#Michael Commendatore

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Good Omens Aziraphale's Sad Bastard Breakup Playlist

After the breakup, Aziraphale has a new job in heaven, having taken Gabriel’s vacant position. Aziraphale is haunted by sad music reminding him of his time with Crowley. The songs are dramatic, tragic, melancholic, angry, wistful, romantic, and sentimental. How does he listen to music at his new job in the head office? Are material objects allowed? Does he keep a secret stash of tea, cake, and records and a phonograph player in his office? Does he have a celestial radio that can tune in Earth radio stations? Does he sneak off to Earth to hang out in record shops and bookstores? Or more dramatically and emotionally torturously, does he remember every note, every nuance, every feeling, of every song and replay them in his mind? He's stuffing his face with angel food cake and tea while crying and listening to sad bastard songs and hiding from Michael and the Metatron.

See note after list on song selection process.

Songs include:

“Lacrimosa” – Mozart, Requiem in D Minor, Vienna Mozart Orchestra

“Commendatore” – Mozart, Don Giovanni, Amadeus film soundtrack

“Ja, tot katoramu vnimala” – Rubenstein, The Demon, Nicolai Ghiaurov

“D’amour l’ardente flemme” – Berlioz, The Damnation of Faust, Maria Callas

“Liebestod” – Wagner, Tristan and Isolde, Waltraud Meier

“Ach ich fuhls” – Mozart, The Magic Flute, Gundula Janowitz

“Thy hand, Belinda … When I am laid in earth” – Purcell, Dido and Aeneas, Janet Baker

“E lucevan la stelle” – Puccini, Tosca, Placido Domingo

“Celeste Aidia” – Verdi, Aida, Mario Lanza

“Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen” Mahler, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

“Der Wanderer” – Schubert, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

“Love is a Plaintive Song” – Gilbert and Sullivan, Patience, D’Oyly Carte Opera Company

“I am a Courtier Grave and Serious” – Gilbert and Sullivan, The Gondoliers, D’Oyly Carte Opera Company

“The Gentleman is a Dope” – Rodgers and Hammerstein, Allegro, Blossom Dearie

“A Hymn to Him” – Lerner and Lowe, My Fair Lady, Rex Harrison

“Could I Leave You?” – Sondheim, Follies, Alexis Smith

“We Do Not Belong Together” – Sondheim, Sunday in the Park with George, Bernadette Peters and Mandy Patinkin

“On My Own” – Schonberg, Les Misérables, Frances Ruffelle

“As Long as He Needs Me” – Bert, Oliver, Judy Garland

 “Stranger in Paradise” – Wright and Forest, Kismet, Richard Kiley and Doretta Morrow

“A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square” – Sherwin and Maschwitz, Vera Lynn

“Night and Day” – Porter, The Gay Divorcee, Ella Fitzgerald

“I’ve Got You Under My Skin” – Porter, Born to Dance, Shirley Bassey

“Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” – Rodgers and Heart, Pal Joey, Sarah Vaughan

“They Can’t Take That Away From Me” – Gershwin, Shall We Dance, Fred Astaire

“Mon Deu” – Dumont and Vaucaire, Edith Piaf

“Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien” – Dumont and Vaucaire, Edith Piaf

P.S.: Aziraphale likes Les Mis because it reminds him of that time Crowley rescued him from the Bastille. Don't tell anyone. It's a big secret.

P.P.S.: “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” reminds him of the time he and Crowley got drunk in the backroom at the bookshop the day the anti-Christ was delivered to Earth. Basically, this song reminds him of every time they went out for drinks or stayed in and drank.

P.P.P.S.: “I am a Courtier Grave and Serious” was the song Aziraphale planned to play when trying to tempt Crowley into learning the gavotte. It reminds him of the ball in the bookstore when he finally danced with Crowley.

P.P.P.P.S.: “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien” is as close as Aziraphale can get to telling the world and Crowley to eff off. He has no more effs to give. Or at least he’s trying to convince himself he no longer gives a f***. He’s going off to his new job at the head office and Do Good.

Note on song selection:

I selected songs that thematically fit with the relationship between Aziraphale and Crowley. I think the songs tell a story of Aziraphale’s struggle to reconcile his conflicted motivations. They reflect Aziraphale’s fears and desires. He fears being hauled off to hell for disobedience. He fears Crowley’s death and being alone in the world. He desires to be emotionally intimate with Crowley. (Dare he risk physical intimacy with Crowley?) He feels self-righteously indignant, but he’s soft and squishy and weepy and misses his best friend.

I don’t have much knowledge of opera or musical theater, but I have some experience with choir and solo performance. I did a lot of research into opera, art songs, musicals, showtunes, and standards to create a playlist on YouTube. Selections were based on availability, popularity, and sound quality. My big question was whether or not Aziraphale is a strict originalist or if he likes different versions of songs. In some places, I chose newer versions over original versions due to the sound quality of the recordings. I tried to keep selections accessible to a wide audience with varying degrees of musical knowledge. You may not like my choices, so your mileage may vary. You can make your own playlist.

You can listen to it on YouTube.

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Other old Don Giovannis

Aix 2010: Bo Skovhus

Here the whole story is set in a large bourgeois mansion; Giovanni is the black sheep of a large family, the others are his relatives by blood or marriage. Giovanni might be a womanizer, but mostly he's a drunk loser who is embarassing everyone with his antisocial behavior. In the end, the family organises an intervention where the family patriarch appears to come back from the dead. Giovanni collapses from the shock of that sight, and everyone just leaves him to die on the floor.

I applaud the concept for trying something new, but honestly there are enough operas to choose from if you want to talk about messed up family dynamics. Even Mozart has two or three of them. Allow Don Giovanni to be about something else.

Berlin 2022: Michael Volle

Here Don Giovanni is an aging photographer who can't stop sleeping with his models. Eventually, all the young people around him have enough of his behaviour in a #metoo kind of way. After Giovanni starts arguing with the corpse of the Commendatore at his funeral, he gets taken away by some psychiatric nurses. Then the young generation, most notably his assistant Leporello, take over his projects. Hopefully they'll be better in the future.

I'm conflicted about this production. It doesn't really seem to take the story seriously, and casting a grizzled Wagner baritone as Don Giovanni is offensive to me personally. On the other hand, all the other characters are drawn in a very charming way, and the sets and costumes are great. I think it would have worked better if they hadn't insisted of making Cosi-Nozze-DG into a young -> adult -> old trilogy and had instead just cast a standard Don Giovanni.

Salzburg 2008: Christopher Maltman

This Don Giovanni isn't all that old, but he gets shot in the act 1 duel and slowly bleeds to death over the rest of the runtime. So everything he does between killing and dying is a desperate attempt to squeeze some last drops of pleasure from life. His drug-addled sidekick Leporello can't really get himself to care, and everyone else is just waiting for the Don to die so they won't have to deal with him anymore. In the end he falls into an open grave, no epilogue.

Good take, I approve. The production has the usual Ottavio / Anna slander from the era, but the central concept is cool.

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Books wishlist

A House with Good Bones - T. Kingfisher

The Art of Drag

The Art of Invisibility - Kevin Mitnick

Ballet de Sangre - Luis I. Rodríguez

Die Blechtrommel - Günter Grass

Carmilla - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Los Carpinchos - Alfredo Soderguit

Cicada - Shaun Tan

Confessions of a crap artist - Philip K. Dick

Crisis: Heterosexual Behavior in the Age of Aides - William Masters

The Crow Road - Iain Banks

Cuando Moctezuma conoció a Cortés - Matthew Restall

La Dame au petit chien - Anton Tchekhov

Designing graphic props for filmmaking - Annie Atkins

El día que los crayones renunciaron - Oliver Jeffers

Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe

Ducks - Kate Beaton

The Ear - Piret Raud

First we read, then we write - Robert D Richardson

From the Velvets to the Voidoids: The Birth of American Punk Rock - Clinton Heylin

Genderqueer: A Memoir - Maia Kobabe

The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence - Gavin de Becker

He forgot to say goodbye - Benjamin Alire Saenz

Horns - Joe Hill

How Music Works - David Byrne

Illustrators In & Out

Is there a fish in your ear? - David Bellos

I Want You - Lisa Hanawalt

Killing Commendatore - Haruki Murakami

Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground - Michael Moynihan, Didrik Søderlind

Mendel el de los libros - Stefan Zweig

Mirages - Laurent Durieux

Miseria - Suzanne Heller

Pink Lemonade - Nick Cagnetti

Professor Astro Cat's Human Body Odyssey - Dominic Walliman

The Question of German Guilt - Karl Jaspers

Russian Olive to Red King - Kathryn Immonen

Saga - Brain K Vaugn

The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustrarion - Richard Barnett

Something is Killing the Children

The Taqwacores - Michael Muhammad Knight

Tokio ya no nos quiere - Ray Loriga

The Trees Grew Because I Bled There - Eric LaRocca

Us - Sara Soler

Venus in Furs - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

La vida secreta de los mocos - Mariona Tolosa Sisteré

The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction - Neil Gaiman

What Moves the Dead - T. Kingfisher

X-Ray Me! - Felicitas Horstschäferyo

You too can have a body like mine - Alexandra Kleeman

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‘Ferrari’ Review: Michael Mann Puts You in the Driver’s Seat

In “Ferrari,” Adam Driver looms like a colossus as Enzo Ferrari. Driver is tall and rangy, but he looks even bigger here — wider, too — partly because Enzo wears boxy suits with linebacker shoulders so broad they nearly scrape the edges of the frame. The most famous man in Italy aside from the Pope, Enzo makes blood-red racecars with sexy curves and supercharged engines. The Commendatore, as he’s…

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Success is not founded on miracles, but is almost always the outcome of a clear concept--the pinnacle of an ambitious, even stridently innovative idea. However, the aura of Ferrari does indeed get close to something miraculous. What lies behind this phenomenon? What is the source of fascination for a brand whose creative designs are internationally recognized and enthusiastically received? Firstly, the miracle of Ferrari, even today--70 years after the company was founded--is still largely explained only because of the personality of Il Commendatore, Enzo Ferrari. Patience, passion, and even a ruthless streak, at his own and others' expense, gave the brand, under the emblem of the Cavallino Rampante, the power to develop into what it represents today: the ultimate and most fascinating thing on four wheels. Next, the long list of international racing victories ranks as equally important. During the last 70 years of Ferrari, no class or contest that wasn't an instant win went

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Enzo Anselmo Giuseppe Maria Ferrari, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI, was born on February 20, 1898. Enzo Ferrari was said to have been born on February 18, 1898 in Modena, Italy and that his birth was recorded on February 20 because a heavy snowstorm had prevented his father from reporting the birth at the local registry office; in reality, his birth certificate states he was born on February 20, 1898, while the birth's registration took place on February 24, 1898 and was reported by the midwife. He was an Italian motor racing driver and entrepreneur, the founder of the Scuderia Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing team, and subsequently of the Ferrari automobile marque. He was widely known as "il Commendatore" or "il Drake". In his final years he was often referred to as "l'Ingegnere" (the Engineer) or "il Grande Vecchio (the Great Old Man)".

Ferrari's management style was autocratic and he was known to pit drivers against each other in the hope of improving their performance. Some critics believe that Ferrari deliberately increased psychological pressure on his drivers, encouraging intra-team rivalries and fostering an atmosphere of intense competition for the position of number one driver. "He thought that psychological pressure would produce better results for the drivers," said Ferrari team driver Tony Brooks. "He would expect a driver to go beyond reasonable limits... You can drive to the maximum of your ability, but once you start psyching yourself up to do things that you don’t feel are within your ability it gets stupid. There was enough danger at that time without going over the limit."

During the late 1950s and 1960s seven Ferrari drivers were killed driving Ferrari racing cars: Alberto Ascari, Eugenio Castellotti, Alfonso de Portago, Luigi Musso, Peter Collins, Wolfgang von Trips and Lorenzo Bandini. Although such a high death toll was not unusual in motor racing in those days, the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano described Ferrari as being like the god Saturn, who consumed his own sons. In Ferrari's defense, contemporary F1 race car driver Stirling Moss commented: “I can’t think of a single occasion where a (Ferrari) driver’s life was taken because of mechanical failure.”

In public Ferrari was careful to acknowledge the drivers who risked their life for his team, insisting that praise should be shared equally between car and driver for any race won. However, his longtime friend and company accountant, Carlo Benzi, related that privately Ferrari would say that "the car was the reason for any success."

Following the deaths of Giuseppe Campari in 1933 and Alberto Ascari in 1955, both of whom he had a strong personal relationship with, he chose not to get too close to his drivers, out of fear of emotionally hurting himself. Later in life he relented his position and grew very close to Clay Regazzoni and especially Gilles Villeneuve.

Enzo Ferrari spent a reserved life, and rarely granted interviews. He seldom left Modena and Maranello and never went to any Grands Prix outside of Italy after the 1950s. He was usually seen at the Grands Prix at Monza near Milan and/or Imola, not far from the Ferrari factory, and named after the late Dino. His last known trip abroad was in 1982 when he went to Paris to broker a compromise between the warring FISA and FOCA parties. He never flew in an aeroplane and never set foot in a lift.

He married Laura Dominica Garello (c. 1900–1978) on 28 April 1923, and they remained married until her death. They had one son, Alfredo "Dino", who was born in 1932 and groomed as Enzo's successor, but he suffered from ill-health and died from muscular dystrophy in 1956. Enzo had a second son, Piero, with his mistress Lina Lardi in 1945. As divorce was illegal in Italy until 1975, Piero could only be recognized as Enzo's son after Laura's death in 1978. Piero is currently the vice chairman of the Ferrari company with a 10% share ownership.

Made a Cavaliere del Lavoro in 1952, to add to his honours of Cavaliere and Commendatore in the 1920s, Ferrari also received a number of honorary degrees, the Hammarskjöld Prize in 1962, the Columbus Prize in 1965, and the De Gasperi Award in 1987. In 1994, he was posthumously inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame.

He was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 2000.

Ferrari died on 14 August 1988 in Maranello at the age of 90. His death was not made public until two days later, as by Enzo's request, to compensate for the late registration of his birth. He witnessed the launch of the Ferrari F40, shortly before his death, which was dedicated as a symbol of his achievements. In 2002 the first car to be named after him was launched as the Enzo Ferrari.

The Italian Grand Prix was held just weeks after Ferrari's death, and the result was a 1–2 finish for Ferrari, with the Austrian Gerhard Berger leading home Italian and Milan native Michele Alboreto; it was the only race that McLaren did not win that season. After Ferrari's death, the Scuderia Ferrari team has had further success, winning the World Drivers' Championship in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 with Michael Schumacher, 2007 with Kimi Räikkönen, and the Constructors' Championship in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2008.

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Peace Flag Ensemble - Noteland - pastoral jazz group citing Keith Jarrett and Mark Hollis as influences (We Are Busy Bodies)

Peace Flag Ensemble is an experimental jazz collective from scattered points across Saskatchewan. Their debut album, Noteland, is available June 18, 2021 on We Are Busy Bodies. Noteland is an exercise in pure collaboration. Built around Jon Neher’s piano improvisations, it is free flowing in form and meter. Each member contributed freely but also remained open to having their playing completely recontextualized. Travis Packer’s electric bass is tightly moored to the piano while Dalton Lam and Paul Gutheil, trumpet and saxophone respectively, drift between melodic passages and textural elements. The album was produced by ambient artist Michael Scott Dawson, who also contributes electronics, guitars, and field recordings to the collective. The result is a pastiche of improvisation, composition, and collage that cycles through quiet moments of imperfection and discomfort followed by peaceful resolutions. It draws from such influences as Keith Jarrett and Mark Hollis. “Peace Flag Ensemble is the sum of its parts. Everyone leaned into their own intuition and inspiration. I think that kept us from limiting possibilities.” Dawson shares. “Sometimes that means a saxophone is reduced to just the crackle of a spit valve, sometimes it’s blurred into pastoral ambiance, and sometimes… well, sometimes it’s just a saxophone.” The genesis of the project is unlikely to be included in a canon of debaucherous music myths. Neher and Dawson connected at a book club. Bonding over 70s ECM, contemporary minimalists, and Musique concrete the two began to discuss collaborating. Somewhere between reading Her Body and Other Stories by Carmen Maria Machado and Murakami’s Killing Commendatore, their ambitions morphed into a jazz collective. Reflecting on the outcome, Neher states “This record really allowed us to explore so many kinds of spontaneity while still crafting and polishing a finished work; that is a rare treat in improvised music.”

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Books I have read - 2020

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women 

Alison Gopnik - The Gardener And The Carpenter 

Stephen King - Everything's Eventual 

Rory Sutherland - Alchemy: The Surprising Power Of Ideas That Don't Make Sense 

Michael Ende - The Neverending Story 

Jon Savage - This Searing Light, The Sun and Everything Else 

Stephen King - Doctor Sleep 

Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies 

Haruki Marukami - Killling Commendatore 

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner - Freakonomics 

Stephen King - From A Buick 8 

Tom Wainwright - Narconomics 

Sally Rooney - Normal People (re-read) 

Neil Gaiman - Stardust (re-read) 

Stephen King - Lisey's Story

Esi Edugyan - Washington Black

Ian Macdonald - Revolution in the Head

Margaret Heffernan - Wilful Blindness

Richard Powers - The Overstory

Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman

Max Porter - Lanny

Annie Lamott - Bird By Bird 

Stephen King - Under The Dome 

Ira Levin - Rosemary's Baby

Stephen King - The Outsider

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Top 3 ships: two of my fav ships from shows i used to watch were merder from grey’s anatomy and michael/fiona from burn notice! and uhh seri and jeonghyuk from crash landing atm??? i still can’t get over them aaskdkldfj

Last song I listened to: HANN by (g)i-dle

Last movie: i really don’t remember jkfjadjs maybe black panther like MONTHS ago on netflix at a friend’s house

Reading: Killing Commendatore i’ve been reading it for ages lmao. it’s pretty good but just taking me forever to get through

Food i’m craving rn: korea street food like tteokbokki and fried chicken and korean street corn dogs 😭

I tag: @tusm @knifeofvenus @softjoy<3

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Books: March 2020

Recommendations in bold

What I’ve read:

Saša Stanišić: Herkunft

Amor Towels: You Arrived at Your Destination

Margaret Atwood: The Penelopiad I enjoyed this one. True Atwood style. Take on the classic Greek myths from the point of view of a women. Reminded me a bit of Christa Wolf’s Cassandra. Here for it.  

Kate Elizabeth Russell: My Dark Vanessa Christ this book was terrible. I bought it on a whim based off of a review in the NYTimes and it was a mix between Lolita and Spieltrieb by German author Juli Zeh, which already came out in the 2000s, so really this wasn’t anywhere near as groundbreaking as the review made it out to be - “The debut novel of the year!” 

What I’m reading:

Michael Chabon:  The Yiddish Policemen’s Union

Haruki Murakami: Killing Commendatore

Alain de Botton: Essays in Love

Thomas Piketty: Capital and Ideology

What I’m abandoning because... meh:

Bridget Collins: The Binding

Siri Hustvedt: A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind

What I bought:

Thomas Piketty: Capital and Ideology

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October: yet another great month for new books!

October 1

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - Eric Idle

Angel Mage - Garth Nix

Blowout - Rachel Maddow

Frankissstein - Jeanette Winterson

Full Throttle - Joe Hill

Half Way Home - Hugh Howey  

Imaginary Friend - Stephen Chbosky

Killing Commendatore - Haruki Murakami

Monstress Volume 4 - Marjorie Liu

The Next Person You Meet in Heaven -Mitch Albom

Nine Perfect Strangers - Liane Moriarty

Now Entering Addamsville - Francesca Zappia

The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie

Royal Holiday - Jasmine Guillory

Sunny Rolls the Dice - Jennifer L Holm

Toil & Trouble - Augusten Burroughs

Vancouver After Dark - Aaron Chapman

The Winter of the Witch - Katherine Arden

October 3

The Secret Commonwealth - Philip Pullman

October 8

Bridge of Clay - Markus Zusak

The Cockroach - Ian McEwan

The Giver of Stars - Jojo Moyes

Grand Union - Zadie Smith

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J K Rowling

Letters from an Astrophysicist - Neil deGrasse Tyson

Lost Feast - Lenore Newman

Ninth House - Leigh Bardugo

On the Plain of Snakes - Paul Theroux

Outgrowing God - Richard Dawkins

Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts - Kate Racculia

Warrior of the Altaii - Robert Jordan

The Wicked + the Divine Volume 9 - Kieron Gillen

October 15

All the Lives We Never Lived - Anuradha Roy

Arias - Sharon Olds

Atlas Obscura, 2nd Edition - Joshua Foer

The Body - Bill Bryson

Dear Girls - Ali Wong

The Guardians - John Grisham

Home Work - Julie Andrews

The Infinite Game - Simon Sinek

Me - Elton John

The Never Tilting World - Rin Chupeco

Olive, Again - Elizabeth Strout

The Shape of Family - Shilpi Somaya Gowda

She Wants It - Jill Soloway

Sulwe - Lupita Nyong'o

The Survival Guide to British Columbia - Ian Ferguson

War Girls - Tochi Onyebuchi

October 19

One Drum - Richard Wagamese

October 22

Agent Running in the Field - John le Carre

Blowing the Bloody Doors Off - Michael Caine

The Deserter - Nelson DeMille

An Earthling's Guide to Outer Space - Bob McDonald

Janis - Holly George-Warren

Many Rivers to Cross - Peter Robinson

Morning Glory on the Vine - Joni Mitchell

The Night Fire - Michael Connelly

Rick Mercer Final Report - Rick Mercer

Supernova Era - Cixin Liu

This Will Only Hurt a Little - Busy Philipps

Ultimate Veg - Jamie Oliver

Words Are My Matter - Ursula K Le Guin

October 29

Blue Moon - Lee Child

Classic Krakauer - Jon Krakauer

Find Me - Andre Aciman

The Noble Path - Peter May

Notre-Dame - Ken Follett

The Python Years - Michael Palin

Scotty - Ken Dryden

The Second Sleep - Robert Harris

The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off! - Gloria Steinem

Upstream - Mary Oliver

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Books Read in 2018

So, here are the ‘proper’ books that I read in 2018. Or, finished, really. I made progress on others that were either abandoned or left to finish later or read in part (some Chuck Klosterman and Hunter Thompson books had some essays read, but that’s it) or begun right as the year ended and almost done, so they’ll show up on next year’s list. Comments where applicable/warranted/I felt like it. Dates are when the book was finished. I also rode the bus to work a lot for the first half of the year, so more time to read...

Transformer by Victor Bockris (January 18) - Biography of Lou Reed that suffered the way that most bios do: very front-loaded. Not much on the later years. And, of course, he was a piece of shit.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (January 27)

Stephen Hero by James Joyce (February 5) - the bits that remain of an earlier attempt at Portrait. Actually pretty good.

Dubliners by James Joyce (February 12)

Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier by Mark Frost (March 2) - sorry, Abhay, I’m one of those people who read these. BECAUSE I HAD TO KNOW. (And it was... yeah...)

Ulysses by James Joyce (April 3) - remember, kids, you can win any argument by saying “Have you read Ulysses? No? Well, I have.”

The Never-Ending Present: The Story of Gord Downie and The     Tragically Hip by Michael Barclay (April 11) - see the Lou Reed book regarding what got wrote about. The band disavowed the book as not entirely accurate, but also didn’t cooperate, so... *shrugs*

Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 by Lizzy Goodman (May 24) - the best parts of this book were the parts where they quoted Howlin’ Pelle from the Hives. I want an oral history of that band.

Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock by Steven Hyden (May 28)

Leviathan by Paul Auster (June 3)

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster (June 11) - one book or three or the same book three times? U DECIDE!

The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster (June 17)

Normal by Warren Ellis (June 27) - really fun little book that turns into a summer camp movie before becoming utterly sad.

Do Anything by Warren Ellis (July 15) - better than Come In Alone. There. I said it.

Warren Ellis: The Captured Ghosts Interviews by Patrick Meaney and Kevin Thurman (July 21) - started as research for Thorsday Thoughts and expanded into “Well, while I’m here...”

Gun Machine by Warren Ellis (July 29) - surprised we haven’t seen this movie yet.

The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard by David J. Goodman (August 22) - I bought this for my trip to Anaheim and it was good. Not as good as you’d hoped. It did explain the accent, though, so there’s that.

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (October 17)

Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami (October 28)

Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy (November 3)

Hey Rube by Hunter S. Thompson (November 12) - seemed like the best book to read around the midterm elections. Worth it to watch Thompson constantly dunk on Gore for being a chump and Bush for being a moron.

I’ve Got Something to Say by Danko Jones (December 26)

Done.

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RM book recommendation: Master-list ♡

note 1: all the links lead to amazon uk unless starred with a *

note 2: i collected these from the wonderful twitter page namjoonbooks! ♡

note 3: i’m trying to find every book but they’re not all on amazon, i’ll try update it as best as i can!

Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart by James R. Doty | Science, Pyschology, Autobiography, Self-help

Lord of the Flies by William Golding | Allegory, Pyschological Fiction

The Singularity is Near: When Human’s Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil | Non-fiction, Science

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto | Collection of novels, Contemporary Fiction

Sky, Wind and Stars by Yun Dong-joo | Poetry

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami | Pyschological Fiction

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Fictional Novella

Justice: What’s the right thing to do? by Michael J. Sandel | Political Philosophies

1984 by George Orwell | Dystopian, Social Science, Political Science

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche | Philosophical Literature

Human Acts by Han Kang | Psychological Fiction

Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami | Psychological Fiction

The Stranger by Albert Camus | Philosophical Fiction

more to be added soon~

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Tagging Game

sTagged by @melaniehestiarei

How tall are you? 5'4

What colour are your eyes? Brown

Do you wear glasses/contacts? Glasses. I tried contacts but I almost died

Do you wear Braces? Not anymore thank fuck

Whats your fashion style? No idea man

When were you born? 1994

Do you have siblings? An older brother

What kind of student were/are you? Used to be super shy. Now I spend 98% of my time talking shit about historical figures. I don’t usually have to study unless it’s a subject I don’t like.

What were/are your favourite subjects? all kinds of history, especially art and music, marine biology, anthropology, sociology

Favourite movies? Uhhh, let me pick the ones I have memorised: Jaws, Interview with the Vampire, pretty much all the Star Wars movies, almost anything from the 80s

Favourite pastime? Writing fiction, doodling concept art for said fiction, fucking around on this hellsite, doing my drag makeup

What’s your dream job? Professor or New Orleans vampire tour guide

Would you like to get married? Maybe? I doubt it, I’m not a big fan

Do you want kids? FUCK no

How many countries have you visited? Italy, France, Greece, Dominican Republic, a forty-five minute layover in England, so that’s...5

Scariest dream? One time I had a dream I was being chased by a possessed boy, and every time I tried to wake up, he dragged me back down into the dream

Significant other? Forever Alone

First 15 on your playlist without skipping: 

1. Gangsta, Kehlani

2. Don Giovanni: Commendatore Scene, Mozart

3. Two Weeks, FKA Twigs

4. Pompeii, Bastille

5. This Will Make You Love Again, IAMX

6. Thriller, Michael Jackson

7. Frankenstein, The Edgar Winter Group

8. Velvet Coat, Ceramic

9. Misirlou, Dick Dale

10. Just Dance, Lady Gaga

11. The Host of Seraphim, Dead Can Dance

12. I Want Candy, Bow Wow Wow

13. Sweet Dreams, Eurythmics

14. Pagliacci: Vesti La Giubba, Pavarotti

15. Afraid, The Neighbourhood

Tagging: whoever sees this and wants to do it, @motherhierophant, @mioka, @i-miss-my-90gb, @shiningcelebi, @deancallsmedaddy

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The first two weeks of October are looking great!

October 2

9 from the Nine Worlds - Rick Riordan

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - Eric Idle

The Fifth Risk - Michael Lewis 

The Flame - Leonard Cohen

Full Disclosure - Stormy Daniels

The Lost Words - Robert Macfarlane

Louisiana’s Way Home - Kate DiCamillo

A Map of Days - Ransom Riggs

Muse of Nightmares - Laini Taylor

Saga Volume 9 - Brian K Vaughan 

Someday - David Levithan

A Spark of Life - Jodi Picoult

Spy School Goes South - Stuart Gibbs

The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Illustrated Edition - J K Rowling 

Trickster Drift - Eden Robinson

October 9

1 Grumpy Bruce - Ryan T Higgins 

Bitter Orange - Claire Fuller 

Bridge of Clay - Markus Zusak

The Clockmaker’s Daughter - Kate Morton

Dare to Lead - Brené Brown

Killing Commendatore - Haruki Murakami

The Next Person You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom

Persepolis Rising - James S A Corey

What If It's Us - Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

The Witch Elm - Tana French

October 15

The Wonky Donkey - Craig Smith

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Books: April 2020

Recommendations in bold

What I’ve read:

Michael Chabon:  The Yiddish Policemen’s Union

Harriet Tyce: Blood Orange

Eileen Cook: With Malice

Matt Parker: Humble Pie

What I’m reading:

Sam Friedman & Daniel Laurison: The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged

Haruki Murakami: Killing Commendatore

Thomas Piketty: Capital and Ideology

What I’m abandoning because... meh:

Alain de Botton: Essays in Love

What I bought:

Sun Tzu: Art of War: A Graphic Novel

Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis

Ken Krimstein: The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth 

Cédric Villani: Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure

Arthur Schopenhauer: Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung