{"id":41035,"date":"2021-12-30T11:10:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T16:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=41035"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:29:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T16:29:00","slug":"2021-things-what-i-liked-that-i-can-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2021\/12\/30\/2021-things-what-i-liked-that-i-can-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"2021: Things What I Liked (That I Can Remember)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is going to be hasty — I have an utterly broken memory of what actually existed in 2021. It’s curiously difficult to pinpoint this year as a year, to find its walls, to see its ceiling and its floor, to know what exists in this temporal room, this time-based structure. Because I barely acknowledge it as a structure at all. It is, in fact, more like a free-floating miasma<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, something happened in this sinister vapor<\/em>. Let me try to suss out the stuff I liked this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pop culture stuff, I mean. Media. CONTENT. Mmm. Chewy, granular content<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again, this is by no means comprehensive or exhaustive. It’s just some stuff I really liked this year. If it’s not on this list, I may still have liked it — even loved it! — and forgot it existed in 2021, or forgot it existed at all, because that’s just how my brain is faring these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albums:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indigo de Souza, Any Shape You Take<\/p>\n\n\n\n

illuminati hotties, Let Me Do One More<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hus KingPin, Portishus<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Halsey, If I Can’t Have Love I Want Power<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TMBG, Book<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CHVRCHES, Screen Violence<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deap Vally, Marriage<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bo Burnham, Inside<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olivia Rodrigo, Sour<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, for some good songs: Jenny Lewis, “Puppy and a Truck;” Margo Price, “Red Temple Prayer;” Japanese Breakfast, “Be Sweet;” Jack White, “Taking Me Back;” Moon Taxi, “The Beginning;” K. Flay, “Four Letter Words”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TV:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Murders In The Building, Ted Lasso, Hacks, Sex Lives of College Girls, CentaurWorld, White Lotus, did I mention Only Murders In The Building??, I Think You Should Leave, What We Do In The Shadows, Mare of Easttown, Midnight Mass, Reservation Dogs, Arcane, Owl House, Kid Cosmic, Maya and the Three<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Movies:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watched… surprisingly few actual movies this year, so let’s see how this goes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matrix: Resurrections (my initial review was me scratching my head, but I’ve revisited it and it has stuck with me more than I expected), The Mitchells Vs The Machines, Dune, Lost Daughter, The Green Knight, The Night House, Summer of Soul, Suicide Squad, is Bo Burnham’s Inside a movie or a show or what I dunno whatever just put it on all the lists, The Harder They Fall<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Games:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s basic, but Halo: Infinite is deeply satisfying; Deathloop; Psychonauts 2; the new Outer Wilds expansion; Townscaper; Mass Effect: Legendary Edition which I know isn’t really a 2021 game but shut up; I really want to play Inscryption and Wildermyth but I don’t have a PC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Special shout-out to Root<\/strong>, by Leder Games, which is a truly delightful boardgame<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

God, this one is really hard, because a lot of stuff I read is from years outside 2021 — including coming out in 2022?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catriona Ward’s Last House on Needless Street; Sarah Gailey’s The Echo Wife; Razorblade Tears, SA Cosby; Cassandra Khaw’s The All-Consuming World and Nothing but Blackened Teeth; Premee Mohamed’s Annual Migration of Clouds; Hummingbird Salamander, Jeff VanderMeer; Apples of North America, Tom Burford; Annalee Newitz’s Four Lost Cities; Amanda Montell’s Cultish; Samira Ahmed’s Amira & Hamza; Cina Pelayo’s Children of Chicago; Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca, Chistopher Mims’ Arriving Today<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right now I’m reading and loving David Perry and Matthew Gabriele’s The Bright Ages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus I’ve read some really great stuff coming out in 2022: Alex Segura’s Secret Identity; Delilah S. Dawson’s The Violence; Kiersten White’s Hide; Alma Katsu’s The Fervor; Rob Hart’s Paradox Hotel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know I’m missing things! I’m sure of it. Brain like a sieve in a year of fog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BUT, hey, this gives you some stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also I wrote books this year, which may or may not have been any good at all:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You Can Do Anything, Magic Skeleton<\/a> (with Natalie Metzger!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Book of Accidents<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dust & Grim<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you liked any of those, a review somewhere would be gosh darn delightful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KAY BYE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(You should of course feel free to share your own Favorite Things in the comments.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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