2021 Content Diary
For those that have any interest, here is what I watched, read, and listened to in 2021. In 2022, I might end up doing a monthly content diary so I can actually give some of my thoughts on everything.
January
Movies
Arachnophobia (1990)
Belushi (2020)
Blue Hawaii (1961)
Body Heat (1981)
Brick (2005)
Compliance (2012)
Echo in the Canyon (2018)
I'm Your Woman (2020)
Kill Me Again (1989)
Let Them All Talk (2020)
Mona Lisa (1986)
One Night in Miami (2020)
Red Rock West (1993)
Residue (2020)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Rounders (1998)
Slumber Party Massacre 2
The Last Seduction (1994)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
The Low Down (2000)
The Parallax View (1974)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Unpregnant (2020)
Violent Cop (1989)
You Kill Me (2007)
Music
20th Century Masters - Hank Williams, Jr.
American Idiot - Green Day
Father of All Motherfuckers - Green Day
Here You Come Again - Dolly Parton
Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin
I'm a Lonesome Fugitive - Merle Haggard
Just the Two of Us - Peter Wagoner, Dolly Parton
K.S.T.E. - Teyana Taylor
Main Course - Bee Gees
Milo Goes to College - Descendents
Nancy and Lee - Nancy Sinatra and Lee Greenwood
Punisher - Phoebe Bridgers
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo - Devo
S/T - Joyce Manor
Stranger in the Alps - Phoebe Bridgers
Talking Book - Steve Wonder
Television
Cobra Kai - Season 3
Hollywood - Limited Series
Ted Lasso - Season 1
The Queen's Gambit - Limited Series
February
Movies
10 Rillington Place (1971)
Ball of Fire (1941)
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (2020)
Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 (1998)
Dick Johnson is Dead (2020)
Framing Britney Spears (2021)
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
Malcolm and Marie (2021)
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1951)
Muscle Shoals (2013)
My Bloody Valentine (1981)
Promising Young Woman (2020)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Sylvie's Love (2020)
The Affair (1973)
The Great McGinty (1940)
The Invisible Man (2020)
The Kid Detective (2020)
The King of Staten Island (2020)
The Lady Eve (1941)
The Little Things (2021)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
What's Up, Doc? (1972)
Music
Amazing Grace - Aretha Franklin
Beat the Champ - The Mountain Goats
Blood Bank - Bon Iver
Curtis - Curtis Mayfield
Dookie - Green Day
Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty
Life Goes On - Paul Williams
My Aim is True - Elvis Costello
Never Too Much - Luther Vandross
Ram - Paul McCartney
Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle - Bill Callahan
Sounds of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel
The Diary of Alicia Keyes - Alicia Keys
The Harder They Come - Various
Tonight's the Night - Neil Young
Transformer - Lou Reed
Van Halen - Van Halen
White Light/White Heat - The Velvet Underground
Wild Child - E.G. Daly
Workingman's Dead - The Grateful Dead
Television
Below Deck - Season 5
Below Deck - Season 6
Fleabag - Season 1
Schitt's Creek - Season 6
March
Movies
3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Aloha, Bobby and Rose (1975)
America's Sweethearts (2001)
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017)
Coming 2 America (2020)
Dead Poet's Society (1989)
Fearless (1993)
Green Card (1990)
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019)
Kid90 (2021)
Le Donk & Scorz-Ayz-ee (2009)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Six By Sondheim (2013)
Summer School (1987)
Sunset Strip (2012)
The Last Blockbuster (2020)
The Mosquito Coast (1986)
The Truman Show (1997)
The Way Back (2010)
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
Witness (1985)
Zach Snyder's Justice League (2021)
Music
Close to the Edge - Yes
Criminal Minds - Boogie Down Productions
Dig Me Out - Sleater-Kinney
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) - Wu Tang Clan
Fats Domino Sings - Fats Domino
Heard It In a Past Life - Maggie Rogers
Illmatic - Nas
Journey in Satchidananda - Alice Coltrane
Koko Taylor - Koko Taylor
Little Oblivions - Julien Baker
Live Through This - Hole
Los Angeles - X
More Songs About Buildings and Food - Talking Heads
Music for All Occasions - The Mavericks
On Stage - Elvis Presley
Paul Simon - Paul Simon
Pink Flag - Wire
Ready to Die - Notorious B.I.G.
Synchronicity - The Police
Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
Wild is the Wind - Nina Simone
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
Television
Chappelle's Show (Season 1)
Chappelle's Show (Season 2)
The Leftovers Season 1
Wandavision
April
Movies
5 Card Stud (1968)
All the President's Men (1976)
Almost Famous (2000)
Beach Party (1963)
Broadcast News (1987)
Capricorn One (1978)
Cashback (2006)
Citizenfour (2014)
Comes a Horseman (1978)
Coogan's Bluff (1968)
Crip Camp (2020)
Dutchman (1967)
Emma (2020)
Freaky (2020)
Klute (1971)
Lost in America (1985)
Mortal Kombat (2021)
Night and the City (1950)
Nomadland (2020)
Sophie's Choice (1982)
Soul (2020)
Sound of Metal (2020)
Starting Over (1979)
That Thing You Do! (1996)
The Great Race (1965)
The Paper (1994)
The Pelican Brief (1993)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Tune in Tomorrow (1990)
Wild in the Country (1961)
Wyrm (2019)
Year of the Dragon (1985)
Music
Soul - Eric Church
Look-Ka Py Py - The Meters
There's a Riot Goin' On - Sly and the Family Stone
Mothership Connection - Parliament
Run DMC - Run-DMC
Trouble Man - Marvin Gaye
For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music
Abraxas - Santana
Heart - Eric Church
Purple Rain - Prince
So - Peter Gabriel
The B-52s - The B-52s
Last Splash - The Breeders
Make the Road by Walking - Menahan Street Band
Can't Buy a Thrill - Steely Dan
Alive! - Kiss
Modern Vampires of the City - Vampire Weekend
Josie and the Pussycats Soundtrack
That Thing You Do Soundtrack
Things Fall Apart - The Roots
Television
Fleabag (Season 2)
Godless (Limited Series)
The Circle (Season 1)
The Falcon and Winter Soldier (Limited Series)
May
Movies
A New Leaf (1971)
Beverly Hills Cop 2 (1987)
Boys State (2020)
Crash (1996)
Crimson Tide (1995)
Days of Thunder (1990)
F/X (1986)
Grease 2 (1982)
Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
Layer Cake (2004)
Lovers Rock (2020)
Minari (2020)
Nuts in May (1976)
Once (2007)
Point Break (1991)
Pursued (1947)
Revenge (1990)
Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
Sons of the Desert (1933)
The Asphyx (1972)
The Doom Generation (1995)
The Hunger (1983)
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021)
The Steel Helmet (1951)
Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)
Top Gun (1986)
True Romance (1993)
Videodrome (1983)
Walk Hard (2007)
Music
#1 Record - Big Star
American Beauty - Grateful Dead
Control - Janet Jackson
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - Neil Young
Funeral - Arcade Fire
Graduation - Kanye West
Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
Moondance - Van Morrison
Moving Pictures - Rush
Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds
Proud Mary: The Best of Ike and Tina Turner - Ike and Tina
Radio City - Big Star
Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
Slanted and Enchanted - Pavement
Sour - Olivia Rodrigo
The Chronic - Dr. Dre
Very Best of the Everly Brothers - The Everly Brothers
Walk Hard Soundtrack
Wildflowers - Tom Petty
Television
Catch-22 (Limited Series)
Looking for Alaska (Limited Series)
Olive Kitteridge (Limited Series)
The Umbrella Academy (Season 2)
June
Movies
1776 (1972)
92 in the Shade (1975)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)
Anomalisa (2015)
Bull Durham (1988)
C.C. and Company (1970)
Deja Vu (2006)
Domino (2005)
Elvis on Tour (1972)
Enemy of the State (1998)
Follow that Dream (1962)
Girl Happy (1965)
Guava Island (2019)
Hillbilly (2018)
In the Heights (2021)
Kajillionaire (2020)
Local HeroLuca (2021)
Man on Fire (1987)
Man on Fire (2004)
Naked (1993)
One Day Since Yesterday (2014)
Roustabout (1964)
Rush Hour (1998)
Seven Minutes in Heaven (1985)
Spy Game (2001)
Sunshine Cleaning (2008)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)
The Fan (1996)
The Knack...and How to Get It (1965)
The Mummy (1999)
The Mummy Returns (2001)
The Savages (2007)
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)
To Die For (1995)
True Stories (1986)
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation (2021)
Unstoppable (2011)
Wayne's World (1992)
West Side Story (1961)
Music
Ask Rufus - Rufus (and Chaka Khan)
blackSUMMERS'night - Maxwell
Blondie - Blondie
Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Closer - Joy Division
CrazySexyCool - TLC
Either/Or - Elliott Smith
good kid, m.A.A.d. city - Kendrick Lamar
If You're Reading This It's Too Late - Drake
Low-Life - New Order
Music of My Mind - Stevie Wonder
New York Dolls - New York Dolls
Nick of Time - Bonnie Raitt
Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era - Various
Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea - PJ Harvey
Technique - New Order
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd
Tommy - The Who
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Television
Hacks (Season 1)
High School Musical: The Musical (Season 1)
Mare of Easttown (Limiited Series)
The Big Shot (Season 1)
The Kominsky Method (Season 3)
July
Movies
Across the Universe (2007)
Aeon Flux (2005)
Black Widow (2021)
Charade (1963)
Destroyer (2018)
Down to the Bone (2004)
Frailty (2001)
Funny Face (1957)
Girlfight (2000)
GLOW: The Story of Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (2012)
Gunpowder Milkshake (2021)
Harlequin (1980)
Head (1968)
Henry Gamble's Birthday Party (2015)
Hercules (1997)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
Jungle Cruise (2021)
Leave No Trace (2018)
Let's Spend the Night Together (1985)
Memories of Murder (2003)
On the Town (1949)
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (1982)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
Shiva Baby (2021)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
The Empty Man (2020)
The Invitation (2015)
Two for the Road (1967)
Winter's Bone (2010)
Music
Aja - Steely Dan
Aquemini - OutKast
Back Stabbers - The O'Jays
Have You Been Good to Yourself - Johnnie Frierson
Here My Dear - Marvin Gaye
OK Computer - Radiohead
Pain in My Heart - Otis Redding
Rhythm Nation 1814 - Janet Jackson
Songs from the Big Chair - Tears for Fears
Stankonia - Outkast
The Blueprint - Jay-Z
The Delfonics - The Delfonics
The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest
The Velvet Rope - Janet Jackson
Voodoo - D'Angelo
Waiting for the Sun - The Doors
Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston
Television
Girls5Eva (Season 1)
Insecure (Season 1)
Insecure (Season 2)
Loki (Season 1)
McCartney 3, 2, 1 (Limited Series)
August
Movies
5 to 7 (2014)
Addicted to Love (1997)
Auto Focus (2002)
Clueless (1995)
Crossing Delancy (1988)
D.E.B.S. (2004)
Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2005)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Freaks of Nature (2015)
Friday the 13th - The Final Chapter (1984)
Holiday for Sinners (1952)
I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)
Intruder in the Dust (1949)
It's Complicated (2009)
Johnny Dangerously (1984)
Lights, Camera, Bullshit (2014)
Mannequin (1987)
Meanwhile in Memphis: The Sound of a Revolution (2013)
Silent Running (1972)
Something's Gotta Give (2003)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
The Holiday (2006)
The Intern (2015)
The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
The Killer Inside Me (2010)
The Parent Trap (1998)
The Poor & Hungry (2000)
The Suicide Squad (2021)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
What Women Want (2000)
Music
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Blonde - Frank Ocean
Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Diamond Life - Sade
Disintergration - The Cure
Disraeli Gears - CREAM
Exile in Guyille - Liz Phair
Gold Chain Cowboy - Parker McCollum
Hearts Town - The War and Treaty
Hejira - Joni Mitchell
Mingus Ah Um - Charles Mingus
Murmer - R.E.M.
My Kind of Blues - Sam Cooke
Paid in Full - Eric B. and Rakim
Rain Dogs - Tom Waits
Supa Dupa Fly - Missy Elliott
That's How Rumors Get Started. - Margo Price
The Dream - Hailey Whitters
Welcome to the Hard Times - Charley Crockett
Television
Below Deck Mediterranean (Season 1)
Below Deck Mediterranean (Season 2)
I'll Be Gone in the Dark (Limited Series)
Kim's Convenience (Season 1)
Kim's Convenience (Season 2)
September
Movies
8 1/2 (1963)
Anne from 13,000 FT (2021)
Beat Girl (1960)
Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
Black Sabbath (1963)
Cruella (2021)
Dead Ringers (1988)
Death Race 2000 (1975)
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Journey into Fear (1943)
Loving (2016)
Malignant (2021)
Map to the Stars (2014)
Midnight Special (2016)
Mud (2012)
Quincy (2018)
Shang-Chi: The Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
Shithouse (2020)
Shotgun Stories (2007)
Skatetown, USA (1979)
Slither (2006)
Summer Stock (1950)
Take Shelter (2011)
The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
The Faculty (1998)
The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)
The Prisoner on Second Avenue (1975)
The Thing (1982)
The Trouble with Girls (1969)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Vernon, Florida (1981)
Music
Baduizm - Erykah Badu
Bitches Brew - Miles Davis
Book of Dreams - Steve Miller Band
Carolina Ghost - Caleb Caudle
Channel Orange - Frank Ocean
Circus - Britney Spears
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement
Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick, & Tich
Donda - Kanye West
Exodus - Bob Marley and the Wailers
Head Hunters - Herbie Hancock
Heart Like a Wheel - Linda Ronstadt
Kimono My House - Sparks
Nine - Sault
Odelay - Beck
Pretenders - The Pretenders
Reasonable Doubt - Jay-Z
Sex Machine - James Brown
star-crossed - Kacey Musgraves
The Idler Wheel is Wister That The Driver... - Fiona Apple
Television
The Keepers (Limited Series)
Kim's Convenience (Season 3)
Yellowstone (Season 1)
Yellowstone (Season 2)
Yellowstone (Season 3)
October
Movies
[REC] (2007)
After Hours (1985)
Akira (1988)
American Gigolo (1980)
Blood and Black Lace (1964)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
Dark Star (1974)
Dracula (1958)
Dracula's Daughter (1936)
Eastern Promises (2007)
eXistenZ (1999)
Hester Street (1975)
Hocus Pocus (1993)
Kill Baby...Kill (1966)
Mad Monster Party? (1967)
Naked Lunch (1991)
No Time to Die (2021)
Rabid (1977)
Scanners (1981)
Shivers (1975)
Spinout (1966)
Thank God It's Friday (1978)
The Bird with the Crystal Plummage (1970)
The Brood (1979)
The Fly (1958)
The Fly (1986)
The Midnight Hour (1985)
The Mummy (1932)
The Phantom of the Megaplex (2000)
The Wicker Man (1973)
When a Stranger Calls (2006)
Music
16 Biggest Hits - Charley Pride
A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles
Automatic for the People - R.E.M.
Beatles for Sale - The Beatles
Blues - Chuck Berry
Cuts - The Slits
Eli and the Thirteenth Confession - Laura Nyro
Funky Kingston - Toots & The Maytals
Heaven or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins
Help! - The Beatles
Here Comes the Jets - Brian Eno
Master of Puppets - Metallica
Melodrama - Lorde
Please Please Me - The Beatles
Risque - Chic
St. Louis to Liverpool - Chuck Berry
Suicide - Suicide
Take Care - Drake
We're Only in it for the Money - Mothers of Invention
With the Beatles - The Beatles
Television
Insecure (Season 3)
Insecure (Season 4)
Only Murders in the Building (Season 1)
Ted Lasso (Season 2)
Terriers (Season 1)
November
Movies
Angel Face (1953)
Collateral (2004)
Crossfire (1947)
Disney's Fastpass: A Complicated History (2021)
Encanto (2021)
Fallen Angel (1945)
Fast 9 (2021)
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Johnny O'Clock (1947)
La Strada (1954)
Last Night in Soho (2021)
Licorice Pizza (2021)
Little Murders (1971)
Magnolia (1999)
Mermaids (1990)
Niagara (1953)
Party Girl (1995)
Phase IV (1974)
Red Notice (2021)
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning (1960)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
Stormy Weather (1943)
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
The Boy Friend (1971)
The Eternals (2021)
The Petrified Forest (1936)
Tick, Tick, Boom (2021)
White Christmas (1954)
Music
30 - Adele
A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay
Ace of Spades - Motorhead
Another Green World - Brian Eno
Avalon - Roxy Music
Beauty Behind the Madness - The Weeknd
Blue Lines - Massive Attack
Check Your Head - Beastie Boys
Close to the Edge - Yes
El Mar Querer - ROSALIA
Expensive Shit - Fela Kuti
First Take - Roberta Flack
Loaded - The Velvet Underground
Master of Reality - Black Sabbath
Post - Bjork
Power, Corruption, and Lies - New Order
Score - The Fugees
Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
The Turtles Present The Battle of the Bands - The Turtles
The Who Sell Out - The Who
Very Best of Frankie Vallie and the Four Seasons
Television
Agent Carter (Season 1)
Get Back (Limited Series)
Ozark (Season 1)
Ozark (Season 2)
Ozark (Season 3)
Squid Game (Season 1)
December
Movies
A Christmas Story (1983)
A Muppets Christmas Carol (1992)
At the Video Store (2019)
Being the Ricardos (2021)
Belfast (2021)
Don't Look Up (2021)
Dune (2021)
Home Alone (1990)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Jagged (2021)
King Richard (2021)
Life Partners (2014)
Listening to Kenny G (2021)
Never Goin' Back (2018)
Nightmare Alley (2021)
No Sudden Move (2021)
One Magic Christmas (1985)
Only the Lonely (1991)
Passing (2021)
Pig (2021)
Rent (2005)
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Stealing Home (1988)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
Summer of Soul (2021)
The Apartment (1960)
The Killing of Two Lovers (2021)
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
The Princess Switch: Romancing the Star (2021)
The Seven-Ups (1973)
The Warriors (1979)
West Side Story (2021)
Without Remorse (2021)
Woodstock 99 (2021)
You've Got Mail (1998)
Zola (2020)
Music
Blue Train - John Coltrane
Children of the World - Bee Gees
Donde Estan los Ladrones - Shakira
Entertainment! - Gang of Four
Hotter Saddness - Elvis Depressedly
Ignorance - The Weather Station
Immaculate Collection - Madonna
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek and the Dominos
New Day Rising Husker Du
Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired - Joyce Manor
Pretty Paper - Willie Nelson
Punisher - Phoebe Bridgers
Weezer - Weezer (Green Album)
Television
Agent Carter (Season 2)
Hawkeye (Limited Series)
Insecure (Season 5)
Voir (Season 1)
Welcome to Earth (Limited Series)
Books of 2021
All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers by Larry McMurtry
An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection
Ava’s Man by Rick Bragg
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
Dancing on the Ceiling: Stanley Donen and his Movies by Stephen M. Silverman
Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
Gunsights by Elmore Leonard
In a Lonely Place by Dorothy Hughes
John Dahl and Neo-Noir: Examining Auteurism and Genre by Paul Monaco
Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges: His Life in His Words by Preston Sturges
The Beautiful Ones by Prince
The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry
The Score by Donald E. Westlake
The Storm and the Tide: Tragedy, Hope, and Triumph in Tuscaloosa by Lars Anderson
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Walt Disney’s First Lady of Imagineering, Harriet Burns by Pam Burns-Clair
(Let’s hope for more reading in 2021)