Professor Rex's Favorite Albums of 2022

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The Best Albums of 2022, according to me, are:

  • 3rd Secret, "3rd Secret"

  • Archers of Loaf, "Reason in Decline"

  • beabadoobee, "Beatopia"

  • Belle and Sebastian, "A Bit of Previous"

  • Beyonce, "RENAISSANCE"

  • Big Thief, "Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You"

  • Bonnie Raitt, "Just Like That..."

  • BROCKHAMPTON, "The Family" & "TM"

  • Courtney Barnett, "Things Take Time, Take Time"

  • Cypress Hill, "Back in Black"

  • Danger Mouse & Black Thought, "Cheat Codes"

  • Dolly Parton, "Run, Rose, Run"

  • Earl Sweatshirt, "SICK!"

  • Eddie Vedder, "Earthling"

  • Jack Harlow, "Come Home the Kids Miss You"

  • Jack White, "Fear of the Dawn"

  • Katie Alice Greer, "Barbarism"

  • Kendrick Lamar, "Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers"

  • KRS-One, "I M A M C R U 1 2"

  • Leikeli47, "Shape Up"

  • Lil Baby & Lil Durk, "The Voice of the Heroes"

  • Lizzo, "Special"

  • Mach-Hommy, "Pray for Haiti"

  • Megan Thee Stallion, "Traumazine"

  • Muse, "Will of the People"

  • Panic! At the Disco, "Viva Las Vengeance"

  • Phoebe Bridgers, "So Much Wine"

  • Pink Navel, "EPIC"

  • Pusha T, "It's Almost Dry"

  • Soccer Mommy, "Sometimes, Forever"

  • SURF GANG, "SGV1"

  • Tegan & Sara, "Still Jealous"

  • Vince Staples, "RAMONA PARK BROKE MY HEART"

  • Wet Leg, "Wet Leg"

The basic criteria is quality and quantity. These are the albums I listened to in 2022 that had the most good music on them.

Professor Rex's Top 100 Horror Movies of All-Time for Halloween Month

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For Halloween Month, here is my list of my Top 100 Horror Movies of all-time. When I write horror, it's because of these movies, EC/DC horror comics, Stephen King, Ray Bradbury and real life.

(In alphabetical order)

  • 1408

  • 28 Days Later

  • 28 Weeks Later

  • 30 Days of Night

  • A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

  • Alien

  • Aliens

  • Arachnophobia

  • Army of Darkness

  • Blade

  • Bug (2006)

  • Cabin Fever

  • Candyman (1992)

  • Carrie (1976)

  • Cooties

  • Creepshow

  • Dawn of the Dead (1978)

  • Dawn of the Dead (2004)

  • Drag Me To Hell

  • Eight Legged Freaks

  • Event Horizon

  • Evil Dead (2013)

  • Evil Dead 2 (1987)

  • Fallen

  • Feast

  • Final Destination

  • Final Destination 5

  • Freddy vs. Jason

  • From Dusk Till Dawn

  • Get Out

  • Ghost Ship

  • Graveyard Shift

  • Gremlins

  • Gremlins 2: The New Batch

  • Halloween (1978)

  • Happy Death Day

  • Hereditary

  • High Tension

  • Hostel

  • House of 1,000 Corpses

  • It (2017)

  • It Follows

  • Jacob's Ladder (1990)

  • Jaws

  • Jennifer's Body

  • King Kong (1933)

  • Mad God

  • Midsommar

  • Night of the Living Dead (1968)

  • Pandorum

  • Paranormal Activity

  • Peninsula

  • Planet Terror

  • Poltergeist (1982)

  • Psycho (1960)

  • Ravenous (1999)

  • Red State

  • Ringu (1998)

  • Rubber

  • Saw

  • Scream (1996)

  • Session 9

  • Shaun of the Dead

  • Silent Hill

  • Slither

  • Split

  • Suspiria (1977)

  • Suspiria (2018)

  • Teeth

  • The Babadook

  • The Blair Witch Project (1999)

  • The Cabin in the Woods

  • The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It

  • The Descent

  • The Devil's Rejects

  • The Exorcist

  • The First Purge

  • The Fly (1986)

  • The Frighteners

  • The Invisible Man (2020)

  • The Mist

  • The Omen

  • The Others

  • The Ring (2002)

  • The Shining (1980)

  • The Thing (1982)

  • The Witch (2015)

  • Train to Busan

  • Tremors

  • Trick r Treat (2007)

  • Troll Hunter

  • Tucker & Dale vs. Evil

  • Us

  • Wes Craven's New Nightmare

  • What We Do in the Shadows

  • White Noise (2005)

  • Willy's Wonderland

  • Wolf Creek

  • Wrong Turn (2003)

  • Zombieland

This is fully an opinion and it's based on watching more than 900 horror movies, so it's not a random sampling and wasn't arrived at quickly or off the top of my head.

Professor Rex's Favorite Albums of 2021

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Okay, finally got around to checking out the last few albums on my list and here is my comprehensive, eclectic, diverse set of Best Albums of 2021. The basic criteria is quality and quantity. These are the albums I listened to in 2021 that had the most good music on them.

  • Angels & Airwaves, "Lifeforms"

  • Billie Eilish, "Happier Than Ever"

  • Bleachers, "Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night"

  • Brockhampton, "Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine"

  • CHVRCHES, "Screen Violence"

  • Courtney Barnett, "Things Take Time, Take Time"

  • Danny Elfman, "Big Mess"

  • Dee Gees, "Hail Satin"

  • DMX, "Exodus"

  • Duran Duran, "FUTURE PAST"

  • Eddie Vedder, "Matter of Time"

  • Eels, "Extreme Witchcraft"

  • Foo Fighters, "Medicine At Midnight"

  • Garbage, "No Gods Mo Masters"

  • Gojira, "Fortitude"

  • J. Cole, "The Off-Season"

  • Kings of Leon, "When You See Yourself"

  • Laura Jane Grace, "At War With the Silverfish"

  • Lil Nas X, "MONTERO"

  • Liz Phair, "Soberish"

  • Lorde, "Solar Power"

  • Lucy Dacus, "Home Video"

  • Mach-Hommy, "Pray for Haiti"

  • Megan Thee Stallion, "Something for thee Hotties"

  • Olivia Rodrigo, "SOUR"

  • Pink Navel, "EPIC"

  • Public Enemy, "What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down?"

  • Riz Ahmed, "The Long Goodbye"

  • Serj Tankian, "Elasticity"

  • Surf Gang, "SGV1"

  • Tierra Whack, "Pop?/Rap?/R&B?"

  • Twenty One Pilots, "Scaled and Icy"

  • Various Artists, "The Harder They Fall (The Motion Picture Soundtrack)"

Second, here are a few artists that, if all their 2021 work was all on the same album, they would've made the list, too:

  • Angel Olsen

  • Finneas

  • Jenny Lewis & Serengeti

  • The Linda Lindas

  • Rico Nasty

  • Saweetie

  • Tom Morello

Finally, here are a few albums from the few years before 2021 that I first listened to in 2021, but they would've made the list in the year they came out (I think these are all from 2017-2020).

  • Foxy Shazam, "Burn"

  • IDLES, "Joy as an Act of Resistance"

  • Jack Stauber, "Pop Food"

  • Kid Cudi, "Man on the Moon III: The Chosen"

  • Laura Jane Grace, "Stay Alive"

  • Nas, "King's Disease"

  • The Network, "Money Money 2020 Part II: We Told You So"

  • Run the Jewels, "RTJ4"

  • The Struts, "Strange Days"

  • Taylor Swift, "folklore"

RevEx's Very Useful Link of the Day: Why Artists Struggle With Self-Worth - Erica Wernick

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Welcome to our daily feature, where each day, we post a link to something useful. Whether it be news related to creativity or a guide to something or instruction on craft or just something that we can all learn from, we’ll give you one a day. Here’s today’s Very Useful Link of the Day:

Over at Film Courage, Erica Wernick takes on concepts like imposter syndrome and struggles with worthiness:

RevEx's Very Useful Link of the Day: Why Hollywood Emails Are Never Answered - Gary W. Goldstein

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Welcome to our daily feature, where each day, we post a link to something useful. Whether it be news related to creativity or a guide to something or instruction on craft or just something that we can all learn from, we’ll give you one a day. Here’s today’s Very Useful Link of the Day:

Over at Film Courage, Gary W. Goldstein explains the proper process to reaching out to Hollywood decision-makers:

RevEx's Very Useful Link of the Day: How A Writer's Favorite Movies Can Help Them Discover Their Own Superpower - Brooks Elms

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Welcome to our daily feature, where each day, we post a link to something useful. Whether it be news related to creativity or a guide to something or instruction on craft or just something that we can all learn from, we’ll give you one a day. Here’s today’s Very Useful Link of the Day:

Over at Film Courage, Brooks Elms discusses why you should lean into your favorite movies as you write:

RevEx's Very Useful Link of the Day: Filmmaking Advice That Changed My Life - Shaun Paul Piccinino

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Welcome to our daily feature, where each day, we post a link to something useful. Whether it be news related to creativity or a guide to something or instruction on craft or just something that we can all learn from, we’ll give you one a day. Here’s today’s Very Useful Link of the Day:

Over at Film Courage, Shaun Paul Piccinino discusses the advice that changed his life:

The All-New RevEx Music Podcast Is Now Live!

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This is the beginning of a new edition of the RevEx Music Podcast! Episodes are Spotify exclusives because we can now play entire songs legally during the show, including ANYTHING on Spotify, so be prepared to hear a ton of new and old and eclectic and progressive and awesome music!

The first episode takes a dive into 5 songs from the Professor Rex album “Core Nerd Punk Rap.”

Listen on Spotify now!

RevEx's Very Useful Link of the Day: The “Asexual” Asian Man - End the Undesirable Stereotype

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Welcome to our daily feature, where each day, we post a link to something useful. Whether it be news related to creativity or a guide to something or instruction on craft or just something that we can all learn from, we’ll give you one a day. Here’s today’s Very Useful Link of the Day:

The Take explains the problems with the trope of the asexual Asian man:

RevEx's Very Useful Link of the Day: Why 99% Of Stories Are Meaningless - Jack Grapes

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Welcome to our daily feature, where each day, we post a link to something useful. Whether it be news related to creativity or a guide to something or instruction on craft or just something that we can all learn from, we’ll give you one a day. Here’s today’s Very Useful Link of the Day:

Over at Film Courage, Jack Grapes explains what 99% of stories are missing…