(Post theme: friendly fire (the pool song)).
This year, I watched 164 films. I recommend Tinā, KPop Demon Hunters, The Gorge, Swiped, Python: The Documentary, Girl Haunts Boy, and We Live in Time, and Sinners. A somewhat disappointing year for films for me.
I also watched 1,259 episodes of TV. I recommend Taskmaster, The Runarounds, Murderbot, Department Q, and Shrinking. Not a great year for TV, either – a lot of stuff I’m somewhat interested in watching, but nothing that really grabbed me.
On YouTube, I watched a lot more than in previous years. I recommend the Taskmaster Podcast, the TalkVille Podcast, Nikki Lu, Dish Podcast, and Off Menu.
I listened to 158 hours of podcasts (this is roughly how long I spent travelling, since that’s about the only time I listen to podcasts these days). I recommend The Morning Shift, the Taskmaster Podcast (again), Gone By Lunchtime, Juggernaut, Wait Where Was I, and The Long Play.
I listened to 3,158 songs (around 64,000 minutes) this year, up quite a bit from last year (mostly because I was living alone for most of the year – it is very quiet!). I recommend Kids Up The Tree, Cassie Henderson, fdasavage, aleksiah, Borderline, Little Green, Emei, Maddy Low, Fan Club, Phoebe Grace, Brooke Alexx, Daisy Grenade, Chloe Parché, and LØLØ. A really great year for discovering new music.
I read a lot of stuff online (via RSS). I recommend everything I posted to tonyandrewmeyer.blog, and in particular: The Spinoff, Simon Willison, Armin Ronacher, and Charity Majors.
I read 114 books (including paper, ebooks, and audio books) this year (a bit over 47,000 pages). I recommend The Staff Engineer’s Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change, most of Brandon Sanderson‘s books, The Thursday Murder Club, The Library Trilogy, The Witch Roads, The Final Architecture, and Violet and the Velvets: The Case of the Missing Stuff. A good year for enjoyable books, but missing anything that really wowed me, unfortunately. A good book club year again, and a good year of re-reading some childhood favourites (not all of which stand up).
Happy new year!
TonyAndrewMeyer 