Culture Diary 2018

I read and watch and listen to a bunch.
Here's my list from 2018.

[Notes to Skip if you don't care: I don't record food. I tend not to eat food except for food. I realize cuisine is a thing, but I'm not gonna record every meal. And I rarely eat out in an artistic way. The key below is inconsistent. Sorry - it gets to be a lot. Email me with questions.]

My Favorite 10 THINGS OF THE YEAR (in no order)
- Obehi Janice Casanova at MFA
- The Interrobangers by Sloth Levine
- Steering the Craft by Ursula K. LeGuin
- Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
- TOP GIRLS by Carol Churchill at the Huntington Theatre
- On Beauty by Zadie Smith
- Courtney Barnett live at MassMoCa
- Lindy West's The Witches are Coming at MFA
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Otessa Moshfegh
- The Handmaiden by Park Chan Wook
- The Power by Naomi Alderman
- Seeing 1, 2, 3, FOUR kick ass shows directed by my BFF DMS

KEY
Television      Film                    Concert.              Magazine
Book               PLAY (read)        PLAY (live).       ART

1.1        Good Place 1.12 and 1.13, and 2.1
             Walking Tour of Mexico City (Uly was great)
1.2        Good Place 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5        
              Museo de Nacional Antropologica
1.3        Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut
1.4        Marietas Islands
             Good Place 2.6
1.5        Yalepa
             Good Place 2.7
1.6        Houston Airport
1.7        Good Place 2.8
1.8        David Bowie, The Last Five Years
1.10     Handmaid’s Tale 1.7
1.12    Cheers 1.1 and 1.2
1.13     Esquire, January (James Baldwin’s MLK Reflection)
             Cheers 1.3 and 1.4, 1.5
1.14    Cheers 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10
            PKD’s Electric Dreams 1.1
1.15    Vanity Fair February 2018
            Cheers 1.11
1.16    Great Mysteries: Ghosts, by Robert Jackson
            Handmaid’s Tale 1.8
            The Good Place 2.9
1.19    Handmaid’s Tale 1.9 and 1.10
1.20    The Good Place 2.10
1.21    Marvelous Mrs. Maisel 1.1
1.22    Marvelous Mrs. Maisel 1.2
1.23    The Ballad of Narayama (1958)
            Finished Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
1.26    finished Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
            The Good Place 2.11
1.27    HYPE MAN by Idris Goodwin, dir. by Shawn LaCount
1.28    MMM 1.3
1.29    MMM 1.4
1.31    finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
2.2        Cheers 1.12 and 1.13
2.3.      Cheers 1.14
2.4.      Super bowl LII
2.5.      Cheers 1.15, 1.16, 1.17
             My Next Guest Needs No Introduction: Barack Obama
             The Good Place 2.12
2.6        Steering the Craft by Ursula K LeGuin
2.7        Vanity Fair Feb 2018
2.8        Farmer’s Almanac 2018
             Cheers 1.18 and 1.19
2.9       MR. BURNS, A POST ELECTRIC PLAY  by Anne Washburn
2.10     Cheers 1.20 and 1.21
             Fawlty Towers 1.1
             My Next Guest Needs no Introduction: George Clooney
2.11     White Wolf Woman and other stories; Teresa Pijoan
2.12     Fawlty Towers 1.2
            The Greatest Showman
2.13    Fawlty Towers 1.3
2.14    Fawlty 1.4 and 1.5
2.15    The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
2.16    NOMAD AMERICANA by Kira Rockwell
2.17    TORREY PINES by CLyde Peterson
2.18    Mrs Maisel 1.5
2.19    Quickening the Dust by Allison Maria Rodriguez at DAP
            Last Week Tonight 2.18
2.20    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
2.21    Fawlty 1.6
2.22    Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
2.24    Mrs. Maisel 1.6
2.25    Chris Rock: Tamborine; Bigger and Blacker
3.4        finished All The Birds in the Sky by Charles Jane Anders.
3.6        The Children of the Morning Light: Wampanoag Tales as told by Manitonquat
3.7        Into the Woods dir. Rob Marshall
3.9        Bestiary by Donika Kelly
             The Trip to Spain dir. Michael Winterbottom
3.11     Vanity Fair April 2018
​3.12     My Next Guest...Malala Yousafzai
3.16    VIRGINIA WOOLF'S ORLANDO by Sarah Ruhl dir. A. Nora Long
3.17    Veep 6.1
3.18    veep 6.2
3.19    Paul Revere’s Ride by David Hackett Fischer
        Extraordinary Houses of the World, FORESTS
3.20    Fawlty Towers 2.1
3.21    ROXANE GAY: WITH ONE N
3.22    Esquire April 2018
3.23    THE IRISH AND HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY dir. DMS
3.24    Extraordinary Houses of the World: COASTS
3.25    Veep 6.3
3.26    Fawlty Towers 2.2 and 2.3
3.27    Fawlty Towers 2.4 and 2.5
        Pacific Rim: Uprising
3.28    The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling Pt. 1
3.29    The Zen Diaries of GS Pt 2
        Comedians ICGC w/ GS
3.30    TedTalk: Titus Kaphar; Monica Byrne
3.31    We are Never Meeting in Real Life, Samantha Irby
        CICGC Letterman
4.1        Animal Talk by Penelope Smith
4.2       Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
        Book I of Ovid’s Metamorphosis
        Last Week Tonight 4.1
        VEEP 6.4
4.3        The Dramatist May/June 2017
        CICGC Steve Martin; Amy Schumer
        Bob Dylan: No Direction Home
4.4        The Dramatist, Season Review 2016-17
        Steve Martin Master Class 1 - 3
4.5        SM MC, 4 - 6
        The Dramatist, July/August 2017
4.6        The Dramatist: Edward Albee
4.7        The Dramatist November/December - International
        Master Class; Aaron Sorkin ep 2 - 4 
4.8        Master Class Sorkin 5 - 6
4.9        Master Class David Mamet 1 - 11
        The Dramatist, Jan/Feb 2018 - Censorship
4.10    The Dramatist March/April 2018 Twin Cities Edition
        Master Class Mamet 12 - 15
4.11    Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
        THE TEMPEST by William Shakespeare
4.12    The Dramatist Nov/Dec 2013
        MC Mamet 16 - 20
4.13    The Dramatist July/August 2009 Self Producing
        MC Mamet 21 - 25
4.14    Witch Baby by Francesca Lia Block.
        MC Mamet 26 Closing Done
        American Masters; John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I’m Saying it
        Fleabag 1.1
4.16    Negrosis screenplay by Corey Allen
        Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, by Francesca Lia Block
        CICGC Chris Rock; Stephen Colbert
4.17    The Spy Who Loved Me
4.18    CICGC Kristen Wiig; John Oliver
4.19    The Day After Tomorrow
        CICGC Kevin Hart Will Ferrell, Julia Louis- Dreyfus, Judd Apatow
4.20    Missing Angel Juan by Francesca Lia Block
        The Matrix by Wachowskis
        CICGC Jim Carrey
4.22    Vanity Fair April 2018
        Errol Morris Wormwood Ch 1 - 6
4.23    Veep 6.5 and 6.6
4.24    RAMPAGE
4.26    Shonda MC 3
4.28    BROKELAHOMO by Ryan Landry dir. Robin Smith
4.29    Michelle Wolf’s WHCD set
        Veep 6.7
4.30    Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
5.1        Shonda MC 4, 5, 6, 7
5.4 - 5.6    Getaway House
5.6        THE SUPERVILLAIN CLUB by Lila Rose Kaplan
5.10    Life of Pi by Yann Martel
5.11    Vanity Fair May 2018
        WIG OUT by Terrell Alvin McCraney
5.13    TOP GIRLS by Carol Churchill
        Handmaid’s Tale 2.1
5.14    The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
5.15    Overboard with Anna Faris
5.18    The Art of the Memoir by Mary Karr
        MC Shonda Rhimes Ep 8
5.19    Meem 4 Boston: A story ballet about the internet (ICA, chor. Ryan McNamara)
5.20    RBG dir. by Nancy Wolf et al
5.21    Border Districts by Gerald Murnane
5.22    Handmaid’s Tale 2.2 and 2.3
5.25    HERITAGE HILL NATURALS by Fran de Silveira
5.26    The Dramatist May/June 2018
        Handmaid’s Tale 2.4
5.27    Deadpool 2
5.28    Handmaid’s Tale 2.5
5.30    Zadie Smith: Feel Free
6.3        Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash
6.5        Esquire May 2018
6.7        Martha’s Brainstorm
6.8        Martha’s Brainstorm
6.9        Climate Change Open Mic
6.11    ANNIHILATION (novel) by Jeff Vandermeer
6.12    Esquire June 2018
             Parts Unknown 1.1 Myanmar
             parts unknown 1.2 Koreatown LA
6.13.     Parts unknown 1.3 Colombia
             THE WIZ dir by DMS
6.16    Vanity Fair June 2018
6.17    WC Germany v Mexico
6.18    WC: Sweden v S Korea
        WC: Belgium v Panama
        WC England v Tunisia
6.19    WC Poland v Senegal
        WC Colombia v Japan
        Oceans 8 (dir Gary Ross)
        Dr. Marston and the Wonder Women
6.20    WC Uruguay v Saudi Arabia
6.22.     My Next Guest...Tina Fey
6.24    Skyfall
6.25    Parts Unknown: Libya
        WC: Portugal v. Iran
        WC: Uruguay v Russia
6.29    On Beauty by Zadie Smith
             Hannah Gadsby Nanette
6.30    Kid Gorgeous, John Mulaney
7.1        WC: RUS v SPA
        WC: CRO vs. DEN
        Won’t you be my neighbor
7.4.       TEETH the musical
7.5.        Authority by Jeff Vandermeer 
        My Next Guest...Seinfeld and Letterman
        Parts Unknown: Montreal/Quebec
7.6        The Comedy Lineup Michelle Buteau; Ian Kramer
7.7        WC Quarters
        Extraordinary Houses: Mountains?
7.10    WC Semis
7.11        WC Semis
7.12    Courtney Barnett, with Vagabon
7.13    Six Flags Great Escape
       Ali Wong Hard Knock Wife
7.14    WC 3rd place game
7.15    WC Final
        The COmedy Lineup: Taylor Tomlinson, Sam Jay
7.16    Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer
        MC: Judd Apatow Ep 1 - 7
        Comedy Lineup: Phil Wang, Sabrina Jalees
7.17    Apatow masterclass 8 and 9
        The World’s Most Extraordinary Houses UNDERGROUND
7.18    Apatow MC 10 - 11
        Girls 1.1 Screenplay and Episode
7.19    Apatow 12 - 13
        The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death, by Colson Whitehead
7.20    apatow MC 14
7.21     Judd Apatow MC 15
        MadDash 2018
7.23    Apatow MC 16 - 17
        ATLANTA Pilot: teleplay and episode
        Comedy Lineup: Jak Knight; Tim Dillon
7.24    Apatow 18 - 19
        Skyscraper 
7.25    CICGC: Zack Galifinakis; Dave Chapelle; Ellen DeGeneres 
              FLEABAG 1&2 (outlines)
              Grand Designs 11.1 South Yorkshire
7.27    MC Apatow 20-22
             Grand Designs 11.2 North London
7.28    Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey
        Pilot teleplay: INSECURE Issa Rae and Larry Wilmore
        THE LEFTOVERS by Josh Wilder dir. Summer Williams
        The Stand Ups Aparna Nancherla 
7.29    Mission Impossible: Fallout
        Grand Designs 11.3: York
7.30.     MC Apatow ep 23, 24, 25
        Fleabag Ep 3 - 6
        The Stand up: Rachel Feinstein
7.31    MC Apatow ep 26 - 29
        Grand Designs Tiverton
8.1        MC Apatow rewatch ep 10
        MC Apatow 30 - 32
        Vanity Fair August
        CICGC: Brian Regan, Tracy Morgan 
8.2        Last Week Tonight Ep 18
        CICGC: Hassan Minaj; Dana Carvey
        Grand Designs: Strathaven
8.3        CICGC: Neal Brennan; John Mulaney, Kate McKinnon
8.4        Acadia National Park
8.6        CICGC: Alec Baldwin
        Gasping for Airtime by Jay Mohr 
8.7        Dramatist: Season in Review 2018
        CICGC Jerry Lewis
        Faces Places dir by JR and Agnes Varda
       “Important VIdeos”
8.8        Continued “Important VIdeos”
8.9        Continued “Important VIdeos”
        Variety July 2018
8.10.     Variety August 2
        The 40 Year Old Virgin
8.11    Dramatist Magazine August 2018
        Don’t Think Twice dir Mike birbiglia
8.12    ”Important videos”
        Insecure 2.1 and 2.2
8.13    Finished “Important VIdeos”
        Vanity Fair September 2018kr
        INSECURE 2.3 and 2.4
8.14.     Steve Martin MC 1-10
             George Carlin What am I Doing in New Jersey
8.15    Steve Martin MC 11 - 15
        INSECURE 2.5
8.16    Steve Martin MC 16
        Lindy West: Witches
        Insecure 2.6
8.17    Steve Martin MC 17, 18, 19
    OUR DEAR DEAD DRUG LORD by Alexis Sheer
8.18    Steve Martin MC 20, 21, 22
    Tell Them Anything You Want, dir. Spike Jones (about Maurice Sendak)
    An Emmy for Megan Ep 1
    Get Smart
8.19    An Emmy for Megan Ep 2 - 6
    Steve Martin MC 23, 24, Bonus (done)
    ICA Watershed: Diana Thater
    ICA: We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965-85
    Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death
    Caitlin Keogh: Blank Melody
    Insecure 2.7 and 2.8
8.20    Insecure 3.1
8.21    The Chance You Won’t Return, by Annie Cardi
        Crazy Rich Asians dir. Jon Chu
8.22    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, dir. Richard Brooks
8.23    CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, writ Tennessee Williams
8.24    Esquire September 2018
    GOD OF CARNAGE by Yazmina Reza, trans. Christopher Hampton
    Hot Girls Wanted, dir. Rashida Jones
    Carnage dir Roman Polanski
8.25    Breaking Bad Pilot 1.1
8.26    Dead Letter Office
8.28    Born Standing Up, by Steve Martin
        THE ODD COUPLE by Neil Simon
        Insecure 3.3
        The Standups: Joe List
8.29    DEATHTRAP (play) by Ira Levin
    The StandUps: Gina Yashere
9.1     CICGC Norm MacDonald; Kevin Hart
9.2        Hot Girls Wanted: Girls on Top 1.1
9.3        Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell
             I love you, Man
             Comedy line up: Janelle 
9.5        Heart of a Dog, w/d by Laurie Anderson
        THE BLACK CLOWN (A.R.T.)
9.6        HGW:TO - Love Me Tinder
        Assorted Stand Up
        CICGC Brian Regan
9.7    My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Otessa Moshfegh
        pilot BREAKING BAD
        CHT Ghost Tour
9.8        THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA by Edward Albee        
        What we Do in the Shadows, dir Taika Waititi
        The Comedy Lineup - Matteo Lane
9.9        MADE IN HEAVEN by Steven Bogart
        Insecure 3.4
9.10        PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE by Steve Martin
        Insecure 3.5
9.11        LOST pilot episode screenplay
9.12        CICGC Bill Maher, Sarah Silverman
        THE NICETIES by Eleanor Burgess
9.13        CICGC: Lorne Michaels; Jay Leno
        The Standups: josh Johnson; Aisling Bea
9.14        CICGC: Margaret Cho
        The Handmaiden, w/d Park Chan-Took
        NORM SHOW: David Spade; Drew Barrymore
9.15        Notre Dame vs. VBilt
             Kitchen Confidential
        NORM SHOW: Judge Judy
        CHT Ghost Tour: Josh
9.16        Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
        A Quiet Place
        CHT Ghost Tour: Steward
9.17        2018 Emmy’s
9.18        Insecure 3.6
9.19        Norm: David Letterman
        Norm: Jane Fonda
9.20        HAMNET by Deep End
9.21        Obehi Janice’s Casanova
9.22        Trajal Harrel: Caen Amour
9.23        Fire Free Zone by Theresa Rebeck
        The game, dir. David Fincher
        Norm show: Lorne Michaels
9.24        Norm Show: Chevy Chase
        Insecure 3.7
9.25        Norm Show: M. Night Shyamalan
        Norm Show: Michael Keaton
        The Office 3.14: Ben Franklin
9.26        Vanity Fair October 2018
        Norm Show: Billy Joe Shaver
9.27        The Office 3.15: Phyllis’ Wedding
9.28        JJK’s First Ghost Tour
9.29        The Good Place 1.1
9.30        Shelburne Orchard!
        The Good Place 1.2
10.1        Insecure 3.8
10.3        John Oliver: Kavanaugh
10.4        The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes, 2.1 USA
10.5        The Good Place 1.3 and 1.4
10.6        Dangerous Liaisons
        The Comedy Line up: Emma Willman
10.8        Comedy Lineup: Max Silvestri
10.9        A Star is Born, w/d by Bradley Cooper
10.10    Parts Unknown: Vietnam (w/ Obama)
10.11        Parts Unknown: Nashville
            Great British Bake-off 2.1 (Netflix)
            Vanity Fair November 2018
10.13    Ladybird, w/d Greta Gerwig
10.15    Parts Unknown: Houston; Japan
        Most Extraordinary Homes, 2.2 Portugal
10.16    The Good Place 1.5
10.18    Goldeneye
10.19    Two Weeks Notice
        Homecoming Podcast 1.1
10.20    The Oath
        The Good Place 1.6
10.22    Homecoming Podcast 1.2
10.23    The Good Place 1.7
        Comedy Lineup: JR De Guzman
10.24    Homecoming 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6
        RAW by Julia Ducournau
10.25    Sherlock 1.1
        Homecoming 7
10.26    Homecoming 8, 9, 10, 11
        Sherlock 1.3, 2.1
10.27    Homecoming 12
        Sleepy Hollow (animated)
        Sherlock: The Reichenbach Falls (2.3)
10.28    It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
        Sherlock 3.1 The Empty Hearse
10.29    Teen Wolf
10.30    Queen Live Aid Performance
10.31    A Childhood: The Biography of Place, Harry Crews
        War of the Worlds by Mercury Theatre
        MACBETH dir. by Dawn M Simmons
11.1        Daybreakers by Spierig Brothers
11.2        Species
11.3         NSFW by Lucy Kirkwood
        Dolores Roach 1, 2, 3        
11.4         Dolores Roach, 4, 5, 6
11.5        Dolores Roach 7, 8
11.6        Veep 5.2
11.7        Veep 5.5        
11.8        Mad Monster Party (Rankin/Bass)
11.9        BARCC Gala
11.10        The Big Sick, d. Michael Showalter, w. Kumail Nanjiani and Emily W
11.11        Samantha Bee 11.9
11.12        dirty rotten scoundrels by frank oz
11.13        365 Days/Plays: Nov - Dec.
11.14        Comedy Lineup: Kate Willet
11.15        Veep 5.6 (finished)
11.16        The Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
        The People Vs. OJ Simpson Ep 1
11.17        Gimme Danger, w/d Jim Jarmusch        
11.18        Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, w. Bill Goldman, dir. George Roy Hill
11.19        The People vs. OJ Simpson, Ep 2
11.20    Veep 5.7
11.22    Blood & Ivy, by Paul Collins
          Veep 5.8
        Neo Futurists Plays 1 - 15
11.23    Veep 5.9
        Neo Futurists plays 15 - 30
11.24    Esquire November 2018
          Veep 5.10
        NeoFuturists Plays 30 - 50
11.25.     Widows, w/d Steve McQueen (w Gillian Flynn)
        People vs OJ Simpson Ep 3, 4
        Vanity fair December 2018
11.26    People vs. OJ Ep 5
11.27    finished 100 Neo Futurist Plays
        People vs. OJ Ep 6
11.28    People vs. OJ Ep 7
11.30    People vs. OJ Ep 8 and 9
12.1        People vs. OJ Ep 10
        Veep 1.1
12.2        Holiday in Handcuffs (muted)
        Patriots vs. Vikings
        Four Christmases
12.3        The Power by Naomi Alderman
        American Vandal 2.1
12.4        Dramatist Guild Oct/Nov 2018
        Extraordinary Homes Switzerland
        Veep 1.2
12.5        National Geographic October 2018
        American Vandal 2.2
12.6        American Vandal 2.3
        National Geographic November 2018
        American Vandal 2.4
12.7        American Vandal 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8
        Rolling Stone November 2018
12.8        Cooking Light November 2018
        Black Panther
12.9        The Favorite by Yorgos Lanthimos
12.10    Atlanta 2.1, 2.2
        The Dramatist Nov/Dec 2018
12.11        Veep 1.3
12.12    Extraordinary Homes Japan
12.13    Veep 1.4
12.14    Atlanta 2.3 and 2.4, 2.5
12.16    Home Alone
12.17    Atlanta 2.6
12.18    Born to be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious 
        Genius of Edward Gorey, by Mark Der
        Atlanta 2.8, 2.9
12.19    Atlanta 2.10, 2.11
             Esquire winter 2019
12.20    Vanity Fair December 2019
        Veep 1.5
        Mrs. Maizel 2.1
12.23    Penultimate Human Constellation by Ben and Steven Ostrowski
        THE INTERROBANGERS by Sloth Levine
12.24    Veep 1.7
12.27     All Rights Reserved by Greg Katsoulis    
        Veep 1.8
12.28    Courtney Barnett: Tell me How you Really Feel
12.29    Throwing Shade
12.30    Throwing Shade
        Veep 2.1
12.31    Fellowship of the Ring
        The Two Towers
        Return of the King