The Ledger: An Indexed Media Diary

Rex Sorgatz

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THE LEDGER

4 min readNov 1, 2015

This project has no rationale. It is an experiment with no hypothesis, a reckless gambit lacking strategy.

What you are about to encounter is a banal itemization. This is accounting, nothing more.

Every Sunday, I plan to publish a diaristic ledger of all the cultural artifacts consumed over the past week. (Within some parameters — here are the rules.) No commentary about said artifacts will be provided, other than placing recommended items in bold.

Here is the ledger of last week’s content consumption:

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2015

MOVIE: The End of the Tour
POST: “Tomorrow’s Internet Turns 20” | The Awl
POST: “Ghostly Transcends Its Record Label Roots” | New York Times
POST: “Sloane Crosley Unclasps Cloak of Secrecy” | New York Times
TV: Shark Tank | ABC
TV: Totally ’80s | VH1CL
TV: Metal Mania| VH1CL
TV: New York Times Closeup | NY1

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2015

MUSIC: The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us, Beach Slang | Polyvinyl
MOVIE: The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
PODCAST: a16z, “What Disruption Theory Is… and Isn’t”
PODCAST: Reply All, “The Law That Sticks”
PODCAST: Internet Explorer, “We Found the Dancing Pumpkin Man”
TV: Drunk History, “Los Angeles” (s03 e09) | COM
TV: The Knick, “The Best with Best to Get the Best” (s02 e03) | MAX
TV: With All Due Respect | BLOOM
TV: Live From Lincoln Center, “Elfman: Tim Burton Film Music” | PBS
TV: Real Time with Bill Maher (s13 e32) | SHO
TV: Jeopardy (s32 e27) | ABC
TV: Jeopardy (s32 e28) | ABC
TV: Jeopardy (s32 e29) | ABC

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2015

PODCAST: Song Exploder, “Chet Faker – Gold”
PODCAST: Recode Decode, “Arianna Huffington”
POST: “Magical Thinking & Thought Terminating Cliches” | Buzz
POST: “One Day at Panda Express” | Eater
POST: “Google Turning Search Over to AI Machines” | Bloomberg
POST: “David Lynch’s Elusive Language” | The New Yorker
POST: “Apple TV Review: App Attack” | The Verge
POST: “The Ultimate Troll: Milo Yiannopoulos” | Fusion
TV: Nathan For You, “The Movement” (s03 e03) | COM
TV: With All Due Respect | BLOOM
TV: American Horror Story, “Devil’s Night” (s04 e04)| FX

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2015

PODCAST: Longform Podcast, “Lena Dunham”
MUSIC: Divers, Joanna Newsom | Drag City
POST: “The Fragile Ears of Men” | The Awl
POST: Zola Tweet Storm | Twitter
POST: “Software Is the New Oil” | AVC
POST: “William Gibson Interview” | Paper
POST: “I Am Fun” | The Onion
TV: Frontline, “Inside Assad’s Syria” | PBS
TV: South Park, “Tweek x Craig” (s19 e06)| COM
TV: Republican National Debate | CNBC
TV: Jeopardy (s32 e20) | ABC
TV: Jeopardy (s32 e21) | ABC
TV: The Brain with David Eagleman, “Who Is in Control?” (s01 e03) | PBS
TV: You’re the Worst, “Spooky Sunday Funday” (s02 e08)| FXX
TV: Totally ’80s | VH1CL
TV: Charlie Rose, Edie Brickell & Steve Martin | PBS

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2015

PODCAST: Longform Podcast, “Karina Longworth”
POST: “‘Apps Are the Future of TV’? Not So Fast!” | Recode
POST: “Media Interview: David Remnick” | The Guardian
POST: “Can An Astrophysicist Change Sports?” | FiveThirtyEight
POST: “Apple TV Is a Radical Rethinking of Your Relationship with the Hardware and Games You Own” | Polygon
POST: “Has ‘Diversity’ Lost Its Meaning?” | New York Times Magazine
TV: Late Night with Stephen Colbert, “Hillary Clinton, Anthony Bourdain, & Carrie Brownstein” (s01 e31) | CBS
TV: Manhattan, “The Threshold” (s02 e03) | WGN
TV: With All Due Respect | BLOOM
TV: The Muppets, “Walk the Swine” (s01 e05) | ABC
TV: iZombie, “Even Cowgirls Get the Black and Blues” (s02 e04) | CW
TV: Austin City Limits, “Don Henley” (s41 e03) | PBS
TV: Wicked City, “Pilot” (s01 e01) | ABC
TV: Jeopardy (s32 e19) | ABC
TV: America: Facts vs. Fiction, “Kings of the Sky” (s03 e05) | AHC
TV: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, “I Hope Josh Comes to My Party!” (s01 e03) | CW