Half-Year Lists 2025

Favorite songs of Q1 — January — March:

Favorite songs of Q2 — April — June:

Favorite 2025 albums, no particular order:

Gumshoes — Bugs Forever

Crys Matthews — Reclamation

Wes Cunningham — Meaningless

Nefesh Mountain — Beacons

The Jellybricks — Dreaming In Stereo

Helen Ganya — Share Your Care

Panda Bear — Sinister Grift

Andrew Rumsey — Collodion

Melin Melyn — Mill on the Hill

Nick Frater — Oh Contraire!

Brian D'Addario — Till The Morning

Lola Kirke — Trailblazer

Peggy Seeger — Teleology

Kevin Olusola — Dawn of a Misfit

Esther Rose — Want

Second By Second By Minute By Minute — The Songs Of Rick Springfield

Lavinia Blackwall — The Making

Favorite movies / TV seen in 2025, from all years, but that I hadn't previously watched:

Caddo Lake

Queen of Katwe

Festival

Joan Baez I Am a Noise

The Two Popes

Conclave

Mufasa: The Lion King

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

Snow White

Skeleton Crew

Missing You

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

Adolescence

George Harrison: Living in the Material World

Queenie

The Other Black Girl

Favorite books read in 2025, from all years:

First Time Ever -Peggy Seeger

The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened — Bill McKibben

Ecotopia Emerging — Ernest Callenbach

Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties — Elijah Wald

Olivetti — Allie Millington

The Twilight Garden — Sara Nisha Adams

Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities- John King

Interesting Facts about Space — Emily R. Austin

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World — Robin Wall Kimmerer