2022 Favorite Everything

Art by Marco Molina

Aye aye aye, we’ve successfully reached the end of 2022 and I’m sad to say this is the last issue of Literary Loud this year. I’m thankful for everyone who subscribed, listened to my smoked-out rants, and followed my writing journey. I was a bit nervous starting this endeavor, but I’m hyped I did. Big things are on the horizon for 2023 and we’re going UP.

Grant Wamack @grantmirage

This was a pretty dope year for my writing career and it added to my lore significantly. Here’s a brief recap of the highlights and the end of my 7 year hiatus 🎰🎰🎰

Here’s a list of my favorite pieces of media and weed below. These are in no particular order & everything isn’t from 2022 so don’t get upset if you disagree. No forgot that, if you want to be mad, be mad. If you want to be happy, be happy. It’s a free world here.

Books

1. Mercy by Kelby Losack

2. Howl by E. Rathke

3. Dying World by J. David Osborne

4. Ghosts of East Baltimore by David Simmons

5. Third World Magicks by Mike Kleine

6. We Are Here to Hurt Each Other by Paula D. Ashe

7. Inspection by Joshua Malerman

8. Below by Laura Hightower

9. To Rouse Leviathan by Matt Cardin

10. Berserk by Kentaro Miura

*Honorable mention: Ill Behavior by M. Steven S.

Letting Out the Devils by Kelby Losack

Glossolalia by E. Rathke

Weed Strains

1. Blueberry Kush Jeeter

2. Alien Labs Atomic Apple

3. Miss Grass Quiet Times

4. The Farmer’s Eight - Kush Mints

5. Canndescent Calm 124

6. 3C Annunaki OG

7. Maven Genetics - Black Diamond X

Movies

1. The World of Kanako

2. Mad God

3. Barbarian

4. Dashcam

5. Mad Heidi

6. Deadlock

7. Terrifier 2

8. Gonin

9. X

10. Everything Everywhere at Once

Honorable Mentions: Tin Can & Nope & Prey

TV Shows

1. The Backrooms

2. Severance Season 1

3. Atlanta Season 4

4. The Boys Season 3

5. House of the Dragon Season 1

6. Euphoria Season 2

7. White Lotus Season 2

8. Cyberpunk 2077

Albums

1. Father - Young Hot Ebony 2

2. The Cool Kids - Before Shit Got Weird

3. 070 Shake - You Can’t Kill Me

4. Ab-Soul - Herbert

5. Pusha T - It’s Almost Dry

6. KayCyy w/Gesafellstein - TW20 50

7. Westside Boogie - More Black Superheroes

8. Freddie Gibbs - Sold Soul Separately

9. Saba - Few Good Things

10. Steve Lacy - Gemini Rights

*Honorable mentions: Mr. Muthafuckin Exquire - I Love You Cuz You Ugly

Duck Deuce - Memphis Massacre III

Weston Estate - Maggie Valley

Joji - Smirthereens

KILLER MEDIUMS @KMediums

Christmas is over, so we're done being nice. EXTREME HORROR with @grantmirage is here to get an early jump on the naughty list for next year. SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/episode/5RaL9z… #madeonzencastr:

zencastr.comExtreme Horror with Grant Wamack by @William SterlingThis week Grant Wamack and I discuss EXTREME HORROR. We use Saw, Hostel, Richard Laymon, and Jack Ketchum to talk about loads of controversial, EXTREME stuff, like where authors draw their lines, where readers draw their lines, how to balance both, and what constitutes a good, grisly kill. Come get…

I just so happen to be one of the guests on season 2 of the Killer Mediums podcast. I talked extreme horror books and movies with William Sterling. Check it out at the link in the tweet above.

I came back on the Agitator podcast with the BRB boys and had a great time. We talk Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - The Last Ronin, my time at the Xmas tree lot, S.A. Cosby, a whole lotta shit talking, and airing out grievances on the latest episode of Agitator Z. You can listen to it on their patreon here.

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Of the 28 books I somehow read in 2022, the top 6 are (I liked 90% of them btw) - Black Gypsies - @grantmirage The Autodidacts - @TPKendall The Grass Arena - J. Healy Cronenberg on Cronenberg - C. Rodley Always Crashing in the Same Car - @matthewspecktor Nudes - @saderotica

I’m so happy that Black Gypsies made a year end list. Chris Kelso writes his ass off so I feel flattered that my baby made his top books of 2022 list.

The Sunday Book Club @TSBookClub

It’s that time of the year when we request you to share a hand-written list of your favourite 2022 reads. #TSBCBestReads2022 #BookTwitter

And God’s Leftovers made The Sunday Book Club’s favourite 2022 reads. We’re going to international…

New youtube video - my review of Manscaped’s Lawnmower 4.0 with some ASMR thrown in for good measure.

Dream Report: I had a dream last night that I was living in a massive industrial facility. Zombies had taken over the lower levels and we shooting fire out of this giant pipe. Felt like a weekly ritual of sorts. These were durable bastards. I went into this internal courtyard area where R&b was spilling out of the speakers and zombies flooded the space and they were dancing. They seemed healthy and looked normal, but I knew these were zombies. I was frantically trying to tell the normal survivors about this severe issue without the zombies hearing me because I knew it was just a matter of time…

On the writing front, I made some progress on Project Melancholy, Project Blacker Gypsies, and tinkered around with a few short stories.

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Currently Watching: Moon Knight & Ozark Season 1 & Love, Death & Robots Season 3

Currently Reading: God Damn Chainsaw Murderer by Sean M. Thompson & Nudes by Elle Nash & Blame! by Tsutomu Nihei & To Rouse Leviathan by Matt Cardin & Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Currently Smoking: Miss Grass - Quiet Times Minis

Currently Listening: Black Tapes Podcast & The Danny Brown Podcast

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A few of my favorite music videos from this year…

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Until next year…