Hey y’all,
Here’s some ear and eye candy I’ve enjoyed in the first half of this year:
- Movies I actually went out of my way to see in the theater (good calls): Black Panther and Phantom Thread.
- TV: Parts Unknown, The Good Place, Detectorists, Atlanta, Grand Designs, and Billions.
- Everything directed by Taika Waititi: What We Do In the Shadows, Hunt for The Wilderpeople, Boy, and heck, I don’t even like comic book movies and I enjoyed Thor: Ragnarok.
- Other movies I liked: Faces Places, Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled, The Zen Diaries of Gary Shandling, and Coco.
- Comedy: Ali Wong’s Netflix specials Baby Cobra and Hard Knock Wife, Nacho Libre (I know I know), and the first hour of Girls Trip.
- My record of the year so far: Parquet Courts’ Wide Awake! Can’t stop listening.
- Favorite morning/writing music: harpist Mary Lattimore’s dreamy album, Hundreds of Days.
- Classical: KMFA, Jonny Greenwood’s score for Phantom Thread, the string quartets of Debussy and Ravel, and the Balanescu Quartet’s Possessed.
- Reissues: the 50th anniversary remix of Sgt. Pepper’s and the deluxe edition of Purple Rain. (The B-sides are better than most singles from other artists.)
- Favorite songs: my 2018 playlist on Spotify.
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xoxo,
Austin
PS. Top image is the German musician Conrad Schnitzler, snapped from the documentary, Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution.
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