Man, Kojiro Umezaki

  • Let My People Go by Archie Shepp & Jason Moran

  • The Exciting Sounds of Menahan Street Band by Menahan Street Band

  • Black Ants Always Fly Together, One Bangle Makes No Sound by Kasai Allstars

  • Jah Is My Eyesight (Live Santa Cruz '80) by Burning Spear

  • Black to the Future by Sons of Kemet

  • Superwolves by Matt Sweeney and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy

  • Khaira Arby in New York (Live in 2010) by Khaira Arby

  • Guanyin by Jah Wobble

  • Afrique Victime by Mdou Moctar

  • Seeking New Gods by Gruff Rhys

  • New Long Leg by Dry Cleaning

  • Reason to Live by Lou Barlow

  • Live In Stuttgart 1975 by Can

  • descension (Out of Our Constrictions) by Natural Information Society/Evan Parker

  • Earth Trip by Rose City Band

  • Quietly Blowing It by Hiss Golden Messenger

  • Tezeta by Hailu Mergia

  • Jubilee by Japanese Breakfast

  • Saskadelphia by the Tragically Hip

  • The Tunnel and the Clearing by Colleen

  • The Veiled Sea by Six Organs of Admittance

  • Soberish by Liz Phair

  • Couleur by Dobet Gnahoré

  • Home Video by Lucy Dacus

  • I Know I'm Funny haha by Faye Webster

  • Death of a Cheerleader by Pom Pom Squad

  • Ghost Songs by Bachar Mar-Khalifé

  • Topaz by Israel Nash

  • Carnage by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

  • Valdez by Birds of Maya

  • Xalam by Ben Aylon

  • Dark In Here by the Mountain Goats

  • Nine by Sault

  • Leap by Girls in Airports

  • Hope by Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog

  • World What World by Mountain Movers

  • Life, and Another and Mega Bog

  • Mood Ring by Kississippi

  • Brian Jackson JID008 by Brian Jackson, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Adrian Younge

  • Electro Melodier by Son Volt

  • Gold-Diggers Sound by Leon Bridges

  • Back of My Mind by H.E.R.

  • Stranger Again by Blue Cactus

  • Tropicale Moon by Mouth Painter

  • Other You by Steve Gunn

  • Psalms by Nathan Salsburg

  • Doomin’ Sun by Bachelor

  • Screen Violence by Chvrches

  • Break Into Blossom by Kirby Brown

  • Renewal by Billy Strings

  • Understand by William Tyler'

  • Sky Songs by Alena Murang

  • Social Music at Troost Vol.1 by 75 Dollar Bill

  • Sympathy for Life by Parquet Courts

  • Teenage Dreams by Native Soul

  • My Morning Jacket by My Morning Jacket

  • -io by Circuit Des Yeux

  • Windless Day by Scott Hirsch

  • East Pakistan Sky by Ustad Saami

  • Yasuke by Flying Lotus

  • Hey What by Low

  • Cissoko Heritage by Maher Cissoko

  • Valentine by Snail Mail

  • The Golden Lag by Elkhorn

  • Jeffrey Alexander and the Heavy Lidders by Jeffrey Alexander and the Heavy Lidders

  • Elixor of Life by Jeffrey Alexander and the Heavy Lidders

  • Admonitions by Endless Boogie

  • The Dharma Wheel by Howlin’ Rain

  • All These Years by Phil Cook

  • Post Wook by Andrew Scott Young/Ryan Jewell/Ryley Walker

  • Another Side by Leo Nocentelli (1971)

  • I Don’t Live Here Anymore by the War on Drugs


2021 Albums I Wanted To Like Much More Than I Actually Did But Have Nothing Bad To Say About: (in alphabetical order):

  • Get Ready


Things Read in 2021 (in order read):

  • It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand by Megan Devine (2017)

  • Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (1987)

  • The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy (2019)

  • Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami (1988)

  • The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (2005)

  • South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami (1992)

  • Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami (1999)

  • Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown (2017)

  • Creative Ministry by Henri Nouwen (1971)

  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (1994)

  • After Dark by Haruki Murakami (2004)

  • Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (2020)

  • Why Not Socialism? Book by G. A. Cohen (2009)

  • 1Q84 Novel Haruki Murakami (2009)

  • Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami (2013)

  • Anarchy in Action by Colin Ward (1973)

  • (TOOK A READING BREAK TO WACH GHOST SHOWS ON DISCOVERY+)

  • Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami (2017)

  • The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr (2021)

  • Searching For The Sound: My Life With the Grateful Dead by Phil Lesh (2005)

  • Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, And Drugs With The Grateful Dead by Bill Kreutzmann with Benjy Eisen (2015)

  • Garcia: An American Life by Blair Jackson (1999)

  • Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (2017)

  • The Autobiography of Malcom X As Told To Alex Haley (1965)

  • Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut (1952) (RE-READ)

  • The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (1959) (RE-READ)

  • Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (1960) (RE-READ)

  • Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut (1961) (RE-READ)

  • Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief by Joanne Cacciatore (2017)

  • The Great Sex Rescue: The Lies You've Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended by Joanna Sawatsky, Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach, and Sheila Wray Gregoire (2021)

  • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls before Swine by Kurt Vonnegut (1965) (RE-READ)

  • When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide To Understanding Death by Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown (1996)

  • I’ll Miss You, Mr. Hooper by “Sesame Street” (1984)

  • I Miss You: A First Look at Death by Pat Thomas (2000)

  • Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut (1969) (RE-READ)

  • Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday by Kurt Vonnegut (1973) (RE-READ)

  • Nina Simone's Gum by Warren Ellis (2021)

  • Bewilderment by Richard Powers (2021)

  • Dune by Frank Herbert (1965)

  • Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut (1976) (RE-READ)



Concerts, Speakers, Plays and Such:

  • Neko Case with A.C. Newman at the Van Buren (08/22/21)

  • Willie Nelson and Family with the Avett Brothers, Gov’t Mule and Lucinda Williams at Ak-Chin Pavilion (10/15/21)

  • Erykah Badu at the Arizona Federal Theater (10/20/21)

  • Phish at Ak-Chin Pavilion (10/22/21)

  • Dead & Co. at Ak-Chin Pavilion (10/25/21)

Favorite (Or at least most intriguing) Podcasts/Radio Listened to in 2021:

Favorite Movies and/Or Shorts Watched in 2021 (in order seen):

  • Soul (2020)

  • Brené Brown: The Call to Courage (2019)

  • Serenity (2005) (Rewatch)

  • Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

  • Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)

  • The Hateful Eight (2015)

  • Django Unchained (2012)

  • Everything Must Go (2010)

  • MFKZ (2017)

  • Luca (2021)

  • Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning (2021)

  • Rurouni Kenshin: The Final (2021)

  • The Dead Don’t Die (2019)

  • The Cat Returns (2002)

  • Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth (1997)

  • The End of Evangelion (1997)

  • Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007)

  • Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009)

  • Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (2012)

  • Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021)

  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)

  • Fly in A Bottle: A Documentary Featuring MMW On Tour And In The Studio (2011)

  • The Velvet Underground (2021)

  • 20,000 Days on Earth (2014)

  • A Man Called Adam (1966)

  • Pig (2021)

  • Dune (1984)

  • Frank (2014)

  • The Beatles: Get Back (2021)

  • Willy’s Wonderland (2021)

  • Phish: Bittersweet Motel (2000)

Favorite Television Watched in 2021:

  • Firefly (2002) (Rewatch)

  • Twin Peaks (Season 01 and 02; 1990, 1991) (Rewatch)

  • Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)

  • Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000) (Rewatch)

  • Scissor Seven (Seasons 1 and 2) (2020)

  • Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel (2021)

  • Hangar 1: The UFO Files (Season 1) (2014)

  • Parasyte: The Maxim (Season 1) (2014–2015)

  • JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (Season 1 // 2012-2013)

  • Ghost Brothers (Seasons 1-2 // 2016-2017)

  • Ghost Brothers: Haunted Houseguests (2019)

  • Fright Club (Season 1 // 2021-)

  • Portals to Hell (Seasons 1-2 // 2019-)

  • The Holzier Files (Seasons 1-2 // 2019-)

  • Ghost Brothers: Lights OutI (2021)

  • Paranormal Lockdown (Seasons 1-3 // 2016-)

  • Yasuke (2021)

  • The Way of the Househusband (2021)

  • Paranormal Lockdown UK (2018)

  • Ghosts of Shepherdstown (2016)

  • Ghosts of Morgan City (2019)

  • iCarly (2007-2012)

  • Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995-1996)

  • Ted Lasso Season Two (2021)

  • The Good Place (2016-2020) (RE-WATCH)

  • Community (2009-2015) RE-WATCH)

  • Midnight Mass (2021)

  • Bojack Horseman (2014 - 2020)

  • What We Do In The Shadows Season 03 (2021)



Misc. Pop-Culture Moments of Consequence (Or Not)/Random Thoughts, etc., (2021 Edition):