2019 Favorites

Every year I like to keep track of all of my favorite media from the last 12 months - books, music, movies, whatever. Here’s the rundown on what I consumed & loved this year (in no particular order). Please share your top picks in the comments - I would love recommendations!

MOVIES:

Leave No Trace

A Simple Favor

Light of My Life

Still

Ballad of Buster Scuggs

Triple Frontier

Sugar Mountain

MUSIC (ALBUMS):

“Lover” by Noah Gundersen

“New Age Heroine” by Ours

“From the Fires” by Greta Van Fleet

“Neptune” by Tall Heights

“Distortland” by The Dandy Warhols

“Spirit of the Abyss” by Amarante

“Family of the Year” by “Family of the Year

TV SHOWS:
Chernobyl

Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Shameless

Fed Up

Glow

Handmaid’s Tale

Schitt’s Creek

Making It

(And I’m currently re-watching Sons of Anarchy and Downton Abbey, so those definitely count!)

BOOKS:

“The World Made Straight” by Ron Rash

“Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens

“The Happiness Project” by Gretchen Rubin

“How to be a Good Creature” by Sy Montgomery

“Gone Viking” by Helen Russell

“City of Girls” by Elizabeth Gilbert

PODCASTS:

Forever35

Ologies

Dressed

Creature Feature

This Podcast Will Kill You

Top Picks for 2018

I go through a ton of content when I’m in the studio. I’m rarely just sitting there working in silence (although on occasion it can be nice). I have absolutely no idea how many hours of audible books, podcasts, movies, or music I’ve consumed over the last year, but I do know what I keep coming back to. Here’s a look at my top picks for 2018.


Albums:

White Noise by Noah Gundersen

A Black Mile to the Surface by Manchester Orchestra

Nothing But Thieves by Nothing But Thieves

Sparrow by Jump Little Children

Loma Vista by Family of the Year


Movies:

A Quiet Place

Captain Fantastic

Bohemian Rhapsody

Leave No Trace

Wish I Was Here

Books:

A Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell

Look Alive Out There by Sloane Crosley

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

My Heart & Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga

Get Well Soon: A History of Plagues and the Heroes who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright


Podcasts:

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Etsy Success Podcast

From the Front Porch

Creature Feature

The End of the World with Josh Clark

TV:

The Nineties Miniseries

Handmaid’s Tale

Queer Eye

Downton Abbey

Dark Tourist