2025 Listens

1. Nourished by Time - The Passionate Ones
2. Rosalía - LUX
3. Mei Semones - Animaru
4. 青葉市子 - Luminescent Creatures
5. Juana Rozas - Tanya
6. FKA twigs - Eusexua
7. Oneohtrix Point Never - Tranquilizer
8. Annahstasia - Tether
9. Kali Uchis - Sincerely,
10. Oklou - Choke Enough

First-Time Fiction Reads in 2025

1. William Peter Blatty - The Exorcist
2. V.E. Schwab - Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
3. Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Mexican Gothic
4. Susan Hill - The Woman in Black
5. Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights

First-Time Non-Fiction Reads in 2025

1. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin - The State and Revolution
2. Michael Parenti - Blackshirts and Reds
3. Peter Gelderloos - How Nonviolence Protects the State
4. Tara Brach - Radical Compassion
5. Will Hines - How to Be the Greatest Improvisor on Earth

2025 Watches (still catching up)

1. One Battle After Another
2. Die My Love
3. Wake Up Dead Man
4. The Naked Gun
5. Together

First-Time Watches in 2025

1. Swing Girls (2004)
2. Brief Encounter (1945)
3. Trouble in Paradise (1932)
4. A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
5. Mysterious Skin (2004)
6. An Angel at My Table (1990)
7. Nobody Knows (2004)
8. Lady Vengeance (2005)
9. The Kid Brother (1927)
10. Le Samouraï (1967)

Worst First-Time Watches in 2025

1. Fun in Balloon Land (1965)
2. Cats (2019)
3. Radical Jack (2001)
4. Karate Cop (1991)
5. Suburban Sasquatch (2004)
6. Maximum Security (1997)
7. Jurassic Shark (2012)
8. Mondo Cane (1962)
9. Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)
10. Night Killer (1990)

Favorite Podcast Discoveries

1. Mystery Show
2. Horn Blood Fire
3. Dead Eyes

Favorite Video Essayists

1. Broey Deschanel
2. Maggie Mae Fish
3. Jenny Nicholson
4. Yhara zayd
5. Jonas Čeika