Tag: Favorites 2021

• Favorite Music 2021 Listening Guide

  Blah blah blah something about 2021. Here’s the playlist: my favorite songs of 2021. As always, the songs are in some relative order, meaning I like the first twenty more than I like the last twenty, but they aren’t ranked with extreme precision. Enjoy. And send me what you got! My uncle sent me three…

  Travis Packer

  January 7, 2022

  Music

  AJR, Andy Shauf, Anna B Savage, Another Michael, Buck Meek, Cassandra Jenkins, Dry Cleaning, Favorites 2021, Houston Kendrick, IAN SWEET, Illuminati Hotties, Indigo De Souza, Jazmine Sullivan, Jesse Markin, Jon Batiste, Julien Baker, Kiwi jr., Lana Del Rey, Low, Lucy Dacus, Meet Me @ The Altar, Music 2021, No-No Boy, Olivia Rodrigo, Rostam, Shad, Snail Mail, St. Vincent, The Foxies, The Hold Steady, Toth, Tyler the Creator, Waxahatchee, Wet Leg, Wild Pink

• Favorite Television Shows of 2021

  A quick list of my favorite things I watched in 2021 (not necessarily released this year): Letterkenny (seasons 1-10): I got to watch ten seasons of the strangest and most clever comedy I’ve seen in a long time. In the same way that a sitcom like The Office was a revelation, I think this is…

  Travis Packer

  January 1, 2022

  Television

  Big Mouth, Favorites 2021, GBBO, Hacks, Letterkenny, Mare of Easttown, Ramy, Reservation Dogs, Sex Education, Succession, What We Do In The Shadows

• Favorite Video Games of 2021

  A selection of my favorite games I played in 2021 (not all released this year) Inscryption (PC): This game, on its face, is a rogue-like deck-builder, but becomes something much, much more as you play. It’s hard to talk about the brilliance without spoiling the game, so if you’re not going to play but you’re…

  Travis Packer

  January 1, 2022

  Video Games

  Astro's Playroom, Chicory, Death's Door, Deathloop, Dorfromantik, Favorites 2021, Inscryption, Loop Hero, Metroid Dread, Ratchet and Clank, Returnal, Slay the Spire, Soulsborne, The Forgotten City, Video Games, Wildermyth

• Favorite Non-Fiction of 2021

  Tiny Habits by B.J. Fogg There’s a lot to love about this book, and I’ll share a longer post about this in the new year, but for me the biggest distinction Fogg makes is around motivation and willpower. Here’s his basic point: “People are always looking for ways to ramp [motivation and willpower] up and…

  Travis Packer

  December 25, 2021

  Books

  B.J. Fogg, Bessel van der Kolk, Bill James, Casey Cep, David Zucchino, Favorites 2021, Isabel Wilkerson, Jason Schreier, Michael Lewis, Non-Fiction, Rachel McCarthy James, Resmaa Menakem, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

• Favorite Novels of 2021

  This is a short list of my favorite novels I read in 2021 (not necessarily released this year). I’ll add a short blurb if I have anything insightful to say about the book, but I’m not a literary critic and I struggled in all of my (3) college English courses so you can take everything…

  Travis Packer

  December 23, 2021

  Books

  Books, Favorites 2021, Fiction