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• Random Mixtape - It's Too Close for Comfort

  

  Veronika Gilková - Misc bananarama | cruel summer. warpaint | so good. thao the get down stay down | temple. laura marling | strange girl. kaki king |... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Re-discovering Rejoined

  

  It was the week of the 2020 US Presidential Election, so nothing else really got through, nothing felt important or intense enough to break the cycle of... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Plain Bad Heroines

  

  Emily M. Danforth’s Plain Bad Heroines (aided by beautiful illustrations by Sara Lautman) is a matryoshka doll of a story. Nesting – and what a great... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• "We Did It Joe"

  It is finally done. After days of following the counting of the votes in the remaining states on the map, Biden's lead in Pennsylvania and Nevada finally... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

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  Not really sure what to say on this day. I remember four years ago leaving for work before the election was decided and then coming home to the result - and wha... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: October

  Non-Fiction: Anne Helen Petersen: I Can't Even. How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation. Fiction: Paul Tremblay: The Cabin at the End of the World. Yrsa... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Haunting of Bly Manor

  

  Jamie: The wrong kind of love can fuck you up. [...] I don’t know why so many people mix up love and possession. Dani: […] People do, don’t they. Mix up love an... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: September.

  Fiction: Seth Dickinson: The Traitor Baru Cormorant.Seth Dickinson: The Monster Baru Cormorant.Seth Dickinson: The Tyrant Baru Cormorant. Lilah Suzanne: Tack ... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - i Stretch My Bones out on the Floor

  

  Xanthippe Tsalimi - Endless, 2010 [via tumblr]pip blom | truth. shopping | wild child. sweeping promises | hunger for a way out. bedouine, waxahatchee hurray... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Tyrant Baru Cormorant Reading Notes Act Four In Progress

  ACT FOUR: Yawa's Choice. "Mother! Mother!” “Baru,” her mother said, “your hands smell like pussy.”And thus, the tone for this final act is set. Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Tyrant Baru Cormorant Reading Notes Act Two in Progress

  ACT TWO31/8/20This second act of the third book did something peculiar - taking a story that has been dark and sad for so long and somehow changing course... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: August.

  Fiction: Lindsay Ellis: Axiom's End. Rowan Hisayo Buchanan: Starling Days. Celia Laskey: Under the Rainbow. Genevieve Hudson: Boys of Alabama.Alex White: A Big... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Tyrant Baru Cormorant Reading Notes (in Progress, Spoilers!)

  It is finally here! I just finished Alex White's Salvagers trilogy and the second part of Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb trilogy, but nothing is closer to my heart... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

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  "So often I had heard Americans say they wanted their country to be run like a business. In fact, this was one of the most common arguments advanced in favor... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

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  I have been finding it very difficult to put any coherent thought together about anything that is happening in the world since February - not about Covid, not... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: July.

  

  Non-Fiction: Akala: Natives. Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire.Jenn Shapland: My Auto-Biography of Carson McCullers.Fiction: Junauda Petrus: The Stars and... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Girl with All the Gifts / Survivor Song

  

  I’ve been thinking about zombie narratives and how they feel in July 2020, four months into COVID-19 and the disorienting reality of 2020. Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Assistant

  

  The pivotal scene of Kitty Green’s The Assistant comes towards the end of the film, when Julia Garner’s Jane, after having spent most of the film quietly... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: June

  Non-Fiction: Kate Zambreno: Screen Tests. Kate Zambreno: Drifts. Kate Zambreno: Heroines.Cathy Park Hong: Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning.Wendy... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - This is Just a Momentary Ripple in the Stream

  

  Piero Dorazio - Ex Tempore II, 1963 [via tumblr]jessie ware | step into my life. martha and the muffins | echo beach. sonic youth | mary-christ. fischerspooner ... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO