12-28-2025 MY FAVES: best of 2025

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music of the week

this week's top five saved songs:
perfect day - barbie
intergalactic janet - ley soul
hnic - leikeli47
let's wait awhile - janet jackson
one and only - soulidified

here's my top 12 albums of the year, ranked by month saved:
1. eusexua - fka twigs
2. the great impersonator - halsey
3. mayhem - lady gaga
4. early demos - discharge
5. tarot funk - nemanja
6. the secret world of arrietty soundtrack
7. . (period) - kesha
8. rosaline soundtrack
9. that's showbiz baby - jade
10. off the grid - lhd
11. lux - rosalía
12. vie - doja cat

books of the week

i'm chipping through belle du seigneur, enjoying the sarcasm and cynicism more and more. here's a paragraph that still feels relevant to a first definition of a patrick bateman, or finance bro:
in the lobby, the ministers and diplomats circulated, gravely discussing, knowing-eyed, doubting not the high importance of their ephemeral concerns with ant-heaps soon to pass away, and no less convinced of their own importance, soberly exchanging futile points of view, ludicrously solemn and dignified, stalked by haemorrhoids, faces suddenly wreathed in beaming pleasantries. affability as an obligation of rank, bogus smiles, courtesies delivered with a cruel curl of the lip, ambitious sugar-coated with the noblest of airs, calculated machinations and crafty manœuverings, honeyed words, and suspicious looks - the connivance and stratagems of tomorrow's dead man.

 is it just me or have we all worked with a mansplainer defined in this paragraph?

here's my top 12 books of the year, also ranked by month read:

1. once upon a time: behind the fairy tale of princess grace and prince rainier

2. style diaries: world fashion from berlin to tokyo

3. the woman in me

4. medium raw: a bloody valentine to the world of food and the people who cook

5. unmask alice: lsd, satanic panic, and the imposter behind the world's most notorious diaries

6. notorious (#2 it girl series)

7. looking for jackie: american fashion icons

8. tajna krvavog mosta (#1 grička vještica)

9. on and by andy warhol

10. the period brain: the new science of why we pms and how to fix it - a manifesto for women

11. daisy jones and the six

12. belle du seigneur (still reading)

movies of the week

this week's christmas movie classics:
jack frost - rankin bass version
rudolph the red nose reindeer - i was unaware there was an "off-brand" animated version, and they play wonderful christmastime in one scene?!
home alone + home alone 2 - absolute top tier forever and always
the grinch that stole bitches - a tubi movie. no comment. a must watch. not family friendly. give these guys a bigger budget, i can tell they can make a masterpiece.

here's my top 12 movies of the year, same concept, ranked by month watched:
1. party monster
2. cecil b. demented
3. party girl
4. big night
5. conclave
6. the secret world of arrietty
7. myscene: jammin' in jamaica
8. rosaline
9. fools rush in
10. summer teeth (šalša)
11. superman
12. barbie in the nutcracker


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