Weekly newsletter: Favorite music and movies of 2018 (so far)

This week: favorite movies, TV, and music from the past six months... View this email in your browser Hey y'all, Here's some ear and eye candy I've enjoyed in the first half of this year:  Movies I actually went out of my way to see in the theater (good calls): Black Panther and Phantom Thread.   TV: Parts Unknown, The Good Place, Detectorists, Atlanta, Grand Designs, and Billions.   Everything directed by Taika Waititi: What We Do In the Shadows, Hunt for The Wilderpeople, Boy, and heck, I don't even like comic book movies and I enjoyed Thor: Ragnarok.   Other movies I liked: Faces Places, Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled, The Zen Diaries of Gary Shandling, and Coco.   Comedy: Ali Wong's Netflix specials Baby Cobra and Hard Knock Wife, Nacho Libre (I know I know), and the first hour of Girls Trip.   My record of the year so far: Parquet Courts' Wide Awake! Can't stop listening.   Favorite morning/writing music: harpist Mary Lattimore's dreamy album, Hundreds of Days.   Classical: KMFA, Jonny Greenwood's score for Phantom Thread, the string quartets of Debussy and Ravel, and the Balanescu Quartet's Possessed.   Reissues: the 50th anniversary remix of Sgt. Pepper's and the deluxe edition of Purple Rain. (The B-sides are better than most singles from other artists.)   Favorite songs: my 2018 playlist on Spotify. Thanks for reading! If you like this newsletter and want to support it, forward it to a friend, buy a book, or tweet me some love. If you're seeing this newsletter for the first time, you can subscribe here. xoxo,  Austin PS. Top image is the German musician Conrad Schnitzler, snapped from the documentary, Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution. Austin Kleon is the author of Steal Like An Artist and other books. Subscribe to this newsletter   Copyright © 2018 Austin Kleon, All rights reserved. My mailing address is: Austin Kleon 4301 W. William Cannon Dr. Suite B 150 #241 Austin, TX 78749 You're getting this email because you signed up for it at austinkleon.com. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. Amazon Affiliate links offset the cost of sending these missives. (And pay for diapers.)