a stream
All posts and notes on this site, sorted by when published.
A Break for a Minute to Imagine
[Originally Posted: 2020.04.16]
[Last Updated: 2022.07.16]
In the past month I’ve found myself paralyzed in regards to social media, both personally and professionally. Whenever I peak into my feeds I’ve been easily overwhelmed by the content I see: deluges of RESOURCES FOR “ONLINE LEARNING1,” endless interludes of stay-at-home inanities and banalities, and then literal death and suffering, since underneath all of this inconvenience, opportunism, and political posturing it turns out there is an actual tragic pandemic that is taking lives.
I haven’t known how to contribute to this world, and ultimately decided the best way to contribute would be to just stay quiet. Or maybe I just choked and failed by dropping out of this resource-sharing, curating, connecting game at the very moment when it was suddenly THE THING TO DO.
[ more]
I Watched Permanent Vacation, 1980
[Originally Posted: 2020.03.07]
[Last Updated: 2022.02.19]
It’s actually kind of inspiring how bad this film is.
[ more]
I Watched Stranger Than Paradise, 1984
[Originally Posted: 2020.03.01]
[Last Updated: 2022.02.19]
I feel like every moment of my life going forward could be another scene of this film.
[ more]
Giulietta Masina - first and second impressions, while I was supposed to be regarding the genius of Fellini*
[Originally Posted: 2020.02.17]
[Last Updated: 2022.02.19]
I think she might be the most hilarious actor I’ve ever watched.
[ more]
Listening: The Slow Rush
[Originally Posted: 2020.02.15]
[Last Updated: 2022.07.16]
Exceeded my expectations, and I can’t remember the last time a new album from an artist I already liked has done that. There is a warmth here that I haven’t heard in any of his work up until now. This is the electro psychedelic yacht rock I’ve been prepared for my entire life without realizing, every single track an absolute adult contemporary jam.
[ more]
Book Review - The Roots of Rap
[Originally Posted: 2020.02.12]
[Last Updated: 2022.02.19]
I posted a review of The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop, by Carole Boston Weatherford and Frank Morrison, on Goodreads, and I’m expanding on it slightly below.
I was excited about this book and assumed I would love it because of the subject matter, but I guess I’m a little disappointed and feel the need to talk about it.
[ more]
Read: The Undefeated
[Originally Posted: 2020.02.12]
[Last Updated: 2022.07.16]
I read The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson
Read: February 12, 2020
I want to give this all the awards. It probably should have gotten even more awards than it did.
(A little ashamed to admit that I’m just finally getting around to this, but I’m repenting of my unreading ways and doing what I can do now. And despite my claims to keep track of all my reading here in 2020, I’m back on Goodreads as well, I guess…)
[ more]
Reading: Charlotte's Web
[Originally Posted: 2020.01.11]
[Last Updated: 2022.07.16]
[ more]
Reading: In the Dream House
[Originally Posted: 2020.01.11]
[Last Updated: 2022.07.16]
I Read In the Dream House: A Memoir
Started Reading: January 10, 2020
Finished Reading: January 11, 2020
[ more]
My Reading in 2020
[Originally Posted: 2020.01.10]
[Last Updated: 2021.02.20]
I used to be meticulous about tracking even my most minute reading updates on Goodreads1, but I’ve fallen off in the past few months, and I’m not entirely sure why.2
In the meantime while I try to figure that out, I’ve decided to post random3 updates4 about my reading on Twitter and also to experiment with creating a new thread/series here on this website that will serve as a running log of my reading life.