Day: January 4, 2020

For a number of years, I developed an end-of-year list of my favorite albums* for my music blog at https://eyeavenue.blogspot.com/. Over the years, particularly since my retirement from computer programming in 2015 and a concurrent much renewed emphasis on photography, time for music has been in short supply. Then, the move to the east side of the Cascade Curtain nearly two years ago with its commitment to a simplification of Life in General and ever-increasing … focus … on photography has compounded the squeeze. Ivi and I had intentions over the recent holidays to compare notes and explore current music, much like we had done in the past, but little opportunity materialized.

Nevertheless, just to mark the passing into 2020, I did work up a short list before breakfast today of a few of my favorite viewed/heard/read experiences of the past year (my past year; not necessarily when published/presented). Herewith, FWIW:

TV/Streaming Series

My Brilliant Friend (HBO, 2018)
Chernobyl (HBO, 2019)
Succession (HBO, 2019)
Sneaky Pete (Amazon Prime, 2015-2019)
__ Explained (Netflix, 2018-2019)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO, ongoing since 2014)

Movie

Little Women (2019, Greta Gerwig version)

Reads

These Truths (Jill Lepore, 2018)
Trick Mirror (Jia Tolentino, 2019)
The Fifth Risk (Michael Lewis, 2018)
How To Change Your Mind (Michael Pollan, 2018)

Music Album

Hollywood Africans (Jon Batiste, 2018)
(And listen to this 2018 interview.)

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* Some of the lists from prior years:
https://eyeavenue.blogspot.com/2016/12/five-from-2016.html
https://eyeavenue.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-short-list-for-2015.html
https://eyeavenue.blogspot.com/2015/01/a-tentative-2014-list.html
https://eyeavenue.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-list-for-2013.html
https://eyeavenue.blogspot.com/2012/12/in-keeping-with-family-who-else-would.html