The telos of this website, its abiding purpose, is a record of the things that I have read and watched. For the reasons undergirding this project see comments on cultural consumption.
June 4
— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, 15 pp.
June 6
— Iron Man 3 (2013)
Directed by Shane Black; screenplay by Shane Black and Drew Pearce based on characters created by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, Don Heck, and Jack Kirby .
Starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, and Ben Fucking Kingsley.
The latter probably said, why the hell can’t I take a bite of this sandwich?
There is money to be made in the service of more entertainment for children! I am a child … I guess.
This film was undoubtedly better than 2, and perhaps the second boring part of 1. The bar still seems rather low.
June 7
— The War (2007), “When Things Get Tough“, airing on Sep. 24, 2007 on PBS.
Directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, written by Geoffrey Ward, and narrated primarily by Keith David.
Many salient scenes, but especially the initial failure of American troops in North Africa.
— NYRB on Russian dissidents and Schoenberg
June 8
— NYRB on freedom vs choice and on the Trump’s silencing of dissidents