If you’re interested in continuing with Ursula LeGuin, I read The Dispossessed last year & it blew me away. Kept meaning to write about it too maybe I’ll go back & do that.
I just got a recommendation from a friend from South Africa (who I will be writing about) for a book by Tim Lilburn called Living in the World as If It We’re Home. I haven’t read it but it sounds good. Oh and I’ve been reading Desert Oasis and loooove it & think you might too.
Also, what was that again about the band and the drones getting shot in the sun ... wut? There is actually a guy walking by me *right now* with a huge shopping cart and saying “right, they say they’re putting a Tesla on the moon,” and honestly I’m kind of in deep sympathy with him? Rock bands are doing what now? What weird future am I living in?
I have The Lathe of Heaven, Always Coming Home, her short story omnibus, and The Word for World is Forest on my shelves waiting to be read... And I THINK I have a paperback of The Dispossessed. I'll read that first if I do.
I dunno about drones in the sun or bars on the moon... But that jackass billionaire Did make one of his cars an artificial satellite of the sun. Look on my works, ye mighty... Oy vey.
I have never seen any Agnes Varda movies! So disappointing that El Houb isn't available- I'd love to watch it again. I'll keep an eye out for it too and let you know if I find it anywhere.
El Houb is kind of new, so I hope it will be on streaming soon. Agnes Varda is wonderful, she has an immense range and made movies for over 50 years, so there's so much to pick from. Her documentary "The Gleaners and I" is a favorite, and if drama is more your thing, "One Sings, the Other Doesn't" and "Vagabond" are stunners. She's more famous for "Cleo from 5 to 7" but I haven't seen that in 20 years, and I don't recall much of it at all.
One of the best new movies I've seen recently was El Houb (The Love) I was able to see it because a friend gave me a streaming pass to the NewFest Queer Film Festival. It looks like it's only playing on MUBI now, which I don't have, but I think you can start a free trial- worth it to see El Houb.
I don't see it on MUBI or justwatch but I'll keep an eye out for it. I bought the collected Agnes Varda and I think I'm going to watch the discs all in order.
Read Mick Herron's latest last month, a collection of 5 or 6 novellas about the Slough House characters. I enjoy Herron's take on the espionage thriller in the post-Trump/Boris Johnson era, where the Manchurian Candidate arguably came true but mot enough people gave a crap to do anything about it. Herron's tone is actually really close to Le Carré's characters--fighting the good fight on behalf of a world too stupid to deserve defending but still our only option. Herron is really funny, too. Seems fresh anyway despite describing systems in deep decline.
Love the Hu! Tengger Cavalry & Nine Treasures are two other phenomenal Mongolian folk metal bands. Nine Treasures uses more traditional instruments & they're on a US tour right now.
I read a New Yorker profile on Herron and I like the idea of Slough House, but not enough to read them. I liked Charles Stross's version of MI6 where a back room tech fights Lovecraftian monstrosities, but he's the computer nerd, not the Bond. I've read a few of those. I am looking at a fancy set of the Ripley books by Highsmith that I have, and thinking I ought to read them all. I've only read the first.
Definitely NOT related. And that injury want the reason he did what he did. At all. So let yourself off the hook. At least you had some kind of a relationship with him. Hope we can hang soon... May e during the kids winter break in Feb, we'll come down and hike/explore the Pine Barrens. They need it and would LOVE it!!
If you’re interested in continuing with Ursula LeGuin, I read The Dispossessed last year & it blew me away. Kept meaning to write about it too maybe I’ll go back & do that.
I just got a recommendation from a friend from South Africa (who I will be writing about) for a book by Tim Lilburn called Living in the World as If It We’re Home. I haven’t read it but it sounds good. Oh and I’ve been reading Desert Oasis and loooove it & think you might too.
Also, what was that again about the band and the drones getting shot in the sun ... wut? There is actually a guy walking by me *right now* with a huge shopping cart and saying “right, they say they’re putting a Tesla on the moon,” and honestly I’m kind of in deep sympathy with him? Rock bands are doing what now? What weird future am I living in?
I have The Lathe of Heaven, Always Coming Home, her short story omnibus, and The Word for World is Forest on my shelves waiting to be read... And I THINK I have a paperback of The Dispossessed. I'll read that first if I do.
I dunno about drones in the sun or bars on the moon... But that jackass billionaire Did make one of his cars an artificial satellite of the sun. Look on my works, ye mighty... Oy vey.
I have never seen any Agnes Varda movies! So disappointing that El Houb isn't available- I'd love to watch it again. I'll keep an eye out for it too and let you know if I find it anywhere.
El Houb is kind of new, so I hope it will be on streaming soon. Agnes Varda is wonderful, she has an immense range and made movies for over 50 years, so there's so much to pick from. Her documentary "The Gleaners and I" is a favorite, and if drama is more your thing, "One Sings, the Other Doesn't" and "Vagabond" are stunners. She's more famous for "Cleo from 5 to 7" but I haven't seen that in 20 years, and I don't recall much of it at all.
One of the best new movies I've seen recently was El Houb (The Love) I was able to see it because a friend gave me a streaming pass to the NewFest Queer Film Festival. It looks like it's only playing on MUBI now, which I don't have, but I think you can start a free trial- worth it to see El Houb.
I don't see it on MUBI or justwatch but I'll keep an eye out for it. I bought the collected Agnes Varda and I think I'm going to watch the discs all in order.
Read Mick Herron's latest last month, a collection of 5 or 6 novellas about the Slough House characters. I enjoy Herron's take on the espionage thriller in the post-Trump/Boris Johnson era, where the Manchurian Candidate arguably came true but mot enough people gave a crap to do anything about it. Herron's tone is actually really close to Le Carré's characters--fighting the good fight on behalf of a world too stupid to deserve defending but still our only option. Herron is really funny, too. Seems fresh anyway despite describing systems in deep decline.
Love the Hu! Tengger Cavalry & Nine Treasures are two other phenomenal Mongolian folk metal bands. Nine Treasures uses more traditional instruments & they're on a US tour right now.
I read a New Yorker profile on Herron and I like the idea of Slough House, but not enough to read them. I liked Charles Stross's version of MI6 where a back room tech fights Lovecraftian monstrosities, but he's the computer nerd, not the Bond. I've read a few of those. I am looking at a fancy set of the Ripley books by Highsmith that I have, and thinking I ought to read them all. I've only read the first.
Definitely NOT related. And that injury want the reason he did what he did. At all. So let yourself off the hook. At least you had some kind of a relationship with him. Hope we can hang soon... May e during the kids winter break in Feb, we'll come down and hike/explore the Pine Barrens. They need it and would LOVE it!!
I would love to see yas down here!
When did you tear Daddy's arm? I'm not doubting you did.... Just didn't know about it. 🤷 Lol
One of the last things I did before I moved to Minnesota. I always blamed myself for his rotator cuff injury, though they probably aren't related.