Stories & SNippets : 2025

…and observations, journals, & musings on music, film, books, art, and pretty things. and life in general. and so on.

SOTD: Song of the Day
COTD: Composition of the Day

January 2025

Viewing:

Conclave. Delicious writing and the same level of ensemble performances.
Avengers: Endgame, spread out over multiple evenings. Aaah, the agony and suspense!

Reading:

A Confederacy of Dunces. Still working my through and loving.

A Court of Thorns and Roses. Yep, had to try it. Definitely stronger writing than I was expecting.

Becca absorbed in Upworthy collection and The Last Thing He Wrote. I pounce on the latter when she’s not around, perpetually a few chapters behind.

Nightbitch. Whew. Nothing quite like it. Am I more understanding and respectful of what it means to be a mom?

Listening:

Beethoven on vinyl, Herb Alpert - yeah, the one with that cover :), kids singing Eminem
Led Zeppelin - debut (1969) and II (1969)
lot of Duke Ellington

Selected Readings with kids:

The Phantom Tollbooth (with me), The Carnivorous Carnival (with Becca)

Away With Words! Wise and Witty Poems for Language Lovers by Mary Ann Hoberman, art by Perry Hoberman (2022)
Bear Wants to Sing - Written by Cray Fagan, illustrated by Dena Seiferling (2021)
Earl the Squirrel by Don Freeman (2005)
Elsie’s Bird - Jane Yolen & David Small (2010)
I Am the Storm - Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple, Art by Kristen and Kevin Howdeshell (2020)
Twelve Days of Winter - Sherri Maret, illustrated by Thomas Hilley (2022)
What You Need To Be Warm: A Poem of Welcome - Neil Gaiman (2023)
When I Wake Up - Seth Fishman, illustrated by Jessica Bagley (2021)

January 11

COTD: Wichita Vortex Sutra - Philip Glass

January 29

Finally finished Dune 2 with Olders. Quite a journey. I enjoyed, cannot speak for all the audience. My respect for Zendaya as an actor continues to slowly grow.

January 30 - a Thursday

Becca covering for a colleague 7-3. Me, schooling with children in the morning, then heading out to burn a couple brush piles and perhaps do a little grading before winter rains and snow arrive this weekend. My darling niece turns 15 today; she is far away but the sound of her voice brought us joy. I believe some cake and Psych were on her celebratory platter later in the day. We finished the delectable Anne of Avonlea - the second in the superlative saga of Anne Shirley. A 17-year old working on college scholarship applications a 14-yo slogging through AP Human Geography.

Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea. What a pair of…beautiful, beautiful odes to place, to relationships, to individuality and imagination and kindness and strength and resilience and humor…we all watched together, in serialized form over a couple weeks, and they hold up so well from childhood. Our second time through with kids.

February 2025

General

Lots of reading, all the way around. Love it.

Viewing:

Slow Horses (just me). Season 4. Maybe my least favorite season so far, but…that’s like choosing a favorite ice cream flavor when you have a half dozen delicious choices in front of you. Superb ensemble. Also: started up Money Heist again, after a year-long absence or so (on series 2 now).

Reading - with kids:

Big Bertha: How a Massive Tunnel Boring Machine Dug a Highway under Seattle - Amanda Abler, illustrated by Katy Wu (2024)
Boardwalk Babies - written by Marissa Moss, illustrated by April Chu (2021)
-Fern and Otto: A Story About Two Best Friends by Stephanie Graegin (2021)
Found. - Jeff Newman & Larry Day (2018)
-The Gardener - Sarah Stewart, pictures David Small (2007)
-In Every Life - Marla Frazee (2023)
-The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge by Hildegarde H. Swift and Lynd Ward (1942)
The Nature Journal: A Backyard Adventure by Savannah Allen (2023)
-The Piano Recital by Akiko Mihakoshi (2019)
Prairie Days - written by Patricia MacLachlan, illustrated by Micha Archer (2020)
Why? by Nikolai Popov (2021)

February 03

Finished watching The Farewell. One of my new favorite cultural-learning family dramas. Heavy ideas with lots of laughter and personality.

Finished The Wild Robot. Slow start (several days ago), but kept picking up steam and making me care. Beautiful little arc combining WALL-E, Inside Out, and Up, amidst other classics about friendship and family.

February 06

Finished The Phantom Tollbooth with our 5- and 8-year old. Been savoring its magical words and images. Still holds up from its 1960 publication.

February 07

Started Flora & Ulysses with the younger boys. Accidentally read seven straight chapters. We’re into it.

February 13

I’ve been reading a book about the electric wars; in the context of that, George Westinghouse is a recurring figure. There’s a section about his childhood where it talks about how “…much of what he invented came about because of reading.”

I love that.

(The Electric War: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Light the World by Mike Winchell, 2019)

February 23

Sparks has a new single! Do Things My Own Way, which is a great title that aptly describes the brother-duo’s 50-plus year approach to making music and living life.

March 2025

Listening:

Lots of Vivaldi in the am. Sparks, still. Lots of Edith Piaf on vinyl. Wicked soundtrack. Amon Amarth. I try to play some mid-90s punk - Offspring, Green Day, etc., for my senior, driving, with mixed results.

Reading:

Bridge of Clay. Little confusing first 70 pages, jumping around and trying to follow the chronology of what’s happening to who when. But eventually swept up in the characters and desire to follow the breadcrumbs dropped, again and again, in front of the reader beautifully.

Lots. A 17-year old polishing off Cherilyn Clough’s second memoir and Celeste Ng’s dystopian tale of beauty and terror. A 14-year old beginning the journey through A Gentleman in Moscow. An 8-year old reading aloud to his 5-year old brother various volumes of Ivy & Bean, along with many assorted books on Avengers, WildKratts, and nature at large.

Reading - with kids:

Big by Vashti Harrison (2023)
The Day the Crayons Came Home - Drew Daywalt, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers (2015)
House Finds a Home - written by Katy S. Duffield, illustrated by Jen Corace (2022)
How to Teach Your Cat a Trick in Five Easy Steps - Nicola Winstanely and Zoe Si (2022)
It’s My Tree - Oliver Tallec (2020)
Roger is Reading a Book - Koen Van Biesen (2015)
The Old Boat - Jarrett and Jerome Humphrey (2023)
This Is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen (2012)
Who Owns the Sun? - written and illustrated by Stacy Chbosky (1988)

Started The One and Only Ivan.
Finished Flora & Ulysses.

March 02

Academy Awards. Anora the big winner. Hulu loses feed for last two. Maddening. Then we lose all power until almost midnight.

Restarted TWD after a multi-month absence. Midway through S9. Little hard picking it up again. For some reason it feels - or sounds - like the dialogue, for the first noticeable ongoing time in the series, is getting clunky or forced.

March 05

Flight of the Conchords

March 06, a Thursday

Maintenance appointment for our family vehicle. Our 14-year old accompanies because he adores me and wants to hang out. Or…I said we could go by the track afterwards. We wait in comfortable chairs and a nice beverage machine with refills and read books while waiting. Hot chocolate, chocolate milk, chocolate mochas, vanilla lattes…endless options. Finished the Tesla-Edison book was reading. Got talked into cabin air filter and engine air filters. Said no to brakes for a little longer. To the track for some walking and talking. Tendon tenderness, so no sprints.

Home for septic inspection. Good to go for another three years, thanks Jay. Then back into town, this time with our 17-year old. Library for books, Safeway for gas, Burgerville for a shared shake, and Autozone for 50:1 gas mix, butane, and TruFuel. A theme going. Some Sparks, and then I moved to my senior year listening: Blink-182, Green Day, Offspring. She smiled and read her Celeste Ng book next to me.

Home to try and get chainsaw going so I can take down a giant weed. Boys reading and schooling with Becca. Trouble with getting my implements going. Trying to have a good attitude. Not succeeding.

Hot dogs and Pop Pop’s treats. Later: start Sherlock (S1E2).

March 19

Finished Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng, per my 17-year old daughter’s recommendation. If you should ever wonder how the role of protest, of dissent, of questioning and standing up and speaking out and making art in a time of crushing autocratic intent matters…read this. Poetic, timely, beautiful, terrifying.
06 - Finished Tesla/Edison.

March 20 Thursday

Stuff I have to do: re-register my son’s credit union account because he hasn’t logged in for six months. The steady drumbeat of learning marches on. Work on taxes. Yep. Those things. Do we really need roads or schools? A little work: figure out DNS update for a business whose site has gone offline. Update info with state revenue agency. Dig up birth certificates and passports for upcoming travel. Update info with lender. Transplant trees. Note: only of these really feels like it’s changing something, doing something meaningful. Everything else? Something to do with money, finances, or not messing something up. Life can and should be more than fixing, finding, and moving. On the best days, it is. Trying to make every day more like a best day.

March 21

Finished Saturday Night. Kept picking up steam. In a good way. How accurate is it depicting the real-life happening of the 90 minutes before the first episode of Saturday Night Live went on the air? I don’t know. But rarely have I felt such a sense of anxiety about multitasking on screen and watching calamity pile upon mishap upon misfortune upon everything that can go wrong…and then see zen emerge from chaos. Sort of.

March 24 Monday

School in the am. Mesopotamia, geography, maths. Later in pm: volunteer, then groceries, then pick up prescriptions. Leave children with long list of instructions, directives, and studies, umbrella-ed by the command to take care of each other. Spoiler: they do. In between, I help a bunch of middle- to older-aged women offload groceries and big bags of mulch and potting soil. Later: offloading our own massive haul of groceries, reading Paula Hawkins, a little Flight of the Conchords. Becca: “How many more episodes are there of this?” In tone that infers perhaps she won’t be unhappy if there’s fewer rather than more.

April 2025

April 30

Xavier Rudd’s new single Where to Now. Again and again, he helps provide the soundtrack-score-poetry for being human in this fragile and angry world.

May 2025

May 06

Making my way through Franz Ferdinand's latest: The Human Fear. Fave track so far: The Doctor.

May 22 An ongoing saga with College Board

There was a mistake made with our son’s info for the portal he uses for AP classes, which is connected to College Board. Enjoyed a lovely conversation, again, which culminated in a request, again, for the documentation we’ve already submitted, which includes his school ID and birth certificate. Essentially, everything is correct except…for his first name. Instead of his, the account says Joseph. My name. One tiny little thing that has turned into a bundle of time to deal with.

June 2025

Viewing:

Love their love, including our teens, of some of the old Disney classics, as well as 90s/early 2000s not-quite classics, but enjoyable, such as the two Steve Martin Cheaper by the Dozen movies, as well as the timeless, though troubling Haley Mills switcharoo The Parent Trap…and the later remake. “Childhood!” is the refrain.

The Apple TV+ show Jane, loosely set agains the framework of Jane Goodall, zoologist and world’s most famous (human) expert on chimpanzees. Our boys have loved it, alongside their long love of Wild Kratts and inexplicable rediscovered love of Octonauts.

June 20

Continuing to work my way through Nada Surf’s albums, from 1996 on. Just finished 2005’s The Weight Is a Gift. Jointly listening to a-ha’s 2015 underrated tiny gem Cast in Steel.

Watched the delightful Vince Vaughn Italian cuisine-savoring Nonna. With our children’s Nonna, otherwise known as Mormor. Swedish, not Italian, but also a delightful cook with a wonderful laugh. Also, this is the fourth time she’s seen it in the last month. :)

Earlier, I let the kids start a summer movie. Our 14-yo wondered if we could watch something along the lines of last week’s Parent Trap. So they started Steve Martin’s 2003 rendition of Cheaper by the Dozen.

June 21 Things I think about throughout the day

Movies I’d like to watch this summer with our Olders:

The Prestige
Baby Driver
Silence of the Lambs
Fargo

The triumvirate of books, film, and music will connect this family for many years. Not the only things, but core components of ways in which I know we will always bond with one another.

June 29 Five highlights on a Sunday

Mowing. I have a mower that’s functioning well. Hallelujah. Now if I can get moles and blackberries under control.

My mother-in-law’s burgers and brain bars to celebrate our son’s 15th. Heavenly. Garnished with the 8th episode of Shakespeare and Hathaway, about a sleepwalking trust fund kid at a silent retreat.

Playing freeze tag with my three sons, long after bedtime, and far past the point where I’m tired.

Becca using dental floss to successfully yank out our son’s front tooth. I hasten to add: it was loose. Very loose.

Our 17yo dog sitting, after a day of dog sitting, taking her brother to the track, and working on scholarships.

June 30 Things I hope or need to do on a Monday

• Finish health insurance renewal paperwork. Yuck.

• Check Skyward for any forms I haven’t yet filled out. Oh joy.

• Talk to our insurance agent about new quotes for home and auto. Yikes.

• Get updated auto insurance to our credit union.

• Decide whether or not to spring for Run the Jewels tickets for tomorrow night.

• Make myself a health check up appointment. It’s at least once a decade, correct?

• Update paperwork for windows loan documents.

• Work on garage.

• Make summer reading list for Olders.

• Make appointment to get brakes checked on our family vehicle.

  Also: Lorde’s latest album - Virgin. Standout so far: Shapeshifter.

July 2025

Listening:

A lot of Weezer. Working my back through. Currently on 2009’s stupidly-titled but strong summer entry Raditude.
Otis Redding - Otis Blue (1965)
The Who - My Generation (1965)
The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man (1965)

Viewing:

Just light stuff with the Olders. You know, Silence of the Lambs. Shawshank Redemption. I See You. Alone.

And Big Fish as a family.

Me: back into TWD

Reading:

Our 14-turned 15-year old has a new favorite book: The Housemaid. Been hearing a lot about it. He and his sis shared, chapter by chapter, and got their uncle (Jeremy) into it, and then a second uncle (Dan). Now Becca and I are sharing a single print copy.

Me: Stephen King’s 11/22/63, courtesy of our kids’ ELA teacher

Reading - with kids:

Finished 2007’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret, illustrated and written by Brian Selznick. A treat to get through with a 5- and 8-year old. Next up: one of Scorcese’s best films…2011’s Hugo!

Elefantastic! A story of magic in 5 acts (light verse on a heavy subject) - Jane Yolen, illustrations by Brett Helquist (2022)
Gold by Jed Alexander (2022, wordless)
Imogene Comes Back! - David Small (2020, wonderful illustrations, mischief)
Olive by Jed Alexander (2023, wordless,)
Sea Prayer - Khaled Hosseini, illustrations by Dan Williams (gorgeous illustrations, Syrian immigrants, 2018)

July 01

Lady Gaga’s MAYHEM (2025) a great soundtrack for a summer day of garage organizing and cleaning.

July 20 Things I hope or need to do on a Monday

Get trimmer line and 50:1 oil mix for my Stihl FS85. Look for a metal cutting blade.
Find Title for the vehicle we’re selling.
Put up various items for sale on FB Marketplace (train thing, chairs, old Chevy tailgate).
Get primer/paint for EXT trim
Get help fixing a certain website for a certain coastal healthcare company
Close one brokerage account, move to another
1SE backups
Take down pop-up tent
Clean garage
Move stuff to attic
Get replacement vent cover for hallway
Speak with a friend of our child’s about boundaries for friendship
Figure out next shopping trek
Back up hard drives
Plan hiking trek with our friends A— and D——- for next month
Move our son’s phone plan from his aunt’s account to ours

August 2025

August 06

Every once in a while, my family is not excited about the…necessary processes for maintaining a certain base level of functionality, aesthetic appreciation, and dignity in the areas around us. Today was one such day. I smiled my smile and hitched up my pants and softened my heart and pleaded for extra patience and wisdom as I assembled the following list to help guide them.

Make a pile for:

Papers
Books
Shoes
Clean clothes
Dirty clothes
Toys
Knick-knacks (things that you don’t know where they go)
Art supplies
Kitchen stuff (note: this refers to various paraphernalia for indoor and outdoor play kitchen accoutrements)

With a kind sigh and some loud music, I posted the sheet for all to see, and then disappeared to go play Fortnite.

August 07 The things we desire

I look at the list I’ve put together of things I need, and realize how much it says about where I am, and we are, right now; how there is a mirror of some sort, maybe not in totality, but of some sort, that is reflective of the things driving your day-to-day existence. Or…not driving, but the things you need in order to keep driving forward. So. My list for today of things I need to purchase or get ahold of in order to keep driving:

Screws and caps for shutters
Gas for mower
50:1 gas oil mixture
FS85 trimmer attachment
fix my Echo SRM-225 trimmer
get paint for exterior trim
1 1/2 aluminum roofing nails, wide head, for replacing vinyl siding
Sunday: begin getting siding back up, caulking windows, and possibly taking out tile of the bath…

August 23

No, I did not go see Amon Amarth by myself, or with anyone. Not in the cards. But an evening at the river, alongside my brother and his girls and my fam, was. And it was good.

August 24 Listmakers, unite!

Yes, it is a Sunday. But how can I not rejoice at my children, un-mandated by me, making a to-do list? I believe their mother made have contributed a few suggestions:

Five loads of laundry (note: challenging but doable, should our well and water system handle the hefty load. If we get five done, there will still be approximately 67 more).
Sort laundry room (note: this may be more of a multi-day endeavor).
Goodwill load (note: we could likely do five of these and not miss a thing).
Take out compost (note: in the interests of being ecologically enthusiastic, we have buckets of compost that sometimes do not always have a timely exit from our front porch. It is not the most visually appealing aesthetic).
Make packing list for New York (note: this does not apply to all of us)
Haircuts (note: by their grandmother; I thought this was a skill I would develop as a dad, as my dad did, but their grandmother has done an admirable and competent job for many years, and it’s simply…been easier. :) )
Organize Poshmark tub (note: the side gig venture of two members: reselling clothes. They are quite good at it. But the tubs pile up.)
Get school stuff together (note: school officially starts in two days).
Get ice in fridge (note: this refers to the ice buildup in our workhorse of a fridge that keeps going, but not without its quirks).
Mop (note: I’m guessing this refers to kitchen and/or dining room, though it could apply to most spaces of our home currently).

August 28 - a Thursday

I review our son’s list for evaluating whether to get a squat stand or a squat rack. These are distinctions I was unaware of previous to his deep dive into the world of fitness, lifting, and bodily strength. This is his thing currently and has been.

Squat stand - Pros
Cheaper
Takes up minimal space
Portable

Squat rack - Pros
Allows more exercises
More safety features
Inclues pull-up bar

In the end, we drove across the river, to a suburb of Portland, and got a Kiloflex rack. The company’s out of business, but apparently made good machinery. My brother Jonny shot their product stuff and vouches. I asked the fellow, Kevin, if he’d come down from his firm 300 to 275. He said yeah, we’re moving to Missouri in a few months, we just need it out. And there was that. A very giddy 15yo. Love this guy.

Also, I previously had our younger boys write a list of things they would enjoy today. This is what they came up with. I kept the spelling and syntax intact.

go to mormors and poppops and watch a movie
go out side
read for 20 minutes
make an art craft (creature power discs)
play

September 2025

September 01

My dad. Here for a 24-hour period to help with our deck. What a dude, what a dad.

September 02 - 1st day of classes, K-8

What a day. What. A. Day. Two family members in NYC, getting back tonight. Me, up at school, in high school classes with our 6yo, while helping get our 8yo into his first day of program classes. Our 15yo with me: a lifesaver. A very tiring day. But we did it, and the girls landed safely at 10pm, and we’re all together again, and Becca works early, and we pick things up again, running running running.

September 03

This should be a school day. I’m trying to make it so. Also, there's just a few areas that need finishing: dining room/school room, an upstairs bedroom, a downstairs bedroom, and significant portions of three different bathrooms. Oh, and…a back deck. Amidst the carnage and chaos, we will learn.

A blast of Classical:
Mozart - Le nozze di Figaro (Yannick Nézet-Séguin)
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Bach - Double Violin Concerto Vivace
Philip Glass - The Hours (score)

September 05

Vivaldi on repeat.

September 09

More Vivaldi.

September 12

Listening: The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra - of The William Tell Overture

September 15

Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky)

September 22

Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A Major, via Berlin Philharmonic

September 23

Handel’s Water Music and…more Vivaldi.

September 24 5x nonlinear highlights on a Wednesday

01 - Two boys so excited for a dental appointment and the chance to hang out with their mom at her work for an afternoon.

02 - Volunteering at a Portland community organization and helping dozens of people load up groceries and return carts.

03 - Talking to Jeremy about his 16-month old daughter and the word she added to her vocabulary today: “butt.”

04 - Getting various messages from our daughter after her first day of class.

COTD: Puccini - Turandot, Act 3: "Nessun dorma!"

September 25

COTD: The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s rendition of The William Tell Overture (Rossini)
Other: Mozart, Handel, Vivaldi)

October 2025

October 05 Sunday

I’m grateful for the help I received from a 6- and 8-year old moving lumber, and from a 15-year old getting old decking nails out. Solid spirits from the three, which helped me as I worked on siding, vinyl, and deck ledger.

October 12 a Sunday

Some Office in the early morning with our 15yo while their brothers watch Looney Tunes and simultaneously research endangered animals. Later, we discuss the idea of doing something productive, but do not. Apple Festival, nachos, meeting with old friends (JN), then home for reading (Series of Unfortunate Events Book 12, Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed), a short nap, and Shakespeare & Hathway with the grandparents. Topped off with a FaceTime with our daughter and memory game. I get six. The eight-year old wins. Again. Maddening.

November 2025

November 22 Saturday

Becca takes our 15yo to a production of Six: The Musical. It makes me smile thinking of them out together.

December 2025

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 MY 22 FAVORITE MOVIES OF 2025

Black Bag
Sinners
Superman

Honorable mention

28 Years Later
The Running Man
Weapons

Third Tier : Done well, no regrets, probably will not watch again

Coming soon

Miscellaneous

Coming soon.

Documentary

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All ages-ish

Coming soon

Holiday

Decent, not all-time classic, but don’t regret watching once
Jingle Bell Heist (Netflix)

Haven’t watched yet
A Merry Little Ex-Mas (Netflix)
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie (Disney)
The Baltimorons (AMC)
Champagne Problems (Netflix)
The Merchants of Joy (Prime documentary)
Merry Little Mystery (Roku, with a new song by Sparks!)
My Secret Santa (Netflix)
Oh. What. Fun. (Prime)

Guilty pleasures

The Gorge
Havoc

Not great, but worth a once-through

coming soon

Want to see

A Normal Family
Another Simple Favor
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Bugonia
Eddington (HBO)
Familiar Touch (dementia)
Frankenstein (Netflix)
Happyend
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (Hulu)
Hard Truths (Paramount, Mike Lee-Marianne Jean-Baptiste)
Invention (alt-health theme)
It Was Just an Accident
Life After (documentary)
The Long Walk
Lurker
Marty Supreme
Materialists
Misericordia
Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
Mistress Dispeller (documentary)
Mountainhead
Nouvelle Vague
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (HBO)
One Battle After Another
Opus
Pavements (documentary about Pavement!)
The Phoenician Scheme
Presence (Hulu - Soderbergh’s second film of the year!)
Revelations (Netflix)
The Shrouds
Sorry, Baby (HBO)
Splitsville
Thunderbolts
Universal Language
Vulcanizadora
Warfare (HBO)

Underwhelming / disappointing / plain bad

Friendship.
(I wanted to enjoy it. I see it heading to cult status, which means my lack of appreciation of it and for it will likely be chalked up to “not getting it/not getting the humor.” Sure. Maybe so. Plenty of pieces I could appreciate. But as a whole…nah. Didn’t find it near as funny or as insightful as I had heard before seeing.)

Mickey 17.
(It was fine. But post-Parasite? Love the premise, but also, I need some type of reason to like some characters. Mark Ruffalo and Toni Collette chewing up their scenes is a plus, in addition to some bleakly-hilarious death scenes of the Mickey clones.)

Wolf Man.
(Invisible Man, Leigh Whannell’s previous film, is one of the best classic story adaptations I’d seen in a while; one of the rare films to transcend its source material with a fresh take. Wolf Man…what a disappointment. Almost to the point of bad. Actually: it was bad. I was bored, I was not scared, I was not surprised, except for how much I did not enjoy it.)

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ESSENTIAL MUSIC OF 2025

My favourite 11 albums

Perfume Genius - Glory

Honorable Mention

Lady Gaga - MAYHEM
Sharp Pins - Radio DDR

Disappointments & underperformers

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Haven’t listened / haven’t spent enough time with yet

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My 44 Favorite Tracks

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 2025 HAPPENINGS

January

07 - Hollywood fires start to decimate Los Angeles.