Jojo

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Hi, it's been years sup?

It’s been quite the year. Here are a couple of books, music, film & tv that got me through it. 
          
          Books: 
          01. K.M. Szpara- Docile
          02. Gabriel García Márquez- One Hundred Years of Solitude
          03. John Boyne- The Heart’s Invisible Furies
          04. Michael Snediker- The Apartment of Tragic Things
          05. Ali Araghi- The Immortals of Tehran
          06. Leigh Bardugo- Ninth House
          07. Tomasz Jedrowski- Swimming in the Dark
          08. Carmen Maria Machado- Her Body and Other Parties
          09. Robert Webb- How Not to Be a Boy
          10. Sue Monk Kidd- The Book of Longings
          
          Albums:
          01. Phoebe Bridges- Punisher
          02. Chloe x Halle- Ungodly Hour
          03. Woodkid- S16
          04. Jessie Ware- What’s Your Pleasure
          05. Fiona Apple- Fetch the Bolt Cutters
          06. Moses Sumney- Grae
          07. Everything Everything- RE-ANIMATOR
          08. Grimes- Miss Anthropocene
          09. Rina Sawayama- SAWAYAMA
          10. clipping- Visions of Bodies Being Burned
          
          Film/ TV:
          01. And Then We Danced (2020 Film)
          02. Rebecca (1940 Film)
          03. A Separation (2011 Film)
          04. Xena: Warrior Princess (1995 TV)
          05. Stargirl (2020 TV)
          06. Suspiria (1977 Film)
          07. Die Hard (1988 Film)
          08. The Grudge (2004 Film)
          09. Emma. (2020 Film)
          10. Sauvage (2018 Film)
          
          Give 'em a shot if you're looking for something fresh to do over the holidays. Merry Christmas. Stay safe. Here’s to a better next year!

One must avoid ambition in order to write. Otherwise something else is the goal: some kind of power beyond the power of language. And the power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to. - Cynthia Ozick

Last year I shared a list of songs and films I liked over the year, and I thought I'd make a tradition of it. 
          
          Here's my Best of 2019 nobody asked for.
          
          Best Songs:
          01. James Blake feat. Rosalía - Barefoot in the Park
          02. Vampire Weekend - This Life
          03. Big Thief - U.F.O.F
          04. Glass Beach - glass beach
          05. Lana Del Rey - The greatest
          06. Jamila Woods - BETTY
          07. Ariana Grande - Ghostin
          08. Charli XCX feat. Kim Petras & Tommy Cash - Click
          09. Stormzy - Vossi Bop
          10. Yola - Faraway Look
          11. Orville Peck - Hope to Die
          12. Elaha Soroor & Kefayah - Lalay Lalay
          13. Weyes Blood - Something to Believe
          14. Lil Uzi Vert - Sanguine Paradise
          15. Shura - religion (you can lay your hands on me)
          
          Best Film & TV:
          01. Young Justice (2019 TV)
          02. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006 Film)
          03. Harley Quinn (2019 TV)
          04. The Umbrella Academy (2019 TV)
          05. The Marvelous Mrs Maisel (2019 TV)
          06. Slaughterhouse-Five (1972 Film) 
          07. My Brilliant Friend (2018 TV)
          08. Killing Eve (2019 TV)
          09. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001 Film)
          10. Avengers Endgame (2019 Film)
          11. Marriage Story (2019 Film)
          12. Hustlers (2019 Film)
          13. AHS 1984 (2019 TV)
          14. His Dark Materials (2019 TV) 
          15. The Souvenir (2019 Film)
          
          Best Books & Comics:
          01. The Testaments (Novel 2019) by Margaret Atwood
          02. The Wicked and the Divine (Comic 2019) by Kieron Gillen
          03. 5000 Km Per Second (Graphic Novel 2016)  by Manuele Fiore 
          04. Like A Love Story (Novel 2019) by Abdi Nazemian
          05. The Marked (Comic 2019) by Brian Haberlin & David Hine
          06. Sapiens (Non-Fiction 2011) by Yuval Noah Harari
          07. The Song of Achilles (Novel 2011) by Madeline Miller
          08. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (Novel 2017) by Arundhati Roy
          09. Becoming (Memoir 2018) by Michelle Obama
          10. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in the Strange World (Novel 2019) by Elif Shafak
          
          Alright, that's all. This year was surprisingly a good year for me personally despite all this apocalyptic anxiety. Here's hoping 2020 doesn't break me.
          
          Now you try this. 
          
          Happy Hanukkah.

'Cause I'm just a teenage dirt bag, baby...

A couple of films I've enjoyed recently.
          
          1. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) - Honestly the drag equivalent of A Star Is Born. Tommy Gnosis is my boyfriend. 
          
          2. A Star Is Born (2018) - Honestly the drag equivalent of A Star Is Born, I mean have you seen Lady Gaga sing La Vie En Rose? It's one of the most magical scenes I've ever seen. https://youtu.be/u93gJXcSyEs 
          
          3. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) - I wish I could write half as good as this. That ending just left me bawling and feeling lonelier than ever. 
          
          4. Female Trouble (1974) - Twisted af, and Mink Stole stole the show. The Dreamlanders might be a proto-American Horror Story cast, heck, John Waters might be proto-Ryan Murphy. 
          
          5. Lords of Chaos (2018) - Who cares if it isn't accurate or whether Mayhem hates it? It's got Sky Ferreira playing a groupie and that's most metal thing ever.
          
          Any recommendations?

I just saw the trailer for Makoto Shinkai's Weathering With You... he is the mother I never had. He is the sister everybody would want. He is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person. I DON'T KNOW a better person. I have decided to retire my untalented ass out of respect for him. Bless.

If Mara was a demigod, 
          Her godly parent must be Thor or Zeus/Jupiter. Sorry, I'm a megafan of your book!