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Penn's 2021 media list!
🕑 Added 2022-01-18 22:46:04 +0000 UTCHere you go, as promised from Penn: His end of the year media wrap up list
2021 Penn – 220101 – Here’s my year-end for 2021.
I keep a record of all the art I take in and I wrap it up at the end of the year. It’s another year of the pandemic, so it’s not worth doing, but my habits go deep, so . . .
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I saw 4 movies in the theater this year, 4 more than last year.
All for the Children:
Black Widow
Free Guy
Encanto
Spider-Man – No Way Home
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I put video, broadcast, iTunes and everything not in a theater together. This year that includes Zoom shows
I saw 69 video things (3 more than last year — it’s a pandemic).
There’s a lot of TV shows that I watch that might have other seasons. I don’t write up a season, only a whole show, so I watched more than is shown here. All the movies from 1972 are when I had Covid. I guess it’s a symptom.
Here’s the ones I liked in the order I saw them:
Borgen
Wade in the Water
Gone, Baby, Gone
One Night in Miami
I See You
Apples
Burden
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Minion of Midas (Español)
Black Sunday
Quien A Hierro Mata
Your Honor
Nomadland
Investigation
7 Años
The Mauritanian
The Dark Knight
Nobody
Dawson City: Frozen Time
Listening to Kenny G
Miss Sloane
Summer of Soul
Shadow Kingdom – Bob Dylan
McCarney 3, 2, 1
The Company you Keep
Hail Caesar
Searching
Paper Moon
Charly Varrick
Scarecrow
What’s Up Doc
Serpico
Papillion
Clickbait
Double Jeopardy
The Woman in the Window
Come From Away
The Velvet Underground
Borderlands
The Beatles – Get Back
Triple Trouble (Residents)
The Guilty
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I saw 1 bands (1 more than last year)
Elew (He played at our house, so I didn’t go out)
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I saw 1 comedy show (2 Fewer than last year!)
My favorite (and man, he is great, getting better all the time):
Piff
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I saw 1 magic show in (10 fewer than last year),
Piff –
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I saw 3 plays (1 more than last year)
Assassins
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I saw 3 Vegas shows (1 more than last year), my favorites were:
Elew
Piff
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I mix up audio books, and Kindle. I started driving to work, so that brought the audiobooks back. I read the Times every day and “The Week” every week, but I don’t count that. I’ve been reading a bit, I read on the Kindle for usually over an hour often 2 hours a night.
I guess I read about 36 which is 6 fewer than last year.
My Favorites (they tend to be all — the ones I’m not liking fade away before finishing)
Stephen Fry Presents a Selection of Anton Chekhov’s Short Stories by Anton Chekov
Mythos
Casino Royale
Live and Let Die
Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures
A Promised land
Gone, Baby, Gone: A Novel (Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro Book 4)
On the Run: Friendships and Finish Lines – Joe Martino
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Why Vegan?: Eating Ethically by Peter Singer
It's a Wonderful Regency Christmas: Six Merry & Bright Holiday Novellas by Edith Layton
Tarbell Course in Magic, Vol 1
The Truth about Lies: the Illusion of Honesty and the Evolution of Deceit
The Poetry Remedy: Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind, and Soul by William Siegh
Subdivision: A Novel by J. Robert Lennon
Sick and Tired – Martin Mull
Project Hail Mary: A Novel by Andy Weir
Artemis: A Novel by Andy Weir
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
by Sarah Bakewell
Madball (Black Gat Books Book 20) by Fredric Brown
How to Do Things with Fictions by Joshua Landy
Poems In A Time of Grief by G. Greene
Let Me Think: Stories by J. Robert Lennon
Irreversible Damage
Lock, Stock & Peril by Dave McBride
Expose Yourself: How to Take Risks, Question Everything, and Find Yourself
by Erin Louis
The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
Whale Day: And Other Poems by Billy Collins
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
by Sarah Bakewell
Carrying the Fire: 50th Anniversary Edition by Michael Collins
Practical Gods (Penguin Poets) by Carl Dennis
Hearts In Atlantis
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
The Seashell Anthology of Great Poetry by Christopher Burns
The Souvenir Museum: Stories by Elizabeth McCracken
Copperfield Magic History
Also, I’m trying to read short stories in Spanish. I have Amie, Jandro, and Eduardo dragging my sorry gringo ass as I try to learn. But the Spanish is all very beginner, so not worth writing up yet. But I work on Spanish 90 minutes a day every day, so that’s a LOT of my time. Maybe next year there will be some real books in Spanish. I hope.
So, that’s it for 2021.
What a year. Let’s hope 2022 is better.
Stay Positive.
Stay Negative.
