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Year in Lists: 2022

Goodbye, 2022! You were very good to me, though I had kind of a flop year in terms of media consumption. I am also usually fashionably late to things. Nevertheless, here are some lists of things I enjoyed that came out this year.

Movies and Film

- Fire of Love 
- Cha Cha Real Smooth 
- Everything Everywhere All at Once 
- RRR
- Fire Island
Television (new episodes this year)

- Ziwe (Showtime)
- Wednesday (Netflix)
- Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area (Netflix)
- Succession (HBO)
- Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend (Netflix)
- RuPaul's Drag Race (VH1)
- The Rehearsal (HBO) 
Albums

- The Loneliest Time - Carly Rae Jepsen
- Being Funny in a Foreign Language - The 1975
- Hold the Girl - Rina Sawayama
- Renaissance - Beyoncé
- Midnights - Taylor Swift
- Crash - Charli XCX
- SOS - SZA
Podcasts/Webseries

- Modern Love (New York Times)
- Las Culturistas (Big Money Players & iHeartPodcasts)
- 5-4 (Prologue Projects)
- Anything Goes with Emma Chamberlin (Ramble)

- Make Some Noise (Dropout)
- Game Changer (Dropout)

- Never Too Small (YouTube)

A few lists full of non-media items: Fight me!

Overrated in 2022:

- The word "vibes" 
- Cow milk
- Two-factor authentication (I'd rather get hacked)
- Stress culture 
- FOMO 
- Living in fear of “The Big One” (this is just for me)
Underrated in 2022:

- Using Venmo like social media
- Trader Joe’s Taiwanese Green Onion Pancakes (sorry these are so good)
- Going to restaurants alone
- Sitting on a bench in the sun with no other stimuli
- Juice... especially orange juice
- Dressing up for things for the sake of it
- Using the US Postal Service recreationally (huge advocate)
- Facetiming your sisters and playing Splatoon 3 together (when possible)
Forecasts for 2023:

- Demise of Facebook (I hope) 
- Demise of NFTs (I hope)
- Legwarmers become mainstream fashion
- Resurgence of wired earbuds and headphones
- Elon Musk appears in a Marvel movie
- Teenagers on TikTok mobilize to solve a major crime
And?
- Everyone reading this has a great year 🙂

Untitled (In Winter)

 Last year around this time it was blueish and wet,
 the same forks in the same rough road. The sun 
 is soft now, frugal with light. If I could jar it I might
 grow whole, more humming, more snap! But no,
 the walk home is like crying on a train: all for show.
 All now thinking about suffocating in a cave,
 a drawer, a warm car… must be so miserable
 to seize your own breath, how the tongue can find
 nothing to draw on, nothing moving and supple
 like memory. These leaps are no accident, there are 
 bright months, faint months, lovely months, months pulled taut.
 There are weeds on every corner and flowers
 on every other. Is there a right time to make a friend?
 Some new destination to move slowly toward?
 We watch deciduous trees then become them,
 mistaking empty with sleep and briefly with red.

Five Course Meal

 A spoon. Then a flashback to July 
 because we grow berries here
 in-house and vertical. All year, jam
 and those gritty seeds in your teeth
  
 All the words babies can't say: 
 cinnamon, lox, sashimi, brussels sprouts and butternut,
 a real aerobics of the tongue and breath,
 hors d'oeuvres, sous vide, leftovers, maybe.
  
 Here come the ferns and earthy things
 like garlic stems and perilla, but elevated
 to your vocabulary. It's foreign, sure, 
 but we bring in fresh air from the seas.
  
 Something to make you feel full and alive,
 dairy or melons or sourdough. Thank the chef
 for this microdose of remorse, eating is pain
 and at once necessary. Have you heard of pâté.
  
 A bite of cake and we play you a song.
 You think of years past and how your hands 
 and jaw worked together once, those days 
 full of toil and excess. The piano closes.