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Books 2015

12/31/2015

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Here's everything I read in 2015. I abandoned a lot of books (and tried to keep track of those as well). The bolded titles are ones I especially enjoyed. I think I'll aim for at least 45 next year. We'll see...
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  1. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
  2. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
  3. Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
  4. Saga Vol. 4
  5. Belleville by Amy Herzog
  6. The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
  7. The Martian by Andy Weir
  8. Ten Years in the Tub by Nick Hornby
  9. Us by David Nicholls
  10. A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall by Will Chancellor
  11. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
  12. Outline by Rachel Cusk
  13. Lucky Alan and other stories by Jonathan Lethem
  14. Grasshopper Jungle by Adam Smith
  15. The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman
  16. 10% Happier by Dan Harris
  17. Year of the King by Antony Sher
  18. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
  19. A History of Loneliness by John Boyne
  20. Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum
  21. Faithful Place by Tana French
  22. The Vacationers by Emma Straub
  23. 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write by Sarah Ruhl
  24. Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallac
  25. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
  26. Mistborn 1: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
  27. My Struggle Vol. 1 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
  28. Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
  29. Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
  30. Mistborn 2: The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
  31. The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
  32. Among the Ten Thousand Things by Julia Pierpont
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Movies 2015

12/31/2015

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Here's a list I kept of every movie I saw in 2015. I'm sure there are some that I missed, but this is pretty comprehensive.

Birdman (in theatre)
Pride
Labyrinth
The Fighter
Pitch Perfect
Europa Report
Identity
A Most Wanted Man
The Skeleton Twins
American Sniper (theater)
Dallas Buyers Club
The Interview
Kingsman (theater)
In Bruges
Willow
Stardust
The Drop
Calvary
Pulp Fiction
​The Maze Runner​
​The Gunman (theater)​
Henry V (Branagh)
Henry V (Olivier)
Julius Caesar (MGM/Brando/Gielgud)
Jurassic World (in theater)
What We Do In The Shadows
American Graffiti
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (in theater)
The Godfather
The Seventh Son
The Scorch Trials (Maze Runner 2) - (in theater)
The Martian (in theater)
Spectre (in theater)
Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2 (in theater)
Inside Out
Frozen
Krampus (in theater)
​Ex Machina
Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens (in theater, twice)
White Christmas
Elf
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100 Things That Made My Year - 2015

12/31/2015

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 Inspired by Austin Kleon's list, I made my own for 2014. I aim to make this an annual "event." Here goes:

  1. Celebrating the New Year with these wonderful folks
  2. Spending half the year with the likes of Horatio, Claudio, and my bundle of Dr. Faustus characters
  3. Going on a second tour with the American Shakespeare Center with this crew.
  4. Seeing Birdman in a cool, little art house in Harrisonburg
  5. Getting snowed in at Murray State
  6. Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
  7. Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
  8. Punch Brothers album: Phosphorescent Blues
  9. When those llamas escaped and there was a giant chase for them and Twitter exploded. I'll never forget that.
  10. Hopping on the upright bass for music in the ASC shows
  11. Grilling in Texas in February
  12. Winning Settlers of Catan two times in a row
  13. My brother got married!
  14. The bamboo watch my brother gave me for said wedding
  15. Alabama Shakes concert
  16. Renting my first car and taking a solo trip to Rehoboth Beach
  17. Seeing Man and Superman NT Live screening
  18. When authors of books I read tweet back to me
  19. Punch Brothers concert in Nashville
  20. Following the commentary and progress of the Morning News Tournament of Books - the discussion on reading, literature, aesthetics, and taste is fascinating
  21. Exploring Austin, TX
  22. This ridiculous chocolate raspberry food truck doughnut (called the "Razzle Dazzle")
  23. Abandoning books
  24. Eating the best french toast of my life at The Table in Asheboro, NC
  25. Attending a party in Alan Cumming's dressing room
  26. Mad Max Fury Road
  27. Finishing up a 1000-piece puzzle
  28. Revisiting Baltimore on tour
  29. A University of Houston reunion in the Bronx (after a performance of Earnest).
  30. The Great British Bake Off
  31. Exploring Lexington, Kentucky (and the Buffalo Trace distillery)
  32. Hamilton
  33. George Saunders gives us a glimpse of his writing education
  34. The Star Hill Hopfetti beer
  35. What We Do in the Shadows
  36. Broad City
  37. Running into Daniel Stock during a random layover in Atlanta
  38. Ticking off my list of Shakespeare I've never performed or seen live: (Henry V, 1 Henry VI, Antony & Cleopatra)
  39. This GQ Stephen Colbert profile is fantastic
  40. My grad school acting teacher, Jack Young, was able to make it to the closing weekend of our spring season. Got to see a bunch of his former students in Hamlet and Much Ado about Nothing.
  41. The Mad Men finale
  42. This video of Mambo
  43. Homeland season 4 with the great Stephen Brunson
  44. Going head-to-head with the great Josh Innerst on stage, both in Julius Caesar and The Importance of Being Earnest 
  45. Developing music arrangements/covers with the Dangerous Dreams troupe--notably the Always Drinking Marching Band cover of "Anarchy in the UK." 
  46. The dance scene in Ex Machina
  47. My socks in Earnest​
  48. Burlington, Vermont (fancy cocktails, an expensive-but-worth-it burger, the Skinny Pancake, indie bookstores, coffeeshops galore, the waterfront, it's a marvelous city)
  49. Journaling
  50. Tame Impala's Currents album
  51. Running with Patrick Earl to Daytona Beach and back (in the rain)--8 miles in total
  52. Starting and quickly quitting NaNoWriMo has made me think about what stories I have to tell
  53. Thanksgiving Brunch with the game of Life afterward (shout-out to Sarah, Josh, Rene, Cordell, and Patrick)
  54. Sauna time at the Best Western in Canton, NY
  55. On the Town and Disgraced on Broadway
  56. The So Many Damn Books podcast
  57. So many of my good theatre friends had fantastic work this year (or booked fantastic work)--I only wish I could have seen it all
  58. Making the switch to Spotify Premium. I'll never turn back
  59. This NYT profile on Terry Gross
  60. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
  61. Watching DCI semifinals and quarterfinals from the comforts of my living room
  62. Testing the waters with the Wheel of Time book
  63. Thai Staunton 
  64. Why is so much of design school a waste of time? An exploration on learning to fail, collaborating, giving/receiving criticism, listening. It's fantastic.
  65. Meeting playwright David Davalos (he wrote Wittenberg)
  66. This Longform podcast with Cheryl Strayed
  67. The Coconut Reaper beer at Redbeard's
  68. Taking another plunge into Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
  69. The little kids (with a few exceptions) who come to see A Christmas Carol with their families
  70. My directors: Jim, Kevin, and Ben. Y'all challenged and supported in wondrous ways.
  71. Hiking in New York's north country
  72. Naps
  73. When family sends me pictures of Samson
  74. Taking a ferry and getting tipsy
  75. The Blackfriars Conference
  76. Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens
  77. Managing to not get sick during the 30-some performances of A Christmas Carol
  78. Gearing up to hustle as an actor. Much of my 2016 is open-ended.
  79. The Wiz live (shout-out to Poole and Rene)
  80. Master of None on Netflix
  81. BIRP.FM
  82. My car died this year. The thing that's great about it: I'm not pouring money into fixing it.
  83. The Winter's Tale at the ASC was absolutely fantastic
  84. Condensing/organizing my grad school materials
  85. The cake my parents arranged for my birthday. I'll never forget the (radioactive) blue frosting.
  86. Jamie xx's In Colour album
  87. Dogs, particularly: Harper, Pansy, Rugby, Tucker, Ajax, and Rocky (R.I.P.)
  88. Sarah Fallon's bowling birthday party
  89. Revisiting beloved shows (The West Wing and 30 Rock mainly)
  90. My slow cooker
  91. Singing and playing for Andrew and Kendra's wedding. What an honor
  92. That steak at their wedding reception was ginormous and delicious
  93. Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
  94. A Bit of Fry and Laurie: Flexibility of Language
  95. Having my Mom, Dad, and bro Dan visit Staunton at the end of the year
  96. Driving to Sheetz on Christmas Day when they arrived in town late at night
  97. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis: Downtown
  98. On the last day of 2015, I FINALLY ate at the Indian buffet in Staunton.
  99. My favorite (new-t0-me) Twitter accounts: Benjamin Dreyer, Duchess Goldblatt, and Paraic O'Donnell
  100. There's this sense--I can't quite put my finger on it--but my friends and strangers alike are committed to rolling up their sleeves, doing the work, and spreading gratitude and love. It is work. But I continually see the effort and the kindness online and in person (too many examples to count here). While I may not always respond accordingly, it doesn't go unnoticed and it's often invigorating. It reminds me of the poem "A Brief for the Defense" by Jack Gilbert. We must risk delight.
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QUOTES 12/20/15

12/20/2015

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the INTERVAL INTERVIEWS LYNN NOTTAGE

Are there any other areas of culture that inspire your work? 
Definitely. If you come to my house, it’s sort of wall to wall art, and sometimes I’ll just go into the living room and sit and look at all these fabulous things that artists over the ages have said, and feel inspired and awed and insecure and all of the things you feel when you’re in the presence of people who are quite genius artists. Whenever I begin a play, I always make a soundtrack, and that soundtrack is what I write to for the entire play. So for the beginning of Sweat, I spent like two weeks listening to music and picking songs and placing them where I wanted them in the order, and that’s what I wrote the play to. I did the same for By the Way, Meet Vera Stark and Intimate Apparel , and every play. That’s the foundation that I build from.

Do you use music that’s all from your iTunes library and songs that you know evoke certain things for you? Or do you research the music that you want to use and search for brand new things?
It’s both things. Sometimes they’re songs that are my favorites in the iTunes library, but for others, I have to go in search of them. For Sweat, because it takes place in a part of the country that I don’t live in and it’s a group of people that are very different from myself, I thought about what would they be listening to and what excites them and what are my characters’ favorite tunes, and I try and put those on my soundtrack. So some of the music may be music that’s really different than my favorites, but they’re evocative of the mood of the piece or the place where the characters are in their lives.



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WEB POETS' SOCIETY: NEW BREED SUCCEEDS IN TAKING VERSE VIRAL
(New York Times)

Seven years ago, Mr. Gregson, 34, was scraping by as a freelance copywriter, churning out descriptions of exercise equipment, hair products and medical imaging devices. Now, thanks to his 560,000 Instagram and Tumblr followers, he has become the literary equivalent of a unicorn: a best-selling celebrity poet.

...their appeal lies in the unpolished flavor of their verses, which often read as if they were ripped from the pages of a diary. And their poems are reaching hundreds of thousands of readers, attracting the attention of literary agents, editors and publishers, and overturning poetry’s longstanding reputation as a lofty art form with limited popular appeal.
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