2021: Year in Review (going out)

[tamaranth]

[hollow laughter]
I did actually go out quite a bit, though constantly aware of plague.
I also watched a lot of stuff on a small screen, which is not the best thing for me vis-a-vis concentration: I suspect I 'watched' more than I actually reviewed, because if I ended up tidying or reading or playing games then I don't think it counts as a cultural experience.

Anyway:

Everything is (or will eventually be) reviewed on this blog! (Sometimes rather cursorily.) Check out my monthlyculture tag.

Bracketed figures show range over the last 18 years [see year-in-summary tag for my Cultural History since 2004].

Film (in cinema): 11 (4-20). Best three = Black Widow, Suicide Squad, Free Guy.
Film (streamed): about 35. Best three = The Dig, Midsommar, Palm Springs.

Theatre (live): 5 (1-26). Best three = Paradise, Rossetti's Women, Bad Nights and Odd Days
Theatre (streamed): 16 (38 in 2020). Best three = Angels in America,Medea,Vespertilio

Concerts (classical): 1 (2-22).

Opera: 2 (0-10). 

Gigs: 2 (0-9).

Art: none whatsoever

Books: 169. Separate post coming eventually: reviews here (ongoing: am behind on reviewing).

Also in 2021: visited Edinburgh, Lewes and Crete; zero conventions.

Comments

[lobelia321]

Tbe sad stats versus the happy in-parentheses stats.

Still, though! Art is possibly doable, e.g. Turbine Hall is huge and the omicrons may get lost in it. However, one needs to GET there.

[tamaranth]

I would do a lot more if (a) I could teleport and (b) I could wear a really hefty N95 mask and still breathe. (Not me being a wuss: the long covid lung issues are .... not great even with a cloth mask.)

It would be good to do some art together. Ideally an exhibition with timed entry slots, which I am told are quite covid-aware.