Happy New Year: Penn's Private Blog- Year In Review
Added 2021-01-01 20:44:41 +0000 UTC2020 Penn – 200101 – Here’s my year-end for 2020.
I keep a record of all the art I take in and I wrap it up at the end of the year. Well, this year has been a pandemic. So, it sure ain’t going to be much, but I’m a creature of habit, so I’ll do it anyway.
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I saw 0 movies in the theater this year, 10 fewer than last year.
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I put video, broadcast, iTunes and everything not in a theater together. This year that includes Zoom shows
I saw 63 video things (32 more than last year — it’s a pandemic)
Here’s the ones I liked in the order I saw them:
Country Music, a Film by Ken Burns
The Music Man
Tropic Thunder
Ray Donovan
John Mulaney – New in Town
Parasite
Dark Waters
The Banker
Just Mercy
HomeLand
BeetleJuice
Thor: Ragnarok
Vast of Night
Seymour: An Introduction
Gimme Danger
American Masters: Mae West: Dirty Blonde
Masked and Anonymous
The Invisible Man
Miller’s Crossing
Uncut Gems
PSYCHOX10
Piff Live from Las Vegas
Slow Burn Watergate
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
The Trial of the Chicago Seven
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All
Moneyball
The Taking of Pelham 123
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Sound of Metal
Soul
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I saw 0 bands (7 fewer than last year)
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I saw 3 comedy shows (same as last year!)
My favorites:
Piff Live from Las Vegas
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I saw 11 magic shows in (9 than last year – many on Zoom),
Dedicated to Johnny Thompson “Tank You Berry Much!” S.A.M. Gala Show
Henry Evans
Lucy Darling
Garrett Thomas
Piff – Live from Las Vegas
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I saw 2 plays (8 fewer than last year)
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I saw 3 Vegas shows (9 fewer than last year), my favorites were:
Dedicated to Johnny Thompson “Tank You Berry Much!” S.A.M. Gala Show
Henry Evans
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I mix up audio books, and Kindle but there weren’t many audiobooks this year because I’m not driving. I read the Times every day and “The Week” every week, but I don’t count that. I’ve been reading a bit, I read on the Kindle for usually over an hour often 2 hours.
I guess I read about 42 which is 9 more than last year.
My Favorites (they tend to be all — the ones I’m not liking fade away before finishing), there are lots of detective because I wrote my detective novel this year. There were a few I didn’t bother putting here, but I liked a bunch of them.
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The Deep Blue Good-by: A Travis McGee Novel
The Hunter: A Parker Novel (Parker Novels Book 1)
The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue Book 1)
Black Wings has my Angel
The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder: The First Amendment and the Censor’s Dilemma
Case Histories: A Novel (Jackson Brodie Book 1)
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, Book 1)
The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground: A Library of America Special Publication
After Claude
Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty
ClimateBookDraft2 – Lawrence Krauss
How to Survive a Pandemic
Big Brother: A Novel (P.S.)
Slaughterhouse-Five
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
The Man with Two Hats (End Credits) – Martin Mull
South of the Border, West of the Sun:
Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
Station Eleven:
Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...and Beyond
Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act
The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
Humankind: A Hopeful History
The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
The Moving Target (Lew Archer Series Book 1)
Devil in a Blue Dress: An Easy Rawlins Novel
The Given Day: A Novel (Coughlin Series Book 1)
Dead Girl Blues
The Giant's House: A Romance
The Buddha's Story by Chris Matheson
How Not to Diet: The Groundbreaking Science of Healthy, Permanent Weight Loss
Dark of the Moon (A Virgil Flowers Novel, Book 1)
So, that’s it for 2020. Ay Ay Ay. I’m studying Spanish, and I really hope that by the end of next year at least a couple things on this list will be in Spanish. That would make me very proud.
What a year. Let’s hope 2021 is better.
Stay Positive.
Stay Negative.
