Jen Myers

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.

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