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I make lists. It's a thing. Here's a few I made for this month, books to read, music to listen to, films to watch, games to play, For June, I'm thinking about the years 1900 to 1949. Two world wars, the roaring 20s, big band era, and many other things come to mind. Here's what I'm starting with. 

Books: 

P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves books etc... - I started getting interested from watching the Jeeves & Wooster brit com. I've finished My Man Jeeves and am reading The Inimitable Jeeves for the second time. 
Ayn Rand's Anthem novella. - I recently listened to Rush's 2112 and discovered its influence is specifically from this Rand novella. I'm reading a graphic novel version right now. I am not a fan of Rand but I occasionally feel I should read something by her. I'm already disliking Anthem. My opinion is not getting better. 
H.P. Lovecraft - I've never really read much of Lovecraft. It's been so influential too so this is a great opportunity to get to it. 
Pre Golden Age Science Fiction. - I recently did some research and most of the classic scifi authors I read in high school published their first major works in the 50s like Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, Bradbury, Lequin etc... . I've read Verne and Wells of course but they are more in the 19th century tradition to me. So there is a lot of writers mostly new to me I'd like to read. I have a Scifi of the 30s short story collection, so I'll start there. 

Music:

Bela Bartok - I got myself a collection of violin and Orchestra pieces. I've always been into Bartok.
Schoenberg - I have a vinyl of Complete Songs for Voice and Piano Vol. 1 I'm excited to listen to. I'm hoping for lots of dissonances and different tonalities to blow my mind.  
Silent Film music - I also found a collection of silent film music on vinyl in the bargain bins. It's some zany, melodramatic stuff. If I was still making mix tapes, I'd put a track or two into one as intermissions, maybe with some overdubbed monologue. Too bad I don't have a partner to make such stuff with anymore. It was fun times in my teens. 

Film: 

Vampyr and Haxan - Watched. I'm really into the German avant guard films of the 20s. They are surreal and often creepy. I love their dramatic use of lighting which eventually influenced Film Noir. I've seen stuff like Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Metropolis so I'm digging for more obscure titles now. Luckily there is the Criterion Collection which has remastered some of this stuff. 
Jeeves and Wooster - Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are like the perfect comic duo to pull off Wodehouse's books. Fry is Jeeves and Laurie Wooster. It pokes fun at the life of the Idle Rich. 

Games: 

I downloaded or added to my wish list on Xbox One the following games I haven't played before.

Call of Cthulhu - This is the 2018 game by Cyanide. I was able to download it. I forget if I owned it or it was part of Game Pass. 
Vampyr - I put this on my wish list until a sale appears. 
Black Mirror - From 2017. On the wish list. 
Draugen - Wish listed. 
The Sinking City - Still on my wish list and one I really want to play as it's by the devs who did a lot of Sherlock Holmes games I played recently. 
Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb - I have this OG Xbox game and redownloaded it. 
Wolfenstein Old Blood - I may download this again because I really want to get through it but I can't get out of that prison at the beginning. That opening part is more stealth than anything and it really turned me off to the game. May try it again though. 

So, more may come up over the month. I'm always looking out for interesting media to fit into my year of history theme.