Weekend Entertainment: REC ME THINGS

[alexiscartwheel]

Heather and I have been trying (and failing) to come up with something incredibly witty and original for the weekend DE. Instead, I offer you an oldie but goodie.

What awesome things are you reading, watching, and listening to that the rest of us should know about?

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[2goodarms]

Can I be the first to jump in with the obvious?

HAMILTON. HAMILTON HAMILTON HAMILTON. Yes, everybody and their dog's been talking about it, but it really is that good, and if it weren't for that I would be slightly embarrassed over how I've basically been listening to nothing but the cast album for two weeks straight.

(It's also where I got the linktext for Curtis' last OOM. The rest of the song doesn't fit at all, but those two lines were too good to pass up.)

Besides that: I read Station Eleven recently, which is such a beautiful, quietly devastating post-apocalyptic story, and...I haven't actually been watching a lot of stuff! Brooklyn Nine-Nine's back? That's pretty sweet.

[alexiscartwheel]

HAMILTON! I've also been listening to the cast album obsessively and dreaming of having enough money to go see the show. My roommate has taken to laughing at me every time she walks by my room and notices me still listening to it. XD

I've heard really good things about Station Eleven. One of these days I'll finally get around to reading it.

[bcgphoenix]

Not gonna lie, even with the strong possibility that I'll get furloughed in December, a hefty helping of post-DragonCon expenses, and all my other monthly bills? I'm probably gonna splurge on tickets to a January show. I just. HAMILTON. I will make my budget work somehow! And I want to see this particular cast so, so badly before they're scattered to the Broadway winds.

-- oh and bjornwilde's comment about podcasts made me remember! I'm also listening to Limetown. It's been the perfect lead-up to Halloween so far; think Serial with a ghost story bent.

[dejah_thoris]

Okay I'm in for Limetown. I loved Serial. Also, if you're into podcasts, I am crazy for Criminal. And the fifth season of You Must Remember This was a detailed breakdown of the events leading up to and surrounding the Tate-La Bianca murders.

[bcgphoenix]

Ooooh. I'll check those out next time I'm on a true crime kick! They come in waves, usually when it's midnight and I fall down a Wikipedia rabbit hole. *sheepish*

I admit Serial occupies a really weird space for me, because I grew up not far from Baltimore and recognized pretty much every big landmark that came up. (Security Boulevard, where the Best Buy's located? Drove down it semi-regularly and heard its name in every single radio traffic report. Patapsco State Park? Part of it backed right up against my childhood home.) It added an extra unsettling layer to a lot of the fandom parlance that started getting chucked around by the show's end. But it was some damn fine storytelling, and I'm grateful it shed some light on how fucked-up our judicial system gets.

[dejah_thoris]

I'm always on a true crime kick, it seems.

I felt the same way you do about Serial with the You Must Remember This series. I went to college in LA. I must have driven a few blocks away from the La Bianca house a thousand times. I've been up to where Spahn Ranch used to be. I had friends that lived a quarter mile from where the Tate house was. Just absolutely creeps me out, but it's our history. It shapes the way Los Angeles moves to this day.

Criminal is less about true crime and more about the idea of the Social Contract. Who defines it, why it's defined that way, what happens to the people who break it, what happens when someone thinks it's been broken. I would say it's tangentially true crime. The one I always tell people they need to here is He's Neutral, which is the story of how a garden statue changed the criminal nature of a whole neighborhood. It's wonderful listening and it's only ~15 minutes long.

[no_more_hiding]

Those sound very tempting.

[onceaviking]

That was really disorienting, seeing as how Hamilton to me is a Swedish James Bond-like character, played by Mikael Persbrandt in a movie based in the books by Jan Guilleau.

Cast album? What what?

But then it all made sense.

[the_lioness]

I finally gave up this week and downloaded the album. Now I'm hooked. *facepalms*

I really liked Station Eleven!

I also really like Brooklyn Nine-Nine! I can not wait for a certain someone to guest star.

*gives a thumbs up this entire comment* :D

[alexiscartwheel]

ONE OF US. ONE OF US. ONE OF US.

[alexiscartwheel]

Okay a few things from me that aren't just Hamilton. (HAMILTON!)

BOOKS: Rainbow Rowell's newest book Carry On. Simon and Baz started as characters in the book-within-a-book in Fangirl, but now they've got a whole book to themselves. It's a really great fantasy in it's own right, and an especially great read for Harry Potter lovers. As I've come to expect from Rainbow Rowell, there's a great mix of romance and humor.

And another good one for fantasy readers, Patrick Ness's The Rest of Us Just Live Here, starring the not-Chosen Ones of a Sunnydale-like town in the Pacific Northwest. The hilarious chapter titles follow the exploits of the local special snowflakes, while the story itself focuses on some very relatable teen problems. But also the world might end.

TV: I just finished the third season of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, which is currently available on Netflix in the U.S. Do you like lady detectives, 1920s fashions, Australia, and tons of UST? Watch it for the murders, watch it to shout NOW KISS at Phryne and Jack several times each episode.

[bjornwilde]

I love Miss Fisher and her found family. I seriously need to get back to the series. =)

[1nv1nc1ble]

There's a movie in the works, I hear.

[alexiscartwheel]

I really hope so, because THAT ENDING.

[maid_of_tarth]

Thirding Phryne Fisher! It's some really excellent 1920s period fun, and Phryne is one of the most entertaining lady detectives ever. Also the UST is so wonderful.

[alexiscartwheel]

Oh! How could I forget!

WEBCOMIC (of dooooom): Check Please! starring Georgian figure-skater turned college hockey player Bitty, who makes pies appear out of thin air, super serious Canadian hockey robot Jack Zimmermann, who is totes not in love with Bitty, eh, and their ridiculous teammates. Check Please has reintroduced me to the pain of a small fandom. I want to read ALL THE FIC... and unfortunately that doesn't take very long, cause there isn't much.

[the_lioness]

Hamilton. Also Hamilton with the Hamilton Hamilton in the Hamilton!

In conclusion: Hamilton.


(P.S. YES. NOW KISS.)

[lady_mary]

WHAT'S YOUR NAME, MAN?

[bcgphoenix]

herCULES MULLIGAN!!!!!!





I mean.

[alexiscartwheel]

XD

[harryhotspur]

I've just finished The Paying Guests, and now I'm embarking on an epic Sarah Waters reread. Aaaand binging The X-Files.

[i_am_your_host]

Sarah Waters my faaaaaave.

[harryhotspur]

She's soooo goooooood

[i_am_your_host]

I met her twice at some book signings and she is also adoooooorable.

[freedom_is_grey]

Aaaaah I just snagged a copy of The Paying Guests from the bookstore. *excited*

[livinginmyglass]

It's good! It's not my favorite, I don't think, but I definitely stayed up waaay too late last night to finish it.

[bjornwilde]

Podcasts: Lore (everything you didn't know you needed to know about creepy or spooky things), The Black Tapes (X-files-esk faux reality journalist story without aliens...so far), and Tanis (made by the same people as The Black Tapes but hunting for a mythological city).

Books: I was blown away by NK Jemisin's The 5th Season, Kameron Hurley's God's War, and Paulo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker.

TV: Loving Witch Craft Works (anime), Star Wars Rebels, and Gotham.

[tlvop]

Oooh, podcasts.

[bjornwilde]

They're great and not more than 12 episodes for now. Each is about 40 min.

[tlvop]

Awesome! I'll download a few of Lore -- I'm being productive today, so I should avoid new canons, haha.

[ceitfianna]

Since I currently have the Netflix queue to myself, I've been watching lots of things. Rewatching the first seasons of The Flash, which is a show that makes me happy, slowly watching the third season of Miss Fisher, another great show and also watching Jane the Virgin which works really well.

In terms of books, all my holds came in today and yesterday, so I have Carry On and then newest Stroud book. I'm in the midst of a great romance from one of my favorite authors; Julie Anne Long and The Steerswoman that I'm liking.

[have_no_mercy]

Scream Queens is a hoot if you like horror/comedy.

[onceaviking]

Useless rec: I'm reading an exploration of Norse mythology reimagined without the Christian overlay/framework that Sture Sturlasson added when he wrote Edda. In Danish. Sorry ...

And when I say 'read' I mean that occasionally I manage a page or so.

[i_am_your_host]

Darn, I would love to read a translation.

[misslucyjane]

Movies: Crimson Peak, The Martian

TV: ...I'm rewatching Hannibal a lot.

Books: My TBR pile just keeps growing, y'all.

Podcasts: Lore, Limetown, The Black Tapes, Anatomy of a Movie, History of English, Spontaneanation, I Was There Too, Superego, Hello from the Magic Tavern, The Adventure Zone, You Must Remember This, Scriptnotes, Black List Table Reads, Switching on Pop...

I really like podcasts.