I thought it would be fun to do a media diet thing since I track most stuff anyway. I'll of course start with a long comprehensive post that will be very difficult to follow up, but perhaps I would do future ones on a more regular basis. This will also not be comprehensive, just things I'd like to comment on.

TV
Scandal S1|2|3|4|5 - OK this is my first entry into Shondaworld. I think it's quite weird, probably not even good but I definitely see the allure. I will probably be finishing the series. It really set off ruminations on the role of media in how larger structures are perceived by folk.
Futurama S1|2|3|4|5|6 - Danny had never seen this, so I rewatched the whole thing. Classic episodes are just as great. Of the later stuff... I had honestly forgotten I'd actually seen them all. The movies and CC episodes are incredibly uneven, but there _are_ gems in there, up to the last season.
Breeders S1 - Pretty good series. Watched bc daddy Martin Freeman is very sexy.
Midnight Mass - The flaws in this series sting quite a bit, as there is such a great atmosphere, cinematography, soundtrack.
The New Adventures of Old Christine S1|2|3|4|5 - Didn't age GREAT but it's still fine and I laughed a lot.
Cooked with Cannabis S1 - I love kelis but leather storrs is weird. Also highlighted how scientific-sounding jargon has infiltrated the cannabis world, far ahead of non-industry-funded research.
Baking Impossible S1 - This was fun, very enjoyable. Prooobably coulda been through a bit more QA
We Are Lady Parts S1 - Absolutely Wonderful, my pick for TV of the year. Is this a musical? Music is so critical to it...
Mapleworth Murders/The Fugitive/Floored/Dismantled - LOL QUIBI
FBoy Island S1 - i feel bad about how many fboys i found hot
Dorohedoro - While I was watching it I was maybe unimpressed? but no actually I liked it a lot
Superstore S6 - First pandemic media. I think it was a good end to the series. Cried at the finale and hated it
The Lady and The Dale - what a fascinating portrait of a person

Music
Yung Baby Tate/Baby Tate - I found out about her this year, and damn she's got some bops
La Goony Chonga - It's mainly been No Quieres Lio but she is also fun
Lil Mariko - I saw her debut show in Brooklyn this year. I would simp for her, sure
Ashnikko - STUPID is an amazing track, but overall I like her style more than her jamz
grandson - I really want to see him live, Death of an Optimist was a pretty good album
Camilo - omfg he is too cute i hate it also i want to kiss his face
Orla Gartland - Such lovely songs, More Like You is going to be an all-time favorite
Brooke Candy - SEXORCISM is amazing
Duckwrth - first live show since lockdown. it made me very happy, and also i got to see duckwrth shirtless so that was transcendent

Movies:
The Gleaners and I - MY PEOPLE IN FILM I LOVE THIS
Lake Tahoe - This is the 2nd film by Fernando Eimbcke, whose 1st film Temporada de Patos is my all-time favorite film. Of course it is difficult to meet such high expectations (especially since Club Sandwich was just kinda okay)... but this was a very lovely film that I'm already remembering more fondly than when I watched.
Redes - I love old films that show the exploitation of the proletariat by default; found this one pretty compelling
Shaun of the Dead - This lived up to the hype, but I can't help but think a lot of its humor has been zapped by imitators over the years.
Baby Face - Rewatched with Danny, I liked it just as much as the first time. MUST watch the restored 2000s version that has the Nietzsche speech intact and the more ambiguous ending
The Decline of Western Civilization I & II : Dude these were great and i am so hype to watch Part III
Burnt - OMFG this is the worst food-adjacent film I've ever seen. infuriating
Born in Flames - I feel like this is the movie that the fediverse would love. Interesting to watch this with burgeoning anarchism viewpoints
The Thing About Harry - omg harry is such a dreamy pan person
Jallikattu - This is the manliest film I've ever seen and the ending is so... incredible
Paris is Burning - sigh. Perhaps it was the hype. It did not make me happy to see queer brown folk at the altar of hierarchy, wealth, power. Where is the subversion of gender? I was upset enough to hunt a little, and I was happy to find that bell hooks devoted an entire chapter to this movie in Black Looks. She expressed these same frustrations, so I'll probably direct people there.
Language Lessons - A movie with so much heart. I've roughly seen it 3x at this point, though, and perhaps the feels fade a bit.
Last and First Men - What an experience! This is best experienced in a theatre-like setting, or at least with headphones.
Spring/Synchronic - Moorhead & Benson make films that I want to love so much. They are fine.
Animas Trujano - This movie actually short-circuited my brain. I think I like it? maybe???? also Torisho Mifune being dubbed over is not even distracting really? also he's hot and plays with his chest hair a bunch xP

Books
Drug Use for Grown Ups by Carl L. Hart - Pretty good book saying things I believe. Full drug legalization is the way forward
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh - I quite enjoyed My Year of Rest and Relaxation, so I was excited. It ended up being a bit more of a slog than I initially thought, but drastically picked up towards the end. Quite like a Hitchcock film
Rest by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang - Anecdote-ful and kinda long tbh for what could have been maybe a long-form. But, yes, brain work is effortful and deserving of rest doi
The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann - I finished the 2nd half of this book this year. Quite dry, and not super useful in terms of shaping my environmental POV (other than the obvious metaphor in the title.)
How Late It Was How Late by James Kelman - I think i was liking this but the regional tongue was quite mentally taxing - too much so for my mood at the time.
Borne by Jeff Vandermeer - Fun, quick read. Nothing too deep... i think?
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber - This was a great intro to Graeber. I am drawn to the idea that the obsolescence of human labor due to AI isn't just futurist talk - it's been happening and because mostly upper class jobs are affected, those are the first to be subsidized by the private sector.
Normal People by Sally Rooney - Fun read, my kinda romance novel.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber - I got about 60% through this book. It's quite dry... but incredibly enlightening. Of course debt came before currency.