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• Reading List: December.

  Non-Fiction: Malcolm Harris: Kids These Days. Human Capital and the Making of Millennials. Svetlana Alexievich: The Unwomanly Face of War. An Oral History of... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Films of the Year

  Moonlight (2016)Get OutThelmaL'avenir (2016)I Am Not Your Negro (2016)Personal Shopper (2016)Christine (2016)Mudbound Wonder WomanBonus shout-outs:... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Music of the Year

  

  Albums: Sampha - Process.Vagabon - Infinite Worlds.Cable Ties - Cable Ties.Angel Olsen - Phases.Cayetana - New Kind of Normal.Priests - Nothing Feels... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Favourite Books I've Read This Year

  

  Non-Fiction: Audre Lorde: Zami. A New Spelling of My Name.James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time.James Gleick: Time Travel.Olivia Laing: Lonely City.Olivia Laing:... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Runaways – Enjoy It While You Still Can.

  

  Runaways: 1x07 Refraction.Seven episodes into Runaways, I’m still not sure what the focus on the parents adds to the show. It’s hit and mix – hit, when it... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Runaways – The Devil Will Have His Due.

  

  Runaways: 1x06.It does raise the stakes that Runaways in its television adaptation shows more of the parents, their backstory, how they ended up here, but even... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Thelma

  

  Maybe it speaks to something being in the air in 2016 and 2017 that Joachim Trier's Thelma is temporally so close to Julia Ducournau's Raw. Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - Loneliness is Powerful.

  

  Joanne Nam - My Lovesmount kimbie feat king krule | blue train lines. sassy 009 | feel me. TOPS | cutlass cruiser. mega bog | t.v. m.a.c. hoops | rules. slowdiv... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Runaways

  

  Spoilers for episodes 1 to 5There are so many points at which to depart on this journey. From those first five episodes of a show that has been years in the... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 9/12/17

  Politics: So many things, so horrifyingly hard to keep up with things. But first of, here's Sean Kelly on Marriage Equality becoming law in Australia: But... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Godless

  

  There aren’t too many illusions still intact about the romance of the frontier in 2017. It has been made abundantly clear that there is a stark difference... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Das Lied Zum Sonntag

  

  Smerz - Have Fun.[via Dazed]Calypso Rose feat. Manu Chao - Leave Me Alone (Yaeji Remix)[via gorilla vs. Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: November.

  Fiction: Naomi Alderman: The Power. Naomi Alderman: The Lessons.Carmen Maria Machado: Her Body and Other Parties. Jenny Zhang: Sour Heart. Emily Skrutskie: The... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Alias Grace

  

  Instead of a proper review of Sarah Polley's excellent adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel, something different here. I think the story of Alias Grace is... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading Notes: Naomi Alderman's The Power

  

  It took a few days after finishing this novel to come to grasps with how I felt about it, in particular because there was a point, maybe 150 pages in, where I... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Halt and Catch Fire

  

  When I graduated from Berkeley in '75 with a degree in computer science, nobody batted an eye. That's probably because back then, coders were like secretaries... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - the Self is Not So Weightless, nor Whole and Unbroken.

  

  Michaël Borremansgang of youths | achilles come down. alice glass | without love. chvrches | call it off (tegan and sara cover). madeline kenney | don't forget... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: October.

  Non-Fiction: Rebecca Solnit: The Mother of All Questions.Fiction: Megan Abbott: The End of Everything.Megan Abbott: You Will Know Me.Jeff VanderMeer:... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 22/10/17

  

  Politics: I have not mentioned the Austrian Parliamentary elections, mainly because this is no longer my home and I spent enough years struggling with that... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Colossal

  

  I wouldn't be writing this, if I hadn't, in reading up on this film after viewing it, stumbled across an odd division in how people have received and interprete... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO