Media Log /2018
Key: (B) = book | (F) = film | (T) = television series | (P) = podcast series | (TH) = theater performance | (M) = musical performance | [R] = reread/rewatch/relisten
- January
- 1
- The White Princess, Season 1 (T)
- 2
- The Last Jedi (F) [R]
- 3
- They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib (B)
- Damn Fine Story: Mastering the Tools of a Powerful Narrative, Chuck Wendig (B)
- 4
- Wormwood (T)
- 5
- Lady Dynamite, Season 1 (T)
- 6
- Antediluvian Tales, Poppy Z. Brite (B) [R]
- 7
- The Secrets You Keep, Kate White (B)
- Tokyo Story (F)
- 11
- Lady Dynamite, Season 2 (T)
- The Good Place, Season 1 (T)
- 12
- Phantom Thread (F)
- 13
- The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life, Jessa Crispin (B)
- 14
- The Lost Girls, Heather Young (B)
- Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (F)
- 15
- That's Not All Folks: My Life in the Golden Age of Cartoons and Radio, Mel Blanc (B)
- 19
- Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe (TH)
- 20
- A Treacherous Curse, Deanna Raybourn (B)
- 23
- It Makes a Sound, Season 1 (P)
- From a Certain Point of View, various authors (B)
- 24
- The Rules of the Game (F)
- 26
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (F) [R]
- 27
- Breadcrumbs, Anne Ursu (B)
- Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (F)
- 28
- Real Artists Have Day Jobs (And Other Awesome Things They Don't Teach You at School), Sara Benincasa (B)
- Breaking Bad, Season 1 (T)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (F) [R]
- 31
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (F) [R]
- February
- 1
- Breaking Bad, Season 2 (T)
- 3
- Breaking Bad, Season 3 (T)
- 4
- The Good Place, Season 1 (T) [R]
- 5
- Young Charlie (P)
- 7
- The Good Place, Season 2 (T)
- 9
- Fitcher's Brides, Gregory Frost (B)
- 12
- Breaking Bad, Season 4 (T)
- Community, Season 1 (T) [R]
- 14
- The Electric Michelangelo, Sara Hall (B)
- Winchester (F)
- 16
- Black Panther (F)
- 17
- The End of the F***ing World (T)
- 18
- Bury Me Deep, Megan Abbott (F) [R]
- Community, Season 2 (T) [R]
- 19
- Seven Samurai (F)
- 21
- Skin Deep: Tattoos, the Disappearing West, Very Bad Men and My Deep Love for Them All, Karol Griffin (B)
- 22
- The Devotion of Suspect X, Keigo Higashino (B)
- Making Movies, Sidney Lumet (B)
- 23
- Community, Season 3 (T) [R]
- 24
- Jane Steele, Lindsey Faye (B)
- 25
- La belle et la bête (F)
- Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos: A Social History of the Tattoo with Gangs, Sailors and Street-Corner Punks, Samuel M. Steward (B)
- 26
- The Tattooed Lady: A History, Amelia Klem Osterud (B)
- 28
- A Night at the Opera (B) [R]
- March
- 2
- Breaking Bad, Season 5 (T)
- Victoria, Season 2 (T)
- 4
- 8 1/2 (F)
- 5
- The Art of Neil Gaiman, Hayley Campbell (B)
- Every Last Lie, Mary Kubica (B)
- 6
- The Couple Next Door, Shari Lapena (B)
- 7
- The Thin Man (F) [R]
- 8
- Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade, Justin Spring (B)
- 9
- An Evening with Neil Gaiman (TH)
- 10
- Thor: Ragnarok (F) [R]
- 11
- The Searchers (F)
- 12
- Silent Night, Deanna Raybourn (B)
- 13
- Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting, Syd Field (B)
- The Perfect Nanny, Leila Slimani (B)
- 15
- The Filmmaker's Handbook, Steven Ascher and Edward Pincus (B)
- Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously (F)
- 18
- Jessica Jones, Season 2 (T)
- Kansas City Confidential (F)
- The Girl from Chicago (F)
- Fallen Angel (F)
- Clue (F) [R]
- Truly Devious, Maureen Johnson (B)
- 21
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (F) [R]
- 22
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (F) [R]
- 23
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (F) [R]
- 24
- Kitchen Table Tarot, Melissa Cynova (B)
- Bonfire, Krysten Ritter (B)
- Cat People (F)
- Battleship Potemkin (F)
- 25
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell (B)
- 26
- Missing and Murdered, Season 1 (P)
- Moana (F) [R]
- 27
- Lorde/Run the Jewels/Mitski (M)
- 28
- In the Blink of an Eye, Walter Murch (B)
- My Neighbor Totoro (F)
- 29
- The Woman in the Window, A.J. Finn (B)
- 31
- Wild Wild Country (T)
- April
- 1
- Some Like It Hot (F)
- 5
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Season 1 (T)
- 11
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Season 2 (T)
- 12
- Murder in St. Giles, Ashley Gardner (B)
- 14
- What It Is, Lynda Barry (B)
- 15
- The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, Christopher Vogler (B)
- She Kills Monsters (TH)
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Season 3 (T)
- 16
- Poetics, Aristotle (B) [R]
- 18
- Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, Scott McCloud (B)
- City Lights (F)
- 20
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Season 4 (T)
- 21
- Silence, Shūsaku Endō (B)
- My Friend Dahmer (F)
- 22
- Sunburn, Laura Lippman (B)
- Cheers, Season 1 (T)
- 24
- Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, Elizabeth Gilbert (B)
- 28
- The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror, Mallory Ortberg (B)
- The Sopranos, Season 1 (T)
- 30
- Howards End (T)
- May
- 6
- Story: Substance, Structure and Style of Screenwriting, Robert McKee (B)
- Lawrence of Arabia (F)
- 11
- In the Mood for Love (F)
- Sweet Smell of Success (F) [R]
- School of Rock (F) [R]
- 12
- Midsummer Night, Deanna Raybourn (B)
- Twelfth Night, Deanna Raybourn (B)
- 13
- Bonfire Night, Deanna Raybourn (B)
- 15
- Filmworker (F)
- 18
- Macbeth (TH)
- 19
- Murder on Black Swan Lane, Andrea Penrose (B)
- What You Want to See, Kristen Lepionka (B)
- Rashomon (F)
- 20
- Evil Genius (T)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (F) [R]
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Season 5 (T)
- 21
- Cheers, Season 2 (T)
- The Naked City (F)
- 25
- Solo: A Star Wars Story (F)
- 26
- The Pisces, Melissa Broder (B)
- Modern Times (F)
- The Women (F) [R]
- 27
- Let the Sunshine In (F)
- Alien (F)
- 28
- The Asphalt Jungle (F)
- The Maltese Falcon (F) [R]
- 30
- Night of the Living Dead (F)
- 31
- The Americans, Season 6 (T)
- June
- 2
- Barry Lyndon (F) [R]
- 3
- The DSLR Filmmaker's Handbook, Barry Andersson (B)
- Rio Bravo (F)
- 5
- Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story, Ursula K. Le Guin (B)
- Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (F)
- 9
- On Directing Film, David Mamet (B)
- If I Die Tonight, Alison Gaylin (B)
- Libeled Lady (F)
- 11
- The Gold Rush (F)
- 12
- The Big Combo (F) [R]
- 16
- Godzilla (F)
- It's Always Fair Weather (F)
- Ocean's 8 (F)
- 17
- American Animals (F)
- 19
- White Heat (F)
- 21
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (F)
- 22
- Blade Runner (theatrical cut) (F)
- 24
- Circe, Madeline Miller (B)
- Safe, Season 1 (T)
- Jaws (F)
- 26
- Stagecoach (F)
- 27
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (F) [R]
- 28
- On Film-Making: An Introduction to the Craft of the Director, Alexander Mackendrick (B)
- 30
- Incredibles 2 (F)
- July
- 1
- Glow, Season 2 (T)
- 3
- The Staircase (T) [R]
- 4
- Better Call Saul, Season 1 (T)
- Breathless (F)
- Ingrid Goes West (F)
- 7
- Vintage Tattoos: The Book of Old-School Skin Art, Carol Clerk (B)
- Neverwhere (TH)
- Eyes Wide Shut (F)
- 8
- The Death of Mrs. Westaway, Ruth Ware (B)
- Auntie Mame (F)
- 9
- Carsick, John Waters (B)
- Blade Runner (final cut) (F) [R]
- 10
- Damsel (F)
- 11
- The Seventh Seal (F)
- Summertime (F)
- 14
- Gun Crazy (F)
- Dames (F)
- Bombshell (F)
- Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist (F)
- 19
- Big Little Lies (T)
- 20
- Sorry to Bother You (F)
- Give Me Your Hand, Megan Abbott (B)
- 21
- Women Who Kill (F)
- 22
- The Favorite Sister, Jessica Knoll (B)
- Apocalypse Now (F)
- Make Trouble, John Waters (B)
- 23
- Three Identical Strangers (F)
- 25
- Once Upon a Time in the West (F)
- 27
- Better Call Saul, Season 2 (T)
- 28
- GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (F)
- Better Call Saul, Season 3 (T)
- 30
- A Very English Scandal (T)
- 31
- Johnny Guitar (F)
- August
- 2
- Mission: Impossible - Fallout (F)
- 3
- A Brush with Shadows, Anna Lee Huber (B)
- 5
- Flamingo Road (F)
- 6
- The Night of the Hunter (F)
- 7
- Midwest Independent Film Festival shorts program: Stage Four, The Go Cart, Mickey's Pets, Searching for Isabelle, Ouroboros, De-Generate, Atoms of Ashes, As of Now (F)
- 8
- Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (F)
- 9
- The Sopranos, Season 2 (T)
- 11
- The Meg (F)
- 12
- Girl in a Band, Kim Gordon (B)
- Cabaret (F)
- The Sopranos, Season 3 (T)
- Lolita (F)
- 14
- Nashville (F)
- 16
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (F)
- 18
- Carrie, Stephen King (B)
- 19
- Thoroughbreds (F)
- The Rider (F)
- Burn After Reading (F)
- 20
- All My Sons (F)
- 21
- Crimson Peak (F)
- 22
- Harlots, Season 2 (T)
- 23
- The Sopranos, Season 4 (T)
- 25
- Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman (B) [R]
- September
- 2
- Sharp Objects (T)
- Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold, Stephen Fry (B)
- 3
- Sunset Boulevard (F) [R]
- Point Break (F)
- 4
- Once Upon a Time: A Short History of the Fairy Tale, Marina Warner (B)
- 5
- For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murder that Shocked Chicago, Simon Baatz (B)
- 7
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Otessa Moshfegh (B)
- Crazy Rich Asians (F)
- 8
- Black Dog, Neil Gaiman (B)
- City Girl (F)
- 9
- The Monarch of the Glen, Neil Gaiman (B)
- A Clockwork Orange (F)
- 11
- Ninotchka (F)
- 14
- Nightmares and Nightcaps: The Stories of John Collier (TH)
- 15
- Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self, Manoush Zamorodi (B)
- 17
- Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, Haruki Murakami (B)
- 19
- Alice Isn't Dead, Season 3 (P)
- The Sopranos, Season 5 (T)
- Groundhog Day (F)
- The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, Angela Carter (B)
- 22
- North by Northwest (F) [R]
- Pachinko, Min Jin Lee (B)
- 23
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Horace McCoy (B)
- The Remains of the Day (F)
- 25
- Dr. Death, Season 1 (P)
- Uncover: Escaping NXIVM, Season 1 (P)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (F) [R]
- 26
- Conversations with Wilder, Cameron Crowe (B)
- 27
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (F) [R]
- 29
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (F)
- 30
- Dracula (1931) (F) [R]
- October
- 2
- The Hudsucker Proxy (F)
- 3
- Ordeal by Innocence (T)
- 6
- La Dolce Vita (F)
- The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales, Bruno Bettelheim (B)
- Ohio, Stephen Markley (B)
- 7
- The Invisble Man (F)
- The Sopranos, Season 6 (T)
- 8
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (F) [R]
- 9
- Carol (F)
- 14
- The Haunting of Hill House, Season 1 (T)
- Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History, Tori Telfer (B)
- Raging Bull (F)
- 15
- Only to Sleep: A Philip Marlowe Novel, Lawrence Osborne (B)
- Frankenstein (1931) (F) [R]
- 16
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (F) [R]
- 18
- Rust Belt Arcana: Tarot and the Natural History in the Exurban Wilds, Matt Stansberry (B)
- The Blob (F)
- 21
- Never Enough: The Creative Life of Alex Jordan, Tom Kupsh (B)
- The Wild Bunch (F)
- 22
- Darkest Night, Season 1 (P)
- 23
- Horror of Dracula (F)
- 24
- Darkest Night, Season 2 (P)
- Murder on the Orient Express (2017) (F)
- 30
- The Raven (F)
- Ghostbusters (1984) (F) [R]
- Ghostbusters II (F) [R]
- Ghostbusters (2016) (F) [R]
- 31
- The Lying Game, Ruth Ware (B)
- November
- 2
- The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain (B) [R]
- 3
- The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell, Season 1 (T)
- 4
- The Other Side of the Wind (F)
- The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) (F) [R]
- 6
- Women of Twilight (F)
- Dark Waters(F)
- Fear in the Night(F)
- 7
- The Cocktail Waitress, James M. Cain (B)
- 9
- Crooked House (F)
- Lore, Season 2 (T)
- The Blackcoat's Daughter (F)
- The Florida Project (F)
- Tangerine (F)
- Killer Legends (F)
- 10
- Confessions of a Teenage Sleuth, Chelsea Cain (B)
- Out of the Past (F) [R]
- The Devils (F)
- 14
- Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury (B) [R]
- 17
- The Twilight Zone, Season 1 (T)
- 18
- She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Season 1 (T)
- 20
- Someone Knows Something, Season 5 (P)
- The Devil and Daniel Webster (F)
- The Most Dangerous Game (F)
- 21
- You Must Remember This: The Seduced (P)
- Farewell, My Lovely (1975) (F)
- The Last Seduction (F)
- 22
- Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Gaunlet (Season 12) (T)
- 23
- Can You Ever Forgive Me? (F)
- 24
- The Killing (F)
- 28
- Nightmare Alley (F)
- 29
- Singin' in the Rain (F) [R]
- December
- 1
- Twelfth Night (TH)
- 2
- The Favourite (F)
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (F)
- 3
- Cam (F)
- The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) (F)
- The Romanoffs, Season 1 (T)
- 4
- The Dream, Season 1 (P)
- 5
- Thelma (F)
- Dogtooth (F)
- 8
- Ugly Prey: An Innocent Woman and the Death Sentence That Scandalized Jazz Age Chicago, Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi (B)
- Klute (F)
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (F)
- 9
- Tale of Tales (F)
- Chicago (2002) (F) [R]
- 13
- Bear Brook, Season 1 (P)
- 15
- The Innocent Man, Season 1 (T)
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (F) [R]
- Nightmare Alley, William Lindsay Gresham (B)
- 16
- Save the Cat, Blake Synder (B)
- Burning (F)
- The Leopard (F)
- 20
- Die Hard (F)
- 22
- Veronica Mars, Season 1 (T)
- Nancy (F)
- The Big Sleep (1978) (F)
- 23
- Born Yesterday (F)
- Their Finest (F)
- The Woman in the Window (F)
- Vanity Fair (2018) (T)
- First Reformed (F)
- 24
- Mary Queen of Scots (F)
- The Awful Truth (F)
- Dracula (1992) (F)
- 25
- Aquaman (F)
- 26
- Heathers (F)
- Immoral Tales (F)
- 28
- The Twilight Zone, Season 2 (T)
- 29
- Killing Commendatore, Haruki Murakami (B)
- 30
- Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Tim Mohr (B)
- Limetown, Season 2 (P)
- 31
- Red as Blood, Tanith Lee (B)
- Thief (F)
- Dead Reckoning (F)
- Veronica Mars, Season 2 (T)
- Multiple Months
- Ongoing podcasts without finite series: My Favorite Murder, Criminal, Lore, The Flop House, Says Who?, Disgraceland, Criminal Broads, The Good Place: The Podcast.