[zine] Penance and Prayer: A Nun Smut Zine by Ashe Kusagaya ♥︎
[article] "How Monsters Went from Menacing to Misunderstood" by Manvir Singh
[book] Owlish by Dorothy Tse ★★★★
[film] Dune dir. David Lynch ★★★★
[album] Goodbye, World! by miffle ★★★★½
[article] "Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI" by Varsha Bansal
[film] Woman of the Hour dir. Anna Kendrick ★★★
[book] Stoner by John Williams ★★★★★
[album] Smoochies by Ashnikko ★★
[scholarly article] "The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain" by James Boyle
[scholarly article] "Libraries on the frontlines: neutrality and social justice" by Amelia N. Gibson, et al.
[scholarly article] "The Urge to Censor: Raw Power, Social Control, and the Criminalization of Librarianship" by Paul T. Jaeger ♥︎
[album] Tomorrow We Escape by Ho99o9 ★★★★★
[album] Only Dust Remains by Backxwash ★★★★★
[blog post] "Building a personal archive of the web, the slow way" by Alex WL Chan ♥︎
[visual novel] maintain'n'fuck by solfo ♥︎
November
[album] Tsunami Sea by Spiritbox ★★★
[EP] Salvation by Rebecca Black ★★★
[album] Coming Home by IC3PEAK ★★★★
[album] Eusexua by FKA twigs ★★★★½
[album] Goodbye, World! by miffle ★★★★½
[album] Long Live the Old Dead Gods by Zheani ★★★★½
[book] The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds ★★★★
[book] Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner ★★★★★
[album] The Score by Fugees ★★★½
[album] Debut by Björk ★★★★
[album] These Are the Vistas by The Bad Plus ★★★
[album] Marry Me by St. Vincent ★★★½
[film] Frankenstein dir. Guillermo Del Toro ★★★
[album] Luminescent Creatures by Ichiko Aoba ★★★★
[film] COINTEL PRO ♥︎
[scholarly article] "Archival Activism: Emerging Forms, Local Applications" by Vladan Vuklis & Anne J. Gilliland
Research for final paper:
"Animating Ephemera through Oral History: Interpreting Visual Traces of California Gay College Student Organizing from the 1970s" by David A. Reichard in The Oral History Review vol. 39, issue 1
"Keepers of Ghosts: Old Signs, New Media and the Age of Archival Flux" by Lisa Cianci & Stephen Schutt in Archives & Manuscripts vol. 42, issue 1
"Early Soviet Visual Antireligious Propaganda: The Display of Print Images in the Past, Present and Digital Future" by Kevin M. Kain in Slavic & East European Information Resources vol. 19, issue 3-4
"Odds, Ends, and Archival Exclusion: Ephemeral Archives and Counter-History in the English Country House" by Lucy Brownson in Archives and Records vol. 44, issue 3
"Theoretical Approaches to the Collection and Appraisal of Graffiti Ephemera: A Toronto, Ontario, Case Study" by Al Cunningham Rogers in Archivaria vol. 97
"Documenting Illegal Art: Collaborative Software, Online Environments and New York City's 1970s and 1980s Graffiti Art Movement" by Rachel Masilamani in Art Documentation vol. 27, issue 2
"Not Fade Away: Understanding the Definition, Preservation, and Conservation Issues of Visual Ephemera" by John H. Slate in Collection Management vol. 25, issue 4
"The Appraisal of Ephemera" by Diane Deblois & Robert Dalton Harris in Popular Culture in Libraries vol. 4, issue 2
"Subject Control of Ephemera: MARC Format Options" by Jane Greenberg in Popular Culture in Libraries vol. 4, issue 1
"Posters as Library Resource: The International Poster Collection at Colorado State University" by Christine Nelson & Joel S. Rutstein in Collection Management vol. 20
"Printed Ephemera - The Raw Materials of History" by Florence M. Jumonville in LLA Bulletin vol. 53
October
[film] Ringu dir. Hideo Nakata ★★★★★
[album] FABLES by Banshee ★★★★★
[film] Beetlejuice Beetlejuice dir. Tim Burton ★★
[film] American Psycho dir. Mary Harron ★★★★★🗘
[album] From the Pyre by The Last Dinner Party ★★★½
[film] Weapons dir. Zach Cregger ★★★
[film] Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery dir. Ally Pankiw ★★★★
[book] The Promise by Silvina Ocampo ★★★
[poem] "My Defeated Banner" by Najwan Darwish ♥︎
[scholarly article] "The TESCREAL Bundle: Eugenics and the Promise of Utopia Through Artificial General Intelligence" by Timnit Gebru & Emile P. Torres ♥︎
[film] One Cut of the Dead dir. Shinichiro Ueda ★★★★
[book] The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde ★★★★★
[poem] "The More Modest the Definition of Heaven, the Oftener We're There" by Albert Goldbarth ♥︎
[poem] "Every Day" by Omar Sakr ♥︎
[essay] "Automating Intellectual Freedom: Artificial Intelligence, Bias, and the Information Landscape" by Catherine Smith ♥︎
[digital zine] MACHZINE #1 by solflo ♥︎
[poem] "antigone 11" by Fargo Tbakhi ♥︎
[article] "Inside the Data Centers That Train A.I. and Drain the Electrical Grid" by Stephen Witt ♥︎
September
[film] Companion dir. Drew Hancock ★★
[book] Other Worlds: Peasants, Pilgrims, Spirits, Saints by Teffi ★★★★
[film] Pride & Prejudice dir. Joe Wright ★★★½
[film] Unknown Number: The High School Catfish dir. Skye Borgman ★★
[film] Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed dir. Raja Gosnell ♥︎🗘
[film] Totally F***ked Up dir. Gregg Araki ★★★★★
[film] Avengers: Infinity War dir. Joe & Anthony Russo ★★★
August
[album] Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division ★★★★★
[album] private music by Deftones ★★★★★
[TV] The X-Files season 2 ★★★★
[film] Nope dir. Jordan Peele ★★★★½🗘
[film] Parasite dir. Bong Joon-Ho ★★★★½🗘
[book] Hilma af Klint: A Biography by Julia Voss ★★★★
[film] The People's Joker dir. Vera Drew ★★★★
[album] HYPERYOUTH by Joey Valence & Brae ★★★★
[film] South Park (Not Suitable for Children) dir. Trey Parker ★★½
[film] South Park: The End of Obesity dir. Trey Parker ★★
[scholarly article] "Moving Toward a Reparative Archive: A Roadmap for a Holistic Approach to Disrupting Homogenous Histories in Academic Repositories and Creating Inclusive Spaces for Marginalized Voices" by Lae'l Hughes-Watkins
[book] The Honditsch Cross by Ingeborg Bachmann ★★★★
[scholarly article] "Messy Archives and Materials That Matter: Making Knowledge With the Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua Papers" by Suzanne Bost ♥︎
[scholarly article] "The Archive(s) is a Foreign Country: Historians, Archivists, and the Changing Archival Landscape" by Terry Cook
[EP] How to Destroy Angels by How to Destroy Angels ★★★
[album] Skylarking by XTC ★★★
[book] The White Book by Han Kang ★★★
[poem] "Old Song" by Nima Hasan
[scholarly article] "Information as Thing" by Michael K. Buckland
[scholarly article] "Cultivating Archives: Meanings and Identities" by Eric Ketelaar
[article] "The Digital Packrat Manifesto" by Janus Rose
[article] "The Sneaky Sublime" by Susan Tallman ♥︎
July
[TV] The X-Files season 1 ★★★★
[book] The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica ★★★★
["film"] A Minecraft Movie dir. Jared Hess ★
[essay] "Four Theses for Critical Library and Information Studies: A Manifesto" by Jonathan Cope
[comic] Baptism in the Mud by Cam McCafferty ★★★★½
[comic] Putty Pygmalion by Lonnie Garcia ★★★★★
[book] A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle ★★★
[blog post] "Auditing Algorithms in Commercial Discovery Services" by Matthew Reidsma ♥︎
[film] Dead Poets Society dir. Peter Weir ★★★
[book] The Canterville Ghost, The Happy Prince, and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde ★★★
[article] "History Lesson: Adam Kirsch's On Settler Colonialism is an anti-woke screed disguised as serious scholarship" by Laleh Khalili ♥︎
[article] "Seven Days at the Bin Store" by Jen Kinney ♥︎
June
[book] We Do Not Part by Han Kang ★★★★★
[album] Lullabies in a Glass Wilderness by Lalleshwari ★★★★
[album] Evangelic Girl is a Gun by yeule ★★★★
[film] Maurice dir. James Ivory ★★★★★
[film] Tenebre dir. Dario Argento ★★★
[film] Hellraiser dir. Clive Barker ★★★★
[book] Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi ★★★★
[article] "Lies, Damn Lies, and Magazine Pieces: On the Cursed Art of Fact Checking" by Isabel Clara Ruehl
[book] The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka ★★★★★
[TV] The Rehearsal season 2 ★★★★★
[scholarly article] "Centering Relationality: A Conceptual Model to Advance Indigenous Knowledge Organization Practices" by Sandra Littletree, Miranda Belarde-Lewis, & Marisa Duarte ♥︎
[book] Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 3 by Inio Asano ★★★★
[article] "Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer" by Jed Birmingham
[article] "Which Is the Fly and Which Is the Human?" by Lynn Snowden, interviewing William Burroughs & David Cronenberg ♥︎
[TV] The Rehearsal season 1 ★★★★½
May
[book] Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu ★★★
[film] Edward Scissorhands dir. Tim Burton ★★★★🗘
[book] The Country Life by Rachel Cusk ★★
[film] Megamind dir. Tom McGrath ★★★🗘
[film] Madagascar dir. Eric Darnell & Tom McGrath ★★★🗘
April
[book] Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera ★★★★
[book] The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson ★★★★½
[film] Suspiria dir. Dario Argento ★★★★★
[book] Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner ★★★★
[book] Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well by Maya Angelou ★★★★★
[film] Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves dir. John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein ★★★
[book] Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield ★★★★
[film] Solaris dir. Andrei Tarkovsky ★★★★
[film] Princess Mononoke dir. Hayao Miyazaki ★★★★★🗘
[film] Atlantis: The Lost Empire dir. Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise ★★★★
March
[book] Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa ★★★
[album] NO HANDS by Joey Valence & Brae ★★★★
[EP] ~~~ by Ana Roxanne ★★★★½
[book] Bad Girls by Camila Sosa Villada ★★★★★
[book] A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw ★★
[film] Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie dir. Kunihiko Ikuhara ★★★★
[film] Run Lola Run dir. Tom Tykwer ★★★★★🗘
[article] "Uncanny Valley of the Dolls" by Zefyr Lisowski in The Believer ♥︎
[poem] "The Robbery" by Natalie Eilbert in The Believer ♥︎
[film] Sweet Bean dir. Naomi Kawase ★★★
[album] PUNK TACTICS by Joey Valence & Brae ★★★★★
[film] Nowhere dir. Gregg Araki ★★★★★
[book] On a Woman's Madness by Astrid Roemer ★★★★
[film] Boy dir. Taika Waititi ★★★½
[film] Dead Ringers dir. David Cronenberg ★★★
[film] I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK dir. Park Chan-Wook ★★★½
[book] Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh ★★★★★
[album] Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares: Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 ★★★★
[film] Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust dir. Yoshiaki Kawajiri ★★★
[film] Conclave dir. Edward Berger ★★★★½
[film] It's What's Inside dir. Greg Jardin ★★★
February
[album] The Exodus Suite by Gemma Ray ★★★½
[book] The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole ★★★
[film] The Company of Wolves dir. Neil Jordan ★★★★★🗘
[album] Hiss Spun by Chelsea Wolfe ★★★★★
[album] Black'!Antique by Pink Siifu ★★★
[film] Love Exposure dir. Sion Sono ★★★★
[album] Still by Nine Inch Nails ★★★★
[album] All Bitches Die by Lingua Ignota ★★★★★
[film] Blood and Roses dir. Roger Vadim ★★★
[album] GNX by Kendrick Lamar ★★★★
[book] Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva ★★★
[album] Change Today? by T.S.O.L. ★★★★★
[album] Phenomena: The Complete Original Instrumental Soundtrack by Goblin ★★★
[film] Phenomena dir. Dario Argento ★★★★★
[book] Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth ★★★
[blog post] "Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed" by David Cain on Raptitude ♥︎
[film] Portrait of a Lady on Fire dir. Celine Sciamma ★★★★★
[film] Cinderella dir. Robert Iscove ★★½
[book] No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai ★★★★★
[book] A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders ★★★★★
[film] I Want You Back dir. Jason Orley ★
[poem] "Upon Turning 25, A Small Nervous Breakdown" by Megan Williams ♥︎
January
[album] Curdled Milk by Nicole Dollanganger ★★★★
[album] Afrodisiac by The Veldt ★★★★★
[book] I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpmann ★★★★★
[album] Tsunawatari by Hako Yamasaki ★★★★
[album] It's a Wonderful Life by Sparklehorse ★★★
[album] Marked for Death by Emma Ruth Rundle ★★★★
[film] Rush Hour dir. Brett Ratner ★★
[film] A Real Pain dir. Jesse Eisenberg ★★★★
[book] The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow ★★
[film] Chungking Express dir. Wong Kar-Wai ★★★★★🗘
[album] She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She by Chelsea Wolfe ★★★★★
[EP] Perverts by Ethel Cain ★★★★★
[film] Cat People dir. Jacques Tourneur ★★★
[film] Nosferatu dir. Robert Eggers ★★★★★
[book] Transformations by Anne Sexton ★★★★
[film] Woman in the Dunes dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara ★★★★
[book] Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones ★★★
[album] Alligator Bites Never Heal by Doechii ★★★
[film] Senseless dir. Penelope Spheeris ★★
[film] Election dir. Alexander Payne ★★★
[poem] "[Years of pelvic floor therapy]" by Maria Gray ♥︎
