Greatest hits of September undoubtedly include Curzio Malaparte’s unfinished novel “The Kremlin Ball”; they do NOT include watching “Jaws 2” or “Jaws 3D.”
Continue reading...Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
A daily record of all of the books and movies and films and novels and short stories and even television shows (occasionally) that I read or watched collected into a monthly report.
August August 2024: Reading, Viewing
Kept reading The Overstory” and should have finished it. Started “Homicide: Life on the Street” (1993-99), which has been a good thing. And “The Secret History of Science Fiction”
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- 2024-09-05
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July 2024: Reading, Watching
Greatest hits: the Netflix Ripley series, “Blood and Wine” with Jack Nicholson, “Geology: A Very Short Introduction.”
Lowest lows: “The Flash.” What facile bollocks.
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- 2024-08-02
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June 2024 Reading, Viewing
Greatest Hits: Everett’s “Erasure,” Zweig’s “Mary, Queen of Scots,” “Code Inconnu.” Lowest Lows: “S.W.A.T.” (2003). Ouch.
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- 2024-07-06
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May 2024 Reading and Viewing
During May I consumed so much Stefan Zweig, Nikolai Gogol, but also “Crime Wave” and “The Insider” and even “La Haine”
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- 2024-06-03
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April Absolutions: Reading, Watching
The highnotes: The Letter (1940), Hobson’s Choice (1954), Stefan Zweig, Henrik Ibsen.
The lownotes: The Matrix (1999) and its progency, Ender’s Game (2013), 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), The Bounty Hunter (1965).
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- 2024-05-01
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Manic March 2024 Reading, Writing
David Graeber’s “The Utopia of Rules,” Michael Haneke’s “Funny Games,” Ida Lupino in “Women’s Prison.” Is it too late to punish the writers of “Road House”?
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- 2024-04-03
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Frigid February 2024 Reading & Watching
The so-called Glaciation Trilogy and the only Hamaguchi film I hadn’t seen, as well as David Graeber’s “Utopia of Rules”
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- 2024-03-06
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Cold January 2024: Reading and Writing
Greatest hits of January 2023: The Manchurian Candidate, Austerlitz, Blood Meridian, King Lear, and The Long Good Friday
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- 2024-02-03
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Nihilistic November 2023 Reading and Writing
Greatest hits include the 1942 film “The Glass Key” and the 1993 film “Groundhog Day” and reading Schelling and reading Schiller.
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- 2023-12-02
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Ominous October 2023 Reading/Writing
Little aliens deeply impressed by the British Invasion arrived in Philadelphia, begged me to read and watch through October.
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- 2023-11-02
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Scintillating September 2023: Reading, Writing
Greatest hits of September: the charming memoir “Family Lexicon” by Natalia Ginzburg, Luchino Visconti’s “The Damned” and then “The Seven Ups”
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- 2023-10-01
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Listless July/August Reading/Writing
Reflecting on these reminds me of how great "Germany Year Zero" and "The Player" really were. Also, "Yoga" and Henry James.
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- 2023-09-09
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Dull June 2023: Reading, Watching, No Writing
Greatest reading and watching hits of June 2023 included “Men”, “Sword of Doom”, “Heat”, “Merry Wives of Windsor”, and “The Anniversary Party”.
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- 2023-07-03
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Sumptuously Reading, Watching, Viewing: May 2023
Reading 15th- and 16th-century lit and watching contemporary, 21st-century film. Greatest hits: Heat (1995), Montaigne, Shakespeare (immer wieder).
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- 2023-06-03
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