culture consumed (April, 2020)

tv

• Star Trek: Discovery, 1.01-1.04
• Star Trek: Picard, Season 1 (10 episodes)
  

music

• The Highwomen, self-titled album (from Thom's flirtation with country -- thanks, Dolly Parton's America --  though more credit to Cynthia and Jerilyn for reccing it to him once he was in that vein) -- "Crowded Table" is really nice
• Sugarland -- from Thom's flirtation with country (thanks, Dolly Parton's America)  They have a bunch of albums, so I just told Spotify to Play; it feels very poppy (which isn't a criticism).
  
• Counting Crows (August and Everything After and Recovering the Satellites and This Desert Life, because emo nostalgia? [I was singing "Round Here" to myself -- round here we talk just like lions, but we sacrifice like lambs -- and decided to revisit] though, wow, there are not actually a lot of songs on This Desert Life that I know/like)
• assorted ~queer music videos
• that same day: Fiona Apple's new album Fetch the Bolt Cutters -- I was like, "I remain not really a Fiona Apple person? like 'Criminal' is great, but..."  And then I got to "Relay" ("Evil is a relay sport"); that's great, and a bunch of the following songs are good ("Newspaper." "Ladies," "Heavy Balloon").
  
• assorted music after Bawdy Storytelling:
  • Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
  • SsingSsing: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert ["a South Korean band that fuses Korean folk music with genres including glam rock, disco, and psychedelic rock"]
  • DakhaBrakha: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert -- which I had maybe already listened to because Molly? ["DakhaBrakha is amazing. Their music video for their song Monakh is like...Ukrainian  Folk Rap."]
• Indigo Girls - Nomads Indians Saints (I had been singing part of "World Falls" -- all the beauty just keeps shaking me -- and so I Googled which album it's from, though in retrospect I probably know it from e.g. 1200 Curfews)
• "Six Feet Apart" (Original) - Heather Mae & Crys Matthews LIVE

  Six feet apart
  Won't stop us
  Don't need to hold you in my arms
  I still know you in the dark.
  Just 'cause I can't kiss you underneath the moonlight
  Doesn't mean you have to feel alone tonight
  Let’s get closer
  From six feet apart

• Alec Benjamin - Six Feet Apart [Official Lyric Video]

  Oh I, miss you most at
  Six feet apart when you're
  Right outside my window
  But can't ride inside my car
  And it hurts to know just how lovely you are
  And be too far away to hold but close enough to break my heart
  I miss your smile
  Feels like miles
  Six feet apart

books

• Monstress (vols. 1-2) written by Marjorie M. Liu & illustrated by Sana Takeda (Somerville sci-fi/fantasy book club)
• Resipiscence 2020: A Lenten Devotional for Dismantling White Supremacy eds. Vahisha Hasan & Nichola Torbett
• When Someone You Love Is Polyamorous: Understanding Poly People and Relationships by Elisabeth Sheff
• Autonomous by Analee Newitz (bi+ bookclub) [and sequel short story "Old Media"]

live theatre

• Bawdy Storytelling's first live-stream (which, after a rocky start, was actually really good)
• HBS Got Talent -- though I did not actually watch it live.  [N.B. YouTube starts around 7:30]
  Summary from a coworker: "Basically if you go back and watch: look for Randy roasting everyone in the first half, the mean tweets, fac band, and ballet guy."  The opening monologue was good, too, though.
• 007: From Allston With Love | The HBS Show 2020 (which I also did not watch live)

other

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | TEDxEuston | We Should All Be Feminists