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 8
July 2nd
— MobLand (2025), Episode 1.1 “Stick or Twist”
Directed by Guy Ritchie; written by Ronan Bennett and Jez Butterworth.
Starring Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, Paddy Considine, Joanne Froggatt, Lara Pulver, and Geoff Bell.
Premiered on Paramount+ on March 30, 2025; episodes released weekly through June 1, 2025
July 3rd
— Sahara (1943), half hour
Directed by Zoltán Korda; screenplay written by John Howard Lawson, based on an incident in the novel Patrol by Philip MacDonald.
Starring Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Bridges, and Dan Duryea.
Released in the United States on November 11, 1943.
July 4th
— Woolf, 25 pp
— Arendt, “Lying in Public”, 10 pp
— Rocky III (1982), last hour
Directed and written by Sylvester Stallone.
Starring Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Mr. T, and Burgess Meredith.
Released in the United States on May 28, 1982.
July 7th
— Mobland, 1.2-4
7/9
— Mobland, 1.5-7
7/10
— Woolf, To The Lighthouse, “Time Passes”
7/12
— The Materialists (2025)
— Mobland, 1.8-10
7/13
— Woolf, To The Lighthouse, “Time Passes”, 2nd time
— Summertime (1955)
7/14
— Arendt, “On Civil Disobedience”
— NYRB on Tottenham’s Service
7/15
— Law & Order, “Exile” (9.25)
— To The Lighthouse, 10 pp.
7/20
— Miami Vice (2007)
7/21
— The Bear, 2.2-3
— To The Lighthouse, 10 pp.
7/22-23
— Finished To The Lighthouse
7/24
— The Skin, 20 pp.
— Cavan Scott, The Rising Storm, 50 pp.
7/26
— Rising Storm, 250 pp.