From “Andor” to “Severance,” Jack Cameron’s year-end wrap-up includes his favorite movies and TV of 2022 and a reflection on grief based on his years covering the murder victims of Tacoma. Worth a read: https://open.substack.com/pub/jackcameron/p/shot-of-jack-14?r=naw9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#BestMoviesOf2022 #BestTVOf2022 #YearEndList #Tacoma #TacomaWA #grief

I've been listening to albums that I like from 2022 to give some recommendations to some friends, so here's a #music #yearendlist !!!

My favorite album that came out in 2022 is Leyla McCalla's "Breaking the Thermometer." It's a thoughtful and insightful journey of self-discovery and connection between Leyla (a US #Neworleans based multi-instrumentalist that you may know as a sometimes member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops) and her Haitian roots ( #Haitian ) :

https://leylamccalla.bandcamp.com/album/breaking-the-thermometer

I discovered US #Brooklyn rapper Homeboy Sandman this year, and his 2022 "Still Champion" is full of witty lyricism and warm beats that make me laugh and think and smile ( #rap #hiphop ) :

https://homeboysandman.bandcamp.com/album/still-champion

Sudan Archives (US- #LosAngeles ) self-produced a playful and in-your-face album in #2022 called "Natural Brown Prom Queen" full of #soul . She's a self-taught violinist and is doing very creative and impressive things:

https://sudanarchives.bandcamp.com/

I follow Loci Records in #Portland US for #downtempo and #edm goodness, and they put out two albums in 2022 that I very much enjoy. The first is an organic collaboration between Emancipator and Lapa, called "11th Orbit" that listens fresh like a live set every time, and is house-ier than either of their solo work:

https://emancipator.bandcamp.com/album/11th-orbit

And the other is "Glint" by #UK -based producer Handbook, which presents super-fuzzy and sunny atmospheric #beats for all occasions:

https://handbook.bandcamp.com/

The UK's Wet Leg put out a self-titled #alternative album that I keep returning to for wildly catchy and relatable hooks and fun, sarcastic lyrics:

https://wetleg.bandcamp.com/album/wet-leg

Similarly, I gotta give it to the Cool Greenhouse (also from the UK) for "Sod's Toastie," which is absurd, rambling, and unexpectedly catchy in ways that I can't help but enjoy (CW for a suicide joke in one of their songs):

https://thecoolgreenhouse.bandcamp.com/album/sods-toastie

Finally, I love music from #Indonesia. And while there's amazing new music being produced by Indonesian nationals all the time, I was also drawn to a 2022 release by the Bali Gamelan Sound account, which is associated with University ISI Denpasar. This is a new recording of very old music from around in 900 AD on a kind of #gamelan called selonding. In this case, the Batu Bule Selonding ensemble is integrated by foreign scholars and students (Bule means roughly 'albino' and is common slang in Indonesia for white foreigners). This recording is wonderful and the compositions beautifully hold up over 1000 years later:

https://baligamelansound.bandcamp.com/album/batu-bule-selonding

22+ a few Must listens from 2022
#music #yearendlist
https://twitter.com/esotericp_/status/1609282908778528768?s=46&t=IxYBv9t4DPntPNPVEXUuMA

Thoughts on a Year

I stepped on old paths
Took a few detours
Got healed by the desert
Saved by the ocean
Washed clean by the rain
I wrote words
Completed an outline
Realized something was missing
Got stuck
Got free
Got stuck
Got free again
Like a cat playing with yarn.

#poem #writing #onwriting #amwriting #poetry #yearendlist

https://www.roannaflowers.com/

As we're all waiting for Christmas Eve in our seperate rooms and there isn't much to do, let me share my Top 10 pop songs of 2022 with you. Long Covid made it hard to concentrate on music and I needed songs that were easy to listen to and conveyed simple emotions. I found some US radio stations to listen to (German music tends to bother me) and it generally helped me a lot, so here they are. #YearEndList #TopTenBestSongs2022 #HeikeLovesLists #PopMusic

My partner and I listened to the Billboard year end charts and made each other lists with the ten best and worst pop songs of the year. I think I'm gonna share the best list with you, even the cringey picks.

But I need to ask: Do you want me to share the worst list on here?

#YearEndLists #YearEndList #BestPopSongs2022 #WorstPopSongs2022

Yay, my (incomplete) book review! I haven't found all books I've read this year on bookwyrm, or thought of writing them down there, maybe there will also be a The Storygraph review to share 😊​

#Bookwyrm #YearEndList #BooksOf2022 #BookwyrmReview

http://book.dansmonorage.blue/user/luceliest/2022-in-the-books?key=b85babe4a34443e99e243a13faef4ac3

Yay, mein (unvollständiger) Lese-Rückblick! Ich habe nicht alle Büpcher auf Bookwyrm gefunden oder daran gedacht sie einzutragen, vielleicht gibt es von The Storygraph ja auch noch einen Rückblick 😊​

#Bookwyrm #YearEndList #BooksOf2022 #BookwyrmReview

http://book.dansmonorage.blue/user/luceliest/2022-in-the-books?key=b85babe4a34443e99e243a13faef4ac3

Are #YearEndLists a thing in the Fediverse? Like, are you all gonna tell me your favorite books, movies, songs, shows, teas, knitting patterns or fungi of 2022 next week? Is that something we do? #YearEndList

Gravitys Rainbow is gonna take the rest of 2022, so Im gonna make my #FavoriteBooksRead2022 #YearEndList now.
(Graeber was paradigm shifting, the rest in no order)

#TheDawnOfEverything, Graeber
#Paradais, Melchor
#MexicanGothic, Moreno-Garcia
#Spidertown,  Rodriguez Jr
#GoodNewsFromOuterSpace, Kessel
#Lacuna, Snyckers
#TheImmaculate, Johnson
#QuántóuRising, @JMoodyWrites
#TheUnbearableLightnessOfBeing, Kundera
#TheRoad, McCarthy
#LanguageInOurBrain, Friederici
#bookstadon