JUNE

WATCHING

• Bo Burnham - Inside. OMG !!! Genius

• Eighth Grade

• Jo Koy - live in Hawaii

• Yesterday. Meh

• On Becoming a God (My bae, Kirsten Dunst) – So good. Hope for a second season. Dunst rabbit hole - this from Savage Garden is so LOL and creepy.

• Speed Cubers doc (Netflix)

• Mare of East Town finale

• After Love – Joanna Scanlan is brill

• Cruella, Emma Stone

• This Time with Alan Partridge

• The Sweetest Thing - 90’s lol

READING

• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi – Yep. Love

• The Rape Joke by Patricia Lockwood

• https://tinhouse.com/how-do-we-write-now/ by Patricia Lockwood

• Mary Ruefle writes: Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event…if metaphor is not idle comparison, but an exchange of energy, an event, then it unites the world by its very premise — that things connect and exchange energy.

LOOKING

• @stefo_rotolo mesmerising, calming studio lighting via @joemortell on Insta

• Kathy Kim illustration – simple, flat, painterly images that are a nice break when you have too many tabs open

• Simple, witty illustrations by Matt Blease OOO

• Katherine Ryan’s fantastic fashion - want.

• Hannah Carrick dreamy summery paintings

LISTENING

• Amy Winehouse

• The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds

• Little Smiz - Woman

• Neneh Cherry – Mostly Jazz festival listening

• Record purchase: Anushka Yemaya – Yaaas

• Doja Cat

• Runs in the Family by Amanda Palmer (Doja cat’s song ‘she wished she wrote’ on the Annie Mac show) mad not rap, rapping

• Tyler the Creator, Call me if you get lost

OTHER STUFF

• Angelina hands-down best tasting menu eveeeer

MAY

WATCHING

• Borat

• Motherland series 3

• Inside no.9 - series? (new) Episode 3 with Sian Clifford was great

• Mare of East Town

• Saving Grace

• Lupin

• Run That Shit (SXSW Short)

• American Psycho

READING

• No One Is Talking About This by Patrica Lockward – Loved it. So different, and smart – and sad. It really makes you think about our online lives, and how random and disconnected everything is. I haven’t read anything like it.

• Such a Fun Age

• Stages of Grief by William Deresiewicz – What the pandemic has done to the arts – Some scary stats. A depressing read… ‘In 1982, the top 1 percent of musicians earned 26 percent of concert revenue. By 2017, the top 1 percent earned 60 percent’. The article explores our devouring of the arts, for free; ‘ We need an art movement like the one we have for food, a movement for responsible consumption’.

• John Cooper Clarke The Luckiest Guy Alive

• Sinead O’Conner interview in The New York Times

• Why We Speak More Weirdly at Home ‘As kids fumble and play with sounds and meaning, their cutesy word experiments can be picked up by the whole family, sometimes to be passed on between generations as verbal heirlooms of sorts’ I love the phrase ‘Verbal heirloom’ - my friend couldn’t pronounce her name properly when she was little so ‘Elisabeth became ‘Elisafluff’ and she is and has always been since, ‘Fluff’.

LOOKING

• https://www.instagram.com/pomme_queen/ pearls, fruit and, flowers. *kisses fingers*

• https://covidartmuseum.com/

• Evie May Adams illustrations are lovely, and expressive – particularly the animal portraits.

• Dan Pearson landscapes

• A list of fun edit styles that are BIG on t’internet/apps

• Have been working on a … challenging project. This came to mind; Too Many Cooks

LISTENING

• A Life in Music - How music shapes us Radio 4

• De La Soul

• Bruce 2Na Chali 2na & Krafty Kuts

• Erykah Badu

• Sad Eagles Presents The Bill Gates Blood Army Vol. 1

OTHER STUFF

• Than Average – a small unscientific investigation into how we value and compare ourselves to each other.

• https://howmanyplants.com/ A lovely website with advice and lots of gorgeous illustrations by Evie May Adams

• https://cooooookies.com/ Another fun/silly MSCHF thing. Collect browser cookies and win actual cookies. Nom.

• The 10000-year clock A long-term project with a very hopeful sentiment.

MARCH

WATCHING

• Call my Agent – DONE. I miss them!

• Laurel Canyon – The only film I’ve seen with Francis McDermot that is MEH

• The Simpsons… I’ve broke my rule of chronology. Now somewhere around Season 24

• Artist Christine Sun Kim Rewrites Closed Captions | Pop-Up Magazine

• Seeds of Love – short funny film, man grows a part of his ex

• Call It Covid – Spoken word that smacks. Powerful short about hate speech

• Unforgotten

READING

• Inside Jeff Bezos’s failed attempt to make Amazon ‘cool’ – Long read on Fast Company

• Ghosts by Dolly Alderton

• WTF NFTS

• For Creators, Everything Is for Sale - The NewYork Times

• FKA Twigs interview with Michaela Coel

LOOKING

• Flora Borsi is a Hungarian artist who I’ve followed for a while. I love her self-portrait photography. So surreal and clean. Ants for eyelashes <3

• Banksy Bob Ross made me smile - and reminded me of the Mountain Dew ad (which I love)

• Insane drone shot film of a bowling alley by JayByrdFilms

• “Beyond Noh” by Patrick Smith Very cool short that flicks through thousands of masks to the beat of a drum.

• Cosmo Illustration – Illustrations with humour; my favourite kind. Comic-like in design – eyecatching and just lovely. Lots of very cool album covers. A new girl crush is born.

• Also this chick! Helena Hauss creates incredible illustrations with ballpoint pens. Also French (as is Cosmo, and my ultimate favourite Carine Brancowitz) there’s something in the water in Paris and I want to drink it.

LISTENING

• Jamie T – Sheila What a music video!

• Basement Jaxx

• http://imissmybar.com/

• Flowers and Rope by Princess Nokia – my ear worm of the month

OTHER STUFF

• I’ve been working on some branding jobs, and so this was a great link – branding guidelines from a bunch of brands. (from one of many newsletters I get… Maybe ‘Because The internet’)

• High def gif creator

• Another useful worky thing – an image search engine for films!

FEBRUARY

WATCHING

• Promising Young Woman – Have been looking forward to this for ages. The trailer paints a very different picture, which is refreshing, but I was a bit disappointed it wasn’t as ‘badass’ as I thought it would be.

• Call My Agent - Season 3. Trying to refrain from binging because I just don’t want it to end. Camille Cottin is the coolest woman…

• Game Night

• Meet Joe Black

• New Adam Curtis – Nihilism is the answer apparently

• Punch Drunk Love

• Magnolia – loved! (Have only ever seen the frog scene, before now)

• The Nest

• Behind her eyes – worth it for the batshit ending. Very slow though…

• Whitehouse Farm

• Asparagus Tips - weird short film lols

READING

• Exciting Times, by Naoise Dolan – Witty, real, complex characters. A love triangle with our narrator, Ava, at the centre – bit of an anti hero, who I warmed towards. Lots of nice bits that look at the English language in an intersting way (Ava is teaching English in Hong Kong). Funny and mean. Will definitely lookout for her next book. Love the cover too.

• Various articles on NFT’s.

• Article on R29 about Conspirituality – a term coined in 2011 to describe people in the spirituality space who are also attracted to conspiracy theories. I’ve noticed this in my yoga class – when that was a thing.

• Adam Curtis explains it all (New Yorker)

LOOKING

• Same Energy – nifty visual search engine

• Crypto art – Am joining in with the persona Memetise

• https://onewayroadtobeer.com/ THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS!

LISTENING

• Lex Amor

• Burial / Four Tet

• Biig Piig

• The Orielles – Disco Volodor

• Footshooter