I turned one year older (yay me!) and I have decided to share some facts that might have skipped you, my loyal readers, by. The only criteria I have tried to limit myself to is nothing before my birth year. Here they are:
1. Blue Lips by ScHoolBoy Q was the best rap album released in 2024 and it is a shame it did not get the recognition it deserved.
2. Dancing on my Own and Loud Places are still, and will always be perfect pieces of art.
3. I probably will not re-watch Synecdoche, New York, because of how it sits in my mind.
4. Mickey Rourke in TheWrestler gave the greatest performance of the 2000s.
5. We Major by Kanye West MIGHT be his best song.
6. Secret Wars (Jonathan Hickman) is the greatest Marvel event ever. The build-ups (also by Jonathan Hickman) are the best Fantastic Four and Avengers runs in a while.
7. Stoned on Ocean by Curren$y and All Gold Everything by Trinidad James contain their (and to a very large extent, mine) best lines - my pinky ring just called your chick a bitch and popped a molly I'm sweating
8. Crushed Glass by Freddie Gibbs and Milladelphia by Meek Mill, when juxtaposed against each other are mirror opposites of prison leaving songs and are both complementary and contradictory. (my thoughts)
9. I don't love Not Like Us.
10. To Pimp a Butterfly is Kendrick Lamar's magnum opus.
11. A WrittenTestimony isn't a perfect Jay Electronica album, but it's one of the best rap albums in the past 10 years, while Act II: The Patents of Nobility (The Turn) is a perfect Jay Electronica album especially since it wasn't finished, as who is Jay Electronica if not someone that would always leave us wanting more?(my Jay Electronica album reviews)
12. The Fast and Furious team missed a golden chance in honouring Paul Walker during the naming of Dominic Torretto’s son.
13. The MCU should have ended with Avengers: Endgame and then switched to another universe and started another story completely.
14. Zack Snyders DC Trilogy was great, even though it had it's flaws, but as a vision, it was perfect.
15. I haven't watched any of the old Star Trek series, but Star Trek: Discovery is a fucking masterpiece, and Michael Burnham is my baby.
16. Reservation Dogs is what slice of life is meant to be.
17. In Style by Taylor Swift, she should have said bird instead of girl.
18. The Blue Print is a better Jay-Z album than Reasonable Doubt, but Reasonable Doubt is a hungrier album, and it was a necessary beginning for him.
19. I respect Illmatic, but I don't love it.
20. Ghostface Killah is a tough rapper to get into, but once you understand what he is saying, you are liable to get your mind blown.
21. Atlanta had at least 3 of the best episodes of TV produced in the last decade - Teddy Perkins, The Goof Who Sat By the Door, and Born 2 Die (the D'angelo episode). There are definitely other spectacular episodes but I will limit it to these three for now. Fucking insane show.
22. Tom King's Batman is definitely not perfect but it is the most nuanced take on him in a while.
23. The X-Men’s Krakoa era didn't have enough highs, but those it had (Jonathan Hickman's X-Men and Giant Sized X-Men, Al Ewing's X-Men Red and Benjamin Percy's Wolverine and X-Force) were fucking high and among the best things written about the X-Men in recent years.
24. Fisherrr remix by Cash Cobain, Bay Swag and Ice Spice, is quite possibly the funnest song I've heard in a very very very long time.
25. Asake wasted an opportunity by not having the Lighthouse Family end Sunshine with a line from Ocean Drive, similar to what Kanye West did on Famous. Notwithstanding, it's still his best song
26. Kanye West's first 8 albums (College Dropout, Late Registration, Graduation, 808s & Heartbreak, MyBeautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Watch The Throne, Yeezus and Life of Pablo) are all masterpieces that deserve repeated listening. His discography is actually fucking insane.
27. The Perks of Being a Wallflower touched me deeply. Plus it introduced me to Heroes by David Bowie.
28. The spirit of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is alive and well in There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men and the fact that they were released in the same year is astounding.
29. The Dark Knight Trilogy by Christopher Nolan are a perfect set of films. I high-key love the bombastic action of The Dark Knight Rises. It's Batman.
30. The MCU has done such a good job of casting (with a few exceptions) that they have become their own biggest opp. It's ironic, but also a testament to their great taste in the beginning.
31. Leslie Knope and Liz Lemon are probably my two favourite TV comedy characters. It hurts me deeply that they never crossed over despite the actresses being really good friends in real life.
32. I love the twitter reviews of Hideo Kojima. Brilliant and effective
33. Wild that Jessica Williams has starred in two great love stories of the last decade - Entergalactic and the second season of Love Life.
34. I began to like Black Panther when I read The Man Without Fear and The Most Dangerous Man Alive by David Liss. I loved Black Panther when I read Ta-Nehisi Coates fifty issue run, which by the way is perfect (my Ta-Nehisi Coates Black Panther review).
Thank you for reading and agreeing.
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