The so-called Glaciation Trilogy and the only Hamaguchi film I hadn’t seen, as well as David Graeber’s “Utopia of Rules”
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.
Cold January 2024: Reading and Writing
Greatest hits of January 2023: The Manchurian Candidate, Austerlitz, Blood Meridian, King Lear, and The Long Good Friday
Continue reading...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.
Continue reading...Ominous October 2023 Reading/Writing
Little aliens deeply impressed by the British Invasion arrived in Philadelphia, begged me to read and watch through October.
Continue reading...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”
Continue reading...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.
Continue reading...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”.
Continue reading...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).
Continue reading...April-Showered Reading, Watching
Rereading Shakespeare, Borges; then reading stories by Walter de la Mare. Re-watching two films by David Lynch—neither being “Blue Velvet” nor “Inland Empire.”
Continue reading...Meticulous March: Reading, Watching
Nothing that meticulous about it. Finished at least one book. Mostly underwhelming days.
Continue reading...Newly Reading/Viewing January 2023
The New Year January 2023 of reading/viewing with Stendhal’s "Charterhouse of Parma" and Hamaguchi’s 2022 film "Drive My Car"
Continue reading...Conscientiously Reading, Watching December 2022
In December I started a new position as an SEO associate at Sagapixel. In the 45 days that have followed it seems so much like I’ve been unable to raise...
Continue reading...Cultural Consumption, 2022-Style! Best of!
The best books and films of 2022, some description thereof, as well as a few of the worst.
Continue reading...November 2022: Reading, Watching
Some transcendent moments. In reading Brontë, Borges, Sebald, Masters. Watching "The Getaway" and "Breaking Away". Others, not transcendent even a little.
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