media diet
work in progress
here's a list of the things i've read, watched, listened to, played, and so on.
the first sixteen years or so of this list have been filled in retrospectively. as such a lot of the books might be a year out, and a lot don't appear at all. then again, i'm sure it mostly doesn't matter, it's mostly generic children's fiction. the category most likely to be hit by inaccurate dates are the films - most of the time i can remember whether i watched one before the other, or other such events to help me place it, but i can't be sure and some of them were simply shoved into a year without much concern at all. consider this an approximate chronology, but not definitive.
2008
- book - the wind in the willows
2009
- book - the nine lives of montezuma by michael morpurgo
2010
- book - skeleton key
- book - stormbreaker
- book - the hundred and one dalmations
- book - the boy in the striped pyjamas
2011
- book - there's a boy in the girls' bathroom
- book - stig of the dump
- book - kensuke's kingdom
2012
- book - alone on a wide wide sea
- film - stormbreaker
- film - cool runnings
- film - up
- film - jumanji
- film - hairspray
2013
- book - the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
- book - the fault in our stars
- book - coraline
- film - coraline
- book - the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime
- film - raiders of the lost ark
- book - little women
2014
- film - big
- book - animal farm
- book - the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde
- book - romeo and juliet
- film - romeo and juliet
- book - more than this
- book - holes
- film - holes
- festival - green man
- music - stay gold by first aid kit
- book - ting tang tommy
- book - a murder is announced
- film - annie (2014)
- film - shrek
2015
- film - castaway
- concert - bars and melody
- book - the tempest
- film - the tempest
- book - of mice and men
- film - the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
- book - dune by frank herbert
- film - school of rock
- book - what if
- book - the book of lost things
- festival - kendall calling
2016
- film - flushed away
- book - macbeth
- book - the time traveller's wife
- book - an inspector calls
- concert - rend collective
- book - sherlock holmes
- play - charlie and the chocolate factory
- book - the murder at the vicarage
- book - murder on the orient express
- book - death on the nile
- book - parker pyne investigates
- festival - green man
- book - the pavilion on the links
- book - and then there were none
- book - n or m?
- book - the adventure of the christmas pudding
- book - crooked house
- book - finding dory
2017
- book - fahrenheit 451: words are written in very tall fonts on roads so that they look normal at high speeds
- festival - london a cappella festival
- book - the unlikely pilgrimage of harold fry
- play - les misérables school edition
- festival - big church day out
- play - annie
- play - wicked
- film - pride and prejudice and zombies
- film - rock dog
- film - zootropolis (zootopia)
- film - the sense of an ending
- film - big hero 6
- film - gnomeo and juliet
- film - peewee's big adventure
- film - willy wonka's chocolate factory
- film - the princess bride
- film - the goonies
- film - fantastic mr fox
- film - west side story
- film - slumdog millionaire
- film - stand by me
- film - toy story
- film - johnny english
- film - little rascals
- film - finding nemo
- film - interstellar
- film - harry potter x7
- film - mrs doubtfire
- film - wallace and gromit - curse of the werebunny
- film - chicken run
- film - singin' in the rain
- film - lego batman
- film - the great gatsby
- film - matilda
- festival - carfest north
- festival - the big feastival
- film - it's a wonderful life
- film - miracle on 34th street
- film - et
- film - elf
- book - the love song of miss queenie hennessy
- film - jumanji: welcome to the jungle
2018
- concert - shake the chains
- film - the greatest showman
- play - dr jekyll and mr hyde
- play - wendy & peter pan
- series - the abc murders
- book - the abc murders
- play - macbeth
- film - the incredibles
- festival - big church day out
- book - dead man's folly
- film - sister act live choir
- book - at bertram's hotel
- book - the thirteen problems
- film - murder on the orient express
- play - annie jr
- play - grease
- film - a monster calls
- book - the hound of death
- concert - the sons of pitches
- concert - miracle on 34th street
- film - mary poppins returns
- film - the incredibles 2
- concert - zimmer vs. williams
- book - the music shop by rachel joyce
2019
- book - random acts of heroic love
- book - metamorphosis by franz kafka
- book - good omens by terry pratchett & neil gaiman
- book - dirk gently's holistic detective agency by douglas adams
- festival - cardiff depot in the castle
- book - the picture of dorian gray
- music - the best of john denver, volume 2
- book - a gentleman in moscow
- book - the river king by alice hoffman
- book - the happy prince and other tales by oscar wilde
- play - joseph and the amazing technicolour dreamcoat
- book - east of croyden by sue perkins
- musical - everybody's talking about jamie
- book - the hound of the baskervilles by arthur conan doyle
- book - the great gatsby
- book - transcription
- book - crooked heart
- book - ethics in the real world
- book - pride and prejudice
- book - do androids dream of electric sheep?
- book - jeeves in the offing
- book - digital minimalism
- film - the parent trap
- film - descendants
- film - descendants 2
- film - the house with a clock in its walls
- film - lady and the tramp
- film - neverending story
- film - the karate kid
- film - driving miss daisy
- film - chariots of fire
- film - this is spinal tap
- film - brief encounter
- film - some like it hot
- film - rebecca
- film - emma
- concert - chandos - the firebird
- film - anne of green gables
- film - jurassic park
- film - karate kid
- film - little women
- film - last christmas
2020
- book - birdsong by sebastian faulks
- book - st augustine's confessions
- book - the god experiment by russell stannard
- film - 1917
- musical - back to the future the musical
- music - closing hour at the cat cafe by catbeats
- book - kolymsky heights by lionel davidson
- book - animal liberation by peter singer
- book - hello world by hannah fry
- book - reasons to stay alive by matt haig
- book - sophie's world by jostein gaarder
- book - d is for digital by brian w. kernighan
- book - if only it were true by marc levy
- book - the phantom tollbooth by norton juster
- book - the jesus i never knew by philip yancey
- book - animals strike curious poses by elena passarello
- book - the colour of magic by terry pratchett
- book - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
- music - miles of aisles by joni mitchell
- book - how to be right in a world gone wrong by james o'brien
- book - educated by tara westover
- book - walden by henry david thoreau
- book - the moral state we're in
- film - fisherman's friends
- film - legally blonde
- book - cyberpunk: outlaws and hackers on the computer frontier by katie hafner and john markoff
- book - scoundrels volume one by duncan crowe and james peak
- book - dubliners by james joyce
- book - blood river by tim butcher
- book - lord of the rings
- film - my neighbour totoro
- book - catch-22
- book - the house of the spirits
- film - the upside
- film - a town like alice
- film - my spy
- book - anne of green gables
- film - the spy next door
- game - henry hatsworth in the puzzling adventure
- book - a clockwork orange
- book - normal people
- film - the hundred year old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared
- book - in the land of invented languages by arika okrent
- book - uglies by scott westerfeld
- book - so you've been publicly shamed by jon ronson
- book - the outsider by albert camus
- book - the communist manifesto by karl marx and friedrich engels
not a quote: capitalism embraces the past prejudices against women alongside the advances in technology to have more underpaid workers and a fragile but prevalent excuse for doing so.
it is better to pay people than to enslave them. but at least with slave labour there is no illusion, no VeilOfEquality: it is clear that the slaves are considered lesser than their owners. workers on the other hand are getting paid so can be dismissed more easily. this argument falls down as slaves were dismissed very easily.
- film - birdsong
- book - brave new world by aldous huxley
- book - teacher man by frank mccourt
- film - guys and dolls
- book - the weather factor
- book - emma by jane austen
- book - northanger abbey by jane austen
- book - persuasion by jane austen
- book - sense and sensibility by jane austen
- film - the aeronauts
- series - normal people
- book - marie kondo - the life-changing magic of tidying up
- book - mary ann shaffer and annie barrows - the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society
- book - bernadine evaristo - girl, woman, other
- film - howl's moving castle
- book - mansfield park by jane austen
- book - what does it all mean? by thomas nagel
- book - diversify by june sarpong
- book - 50 ideas you really need to know philosophy by ben dupré
- book - free as in freedom by sam williams
- book - the problems of philosophy by bertrand russell
- music - rage against the machine by rage against the machine
- musical - legally blonde the musical
- film - the shawshank redemption
- book - the life-saving manga of tidying up
- film - spirited away
- book - the man who saw everything by deborah levy
- book - cyberiad by stanislaw lem
- book - a nearly infallible history of christianity by nick page
- film - sunshine on leith
- film - arrival
- film - the babysitter (2017)
- film - the lorax
- film - rango
- film - the lorax
- film - kung fu panda
- film- spider-man: into the spider-verse
- film - going in style
- book - common people
- book - the midnight library by matt haig
- film - v for vendetta
- film - sorry to bother you
- film - fifty shades of grey
- music - folklore by taylor swift
- film - the santa claus
- film - meet me in st louis
- film - home alone 3
- film - peter rabbit
2021
- film - calamity jane
- music - a kiss before you go by katzenjammer
- book - random acts of senseless violence by jack womack
- book - gilead by marilynne robinson
- film - yes, god, yes
- film - blended
- music - рыба by ленинград
- film - wild child
- book - the liar's dictionary by eley williams
- book - the way home by mark boyle
- book - fütchi perf by kevin czap
- series - sex education season one
- film - the truman show
- series - the good place season one
- film - the curious case of benjamin button
- film - mean girls
- show recording - bo burnham's make happy
- show recording - tim minchin's so f**king rock
- show recording - tim minchin and the heritage orchestra
- film - educating rita
- film - nausicaä of the valley of the wind
- film - american beauty
- film - enola holmes
- series - james acaster: repetoire
- series - serial experiments lain
- film - scott pilgrim vs the world