February Recs '25
Added 2025-03-02 22:56:09 +0000 UTCCatching up and posting February’s recommendations as well!
Music: k.d. lang's Recollection (2010)
I really, really, really should listen to more k.d. lang. This compilation album is a fantastic introduction for first time listeners of her work, and includes one of my favorite covers she ever recorded So In Love. Not only is it a beautiful cover, but have you seen her perform it on Letterman!? I also HIGHLY recommend her cover of Secret Love that can be heard at the end of the documentary The Celluloid Closet (Dir. Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, 1995).
You can listen to the full album here.
Film: The Battle of the Century (Dir. Clyde Bruckman, 1927)
So another side project I'm working on is examining how drag was depicted in group comedy acts from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Due to my queer animation work, this project has been put on hiatus, but it's something I hope to return to in a few years.
This one unfortunately doesn’t have anything of queer interest, BUT there is an absolutely incredible pie throwing scene that had me absolutely in stitches, essential viewing for fans of physical comedy.
You can watch the restored version here.
Book: The Complete Wimmen's Comix, edited by Trina Robbins (2016)
I've been wanting to get back into one of my early interests, comix, for a few months now. Since queer representation and comix art have quite an interesting history, Wimmen's Comix is one of those collections I'm glad has been released in full. I bought the physical copy, but as you can see below, there are digitized scans of the text available to read.
You can read the full book here.
