culture consumed (July, 2018)

books

• 32 kids' books, including:
  • 5 Juneteenth
    
  • 10 of Taylor Pittman's "17 LGBTQ-Friendly Books To Read To Your Kid In Honor Of Pride"
    
• book club books:
  • the much-hyped An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
    
  • Jady City (The Green Bone Saga #1) by Fonda Lee (Asian Mafia urban fantasy)
• and 2 other books for adults -- I realize I've been totalling kids' books and then noting highlights, whereas with adult books I've mostly been only noting highlights

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podcasts

• I continue to find Krista Tippett low-key irritating, but I did successfully fall asleep to 2 unedited episodes:
  • Layli Long Soldier — The Freedom of Real Apologies (early 2017)
    
  • Ernie LaPointe and Cedric Good House — Reimagining Sitting Bull (2009)
  
  
• I Googled for podcasts to fall asleep to and noped out of Sleep Whispers (the whispering was really not working for me) and Sleep With Me: The Podcast That Puts You To Sleep (almost immediately)
• Off of a Reddit thread, I tried Myths and Legends
  • and learned that the Golem of Prague (Part 1 and Part 2) is a much more involved story than I'd imagined
    
  • I also listened to a story from India (Part 1 and Part 2) and had a couple moments of. "Hey, I know this bit!" (some pieces of Holi in the first story, and the Ramayana in the second story -- though okay the latter I knew from a middle grade/young adult graphic novel, so it doesn't quite fit with my increasingly frequent refrain of "I know that from a picture book" ... and I think I recognized a piece from the third story from art at the MFA)
• I finished Within the Wires Season 1 -- including re-listening to a couple episodes I'd already listened to because I couldn't remember exactly where I'd left off, and having finishing the season I'd be interested to re-listen from the beginning; I'm also interested in the director's notes etc. they were talking up as Patreon perks

movies

• Hearts Beat Loud
  
• Blade Runner (the director's cut)

music

• Ariana Grande "God is a woman"
  
• finally listened to the Hadestown live original cast recording
  
• some of the Girls in Trouble song cycle by Alicia Jo Rabins -- Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg Tweeted, "Hey, you all know about @girlsintrouble, right? Beautiful alt-folk feminist midrash songs form by @ohaliciajo https://www.girlsintroublemusic.com/" & I said, "Well I do now..."

theatre

• Richard III (Shakespeare on the Common)
  
• Henry IV (Praxis Stage)