Culture Diet 2017

BELOW...all the culture absorbed by JJK in 2017. Significant books, film, TV, etc are listed below. Long reads (books) are listed on the date of completion.
NOT LISTED: news articles, portions of talk shows, meals entered into for sustenance only.

Legend
Book
Television 
FILM
Read Play
Live play performance
DANCE
Music

January 1.  Sherlock 1.3 
January 2.  Sherlock 2.1 Scandal in Belgravia
January 3.  Sherlock 2.2 Hound of the Baskervilles
January 4.   Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey
January 5.   The Illuminous Dong by Edward Lear; illustrated by Gorey
January 6.   Looking for Edward Gorey - exhibition catalog
                      HIDDEN FIGURES; DIR.  BY THEODORE MELFI
                      Sherlock 2.3
January 7.    One Minute Play Festival: Nasty Women
January 8.    Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey
                       Sherlock 3.1
                       Burt Dow: Deep-Water Man by Robert McCloskey
January 9.    The Dip, by Seth Godin
                       NY Times Profile: Kerry James Marshall
                       Sherlock 3.3
                       Sherlock 4.1.  
January 10.   Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel
                        Ta-nehisi Coates: My President Was Black
                        Black mirror 2.3 Waldo Moment
                        Black Mirror 3.1 Nosedive
January 11.   A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
January 12.   Kate Tempest: Let Them Eat Chaos
January 13.    A Pocket Full of Rye, Agatha Christie
                         The Blue Aspic by Edward Gorey
                         The Willowdale Handcar, or return of the black doll by Edward Gorey
January 14.  The Blue Aspic (again)
                        The Willowdale Handcar (again)
                        Black Mirror 3.2
                       Black Mirror 3.3
                       Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats... TS Eliot, Illustrated by Gorey
January 16.    Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
                         Dancing Cats and Neglected Murderesses, E. Gorey
January 17.  Sherlock 4.2 and 4.3
January 18.    Archer 1.1 and 1.2
January 19.    Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events 1.1
January 20.   Vanity Fair, February 2017
January 21.   The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
                        Lemony Snicket 1.2
January 23.    Esquire, February 2017
                         Archer 1.3 and 1.4
                         Amphigorey: The Unstrung Harp
                                     The Doubtful Guest
                                     The Object Lesson
                                     The Bug Book
                                     The Fateful Lozenge
                           Lemony Snicket 1.3
January 24.      Archer 1.5, 1.6
                           Amphigorey: The Curious Sofa
                                       The Hapless Child
                           Veep 1.6 and 1.7
                           PD James: Unnatural Causes
January 25.   AMPHIGOREY: Insect God
                                   The West Wing
                         Archer 1.7
January 26.   The Pieces of Zadie Smith (NYTimes Mag Profile)
                        The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
January 27.    AMPHIGOREY: The Wuggly Ump
                                    The Falling Curse
                                    The Forgotten Visit
                         Archer 1.8, 1.9, 1.10
                        LO AND BEHOLD, DIR. WERNER HERZOG
                        HOCKNEY: A BIGGER PICTURE
                        Black Mirror: San Junipero
                        Veep 1.8 and 2.1
                        Philip K Dick: Beyond is the Wub | Roog
January 28.  Fleabag 1.4, 1.5, 1.6
                       Philip K Dick Paycheck
                       ROOM, Dir. LARRY ABRAHAMSON
                       Veep 2.2 and 2.3
January 29.   CABARET, DIR. BOB FOSSE
January 30.  WBUR Fosse
                        1984 by George Orwell
February 3.    Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham
February 4.   Veep 2.4
February 5.   Super Bowl
February 6.    The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
                         The Little Prince
                         Edward Gorey: The Utter Zoo | Epipleptic Bicycle
                         Lemony Snicket 1.4: Reptile Room pt 2
                         Z: The Beginning of Everything 1.1 and 1.2
February 7.     Z: The Beginning of Everything 1.3 and 1.4
February 9.     Z: The beginning of Everything 1.5 and 1.6
February 10.   The Manual of Detection by Jebidiah Berry
                           Z: 1.7 and 1.8
February 11.     The Case of the Late Pig, by Margery Allingham
                            Z: 1.9 and 1.10
February 13.   Veep 2.5
February 14.    Veep 2.6
February 15.    The Beckoning Lady, Margery Allingham
February 17.    Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
February 18. FOLK-S: WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW? Chor. Alessandro Scarroni
February 19.    Esquire March 2017
                           Veep 2.7
February 20.   WEINER, DIR by JOSH KRIEGMAN and ELISE STEINBERG
February 21. Edward Gorey: The Grand Passion
                                   Les Passementeries Horribles
                                   Eclectic Abecedarium
                                   L'Heure Bleue
                                   The Broken Spoke
                                   The Glorious Nosebleed
                                  The Loathsome Couple
                                  The Green Beads
                                  Les Urnes Utiles
                                  The Stupid Joke
                                  The Prune People
                                  The Tuning Fork
                                   The Audrey-Gore Legacy
                    VEEP: 2.8, 2.9
February 22.    Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
February 23.    MAUS I: A Survivor's tale - My Father Bleeds History, by Art Spiegelman
February 24.   GET OUT, dir. JORDAN PEELE
                          Vanity Fair March 2017
February 25. BATMAN LEGO MOVIE
February 27. Veep 2.10
February 28.  I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO, dir. RAOUL PECK
March 1. Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
                         Nonsense by Edward Lear
                         The Owl and t he Pussycat by Edward Lear
March 2.   Maus II: and Here my Troubles Began, by Art Spiegelman
                    An Edward Lear Alphabet, illustrated by Vladimir Radunsky
                   The Duck and the Kangaroo, Edward Lear; ill. Jane Wattenburg
March 3. Veep 3.1 and 3.2
March 4.     bigLITTLElies 1.1 and 1.2
March 5.  bigLITTLElies 1.3
                  Veep 3.3
March 6.  Edward Lear: Poetry for Young People
                  The Black Tower, PD James
March 7.    Veep 3.4 and 3.5
March 9. Gumption by Nick Offerman
March 12.  Death of an Expert Witness by PD James
                    Veep 3.6
March 13.     bigLITTLElies 1.4
                      OJ Made IN America part 1
March 14.  OJ Made in America part 2 and 3
March 18.   TRAFFIC, DIR. by STEVEN SODERBERG
March 19.   OJ Made in America part 4 and 5
March 20. The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
                    JESUS CAMP, DIR by HEIDI EWING & RACHEL GRADY
                    Atlanta 1.4
                   bigLITTLElies 5
                   Veep 3.9
March 23. Atlanta 1.5
March 24.  Atlanta 1.6 and 1.7, 1.8
             Veep 3.10
March 25.   Peabody Essex Museum
​                         World of Wearable Art;
                         Mega City Asia
                         Lunar Attraction
                         Raven's Friend Time
                     Witch House Museum - Corwin House
                     Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower
March 26.  Blue Man Group
             bigLITTLElies 1.6
March 27.   Veep 4.1
March 28    Atlanta 1.9, 1.10
                    American Masters: Mike Nichols
March 30. Death's End by Cixin Liu
March 31.  Fleabag 1, 2, 3
April 2.   Shroud for a Nightingale, by PD James
                 bigLITTLElies 7 finale
April 3.  Fleabag 4
                THE OUTSIDERS, dir by FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
April 4.  Fleabag 5, 6
                Veep 4.3 ?
April 6.   Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN dir by ALFONSO CUARON
                Vanity Fair March 2017
April 7.   PARIS, TEXAS dir by WIM WENDERS
April 9.  Adaptation by Malinda Lo
April 11.  Insecure 1.1 and 1.2
April 12.  Dave Chapelle The Age of Spin
April 13. Girls 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
April 14. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
               New Orleans Haunted Ghost Tour
               Dave Chapelle Deep in the Heart of Texas
April 15.   Girls 1.5 and 1.6
                  Inheritance by Malinda lo
April 16.  Girls 1.7
April 17.  Girls 1.8, 1.9, 1.10
April 18.  Vanity Fair April 2017
                  Girls 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
April 21.   Autumn by Ali Smith
                   Veep 4.5, 4.6
April 22.    COLOSSAL
                     Esquire April 2017
April 23.     F8 OF THE FURIOUS
                   Veep 4.7
April 24.    Aaron Sorkin Master Class: Intro, Ep. 1
April 25    Sorkin's Master Class: Ep 2 - 5
April 26.    Sorkin's Master Class Ep 6 - 7
April 27     Sorkin's Master Class Ep 8
April 28    Rebel Without a Crew by Robert Rodriguez
                   Sorkin's Master Class Ep 9 & 10
April 29    Jiehae Park's PEERLESS dir. Steve Bogart
April 30    KINDRED graphic novel
                   Not the White House Correspondent's Dinner
May 1        Girls 2.6 & 2.7
                   Aaron Sorkin Master Class 11 and 12
May 2.      Girls 2.8 & 2.9 & 2.10
May 3.      The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
May 4.      Girls 3.1 and 3.2
                   Master Class 12 and 13
May 5.       La Llarona by Cecilia Raker
May 6.      Years of living Dangerously 1.1
                  Girls 3.3
                  Sorkin’s Master Class 14
May 7.      The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
                  Years of Living Dangerously 1.2
                  CHASING ICE
                  Girls 3.4
May 8.     Veep 4.9, 4.10, 5.1
                  A.S. Master Class 15
May 9.      Master Class 16
May 10.    A.S. Master Class 17 and 18
                  Documentary Now 1.4
May 11.    A.S. Master Class 19 and 20
May 12.    HUMMUS! THE MOVIE
May 13.    Yellow Bird Chase
                   A.S. Master Class 21, 22
                   Hillbilly Elegy
May 15.     JFK Library
                   A.S. Master Class 23 and 24
                   SICARIO
May 16.    Matisse in the Studio @ MFA
                  Memory Unearthed @ MFA
                  CELTIC TALES
                  Years of Living Dangerously 1.3 and 1.4
                  Veep 5.3 and 5.4
                  Borges' "In Praise of Darkness" - 5 stories
May 17.    Borges' The Maker - story collection
May 19.    Borges' The Maker & The Museum
                  Years of Living Dangerously 1.5 and 1.6
                  Girls 3.5
May 20.    Years of Living Dangerously 1.7
                   Veep 5.6 and 5.7
May 21.     Veep. 5.8, 5.9, 5.10
May 22.     Veep 6.1 and 6.2
May 23.     Years of LIving Dangerously 1.8
                   Veep 6.3
May 24.     Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnitt
                   Veep 6.4
May 25.    Years of Living Dangerously 1.9
                  World of Myth: Flood; Apocalypse
May 26.   Ole White Suga Daddy by Obehi Janice
                  Veep 6.5
May 27     The Collapse of Western Civilization by Naomi Orestes and Erik M Conway
                  GALAPAGOS 3D
                  THE ISLAND PRESIDENT
                  Veep 6.6
May 28.   Girls 3.6 and 3.7, 3.8, 3.10
                  YOLD 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
May 29.    Girls 3.11
May 30.    Years of Living Dangerously 2.4  
                   Ripcord by David Lindsay Abaire
June 2.     Nari Ward Sun Splashed (ICA)
                   Foster Award (ICA)
June 3.      Louis CK 2017
June 4.      Veep 6.6
June 5.      Terror on Planet Earth by RA Montgomery (CYOA)
June 6.      WONDER WOMAN dir by PATTY JENKINS
                   The Secret of the Dolphins Edward Packard
June 10.    Year of Living Dangerously 2.7 and 2.8
June 11.     The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
June 13.     Veep 6.7
                    Master of None 2.1
June 14.     The Perfect Planet (CYOA) by Edward Packard
                    Master of none 2.2
June 15.     Large Animals by Jess Arndt 
June 16.     Journey Under the Sea by RA Montgomery
June 17.     Tony Kushner Angels in Americaa, pt 1 Millennium Approaches
June 18.     Vanity Fair June 2017
June 19.      Veep 6.8
June 20.     Beyond Escape by R.A. Montgomery
                    The Leftovers 1.1
June 22.     Massachusetts Disasters by Larry Pletcher
June 23.     The Leftovers 1.2
June 24.     June/July Esquire
                     Archer 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
                     The Leftovers 1.3, 1.4
June 25.      Marisol by Jose Rivera
                     The Leftovers 1.5
June 26.      The Leftovers 1.6
June 27.       The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
                      Veep 6.10
June 28.     Myths and Civilizations of Native Americans
June 29.     Elegy for a Country's Seasons by Zadie Smith
July 1.         Masters of None 2.4
July 2.        Coping With Climate Change 1.1 and 1.2
July 3.         GET OUT, dir JORDAN PEELE
July 4.         Uncivilisation, the Dark Mountain Manifesto
July 5.         Borne by Jeff Vandermeer
July 6.         Mother Earth, Father Sky: Native American Myth
July 10.       Esquire August 2017
                     Master of None 2.6
July 11.       Master of None 2.7
                    CASINO ROYALE
                    GOLDFINGER
July 13.      Hunger by Roxane Gay
July 14.      The Uninhabitable Earth - NYMag
                    Blick Bassy AKO
                    The Leftovers 1.7
July 15.      Girls 4.1
July 17.      Vanity Fair July 2017
July 18.      Girls 4.2 and 4.3
July 19.      Philip Glass Duos 1 - 5
July 20.     The Leftovers 1.8
July 21.      The Leftovers 1.9
                    The Leftovers 1.10
July 22.      Leftovers 2.1
July 24.      A. S. Masterclass 25, 26, 27, 28
                    Girls 4.4
July 25.      Master Class 29 - 35
                    Rebecca Solnit: A Paradise Built in Hell
                    Mother Courage and her Children by Bertolt Brecht
                    Girls 4.5 and 4.6
July 27.     Our Town by Thornton Wilder
July 28.     The Crucible by Arthur Miller
July 29.     Girls 4.7., 4.8, 4.9
July 31.     Headstrong by Rachel Swaby
                   Girls 4.10 and 5.1
August 1.   The Leftovers 2.2
                    THE INCREDIBLE JESSICA JAMES
August 2.   The Leftovers 2.3
August 3.   NEAQ Lecture Sea Turtles and Manatees
August 4.   The Leftovers 2.4
                    The Summer of Love
                    Follow the North Star
August 5    THUNDERBALL
August 6     Girls 5.2 and 5.3
August 7.   Girls 5.4 and 5.5
August 8.   Girls 5.6 and 5.7
                    Sweet and Salt: Water and the Dutch
August 9.    Aristotle Poetics
August 10.   Girls 5.8
August 13.   Girls 5.9 and 5.10
August 15.   Chime and Punishment by Julianne Holmes
August 16.   Vanity Fair September 2017
August 17.   Girls. 6.1
August 18.  Girls 6.2
August 19.  Girls 6.3
                     OCEAN’s ELEVEN dir. STEVEN SODERBERG
August 20. OCEAN’S TWELVE dir STEVEN SODERBERG
                     Esquire September 2017
August 21.  OCEAN’S THIRTEEN dir STEVEN SODERBERG
August 22.  Girls 6.4 and 6.5
August 25.  THE GRADUATE dir. MIKE NICHOLS
August 26.  New England Aquarium Sharks Exhibition
                     THE GREAT WHITE (IMAX 3D)
                     Girls 6.6 and 6.7
                     Mayweather vs. McGregor
August 27. Girls 6.8, 6.9. 6.10
August 28.  The American Stage, edited by Laurence Senelick
August 29.  Robinson Jeffers: The Wild God of the World
                     WSJ Complete Money and Investing Guidebook, Dave Kansas
September 2. The Weird 
September 5. SOME LIKE IT HOT dir BILLY WILDER   
Setember 8.  Ursula K. LeGuin, The Wizard of Earthsea
September 9. Masters of none, 2.8
September 10. Masters of None 2.9 and 2.10
September 11.  Vanity Fair October
September 15.   On Writing by Stephen King
September 16.   Merrily we Roll Along
September 17.   CLOSER dir MIKE NICHOLS 
September 18.   DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE
September 19.   Legacy of Spies, by John Le Carre
                             SPIDER-MAN HOMECOMING
September 23.  Men on Boats
September 25.  JERRY BEFORE SEINFELD
                            THE TRIP
September 27.   Misery by Stephen King
                             The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
                             Friends From College 1.1
September 30.  HOME at Arts Emerson
October 1.          Friends from College 1.2 and 1.3
                             Rothko at MFA
October 2.          Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
                             MOTHER! Dir. by DARREN ARONOFSKY
October 3.          Insecure S1 Ep 3
October 4.          Friends from College 1.4
October 5.          Friends from College 1.5
October 6.          Drawdown
                             Friends from College 1.6, and 1.7
October 7.          BIG dir. by PENNY MARSHALL
October 8.         ordinary beasts by Nicole sealey
October 9.         ABOUT TIME dir RICHARD CURTIS
October 10.       Friends From College 1.8
October 11.        How to Weep in Public by Jacqueline Novak
                            SPIELBERG dir SUSAN LACY
October 14.       SOAPDISH
                            A Christmas Peril by JA Hennrikus 
October 15.       OKJA w/d by BONG JOON-HO
October 16.       Vanity Fair November
                            Insecure 1.1
October 17.       HAPPY DEATH DAY
October 18.       Second Variety by PKD
                            American Theatre December 2012
October 19.       A Little History of Dragons by Joyce Hargreaves
                            Dramatists Magazine Master Class Sept/Oct 2009
October 20.       FAYE DRISCOLL: THANK YOU FOR COMING - PLAY
October 22.       Insecure 1.2
October 23.       American Vandal 1.1
                             Insecure 1.3
October 24.       American Vandal 1.2
                             JAWS dir. STEVEN SPIELBERG
                             Insecure 1.4
                             Dramatist Magazine Mar/Apr 2015
October 26.       Over the Garden Wall ep 1
October 27.       Fledgling by Octavia E Butler
                            Insecure 1.5, 1.6, 1.7
October 29.       100 Essays I don’t have time to write, by Sarah Ruhl
                            Over the Garden Wall ep 2
                            Insecure 1.8
October 30.      Over the Garden Wall ep 3 and 4
                            Insecure 2.1
October 31.       Entrepreneur July 2013
                            Over the Garden Wall 5 - 10
                            Insecure 2.2
November 1.     American Vandal 1.3
November 2.    Dear Ijeawele by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
November 3.    Entrepreneur May 2013
                            Insecure 2.3
November 4.    AMerican Vandal 1.4
                           Mindhunter 1, 2, 3
November 5.    Esquire November 2017
                            Mindhunter 4, 5, 6, 7
November 6.    Mindhunter 8 and 9
                            BAD MOMS CHRISTMAS
November 7.    Mindhunter 10
                            Insecure 2.4
November 8     American Vandal 1.5
                            Dramatists Magazine Sept/Oct 2015
November 10.   Dramatists July/August 2016
November 12.   Notting Hill
November 13.   Insecure 2.5
November 14.   American Vandal 1.6
                            Insecure 2.6
November 15.   American Vandal 1.7 and 1.8
                            Odd and True by Cat Winters
November 17.   Vanity Fair December
November 19   Insecure 2.7 and 2.8
November 20. RIVERS & TIDES: ANDY GOLDSWORTHY
                           Kamasi Washington @ Royale
November 22  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling
November 23. The Good Place 1.1
November 24.  The Good Place 1.2
November 25.  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
November 26.  Tartuffe dir. Peter DuBois
                            Handmaid’s Tale 1.1 and 1.2
November 27.   Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
November 28.   The Wire 1.1
November 29.    THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL by Thomas Ades (MET Streaming)
December 1.       The Handmaid’s Tale 1.3
                              Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling
December 2.       Handmaid’s Tale 1.4
December 3.      Handmaid’s Tale 1.5
                             Piercing by Ryu Murakami
December 4.      The Ramayana by Sanjay Patel
                              The Good Place 1.3
December 7.       The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
                              Native American Classics
December 8.       Vanity Fair Holiday 2017/2018
December 9.       JIM & ANDY 
Decembner 10.   The Handmaid’s Tale 1.6
                              Esquire December 2017
December 11.     Mythologies of the World, McKenzie, Prime, George, Dunning
                              IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL: THE MYSTER OF HENRY DARGER dir JESSICA YU
                              M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang 
                              Sopranos 1.1
December 12.     The Old Man and the Old Moon (read) by PigPen Theatre Co
                              Sopranos 1.2
December 13.     A SPECIAL DAY, dir ETTORE SCOLA
                             Sopranos 1.3
December 16.     Sopranos 1.4
                              The Good Place 1.4
December 17.      Urban Nutcracker
December 18.      THE JUSTICE LEAGUE
December 19.      HeadHunters by Herbie Hancock
December 20.     Midsummer Night’s Dream (read)
December 23.      FORCE MAJEURE dir RUBAN OSTLUND
December 26.     GIRLS TRIP 
December 28.     Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth - Collection
                               Kimball Art Museum: Casanova - The Seduction of Europe
                               The Good Place 1.5
December 29.      It by Stephen King
​December 31.       Museo Frida Kahlo