October Staff Picks

Every month, the Sunstroke Magazine team compiles a list of things— new and old— that we’ve been enjoying. Here’s to finding more things to love.


 
 
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Musicians & Bands

Dream, Ivory

my little airport

Aleka’s Attic

Frida

SALES

Steady Holiday

Phony Ppl

Clarence James

Dreamer Boy

Podcasts

The Magnus Archives (get your spook on in preparation for Halloween month!)

Cults

Scam Goddess

Wild Thing (Bigfoot & alien realness for spooky szn)

Black Frasier

Acting My Age with Rohini Elyse

Films

Almost Famous (2000, Amazon Prime)

Children of the Sea (2019, Netflix)

Mucho, Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado (January 2020, Netflix)

The Social Dilemma (2020, Netflix)

Loving Vincent (2017, Netflix)

Dogtooth, Yorgos Lanthimos (2009, Rent on YouTube)

Mustang (2015, Rent on YouTube)

The Social Network (2010, Netflix)

Drive (2011, Netflix)

Books

Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer (haha)

The Whisperer by Donato Carrissi

The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by by Hunter S. Thompson

Articles, Essays & Journals

Blacks Rule Issue 3

“Juliana Huxtablems Next Chapter”

Foods & Snacks

Lots and lots of London fogs

Dried tomato & basil rice cakes

Daim candies from IKEA

Spicy miso ramen

Pho

Albums

The S(ex) Tapes - Fletcher

Immunity - Clairo

The Ascension - Sufjan Stevens

Detroit 2 - Big Sean

Season 2 - Nasty Cherry

Room 25 - Noname

Stardust Galaxies - The Parlotones

34Corine by TiaCorine

U.F.O.F by Big Thief

Limbo- Aminé 

TV Shows

Baby (Season 3) (Netflix)

Dark (Netflix)

Over The Garden Wall (Hulu)

American Horror Story (Netflix)

Ratched (Netflix)

The OA (Season 2) (Netflix)

This Is Us (Season 4) (Netflix) 

Killing Eve (Hulu)

Sister, Sister (Netflix)

Utopia (Amazon Prime)

Halloween Films

Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975, Amazon Prime)

Eraserhead (1977, HBO)

Monster House (2006, Hulu)

Nightmare on Elm Street (1984, Amazon Prime)

American Psycho (2000, Amazon Prime)

Goodnight Mommy (2014, Hulu)

All Harry Potters (2001-2011, Peacock)

Ghostbusters (1984)

Us (2019, Amazon Prime)

Suspiria (2018, Amazon Prime)

Hocus Pocus (1993, Disney +)

Beetlejuice (1988, Amazon Prime)

Edward Scissorhands (1990, Hulu)

Sweeney Todd (2007, Amazon Prime)

The Craft (1996, Amazon Prime)

Activities & Hobbies

Reading through the titles of Lullatone songs. They’re like a warm hug!

Decorating home with fall and Halloween decorations

Going to drive-in movie theaters 

Car washes

Other

Art Bell’s Coast to Coast radio excerpts

Videos