2020 scrapbook

[belacqua]

Yeah, I'm really starting this a quarter into the year. It's fine, everything's fine.

JANUARY

books
Family Papers (2019)
Rules for Vanishing (2019)
The Wicked Sister (2020)
Gingerbread (2019)
Pet (2019)
My Best Friend's Exorcism (2016)
On Swift Horses (2019)
Dear Edward (2020)
Fleabag: The Scriptures (2019)

films
Little Women (2019)
Marriage Story (2019)
1917 (2019)
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
I Lost My Body (2019)
Ford v Ferrari (2019)
The Irishman (2019)
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
Hustlers (2019)
Rocketman (2019)
Les Misérables (2019)
Appropriate Behavior (2014)
Uncut Gems (2019)
Ready or Not (2019)

shows
You (S2)
The End of the F***ing World (S1)
The Good Place (S4)

FEBRUARY

books
Social Creature (2018)
Safe (2020)
Cantoras (2019)
All My Mother's Lovers (2020)
Anna and the Swallow Man (2016)

films
Us (2019)
Aladdin (2019)
Klaus (2019)
The Assistant (2019)
P.S. I Still Love You (2020)
Midsommar (2019)
Kate & Leopold (2001)
Birds of Prey (2020)
The Witch (2015)

shows
The End of the F***ing World (S2)
I Am Not Okay With This (S1)

MARCH

books
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (2020)
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them (2019)
Interior Chinatown (2020)

films
Emma. (2020)
Little Forest (2018)
Desert Hearts (1985)
Bound (1996)
My Summer of Love (2004)
Pariah (2011)

shows
Dare Me (S1)
The Sopranos (S1)
Steven Universe Future (S1)
Riverdale (S1)

APRIL

books
The Secret Commonwealth (2019)

films
Forget Paris (1995)

shows
The Sopranos (S2-S3)
Riverdale (S2-S3)

MAY

books
The Westing Game (1978)

films
The Half of It (2020)
Bande de filles (2014)
Back to the Future (1985)

shows
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (S7)
Riverdale (S4)
Arrested Development (S5)
The Sopranos (S4-S5)
Breaking Bad (S1)

JUNE

books
Intimations (2020)

films
One Day at Disney (2019)
Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
Shirley (2020)
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)

shows
Veep (S7)
Breaking Bad (S2)
The Thick of It (S1)
Upload (S1)

JULY

books
The Bluest Eye (1970)
Pizza Girl (2020)
Knock Knock (2021)
Serpentine (2020)
Bestiary (2020)

films
Hamilton (2020)
Palm Springs (2020)

shows
The Sopranoes (S6)
The Great (S1)
Breaking Bad (S3)
Little Fires Everywhere (S1)
Schitt's Creek (S1-S2)

AUGUST

books
One Life (2020)
The Swallowed Man (2020)
The Monster Baru Cormorant (2018)
Daddy (2020)
It (1986)

films
The Shining (1980)
Descendants 3 (2019)
The Old Guard (2020)

shows
The Imagineering Story (S1)
Schitt's Creek (S3-S5)
Breaking Bad (S4-S5)
Cursed (S1)
It (S1)

SEPTEMBER

books
The Stonewall Reader (2019)
How to Be an Antiracist (2019)

films
The Skeleton Twins (2014)
The Lodge (2019)
The Turning (2020)
The Lost Boys (1987)

shows
Barry (S1)

OCTOBER

books
Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses (2021)

films
Bad Education (2019)
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
The VelociPastor (2018)
Scream (1996)
Scream 2 (1997)
Hereditary (2018)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
The Exorcist (1973)
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)

shows
Barry (S2)
Succession (S1-S2)

NOVEMBER

books
Memorial (2020)

films
Happiest Season (2020)

shows
Schitt's Creek (S6)

DECEMBER

books
The Final Girl Support Group (2021)
Stranger Things: Rebel Robin (2021)

films
Soul (2020)

shows
The Unknowing (S1)
Dead to Me (S1-S2)
Big Little Lies (S1-S2)
The Wilds (S1)

Comments

[jaggedwolf]

Starting lists at this time of the year is very fair! And at least this is orderly, I have mine for different years scrawled into the same two pages of a notebook...

Also, that's so many movies, I've only seen two movies this year, haha.

[belacqua]

Hah, ty for validating the time I spent trying to format this. What kind of notebook do you use? I use notebooks in meetings and have gotten attached to moleskins.

Having letterboxd definitely helps with the seeing a lot of movies thing, the peer pressure lol. What movie did you see other than Portrait of a Lady on Fire?

[jaggedwolf]

I have one of those small squared-paper moleskins for my in-the-moment notes sometimes, but my logs are all in this random monologue notebook I got for a birthday years ago.

Oh man, I'm afraid the other movie I saw was the Kim Possible live-action movie, while in a hotel room at the con. It is definitely not a good movie by any means, but it is a riot and a half entertainment-wise.

[regressat]

And it is much appreciated because I always take your books list as an instant rec list. Thanks!

[belacqua]

That's one of my favorite things anyone's said to me tbh. Also, I don't remember what your reading setup is, but I've been saying this as a PSA to everyone: If there's ever a PRH book you want a copy of, hit me up.

[regressat]

Sorry, PRH?

Honestly, right now it's do it while you have the motivation to read, so I just grab whatever's most available when the mood strikes.

(Though I am elbows deep in Explorer's Guide to Wildemount rn, because it exists.)

[belacqua]

Penguin Random House!I forget who I've told about my current job. I've been working in metadata there and have access to lots of books (well—offering a physical book feels questionable while under quarantine, but for future ref).

And that's very fair. I think I've finished one book since the quarantine started?

[regressat]

Oh, nice. Well in that case congrats! And I'll keep that in mind, thank you.

Ah yeah, I think I just do so much studying for work that between that and DnD somehow taking over as my main hobby, when I do have the free time I prefer to leave my brain in the off position. Quarantine has been a strange animal, we ended up lacking in contracts but busier all the same. Not a complaint, considering.

[belacqua]

I blinked and ten days had passed since I replied to this? So, quarantine has been a strange animal—yes. Has your DnD group been using Zoom at all or has that been scrapped for now?

I'm really glad to hear you've still been able to work. And you're able to WFH, I assume? My work situation has turned into me using GoToMyPC, with a hotspot in place of an actual wifi network (the wifi seems like it'll get fixed soon, at least—I am so tired).

[regressat]

Fair, lol. We're actually an online group normally! We use Discord, so no major adjustments there, which is nice. (I deal too much with Zoom at work to want to use it at home, lmao.)


Hundred percent, we have an on call rotation so WFH is a normal requirement of the gig for me. Oof! The demand has been no joke, infrastructure for residential services is just not built for use this way, especially for non-fiber networks, which is still the majority. Hang in there and let me know if you ever need any equipment recommendations or anything like that.