Never Be Bored Archive
XLI. Come home, the kettle's whistling I Saw The TV Glow, 2024 Jane Schoenbrun movie. Our Wives Under the Sea novel by Julia Armfield; 1899 tv show; Piranesi novel by Susanna Clarke.
XL. In this smoking chaos Devs tv show. Everything Everywhere All At Once 2022 Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert film; Actual Life (April 14 - December 17 2020) by Fred again...; Reality Is Not What It Seems by Carlo Rovelli.
XXXIX. Signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours Cyrano, 2021 Joe Wright film. The Phantom of the Opera, 2004 Joel Schumacher film and Gaston Leroux novel; I Am Easy to Find album by the National; Pride and Prejudice novel by Jane Austen and 2005 Joe Wright film.
XXXVIII. Aye aye, captain Our Flag Means Death, tv show. Black Sails, tv show; Avenue Five tv show; The Princess Bride book by William Goldman and 1987 Rob Reiner movie.
XXXVII. and poems exist; poems, days, death The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander. Alphabet by Inger Christensen, translated by Susanna Nied; The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi; art by Evan M Cohen.
XXXVI. Jewel Beetle The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Collage artwork by Maya Land; The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern; 2020 Autumn de Wilde Emma. film.
XXXV. The Update Edition Sheldon webcomic by Dave Kellett; Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh; WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? by Billie Eilish; Ultralife by Oh Wonder; The Breakfast Club 1985 John Hughes movie; Murder on the Orient Express book by Agatha Christie and 2017 Kenneth Branagh movie; 20020: The Future of College Football by Jon Bois; Wake Up Calls by Cosmo Sheldrake; Serenity 2005 Joss Whedon movie; For the Win by Cory Doctorow; AI Weirdness blog by Janelle Shane; SATURATION III by BROCKHAMPTON; total serene by Gang of Youths; Gone Now by the Bleachers; Crash Course YouTube channel; xkcd webcomic by Randall Munroe; Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo.
XXXIV. This Place Hates You Ninth House book by Leigh Bardugo. Dark tv show; Lovecraft Country tv show; Reservation Dogs tv show.
XXXIII. A Touch of Whimsy The Mysterious Benedict Society books by Trenton Lee Stewart and tv show. Los Espookys tv show; Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency tv show; A Series of Unfortunate Events books by Lemony Snicket.
XXXII. You Can Do It Ted Lasso tv show. Check, Please! webcomic by Ngozi Ukazu; The Good Place tv show; Welcome to Buteaupia Michelle Buteau comedy special.
XXXI. Watch the Master Work Cracking the Cryptic. Ancient Greek Geometry by Nico Disseldorp; Geoguessr with Wilbur Soot; Never Too Small.
XXX. Space Dust Space Sweepers, 2021 Jo Sung-hee film. Typeset in the Future book and essays by Dave Addey; The Mandalorian tv show; Scott Listfield art.
XXIX. Neverbeboredology Connected: The Hidden Science of Everything, documentary show. SciShow YouTube channel; Ologies podcast by Alie Ward; What If? book and webserial by Randall Munroe.
XXVIII. Everywhere except where you're supposed to be Selah and the Spades, 2019 Tayarisha Poe film. Deadly Class tv show; Thoroughbreds, 2017 Cory Finley film; Looking for Alaska, book by John Green and tv show.
XXVII. Let's dance, off the beat Go Farther In Lightness by Gang of Youths. On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden; The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ & Amal by E. K. Weaver; Strange Desire by the Bleachers.
XXVI. Connecting the Dots Homeland by Cory Doctorow; Charlie's Angels, 2019 Elizabeth Banks film; Numb3rs tv show; You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane; Parasite, 2019 Bong Joon-ho film; the chilliad by Molly Of Geography webserial; Westworld tv show; Future Friends album by Superfruit; Dickinson tv show; after-words bookstore in Chicago, IL; webcomic name by Alex Norris; American Gods by Neil Gaiman; GINGER by BROCKHAMPTON; Russian Doll tv show.
XXV. Baby if you love me, won't you please just give me a smile? Straight Up, 2019 James Sweeney film. The Miseducation of Cameron Post, 2018 Desiree Akhavan film; The Half of It, 2020 Alice Wu film; The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo video series.
XXIV. The Family We Made Along the Way The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman and tv show; Digger by Ursula Vernon; Firefly tv show.
XXIII. Something in the sky The Vast of Night, 2019 Andrew Patterson film. The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal; The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick; purple moonlight pages by R.A.P. Ferreira.
XXII. This Might As Well Happen New in Town, John Mulaney comedy special. My Favorite Shapes, Julio Torres comedy special; Palm Springs 2020 Max Barbakow movie; Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency tv show.
XXI. Daisies & Death Midsommar, 2019 Ari Aster film. Hannibal tv show; Perfume by Patrick Süskind; Hozier and Wasteland, Baby! by Hozier.
XX. It's an old song Hadestown musical, music, lyrics, and book by Anaïs Mitchell. Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe; Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard; Ever After 1998 Andy Tennant film and Cinder by Melissa Meyer.
XIX. Looking Forward, Looking Back Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde. Bessie, 2015 Dee Rees film; An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon; Overgrown by Ivy Sole.
XVIII. A+ in Applied Magics Beanstalk by E. Jade Lomax. The Magicians tv show; Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire; The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin.
XVII. It's the End of the World as We Know It and I Feel Fine Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson. Worm by Wildbow; Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman and tv show; The Umbrella Academy tv show.
XVI. Strange and Yet Familiar Elsewhere University by Sam - Charmingly Antiquated. North of Reality by Uel Aramchek; Jenna Barton - Dappermouth art; The How How Much Much and I by Cosmo Sheldrake.
XV. And So On Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak; 17776 by Jon Bois; Poorly Drawn Lines by Reza Farazmand.
XIV. Just you, and me, and this gun Bad Times at the El Royale, 2018 Drew Goddard film; Ex Machina, 2014 Alex Garland film; And Then There Were None mystery novel by Agatha Christie, Knives Out, 2019 Rian Johnson film.
XIII. A Year in Review Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples; Polar 2019 Jonas Åkerlund film; The Imitation Game 2014 Morten Tyldum film; Kingsman: The Secret Service 2014 Matthew Vaughn film; The Hanging Gardens of Beatenberg by Beatenberg; O Human Star by Blue Delliquanti; Lucifer television series; 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami; Carnival Row television series; Chicago Art Book Fair; Romeo + Juliet 1996 Baz Luhrmann film; Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 John Hughes film.
XII. Next! The Neo-Futurist Theater of Chicago, San Francisco, and New York City. A Softer World by Emily Horne and Joey Comeau; Oh Wonder by Oh Wonder; Cut.
XI. The Eye of the Beholder Art Curious podcast. The Victoria and Albert Museum LGBT tours in London, UK; Isms: Understanding Art by Stephen Little; Immersions (Piss Christ) by Andres Serrano, 1987.
X. The Northwestern Edition Helicon Literary & Arts Magazine. The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges and A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck; Smylie Bros & Bar Louie restaurants in Evanston and Chicago, IL; Northwestern a cappella, the Waa Mu show, Bright Star.
IX. To Whom Am I Speaking? Altered Carbon television series. Sense8 television series; Every Day book by David Levithan and 2018 Michael Sucsy movie; Travelers television series.
VIII. Nonlinearity Mr. Nobody, 2009 Jaco Van Dormael film. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut; Arrival, 2016 Denis Villeneuve film; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2004 Michel Gondry film.
VII. All Superheroes Need Therapy Worm webserial by Wildbow. Watchmen comic book by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons; Iron Man 3 2013 Shane Black film; Jessica Jones television series.
VI. The R Smith Edition Parhelion webcomic by R. Smith. Too Like the Lightning novel by Ada Palmer; Worm webserial by Wildbow; Welcome to Night Vale podcast created by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor.
V. Is it better to speak or die? Call Me By Your Name, book by André Aciman, 2017 Luca Guadagnino film. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller; Carol, 2015 Todd Haynes film; Swan Lake, Matthew Bourne's 1995 staging.
IV. Non je ne regrette rien Thoroughbreds, 2017 Cory Finley film. A Simple Favor, 2018 Paul Feig film; Kaleidoscopes EP by Transviolet; dont smile at me EP by Billie Eilish.
III. On Computability The Annotated Turning: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine by Charles Petzold. The Code Book by Simon Singh; Project Euler; Love and Math by Edward Frenkel.
II. Floor It Baby Driver, 2017 Edgar Wright film. Ocean's 8, 2018 Gary Ross film; travel posters by Alex Asfour; short animated films Electrocop by Corentin Yvergniaux and Voltige by Léo Brunel.
I. Really Big Worms Dune by Frank Herbert, science fiction novel. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card; Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer; Drive by Dave Kellett.
Never Be Bored is a recommendation blog documenting my journey through my never-ending queue. For each thing I like, I'm recommending things to go with it based on similar themes—not just books for book posts or movies for movie posts, but music and comics too, things you might not see otherwise.