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January 26: Secrets of the Sith – Play an album with a hidden track Bloc Party - Silent Alarm This now 20-year-old album has a hidden song, "Every Time is the Last Time," in the pregap before the the first track of the CD.

January 25: It’s my birthday, surprise me! The Folk Implosion - Dare to be Surprised Happy belated birthday! Here a surprising album.

As a person with a degree in Spanish American literature raised in the conservative Mormon culture, I've actually heard that one a few times before, usually from people who don't speak a second language and are proud of it.

After breezing through the first two George Smiley books, I'm taking a break from sad British spies for a book about a sad Korean writer. (In English, the title is We Do Not Part.)

The Arrival is great in a bad sci fi thriller kinda way. Sheen sheens it up.

My wife is from Utah, and she never even heard a mention of it growing up, in school or otherwise.

Mountain Meadows was one of those things they somehow completely jumped over when singing the praise of "our pioneer forbears" in Sunday School growing up... Only learned about it as an adult when I started reading the kind of books the leaders labeled as "anti-Mormon."

Lady Bird 2: Sacramento Strikes Back

January 24: A Bounty Hunter’s Creed – Pick a song with a cool, dangerous edge. Grails - Anches En Maat Grails often sound cool and quietly menacing to me...

January 23: The Droids’ Playlist – Electronic day! Sparkle Division - Foxy

January 22: Kyber Crystals – Play something that was hard to find. Muse - Origin of Symmetry Back when this came out, it wasn't released in the US until several years after its UK release. On the internet circa 2002, it wasn't quite so easy to get things shipped overseas, but I remember...

January 21: The Rise of Skywalker – Choose a triumphant or hopeful track. Yo La Tengo - Painful For the hopeful opener, "Big Day Coming."

January 20: The Ewok Celebration – It’s a party! Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense Party at my house! Listening to and watching this one on the TV with the speakers turned loud thanks to a wonderful PIFsgiving miracle from @lonestarlahr .

Gattaca was a movie high school me saw in the the theater then told everyone to go see, only to have a few friends decide I like to recommend boring movies.

I was gonna say it's an example of people learning some of the wrong lessons from Avatar... but I'm not sure what the right lessons from Avatar would be...

"He was so full of it he could have been the universal donor for life-saving fecal transplants." (A line from a little sci-fi noir story I was writing a while back that this conversation reminded me of...)

I wanna see movies of my dreeeeeeee-eeeee-eeeeaaammmms. Edit: I "played" this song in my head soooo many times during the two years I was on a Mormon mission and wasn't allowed to listen to music.