Currently . . .

It occurs to me
That I would like to make this page
More spontaneously
A day-to-day
diary kinda thing
like what I mostly
write by hand…
I hereby pledge to
go through the logging in process
in order to share
spontaneously, without necessarily
carefully composing
and allowing me to,
whether you like it
or not, write stuff
in free verse

(I want to tell you what books, music, et cetera, I’ve been reading, listening to… and this will be a substantial dump, but I’d like to make a more daily post of the things I’ve been looking at on a given day.)

Currently …
Audiobooks
(I started listening to lots of audiobooks when I found out about the Libby app)

Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky – about 1/5 of the way through. Immediately one of the best things I’ve ever read. It’s surprisingly Poe-like, but less insane and much more refined.
and Debt: the first 5000 Years – David Graeber – also, immediately one of the best things I’ve ever read!

• This goes back to July… in order…
  History of the Rain – Nial Williams
  Doppelganger – Naomi Klein
  Modern Poetry – Diane Seuss
  Tenth of December – George Saunders
  Hope in the Dark – Rebecca Solnit
  Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata
  Parable of the Sower – Octavia Butler
  The Trial – Franz Kafka
  Fear – Thich Nhat Hanh
  No Is Not Enough – Naomi Klein
  The Trees – Percival Everett
  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
  Normal People – Sally Rooney
  Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver*
  Liberation Day – George Saunders
  Selected Short Stories – Edgar Allan Poe
  Raylan – Elmore Leonard
  David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
  American Dirt – Jeanine Cummins
  Erasure – Percival Everett*
  Utopia for Realists – Rutger Bregman
  Wind/Pinball – Haruki Murakami
  On Writing – Stephen King
  Men Without Women – Haruki Murakami
  Novelist as a Vocation – Haruki Murakami
  The Rediscovery of America – Ned Blackhawk

  Room to Dream – David Lynch*

*Favorites

In print I’ve been reading

• Mort à la baleine – Farley Mowat (this was originally in English, as A Whale for the Killing… I was given a French translation for my birthday, thanks Nicola!)
  The Lost Teachings of the Cathars: Their Beliefs & Practices – Andrew Phillip Smith
  Les choses – Georges Perec
  La vía del Tarot – Alejandro Jodorowsky
  Into Their Labours trilogy – John Berger

Movies/TV I saw recently that I can remember:

• All in this Tea (Les Blank)
  The Boy and the Heron (Studio Ghibli)
  Tommy Boy
  Ikiru
  Stranger Things (all of it)
  Longlegs

Music that I’ve been into…

First of all, actual new music:
The Green Child (Raven & Mikey)
Heavy Comforter

Then some of the stuff I’ve been more into lately…though, I must admit, I’ve mostly been listening to stuff I’ve listened to for years…

• Erasure
  Fats Domino
  Atahualpa Yupanqui (I want to play like him!)
  Grupo Comanche
  U. Utah Phillips
  Woody Guthrie
  Anthology of American Folk Music
  Frank Sinatra (mostly In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning… but also Watertown)
  The Beach Boys Christmas Album
  Black Sabbath
  Metallica
  Lots of Classical (Dvorak, Beethoven, Shostakovich)