Media flow: what I've been reading, listening to, watching...
Some of the media I've been consuming - things I'd like to shout about, promote and circulate, or just plain rate. Some items I give my own star rating to - in brackets after the item (1-5)
2024
June
Literature:
- Norweigan Wood, Haruki Murakami (5)
Movies:
- Kinds of Kindness (3)
- Furiosa: a Mad Max Saga (2)
May
Literature:
- Permanent Record, Edward Snowden
April
Literature:
- The London Hanged, Peter Linebaugh
March
Literature:
- Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
February
Literature:
- The Dark Forest, Cixin Liu
January
Literature:
- The 3 Body Problem, Cixin Liu
2023
December
Literature:
Movies/TV:
- Die Hard (5)
- Home Alone (4.5)
- Mog's Christmas (5)
November
Literature:
- For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway (5)
Movies/TV:
- Black Bear (2.5)
- Tetris (3)
- Saltburn (3.5)
- The Hitcher [remake; 2007] (3)
October
Literature:
- A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway (4)
Movies/TV:
September
Literature:
- Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
- Bleeding Edge, Thomas Pynchon (4)
Movies/TV:
- Cosmic Time Machine (4)
- A Haunting in Venice (4)
August
Literature:
- The Mars Room, Rachel Kushner
- Jurrasic Park, Michael Crichton
Movies/TV:
- Barbie (4)
- Oppenheimer (4)
July
Literature:
- The Trees, Percival Everett (5)
Movies/TV:
- Moneyball
- Underwater (2)
- Indiana Jones and the dial of... *yawn* (-100)
June
Literature:
- Devil's House, John Darnielle
Movies/TV:
- [TV] Succession - season 1 (4+)
- Asteroid City (3.5)
- Reality
May
Literature:
- Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace
Movies/TV:
April
Fiction:
- Count Zero, William Gibson
- Mr Loverman, Bernadine Evaristo
Movies/TV:
March
Fiction:
- When Memory Dies, Ambalavaner Sivanandan (5)
Music:
- Fenfo, Fatoumata Diawara [album]
- Low End Theory, A Tribe Called Quest
- Voyageur, Ali Farka Toure [album] (5)
Movies/TV:
- The Last of Us - Season 1 [2023] (5)
- Rye Lane [2023] (5+)
February
Fiction:
- Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pynchon (attempted but not completed)
Non-fiction:
- Socialism with an Anarchist Squint [via strangematters.coop] (5)
Music
- Rubber Soul, The Beatles [album]
- Shore, Fleet Foxes [album]
Movies/TV
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [2011] (4)
- The Last of Us [2022] (4)
January
Fiction
- Neuromancer, William Gibson (re-reading)
Non-Fiction:
- Manufacturing Consent, Noam Chomsky (re-reading)
Music
- Bleed Out, The Mountain Goats [album]
- Walkman, Bad Bad Hats [album]
Movies
- Glass Onion, a Knives out Mystery [2022] (3.5)
- Cosmos [2019] (4)
- The Lost Daughters (4)
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