Celeste is about understanding yourself, about abandoning an adversarial relationship with the darker parts of yourself, and instead understanding where those thoughts, feelings, and behaviors come from, approaching challenges as a whole person.
Year in Review 2019: Podcasts
In a year generally seen as terrible, Green gives his first 5-star review. If that's not optimism I don't know what is.
Year in Review 2019: TV
There was a lot of great stuff in this season, but the standout episodes are 6 & 7, "Donar the Great" and "Treasure of the Sun."
Year in Review 2019: Movies
Guava Island is a beautifully simple short film and a 50-minute long music video.
Year in Review 2019: YouTube
I tend to relate to most of Yilmaz's work, but his "Stuck" miniseries really struck home with me.
Year in Review 2019: Music
I mean, obviously I like this album (less obvious is how I missed it but whatever). It would be pretty much impossible for me not to.
Year in Review 2019: Books
Borges meets Kafka via 1980's China.
Year in Review 2018: Movies
I can understand people writing this off as another tortured-genius-white-guy biopic (and honestly they have a point), but for what it’s worth it’s the funniest movie I've ever cried at the end of.
Year in Review 2018: Music
One of my pet peeves with pop music is that a lot of pop artists are actually really good singers, but are frequently putting out songs that don’t serve their voices (and also have crappy lyrics but I guess that’s a separate issue).
Year in Review 2018: TV
Part of the difficulty of crafting a good-vs-evil narrative is that, for the sake of drama, evil needs to be besting good 2/3rds of the time without good being so inept and stupid that we stop rooting for them.
Certain of Eventual Failure 