{"id":472,"date":"2025-01-13T21:18:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T21:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alegendinthefieldofentertainment.com\/?p=472"},"modified":"2025-01-13T21:28:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T21:28:28","slug":"currently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alegendinthefieldofentertainment.com\/fr\/2025\/01\/13\/currently\/","title":{"rendered":"Currently . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\">It occurs to me<br \/>\nThat I would like to make this page<br \/>\nMore spontaneously<br \/>\nA day-to-day<br \/>\ndiary kinda thing<br \/>\nlike what I mostly<br \/>\nwrite by hand&#8230;<br \/>\nI hereby pledge to<br \/>\ngo through the logging in process<br \/>\nin order to share<br \/>\nspontaneously, without necessarily<br \/>\ncarefully composing<br \/>\nand allowing me to,<br \/>\nwhether you like it<br \/>\nor not, write stuff<br \/>\nin free verse<\/p>\n<p>(I want to tell you what books, music, et cetera, I&#8217;ve been reading, listening to&#8230; and this will be a substantial dump, but I&#8217;d like to make a more daily post of the things I&#8217;ve been looking at on a given day.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Currently &#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Audiobooks<\/strong><br \/>\n(I started listening to lots of audiobooks when I found out about the Libby app)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><em>Crime and Punishment<\/em> &#8211; Fyodor Dostoevsky &#8211; about 1\/5 of the way through. Immediately one of the best things I&#8217;ve ever read. It&#8217;s surprisingly Poe-like, but less insane and much more refined.<br \/>\nand <em>Debt: the first 5000 Years<\/em> &#8211; David Graeber &#8211; also, immediately one of the best things I&#8217;ve ever read!<\/p>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">This goes back to July&#8230; in order&#8230;<br \/>\n<em>History of the Rain<\/em> &#8211; Nial Williams<br \/>\n<em>Doppelganger<\/em> &#8211; Naomi Klein<br \/>\n<em>Modern Poetry<\/em> &#8211; Diane Seuss<br \/>\n<em>Tenth of December<\/em> &#8211; George Saunders<br \/>\n<em>Hope in the Dark<\/em> &#8211; Rebecca Solnit<br \/>\n<em>Convenience Store Woman<\/em> &#8211; Sayaka Murata<br \/>\n<em>Parable of the Sower<\/em> &#8211; Octavia Butler<br \/>\n<em>The Trial<\/em> &#8211; Franz Kafka<br \/>\n<em>Fear<\/em> &#8211; Thich Nhat Hanh<br \/>\n<em>No Is Not Enough<\/em> &#8211; Naomi Klein<br \/>\n<em>The Trees<\/em> &#8211; Percival Everett<br \/>\n<em>The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle<\/em> &#8211; Haruki Murakami<br \/>\n<em>Normal People<\/em> &#8211; Sally Rooney<br \/>\n<em>Demon Copperhead<\/em> &#8211; Barbara Kingsolver*<br \/>\n<em>Liberation Day<\/em> &#8211; George Saunders<br \/>\n<em>Selected Short Stories<\/em> &#8211; Edgar Allan Poe<br \/>\n<em>Raylan<\/em> &#8211; Elmore Leonard<br \/>\n<em>David Copperfield<\/em> &#8211; Charles Dickens<br \/>\n<em>American Dirt<\/em> &#8211; Jeanine Cummins<br \/>\n<em>Erasure<\/em> &#8211; Percival Everett*<br \/>\n<em>Utopia for Realists<\/em> &#8211; Rutger Bregman<br \/>\n<em>Wind\/Pinball<\/em> &#8211; Haruki Murakami<br \/>\n<em>On Writing<\/em> &#8211; Stephen King<br \/>\n<em>Men Without Women<\/em> &#8211; Haruki Murakami<br \/>\n<em>Novelist as a Vocation<\/em> &#8211; Haruki Murakami<br \/>\n<em>The Rediscovery of America<\/em> &#8211; Ned Blackhawk<\/p>\n<p><em>Room to Dream<\/em> &#8211; David Lynch*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"\">*Favorites<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In <strong>print<\/strong> I&#8217;ve been reading<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><em>Mort \u00e0 la baleine<\/em> &#8211; Farley Mowat (this was originally in English, as A Whale for the Killing&#8230; I was given a French translation for my birthday, thanks Nicola!)<br \/>\n<em>The Lost Teachings of the Cathars: Their Beliefs &amp; Practices<\/em> &#8211; Andrew Phillip Smith<br \/>\n<em>Les choses<\/em> &#8211; Georges Perec<br \/>\n<em>La v\u00eda del Tarot<\/em> &#8211; Alejandro Jodorowsky<br \/>\n<em>Into Their Labours trilogy <\/em>&#8211; John Berger<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Movies\/TV<\/strong> I saw recently that I can remember:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li><em>All in this Tea<\/em> (Les Blank)<br \/>\n<em>The Boy and the Heron<\/em> (Studio Ghibli)<br \/>\n<em>Tommy Boy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Ikiru<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Stranger Things<\/em> (all of it)<br \/>\n<em>Longlegs<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Musique<\/strong> that I&#8217;ve been into&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>First of all, actual new music:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com\/album\/look-familiar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Green Child (Raven &amp; Mikey)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/deadbrokerekerds.bandcamp.com\/album\/castro-coming-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heavy Comforter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then some of the stuff I&#8217;ve been more into lately&#8230;though, I must admit, I&#8217;ve mostly been listening to stuff I&#8217;ve listened to for years&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li>Erasure<br \/>\nFats Domino<br \/>\nAtahualpa Yupanqui (I want to play like him!)<br \/>\nGrupo Comanche<br \/>\nU. Utah Phillips<br \/>\nWoody Guthrie<br \/>\nAnthology of American Folk Music<br \/>\nFrank Sinatra (mostly In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning&#8230; but also Watertown)<br \/>\nThe Beach Boys Christmas Album<br \/>\nBlack Sabbath<br \/>\nMetallica<br \/>\nLots of Classical (Dvorak, Beethoven, Shostakovich)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It occurs to me That I would like to make this page More spontaneously A day-to-day diary kinda thing like 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