Seen/ Read/ Listened: January 2025

“What gets measured get managed”, so said someone somewhere one time

This is I read, saw, and heard in January.

This log isn’t measuring, it’s just recording. I felt like I squandered a lot of time consuming useless things. I wanted a way track it. This is the way for now. It keeps me on track in a way, and I have found that since I have been doing this I have been more consistent at reading and giving whatever it is I am doing my full attention.

When we create we draw from the sources from which we are inspired. If you want to make good things, you have to consume good things. You will see the quality of what you produce increase when you increase the quality of what you allow into your mind.

Looking at it from a different angle: garbage in-garbage out.

Drumming and writing are important to me. A film, an article, or even a dish can inspire to create a musical idea, a concept, a scene. Everything can be mixed with and inspired by something else. And what is ultimately produced is a taste. Your taste. Self education is just as important as being inspired by a film or music.

I don’t really plan on writing comments about what I consumed, unless I feel like I need or want to for some reason. Below you’ll see a legend on the different types of media I have consumed. Some of the less obvious items will have links.

This is an experiment, so it may change and look different from month to month.

Inspired by Stolen from Soderberg's Blog.

Enjoy.

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Legend:

All Caps Bold: MOVIES

All Caps: SHOWS

(Books)

{Articles}

[Audiobooks, Podcasts]

"Screenplays"

*Comics/Graphic Novels*

+Music+

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Jan:

All days: Daily Stoic, Daily Laws, 365 Tao, Daily Pressfield, Calendar of Wisdom

1-1: (World War Z)

1-2: (World War Z)

1-3: Travel

1-4: LE SAMOURAI (1967), BFDI w/ boys, +Aesop Rock- Integrated Tech Solutions+, +Billy Woods- Church+

1-5: SICARIO (2015), "Sicario", HEAT (1995), (National Geographic Photo Basics: Joel Sartore)

1-6: (World War Z), +Oh No and Elzhi- Heavy Vibrations+

1-7: [World War Z]

1-8: [World War Z]

1-9: PLUTO

1-10: PLUTO

1-11: SPIDERMAN ACROSS THE SPIDER VERSE

1-12: SKIBIDI TOILET SEASON 25, PLUTO

1-13: +Maggie Rogers - Don't Forget Me+, (Calvin and Hobbes-There's Treasure Everywhere)

1-14: +Maggie Rogers - Don't Forget Me+,

1-15: + Preservation- Eastern Medicine Western Illness+

1-16: +Preservation: 1974+, [Tetragrammaton-RZA], (Tao of the Wu)

1-17: THE ROOM NEXT DOOR

1-18: (Tao of the Wu)

1-19: (Tao of the Wu), MOANA 2

1-20: +Sleep Token - This Place Will Become Your Tomb+, (Tao of the Wu)

1:21: [Tetragrammaton - RZA], (Tao of the Wu)

1-22: [Tetragrammaton - RZA], (Tao of the Wu)

1-23: [Tetragrammaton - RZA], (Tao of the Wu), PLUTO

1-24: PLUTO

1-25: NOSFERATU(2024), THE BEAR

1-26: SECRET LIFE OF PETS

1-27: None

1-28: + Steven Wilson Jr. - Son of Dad+

1-29: THE BEAR

1-30: THE BEAR

1-31: None