In the first week of 2015, I consumed a lot of media. Mostly because at the beginning of semesters, I don’t have a lot of work to bring home with me. On January 9, I read about Steven Soderbergh’s “Seen, Read 2014” list, and as a teacher of pop culture, thought it would be worthwhile for me to do the same.
Some media I consume on a regular basis, and I’m not going to include those. I listen to a BYU sports podcast most days while I’m fixing dinner, I watch The Daily Show or The Late Show with Stephen Colbert every morning while I’m getting ready for school, and I listen to other podcasts as I’m driving around. Also, I’m only listing books on the days I finish them.
Because I like even-ish numbers, I’m starting on January 10 this year. Each day, I’ll post what I watched, read, or listened to. I’m not going to offer any reviews or suggestions, just share the list. Maybe at some point you’ll find something you might enjoy as well.
**May 3 edit: I rearranged the list so the most recent is at the top.**
**November 3 edit: I don’t know how Soderbergh kept up with this. I’m clearly failing at it.**
Here’s the key: podcast, book, TV show, film, full album
12/14: Usagi Yojimbo, Vol 1.
12/16: Spotlight
12/17: The Man from UNCLE
12/18: Sing Noel by The Lower Lights
12/19: While You Were Sleeping; Bridget Jones’ Diary
12/20: The Smartest Kids in the World
12/21: Mockingjay, Part 2; Jessica Jones (2); The Distance Between Us
12/22: The Year of Yes; Jessica Jones (2)
12/23: The Bishop’s Wife; Jessica Jones (2); The Santa Clause 2
12/24: White Christmas, Love Actually, Elf, A Christmas Story
12/25: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
12/26: The Incredibles; Jessica Jones (2); The Man in the High Castle;
To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar; A Head Full of Dreams by Coldplay
12/27: The Book of A Thousand Days
12/28: Joy; Jessica Jones; The Man in the High Castle
12/29: Minions; Dr. Who; Jessica Jones
12/30: Jessica Jones; Sisters
Here’s the key: podcast, book, TV show, film, full album
11/1: Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me! with Jake Tapper
11/2: The Good Wife
11/3: Inside BYU Football
11/5: Scandal
11/6: The Queen is Dead by The Smiths
11/7: Ask Me Another, Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me!; Master of None
11/8: Fresh Air: Aziz Ansari; A Thoughtful Faith: Thomas McConkie
11/13: Prolonging the Magic by Cake
11/15: Marvel: Agents of Shield (7 episodes. I had a stomach bug.); NCIS (5 eps)
11/16: The Moth
11/17: The Good Wife; Marvel Agents of Shield
Here’s the key: podcast, book, TV show, film, full album
8/1: Ask Me Another
8/2: Tig
8/3: This American Life #562
8/7: Suits
8/8: Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me!; Fresh Air: Jon Stewart
8/9: Live from the Moth GrandSLAM
8/10: This American Life #563
8/14: Suits, Graceland; License to Ill by The Beastie Boys; Prolonging the Magic by Cake
8/15: Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me!
8/18: Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
8/19: Grease Sing-a-long
8/20: WTF Podcast: Jason Segel
8/21: WTF Podcast: Wyatt Cenac; Home by The Dixie Chicks
8/23: Fresh Air: A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana
8/24: Fresh Air: Sir Ian McKellan
8/25: Fresh Air: ‘Cartel’ Author on Mexico’s Sadistic Wars
8/26: Ask Me Another: Patrick Stewart
8/28: Ask Me Another: Uzo Adubo; Come By Me by Harry Connick, Jr.
8/29: Ballerina; Fernando Nation; Grease 2; Dancing on the Edge
8/30: Mystery Show, Ep. 1
Here’s the key: podcast, book, TV show, film, full album
7/1: Back to the Future
…and July blurred by, with two weeks out of town…so I’m not 100% sure what I watched or listened to, but I know the only book I read was “I Thought It Was Just Me” by Brene Brown.
Here’s the key: podcast, book, TV show, film, full album
6/1: Lola and the Boy Next Door
6/2: Lemon Tart by Josi Kilpack
6/3: The Late Show Podcast
6/4: The West Wing (binge watching starting with Season 4)
6/7: Ask Me Another
6/8: This American Life #528; Isla and the Happily Ever After
6/9-6/11: Continued binge-watching The West Wing
6/12: House of Cards
6/13: The Moment with Brian Koppleman: Chuck Todd
6/14: The Moment with Brian Koppleman: Beau Willimon
6/15: The Seventies (CNN); Aladdin
6/16: Manhattan (5); Beauty and the Beast
6/17: Manhattan (8); Rhythm Nation 1814 by Janet Jackson
6/18: The Moment with Brian Koppleman: Lewis Black; Ask Me Another
6/19: The God Who Weeps by Terryl and Fiona Givens; Bend it Like Beckham
6/20: Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
6/23: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying by Mari Kondo
6/24: Royal Pains
6/25: Spy; Suits; Mr. Robot
6/26: Ask Me Another; Going Clear
6/27: Strictly Ballroom
6/29: The Godfather Part II
6/30: Dope
Here’s the key: podcast, book, TV show, film, full album
5/1: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
5/2: The Daily Show Podcast, ep. 16; The Avengers: Age of Ultron; Mr. Selfridge (4)
5/3: This American Life: #555; Mr. Selfridge
5/5: Fresh Air: Louis CK
5/6: Mad Men; Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me! (2)
5/7: Scandal; Nashville
5/8: Fresh Air: Matthew Weiner; Nashville
5/9: Ask Me Another; NCIS
5/10: The Good Wife
5/11: Mad Men; Ask Me Another
5/15: The Daily Show Podcast, ep. 17; About Time; Scandal
5/17: This American Life
5/18: Mr. Selfridge; Ask Me Another
5/19: NCIS; When Harry Met Sally Soundtrack
5/20: License to Ill; 500 Questions
5/22: Toughness by Jay Bilas
5/23: They Came Together
5/24: Daredevil; Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan
5/25: Daredevil; Brooklyn 99 (2)
5/26: Daredevil
5/28: Pitch Perfect 2
5/29: Jersey Boys
So March was tough to keep up with. Here’s hoping April goes a bit better.
Here’s the key: podcast, book, TV show, film, full album
April Books I’m reading: Command and Control by Eric Schlosser (I hope to finish it this month); Toughness by Jay Bilas (same with this one); The God Who Weeps by Terryl and Fiona Givens.
4/1: Blackish (3); Nashville
4/2: Scandal; Alias binge-watch; Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell me
4/3: The Daily Show Podcast, ep. 12
4/5: This American Life: #552; Alias binge-watch
4/7: The Good Wife
4/8: Agents of Shield
4/9: Blackish
4/10: ABBA Gold; Alias binge-watch
4/11: Fresh Air: Debate over Killer Whales in Marine Parks; Fresh Air: Jeffrey Toobin on Ted
Cruz; Fresh Air: Oncologist on the “Biography of Cancer
4/12: Fresh Air: How We Became ‘One Nation Under God’
4/13: This American Life: #553; Garbage by Garbage
4/14: Mad Men; The Good Wife
4/16: Nashville (2)
4/17: Scandal; Newsroom (2); The Daily Show Podcast, ep. 15; Guardians of the Galaxy
Soundtrack
4/18: Newsroom (4); Enough Said
4/19: Fresh Air: Mark Ronson; Fresh Air: Billy Crystal and Josh Gad; Once Upon A Time (3)
4/20: Mad Men
4/23: Scandal; Blackish
4/25: Avengers; Iron Man 3; Hozier by Hozier
4/26: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Here’s the key: podcast, book, TV show, film, full album
February Books I’m reading: Command and Control by Eric Schlosser; An Abundance of Katherines by John Green; Toughness by Jay Bilas (yes, still reading all of these)
3/1: The Music Man; The Good Wife
3/4: Downton Abbey
3/5: An Abundance of Katherines; Suits (2); Scandal
3/8: The Three Amigos; This American Life: #549; Glee; Once Upon A Time
3/9-3/14: A complete blur. I know I watched and listened to things, but couldn’t tell you any of them.
3/15: This American Life: #550; The Good Wife
3/16-3/21: Another complete blur. Mostly basketball when I had a chance.
3/24: Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me; Stitches by Anne Lamott
3/27: Scandal (2); The Mindy Project; Prolonging the Magic by Cake
3/28: The Good Wife; Glee; NCIS (3)
3/29: Death Comes to Pemberley (2); Agents of Shield (2); Once Upon A Time (2)
3/31: The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Here’s the key: podcast, book, TV show, film, full album
February Books I’m reading: Command and Control by Eric Schlosser; An Abundance of Katherines by John Green; Toughness by Jay Bilas
2/1: Jane Eyre; Glee
2/2: The Daily Show Podcast, Ep. 11; Groundhog Day
2/3: Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me; Parks and Recreation; The Mindy Project
2/5: The Moment: Amy Schumer
2/7: Suits
2/8: Downton Abbey; This American Life: #545
2/10: Parks and Rec (2)
2/11: The Mindy Project; Out of Time by REM
2/12: Scandal; Begin to Hope by Regina Spektor
2/13: License to Ill by Beastie Boys
2/14: Glee; The Last Five Years; Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me
2/16: Downton Abbey; Selfies on Kodachrome by Scott Bradlee and Postmodern Jukebox
2/17: Parks and Rec (2); Motown #1s by Various Artists; Fresh Air: Bradley Cooper
2/19: Scandal
2/20: Glee; Suits (2)
2/21: Brooklyn 99 (2); Death Comes to Pemberley; Nashville (2); Fresh Air: Larry Wilmore
2/22: This American Life: #547 and #548; The Last Five Years (yes, again…)
2/24: Parks and Rec
2/25: The Mindy Project; The Moth: Doctors, Prom and Ellen
2/28: Glee; Downton Abbey; Fresh Air: The Magic of ‘Boyhood’; Fresh Air: How Orwell’s
‘Animal Farm’ Led a Radical Muslim to Moderation
Here’s the key: podcast, book, TV show, film, full album
1/10: Key & Peele, Downton Abbey, Fresh Air: Nick Lowe
1/11: Dare Me by Megan Abbott, This American Life: #314
1/12: The Good Wife
1/13: Parks and Recreation (2); Downton Abbey; The Mindy Project
1/15: Rich Hill
1/16: Fargo; Parenthood
1/17: Fresh Air: Steven Brill, Cinder by Marissa Meyer
1/18: Brooklyn 99 (2), NCIS (4) (a.k.a. cleaning out my Tivo)
1/19: Downton Abbey, Glee; The Daily Show Podcast, Ep. 10, Tapestry by Carole King
1/20: Uptown Special by Mark Ronson; The Moment w/Brian Koppelman: Cary Elwes; Guardians of the Galaxy
1/21: Parks and Recreation; The Moment: Danny Strong
1/22: Schooled: The Price of College Sports
1/23: Parenthood; Clue
1/24: Wayne’s World
1/25: Glee
1/27: Downton Abbey; Fresh Air: Al Michaels
1/29: Suits
1/30: Parenthood; Life in a Day