A soul in tension, that's learning to fly.

Alexandra, born 1987, Bavaria/Germany, glider pilot, travel lover, music addict, movie enthusiast, ghost writer.

[flyingalex]

Best of 2022

Here we go again….

🎥 Movies

Help

Supernova

Coda

See How They Run

Promising Young Woman

Operation Mincemeat

The Good Nurse

Résistance

Minari

📺 Series

Babylon Berlin

Slow Horses

High School

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Stranger Things

Peaky Blinders

The Umbrella Academy

House of the Dragon

The Crown

🎶 Records

Tegan and Sara – Crybaby

ALT-J – The Dream

Palace – Shoals

Brandon Boyd – Echoes & Cocoons

Tegan and Sara – Still Jealous

Sigrid – How To Let Go

Warpaint – Radiate Like This

Harry Styles – Harry's House

Stromae – Multitude

Porcupine Tree – Closure/Continuation

Spoon – Lucifer on the Sofa

[flyingalex]

Best of 2021.

It‘s that time of the year… Those are my personal favorites from the past year in no particular order, but with explicit recommendation!

🎥 Movies

Dune

Nomadland

Don't Look Up

The Mauritanian

Finch

The Father

The French Dispatch

A Quiet Place 2

My Octopus Teacher

The Peower Of The Dog

📺 Series

Dark

Mare of Easttown

Schitt's Creek

Ted Lasso

Babylon Berlin

Halston

Halt and Catch Fire

Sweet Tooth

Maid

🎶 Records

Chet Faker – Hotel Surrender

The War On Drugs – I Don't Live Here Anymore

Hans Zimmer – The Art and Soul of Dune

Måneskin – Teatro d'Ira - Vol. I

Lorde – Solar Power

Leyya – Longest Day of My Life

CHVRCHES – Screen Violence

Biffy Clyro – The Myth of the Happily Ever After

Adele – 30

Ben Howard – Collections from the Whiteout

Royal Blood – Typhoons

Birdy – Young Heart

Alessia Cara – In The Meantime

[flyingalex]

Best of 2020.

Traditionally, here are my personal favorites from the past year (in no particular order).

Movies

JoJo Rabbit

Little Women

A Monster Calls

Narziss und Goldmund

1917

A Boy Called Sailboat

The Peanut Butter Falcon

Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Hamilton

Woman at War

Tully

Series

Killing Eve

The Mandalorian

The Crown

The Umbrella Academy

Broadchurch

Run

The Handmaid's Tale

Sex Education

La Casa de Papel

Records

HAIM – Women In Music III

Matt Berninger – Serpentine Prison

Incubus – Trust Fall (Side B)

Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher

Hayley Williams  – Petals for Armor

Jimmy Eat World – Surviving

Kaki King – Modern Yesterdays

The Strokes – The New Abnormal

[flyingalex]

Best of 2019.

Same procedure as every year. Here are my personal favorites from the past year (in no particular order).

Films

Booksmart

Beautiful Boy

Capernaum

Green Book

Zombieland: Double Tap

Roma

Bohemian Rhapsody

The King

Ballon

The Glass Castle

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Marriage Story

The Aeronauts

Joker

Series

Fleabag

Unbelievable

Chernobyl

The Umbrella Academy

The End of the F***ing World

Game of Thrones

Mr. Robot

Stranger Things

Sex Education

Crashing

Black Mirror

Records

Tegan and Sara – Hey, I’m Just Like You

Sigrid – Sucker Punch

Brittany Howard – Jaime

Harry Styles – Fine Line

P!NK – Hurts 2B Human

Billie Eilish – When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

Metric – Art of Doubt

Hozier – Wasteland, Baby!

Avril Lavigne – Head Above Water

Rammstein – Rammstein

The National – I Am Easy To Find

Alessia Cara – The Pains of Growing

Gary Clark jr – This Land

Bon Iver – i,i

Sleater-Kinney – The Centre Won’t Hold

Can’t wait until some more movies/series of 2019 are released here in Germany, especially THE MANDALORIAN and LITTLE WOMEN...

[flyingalex]

Best of 2018.

It’s that time of the year. I feel like there are dozens more on my listen and watch list, but here are my favorite records and films of this past year – in no particular order (and not necessarily released in 2018).

Films

Early Man

Call Me By Your Name

A Quiet Place

Lady Bird

Wonder

The Shape of Water

Midnight Special

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Ein Sack voll Murmeln

Isle Of Dogs

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Paddington 2

Ocean's 8

Series

The End of the F***ing World

Versailles

The Crown

The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story

The Good Place

Records

Haim – Something To Tell You

James Bay – Electric Light

Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer

Christine and the Queens – Chris

Leyya – Sauna

David Bowie – Glastonbury 2000

Robyn – Honey

The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships

Years & Years – Palo Santo

Jack White – Boarding House Reach

[flyingalex]

Best of 2017.

Same procedure as every year. Here are my favorites from the past year (not necessarily released 2017) – with explicit recommendation and in no particular order.

Records.

The National – Sleep Well Beast

Tegan and Sara present The Con X

Pink – Beautiful Trauma

Harry Styles – Harry Styles

Computer Games – Lost Boys Life EP

Lorde – Melodrama

The xx – I See You

Paramore – After Laughter

U2 – Songs of Experience

Broken Social Scene – Hug of Thunder

Kaleo – A/B

Incubus – 8

alt-J – Relaxer

Films.

Dunkirk

Blade Runner 2049

I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore

The Fundamentals of Caring

Buster's Mal Heart

Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank

Swiss Army Man

Hidden Figures

Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi

Series.

Stranger Things

Atypical

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Godless

Santa Clarita Diet

Fargo

[sphingter]

📸: Pamela Littky

[flyingalex]

Tegan and Sara performing The Con as part of their acoustic set at their Love You To Death tour stop at the Muffathalle in Munich, Germany (February 6th 2017).

[flyingalex]

Tegan and Sara performing Where Does The Good Go as part of their acoustic set at their Love You To Death tour stop at the Muffathalle in Munich, Germany (February 6th 2017).

Tegan giving us an inside look into her songwriting process @ 1:15 "This is the part of the song where I regret not writing a bridge. Or using... doing something different. Just giving you an insiders look. Somewhere in my 23 year old brain I thought 'Just repeat it! Do it again, it's that good'." ;)

[flyingalex]

Best of 2016.

Same procedure as every year. Here are my favorites from the past year (not necessarily released 2016) – with explicit recommendation and in no particular order. Movies

Captain Fantastic

Room

The Lobster

Finding Dory

The Revenant

Deadpool

Hello My Name Is Doris

Spotlight

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Swiss Army Man

Records

David Bowie - Black Star

Butch Walker - Stay Gold

Skunk Anansie - Anarchytecture

Birdy - Beautiful Lies

Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

Tegan and Sara - Love You To Death

Bon Iver - 22, A Million

The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It

Wilco - Schmilco

The Rolling Stones - Blue & Lonesome

Warpaint - Heads Up

King Crimson - Radical Action To Unseat The Hold Of Monkey Mind

Tame Impala - Current

[teamerandsider]

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[flyingalex]

I don’t think there’s another piece of music as calming and soothing as this. 12 minutes well spent.

[flyingalex]

Best of 2015.

It’s that time of the year again: here are my personal favorites of the records I listened to and the films I saw last year. With explicit recommendation. In no particular order.

Movies

Whiplash

Birdman

Mad Max: Fury Road

Star Wars Episode VII - The Force Awakens

Wild

Cake

St. Vincent

The Martian

Kingsman

Tracks

Jurrasic World

Ex Machina

Records

MS MR - How Does It Feel

Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color

Gary Clark Jr. - The Story Of Sonny Boy Slim

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell

The Theory Of Everything [OST]

Hozier - Hozier

Butch Walker - Afraid Of Ghosts

Adele - 25

CHVRCHES - Every Open Eye

Blur - The Magic Whip

Beach House - Depression Cherry

Sleater-Kinney – No Cities To Love

Joanna Newsom - Divers

[thexfilesfox]

See you in January. 

[entertainmentweekly]

[heavy-heartstrings]

[flyingalex]

I got something in motion. Something you can't see. It requires devotion. From those who truly believe.

This is something you can't touch. This is something you feel. For some people its too much. For some people it heals.