May is always a great time for Pop Culture! Summer Blockbusters, Season Finales, The Song of the Summer, and sunshine means sitting outside on a patio with a beer and a good book, I love it! Here’s a few Pop Culture pieces keeping me entertained this month…

Watching

The Americans- The smartest and greatest show on TV, I LOVE this show and can not wait for Season 3 next year, WOW this is great!

Fargo- WOAH, FX is doing a great job with this series! I love everyone on the show, but there’s always a special place in my heart for Colin Hanks, even after what he did this week.

Mad Men – does that win trippiest finale ending yet? I can’t wait for the final 7 episodes in 2015, and think it’s really lame they split it into 2 seasons, big fail AMC!

Dollhouse- yes this show was on TV in 2009, but thanks to Netflix I finally watched it over the past month. With a sick dog at home, I’ve spent a lot of time snuggling on the couch, and this series was best watched marathoned I thought.

Much Ado About Nothing– I think this was the only movie I watched this month actually. I was missing Joss Whedon after finishing Dollhouse. This movie, a fabulous version of one of my favorite Shakespeare comedies, made me very happy!

Listening

Fitz & The Tantrums Radio – I recently took the time to play with iTunes Radio while I’m working. I created a Fitz & The Tantrums radio station and I can’t get enough. It’s a lot of great 60’s R&B that makes cleaning up my inbox a lot more enjoyable.

Dinner Party Download (Podcast) – my sister in law turned me on to this FANTASTIC podcast! Each Friday you get an hour podcast to make you a hit at your weekend dinner party. There’s always a couple great interviews (Jon Favreau! Steve Martin!), a themed cocktail of the week, and interesting food/party information (I really want to try Switchel now!)

Reading

I have 20 pages left in The 5th Wave– and we have a weekend trip to the Washington Coast where I am hoping to get some reading caught up on comics and books. The summer means warm afternoons on the patio and a lot more books being read!

Summer Short List

Here’s a few things I’m looking forward to this summer…

Chef – I love Jon Favreau and can’t wait to see this movie!

The Book of Mormon- Yup, it’s coming to Seattle & I have my tickets!

The Bridge- I loved the first season of this show!

Orange is the New Black- You know you’re excited for this amazing prison drama!

What’s on your list this summer? What pop culture are you currently consuming and loving (or loathing)?

Thanks to recent travels and a boom in Season finales and season premiers, there’s a lot to discuss here this month…

Books

Veronica Mars: The Thousand Dollar Tan Line– I’m not saying this is high art, BUT if you’re a fan of the TV show (and maybe backed the movie and went on opening day…) then you’ll love the book. It reads just like an episode of the show, and does a good job of making sure new to the world folks know who’s who. A very fun airplane read last week!

The Fifth Wave– I’m still reading this book and really enjoying it. They jump around through a few characters dealing with a post apocalyptic kind of world. My dad claims it’s his favorite YA Post-apocalypse book after The Hunger Games…I’m sold!

Music

Nickel Creek – wow I didn’t realize how much I missed this band! I saw them in concert years ago, and loved their previous release. Their new album A Dotted Line is pretty fantastic great work music.

I still can’t get enough of the new Pharrel album and every time I hear Fitz and the Tantrums I like them more and more…

TV

The Americans- good grief this show is great. You need to be watching it. I’m loving this season!

Mad Men – It’s Back! While some are complaining that they don’t care about the office drama, I trust Matt Weiner that as with every other season, this will end up that every random thing we see has its place.

Game of Thrones- This season is off to a great start! The final scene in Episode 2 did exactly what you always want a show to do, but they won’t do. It’s pretty fantastic. My only request? More dragons!

Parks & Rec- Hands down my favorite show on TV. I like the pregnancy twist this season, triplets are a little unnecessary, but I’m curious for the season finale this week that includes Michelle Obama and my bet is that job in Chicago comes back into play…

Alright- what’s are you reading, listening to and watching this month? The sunshine on Easter made for a great excuse to sit outside and read, I’m looking forward to summer!

I know it’s April First, and no this isn’t a joke, I was on vacation last week, and wanted to wait till after I got caught up on a few pop culture things before letting you know what I loved about March. So, as per the usual, here’s what’s made me happy in Pop Culture this month!

Music

Pharrell Williams- Girl. WOW this album is amazing. I’ve  liked Pharrell for years, and this album does NOT dissapoint. Move beyond Happy, which is so dang catchy, and the rest of the album is the perfect driving music (or sitting by the pool in Vegas with your family…)

TV

We’re now at the season finale portion of the year, and two great ones happened this month…

Brooklyn 99- this show is so funny, and although I didn’t think it deserved the Golden Globe for best comedy, it has proved its own this season. I loved the cliffhangers they left us with, and look forward to it’s season return in the fall!

The Walking Dead- okay what happened on Sunday? Cannibals? Holy cow that was a great cliffhanger- I’m just mad I have to wait 6 months for it to return!

Books & Comics

Visitation Street– Okay, I actually kind of hated this book. It’s a great premise of two girls who float off on a raft and one girl goes missing, and the other doesn’t know what happened. It didn’t keep my attention and then wrapped up a little to neatly for my taste…

Ms. Marvel– this may be my new favorite comic book. It’s only 2 issues in so still time to catch up easily. A Muslim female super hero- I can get behind this!

The Illegitimates– What if a James Bond-esque character died? What if 5 of the women he slept with had kids who possess dad’s skills? I really am enjoying this new series from Taran Killiam (of SNL)!