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Movie: Fall Guy

Show: Mr&Mrs Smith

Book: Midnight in Chernobyl

Album: Big Ideas, Remi Wolf

Live show: Switchfoot 20th anniversary

Play: Does going to see Wicked count?

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Seeing Wicked totally counts! That Switchfoot concert must have been so amazing. Did you feel synergy with your teenage self?

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Great idea! Can't wait to check out Arcs.

Movie- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Book- All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess (Becca Rothfeld)

Music- Only God Was Above Us, Vampire Weekend

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I enjoyed Furiosa way more than I thought I would. The way they linked its conclusion explicitly to Fury Road had me wondering about Mad Max mythopoesis for weeks. Like does Furiosa require that we reinterpret Fury Road, or is Furiosa only drawing out what was already present?

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Movie - I love Anora for a new film, but Titane was my overall fav.

Show- Twin peaks. (first time watching it and wow how did I sleep on this for so long?!)

book: the unbearable lightness of being. Broke my heart and also healed it somehow.

runner up would be Anna Karinina.

Album: Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell

Live show: Holy fuck! what a show. Literally one of the best shows ive ever seen live.

Play: well I read Carmen for the first time. does that count?

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Oh man, I got to see HF! play once a while back and it was mind blowing. So cool to see that music happening right in front of me

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Movie: Goodfellas (from this year My Old Ass)

Book: Ducks by Kate Beaton

Concert: Joel Plaskett

Play: Comedy of Errors at the Globe

Music: Eliza Rhinelander - The Good Old Days EP

Boardgame: Wyrmspan

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Looks like we'll need to buy a copy of Wyrmspan.

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No board games this year! And no plays! Sad!

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Music: First Always by Jonathan McReynolds. His voice at a live concert is the one of the most beautiful sounds I have heard come from a human being. He really shows off in this track in a playful, spiritual way.

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Mmmmmmm.

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Favorite Book: Hmmmmmm too many to count too personal imma hold on to that one

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Yeah, I get you on this.

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Favorite Film: Origin from Ava Duvernay - made me sob and rerouted the course of life. a truly powerful event

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Film? Dune: Part 2 (released in 2024); To Kill a Tiger (saw in 2024)

Book? Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Music? 'Chandler' by Wyatt C. Louis

Show? Mr. & Mrs. Smith!

Concert? Alvvays at MacEwan Hall, Calgary

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