Wednesday 31 August 2022

books, films, gigs, events august 2022

books

 - three critics of the enlightenment: vico, herder, hamman (introductions and biographical materials) isaiah berlin.

- the day of forever (j.g. ballard) and various introduction to ballard books

- the ethics of life writing (ed. paul john eakin in particular claudia mills' 'friendship, fiction, memoir')

- the trial of socrates (i.f.stone) started

- seeing  jose saramago

- guardian article on the mass retirement of older workers

- nlr sidecar and lrb blogposts

- the romantic, herman broch (with milan kundera introduction excerpted in 'the art of the novel')

-  guy julier's '20th century design and designers' in the world of art series (introduction and part)

films

- revolution in sound (on tangerine dream)

- documentary on the moody blues

- shetland (two episodes)

- thrift a life/ book pilled / outlaw bookseller / the cottage fairy

- FT podcasts (on matters economical and political)

- R4 series on 'the spanish flu', stand alone drama h.p.lovecraft's 'the tomb' 

- lrb film on the war in ukraine (james meek)

- wall matthews of entourage being interviewed by NTS radio

- gweniver raymond interviewed on six strings of tension podcast

- witch story (streghe 2) 

gigs 

john hannon tribute - feaaturing james blackshaw, tim goldie.  the wave debb show (online)

events

anniversaries of the releases of volume four. volume two and covers. holiday with family (extended), visit to stourhead. hand in 'work' laptop and revert to using the netbook. hiding out up in the cloud forest. receive 'under the spell of the calima' from the robert lawson trio

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