Tedious Lists 2020 - Part 1
Favorite albums of 2020 in no particular order, roughly chronological:
The Innocence Mission - See You Tomorrow
Sammy Miller & The Congregation - Leaving Egypt
Kat Edmonson - Dreamers Do
The Cleaners From Venus - Dolly Birds & Spies
Lisa Loeb - A Simple Trick to Happiness
Mandy Moore - Silver Landings
Pokey Lefarge - Rock Bottom Rhapsody
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Bye Bye Blackbirds - Boxer At Rest
Georgia Ruth - Mai
Lavinia Blackwall - Muggington Lane End
Brandi Ediss - Bees and Bees and Bees
Spygenius - Man on the Sea
Anton Barbeau - Oh The Joys We Live For
Call Me Ace - Working From Home
The Explorer's Club - The Explorer's Club
Garden of Earthly Delights, an XTC Celebration
Dolph Chaney - Rebuilding Permit
Fireproof Sam and the Selfsame Four - To Keep You Vultures Happy
The Corner Laughers - Temescal Telegraph
Eurovision Song Contest - Soundtrack
Shirley Collins - Heart's Ease
Stick in the Wheel - Hold Fast
Bright Eyes - Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
Cosmo Sheldrake - Wake Up Calls
Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbot - Manchester Calling
Anton Barbeau - Manbird
Blake Jones - The Homebound Tapes
Rosie Abbott - Magnified
Nicole Atkins - Italian Ice
The Happy Fits - What Could Be Better?
Favorite 2020 Movies, TV, etc. in no particular order:
Miss Americana (2020)
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)
Becoming (II) (2020)
The Half of It (I) (2020)
You (2018- )
The Good Place (2016-2020)
Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist (2020- )
Encore! (2019- )
Spinning Out (2020)
Schitt's Creek (2015-2020)
The Stranger (I) (2020- )
Hillary (2020)
Little Fires Everywhere (2020)
Tiger King (2020)
Hilda (2018-2020)
Unorthodox (2020)
After Life (2019- )
Dead to Me (2019- )
Workin' Moms (2017- )
Fuller House (2016-2020)
13 Reasons Why (2017-2020)
Marcella (2016- )
Hamilton (2020)
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (2020)
Over the Moon (2020)
Wolfwalkers (2020)
Soul (2020)
The Baby-Sitters Club (2020- )
Central Park (2020- )
Trying (2020)
The Duchess (2020- )
Julie and the Phantoms (2020- )
Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth (2020)
The Mandalorian (2019- )
The Queen's Gambit (2020)
The Crown (2016- )
The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special (2020)
Selena: The Series (2020- )
Babylon Berlin (2017- )
Favorite Books read in 2020, from all years, in no particular order:
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir - Wiener, Anna
The Infinite Future - Wirkus, Tim
The Greatest Living Englishman - Newell, Martin
The Future of Another Timeline - Newitz, Annalee
Here and Now and Then - Chen, Mike
The Enchanted Life: Unlocking the Magic of the Everyday - Blackie, Sharon
Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3) - Coe, Jonathan
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1) - Sloan, Robin
The Forgotten Garden - Morton, Kate
Tell the Wolves I'm Home - Brunt, Carol Rifka
A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons - Folds, Ben
Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic - El-Sayed, Abdul
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures - Sheldrake, Merlin
The Wonder - Donoghue, Emma *
Edie on the Green Screen - Lisick, Beth
The House at Riverton - Morton, Kate
The One - Marrs, John
Condor Comeback - Montgomery, Sy
Greenwood - Christie, Michael
The Rotters' Club - Coe, Jonathan
The Closed Circle (Rotters' Club, #2) - Coe, Jonathan
Utopia Avenue - Mitchell, David
The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London - Skaife, Christopher
Where the Crawdads Sing - Owens, Delia
Wild Hares and Hummingbirds: The Natural History of an English Village - Moss, Stephen
Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North - Maconie, Stuart
The Midnight Library - Haig, Matt