Thursday, 30 January 2025

films, books, gigs, events january 2025

probably a little early

books 

- malcolm lowry, hear us o lord from heaven thy dwelling place/ the forest path to the spring/ lunar caustic

- the diaries as usual: kilvert, the reverend william poole, kafka, edmond de goncourt, h.d. thoreau 'a writer's journal' as edited by laurence stapleton (as and when)

-  LRB rachel beale's piece on singing during the pandemic, adam tooze 'trouble transitioning', colm toibin 'in LA', mike davis 'california burns' 

- diary of a plague time, max reeves 

- wisława szymborska, the end and the beginning

=   jean-jacques rousseau's seventh walk from his reveries of a solitary walker 

-  joan didion 'where I was from' 

- press release for an artshow based on the life and work of alice coltrane, 'monument eternal', the hammer gallery UCLA

- discussion of meaning of gramsci quote

- NLR daniel zamora on breugel

- wadada leo smith's 'image-poems' in art forum 


films

- outlaw bookseller, book-pilled, etc. 

-  john berger's ways of seeing paraphrased in olivia laing’s lockdown set documentary on it

- radio 4, diaries (next week the tarot), a review of the plague by albert camus,  the coming storm (inauguration edition), screen shot (time travel in film episode)

winter solstice 1, a tribute to steffen basho-junghans by buck curran

- tarry dan. tarry dan. scary old spooky man!

- bea nettles and her mountain dream tarot

- michael martin book video

- give us a kiss christabel

- cribb victorian crime drama, several episodes

- alice in wonderland (1966) jonathan miller/ ravi shankar 

- ramblings 'trees in winter near abergavenny'

- mark gatiss panal discussion at BFI on woman of stone, part of the BBC's a ghost story for christmas series 

- R4 the essay, 300m in montparnasse


gigs none


events few and far between 

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