Inspired by Steven Soderbergh’s 2014 list, I thought this would be a fun way to keep track of what I’ve been doing and use the Genius platform to provide some commentary. Feel free to make your own personal annotations on anything.
Key:
Bold: Movie
All caps: TV SERIES (Episode)
All italics: Vinyl...
Top Picks of the Year
01/02 SHERLOCK (1) *
01/03 Inglorious Basterds
01/05 Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
01/07 Don Jon
01/08 Le Samourai *
01/10 The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
01/11 Blue is the Warmest Color, Adventure - Television
01/12 Are We There - Sharon Van Etten
01/13 Is There a Multiverse?
01/14 Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement
01/16 Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper - Panda Bear, England Keep My Bones - Frank Turner
01/17 Birdman *
01/18 Gandalf - Gandalf
01/19 Home - Phantom Posse, Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory
01/20 The Thin Blue Line
01/22 The Big City (Mahanagar)
01/23 Tetsuo and Youth - Lupe Fiasco
01/24 Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass *, B4.DA.$$ - Joey Bada$$
01/25 Cupid Deluxe - Blood Orange, Too Bright - Perfume Genius
01/26 Viet Cong - Viet Cong
01/28 The Idler Wheel... - Fiona Apple
01/29 The Interview
01/30 Snowpiercer
02/01 High Noon *
02/02 Breathless * , Dicaprio EP - J.I.D. , Guilty - Dirty Dishes
02/08 BETTER CALL SAUL (Uno)
02/09 BETTER CALL SAUL (Mijo)
02/12 Quest for the Lost Civilization
02/14 If You're Reading This, It's Too Late... - Drake
02/16 BETTER CALL SAUL (Nacho)
02/19 Whiplash
02/20 The Imitation Game
02/21 The Theory of Everything
02/22 Selma
02/23 Boyhood
02/24 BETTER CALL SAUL (Hero)
02/27 HOUSE OF CARDS (27)
02/28 HOUSE OF CARDS (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
03/01 HOUSE OF CARDS (34, 35, 36)
03/02 HOUSE OF CARDS (37, 38, 39)
03/07 Bill Burr: You People Are All The Same
03/08 The Double
03/09 Barton Fink
03/10 The French Connection, Shaft
03/11 Aziz Ansari: Live at MSG
03/12 North By Northwest *
03/13 Bill Burr: Let It Go
03/14 Messiah Comlex
03/15 To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar *
03/16 THE WEST WING (1), Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton
03/18 BETTER CALL SAUL (Alpine Shepherd Boy, Five-O)
03/22 After - Lady Lamb
03/23 The Big Lebowski *
03/24 Life Itself
03/25 Akwaba Beach - Mory Kante
03/26 The State Vs. Radric Davis - Gucci Mane, Joe Rogan Live
03/27 BETTER CALL SAUL (Bingo, RICO)
03/28 The November Man
03/31 Sumbarine
04/01 Singles Going Steady - Buzzcocks
04/04 Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit - Courtney Barnett *
04/06 A Strange Arrangement - Mayer Hawthorne
04/07 BETTER CALL SAUL (Pimento), Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
04/08 North by Northwest *
04/09 Dog Day Afternoon * , BETTER CALL SAUL (Marco)
04/10 Frances Ha
04/11 Drive, The One I Love
04/12 Drinking Buddies
04/13 Your Sister's Sister, The Puffy Chair
04/14 Happy Christmas, Patton, Goodbye to Language *
04/15 Slacker, Me and You and Everyone We Know
04/17 Sole Man, Infernal Affairs
04/18 The Big Sleep, The House of the Devil
04/19 Inherent Vice, The Big Lebowski
04/20 Two in the Wave
04/22 Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso, xx - The xx
04/23 Mars Audiac Quintet - Stereolab
04/24 Bringin' It All Back Home - Bob Dylan *
04/25 New Morning - Bob Dylan *
04/26 San Fermin - San Fermin
04/27 Cosmo's Factory - Creedence Clearwater Revival
05/01 Cherry Bomb - Tyler, the Creator
05/05 California Nights - Best Coast
05/07 Inside Llewyn Davis
05/09 Magnolia
05/10 Michael Jordan: Above and Beyond
05/12 The Night Took Us In Like Family - L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae * , I Love You, Honeybear - Father John Misty
05/13 Blue Ruin
05/14 Carrie & Lowell - Sufjan Stevens, Mad Max: Fury Road
05/15 Another Side of Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan, John Wesley Harding - Bob Dylan, Nashville Skyline - Bob Dylan, Modern Times - Bob Dylan, Oh Mercy - Bob Dylan
05/18 Dylan - Bob Dylan, Infidels - Bob Dylan
05/19 Empire Burlesque - Bob Dylan
05/22 A Serious Man
05/25 Boogie Nights
05/27 Knuckleball!
06/03 Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones
06/06 At Long Last A$AP - A$AP Rocky
06/08 Bill Burr: Let It Go
06/11 Black Swan
06/18 THE WIRE (Collateral Damage)
06/19 THE WIRE (Hot Shots), Overgrown - James Blake
06/20 Cycling's Greatest Fraud: Lance Armstrong, THE WIRE (Hard Cases)
06/22 AN IDIOT ABROAD (India)
06/24 AN IDIOT ABROAD (Jordan)
06/28 The House I Live In
07/01 AN IDIOT ABROAD (Mexico)
07/04 THE WIRE (Undertow)
07/08 THE WIRE (All Prologue)
07/09 THE WIRE (Backwash, Duck and Cover)
07/10 THE WIRE (Stray Rounds, Storm Warnings)
07/12 THE WIRE (Bad Dreams)
07/13 THE WIRE (Port in a Storm), TRUE DETECTIVE (The Long Bright Dark)
07/14 TRUE DETECTIVE (Seeing Things)
07/15 Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead
07/17 Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist
07/18 Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
07/19 Depression Cherry - Beach House, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Grand Budapest Hotel
07/24 Currents - Tame Impala
07/25 Clean Spirit
07/26 Slaying the Badger
07/27 Chasing Legends
07/28 Stop at Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story
07/30 Rising from Ashes
08/05 Adventureland
08/06 Batman
08/07 Nightcrawler
08/09 High Fidelity
08/10 Shame, Charade
08/11 The School of Rock, Frank, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
08/12 Mission: Impossible, Surviving Progress
08/13 The Ides of March
08/17 Beginnners
08/29 Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
08/30 Compulsion, Jonathan Kellerman
09/04 Collin Quinn: Unconstitutional
09/05 Bradley Wiggins: A Year In Yellow
09/09 Lance Armstrong - Master of Spin
09/14 Australian Story: Lawyer Kills Cyclist
09/15 The Armstrong Lie
09/17 No Cities to Love - Sleater-Kinney
09/18 Bicycle Diaries, David Byrne
09/21 Wheel Men, Reed Albergotti and Vanessa O'Connell
09/24 New Bermuda - Deafheaven
09/25 MEMORIAL DAY - NOWIFIII
09/27 In the City of Bikes, Pete Jordan
09/28 V - Wavves
10/06 Seven Deadly Sins, David Walsh
11/1/15 Bruce Lee, The Legend
11/6/15 Art Angels - Grimes
12/20/15 Summertime '06 - Vince Staples
12/30/15 F IS FOR FAMILY (The Bleedin In Sweden), F IS FOR FAMILY (Saturday Bloody Saturday)
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Current Tally
Movies: 91
Albums: 51
Books: 8
TV Series: 8
BennySwoons released 2015 Media Consumption on Thu Jan 01 2015.