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In his 10th week, der Dunkle is releasing shorter episodes, including this one on the Dark Knight Rises, which dropped from #8 to #18 this week.

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In his 10th week, der Dunkle is changing up the game, here focusing, for this short episode on music from his final listen-through of his spring playlist, specifically artists starting with A and B, including Andrew Bird, the Avett Brothers, Beck, Bright Eyes, and the Beatles.

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In his 9th episode, der Dunkle talks about Haley Heynderickx' I Need to Start a Garden and the pain of joy; Don Quixote, Zaleski's the Fellowship, and finishing Nesbit's Ghost Stories, as well as Canto XV of Inferno and infernal irony; a couple movies: The Freebie and Hardcore Henry; The Rehearsal; and Ultimate Spider-Man: Incursion 1.

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In his 8th episode, der Dunkle talks about George Jones' Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes; Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights; Zaleski's the Fellowship and updates on McCulloch's Reformation: A History, Duffy's Stripping of the Altars, and Nesbit's Ghost Stories; Good Faith Effort; a few movies: Live Free or Die Hard, All Is Lost, and Now You See Me; Columbo and Creature Commandos; Absolute Flash 3, Ultimates 12, and the DC crossover We Are Yesterday; and the power of mixing tastes.

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In his 7th episode, der Dunkle talks about HAIM's Women in Music pt. III; Michelangelo's David and Creation of Adam; Butler's Lives of the Saints, An Index of Self-Destructive Acts, Sartre's preface to Fanon's Wretched of the Earth, bits of Don Quixote, Inferno, and Gilead; movies on movies: Unbreakable, That They May Face the Rising Sun, Henry Poole Is Here, the Social Network, the Time Traveler's Wife, the Dark Knight, and Show Boat; Absolute Batman 8, Ultimate Black Panther 16, Ultimate X-Men 15, and Usagi Yojimbo: Ten Thousand Plums 3; and Breckenridge's Spring Forward and Eggah for St. Athanasius.

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In his sixth episode, der Dunkle talks about Bright Eyes' Letting Off the Happiness; a Sinners fan poster and the Astronomer by Vermeer; a week of history reading and finishing Black Empire; no podcasts or movies; Yellowjackets, Nobody Wants This, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and the Four Seasons; Dragon Ball vol. 3; and Left Hand's Colorful Colorado, Buldak stir-fry ramen, and Sonic ice.

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In his fifth episode, dD talks about Tammy Wynette's Stand by Your Man; Madre by Joaquin Sorolla and Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer; finishing The Wizard of Oz, the ghost story by Edith Nesbit, as well as continuing Anna Karenina, Paul: A Biography, and the Odyssey; a slew of podcasts, including the North American Friends Movie Club, the Symbolic World, and Good Faith Effort; Inherent Vice, the Apprentice, and Thunderbolts*; all the TV: the Pitt, Fargo Season 4, Severance, Daredevil: Born Again, and Columbo; Ultimate Spidey 16; and a birthday week with Nosferatu cake and plenty of eating out.

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In his fourth episode (mad late), dD discusses Beck's Odelay; Romeo and Juliet on the Balcony by Julius Kronberg and Vermeer's the Milkmaid; beginning Edith Nesbit's Ghost Stories and Diarmaid MacCulloch's the Reformation: A History, the tale of Lothario from Don Quixote, as well as Black Empire and fascism; the podcast Legal Ease; the films Sinners, Eighth Grade, and the Friend; and lastly, Absolute Martian Manhunter 2, Absolute Wonder Woman 7, Ultimate Black Panther 15, and Usagi Yojimbo: Ten Thousand Plums.

Romeo and Juliet on the Balcony by Julius Kronberg: https://x.com/wikivictorian/status/1911441749479924051

Vermeer's the Milkmaid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Milkmaid_%28Vermeer%29

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In his third episode, dD discusses Poor Bishop Hooper's Golgotha, Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears, 'I Don't Believe in the Sun' from 69 Love Songs, a few pictures he found on Twitter, including Hagios Petros, The Love Letter, and The Shadow, more of his ongoing first reads: Black Empire, Gilead, and The Master and Margarita, the film Small Things Like These, Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimate Wolverine, and a few local KC restaurants.

Hagios Petros-Fr. Tom Bombadil: https://x.com/calix517/status/1913273401088565285

The Love Letter-WikiVictorian: https://x.com/wikivictorian/status/1910716974612574611

The Shadow-solisolsoli: https://x.com/solisolsoli/status/1913427332607455528

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In his second episode [who would've thought, not me], dD discusses diversity on his spring playlist, Infernal Equinox, a few more van Goghs, with his name pronounced right, including Starry Night, some of his ongoing rereads plus Don Quixote and Swann's Way, A Minecraft Movie, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, and Warfare, a whole mess of comic books, mostly DC and Marvel, some games, creativity and predictability, and Founder's All Day IPA.