I make lists. It's a thing. Here's a few I made for this month, books to read, music to listen to, films to watch, games to play, For June, I'm thinking about the years 1900 to 1949. Two world wars, the roaring 20s, big band era, and many other things come to mind. Here's what I'm starting with.
Books:
P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves books etc... - I started getting interested from watching the Jeeves & Wooster brit com. I've finished My Man Jeeves and am reading The Inimitable Jeeves for the second time.
Ayn Rand's Anthem novella. - I recently listened to Rush's 2112 and discovered its influence is specifically from this Rand novella. I'm reading a graphic novel version right now. I am not a fan of Rand but I occasionally feel I should read something by her. I'm already disliking Anthem. My opinion is not getting better.
H.P. Lovecraft - I've never really read much of Lovecraft. It's been so influential too so this is a great opportunity to get to it.
Pre Golden Age Science Fiction. - I recently did some research and most of the classic scifi authors I read in high school published their first major works in the 50s like Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, Bradbury, Lequin etc... . I've read Verne and Wells of course but they are more in the 19th century tradition to me. So there is a lot of writers mostly new to me I'd like to read. I have a Scifi of the 30s short story collection, so I'll start there.
Music:
Bela Bartok - I got myself a collection of violin and Orchestra pieces. I've always been into Bartok.
Schoenberg - I have a vinyl of Complete Songs for Voice and Piano Vol. 1 I'm excited to listen to. I'm hoping for lots of dissonances and different tonalities to blow my mind.
Silent Film music - I also found a collection of silent film music on vinyl in the bargain bins. It's some zany, melodramatic stuff. If I was still making mix tapes, I'd put a track or two into one as intermissions, maybe with some overdubbed monologue. Too bad I don't have a partner to make such stuff with anymore. It was fun times in my teens.
Film:
Vampyr and Haxan - Watched. I'm really into the German avant guard films of the 20s. They are surreal and often creepy. I love their dramatic use of lighting which eventually influenced Film Noir. I've seen stuff like Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Metropolis so I'm digging for more obscure titles now. Luckily there is the Criterion Collection which has remastered some of this stuff.
Jeeves and Wooster - Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are like the perfect comic duo to pull off Wodehouse's books. Fry is Jeeves and Laurie Wooster. It pokes fun at the life of the Idle Rich.
Games:
I downloaded or added to my wish list on Xbox One the following games I haven't played before.
Call of Cthulhu - This is the 2018 game by Cyanide. I was able to download it. I forget if I owned it or it was part of Game Pass.
Vampyr - I put this on my wish list until a sale appears.
Black Mirror - From 2017. On the wish list.
Draugen - Wish listed.
The Sinking City - Still on my wish list and one I really want to play as it's by the devs who did a lot of Sherlock Holmes games I played recently.
Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb - I have this OG Xbox game and redownloaded it.
Wolfenstein Old Blood - I may download this again because I really want to get through it but I can't get out of that prison at the beginning. That opening part is more stealth than anything and it really turned me off to the game. May try it again though.
So, more may come up over the month. I'm always looking out for interesting media to fit into my year of history theme.
Only games I can think of right now for that time period is 1942 and 1943. To this day, 1943 is one of my favorite shooters.
One of my favorites too.
Hey, you should make a list of all the lists you've made 
I'm about halfway through a giant book of the complete works of Lovecraft but I haven't touched it in probably six months. I really need to get back to that.
Oh my, a metalist. Brilliant! I'm on it.
I just borrowed the New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft beyond Arkham tome from my library. I'm sure I won't have time to read all 25 stories in it.
I've been getting more into Schoenberg. He's not a hugely popular composer though. I subscribe to Apple Music, and they have a lot of great classical playlists, but they don't have any for Schoenberg. I'm been telling myself to build my own, but just haven't gotten around to it.
Wodehouse is definitely on my list of things to read.
I bought Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments the other day. It was on sale for $8 on PSN. I've been meaning to play a Sherlock Holmes video game for a while... I'm a big fan of the books. Also, I'd really like to play more detective games.
It's that 12 tone system he uses a lot. It's eerie and otherworldly - unsettling, which is why I like it and most people can't stand it. haha.
I love the multitude of English slang words in his work. It has a good flow too. I've been trying to figure out his style and what makes it so easy to read. I watched a bit of a film retelling his days during WWII and noticed they had Wodehouse reading his work aloud to himself (I'm assuming that's an accurate portrayal). I think that's generally the key, write as you would speak and it flows well in the reading.
I played Crimes and Punishments on a lark and found I liked it. I played several other of that dev's Holmes games after that.
I have the same feelings about Rand. I feel like I should read her work, but I also think I'll hate it.
Vampyr was interesting. Definitely a good 2020 freebie on PS+ cause it centers around a pandemic.
Well, we all know what would happen if Rand's ideas became dominant. Bioshock. haha
I think I played a little bit of Vampyr before and wanted to get more into it. I've played so many games for like an hour and then quit thinking I'd come back to them.