I started tracking my daily media usage last year. It doesn’t include everything (academic articles, podcasts, social media usage, etc.), but it includes a lot. In 2018, I watched more than 50 seasons of television, nearly 100 movies, and read about 100 books. You have to have someway to de-stress after a busy year of work. Click here to see my top 10 lists of music, movies, and television from 2018. Otherwise, here’s my full 2018 media diet:
Date |
Medium |
Title |
Year |
Author/ Director/ Artist |
1/1/18 |
Film |
Creep 2 |
2017 |
Patrick Kack-Brice |
1/1/18 |
Film |
Voyeur |
2017 |
Myles Kane and Josh Koury |
1/2/18 |
Film |
It Comes At Night |
2017 |
Trey Edward Shults |
1/5/18 |
Book |
TV Studies |
2011 |
Jonathan Gray and Amanda D. Lotz |
1/6/18 |
TV |
13 Reasons Why S1 |
2017 |
Brian Yorkey |
1/7/18 |
Film |
Little Evil |
2017 |
Eli Craig |
1/7/18 |
Film |
Nocturnal Animals |
2016 |
Tom Ford |
1/7/18 |
TV |
The Great British Baking Show S4 |
2016 |
Scott Tankard |
1/8/18 |
Film |
A Ghost Story |
2017 |
David Lowery |
1/10/18 |
Book |
Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture |
2006 |
Alexander Galloway |
1/12/18 |
TV |
The End of the Fucking World S1 |
2017 |
Jonathan Entwistle and Lucy Tcherniak |
1/12/18 |
TV |
The Fall S1 |
2013 |
Allan Cubitt |
1/13/18 |
Film |
Anomalisa |
2015 |
Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson |
1/13/18 |
Book |
Swing Time |
2016 |
Zadie Smith |
1/14/18 |
TV |
The Fall S2 |
2014 |
Allan Cubitt |
1/15/18 |
Book |
Dark Matter |
2016 |
Blake Crouch |
1/15/18 |
Film |
Inside Llewyn Davis |
2013 |
The Coen Brothers |
1/15/18 |
Book |
Saga #8 |
2017 |
Fiona Staples and Brian Vaughn |
1/16/18 |
Book |
A Small Porch |
2016 |
Wendell Berry |
1/17/18 |
TV |
The Fall S3 |
2016 |
Allan Cubitt |
1/19/18 |
Book |
Approaches to Industry Studies |
2016 |
Matthew Freeman |
1/19/18 |
TV |
Tom Segura: Disgraceful |
2017 |
Tom Segura |
1/20/18 |
Film |
Before Sunrise |
1995 |
Richard Linklater |
1/20/18 |
Book |
Loving A Woman In Two Worlds |
1985 |
Robert Bly |
1/21/18 |
Film |
Before Sunset |
2004 |
Richard Linklater |
1/22/18 |
Film |
Before Midnight |
2013 |
Richard Linklater |
1/23/18 |
TV |
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel S1 |
2017 |
Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino |
1/27/18 |
Film |
Phantom Thread |
2017 |
Paul Thomas Anderson |
1/30/18 |
Book |
Production Culture |
2008 |
John Caldwell |
1/31/18 |
TV |
Twin Peaks S3 |
2017 |
David Lynch |
2/2/18 |
Book |
Venture Labor |
2012 |
Gina Neff |
2/4/18 |
Film |
Badder Ben |
2017 |
Nigel Bach |
2/4/18 |
TV |
The Good Place S1 (First half) |
2016 |
Michael Schur |
2/5/18 |
Film |
The Cloverfield Paradox |
2018 |
Julius Onah |
2/7/18 |
Book |
Corporations and Cultural Industries |
2011 |
Scott W. Fitzgerald |
2/8/18 |
Book |
Television |
1974 |
Raymond Williams |
2/9/18 |
Film |
The Ritual |
2018 |
David Bruckner |
2/9/18 |
Book |
The Slow Regard of Silent Things |
2014 |
Patrick Rothfuss |
2/10/18 |
Film |
Take Shelter |
2011 |
Jeff Nichols |
2/11/18 |
TV |
My Brother, My Brother and Me S1 |
2017 |
The McElroy Brothers |
2/14/18 |
Book |
The Cultural Industries |
2012 |
David Hesmondhalgh |
2/15/18 |
TV |
Dragonball Super S1 |
2016 |
Kimitoshi Chioka |
2/16/18 |
Book |
On Writing |
1999 |
Stephen King |
2/16/18 |
Film |
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story |
2016 |
Gareth Edwards |
2/17/18 |
Film |
Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Men Tell No Tales |
2017 |
Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg |
2/17/18 |
Film |
The Lobster |
2015 |
Yorgos Lanthimos |
2/18/18 |
Book |
Media Work |
2007 |
Mark Deuze |
2/20/18 |
Book |
Global Culture Industries: The Mediation of Things |
2007 |
Scott Lash and Celia Lury |
2/22/18 |
TV |
Standup for Drummers |
2018 |
Fred Armissen |
2/24/18 |
Film |
Black Panther |
2018 |
Ryan Coogler |
2/24/18 |
Book |
The Field of Cultural Production |
1993 |
Pierre Bourdieu |
2/24/18 |
TV |
The Tick S1 Part 2 |
2018 |
Ben Edlund |
2/25/18 |
TV |
Everything Sucks S1 |
2018 |
Ben York Jones & Michael Mohan |
2/25/18 |
Book |
Thrawn |
2017 |
Timothy Zahn |
2/28/18 |
Book |
Let’s Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Bad Taste |
2014 |
Carl Wilson |
3/2/18 |
Book |
Audition |
1997 |
Ryu Murakami |
3/3/18 |
Film |
Lady Bird |
2017 |
Greta Gerwig |
3/3/18 |
Film |
X-Files: Fight the Future |
1998 |
Rob Bowman |
3/7/18 |
Book |
Hybridity, or the Cultural Logic of Globalization |
2005 |
Marwan Kraidy |
3/8/18 |
Book |
Localising Hollywood |
2017 |
Courtney Brannon Donoghue |
3/12/18 |
TV |
Atlanta S1 |
2016 |
Donald Glover |
3/13/18 |
Film |
Veronica |
2017 |
Paco Plaza |
3/14/18 |
TV |
Crashing S2 |
2018 |
Pete Holmes and Judd Apatow |
3/15/18 |
Book |
Reading Television |
2004 |
John Fiske and John Hartley |
3/20/18 |
Book |
From Bombay to Bollywood |
2013 |
Aswin Punathambekar |
3/20/18 |
Film |
The Shape of Water |
2018 |
Guillermo Del Toro |
3/21/18 |
Book |
The Aisles Have Eyes |
2017 |
Joseph Turow |
3/27/18 |
TV |
Jessica Jones S2 |
2018 |
Melissa Rosenberg |
3/30/18 |
Film |
Power Rangers |
2017 |
Dean Isrealite |
3/31/18 |
Film |
50/50 |
2011 |
Jonathan Levine |
3/31/18 |
Film |
Alien: Covenant |
2017 |
Ridley Scott |
3/31/18 |
Film |
Star Trek: Beyond |
2016 |
Justin Lin |
4/1/18 |
Film |
Spectre |
2015 |
Sam Mendes |
4/2/18 |
Book |
The American Television Industry |
2009 |
Michael Curtin and Jane Shattuc |
4/3/18 |
Book |
Ready Player One |
2011 |
Ernest Cline |
4/4/18 |
Book |
The Informal Media Economy |
2015 |
Ramon Lobato and Julian Thomas |
4/5/18 |
Book |
Black Television Travels |
2013 |
Tim Havens |
4/6/18 |
Film |
The Vault |
2017 |
Dan Bush |
4/7/18 |
Film |
Rough Night |
2017 |
Lucia Aniello |
4/8/18 |
Film |
Murder on the Orient Express |
2017 |
Kenneth Branagh |
4/8/18 |
Book |
Obi-Wan & Anakin |
2016 |
Charles Soule |
4/10/18 |
Book |
Imagined Communities |
1991 |
Benedict Anderson |
4/12/18 |
Book |
Media Franchising |
2013 |
Derek Johnson |
4/13/18 |
Book |
Lyrics and Poems: 1997-2012 |
2012 |
John K. Samson |
4/13/18 |
Film |
Phantom Thread |
2017 |
Paul Thomas Anderson |
4/15/18 |
Film |
Birdman |
2014 |
Alejandro González Iñárritu |
4/18/18 |
Film |
Happy Anniversary |
2018 |
Jared Stern |
4/18/18 |
Book |
Understanding Global TV Formats |
2006 |
Albert Moran and Justin Malbon |
4/19/18 |
Book |
Authentic: The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture |
2012 |
Sarah Banet-Weiser |
4/19/18 |
TV |
Hilarity for Charity |
2018 |
Seth Rogen |
4/21/18 |
Book |
Infinite Jest |
1996 |
David Foster Wallace |
4/23/18 |
Book |
Shadow Economies of Cinema: Mapping Informal Film Distribution |
2012 |
Ramon Lobato |
4/27/18 |
Book |
Leia: Princess of Alderaan |
2017 |
Claudia Gray |
4/27/18 |
TV |
Love S3 |
2018 |
Judd Apatow |
4/27/18 |
Film |
The End of the Tour |
2015 |
James Ponsoldt |
4/28/18 |
Film |
There Will Be Blood |
2007 |
Paul Thomas Anderson |
4/30/18 |
TV |
American Crime Story: People vs. OJ Simpson |
2016 |
Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski |
4/30/18 |
Book |
Representing Talent |
2017 |
Violaine Roussel |
5/1/18 |
TV |
John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous |
2018 |
John Mulaney |
5/4/18 |
Film |
Punch-Drunk Love |
2002 |
Paul Thomas Anderson |
5/6/18 |
Book |
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark |
2018 |
Michelle McNamara |
5/7/18 |
TV |
Minecraft – How To Discipline Your Dragon (Through Episode 8) |
2014 |
Ryan and Scott Fitzsimons |
5/10/18 |
Film |
Mother! |
2017 |
Darren Aronofsky |
5/11/18 |
TV |
The Magicians S1 (Through Episode 11) |
2016 |
Sera Gamble and John McNamara |
5/13/18 |
Book |
Brands: Meaning and Value in Media Culture |
2006 |
Adam Arvidsson |
5/15/18 |
TV |
Evil Genius |
2018 |
Trey Borzillieri and Barbara Schroeder |
5/17/18 |
Book |
Reinventing The Media |
2015 |
Graeme Turner |
5/18/18 |
Book |
Twitter and Tear Gas |
2017 |
Zeynep Tufekci |
5/19/18 |
Film |
Ghostbusters |
2016 |
Paul Fieg |
5/19/18 |
Film |
The Void |
2017 |
Steven Kostanski, Jeremy Gillespie |
5/20/18 |
Book |
The Interestings |
2013 |
Meg Wolitzer |
5/22/18 |
Film |
IT |
2017 |
Andrés Muschietti |
5/23/18 |
Film |
Justice League |
2018 |
Zach Snyder |
5/24/18 |
Film |
Bladerunner |
1982 |
Ridley Scott |
5/25/18 |
Book |
Make Room for TV |
1992 |
Lynn Spigel |
5/25/18 |
Film |
Solo: A Star Wars Story |
2018 |
Ron Howard |
5/26/18 |
TV |
Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife |
2018 |
Ali Wong |
5/26/18 |
TV |
Mike Birbiglia: Thank God For Jokes |
2018 |
Mike Birbiglia |
5/27/18 |
Book |
Algorithms of Oppression |
2018 |
Safiya Umoja Noble |
5/28/18 |
Book |
The History of Sexuality Vol. 1 |
1984 |
Michel Foucault |
5/29/18 |
Book |
Thousand Star Hotel |
2017 |
Bao Phi |
5/30/18 |
Book |
Star Wars: Last Shot |
2018 |
Daniel José Older |
5/31/18 |
Book |
Digital Countercultures |
2018 |
Jessa Lingel |
6/1/18 |
Film |
Deadpool |
2016 |
Tim Miller |
6/3/18 |
TV |
Arrested Development S4 Remix |
2018 |
Mitchell Hurwitz |
6/6/18 |
TV |
Barry S1 |
2018 |
Bill Hader |
6/9/18 |
Film |
Hereditary |
2018 |
Ari Aster |
6/10/18 |
TV |
Arrested Development S5 (Part 1) |
2018 |
Mitchell Hurwitz |
6/11/18 |
TV |
Pete Holmes: Faces and Sounds |
2016 |
Pete Holmes |
6/11/18 |
TV |
Silicon Valley S5 |
2018 |
Mike Judge, John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky. |
6/11/18 |
Book |
Universal Harvester |
2017 |
John Darnielle |
6/13/18 |
Film |
Bladerunner: 2049 |
2017 |
Denis Villeneuve |
6/14/18 |
Book |
Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans |
2017 |
Vicki Mayer |
6/14/18 |
Book |
Cheap Yellow |
2018 |
Shy Watson |
6/14/18 |
Book |
Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy |
2007 |
Stephen Duncombe |
6/15/18 |
Book |
My Wicked, Wicked Ways |
1987 |
Sandra Cisneros |
6/17/18 |
Film |
The Strangers: Prey at Night |
2018 |
Johannes Roberts |
6/19/18 |
Film |
Call Me By Your Name |
2018 |
Luca Guadagnino |
6/20/18 |
Book |
Reverse Engineering Social Media |
2014 |
Robert Gehl |
6/20/18 |
TV |
Room 104 |
2017 |
Mark and Jay Duplass |
6/21/18 |
Film |
Annihilation |
2018 |
Alex Garland |
6/21/18 |
Book |
Textual Poachers |
1992 |
Henry Jenkins |
6/26/18 |
Book |
Strange Weather in Tokyo |
2001 |
Hiromi Kawakami |
6/29/18 |
Book |
Moshi Moshi |
2010 |
Banana Yoshimoto |
7/1/18 |
TV |
Dark (Through episode 8 – unfinished) |
2017 |
|
7/3/18 |
Film |
Sicario |
2015 |
Denis Villeneuve |
7/4/18 |
Film |
Unsane |
2018 |
Steven Soderbergh |
7/9/18 |
TV |
Great British Baking Show S2 |
2015 |
Andy Devonshire |
7/10/18 |
Book |
Star Wars: Most Wanted |
2018 |
Rae Carson |
7/12/18 |
Film |
A Quiet Place |
2018 |
John Krasinski |
7/13/18 |
TV |
Glow S1 |
2017 |
Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch |
7/13/18 |
TV |
Great British Baking Show S1 |
2014 |
Andy Devonshire |
7/15/18 |
Film |
Coco |
2017 |
Lee Unkrich |
7/16/18 |
Film |
Inherent Vice |
2014 |
Paul Thomas Anderson |
7/17/18 |
Book |
Status Update |
2013 |
Alice Marwick |
7/17/18 |
Book |
The Monk of Mokha |
2018 |
Dave Eggers |
7/22/18 |
Film |
Troll 2 |
1990 |
Claudio Fragasso |
7/23/18 |
Film |
The Goonies |
1985 |
Richard Donner |
7/24/18 |
Book |
The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins |
2018 |
Carey Pietsch, Clint McElroy, Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, and Travis McElroy |
7/26/18 |
Film |
Insidious: The Last Key |
2018 |
Adam Robitel |
7/27/18 |
Film |
Ready Player One |
2018 |
Steven Spielberg |
7/29/18 |
Film |
Scooby Doo On Zombie Island |
1998 |
Jim Stenstrum, Kazumi Fukushima, Hiroshi Aoyama |
8/6/18 |
TV |
Billions S1 |
2016 |
Brian Koppelman, David Levien, and Andrew Ross Sorkin |
8/7/18 |
Book |
Thrawn: Alliances |
2018 |
Timothy Zahn |
8/11/18 |
Film |
The Conjuring |
2013 |
James Wan |
8/16/18 |
Book |
Open TV |
2018 |
Aymar Christian |
8/16/18 |
Book |
The Business of Television |
2018 |
Ken Basin |
8/17/18 |
Film |
Knight of Cups |
2015 |
Terrance Malick |
8/18/18 |
Film |
Slenderman |
2018 |
Sylvain White |
8/19/18 |
TV |
Billions S2 |
2017 |
Brian Koppelman, David Levien, and Andrew Ross Sorkin |
8/19/18 |
Book |
Heavy Vinyl, Vol. 1 |
2018 |
Carly Usdin |
8/19/18 |
Book |
The Outsider |
2018 |
Stephen King |
8/25/18 |
Film |
Fahrenheit 451 |
2018 |
Ramin Bahrani |
8/26/18 |
Book |
We Now Disrupt This Broadcast |
2018 |
Amanda D. Lotz |
8/27/18 |
Book |
Gilead |
2004 |
Marilynne Robinson |
8/28/18 |
Film |
Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri |
2017 |
Martin McDonagh |
8/31/18 |
Film |
Dead Body |
2015 |
Bobbin Ramsey |
9/1/18 |
Book |
Complex TV |
2015 |
Jason Mittell |
9/2/18 |
Film |
The Post |
2017 |
Steven Spielberg |
9/4/18 |
Book |
MTM: Quality TV |
1984 |
Jane Feuer, Paul Kerr, and Tise Vahimagi |
9/5/18 |
TV |
My Brother, My Brother and Me S1 |
2017 |
The McElroy Brothers |
9/8/18 |
Film |
The Nun |
2018 |
Corin Hardy |
9/11/18 |
TV |
The Good Place S2 |
2018 |
Michael Schur |
9/13/18 |
TV |
Glow S2 |
2018 |
Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch |
9/14/18 |
TV |
American Vandal S2 |
2018 |
Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda |
9/15/18 |
TV |
Seinfeld S1 |
1990 |
Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David |
9/15/18 |
Book |
Touch |
2017 |
Courtney Maum |
9/16/18 |
TV |
Brooklyn Nine-Nine S1 |
2014 |
Dan Goor and Michael Schur |
9/16/18 |
Book |
Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status |
2011 |
Elana Levine and Michael Newman |
9/18/18 |
Film |
Silence |
2016 |
Martin Scorsese |
9/19/18 |
Book |
Haywire |
2006 |
George Bilgere |
9/22/18 |
Film |
The Ritual |
2018 |
David Bruckner |
9/23/18 |
Film |
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom |
2018 |
JA Bayona |
9/25/18 |
Film |
The Florida Project |
2017 |
Sean Baker |
9/30/18 |
TV |
American Horror Story: Roanoke |
2016 |
Ryan Murphy |
9/30/18 |
TV |
My Hero Academia S1 |
2016 |
Kohei Horikoshi |
9/30/18 |
Book |
Saga #9 |
2018 |
Brian K Vaughn and Fiona Staples |
10/1/18 |
Film |
Bad Ben: The Mandela Effect |
2018 |
Nigel Bach |
10/3/18 |
Book |
Parasites Like Us |
2003 |
Adam Johnson |
10/5/18 |
Film |
Hocus Pocus |
1993 |
Kenny Ortega |
10/10/18 |
Film |
Pet Sematary |
1989 |
Mary Lambert |
10/11/18 |
TV |
Brooklyn Nine-Nine S2 |
2015 |
Dan Goor and Michael Schur |
10/15/18 |
TV |
My Hero Academia S2 |
2017 |
Kohei Horikoshi |
10/21/18 |
Book |
Misery |
1987 |
Stephen King |
10/22/18 |
Film |
Misery |
1990 |
Rob Reiner |
10/29/18 |
TV |
The Haunting of Hill House |
2018 |
Mike Flannagan |
10/31/18 |
Film |
Child’s Play |
1988 |
Tom Holland |
11/2/18 |
Book |
Spreadable Media |
2013 |
Henry Jenkins, Joshua Green, Sam Ford |
11/3/18 |
Film |
Hell House LLC |
2015 |
Stephen Cognetti |
11/3/18 |
Film |
The Crescent Moon Clown |
2018 |
Nigel Bach |
11/12/18 |
TV |
Daredevil S3 |
2018 |
Drew Godard |
11/19/18 |
Book |
Marxism and Human Nature |
2002 |
Sean Sayers |
11/19/18 |
Book |
Marxism and Literature |
1977 |
Raymond Williams |
11/22/18 |
Film |
Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 |
2015 |
Andy Fickman |
11/23/18 |
Film |
How The Grinch Stole Christmas |
2000 |
Ron Howard |
11/25/18 |
Book |
Spider-Gwen Vol. 0: Most Wanted |
2015 |
Jason Latour and Robbi Rodriguez |
11/26/18 |
TV |
The Great British Baking Show: The Beginning |
2012 |
Andy Devonshire |
11/30/18 |
Film |
Searching |
2018 |
Aneesh Chaganty |
11/30/18 |
Film |
The Silence of the Lambs |
1991 |
Jonathan Demme |
12/1/18 |
Book |
Textual Poachers |
1992 |
Henry Jenkins |
12/1/18 |
TV |
The Great British Baking Show S6 |
2018 |
Andy Devonshire |
12/2/18 |
TV |
Homecoming |
2018 |
Sam Esmail |
12/5/18 |
Book |
Culture |
1981 |
Raymond Williams |
12/6/18 |
TV |
Killing Eve |
2018 |
Phoebe Waller-Bridge |
12/7/18 |
Film |
Sorry To Bother You |
2018 |
Boots Riley |
12/8/18 |
TV |
Brooklyn Nine-Nine S3 |
2016 |
Dan Goor and Michael Schur |
12/8/18 |
Film |
Pacific Rim: Uprising |
2018 |
Steven DeKnight |
12/9/18 |
Book |
Production Culture |
2008 |
John Caldwell |
12/10/18 |
Book |
Global Television and Film |
1998 |
Colin Hoskins, Stuart McFadyen, Adam Finn |
12/13/18 |
Film |
First Reformed |
2018 |
Paul Schrader |
12/13/18 |
Film |
Pottersville |
2017 |
Seth Henrikson |
12/14/18 |
Film |
A Christmas Story |
1983 |
Bob Clark |
12/15/18 |
Film |
Grinch |
2018 |
Yarrow Cheney and Scott Mosier |
12/15/18 |
Film |
Jennifer’s Body |
2009 |
Karyn Kusama |
12/16/18 |
TV |
Succession S1 |
2018 |
Jesse Armstrong |
12/17/18 |
Book |
Desperately Seeking the Audience |
1991 |
Ien Ang |
12/18/18 |
Book |
Killing Commendatore |
2018 |
Haruki Murakami |
12/19/18 |
Book |
Bastard Culture! |
2011 |
Mirko Tobias Schafer |
12/19/18 |
Book |
Distinction |
1979 |
Pierre Bourdieu |
12/19/18 |
TV |
Maniac |
2018 |
Cory Fukunaga |
12/24/18 |
Film |
Charlie Brown Christmas |
1965 |
Bill Melendez |
12/24/18 |
Film |
Christmas Vacation |
1989 |
Jeremiah Chechik |
12/26/18 |
Film |
Antman and The Wasp |
2018 |
Peyton Reed |
12/26/18 |
TV |
Brooklyn Nine-Nine S4 |
2017 |
Dan Goor and Michael Schur |
12/28/18 |
Film |
The Burbs |
1989 |
Joe Dante |
12/30/18 |
Film |
Ocean’s Eight |
2018 |
Gary Ross |
Ryan Stoldt 