Best of 2019

Hey, sorry, I went on for much longer over here about my favorite books, movies, and music of the decade as a whole so I’m not going to go on too much here.

Here are my favorite things of 2019.

Best Music:
1- The National- I Am Easy to Find

2. Big Thief- Two Hands
3- Pedro the Lion- Phoenix
4- Sturgill Simpson- Sound & the Fury
5- IDLES- A Beautiful Thing: IDLES LIVE At LE BATACLAN
6- Better Oblivion Community Center
7- Bad Books- III
8- Vampire Weekend- Father of the Bride
9-Jenny Lewis- On the Line
10- Oso Oso Basking in the Glow

Next ten or so:
Bon Iver- i,i

Big Thief- UFOF
Slaughter Beach, Dog- Safe & No Fear
Mannequin Pussy- Patience
Jimmy Eat World- Surviving
Pup- Morbid Stuff
Clairo- immunity

Tyler Childers- Country Squire

The Mountain Goats- In League With Dragons
Maggie Rogers
American Football- LP3
Charly Bliss
Sharon van Etten
Mike Mains & The Branches

Albums not from 2019 I fell in love with:
The Beth’s Future Me Hates Me (2018)
The National Alligator (I mean, obviously)

Favorite Concerts I Played:
1- Hangar 9- Sleeping Tapes w/ Jon Raby, Dec. 20th

2. Hangar 9- Sleeping Tapes w/ Bedspin, Dan Vapid & the Cheats on March 30th
3- Cristaudo’s Sleeping Tapes w/ Mello Tonnin, Lonely Suit on 2/23
4- Buzz at the Burg Fest October Edition Sleeping Tapes with Trophy Shop, Bad Ghost & Joshua Clifton and the Blackbirds
5- Washington Square Park for Pride Fest June 1 Sleeping Tapes w/ Trophy Shop, Hans Predator
6- Solo at Buzz at the Burg Fest 2019 with so many friends (6/30)

Favorite Concerts I saw:
1- Pedro the Lion w/ Mewithoutyou at Basement East in Nashville with Stacy on 8/23
2- The National (6/26/19)
3- Manchester Orchestra w/ Foxing & Oso Oso (12/3)
4- Better Oblivion Community Center with Lala Lala and Christian Lee Hutson at the Cannery Ballroom in Nashville 4/7/19

Fav Local Show: Heat Tape w/ Fat Jack Rabbits & Trophy Shop on 10/26 at Hangar 9

Movies:
1- Once Upon A Time in Hollywood

2- Marriage Story
3- Uncut Gems
4- Midsommar
5- Ad Astra
6- The Irishman
7- Spider-Man: Far From Home
8- The Farewell

9. Avengers: Endgame (that’s right!)
10- The Joker
11- Booksmart
12- Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker
13- Paddleton
14- Pet Sematary
15- Crawl
16- Us
17- IT 2
18- Queen & Slim
19- Beach Bum
20- Toy Story 4
21- Frozen 2
22- The Peanut Butter Falcon
23- Transit
24- Apollo 11
25- Good Boys
26- Between Two Ferns: The Movie
27- The Hole in the Ground
28- El Camino
29- Abominable
30- Rolling Thunder Revue: a Bob Dylan story
31- The World is a Detective Pickachu and I’m No Longer Afraid to Die
32- John Wick 3
33- Captain Marvel
34-‘Yesterday
35- The Art of Racing in the Rain
36- Velvet Buzzsaw
37- High Flying Bird
38- Fyre (Netflix)
39- Fyre Fraud Doc (Hulu)
40-Child’s Play
41- Noelle
42- 21 Bridges
43- Secret Life of Pets 2
44- The Legend of Cocaine Island
45- The Inventor
46 Rocketman
47- Triple Frontier
48- Lego Movie 2
49- Ugly Dolls
50- Glass
51- Angry Birds 2

Best short film: I Am Easy to Find by Mike Mills & The National

Second Best Short Film:
The Lonely Island: The Bash Brothers Experience

Need to See:
Last Black Man in San Francisco, Parasite, Her Smell, 1917, Knives Out,
The Lighthouse, Little Women, Bread Factory Parts 1 & 2, Monos

Best Theater/The Only Place You Can Go In Nashville to Avoid Bachelorette Parties: The Belcourt in Nashville TN

Rewatchables:
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
The Master (2012)
Avengers Infinity War (2018)
Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse (2018)
The Lion King (1994)
Inside Out (2015)
Short Term 12 (2014)

Best TV Shows:
-Fleabag

-Succession

-I Think You Should Leave

- True Detective Season 3
-The Good Place
-Crashing
-Barry
-Stranger Things
-Mindhunter
-Watchmen

Best Doc Now Episode: Any Given Saturday Afternoon
Old shows to Remind You That It Wasn’t Always This Way: The West Wing

Best New Shows:
-The Mandalorian
-Russian Doll
-Miracle Workers
-Righteous Gemstones
(best gemstone: Judy)

Best Miniseries:
Chernobyl

Started but didn’t finish:
I Am the Night
Umbrella Academy
The Other Two (it’s really great, it just got away from me)
Ramy (same as above)

Living With Yourself

Fosse/Verdon
Killing Eve S2

Set My DVR but never watched:
-The Passage

Best Books of 2019:
1- imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky (2019)
2- Raised in Captivity by Chuck Klosterman (2019)
3- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (2019)
4- Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner (2019)
5- There There by Tommy Orange (2018)
6- On the Come Up by Angie Thomas (2019)
7- “We Are the Weather” - Jonathan Safran Foer (2019)
8- Talking To Strangers (2019)- Malcolm Gladwell
9- Pumpkin Heads (2019) by Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks
10- Boomer1 by Daniel Torday (2018)
11- Sprawlball: A Visual Tour of the New NBA by Kirk Goldsberry, illustrated by Aaron Dana (2019)
12- Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan (2019)
13- Movies & Other Things by Shea Serrano, Illustrated by Arturo Torres (2019)
14- FOE by Iain Reed (2019)
15- All the Clever Words on Pages (pt 2) by Paul Matthew Harrison (2019)
16- Love, Hate & Other Filters by Samira Ahmed (2018)

Books About Making Books:
-Words for Pictures by Brian Michael Bendis (2014)
-Making Comics by Scott McCloud (2006)
-Dreyer’s English (2019)

Rereads:
Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut (2004)

Comic Book TPBs
1- Runaways vol 4 by Rainbow Rowell and Andres Genolet (2019)
2- Runaways vol 3 by Rainbow Rowell and Kris Anna 2019)
3- Paper Girls Vol 4 (2018)
4- Paper Girls Vol 5 (2019)
5- Civil War by Mark Millar (2007)
6-Infidel by Pichetshote & Campbell (2019)
7-!House of M by Brian Michael Bendis (2006)
8- X-Men: Gold by Marc Guggenheim (2017)
9- Mr and Mrs X by Kelly Thompson & Frank D’Armata & David Lopez (2019)
10- X-Men: Worst X-Man Ever by Max Bemos (2015)
11- Captain America (2019) by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Best Short Stories:
George Saunders- “Elliot Spencer” from August 19th New Yorker