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Here’s our traditional round-up of the media we’re rampantly consuming.<\/p>\n
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Honestly, I spend a lot of time watching TV. More than I should. Mostly we’re rewatching cartoon favorites (Adventure Time, Bee & Puppycat, Rick & Morty, Gravity Falls<\/i>) with my sister and catching up on\u00a0Flash<\/i>,\u00a0Legion<\/i>,\u00a0Black-ish<\/i>, and\u00a0One Day at a Time<\/i>. I also try to catch up on\u00a0Outlander<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Black<\/i>\u00a0Mirror<\/i>\u00a0when I get the tv to myself.<\/p>\n
In games, for a while everyone took turns playing CupHead and laughed at their endless frustration with it, but then my sister got sick and we just rewatched every episode of\u00a0The Good Place<\/i>\u00a0for a week straight while she got better. <\/p>\n
Listening a lot to Chromatics and Desire while working, plus a lot of soundtrack music (curse you, Clint Mansell, and your tone-setting movie music genius).<\/p>\n
Finished a fantastically creepy YA audiobook called\u00a0And The Trees Crept In<\/i><\/a>, by Dawn Kurtagich, during my commute ride and immediately hunted down the author’s other audiobook,\u00a0The Dead House<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>from the library. I am in love with it as well, and am thoroughly charmed by the author’s moody, atmospheric tales that keep me guessing.<\/p>\n Also been loving on Chin Music Press’s beautiful book on japanese cat mythology<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n \n Kristine & Family’s December reading haul<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n I thought December was a pretty shit month of fires and stress, but our family actually read A LOT. Hooray!<\/p>\n Our movie list: We saw\u00a0Lady Bird<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Get Out<\/i>\u00a0twice, so there was definitely some meat for discussion on those bones. And I would add\u00a0The Square<\/i><\/a>. Lots of people in my cinema club HATED it, which made it even sweeter.<\/p>\n TV:\u00a0Stranger<\/i>\u00a0Things<\/i>\u00a02<\/i>,\u00a0Better Things<\/i>,\u00a0The Dark<\/i>\u00a0(German series),\u00a0Mindhunters<\/i>, and we rewatched favorite cartoons\u00a0Gravity<\/i>\u00a0Falls<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Rick & Morty<\/i>. I want to catch up on\u00a0Black Mirror<\/i>\u00a0too, but the damn kid stays up too late. Or her parents go to bed too early….<\/span><\/p>\n Plus the art collective FriendsWithYou<\/a> and their exhibit at the Oakland Museum<\/a> was the best mind-altering experience of 2017 that did not involve drugs.<\/p>\n Wow, 2017 was way less sucky if I view it ONLY in terms of great movies and books!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Joe and I have been watching\u00a0Parks & Rec<\/i>\u00a0after work every day and laughing SO much. So needed.<\/strong><\/p>\n “GOODBYE, LITTLE SEBASTIAN<\/a>!”<\/em> In media I plan to consume this month: OMSI is playing Studio Ghibli movies all month for 7 bucks.<\/a><\/p>\n \n I’ve been rereading\u00a0The Black Dagger Brotherhood<\/i>\u00a0by J.R. Ward and haven\u2019<\/span>t been watching anything lately, but I\u2019m really looking forward to bingeing\u00a0The End Of The Fucking World<\/i>\u00a0on Netflix.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I currently have no streaming services and just a DVD player, so I\u2019ve been buying cheap TV box sets and am currently enjoying\u00a0Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/i>\u00a0for the first time. I\u2019ve also recently discovered the joy of taking myself to the movies, so I\u2019m more up to date on current films than usual:\u00a0Lady Bird<\/i>\u00a0(loved it as much as every other millennial woman),\u00a0The Disaster Artist<\/i>\u00a0(such great things can come out of badly made things),\u00a0The Last Jedi\u00a0<\/i>(always game for\u00a0Star<\/i>\u00a0Wars<\/i>), and\u00a0The Shape of Water<\/i>\u00a0(liked it but didn\u2019t love it like I wanted too\u2014a little too attached to\u00a0Pan\u2019s Labyrinth<\/i>\u00a0still, I guess).<\/p>\n \u00a0I almost always listen to my entire music collection on shuffle, and lately shuffle has given me extra Nine Inch Nails, Sia, and Kanye West.<\/p>\n I just finished reading\u00a0The Mothers<\/i>\u00a0by Brit Bennett, a year behind everyone else because I\u2019m the cheap kind of bookworm who waits for paperbacks, and I\u2019m so glad I got to start 2018 with such a well-written, hook-in-the-gut book. About to move on to\u00a0The Child in Time<\/i>\u00a0by Ian McEwan, which I expect to also love since I like the author so much I named my new cat after him (well, in all honestly, partially after him, partially after Ewan McGregor).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Music: I’ve been listening to Marvin Gaye, Elton John’s “Honky Chateau”, and a newer artist called Ariel Pink.<\/p>\n Books: I’m reading Oxford’s\u00a0A Very Short Introduction to Black Holes<\/i>\u00a0and a biography of Antonin Artaud (the creator of Theatre of Cruelty) called\u00a0Poet Without Words<\/i>\u00a0by Naomi Greene. I like to read a lot of different stuff at a time so I don’t get bogged down by one topic, so I’ve also been reading a collection of Langston Hughes’s poems.<\/p>\n Television:\u00a0The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross<\/i>\u00a0and finally finishing\u00a0Stranger Things<\/i>.<\/p>\n Film: I haven’t had a chance to go to a movie theater recently, but I really want to see\u00a0Loving<\/i>\u00a0Vincent<\/i>. Every frame of the animation was painted in his style and the whole film required over 100 oil painters.<\/p>\n Theatre: I recently watched a production of Eugene Ionesco’s\u00a0Victims of Duty<\/i>\u00a0at PSU and it blew my mind. The script encompassed absurd theatre so well and the cast and set refused to allow the incongruous language to strip away meaning and urgency. There’s so much unnecessary information available for consumption, it often feels like a chore gathering the necessary media. I wish I kept up more with politics and daily news, but it usually just makes me tired or upset and I lose motivation to dig further into the things I really want to know. Instead, I would rather sit back with a cup of coffee and enjoy the soothing rhythms of Langston Hughes.<\/p>\n “Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, \n <\/p>\n My media consumption has been pretty wordy lately: I finally read forgotten fantasy masterpiece\u00a0Lud in the Mist<\/i>\u00a0and totally loved it.\u00a0This Census Taker<\/i>\u00a0by China Mieville is perfect autumn reading as well. I’ve also been reading more nonfiction, most notably stuff from Alan Watts and Slavoj \u017di\u017eek.<\/p>\n I also started playing\u00a0The Witcher 2<\/i>\u00a0and it’s pretty great even if I’m seven years late to the party.<\/p>\n Musically, I can never get enough of Alt-J or Of Monsters and Men, and I keep listening to Foo Fighters: Live at Wembley and fervently wishing I had arranged my life better so I could have been at that concert.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Your turn!<\/p>\n Tweet your #rampantmediaconsumption to @microcosmmm<\/a> to win a free sticker pack and book coupon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HEY! What have YOU been reading\/doing\/watching\/playing lately? Here’s our traditional round-up of the media we’re rampantly consuming. Cyn Honestly, I spend a lot of time watching TV. More than I should. Mostly we’re rewatching cartoon favorites (Adventure Time, Bee & Puppycat, Rick & Morty, Gravity Falls) with my sister and catching up on\u00a0Flash,\u00a0Legion,\u00a0Black-ish, and\u00a0One… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[111,11,112,18],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogifesto","tag-about-us","tag-interviews","tag-new-year","tag-rmc"],"my_excerpt":" Here's our traditional round-up of the media we're rampantly consuming.<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Honestly, I spend a lot of time watching TV. More than I should. Mostly we're rewatching cartoon favorites (Adventure Time, Bee & Puppycat, Rick & Morty, Gravity Falls<\/i>) with my sister and catching up on\u00a0Flash<\/i>,\u00a0Legion<\/i>,\u00a0Black-ish<\/i>, and\u00a0One Day at a Time<\/i>. I also try to catch up on\u00a0Outlander<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Black<\/i>\u00a0Mirror<\/i>\u00a0when I get the tv to myself.<\/p>\r\n In games, for a while everyone took turns playing CupHead and laughed at their endless frustration with it, but then my sister got sick and we just rewatched every episode of\u00a0The Good Place<\/i>\u00a0for a week straight while she got better. Listening a lot to Chromatics and Desire while working, plus a lot of soundtrack music (curse you, Clint Mansell, and your tone-setting movie music genius).<\/p>\r\nFinished a fantastically creepy YA audiobook called\u00a0And The Trees Crept In<\/i><\/a>, by Dawn Kurtagich, during my commute ride and immediately hunted down the author's other audiobook,\u00a0The Dead House<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>from the library. I am in love with it as well, and am thoroughly charmed by the author's moody, atmospheric tales that keep me guessing.\r\n\r\nAlso been loving on Chin Music Press's beautiful book on japanese cat mythology<\/a>.<\/span>\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n I thought December was a pretty shit month of fires and stress, but our family actually read A LOT. Hooray!<\/p>\r\n Our movie list:\r\n1.\u00a0Lady Bird\r\n<\/i>2.\u00a0My Friend Dahmer\r\n<\/i>3.\u00a0Edward Scissorhands\r\n<\/i>4.\u00a0Florida Project\r\n<\/i>5.\u00a0Get Out\r\n<\/i>6.\u00a0Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri<\/i>\r\n<\/i><\/p>\r\n We saw\u00a0Lady Bird<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Get Out<\/i>\u00a0twice, so there was definitely some meat for discussion on those bones. And I would add\u00a0The Square<\/i><\/a>. Lots of people in my cinema club HATED it, which made it even sweeter.<\/p>\r\n TV:\u00a0Stranger<\/i>\u00a0Things<\/i>\u00a02<\/i>,\u00a0Better Things<\/i>,\u00a0The Dark<\/i>\u00a0(German series),\u00a0Mindhunters<\/i>, and we rewatched favorite cartoons\u00a0Gravity<\/i>\u00a0Falls<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Rick & Morty<\/i>. I want to catch up on\u00a0Black Mirror<\/i>\u00a0too, but the damn kid stays up too late. Or her parents go to bed too early....<\/span><\/p>\r\n Plus the art collective FriendsWithYou<\/a> and their exhibit at the Oakland Museum<\/a> was the best mind-altering experience of 2017 that did not involve drugs.<\/p>\r\n Wow, 2017 was way less sucky if I view it ONLY in terms of great movies and books!<\/p>\r\n \r\n Joe and I have been watching\u00a0Parks & Rec<\/i>\u00a0after work every day and laughing SO much. So needed.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n \"GOODBYE, LITTLE SEBASTIAN<\/a>!\"<\/em>\r\n\"<\/em>He does BEING A LITTLE HORSE better than ANYBODY!!!\"<\/em><\/p>\r\n In media I plan to consume this month: OMSI is playing Studio Ghibli movies all month for 7 bucks.<\/a><\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n I've been rereading\u00a0The Black Dagger Brotherhood<\/i>\u00a0by J.R. Ward and haven\u2019<\/span>t been watching anything lately, but I\u2019m really looking forward to bingeing\u00a0The End Of The Fucking World<\/i>\u00a0on Netflix.<\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\n I currently have no streaming services and just a DVD player, so I\u2019ve been buying cheap TV box sets and am currently enjoying\u00a0Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/i>\u00a0for the first time. I\u2019ve also recently discovered the joy of taking myself to the movies, so I\u2019m more up to date on current films than usual:\u00a0Lady Bird<\/i>\u00a0(loved it as much as every other millennial woman),\u00a0The Disaster Artist<\/i>\u00a0(such great things can come out of badly made things),\u00a0The Last Jedi\u00a0<\/i>(always game for\u00a0Star<\/i>\u00a0Wars<\/i>), and\u00a0The Shape of Water<\/i>\u00a0(liked it but didn\u2019t love it like I wanted too\u2014a little too attached to\u00a0Pan\u2019s Labyrinth<\/i>\u00a0still, I guess).<\/p>\r\n \u00a0I almost always listen to my entire music collection on shuffle, and lately shuffle has given me extra Nine Inch Nails, Sia, and Kanye West.<\/p>\r\n I just finished reading\u00a0The Mothers<\/i>\u00a0by Brit Bennett, a year behind everyone else because I\u2019m the cheap kind of bookworm who waits for paperbacks, and I\u2019m so glad I got to start 2018 with such a well-written, hook-in-the-gut book. About to move on to\u00a0The Child in Time<\/i>\u00a0by Ian McEwan, which I expect to also love since I like the author so much I named my new cat after him (well, in all honestly, partially after him, partially after Ewan McGregor).<\/p>\r\n \r\n Music: I've been listening to Marvin Gaye, Elton John's \"Honky Chateau\", and a newer artist called Ariel Pink.<\/p>\r\n Books: I'm reading Oxford's\u00a0A Very Short Introduction to Black Holes<\/i>\u00a0and a biography of Antonin Artaud (the creator of Theatre of Cruelty) called\u00a0Poet Without Words<\/i>\u00a0by Naomi Greene. I like to read a lot of different stuff at a time so I don't get bogged down by one topic, so I've also been reading a collection of Langston Hughes's poems.<\/p>\r\n Television:\u00a0The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross<\/i>\u00a0and finally finishing\u00a0Stranger Things<\/i>.<\/p>\r\n Film: I haven't had a chance to go to a movie theater recently, but I really want to see\u00a0Loving<\/i>\u00a0Vincent<\/i>. Every frame of the animation was painted in his style and the whole film required over 100 oil painters.<\/p>\r\n Theatre: I recently watched a production of Eugene Ionesco's\u00a0Victims of Duty<\/i>\u00a0at PSU and it blew my mind. The script encompassed absurd theatre so well and the cast and set refused to allow the incongruous language to strip away meaning and urgency. There's so much unnecessary information available for consumption, it often feels like a chore gathering the necessary media. I wish I kept up more with politics and daily news, but it usually just makes me tired or upset and I lose motivation to dig further into the things I really want to know. Instead, I would rather sit back with a cup of coffee and enjoy the soothing rhythms of Langston Hughes.<\/p>\r\n \"Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,\r\n<\/em>Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,\"\r\n<\/em>~ From \"The Weary Blues\" by Langston Hughes<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n \r\n My media consumption has been pretty wordy lately: I finally read forgotten fantasy masterpiece\u00a0Lud in the Mist<\/i>\u00a0and totally loved it.\u00a0This Census Taker<\/i>\u00a0by China Mieville is perfect autumn reading as well. I've also been reading more nonfiction, most notably stuff from Alan Watts and Slavoj \u017di\u017eek.<\/p>\r\n I also started playing\u00a0The Witcher 2<\/i>\u00a0and it's pretty great even if I'm seven years late to the party.<\/p>\r\n Musically, I can never get enough of Alt-J or Of Monsters and Men, and I keep listening to Foo Fighters: Live at Wembley and fervently wishing I had arranged my life better so I could have been at that concert.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n <\/p>\n Here’s our traditional round-up of the media we’re rampantly consuming.<\/p>\n \n Honestly, I spend a lot of time watching TV. More than I should. Mostly we’re rewatching cartoon favorites (Adventure Time, Bee & Puppycat, Rick & Morty, Gravity Falls<\/i>) with my sister and catching up on\u00a0Flash<\/i>,\u00a0Legion<\/i>,\u00a0Black-ish<\/i>, and\u00a0One Day at a Time<\/i>. I also try to catch up on\u00a0Outlander<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Black<\/i>\u00a0Mirror<\/i>\u00a0when I get the tv to myself.<\/p>\n In games, for a while everyone took turns playing CupHead and laughed at their endless frustration with it, but then my sister got sick and we just rewatched every episode of\u00a0The Good Place<\/i>\u00a0for a week straight while she got better. Listening a lot to Chromatics and Desire while working, plus a lot of soundtrack music (curse you, Clint Mansell, and your tone-setting movie music genius).<\/p>\n Finished a fantastically creepy YA audiobook called\u00a0And The Trees Crept In<\/i><\/a>, by Dawn Kurtagich, during my commute ride and immediately hunted down the author’s other audiobook,\u00a0The Dead House<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>from the library. I am in love with it as well, and am thoroughly charmed by the author’s moody, atmospheric tales that keep me guessing.<\/p>\n Also been loving on Chin Music Press’s beautiful book on japanese cat mythology<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n \n Kristine & Family’s December reading haul<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n I thought December was a pretty shit month of fires and stress, but our family actually read A LOT. Hooray!<\/p>\n Our movie list: We saw\u00a0Lady Bird<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Get Out<\/i>\u00a0twice, so there was definitely some meat for discussion on those bones. And I would add\u00a0The Square<\/i><\/a>. Lots of people in my cinema club HATED it, which made it even sweeter.<\/p>\n TV:\u00a0Stranger<\/i>\u00a0Things<\/i>\u00a02<\/i>,\u00a0Better Things<\/i>,\u00a0The Dark<\/i>\u00a0(German series),\u00a0Mindhunters<\/i>, and we rewatched favorite cartoons\u00a0Gravity<\/i>\u00a0Falls<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Rick & Morty<\/i>. I want to catch up on\u00a0Black Mirror<\/i>\u00a0too, but the damn kid stays up too late. Or her parents go to bed too early….<\/span><\/p>\n Plus the art collective FriendsWithYou<\/a> and their exhibit at the Oakland Museum<\/a> was the best mind-altering experience of 2017 that did not involve drugs.<\/p>\n Wow, 2017 was way less sucky if I view it ONLY in terms of great movies and books!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Joe and I have been watching\u00a0Parks & Rec<\/i>\u00a0after work every day and laughing SO much. So needed.<\/strong><\/p>\n “GOODBYE, LITTLE SEBASTIAN<\/a>!”<\/em>Kristine<\/h3>\n
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\n1.\u00a0Lady Bird
\n<\/i>2.\u00a0My Friend Dahmer
\n<\/i>3.\u00a0Edward Scissorhands
\n<\/i>4.\u00a0Florida Project
\n<\/i>5.\u00a0Get Out
\n<\/i>6.\u00a0Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri<\/i>
\n<\/i><\/p>\nElly<\/h3>\n
\n“<\/em>He does BEING A LITTLE HORSE better than ANYBODY!!!”<\/em><\/p>\nTrista<\/h3>\n
Kayla<\/h3>\n
Troy<\/h3>\n
\n<\/em>Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,”
\n<\/em>~ From “The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n
Ahi<\/h3>\n
\nHEY!<\/h3>\r\n
What have YOU been reading\/doing\/watching\/playing lately?<\/h2>\r\n \r\n
Cyn<\/h3>\r\n
<\/p>\r\nKristine<\/h3>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1742\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"300\"]
Kristine & Family's December reading haul[\/caption]\r\n\r\n \r\nElly<\/h3>\r\n
Trista<\/h3>\r\n
Kayla<\/h3>\r\n
Troy<\/h3>\r\n
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Ahi<\/h3>\r\n
\r\n\r\nYour turn!\r\n\r\nTweet your #rampantmediaconsumption to @microcosmmm<\/a> to win a free sticker pack and book coupon!","my_excerpt_rendered":"HEY!<\/h3>\n
What have YOU been reading\/doing\/watching\/playing lately?<\/h2>\n
Cyn<\/h3>\n
<\/p>\nKristine<\/h3>\n
\n1.\u00a0Lady Bird
\n<\/i>2.\u00a0My Friend Dahmer
\n<\/i>3.\u00a0Edward Scissorhands
\n<\/i>4.\u00a0Florida Project
\n<\/i>5.\u00a0Get Out
\n<\/i>6.\u00a0Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri<\/i>
\n<\/i><\/p>\nElly<\/h3>\n
\n“<\/em>He does BEING A LITTLE HORSE better than ANYBODY!!!”<\/em><\/p>\n