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THINGS I WATCHED

Shows/Series

Suspicious Partner
If You Wish Upon Me
Hit The Spot
Between Us
Oh My Assistant
Life On The Line
Shooting Stars
Choco Milkshake
Cherry Blossoms After Winter
Alchemy Of Souls 1+2
My Name
Happiness
Because This Is My First Life
My School President
The Eclipse
All The Liquors
Roommates Of Poongduck 304
Our Dating Sim
Shoulder To Cry On
Behind Cut
My Sweet Dear
Star In My Mind
Where Your Eyes Linger
Bed Friend
Plus & Minus
Love To Hate U
Class
Fame Game
Made In Heaven S1
Cherry Magic
I Cannot Reach You
Young Royals S2
Work Later, Drink Now S2
Bridgerton S2
My Demon (ongoing)
Welcome to Samdal-ri (ongoing)

Movie/Single episode shows

Knives Out
Glass Onion
Pathaan
Phonebhoot
Bhool Bhulaiyya 2
Monica O My Darling
An Action Hero
Andhadun
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Jawan
Fast X
Across The Spiderverse
Kathal
Lust Stories 2
Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning
Joyland
Past Lives

Variety/Docu

Jinny’s Kitchen
I Live Alone
Youth Mt Actors Retreat
BTS Memories Of 2020, 2021
Road To D Day
Moneuments: Beyond The Star Docu (ongoing)
Jack In The Box

Youtube Channels/Series

ReacttotheK/Classical Musicians React Series
Channel Fullmoon
Suchwita
Soy ASMR
Seoul Walker
Bam’s House
Film Companion
Sucharita Tyagi
Prashasti Singh
W Magazine ASMR Series
Vogue Beauty Secrets
Ddeun Ddeun
Dingo music
We are Yuvaa
The Bombay Journey on Mashable India
Goodnight Moon

THINGS I READ

Books - Completed

Countries of the Body - Tishani Doshi
If They Come For Us - Fatimah Asghar
TRC Book 1 to 4 Reread
How I Became A Tree - Sumana Roy
Human Acts - Han Kang
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 When My Brother Was an Aztec - Cho Namjoo
Run for the Shadows - Sridala Swami
The White Book - Han Kang
I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki - Baek Sehee (audiobook)
Convenience Store - Sayaka Murata (audiobook)
Love without a story - Arundhathi Subramaniam
In Love: A Me - Amy Bloom
Thinking with Ghalib - Poetry for a New Generation - Anjum Altaf, Amit Basole
This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
I'd Rather Be Reading - Anne Bogel (audiobook)
One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese verse - Fujiwara no Teika, Peter Macmillan
Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner (audiobook)
From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada - Sudha Bharadwaj
I Am a Season That Does Not Exist in the World - Kim Kyung Ju
Time Pieces: A Whistle-stop Tour of Ancient India - Nayanjyot Lahiri (audiobook)

Yet to finish
The Book of Gold Leaves - Mirza Waheed
The Veiled Suite - Agha Shahid Ali
Gaza Writes Back - Refaat Alareer (audiobook)
Jonahwale - Ranjit Hoskote
Devotions - Mary Oliver
My Poetry, My Voice: An Anthology of English, Karbi and Assamese Poems

Manga

Ongoing

Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
Blue Sky Complex - Ichikawa Kei
Perfect Buddy - Lash, Daki

Essays, Interviews, Comics, etc

In This Essay I Will: On Distraction by David Schurman Wallace - The Paris Review
Haunted by Brendan Stephens and Edie Quinn - Rumpus
making and keeping friends by avabear - substack
Behind the Byline with Ada Limón - NE Review
Jenny Holzer said... by Eleanor Hsieh - substack
Four Endings to a Grindr Romance by Mark Bessen - Taco Bell Quarterly
The Poem is Second, Living is First: An Interview with Tim Z. Hernandez - Rumpus
RM stays truthful to every moment - Vogue Korea
Lost and Found: A Newly Resurfaced Poem by the Late Mark Strand - The New Yorker
Interview with Author and US Poet Laureate Ada Limón - Little Infinite


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: 30, 790 minutes

Top Artists: ENHYPEN, EXO, BTS, Fall Out Boy, Agust D

Top Songs: D Day – Agust D, Lonely - RM, Four Seasons - Taeyeon, Still With You - Jungkook, Smoke Sprite – Soyoon ft. RM

Top Genres: K-pop, Modern Bollywood, Pop, K-Indie, Rock

Top Albums

Tier 1:

So Much (For) Stardust – Fall Out Boy
This Is Why- Paramore
D-Day – Agust D
EXIST - EXO
Unreal Unearth - Hozier
Alchemy of Souls Season 2: Light and Shadow OST

Tier 2:

Circle - ONEW
Will Anybody Ever Love Me? – Sufjan Stevens
The Name Chapter: FREEFALL – TOMORROW X TOGETHER
Spider-man: Across The Spiderverse OST
Barbie OST
My Demon OST (ongoing)

Top EPs

Cabin Fever - PURPLE KISS
FACE - Jimin
READY TO BE - TWICE
DARK BLOOD - ENHYPEN
Get Up - NewJeans
Layover - V
Polaris - CHEN
ZONE - JIHYO
TEENFRESH - STAYC
Expectation – D.O.
I’VE MINE - IVE
Guilty - TAEMIN
Last Winter - HEIZE



Top Singles/ Title Tracks

Killer - Key
Fighting - BSS ft. Lee Youngji
Love Me Like This - NMIXX
KNOCK - LEE CHAEYEON
Giddy – Kep1er
Don’t ever say love me - Colde ft. RM
INVITATION - JUNNY ft. Gaeko
Seven - Jungkook ft. Latto
blessing in disguise - HUH YUNJIN
Top or Cliff - Kim Sejeong
Howl - CHUU
Screen Time - EPIK HIGH ft. HOSHI
Stranger - Heize ft. 10cm

New Finds

youra
Choi Yuree
Accusefive
Omar Apollo
Heo Hoy Kyung
Blanks
J.una
Sabrina Carpenter

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