2022 media wrapped

[deadwine]

Media roundup of all the content I consumed this year barring fanart and everything I’ve forgotten about.

THINGS I WATCHED

Shows/Series

Starstruck S1

Bad Buddy
Tomorrow
My Liberation Notes
Twenty Five, Twenty One
Mismatched S1 & 2

Wednesday
Business Proposal
Guilty Minds
Modern Love S1
Inside Job S1
Harry & Meghan
My Love Mix-Up
Old Fashioned Cupcake
Given
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku
Young Royals S1
Start-Up
Uncoupled
Feel Good
Heartstopper
To My Star S1&2
Run On
Extraordinary Attorney Woo
Masterchef Australia Season 14
The Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives S1&2
Indian Matchmaking S1
Miss Americana
Work Later, Drink Now S1

Movie/Single episode shows

Love and Leashes
Broker
Darlings
Knives Out
Glass Onion
Plan A Plan B
Happiest Season
Something From Tiffany's
Venom
Badhaai Do
Dongri Danger (Stand Up)

Variety

Amazing Saturday/Nolto/Doremi Market

I Live Alone

Run BTS
In The Soop 2 BTS

Youtube

Channels

ReacttotheK/Classical Musicians React Series

Jihyunkkung

Nebom

Zoe’s

HANSE

MMTG

Channel Fullmoon

Soy ASMR

Seoul Walker
No Prepare/Lee Youngji channel

Live Clips and miscellaneous

RM Live in New York @ Dia Beacon
RM 'Indigo' Album Magazine Film
진 (Jin) 'The Astronaut' (with Coldplay) @ Coldplay’s Music Of The Spheres Tour in Buenos Aires
SEULGI 슬기 '28 Reasons' Performance Video
Moon Byul - DAY6 'Congratulations'
EXID Killing Voice
Epik High - Here + Prequel LIVE
WOOZI - 'Ruby' Band Live Session
RM of BTS: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
[THE 8 Contemporary ART] THE 8 - 深渊 (Abyss)
NAYEON(나연) 'POP!' Studio Choom
헤이즈(Heize) - '헤픈 우연 (HAPPEN)' Live Performance at 고려대 (Korea Uni) 220527

THINGS I READ

Books

Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao
Out of Syllabus - Sumana Roy
Calling a Wolf a Wolf - Kaveh Akbar
When My Brother Was an Aztec - Natalie Diaz
A Cruelty Special to Our Species - Emily Jungmin Yoon Give Us This Day A Feast Of Flesh - N.D. Rajkumar
Best American Poetry 2017 (The Best American Poetry series) - edited by David Lehman

Planter Raj to Swaraj: Freedom Struggle & Electoral Politics in Assam 1826-1947 - Amalendu Guha

The Cilappatikaram: The Tale of an Anklet - translated by R. Parthasarathy

Time Is a Mother - Ocean Vuong
Postcolonial Love Poem - Natalie Diaz
Teething - Megha Rao
Jiya Jale: The Stories of Songs - Nasreen Munni Kabir
OBIT - Victoria Chang
View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems - Wisława Szymborska
Best American Poetry 2018 (The Best American Poetry series) - edited by David Lehman
I Am a Season That Does Not Exist in the World - Kim Kyung Ju

Yet to finish
Human Acts - Han Kang
How I Became A Tree - Sumana Roy
The Book of Gold Leaves - Mirza Waheed
The Veiled Suite - Agha Shahid Ali
Countries of the Body - Tishani Doshi

Manga

Completed

Kieta Hatsukoi - Wataru Hinekure and illustrated - Aruko
Chihayafuru - Yuki Suetsugu
Horimiya - Hero

Ongoing

Given - Natsuki Kizu
Sasaki to Miyano - Harusono Shou
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun

Blue Sky Complex - Ichikawa Kei
Semantic Error - Seo Joori Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku - Fujita

Essays, Interviews, etc

Poet Ocean Vuong sifts through the aftershock of grief in 'Time Is a Mother - NPR
THE PEN TEN: AN INTERVIEW WITH CHEN CHEN - Pen America
Hayley Williams' note on Paramore's discord (September)
The Wonders of Songwriting, Pt. Three (feat. Carly Rae Jepsen) - Object of Sound by Hanif Abdurraqib (podcast)
The Slowdown Show (podcast)
Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers
Ten Questions for Franny Choi - Poets & Writers

Poetry (Singular pieces)

Not making a list as there are semi-regular updates here.

THINGS I LISTENED TO

Podcasts

The Slowdown

Poetry Unbound

VS
Object of Sound

Poetry Off The Shelf

Music

Spotify Wrapped Stats

Minutes listened: 47, 694 minutes

Top Artists: Taylor Swift, BTS, Epik High, Heize, Pritam

Top Songs: Safar - Arijit Singh, Stay Alive - Jungkook prod. Suga, Renegade - Big Red Machine ft. Taylor Swift, Run BTS - BTS, I Think I Know - Isaac Hong (My Liberation Notes OST)

Top Genres: K-pop, Filmi, Pop, K-indie, Rock

Top Albums

Tier 1:

Indigo - RM
The Loneliest Time - Carly Rae Jepsen
Gunehgar - Divine
Lowlife Princess: Noir - Bibi
Jack in the Box - J-Hope
FOREVER 1 - Girl's Generation
Ichi (壱) - Yuuri
INVU - Taeyeon

Epik High is Here Pt. 2

Tier 2:

Undo - Heize

Midnights - Taylor Swift
Gasoline - Key

Psy 9th
Magic Man - Jackson Wang
Multitude - Stromae
Mood, Sunday - Fromm
[Apocalypse: Save Us] - Dreamcatcher

My Liberation Notes OST
Our Summer OST (havent even seen the show lol)

Top EPs

Pieces - IU
Between 1&2 - TWICE
YOUNG-LUV.COM - STAYC
[REC.] - YUJU
Love Dive - IVE
DICE - Onew
Color - Kwon Eunbi
GOT7 - GOT7
IM NAYEON - Nayeon
28 Reasons - Seulgi
The Reve Festival 2022 Birthday - Red Velvet
Forgive Me - BoA
WHEE- Wheein

Top Singles/ Title Tracks DM - Fromis_9
Ruby - Woozi
Stay Alive - Jungkook prod. Suga
Hai Cheng - The8
Esper - Kwon Eunbi
Underwater - Kwon Eunbi
Move - DNCE
The Foundations of Decay - MCR
But You - iKon
The Story - Kang Daniel
Joy Ride - Kang Daniel
Catch Me In The Air - Rina Sawayama
Attention - New Jeans
Cape - Suzy
The Astronaut - Jin
When I Move - KARA
Cinderella - Seori
Ring The Alarm - KARD
Smartphone - YENA
Alone - Highlight
Nerdy - Purple Kiss
Devil - Max Changmin
Lunatic - Moon Byul
Feeling Like - Pentagon

New Finds

Yellow House
Jonita Gandhi
Heo Hoy Kyung
KZ Tandingan
LITZ
Meg & Dia
Christian Kuria
Yuuri
Moby
Salman Elahi
Radical Face
Rabpit
Anumita Nadesan
Centimillimental
Omoinotake
Hen
Shin Youme
Sway
Younger Hunger
Oohyo
The Volunteers

pb’s personal wrapped playlist

Memorable picks
Bad Buddy, DM, Indigo, OBIT, Postcolonial Love Poem, My Liberation Notes, Iron Widow