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.

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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…

3 weeks ago
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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"

2 months ago
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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

3 months ago
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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…

5 months ago
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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.

6 months ago
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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…

7 months ago
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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…

8 months ago
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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…

10 months ago
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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).

11 months ago
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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"…

12 months ago