Weekly Recommendations – Backpage Pod Edition!

  • Music:
    • One Headlight by the Wallflowers, Sad Forever and Modern Loneliness by Lauz, Harry Styles’ entire album, high school musical soundtrack,  just listen to tik tok songs honestly
    • I feel like the quarantine music ~vibe~ has been throwback songs to remind you of your childhood, incredibly emo songs for when you just gotta let it out at 2 am, and oddly hype music for when you accept the fact that the world is burning 🙂
  • TV:
    • New Girl, Teen Wolf, Black Mirror, Queer Eye, The Crown, Schitt’s Creek, On My Block, This Is Us, Hollywood
  • Film:
    • The Perks of Being A Wallflower, One Direction: This Is Us, Jojo Rabbit, Knives Out, Onward, Inception, Moonlight, Room, What We Do In The Shadows, Bohemian Rhapsody
  • Book: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, White Teeth by Zadie Smith, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, 1984 by George Orwell, Thanks Obama by David Litt, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Under the Dome by Stephen King
  • Activity:
    • Painting little pictures on little canvases
    • Start a youtube channel
    • Unicycling
    • Reread your favorite book series from when you were little (Percy Jackson??)
    • Bake a 10 layer cake
    • Recreate an entire movie scene by scene
    • Become a DJ and (poorly) mashup songs on garage band
  • Recipe: Betty Crocker dark chocolate brownie mix
  • Safe way to interact with friends:
    • “Romeo and Juliette-ing” (one friend stands on their porch, the other on the pavement below, you scream passionate declarations of love at each other in front of your entire neighborhood)
    • Social distant picnic or walks
    • Fancy zoom dinner (dress up, 3 course meal made from whatever scraps you can find in your kitchen)
    • Social distant sleepover!! Zoom each other and then fall asleep but leave zoom on and run out your computer battery