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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
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JRexPlays is taking the rare step of printing an anonymous Op-Ed Essay. We have done so because we feel this is the only way to delivery this perspective to our readers. President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.
It’s not just that the special counsel looms large. Or that the country is bitterly divided over Mr. Trump’s leadership. Or that he makes two awful decisions for each decision he has to make. The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp — is that as much as 70% of the voters in his own country are working diligently to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. I would know. I am one of them. To be clear, ours is not the silent, invisible, hard to notice “resistance” of the right. But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic. Who’d have thought?! That is why many citizens have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office. The root of the problem is the president’s ineptness for the Presidency in all ways: moral, intellectual, remedial. It’s as if the job interview process was flawed. Although he was elected as a Republican, the president shows little affinity for ideals long espoused by conservatives: free minds except concerning race, Israel, and gender; free markets and free people*. At best, he is able to breathe and literally fill the chair he is required to sit in. At worst, aw Jesus do we really need to review this? *- Ed Note: it became clear in conversations that the writer has a limited understanding of the definition of “people” In addition to his mass-marketing of the notion that the press is the “enemy of the people,” that women are objects, that brown persons do not count, President Trump’s I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU STILL NEED AN ARGUMENT HERE. Don’t get me wrong. There are bright spots that the near-ceaseless negative coverage of the administration fails to capture: Mike Pence’s hair is shiny and full. But these successes have come despite — not because of — the president’s leadership, which is impetuous, adversarial, petty, ineffective, racist, misogynistic, idiotic, problematic, ruinous, heinous in the anus, insulting to the American intelligence and embarrassing on the world stage. From states around the nation, citizens will quite publicly and adamantly yell, tweet, and advertise their daily disgust at the commander in chief’s comments and actions. Most are working to insulate their operations from his whims. It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. We fully recognize what is happening. And we are trying to do what’s right even when Donald Trump won’t. This isn’t the work of the so-called deep state. It’s the work of black women, the LGBTQ+ community, teens who hate being shot at at school, people of color who hate being shot at everywhere, and Twitter. This resistance is known as the Peep State. Given the instability many witnessed, there were early whispers within the nation of invoking the 25th Amendment, which would start a complex process for removing the president. But no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis. SO YOU BETTER FUCKING VOTE AMERICA. 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 |
