January

WATCHING

  • Uncut Gems – a whirlwind of anxiety. Adam Sandler is fantastic. Mad

  • Amazonia - great idea.

  • Succession – get’s better and better. Fan-girling over Kieran Culkin, and Jesse Armstrong.

  • Jojo Rabbit

  • Parasite – loved it. Watch it. Watch it again. Funny, dark, twisted, and so so sharp.

  • Marriage Story – Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson both really good, but I had to go and make a tea when Driver did his singing bit. Too ick for me.

  • The Wife – I expected to like this more, because, well Glenn Close. But left me feeling a bit flat.

  • I Lost My Body – pretty weird, severed hand looking for it’s body.

  • Mid90s –

  • YOU - Addictive trash

  • At Eternity’s Gate – Willem Dafoe plays Vincent Van Gogh… this film is strange. And I did not make it to the end.

  • Bikram documentary

  • The Turning Point, by Steve Cutts – Short animation that flips the perspective of climate change from animals to humans.

  • Sex Education – Great characters. Art direction – John Hughes – The Breakfast Club/Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Girl crush on Gillian Anderson.

  • Marie Antoinette – Sofia Coppola and Kirsten Dunst. The best. So pretty.

READING

  • David Szalay, All that man is – Just started, but have high hopes as very much enjoyed Turbulence, consumed in a day, Turbulence is twelve short stories from twelve very different people that are all connected in some way.

  • Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See – A WW2 novel, wouldn’t have picked this up myself, cried.

  • Malcolm Gladwell, Blink – All about the power (and problematic power) of our subconcious. Very Gladwell. Very good. Really not into the cover though…

  • Long(ish) read on the search for ‘Pizza toast’ in Japan’s Kissaten’s (cafes) from Eater (I'm going to go to Japan!)

  • 5 min read about CCTV in Hackney from The Face

  • 2 min read on Twitch and how Sport is set to be big on the platform from Wired

  • Hubert Selby Jr., Song of the Silent Snow – Collection of short stories from the man that gave us Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a dream. Beautifully written. Some funny. Some horrid.

LOOKING

  • Dominic Harris at Halcyon Gallery – a fun exhibition that you can play with (my favourite kind) using clever coding to make artworks come to life.

    ‘Dominic Harris uses groundbreaking technology to construct personal interpretations of the natural phenomena which surround us. His love of the natural world, coupled with his fascination for code, offers a surreal and whimsical take on reality, challenging the viewer’s perception of the world around them.’

  • Very pleasing pillows that aren’t what they seem from sculptor Hakon Fageras

  • A look back at the last decade from Dazed. Nicely done.

  • Peter Hoffman takes good pics.

  • Stealing this for my own staircase, from the very cool Danny Sangra.

LISTENING

OTHER STUFF

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