The Media-Entertainment I Digged in 2021
2021 is the year that the 21st century was finally old enough to legally drink, and damn, did it show it! And as weird and crazy and strange as 2021 was, here’s a few things I digged in 2021, media-entertainment-wise:
The Ballad of Dood and Juanita, by Sturgill Simpson.
That new Rob Zombie album. (See, Andrea, I’m still THAT GUY.)
Dark Archives by Megan Rosenbloom is probably the most � author me� book I read this year. I liked it so much I put it in a novella.
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah reminded me that comedians are still some of the best writers. That Greenlights book is on my TBR list. (Confession: Greenlights was my gift to Andrea this year. She poured through it, so now it’s my turn.)
This is the year I discovered Sy Montgomery and Grady Hendrix. I want to read more of them in 2022. I recommend you do, too.
The second season of “Succession� is one of the best things I’ve seen on television. “Sweet Tooth� was a fantastic series start. The second season of “The Mandalorian� was epic.
I watched a lot of movies, but there were more okays than very memorable films this year. I didn’t care for Cry Macho or Power of the Dog or most of what I saw. Shang-Chi and Malignant were okay. Suicide Squad and Ghostbusters were fun. The less said about the latest Matrix atrocity, the better. Maybe I’m getting old. Were the best movies this year really Zack Snyder’s cut of Justice League, Dune, and Spider Man? In a sign of my changing, Tick, Tick…Boom! is my favorite “it deserves an Oscar� movie. It’s a musical, and I’m not a very Broadway type person, but now I want to watch Rent, and my son says that Into the Heights is really good, too, so I should check that out. I’m really looking forward to the entertainment that 2022 brings�
