{"id":404,"date":"2015-12-07T13:07:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T13:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microcosmpublishing.dev\/blog\/2015\/12\/rampant-media-consumptionnovember-2015-confessions-and-guilty-pleasures\/"},"modified":"2016-02-02T16:29:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T16:29:57","slug":"rampant-media-consumptionnovember-2015-confessions-and-guilty-pleasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/rampant-media-consumptionnovember-2015-confessions-and-guilty-pleasures\/","title":{"rendered":"Rampant Media Consumption\u2014November 2015: Confessions and Guilty Pleasures"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dilA year ago when we first launched the RMC, people were pretty excited about it, and would send in their short book + movie + tv + art + more experimental media (like the sounds on the bus) links and reviews every week. But participation dwindled. We started posting monthly, and then less than once a month, just when enough people had sent that in. Then, during a staff meeting, it came out that a lot of us feel a little self-conscious about what we go home and read\/watch\/listen to unwind. So we decided that this month we’d all be super honest and not worry about meeting some invisible cultural bar. <\/p>\n

So here it is, the RMC guilty pleasures edition!<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeff<\/h2>\n

My mom got me into watching Dr. Who. I\u2019m not sure how I feel about it, but it\u2019s strangely addicting. <\/p>\n

I found a free Hank Williams record and said \u201cWhy not?\u201d<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m not sure why I keep playing it. <\/p>\n

Hadn\u2019t seen the movie Trading Places<\/em> in a long long time. So yeah, I watched it again. <\/p>\n

Meggyn<\/h2>\n

Erykah Badu’s new mixtape “But You Cain’t Use My Phone”<\/a> is hands down my favorite release this year. It was released today and it’s a careful selection of phone related songs that have been important to the r&b\/hip hop scene for the past two decades. This is important. <\/p>\n

[Meggyn also wrote: “I made a playlist called Velotronica on Spotify full of my guilty Vegas dance favorites. Should I link? (They power me through the hardest hills.)” But she did not send the link.]<\/span><\/p>\n

Elly<\/h2>\n

I watched the whole latest season of Project Runway. Then for a while I couldn’t stop watching all the Bollywood movies that are hitting Netflix, especially the amazing ones from the 90s starring Shah Rukh Khan\u2014my favorite was Dil to Pagal Hai <\/em>(The Heart is Crazy<\/em>), which left me feeling weirdly giddy and whistling the tag line on my bike for a week.<\/p>\n

I spend a lot more time every week than I ever plan to reading long articles online. Recent ones that stuck with me include Rebecca Solnit’s ultimate answer<\/a> to the whole “having it all” racket + the tedious questions women are supposed to constantly field about our reproductive plans, and the super-long New Yorker article about Megan Phelps-Roper<\/a>\u2014every paragraph had a new amazing reveal. And here’s a real pleasure: Carrie Fisher and her dog Gary splendidly demolish inane interview questions<\/a> on Good Morning America.<\/p>\n

Thea<\/h2>\n

Can\u2019t stop watching Spiral<\/a>, the French crime drama. <\/p>\n

Finally watched This Must be the Place<\/a><\/em> movie with Sean Penn by Paolo Sorrentino. Wasn\u2019t disappointed. <\/p>\n

More BBC bicycle love<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ack! Now even coloring books are gendered<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Tomy<\/h2>\n

The Great British Baking Show<\/a> \u2014 It’s great. I don’t know what it is about it that makes me very happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A year ago when we first launched the RMC, people were pretty excited about it, and would send in their short book + movie + tv + art + more experimental media (like the sounds on the bus) links and reviews every week. But participation dwindled. We started posting monthly, and then less than once a month, just when enough people had sent that in. Then, during a staff meeting, it came out that a lot of us feel a little self-conscious about what we go home and read\/watch\/listen to unwind. So we decided that this month we’d all be super honest and not worry about meeting some invisible cultural bar. <\/p>\n

So here it is, the RMC guilty pleasures edition!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogifesto","tag-rmc"],"my_excerpt":"

\"dilA year ago when we first launched the RMC, people were pretty excited about it, and would send in their short book + movie + tv + art + more experimental media (like the sounds on the bus) links and reviews every week. But participation dwindled. We started posting monthly, and then less than once a month, just when enough people had sent that in. Then, during a staff meeting, it came out that a lot of us feel a little self-conscious about what we go home and read\/watch\/listen to unwind. So we decided that this month we'd all be super honest and not worry about meeting some invisible cultural bar. <\/p>

So here it is, the RMC guilty pleasures edition!<\/span><\/p>

Jeff<\/h2>

My mom got me into watching Dr. Who. I\u2019m not sure how I feel about it, but it\u2019s strangely addicting. <\/p>

I found a free Hank Williams record and said \u201cWhy not?\u201d<\/p>

But I\u2019m not sure why I keep playing it. <\/p>

Hadn\u2019t seen the movie Trading Places<\/em> in a long long time. So yeah, I watched it again. <\/p>

Meggyn<\/h2>

Erykah Badu's new mixtape \"But You Cain't Use My Phone\"<\/a> is hands down my favorite release this year. It was released today and it's a careful selection of phone related songs that have been important to the r&b\/hip hop scene for the past two decades. This is important. <\/p>

[Meggyn also wrote: \"I made a playlist called Velotronica on Spotify full of my guilty Vegas dance favorites. Should I link? (They power me through the hardest hills.)\" But she did not send the link.]<\/span><\/p>

Elly<\/h2>

I watched the whole latest season of Project Runway. Then for a while I couldn't stop watching all the Bollywood movies that are hitting Netflix, especially the amazing ones from the 90s starring Shah Rukh Khan\u2014my favorite was Dil to Pagal Hai <\/em>(The Heart is Crazy<\/em>), which left me feeling weirdly giddy and whistling the tag line on my bike for a week.<\/p>

I spend a lot more time every week than I ever plan to reading long articles online. Recent ones that stuck with me include Rebecca Solnit's ultimate answer<\/a> to the whole \"having it all\" racket + the tedious questions women are supposed to constantly field about our reproductive plans, and the super-long New Yorker article about Megan Phelps-Roper<\/a>\u2014every paragraph had a new amazing reveal. And here's a real pleasure: Carrie Fisher and her dog Gary splendidly demolish inane interview questions<\/a> on Good Morning America.<\/p>

Thea<\/h2>

Can\u2019t stop watching Spiral<\/a>, the French crime drama. <\/p>

Finally watched This Must be the Place<\/a><\/em> movie with Sean Penn by Paolo Sorrentino. Wasn\u2019t disappointed. <\/p>

More BBC bicycle love<\/a>.<\/p>

Ack! Now even coloring books are gendered<\/a>. <\/p>

Tomy<\/h2>

The Great British Baking Show<\/a> \u2014 It's great. I don't know what it is about it that makes me very happy.<\/p>","my_excerpt_rendered":"

\"dilA year ago when we first launched the RMC, people were pretty excited about it, and would send in their short book + movie + tv + art + more experimental media (like the sounds on the bus) links and reviews every week. But participation dwindled. We started posting monthly, and then less than once a month, just when enough people had sent that in. Then, during a staff meeting, it came out that a lot of us feel a little self-conscious about what we go home and read\/watch\/listen to unwind. So we decided that this month we’d all be super honest and not worry about meeting some invisible cultural bar. <\/p>\n

So here it is, the RMC guilty pleasures edition!<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeff<\/h2>\n

My mom got me into watching Dr. Who. I\u2019m not sure how I feel about it, but it\u2019s strangely addicting. <\/p>\n

I found a free Hank Williams record and said \u201cWhy not?\u201d<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m not sure why I keep playing it. <\/p>\n

Hadn\u2019t seen the movie Trading Places<\/em> in a long long time. So yeah, I watched it again. <\/p>\n

Meggyn<\/h2>\n

Erykah Badu’s new mixtape “But You Cain’t Use My Phone”<\/a> is hands down my favorite release this year. It was released today and it’s a careful selection of phone related songs that have been important to the r&b\/hip hop scene for the past two decades. This is important. <\/p>\n

[Meggyn also wrote: “I made a playlist called Velotronica on Spotify full of my guilty Vegas dance favorites. Should I link? (They power me through the hardest hills.)” But she did not send the link.]<\/span><\/p>\n

Elly<\/h2>\n

I watched the whole latest season of Project Runway. Then for a while I couldn’t stop watching all the Bollywood movies that are hitting Netflix, especially the amazing ones from the 90s starring Shah Rukh Khan\u2014my favorite was Dil to Pagal Hai <\/em>(The Heart is Crazy<\/em>), which left me feeling weirdly giddy and whistling the tag line on my bike for a week.<\/p>\n

I spend a lot more time every week than I ever plan to reading long articles online. Recent ones that stuck with me include Rebecca Solnit’s ultimate answer<\/a> to the whole “having it all” racket + the tedious questions women are supposed to constantly field about our reproductive plans, and the super-long New Yorker article about Megan Phelps-Roper<\/a>\u2014every paragraph had a new amazing reveal. And here’s a real pleasure: Carrie Fisher and her dog Gary splendidly demolish inane interview questions<\/a> on Good Morning America.<\/p>\n

Thea<\/h2>\n

Can\u2019t stop watching Spiral<\/a>, the French crime drama. <\/p>\n

Finally watched This Must be the Place<\/a><\/em> movie with Sean Penn by Paolo Sorrentino. Wasn\u2019t disappointed. <\/p>\n

More BBC bicycle love<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ack! Now even coloring books are gendered<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Tomy<\/h2>\n

The Great British Baking Show<\/a> \u2014 It’s great. I don’t know what it is about it that makes me very happy.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}