- do the right thing (re-watched) ★★★★★
- Jackie ★★★★☆
- Whitney: can I be me? ★★★★★
- adaptation ★★★★★
- brother's keeper ★★★★ 1/2
- the incredible jessica jones ★★★★☆
- extremis ★★★★★
- get me roger stone ★★★★★
- a married couple ★★★★☆
- the propaganda game ★★★★☆
- songs from the north ★★★★☆
- mike and dave need wedding dates ★★☆☆☆
- american honey ★★★★★
- author: the j.t. leroy story ★★★★☆
- all or nothing ★★★★★
- baby cobra, ali wong ★★★☆☆
- louis ck (2017 concert) ★★★☆☆
feb 3 2017 ∞
sep 12 2017 +
- lies incorporated, ari rabin-havt
- spiral: trapped in the forever world, mark danner
- private empire, steve coll
- dark money, jane mayer
- while the city slept, eli sanders
- pumpkin flowers, matti friedman
dec 19 2016 ∞
dec 23 2016 +
- handmaid's tale ★★★★★
- Casual, Season 3 ★★★☆☆
- LOVE, Season 2 ★★★☆☆
- GLOW ★★★★ 1/2
- I love dick ★★★☆☆
- master of none, season 2 ★★★ 1/2
- The Keepers ★★★★★
- Big Little Lies ★★★★☆
- Horace & Pete ★★★★☆
- Search Party ★★★★★
- Transparent, Seasons 2-3 ★★★★★
- Fleabag ★★★★★
- LOVE, Season 1 ★★★☆☆
- The People vs. O.J. Simpson ★★★★ 1/2
- OJ: Made in America ★★★★★
- Casual, Season 1 ★★★★★
- Casual, Season 2 ★★★★★
- Great British Baking Show, Season 1 ★★★★★
feb 23 2016 ∞
sep 10 2017 +
- Recovering History, Constructing Race, Martha Menchaca
- The Beautiful Struggle, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- How to Slowly Kill Yourself & Others in America, Kiese Laymon
- The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
- Citizen, Claudia Rankine
- Between the World & Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Half has Never Been Told, Edward E. Baptist
- Empire of Cotton, Sven Beckert
- The Heart of Everything that Is, Bob Drury
- An Indigionous Peoples' History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- The Locust Effect, Gary Haugen
- Overrated, Eugene Cho
- Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson
- The Third Plate, Dan Barber
- This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get you Killed, Charles Cobb
jun 22 2015 ∞
sep 15 2015 +
- Power, Kanye
- In Between Days, the Cure
- What's the Frequency Kenneth, REM
jun 2 2015 ∞
jun 2 2015 +
- A book written by someone when they were under the age of 25=The Icarus Girl, Helen Oyeyemi
- A book written by someone when they were over the age of 65-Blue Nights, Joan Didion
- A collection of short stories (either by one person or an anthology by many people) - Redeployment, Phil Klay
- A book published by an indie press - The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson
- A book by or about someone that identifies as LGBTQ-Adam, Ariel Schraig
- A book by a person whose gender is different from your own-So You've Been Publicly Shamed, Jon Ronson
- A book that takes place in Asia-Silence Once Begun, Jesse Ball
- A book by an author from Africa, Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- A book that is by or about someone from a...
jan 12 2015 ∞
jun 9 2016 +
- it's hard to be nice when you feel lonely
- I don't really like drinking anymore and lots of other people do
- being a good parent is a constant struggle when I'm running on fumes
- being a good wife also
- time management
- laziness
- out of shape
jan 5 2015 ∞
jan 5 2015 +
- james gandolfini
- hugh laurie
- alan cumming
- tim curry in the rocky horror picture show, Dr. Franknfurter
- seth green
- jeremy sisto in 6 feet under
- dave grohl
- michael cera (because he is barely 18)
sep 12 2007 ∞
dec 27 2007 +
Whilel there's been no movement on this list, I can't say that the trade-off is a bad one.
- puerto escondido in mexico
- kenya and tanzania
- bali
- spain
- madagascar and timbuktu
- iran, israel and jordan
- india again (southern this time)
- south africa
- japan
- cambodia
- thailand
- argentina
- antarctica
- lapland
- sri lanka
- the maldives
- new zealand and australia
jul 2 2007 ∞
jan 5 2015 +
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- A book about sports
- A debut novel, goodbye vitamin, Rachel khong
- A book about books
- A book set in central or south america written by a central or south american author
- A book by an immigrant or with a central immigration narrative
- An all ages comic
- A book published between 1900 and 1950
- A travel memoir
- A book you've read before
- A book set within 100 miles of your location
- A book set more than 5000 miles from your location, a separation, katie kitamura
- A fantasy novel
- A nonfiction book about technology
- A book about war
- A YA or middle grade book by a LGBTQ auth...
jan 5 2017 ∞
aug 14 2017 +
- Learn to quilt
- Learn to read tarot
- Learn to make pasta
mar 3 2016 ∞
mar 3 2016 +
- the new world, chris adrian & eli horowitz
- the sellout, paul beatty
- bats of the republic, zachary thomas dodson
- the turner house, angela flournoy
- fates & furies, lauren groff
- our souls at night, kent haruf
- ban en banlieue, Bhanu Kapil
- the story of my teeth, valeria luiselli
- the tsar of love & techno, anthony marra
- the sympathizer, viet Thanh Nguyen
- the whites, richard price
- oreo, fran ross
- the book of aron, jim shepard
- the invaders, Karolina waclawiak
- a little life, hana yanagihara
jan 20 2016 ∞
oct 3 2016 +
- The Devil's Highway, Luis Alberto Urrea
- Savage Harvest, Carl Hoffman
- On the Rez, Ian Frazier
- In the Kingdom of Ice, Hampton Sides
- The Emerald Mile, Kevin Fedarko
- Born to Run, Chris McDougall
- The Last American Man, Elizabeth Gilbert
- The Tiger, John Vallient
- On the Burning Edge, Kyle Dickman
- Crazy for the Storm, Norman Ollestad
FILMS
- Valley Uprising
- Virunga
- The Cove
- The Crash Reel
jun 6 2015 ∞
jun 14 2015 +
- Chicken coop
- planter garden
- mud kitchen
may 28 2015 ∞
may 28 2015 +
- Big Sur - Glen Oaks Motel
- Missoula
- Joshua Tree - Mike & Katie's wedding
- Antelope Canyon, AZ
- Anchorage to visit Ash (solo)
- Tuscon, to run Marathon in Dec (possible solo)
jan 12 2015 ∞
jun 4 2015 +
- Optimism
- frustration
- overwhelmed by my responsibilities
- irritated with my propensity/inclination to put things off while simultaneously doing nothing to change my modus operandi
- exhaustion
jan 5 2015 ∞
jun 7 2015 +
Perhaps if I rate the experience on a 1 to 5 scale, I will continue to plod through these? Let's see.)
- Dreamland
- Black Mirror
- transparent 5
- Mad Men
- Game of Thrones
- Finish the Wire (season 5)
- Undeclared
- The West Wing
- Downton Abbey
- Friday Night Lights
- Gossip Girl
- The Office (UK)
- Undeclared
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Breaking Bad
- arrested development
- Olive Kitteridge
- orange is the new black - season 1 gets a...
jun 13 2013 ∞
feb 9 2016 +
- Before Midnight
- Frances Ha
- Stories We Tell
- Sun Don't Shine
- The Bling Ring
- The Mysteries & Mentors of Ricky Jay
- The Kings of Summer
- This is the End
- room 237
- fruitvale station
may 19 2013 ∞
apr 13 2016 +
 This was one of my first lists about 7 years ago, but is still mostly true and good for some inspo on inspiration deficit days
- sincerity at the expense of coolness
- my children (2015)
- my nephews and nieces (2015 - updated)
- expensive heels, the more impractical the better
- brilliant food
- tapas and sangria
- crumbly old buildings that have been reinvented and put to new use
- viszlas
- warm sugar cookies
- amateur photography
- people who put other people first (not countries or governments), even when it can harm them to do so
- inclement weather with belle & sebastian
- spoon-kill the moonlight
jul 5 2007 ∞
jan 5 2015 +
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- goodbye, vitamin, rachel khong ★★★☆☆
- call me by your name, andre aciman ★★★★☆
- wedding toasts i'll never give, ada calhoun ★★★★☆
- modern lovers, emma straub ★★★☆☆
- a separation, katie kitamura ★★★☆☆
- born a crime, trevor noah ★★★☆☆
- hillbilly elegy, j.d. vance ★★★☆☆
- lincoln in the bardo, george saunders ★★★★★
- insane clown president, matt taibbi ★★★★★
jan 17 2017 ∞
aug 14 2017 +
- the association of small bombs, karan mahajan
- the north water, ian mcguire
- the underground railroad, colsom whitehead
- the vegetarian, han king
- war and turpentine, stefan hertmans
- at the existentialist cafesarah bakewell
- dark money, jane mayer
- evicted, matthew desmond
- in the darkroom, susan faludi
- the return: fathers, sons and the land in between, hisham matar
dec 7 2016 ∞
dec 7 2016 +
- Horace & Pete
- The Mindy Show (Hulu)
- Transparent (season 2)
- War & Peace
- Mr. Robot
- Portlandia (seasons 2-now)
- Baskets
- You, Me & the Apocalypse
- Last Man on Earth
- Grinder
- Brooklyn 911 (seasons 2-3)
- fleabag
feb 9 2016 ∞
jan 18 2017 +
- a horror book
- a nonfiction book about science (sapiens)
- a collection of essays, Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit
- a book out loud to someone else, All of the Cat & the Hat, Curious George, Madeline books to my kids (also Ping)
- a middle grade book
- a biography (not memoir or autobio)
- a dystopian or post-apocalyptic, Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
- a book published in the decade I was born (1970's)
- an audible book that has won an audie
- a book over 500 pages
- a book under 100 pages: We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- a book by or about a transgender person, The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson
- a book set in the middle east, the mornin...
jan 20 2016 ∞
apr 28 2017 +
- the wolf pack
- the overnight
- Amy
- kung fu master, agnes varda
- an honest liar
NETFLIX
- The White Helmets (sep 16)
- Amanda Knox (sep 30)
- into the inferno (Oct 28)
- the JT Leroy film
- the nice guys
jun 16 2015 ∞
oct 3 2016 +
- The New Bohemians, Justina Blakeney
may 28 2015 ∞
may 28 2015 +
- The Storied Life of AJ Fikry
- If you could be mine for either LGBT or YA book
- tell me again how a crush should feel (same)
- Hammer Headm Nina Mac Laughlin
- what the world will look like when all the water leaves us (short stories)
- let me tell you, shirley jackson (not yet published)
- Red or Dead, David Peace
- Caffeinated, Murray Carpenter (not yet published)
- a few seconds of radiant filmstrip
- a girl is a half-formed thing
- smile/sisters, raina tegemeir (YA)
- citizen, an american lyric (poetry)
- find me, laura van den berg
- the lobster kings, alexi zentner
- Better than Before, Gretchen Rubin
- Self Help, Lorrie Moore
jan 26 2015 ∞
aug 22 2017 +
I really thought about having two lists - the realistic and the aspirational. In the end, decided to be optimistic and put 'em all on realistic. I reserve the right to create the unrealistic but still thrilling aspirational list at a later date.
- More recreational writing (not just for work). every day would be nice.
- Work out every day for my mental(primary reason) and physical (secondary/vanity reason) health
- run a 5 K
- run a half-marathon
- run a marathon
- avoid any fun runs or obstacle courses or anything that requires paint, fairy dust or mud hitting any part of my person
- read 52 books (ya heard me, self. do this thing. there was a time in which a book a week was childsplay. Now literal childsplay has usurped me reading time)
jan 5 2015 ∞
jan 6 2015 +
- dancing and dinner with a Romany (gypsy) family in Romania
- paragliding over Neuschwanstein Castle south of Munich
- roadside chai near New Delhi
- getting trapped inside nepal cut off from all communication (cell phone, email, etc.) when the king closed the borders and shut down phone lines (02/05)
- running into an old friend from India on the streets in Budapest
- camping on the banks of the ganges
- Halong Bay in Northern Vietnam - most beautiful and otherworldly place I've been
- stumbling upon a buddhist monastery outside of Hue by scooter - the trees sounded like wind chimes as we approached
- sharing chai and rice at a sikh community centre center near agra
- after having been mildly assaulted by a drunk serbian war vet on the train to belg...
jun 25 2007 ∞
jul 15 2007 +
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