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Input: Week 16, 2026

Apr 20, 2026, 5:29 PM 2 min read #media

What I watched, listened to, and read for the week ending 19 Apr 2026. As always, best things highlighted.

Books

Finished I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution by Craig Marks.
Started and finished Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge by Mark Yarm.
Still reading Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company by Patrick McGee.

Music

Top artists this week:

Taylor Swift (25 plays)
Green Day (10 plays)
Beastie Boys (9 plays)
Silversun Pickups (7 plays)
Best Coast (5 plays)
Blood Red Shoes (5 plays)
Olivia Rodrigo (4 plays)
The Clash (4 plays)
BLACKPINK (3 plays)
State Champs (3 plays)

Movies & TV

The Man in the High Castle S02E07 (watched 19 Apr)
The Man in the High Castle S02E06 (watched 19 Apr)
The Man in the High Castle S02E05 (watched 19 Apr)
The Man in the High Castle S02E04 (watched 19 Apr)
The Man in the High Castle S02E03 (watched 19 Apr)
The Man in the High Castle S02E02 (watched 19 Apr)
The Man in the High Castle S02E01 (watched 19 Apr)
The Man in the High Castle S01E10 (watched 19 Apr)
The Man in the High Castle S01E09 (watched 19 Apr)
The Pitt S02E14 (watched 18 Apr)
Survivor S50E08 (watched 18 Apr)
Scrubs (2026) S01E06 (watched 14 Apr)
The Audacity S01E01 (watched 14 Apr)

Comics

This was a reverse highlight, so bad that I quit this book already. Marvel needs to back up an armored truck to Jonathan Hickman’s house and give him whatever he wants to come back and save the X-books. ↩