2019
Welcome to my lists list. I like to keep track of the things I read, watch and listen to. You know, sort of based on that quote (which I have edited): “The person you will be in five years is based on the books you read, the movies you watch, the music you listen to, and the people you surround yourself with today.” It’s important to understand the things that you put in to your system. Think of it like a pop culture diet record. Or something like that. Feel free to follow along. Or don’t. Please feel free to interact and make suggestions. Or don’t. You can also browse lists from past years. Or don’t.
2018 Albums I Should Have Included In My 2018 “Favorites” List:
Another Shape of Psychedelic Music by Mythic Sunship
Piano & A Microphone 1983 by Prince
My East Is Your West by Sarathy Korwar (featuring Upaj Collective)
Pre-2019 Music Discovered/Or At-Least Really Paid-Attention-To in 2019 (In order according to first heard):
Letta Mbulu
Tikmawen by Timasniwen (2018)
Lambi Golo by TOURE KUNDA (2018)
Angels of Death by Jennifer Castle (2018)
Mad Skillet by John Medeski (2018)
The Seatbelts
Utakata no Hibi (うたかたの日々) by Mariah (named a “Best Reissue” by Pitchfork in 2015)
Dire Wolves
Heron Oblivion
You Will Know Nothing by Here Lies Man
Black Powder Sunrise Girl by Skyjelly
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society
My East Is Your West by Sarathy Korwar (featuring Upaj Collective)
Relatively Clean Rivers by Relatively Clean Rivers (1976)
Grassroots Guitar by George Cromarty (1973)
Favorite Music Reissues/Box Sets in 2019/Misc. (in alphabetical order):
Volume I and II by Endless Boogie (sort of a re-issue?)
African Voodoo by Manu Dibango
The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings by Bob Dylan
Scratch The Upsetter Again by The Upsetters (Lee “Scratch” Perry)
Double Seven by the Upsetters (Lee “Scratch” Perry)
Monster by R.E.M.
Favorite Singles/Songs of 2019 (in alphabetical order):
Everybody Needs Somebody b/w Watching the Wires by Hiss Golden Messenger
“Mardi Gras” by One Eleven Heavy
‘Sideways’ by Seryn
Favorite Music Videos of 2019 (in alphabetical order):
Gold Past Life by Fruit Bats
Favorite Albums/EPs released in 2019 (in alphabetical order):
I Was Real by 75 Dollar Bill
Ancestral Recall by Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah
How We Got By by Air Review
LAHS by Allah-Las
RE_CORDIS by Bruno Bavota
Hyperspace by Beck
Bird Songs of a Killjoy by Bedouine
UFOF by Big Thief
Two Hands by Big Thief
i,i by Bon Iver
Sahari by Aziza Brahim
The Brian Jonestown Massacre by The Brian Jonestown Massacre
uknowhatimsayin¿ by Danny Brown
V by Budos Band
African Giant by Burna Boy
Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest by Bill Callahan
Ghosteen by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The Big Day by Chance the Rapper
Servants of the Sun by Chris Robinson Brotherhood
All My Relations by Cochemea
A Good Time by Davido
Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? by Deerhunter
Grow Towards The Light by Dire Wolves
Saint of Lost Causes by Justin Townes Earle
Sun Cycle/Elk Jam by Elkhorn
Pianoworks by Eluvium
Volume I and II by Endless Boogie (sort of a re-issue?)
Remind Me Tomorrow by Sharon Van Etten
All Time Present by Chris Forsyth
Gold Past Life by Fruit Bats
One of the Best Yet by Gang Starr
Natural Facts by Garcia Peoples
No Home Record by Kim Gordon
Let It Burn by GospelbeacH
Natural Affair by the Growlers
The Unseen In Between by Steve Gunn
A Different Forest by Hauschka
Non Ex Orbis by Karl Hector & The Malcouns
Back At The House by Hemlock Ernst and Kenny Segal
The Gospel According to Water by Joe Henry
Terms of Surrender by Hiss Golden Messenger
Rising by House of Waters
Jaime by Brittany Howard
Doko Mien by Ibibio Sound Machine
Laylet El Booree by Ifriqiyya Electrique
Mandatory Reality by Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society
Live! by The Kernal
Live at WOMAD 1985 by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
More Arriving by Sarathy Korwar
Kokoroko by Kokoroko
Miri by Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba
Live On The East Coast by The Lee Boys
Tip of the Sphere by Cass McCombs
Dusty Notes by Meat Puppets
Dolphine by Mega Bog
Across the Borders by Júníus Meyvant
Blue Stage Session by Mdou Moctar
Ilana (The Creator) by Mdou Moctar
How To Live by Modern Nature
Stars Are The Light by Moon Duo
Oh My God by Kevin Morby
Three Chords and the Truth by Van Morrison
Sunshine Rock by Bob Mould
In League With Dragons by the Mountain Goats
History by Youssou N'Dour
I Am Easy To Find by The National
In The Morse Code Of Brake Lights by The New Pornographers
All Mirrors by Angel Olsen
Desire Path by One Eleven Heavy
Buoys by Panda Bear
Phoenix by Pedro the Lion
Rainford by Lee “Scratch” Perry
Rootz Reggae Dub by Lee "Scratch" Perry
The Flood in Color by Joe Pug
Rose City Band by Rose City Band
Pianette by Bruno Sanfilippo
Fog & Bling by Shinyribs
Sound & Fury by Sturgill Simpson
Wuta by Skata Vibration
Out of Darkness by Some Dark Hollow
Western Stars by Bruce Springsteen
Eraserland by Strand of Oaks
Illegal Moves by Sunwatchers
Amankor / The Exile by Tartit
Amadjar by Tinariwen
Goes West by William Tyler
Preserves by Matt Valentine
Father of the Bride by Vampire Weekend
Come On Up To The House: Women Sing Waits by Various Artists
Up On High by Vetiver
Water Weird by Wet Tuna
Ode to Joy by Wilco
The Sisypheans by Xylouris White
Walk Through Fire by Yola
ANIMA by Thom Yorke
Favorite Albums/EPs released in 2019 (in order first heard):
Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? by Deerhunter
The Unseen In Between by Steve Gunn
Remind Me Tomorrow by Sharon Van Etten
Out of Darkness by Some Dark Hollow
Goes West by William Tyler
Pianette by Bruno Sanfilippo
Miri by Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba
Amankor / The Exile by Tartit
Sunshine Rock by Bob Mould
Phoenix by Pedro the Lion
Tip of the Sphere by Cass McCombs
Across the Borders by Júníus Meyvant
All My Relations by Cochemea
Kokoroko by Kokoroko
Doko Mien by Ibibio Sound Machine
Natural Facts by Garcia Peoples
Blue Stage Session by Mdou Moctar
Dusty Notes by Meat Puppets
Illegal Moves by Sunwatchers
Ilana (The Creator) by Mdou Moctar
All Time Present by Chris Forsyth
Eraserland by Strand of Oaks
Non Ex Orbis by Karl Hector & The Malcouns
V by Budos Band
Wuta by Skata Vibration
Laylet El Booree by Ifriqiyya Electrique
Mandatory Reality by Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society
RE_CORDIS by Bruno Bavota
A Different Forest by Hauschka
The Brian Jonestown Massacre by The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Pianoworks by Eluvium
Rose City Band by Rose City Band
Servants of the Sun by Chris Robinson Brotherhood
Oh My God by Kevin Morby
Sun Cycle/Elk Jam by Elkhorn
Western Stars by Bruce Springsteen
Saint of Lost Causes by Justin Townes Earle
Volume I and II by Endless Boogie
In League With Dragons by the Mountain Goats
Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest by Bill Callahan
Father of the Bride by Vampire Weekend
I Am Easy To Find by The National
Gold Past Life by Fruit Bats
Rainford by Lee “Scratch” Perry
Grow Towards The Light by Dire Wolves
Fog & Bling by Shinyribs
History by Youssou N'Dour
I Was Real by 75 Dollar Bill
Dolphine by Mega Bog
Bird Songs of a Killjoy by Bedouine
Buoys by Panda Bear
ANIMA by Thom Yorke
How We Got By by Air Review
Walk Through Fire by Yola
The Big Day by Chance the Rapper
More Arriving by Sarathy Korwar
The Flood in Color by Joe Pug
African Giant by Burna Boy
Live at WOMAD 1985 by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
i,i by Bon Iver
How To Live by Modern Nature
Terms of Surrender by Hiss Golden Messenger
Desire Path by One Eleven Heavy
Stars Are The Light by Moon Duo
Jaime by Brittany Howard
In The Morse Code Of Brake Lights by The New Pornographers
Sound & Fury by Sturgill Simpson
Rootz Reggae Dub by Lee "Scratch" Perry
All Mirrors by Angel Olsen
Ode to Joy by Wilco
Live! by The Kernal
Ghosteen by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
UFOF by Big Thief
Two Hands by Big Thief
Rising by House of Waters
Live On The East Coast by The Lee Boys
No Home Record by Kim Gordon
Let It Burn by GospelbeacH
Natural Affair by the Growlers
Three Chords and the Truth by Van Morrison
uknowhatimsayin¿ by Danny Brown
Back At The House by Hemlock Ernst and Kenny Segal
Water Weird by Wet Tuna
Up On High by Vetiver
One of the Best Yet by Gang Starr
LAHS by Allah-Las
The Sisypheans by Xylouris White
Preserves by Matt Valentine
Amadjar by Tinariwen
Sahari by Aziza Brahim
The Gospel According to Water by Joe Henry
Hyperspace by Beck
A Good Time by Davido
Ancestral Recall by Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah
Come On Up To The House: Women Sing Waits by Various Artists
Things Read in 2019 (in order read):
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib (2019)
Judas by Jeff Loveness and Jakub Rebelka (2018)
Coraline by Neil Gaiman (2002)
The Autumnlands Volume One: Tooth and Claw by Kurt Busiek and Benjamin Dewey (2014)
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm (2012)
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur Issue 001: by Amy Reeder, Brandon Montclare, and Natacha Bustos (2009)
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur Issue 002: by Amy Reeder, Brandon Montclare, and Natacha Bustos (2009)
His Day Is Done: A Nelson Mandela Tribute by Maya Angelou (2014)
On Life After Death by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1991)
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (1996)
Story Bible by Pearl S. Buck (1971)
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (2006)
Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick (2011)
The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton (1948)
Blankets by Craig Thompson (2003)
The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book by by Bill Watterson (1997)
Yukon Ho! A Calvin and Hobbes Collection by Bill Watterson (1989)
The Grief Recovery Handbook: A Step-by-Step Program for Moving Beyond Loss (John W. James and Frank Cherry) (1989)
Discover Zen: A Practical Guide to Personal Serenity by David Fontana (2001)
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1979)
The Restaurant At The End of the Universe by Douglas Adams (1980)
Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams (1982)
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams (1984)
Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams (1992)
The Silence of Our Friends by Jim Demonakos and Mark Long and Nate Powell (2012)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (2007)
I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina, Stacey Robinson and John Jennings (2017)
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, and Steven Scott (2019)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead by Dennis McNally (2001)
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (1974)
The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Leo Tolstoy (1894)
American Pastoral by Philip Roth (1997)
Concerts, Speakers, Plays and Such:
Some Dark Hollow (Album Release Show) with American Longspurs and Brea Burns with Jacob Woodside at Valley Bar (02/09/19).
Kikagaku Moyo with Mattson 2 at the Rebel Lounge (03/04/19)
Sammy Brue and the Grinders, Some Dark Hollow, Shawn Skinner and Jason Stinson, and Isabella Skinner, at the Thomas Listening Room 2.0 (05/03/19)
Favorite Movies and/Or Shorts Watched in 2019 (in order seen):
Venom (2018)
Solo: A Star Wars (2018)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
The Five Venoms (1978)
Legendary Weapons of China (1982)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Logan Lucky (2017)
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019)
Toy Story 4 (2019)
The Grateful Dead (1977)
Grateful Dead: So Far (1987)
Grateful Dead: Dead Ahead (1981)
Grateful Dead Truckin' Up to Buffalo (2005 release of a 1989 concert)
Favorite (Or at least most intriguing) Podcasts/Radio Listened to in 2019:
Favorite Television Watched in 2019:
A Series of Unfortunate Events Season Three (2019)
Good Luck Charlie
Brooklyn 99 Season Six (2019)
The Good Place Season Three (2019)
The Umbrella Academy (Season One: 2019)
Lodge 49 (Season One: 2018)
Into the Badlands (Seasons One and Two and Three: 2015 - 2019)
The Tick (Season Two)
Stranger Things (Season Three)
Schitt’s Creek (Season Five)
John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch (2019)
John Mulaney: New in Town (2012)
John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid (2015)
John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City (2018)
Misc. Pop-Culture Moments of Consequence (Or Not)/Random Thoughts, etc., (2019 Edition):
“Jerry Falwell Jr. can’t imagine Trump ‘doing anything that’s not good for the country’” or “A Poor Person Never Gave Anybody Charity,” or (Revelation 2:4)
“Who do you think this is going to offend, the pastor in Footloose?”
“Men who've locked arms to protect an unrepentant sexual assailant from every form of moral accountability for over two years are now testy over a newly elected official's word choice.” (David Dark)
Burger King Is All Out of Hamberders (Or, “Make Fast Food Great Again”)
Gillette: “Hey men, let’s not be bullies.” U.S. “men:” “Eff you pansies, you can’t tell us what to do. Have fun shaving your lady parts, losers. We’re throwing away these razors we already paid for.”
“I never said there was no collusion between the campaign, or people in the campaign.”
Making a REPEAT PERFORMANCE from 2018: President Trump again claims “Executive Time.”
“Try to imagine a world where Christians are having Donald Trump autograph their bibles” (Thanks to my friend Gary for this wording).
Trump’s 4th of July campaign event bankrupts Washington D.C.’s security fund.
Trump tells people who criticize him to “go back to where they came from.”
#GreenShirtGuy
“President Trump’s top immigration official suggested a footnote to the iconic poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty,” to say: “Give me your tired and your poor — who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge.” Later, clarifying himself: “Trump official says Statue of Liberty poem is about Europeans.”
Watch Stephen Colbert say that president Trump is a “heretic to reality,” saying: "Our president wants to live in a fantasy world where only the way he perceives the world is the way it is, only things that sort of serve his vision, and he's also trying to convince us that that is the only world that exists. It's extremely solipsistic. But he's also trying to invite us into this madness that he has, and that is heresy against reality.” #heretictoreality
Watch Colbert and Cooper talk about grief, suffering, and loss. “"It's a gift to exist, and with existence comes suffering. There's no escaping that."
“Wait, Is Trump Calling Himself the ‘King of Israel’ and ‘Second Coming of God’?”
I didn't know who Bret Stephens was until this week. Now he will always be the Bedbug Guy. See what tattling can do to you, kids?!
R.I.P.:
“Mean Gene” Okerlund (12/19/42 - 01/02/19)
Bob Einstein (11/20/42 - 01/02/19)
Daryl Dragon, Of The Captain And Tennille (08/27/42 - 01/02/19)
Pegi Young (12/01/52 - 01/02/19)
Herb Kelleher (co-founder of Southwest Airlines) (03/12/31 - 01/03/19)
Jo Andres (1954 - 01/11/19)
Bonnie Buckingham AKA “Bonnie Guitar” (03/25/23 - 01/13/19)
Carol Channing (01/31/21 - 01/15/19)
Alfred Newman (One of the Last WWII Navajo Code Talkers) (??/??/25 - 01/15/19)
Lorna Doom (bassist for the Germs) (??/??/?? - 01/16/19)
Poet Mary Oliver (09/10/35 - 01/17/19)
Reggie Young (12/12/36 - 01/17/19)
Jonas Mekas (12/24/22 - 01/23/19)
Michel Legrand (02/24/32 - 01/26/19)
James Ingram (02/16/52 - 01/29/19)
Dick Miller (12/25/28 - 01/30/19)
Ayub Ogada (1956 - 02/01/19)
Gloria Jones (Jerry Garcia Band, and more) (10/19/45 - 02/03/19)
“Izzy Young” (Israel Goodman Young) (03/26/28 - 02/04/19)
Michael Green (08/20/30 - 02/06/19)
Frank Robinson (Baseball Hall-of-Famer) (08/31/35 - 02/07/19)
Albert Finney (05/09/36 - 02/07/19)
John Dingell (07/08/26 - 02/07/19)
Bruno Gant (03/22/41 - 02/15/19)
Kofi Burbridge (1961 - 02/15/19)
Ken Nordine (04/13/20 - 02/16/19)
Guy Webster (1939 - 02/19/19)
Karl Lagerfeld (09/10/33 - 02/19/19)
Fred Foster (07/26/31 - 02/20/19)
Peter Tork (02/13/42 - 02/21/19)
Dorothy Masuka (09/03/35 - 02/23/19)
Mark Hollis (01/04/55 - 02/25/19)
Andy Anderson (Former Drummer for the Cure) (01/30/51 - 02/26/19)
André Previn (04/26/29 - 02/28/19)
Keith Flint of the Prodigy (09/17/69 - 03/04/19)
Luke Perry (10/11/66 - 03/04/19)
Christopher Alan Pallies (aka King Kong Bundy) (11/07/57 - 03/04/19)
Carmine "The Snake" Persico (08/08/33 - 03/07/19)
Hal Blaine (02/05/29 - 03/11/19)
Dick Dale (05/04/37 - 03/16/19)
Scott Walker (01/09/43 - 03/25/19)
Ranking Roger (02/21/63 - 03/26/19)
Nipsey Hussle (08/15/85 - 03/31/19)
Rick Elias (?? - 04/02/19)
Dan Robbins (Creator of Paint By Numbers) (??/?? - 04/05/19)
Shawn Smith (of the band Brad) (10/28/65 - 04/05/19)
Seymour Cassel (01/22/35 - 04/07/19)
Earl Thomas Conley (10/17/41 - 04/10/19)
Georgia Engel (07/28/48 - 04/12/19)05/46
Kazuo Koike (Creator of Lone Wolf and Cub) (05/08/36 - 04/17/19)
John Singleton (01/06/68 - 04/29/19)
Peter Mayhew (05/19/44 - 04/30/19)
Warren Wiersbe (05/16/29 - 05/02/19)
Jean Vanier (09/10/28 - 05/07/19)
Beth Carvalho (05/05/46 - 04/30/19)
Fleming Begaye Sr. (Navajo Code Talker) (??/??/21 - 05/11/19)
Peggy Lipton (08/30/46 - 05/11/19)
Doris Day (04/03/22 - 05/13/19)
Tim Conway (12/15/33 - 05/14/19)
Mike Wilhelm (03/18/42 - 05/14/19)
Grumpy Cat (o4/04/12 - 05/16/19)
Herman Wouk (05/27/15 - 05/17/19)
Tony Horwitz (06/09/58 - 05/27/19)
Tony “Little Sun” Glover (10/07/39 - 05/29/19)
Leon Redbone (08/26/49 - 05/30/19)
Roky Erickson (07/15/47 - 05/31/19)
Dr. John (11/20/41 - 06/06/19)
David Powlison (12/14/49 - 06/07/19)
Bushwick Bill (12/08/66 - 06/09/19)
Gloria Vanderbilt (02/20/24 - 06/17/19)
John Ogilvie (??/??/31 - 06/??/19)
Elliot Roberts (02/25/43 - 06/21/19)
Beth Chapman from Dog The Bounty Hunter (10/29/67 - 06/26/19)
Billy Drago (09/18/49 - 06/24/19)
Gary Duncan (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (09/04/46 - 06/29/19)
Norman Geisler (07/21/32 - 07/01/19)
Cameron Boyce (from Jessie) (05/28/99 - 07/06/19)
João Gilberto (06/10/31 - 07/06/19)
Ross Perot (06/27/30 - 07/09/19)
Rip Torn (02/06/31 - 07/09/19)
Freddie Jones (09/12/27 - 07/09/19)
Robert W. Rackstraw (D.B. Cooper?) (??/??/?? - 07/09/19)
Stewart (the Corgi who played Cheddar on Brooklyn Nine-Nine) (??/??/?? - ??/??/??)
Denise Nickerson (Violet Beauregarde in 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,’) (04/01/57 - 07/10/19)
Pernell ‘Sweet Pea’ Whitaker (01/02/64 - 07/14/19)
Johnny Clegg (06/07/53 - 07/16/19)
John Paul Stevens (04/20/20 - 07/16/19)
Art Neville (12/17/37 - 07/22/19)
Rutger Hauer (01/23/44 - 07/19/19)
Russi Taylor (voice of Minnie Mouse) (05/04/44 - 07/26/19)
D. A. Pennebaker (07/15/25 - 08/01/19)
Henri Belolo (c0-founder of the Village People.) (11/36 - 08/03/19)
David Berman (Silver Jews, Purple Mountains) (01/04/67 - 08/07/19)
Toni Morrison (02/18/31 - 08/05/19)
Peter Fonda (02/23/40 - 08/16/19)
Larry Taylor (of Canned Heat) (06/26/42 - 08/19/19)
David Koch (05/03/40 - 08/23/19)
Neal Casal (11/02/68 - 08/26/19)
Pedro Bell (??/??/?? - 08/27/19)
Donnie Fritts (11/08/42 - 08/27/19)
Valerie Harper (08/22/39 - 08/30/19)
Robert Frank (11/09/24 - 09/09/19)
Jarrid Wilson (??/??/?? - 09/10/19)
Daniel Johnston (01/22/61 - 09/11/19)
Eddie Money (03/21/49 - 09/13/19)
Ric Ocasek (03/23/49 - 09/15/19)
Cokie Roberts (12/27/43 - 09/17/19)
Suzanne Whang (09/28/62 - 09/17/19)
Larry Wallis (05/19/49 - 09/19/19)
Robert Hunter (06/23/41 - 09/24/19)
Diahann Carroll (07/17/35 - 10/04/19)
Ginger Baker (08/19/39 - 10/06/19)
Elijah Cummings (01/18/51 - 10/17/19)
Paul Barrere (Little Feat guitarist) (07/03/48 - 10/26/19)
John Conyers Jr. (05/16/29 - 10/27/19)
John Witherspoon (01/27/42 - 10/29/19)
Caroll Spinney (12/26/33 - 12/08/19)
Juice WRLD (12/02/98 - 12/08/19)
Marie Fredriksson (Roxette) (05/30/58 - 12/09/19)
Danny Aiello (06/20/33 - 12/12/19)
Roy Loney (Flamin’ Groovies) (04/13/46 - 12/13/19)
Anna Karina (12/22/40 - 12/14/19)
Ram Daas (04/06/31 - 12/22/19)
Lee Mendelson (03/24/33 - 12/25/19)
Jerry Herman (07/10/31 - 12/26/19)
Sleepy LaBeef (07/20/35 - 12/26/19)
Don Imus (07/23/40 - 12/27/19)
Jack Sheldon (11/30/31 - 12/27/19)