Keeping track of some of my favorite popular culture intake of the year. I expect you to check back often because I plan on updating this often and what's the point of me updating often if you're not checking back often? Well, actually, I'm not keeping this list for you. So, never mind. Check back as you see fit. Or not at all. It's cool either way. Whatever.

Great 2014 (or older) Music First Heard in 2015 (or at least after my 2014 year-end list was compiled):

• Mind Explosion by Electric Moon (2014)

• The Papermoon Sessions by Electric Moon/Papir (2014)

• Master Sleeps by Hills (2011)

• Once There Was a Time When Time & Space Were One by My Brother the Wind (2014)

• III by Papir (2013)

• Flesh and Machine by Daniel Lanois (2014)

• SUSTO by SUSTO (2014)

• Sula Bassana

• Krautrock in general: (Can, Faust, etc.)

Favorite Music released in 2015:

• 1989 by Ryan Adams

• Sound & Color by Alabama Shakes

• Lost Time by Dave Alvin and Phil Avin

• River by Daniel Bachman

• String Quartet Live! by Kishi Bashi

• Fear and Saturday Night by Ryan Bingham

• Children of the Light by Brian Blade/John Patitucci/Danilo Pérez

• Flyaway Garden by Breakfast In Fur

• Coming Home by Leon Bridges

• Pale White Dove by Doug Burr

• Untethered Moon by Built to Spill

• Edge of the Sun by Calexico

• Every Open Eye by Chvrches

• Southland Mission by Phil Cook

• Black Messiah by D'Angelo And The Vanguard

• Nashville Obsolete by Dave Rawlings Machine

• All Your Favorite Bands by Dawes

• Fading Frontier by Deerhunter

• Poison Season by Destroyer

• Butterfly Effect by DJ Krush

• Allas Sak by Dungen

• Terraplane by Steve Earle and the Dukes

• Theory of Mind by Electric Moon

• Elaenia by Floating Points

• Home by Josh Garrels

• Heartbreak Pass by Giant Sand

• Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

• Chambers by Chilly Gonzales

• Vestiges & Claws by José González

• Long Gone Time by Kevin Gordon

• Something More Than Free by Jason Isbell

• Ol' Glory by JJ Grey and Mofro

• Servant of Love by Patty Griffin

• Art Angels by Grimes

• The Clearing by Rachel Grimes

• Dream All Over by Gun Outfit

• Seasonal Hire by Steve Gunn and the Black Twig Pickers

• Late Bloomer by Matt Haeck

• Restless Bastards by Heartless Bastards

• Little Neon Limelight by Houndmouth

• In Colour by Jamie xx

• Goon by Tobias Jesso Jr.

• Drug For The Modern Age by Kopecky

• Then Came The Morning by the Lone Bellow

• Chasing White Light by the Lonely Wild

• Strange Trails by Lord Huron

• Gates of Gold by Los Lobos

• All A Man Should Do by Lucero

• Lands & Peoples by Bill Mallonee and the Big Sky Ramblers

• Blue Healer by Jimbo Mathus

• The Traveler by Rhett Miller

• Shadow of the Sun by Moon Duo

• Arena Negra by the Myrrors

• Vertigo by the Necks

• Sun Coming Down by Ought

• Dear Wormwood by the Oh Hellos

• Simple Songs by Jim O'Rourke

• Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper by Panda Bear

• Music is Love by Papa Mali

• Love Songs For Robots by Patrick Watson

• Natalie Prass by Natalie Prass

• For Use and Delight by Promised Land Sound

• Windfall by Joe Pug

• Fables by David Ramirez

• Sleep by Max Richter

• Sermon on the Rocks by Josh Ritter

• Acne/Ears by Roadside Graves

• Shaky by Thayer Sarrano

• Shadow Shows by Seryn

• Late Night Endless by Sherwood & Pinch

• Okra Candy by Shinyribs

• No Cities To Love by Sleater-Kinney

• Early Risers by Soldiers of Fortune

• Traveller by Chris Stapleton

• Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens

• Currents by Tame Impala

• The Great Minimum by Tow'rs

• Parallelogram (2015 // Three Lobed Records) by Various Artists

• Sisters and Brothers by the Vespers

• B'lieve I'm Goin Down by Kurt Vile

• Primrose Green by Ryley Walker

• The Epic by Kamasi Washington

• Fresh Blood by Matthew E. White

• Radium Death by William Elliott Whitmore

• Star Wars by Wilco

• My Love Is Cool by Wolf Alice

• Paradise by the Wood Brothers

• Soul Food by the Word

• Love Monster by Zone Six
  

Concerts:

• 01/28/15 - NOT LOS LOBOS! I had some time to kill before picking up kids and got stuck with Lane Change instead. It was worth a try.

• 02/13/15 - Shawn Skinner and the Men of Reason, Mr. Mudd & Mr. Gold and Some Dark Hollow at Blasted Barley.

• 04/09/15 - the War on Drugs with Hopalong at the Pressroom.

• 05/18/15 - Shawn Skinner and the Men of Reason, Ben Anderson and Betsy Ganz at Crescent Ballroom.

• 07/25/15 - Seryn at the Musical Instrument Museum

• 07/27/15 - Ramsay Midwood with Jim Bachmann and Shawn Skinner and the Men of Reason at the Rhythm Room.

Things Read in 2015:

• Lone Wolf and Cub Omnibus Volume 4 by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima (2013)

• Lone Wolf and Cub Omnibus Volume 5 by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima (2013)

• Lone Wolf and Cub Omnibus Volume 6 by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima (2013)

• What Your Clients Won't Tell You and Your Managers Don't Know by John Gamble (2001)

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1969)

• Lone Wolf and Cub Omnibus Volume 7 by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima (2013)

• The Warden and the Wolf King by Andrew Peterson (2014)

• Refractions: A Journey of Faith, Art, and Culture by Makoto Fujimura (2009)

• Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair by Anne Lamott (2013)

• Through Painted Deserts by Donald Miller (2005)

• Counseling: A Comprehensive Profession by Samuel T. Gladding (1988)

• Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron (1990)

• The Creative Arts in Counseling by Samuel T. Gladding (2010)

• Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl (1970)

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (1996)

• On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)

• Big Sur by Jack Kerouac (1962)

• How Children Succeed by Paul Tough (2012)

• The Sacredness of Questioning Everything by David Dark (2009)

• The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor (1960)

• Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck (1935)

• The Plague by Albert Camus (1947)

• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1902)

• The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951)

• The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942)

• Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954)

• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)

• Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
  

Favorite Movies Watched in 2015 (in order seen):

• Ernest & Celestine (2012)

• Big Eyes (2014)

• Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (2013)

• Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?) (2010)

• No No: A Documentary (2014)

• The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir (2014)

• Inside Out (2015)

• Charles Bradley: Soul of America (2012)

• Serenity (2005)

• Stories We Tell (2012)

• A Letter to Momo (2011)

• Patema Inverted (2013)

• The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)

• Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter (2014)

• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

• Castle in the Sky (1986)

• My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

• Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)

• Princess Mononoke (1997)

• Spirited Away (2001)

• Howl's Moving Castle (2004)

• Every Other Summer (2015)
  

Favorite Television Watched in 2015:

• Rurouni Kenshin: Wandering Samurai (1996)

• The Legend of Korra (2012)

• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season One (2015)

• Sons of Tucson (2010)

• Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street Season One (2014)

• The X-Files (1993-2002)

• Raising Hope (2010-2014)

• Firefly (2002-2003)

• Rex the Runt (1992-2001)

• Downton Abbey (2010- )

• Boy Meets World (1993-2000)

• Girl Meets World Season One (2014)

• Doctor Who, Season 08 (2014)