2026 media log

January February March April

April

[Album] Piss in the Wind by Joji ★★★
[Album] URGH by Mandy, Indiana ★★★★½
[Article] "How Do You Make a Medieval Film on a Shoestring Budget?" by Paul McAdory, New York Times
[Album] Love Is Not Enough by Converge ★★★★
[Scholarly Article] "New Commons: Toward a Necessary Reappraisal" by Marco Berlinguer, Popular Communication vol. 18, no. 3 (2020) ♡
[EP] R-TYPE I by HEALTH ★★★
[Blog post] "Zines Are Not Blogs" by Jenna Freedman on the Barnard College Zine Library site
[Scholarly Article] "From White Gloves to White Coats: A Call for Partnership Between Archivists and Hoarding Psychologists" by Leah Broaddus in Archival Issues Vol. 32, no. 1 (2010)
[EP] EP1 by Power Snatch ★★★
[Album] The Mountain by Gorillaz ★★★½
[Book] The Night Always Comes by Willy Vlautin ★★★
[Mixtape] E.T.D.S. by IDK ★★★★
[Film] Millennium Actress dir. Satoshi Kon ★★★½
[Short Story] "Oh Time Thy Pyramids" by Ann LeBlanc in Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 224 ♡

March

[Flash Fiction] "The Spriggan by Tehsin (Fairygore) ♡
[TV Show] Season 1 of The Pitt ★★★★½
[Film] Mulholland Drive dir. David Lynch ★★★★★
[Film] The Hunger dir. Tony Scott ★★★★
[Zine] Stop Spending $300 on Concert Tickets (And Go See Your Local Bands) by @the__ria ♡
[Album] I Inside the Old Year Dying by PJ Harvey ★★★½
[Scholarly Article] "Transcendent Concepts: Power, Appraisal, and the Archivist as 'Social Outcast'" by Roy Schaeffer in The American Archivist vol. 55, no. 4
[Album] Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs by Chelsea Wolfe ★★★★ 🗘
[Album] Fever Ray by Fever Ray ★★★★★ 🗘
[Film] Mirrored Mind dir. Gakuryu Ishii ★★★★
[Album] Oxis 8 by Oxis ★★★
[Album] Dedication by Mirah ★★★
[Scholarly Article] "Macroappraisal in Theory and Practice: Origins, Characteristics, and Implementation in Canada, 1950-2000" by Terry Cook in Archival Science, vol. 5
[Album] Normal Isn't by Puscifer ★★★
[Film] The Thing dir. John Carpenter ★★★★★
[Film] Party Girl dir. Daisy von Scherler Mayer ★★★★
[Album] Marathon by Maria BC ★★★★½
[Scholarly Article] "Physical-Equivalent Privacy" by Dorothea Salo in The Serials Librarian vol. 81, no. 1: Library Privacy ♡
[Film] Emotion dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi ★★★★★
[Blog Posts] "Printmaking as play pt.1 & pt. 2 by Rachel Simone Weil on her website No Bad Memories ♡
[Scholarly Article] "The Potential of 'Function' as An Archival Descriptor" by Gerald Chaudron in Journal of Archival Organization, vol. 6, no. 4
[Album] A Short History of Decay by Nothing ★★★
[Book] Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture by Stephen Duncombe ★★★★
[Film] Vampyr dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer ★★★½
[Film] Videodrome dir. David Cronenberg ★★★½

February

Wrap-Up

Read: 2 books, 2 essays, 3 scholarly articles, 2 poems

Best Book: The Wax Child by Olga Ravn Best Short Read: "Snowblind" by J. Geddericks

Watched: 4 films

Best Film: Picnic at Hanging Rock dir. Peter Weir (rewatch)

Best Film (First-Time Watch): Tesis dir. Alejandro Amenábar

Listened to: 6 albums, 1 EP

Best Album: Nothing's About to Happen to Me by Mitski

Best New Singles:

"Undercover" by Isobel
"Hive Mind" by Knocked Loose ft. Denzel Curry
"I'll Change For You" by Mitski
"ASSIGNMENT" by Power Snatch
"DISSKIDDCLIC" by sk0ll

[Book] The Wax Child by Olga Ravn ★★★★★
[Album] Nothing's About to Happen to Me by Mitski ★★★★½
[Album] Empty Hands by Poppy ★★★
[Album] And You Who Drowned in the Grief of a Golden Thing by KiNG MALA ★★½
[Film] Picnic at Hanging Rock dir. Peter Weir ★★★★★ 🗘
[Scholarly article] "Whose History Is It Anyway?" by Ian Johnston in Journal of the Society of Archivists vol. 22, no. 2
[Album] In elsewhere by zayok ★★½
[Film] Barbie and the Diamond Castle dir. Gino Nichele ★½
[Book] Flights by Olga Tokarczuk ★★★★
[Film] KPop Demon Hunters dir. Chris Appelhans & Maggie Kang ★★★½
[Poetry] "Snowblind" and "U.F.O." by J. Geddericks on panthermilk ♡
[Film] Tesis dir. Alejandro Amenábar ★★★★½
[Scholarly article] "Getting the Lead Out: The Appraisal of Silver-Lead Mining Records at the University of Idaho" by Richard Davis in American Archivist vol. 55, no. 3
[Album] I Am by Lexa Gates ★★½
[EP] Club Icarus by ARTMS ★★½
[Album] Adore by The Smashing Pumpkins ★★★★
[Scholarly article] "Appraisal and Selection for Digital Curation" by Jinfang Niu
[Essay] "Black Enclaves of Violence: Race and Homicide in Great Plains Cities, 1890-1920" by Clare V. McKanna Jr. from African Americans on the Great Plains: An Anthology
[Essay] "'Pap' Singleton's Dunlap Colony: Relief Agencies and the Failure of a Black Settlement in Eastern Kansas" by Joseph V. Hickey from African Americans on the Great Plains: An Anthology

January

Wrap-Up

Read: 5 books, 1 zine, 2 articles, 1 essay, 1 scholarly article, 1 blog post

Best Book: Illness As Metaphor by Susan Sontag Best Short Read: "The History and Characteristics of Zines" by Fred Wright

Watched: 4 films, 1 comedy special

Best Film: Let the Right One In dir. Tomas Alfredson

Listened to: 5 albums

Best Album: Yes by Morphine

Best New Songs:

"Limn" by Isobel
"Peace of Mind" by Wesley Joseph ft. Danny Brown
"Cursive" by Mandy, Indiana
"Toothless Coal" by Nothing
"ImpetuoUs" by Puscifer

[album] Behind Every Great Man by The Buttress ★★★
[blog post] "On Reagan Library" by ormulum ♡
[album] IDHAETS by ADYXSHA ★★½
[scholarly article] "A Critical Analysis of Intrinsic Value" by Shauna McRanor
[article] "The History and Characteristics of Zines" by Fred Wright ♡
[book] Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis ★★★
[comedy special] Smosh Hospital dir. Rory Kramer ★★★
[film] Grand Theft Hamlet dir. Sam Crane & Pinny Grylls ★★★
[album] The Spiritual Meat Grinder by Zheani ★★★★
[album] Still Waters Run Deep by Four Tops ★★★
[film] The Last Wave dir. Peter Weir ★★★★
[album] Yes by Morphine ★★★★★
[book] Danger on Peaks: Poems by Gary Snyder ★★★½
[book] Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag ★★★★½
[essay] "Black Soldiers at Fort Hays, Kansas, 1867-1869: A study in Civilian and Military Violence" by James N. Leiker from African Americans on the Great Plains: An Anthology
[film] Let the Right One In dir. Tomas Alfredson ★★★★½
[book] Penitential Cries by Susan Howe ★★★
[film] Wake Up Dead Man dir. Rian Johnson ★★★★
[article] "The Radical Write: How a Medieval Catholic Mystic Inspired my Debut Novel" by Janet Rich Edwards
[zine] 3 Weird Stories by Jayde Reid ♡
[book] Heart Sutra by Yan Lianke ★★½