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December 2022

• ( < 29/12) — “Good Pop Bad Pop” by Jarvis Cocker 🎧

• 25/12 — LAST LOOKS ✈️

• 24/12 — NOPE ✈️

  “And this is a Black person making a movie about a character named OJ, where OJ is essentially riding a horse. Putting OJ near horses that may or may not be broncos is provocative. It’s also provocative just to be in a world that knows what it means for a Black person to be named that.” — “Alien Superstar”

  THE REAL VILLAIN OF NOPE*
  HOW NOPE TRICKS YOUR EARS*

• 22/12 — APOLLO 10 ½: A SPACE AGE CHILDHOOD

• 22/12 — GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO

• 15/12 — STUTZ*

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The wheels fell off…

December 2021

• 27/12 — “Harsh Reality” podcast ( < 20/11)

November 2021

• 28/11 — A SIMPLE PLAN

• 22/11 — RED NOTICE

October 2021

• 22/10 — FOUR HOURS AT THE CAPITOL*

• 22/10 — IMPEACHMENT: AMERICAN CRIME STORY*

September 2021

• 15/09 — SCHUMACHER

• 10/09 — “Time Machine: The Score”

• 06/09 — TURNING POINT: 9/11* ( < 05/09)

August 2021

• 15/08 — UNTOLD*

• 14/08 — I CARE A LOT

• 13/08 — NOBODY

• 13/08 — MONEYBALL

July 2021

• ( < 19/07) — “Lolita Podcast”

• ( < 18/07) — MONEY HEIST*

• 15/07 — DINNER IN AMERICA

• ( < 13/07) — EXTERMINATE ALL...

The “best of” version of everything I read, saw and heard in 2020 — lists are either in the order that they were viewed, read or listened to, randomly ordered or in some kind of ranking. Good luck

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Boris Johnson in Downing Street

“Arrogant and offensive. Can you imagine having to work with these truth twisters?”

— @UKCivilService. May 24th 2020

The most interesting podcasts episodes

My podcast listening fell of a cliff when my commute did, so…

— “Kantor and Twohey: The Reporters Who Broke the Harvey Weinstein Story” on Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin and “The Woman Defending Harvey Weinstein” both with startling moments as Baldwin is challenged and the lawyer defending Weinstein says “Because I would never put myself in that position.”

— “Everyone’s a...

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December 2020

• 31/12 — SANTA CLAWS

• 30/12 — THE CHRISTMAS CHRONICLES PART TWO

• 28/12 — THE CHRISTMAS CHRONICLES

• ( < 27/12) — DEATH TO 2020*

• 27/12 — SOUL

• 26/12 — NOELLE

• 25/12 — THE MORNING SHOW* ( < 23/12)

• 25/12 — I GIVE IT A YEAR

• ( < 25/12) — How to do Nothing by Jenny Odell

• 23/12 — HER SMELL

• ( < 22/12) — THE RIPPER*

• 22/12 — THE FAREWELL

• 21/12 — THE BEACH BUM

• 20/12 — LANCE*

• 20/12 — SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE

• 19/12 — TED LASSO* ( < 18/12)

• 18/12 — SONG EXPLODER: VOLUME 2* (NIN and The Killers)

• 18/12 — ARCTIC

• ( < 16/12) —...

The “best of” version of everything I read, saw and heard in 2019 — All lists are in the order that they were viewed, read or listened to, I think

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— On Work
— Robert Caro
— The VERY best
— Things learnt and then forgotten

— Footnotes

“I’m on the roof with a gun - but I don’t want to use it because of the neighbours”

— Tom Ripley (Dennis Hopper) in The American Friend

The most interesting podcasts episodes

• “The Room of Requirement - This American Life” is about the library between the border of U.S and Canada. “… only at this time in America would this exact requirement exist. And a room appeared, a reading room.”

• Alvin Hall’s fascinating audio on the reality of “The Green Book.”

• “Heavyweight 24 Jimmy and Mark” — Where some 10-year-olds cycle for 3 days and...

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December 2019

• 31/12 — ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD

• 30/12 — STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER

• 30/12 — Boris Johnson made politics awful, then asked people to vote it away

  The night before the election, for example, the BBC’s ‘serious’ channel, Radio4, broadcast a montage of moments in the election aimed to make the point that all the protagonists had misled voters in different ways. Those who cut this clip together were very careful to ‘balance’ their coverage, criticising each party equally. No doubt they are dedicated to...