Music I listened to a lot this year. A quick list of albums that I really put time into this year. Links are to Bandcamp where possible. Spotify where necessary. 🎧Top Albums🎧 Medium Build - Health EP Health by Medium Build 💬I found Nick through a cover of his song “Rage” by Misha and Noah Gundersen Link and I pretty much never stopped listening to this EP all year Josiah and The Bonnevilles - Endurance Endurance by Josiah and the Bonnevilles 💬Josiah is as close to salt of the earth as any human can get, Endurance is full of pain and joy and all the things that come with life on this earth....

Movies and TV Shows that I actually got to. This is a catch all for all the Movies and TV shows I consumed and liked. Movie links use Letterboxd, TV links are from Serialized. I have only counted Movies that released and TV shows that ended in 2023 and I actaully had time to watch. There are still a few that are running now that I am waiting to watch until they finish airing (The Curse, Monarch, Fargo Season 5, For All Mankind Season 4)....

The new (to me) books I read this year and really liked. These are the books I read and really liked this year. The links are all to Hardcover, a smaller book managing app that IMO is better than Goodreads. I could go into how terrible Goodreads became after the Amazon buyout but let’s just say it’s not great. So I’ve been giving Hardcover a try and I’m really liking it....

Just what the world needs, another blog. In my effort to relearn how the whole building a website thing works I’ve decided to start with a static site generator like Hugo. I can’t be bothered to manage a Worpdress site and deal with all the plugin updating, I also dislike the hosting model that places like Squarespace & Wix offer for simple static sites as they are too expensive for what I need....