Retrospective is a monthly post to rewind all of the happenings, thoughts, and discussions here at thoughts and afterthoughts.
A Rewind Of:
June 2016
Reviews:
But can we just talk about this fucking graph (again)?
Think Aloud/Terrible Protagonist:
#33 – Hype, Negativity, and Reading Books I Know I’ll Dislike
Alternatives:
[Movie Trailers]: The Light Between Oceans
Memes (Top Ten Tuesday):
#111 – Character Archetypes and Their Associated Fragrances
#112 – Anticipated Books During Second Half of 2016
#113 – Favourite 2016 Releases Thus Far
#114 – Conversation Starts Between Readers (or Shit Readers Say)
Miscellaneous:
[Book Haul]: April/May (Spring 2016)
[Awards/Tags]: I Messed Up Tag
[Awards/Tags]: New York Times By The Book Tag
[Make Me Read It Readathon]: Sign Up and Vote
[Book Events]: Simon and Schuster Canada 2016 Fall Preview
Other Feels:
Television (Not a full list of what I watch):
(If you love to talk television, hit me up on Twitter and we can share feels together!)
Big Brother US18: I ACTUALLY HAVEN’T WATCHED IT YET LOL. Good thing is that I’m not keeping track of the spoiler feeds this time around so I really don’t know what’s up in the house other than the knowledge of a few houseguests.
Descendants of the Sun: If you are someone who vouched for this show…we need to have a chat about how/why this show is good. The writing is super cheeseballs.
Game of Thrones S6: LYANNA MORMONT FOR THE IRON THRONE. But seriouslywhyisAryaladystoneheartreincarnate
Hotel Hell S3: Drinking game: every time Gordon Ramsay says “stop it” take a drink.
iZombie S2: Finally finished season 2! I love this show so much.
Orphan Black S4: Can you believe Season 5 is going to be the expected FINAL season? TATIANA FOR EMMY OSCAR EVERYTHING. But really that last episode was all PROTECT COSIMA THE BIGGEST CINNAMON ROLL OF ALL.
Reign S3: Okay, deaths and terrible romances aside, when Mary actually does shit, it’s interesting (e.g. when she’s en-route back to Scotland).
Scream S2: Really hoping the killer is someone who will actually surprise me…
The Mindy Project S4: Still do not ship Jody and Mindy.
Films:
Spotlight: This movie is an explosion of khaki everything. Also it makes me want to be an investigative journalist!
Mr. Right: Why did I watch this film? Anna Kendrick being Anna Kendrick. Otherwise, it was pretty bad.
Captain America: Winter Soldier: The problem watching this film for the first time is that since I already saw the trailer for Civil War, I’m basically spoiled with the knowledge of a certain character. Soooooo.
Music:
(Maroon bolded names link to the track for easy peasy listening)
Instrumental:
Game of Thrones – Light of the Seven: YES…THIS FUCKING SONG. UGH. I bow down to you, Ramin Djawadi.
EDM/Pop:
Jonas Blue – Perfect Strangers (feat. J.P. Cooper): Tropical house dance. That is all.
Martin Jensen – Oops: If you’ve ever played any video game in the 90s, this track is like an homage to it. Straight up robotic sex, no vocal backing.
Cash Cash – Broken Drum (feat. Fitz of Fitz & The Tantrums): A jazzy dance track.
Kapslap – Felt This Good (feat. M. Bronx): Still listening to this song since last month oh my. It is officially summer and I am happy even if the sun continually singes my skin.
Solano – Rise Up (feat. Bitter Kiss, Life in Colour 2016 Anthem): Life in Colour is a musical festival with lots of colour paint. This is the anthem this year.
Alan Walker – Sing Me To Sleep: I love how the music video was filmed in Hong Kong. But if you haven’t listened to Alan Walker’s previous ethereal smash Faded, then here you go.
Attom – Better: Super chill. Super groovy.
Ryos – Where We Are (feat. Karra): I’m electronic music trash.
Afterthoughts:
A great book hauling month. Standard blogging month with the caveat that I’m probably a month behind all of my comments LOL. Damn, I suck.
Cheers,
Joey
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Haha I think the graph you did is so cool. Great wrap up!
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Arya is totally Lady Stoneheart reincarnate! LOL I also don’t see the Jody & Mindy ship. The False Prince looks interesting & that’s one hell of a graph *thumbs up*
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Can we also talk about how Varys went to Dorne and back to Meereen in a disturbingly quick fashion? Or Arya. Or, really, all of the f*cking characters. Do they have airplanes now? The S&S Fall Preview sounds fun.
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I play the Light of the Seven in my phone whenever I need to occasionally blow up someone in my imagination. This music is now my life
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I usually like Sam Rockwell, but … Mr. Right … what even is this film?
But I definitely need to pick up that drinking game for Hotel Hell! Did you watch the Vienna Inn one? Aside from the owners being absolute creeps, it was the first time I wasn’t totally cool with the redesign they did. Of course it looked better, but the hotel had a theme – aka Vienna – and that was TOTALLY gone afterwards!
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LET’S TALK SCREAM 2!
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Big Brother is kind of decent right now. Lots of twists (including three eviction nominees) this time around and no BOTB! 😀 I won’t give any spoilers or anything though since you haven’t been watching or keeping up with them. I actually haven’t been keeping up with spoilers either. I just wait to be surprised during the episodes, lol.
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I find it cool that you plot your ratings into a graph. 😀
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