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Here you go, as promised from Penn: His end of the year media wrap up list

2021 Penn – 220101 – Here’s my year-end for 2021.

I keep a record of all the art I take in and I wrap it up at the end of the year.  It’s another year of the pandemic, so it’s not worth doing, but my habits go deep, so . . .

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I saw 4 movies in the theater this year, 4 more than last year.

All for the Children:

Black Widow

Free Guy

Encanto

Spider-Man – No Way Home

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I put video, broadcast, iTunes and everything not in a theater together. This year that includes Zoom shows

I saw 69 video things (3 more than last year — it’s a pandemic).

There’s a lot of TV shows that I watch that might have other seasons.  I don’t write up a season, only a whole show, so I watched more than is shown here. All the movies from 1972 are when I had Covid.  I guess it’s a symptom.

Here’s the ones I liked in the order I saw them:

Borgen

Wade in the Water

Gone, Baby, Gone

One Night in Miami

I See You

Apples

Burden

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

Minion of Midas (Español)

Black Sunday

Quien A Hierro Mata

Your Honor

Nomadland

Investigation

7 Años

The Mauritanian

The Dark Knight

Nobody

Dawson City: Frozen Time

Listening to Kenny G

Miss Sloane

Summer of Soul

Shadow Kingdom – Bob Dylan

McCarney 3, 2, 1

The Company you Keep

Hail Caesar

Searching

Paper Moon

Charly Varrick

Scarecrow

What’s Up Doc

Serpico

Papillion

Clickbait

Double Jeopardy

The Woman in the Window

Come From Away

The Velvet Underground

Borderlands

The Beatles – Get Back

Triple Trouble (Residents)

The Guilty

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I saw 1 bands (1 more than last year)

Elew (He played at our house, so I didn’t go out)

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I saw 1 comedy show (2 Fewer than last year!)

My favorite (and man, he is great, getting better all the time):

Piff

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I saw 1 magic show in (10 fewer than last year),

Piff –

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I saw 3 plays (1 more than last year)

Assassins

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I saw 3 Vegas shows  (1 more than last year), my favorites were:

Elew

Piff

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I mix up audio books, and Kindle.  I started driving to work, so that brought the audiobooks back.  I read the Times every day and “The Week” every week, but I don’t count that. I’ve been reading a bit, I read on the Kindle for usually over an hour often 2 hours a night.

I guess I read about 36 which is 6 fewer than last year.

My Favorites (they tend to be all — the ones I’m not liking fade away before finishing)

Stephen Fry Presents a Selection of Anton Chekhov’s Short Stories by Anton Chekov

Mythos

Casino Royale

Live and Let Die

Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures

A Promised land

Gone, Baby, Gone: A Novel (Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro Book 4)

On the Run: Friendships and Finish Lines – Joe Martino

Hunger by Knut Hamsun

Why Vegan?: Eating Ethically by Peter Singer

It's a Wonderful Regency Christmas: Six Merry & Bright Holiday Novellas by Edith Layton

Tarbell Course in Magic, Vol 1

The Truth about Lies: the Illusion of Honesty and the Evolution of Deceit

The Poetry Remedy: Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind, and Soul by William Siegh

Subdivision: A Novel by J. Robert Lennon

Sick and Tired – Martin Mull

Project Hail Mary: A Novel by Andy Weir

Artemis: A Novel by Andy Weir

How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

by Sarah Bakewell

Madball (Black Gat Books Book 20) by Fredric Brown

How to Do Things with Fictions by Joshua Landy

Poems In A Time of Grief by G. Greene

Let Me Think: Stories by J. Robert Lennon

Irreversible Damage

Lock, Stock & Peril by Dave McBride

Expose Yourself: How to Take Risks, Question Everything, and Find Yourself

by Erin Louis

The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch

Whale Day: And Other Poems by Billy Collins

At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others

by Sarah Bakewell

Carrying the Fire: 50th Anniversary Edition by Michael Collins

Practical Gods (Penguin Poets) by Carl Dennis

Hearts In Atlantis

Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker

The Seashell Anthology of Great Poetry by Christopher Burns

The Souvenir Museum: Stories by Elizabeth McCracken

Copperfield Magic History

Also, I’m trying to read short stories in Spanish. I have Amie, Jandro, and Eduardo dragging my sorry gringo ass as I try to learn.  But the Spanish is all very beginner, so not worth writing up yet.  But I work on Spanish 90 minutes a day every day, so that’s a LOT of my time.  Maybe next year there will be some real books in Spanish.  I hope.

So, that’s it for 2021.

What a year. Let’s hope 2022 is better.

Stay Positive.

Stay Negative.