April Showers and the Media I Consumed

Movies

21 Jump Street- Lord, Miller - 4/5 stars - rewatched

Nickel Boys - RaMell Ross - 5/5 stars - genuinely one of the most interesting movies I have seen especially after reading the novel. I thin that this is one movie everyone should see - it is a historical fiction about Dozier School for Boys, a reform school in FL that was opened from 1900-2011 that had several allegations against them of violence. Further, the movie itself it shot in first-person and it is so interesting! Everybody go watch it now or read the book or look up Dozier.

Oliver & Company - Scribner -3.5/5 stars

Tarzan - Buck, Lima - 4/5 stars - banger soundtrack

The Tempest - Julie Taymor - 1.5/5 stars - rewatched - holy moly y’all I love Taymor and a lot of the actors in this movie, but truly what is going on and I had to rewatch it for Shakespeare call me Ariel the way I want to be free of this movie

Sita Sings the Blues - Nina Paley - .5/5 - I am normally generous with my rankings but no - it’s interesting way to tell the story of the Ramayana, but from a terf no thank you

Wild Things - McNaughton- 2/5

Books & Plays

Ghostroots: Stories - Pemi Aguda - 3/5 stars

The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose - R.K. Narayan - 3/5 stars

Twelfth Night - Will Shakespeare - 3/5 stars - reread

The Tempest. - Will Shakespeare - 3/5 stars - reread

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World - Robin Wall Kimmerer - 5/5 stars - a lovely reminder about doing things out of generosity

Music

Noah Kahan’s new album - The Great Divide - current favs: Downfall and Dashboard

Drop Dead - Olivia Rodrigo

Homewrecker - Sombr

Dance No More - Harry Styles

Music for a Sushi Resturant - Harry Styles

Tv Shows

Still on my Survivor 50 grind

I rewatched “I am not ok with this” and still mourning it getting canceled