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April 2024 Listening Report
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March 2024 First Watches and Reads
"The unknown, the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought…"
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March 2024

March 2024 Listening Report
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February 2024 First Watches and Reads
I’ve slowed down my movie watching considerably in my quest to finally read some books. I’ve checked almost enough 2023 films to feel confident enough…
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February 2024

February 2024 Listening Report
January, as usual, consisted of lots of good stuff that was easier for me to hear without the (self-prescribed) pressure of considering how it sounds…
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The Best Jazz Albums of 2023
There are many jazz albums released this year with more complicated harmonies and more surprising performances than George Coleman’s Live at Smalls Jazz…
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January 2024 First Watches (and Reads)
I’m still in catch-up mode with 2023 movies. I used what are probably the last of my free trials to watch The Holdovers (on Peacock, pretty good, but I…
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January 2024

The Best Albums of 2023
Below is a list of my 100 favorite (sans jazz, that list comes later) albums of 2023. Accompanying the top 10 are blurbs, some old writing with slight…
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January 2024 Listening Report
Year-end music lists to come later this month.
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My Favorite First Watched Films of 2023
The dean's list of films I watched. Includes any film I rated an A- or higher not included on my best films of 2023 list.
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Autumn 2023 First Watches
The first of many year-end lists.
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