#ed berger

[uomo-accattivante]

So many Oscar Isaac projects in development! I hope this one gets done, because I’m ready for another miniseries with such talented people aboard.

[oscarisaac-source]

[mlaformatisspokenfor]

Watch "Felix Kammerer and Daniel Bruhl ('All Quiet on the Western Front') on challenging German war saga" on YouTube

[manibolly]

In My Life (Remastered 2009)

[madamescarlette]

NO ONE'S EVER REALLY GONE (a collection about endings)

Amy Hempel / @itspileofgoodthings / Richard Jackson / Niall Williams / Ed Sheeran / John Berger / Lemony Snicket / Theodore Roethke / Mikko Harvey / Holly Warburton / Ingeborg Bachmann / Jeanette Winterson / Leila Chatti / George Sand / Miriam Adeney / Rainer Maria Rilke / Unknown / Mural in Hamilton, NZ / Rosamunde Pilcher / Nikki Giovanni

[rogerdeakinsdp]

Academy Award Winners for Best Cinematography: 2023 — James Friend, ASC, BSC All Quiet on the Western Front // Im Westen nichts Neues (2022) Directed by Edward Berger Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1

One way the film places viewers up close to its fraught battle scenes is through its varied color palette. “The soldiers’ uniforms were designed to be camouflaged and blend in,” Friend says. “So, we would find any excuse to add a pop of color.” For example, when Paul and his comrades find themselves under attack from a tank division, the vehicles appear from behind a dramatic cloud of yellow smoke. “I don’t know if that color is historically correct,” Friend says. “It was dreamt up in a hotel suite between Ed [Berger, director] and me as we did visual notes and thought, ‘What horrible, acrid color can we introduce that will pop?’ We didn’t want the film to have that desaturated, almost black-and-white ‘war movie’ feel that has been visually exhausted.” — The American Society of Cinematographers, November 2022

[x-heesy]

Ed Freeman’s early career was in the music industry; he performed as a folk guitarist and classical lutenist, worked ED as a road manager on the last Beatles’ tour, played guitar on dozens of pop recordings, wrote orchestral arrangements for artists including Carly Simon and Cher, produced and arranged over two dozen albums, including Don McLean’s American Pie. After a mid-life career change, he now creates commercial and fine art photographs that have been featured in hundreds of publications. Two books of his computer-enhanced images have been published. His architectural series - Desert Realty and Urban Realty - have been the subject of touring museums shows. Prints of his fine art images are in the permanent collections of several American museums and private collections world-wide. These days Freeman travels the world taking pictures, teaches Photoshop, still plays piano, is fighting a losing battle to learn Mandarin Chinese and swears mightily that he will write the Great American Symphony one day -whenever he gets some spare time.

Don’t hold your breath.

#architectures #architectureinspiration #architecture_view #architektur #architekturfotografie #architekturfotograf #architektur_erleben #architekturliebe #architekturporn #architekturelovers #abandonedplaces #abandonedafterdark #abandonedworld #abandonedcentral #abandonedphotography #abandonedporn #abandoned_junkies #abandonedfactory #abandonedplace #abandonedjunkies #abandonedgallery #abandonedhouses #abandoned_addiction #abandonedcore #abandoned_places #abandoned_world #abandoned_excellence #abandoned_seekers #abandonedmadness #abandonedbeauty

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Léviathan by Flavien Berger 🎧

[yyenky]

I found a really interesting F1 Japanese game called SD F-1 Grand Prix that is inspired on the 1995 F1 season with animal characters that are based on real 90s drivers. Anyways, I found it cute so I wanted to share it with you guys.

Every driver's performance based on 4 stats: Speed, Torque, Grip and Weight. The highest rating is 5 and the lowest 0. (Blank = 0)

Speed: Self explanatory that refers to the driver's top speed he can reach in a straight line.

Torque: That shows how fast a driver reaches his top speed.

Grip: Higher grip means you can turn with faster speed without sliding.

Weight: Weight only matters when two drivers hit each other. Drivers with higher weight rating tends to push aside lighter drivers, plus the heavier drivers cause more damage on collision than the lighter one.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/snes/571373-sd-f-1-grand-prix/faqs/69920

TEAM MCLAREN (MP 4/10)

Name: Mika Bower (Dog)

Based on: Mika Häkkinen

Speed: ✰✰✰

Torque: ✰✰✰

Grip: ✰✰✰

Weight: ✰

TEAM BENETTON (B 195)

Name: Wolf Schwarz (Wolf)

Based on: Michael Schumacher

Speed: ✰✰✰✰

Torque: ✰✰✰✰✰

Grip: ✰

Weight: ✰✰

Name: J.J. Bitt (Squirrel)

Based on: J.J. Lehto

Speed:

Torque: ✰✰✰✰✰

Grip: ✰✰✰✰✰

Weight:

TEAM FERRARI (412 T2)

Name: Jean Gallop (Horse)

Based on: Jean Alesi

Speed: ✰✰✰✰✰

Torque:

Grip:

Weight: ✰✰✰

Name: Gertie Bunny (Rabbit)

Based on: Gerhard Berger

Speed: ✰✰✰✰✰

Torque:

Grip: ✰

Weight: ✰

TEAM WILLIAMS (FW 17)

Name: Debbie Birdie (Bird)

Based on: Damon Hill

Speed: ✰✰✰

Torque: ✰✰✰✰

Grip: ✰✰

Weight: ✰✰

TEAM TYRRELL (T 023)

Name: Chu Kamikaze (Mouse)

Based on: Ukyo Katayama

Speed: ✰

Torque: ✰✰

Grip: ✰✰✰✰✰

Weight:

TEAM JORDAN (J 195)

Name: Barry Leppard (Leopard)

Based on: Rubens Barrichello

Speed: ✰

Torque: ✰✰

Grip: ✰✰✰

Weight: ✰✰

Name: Ed Alban (Chicken)

Based on: Eddie Irvine

Speed: ✰

Torque: ✰

Grip: ✰✰✰✰

Weight:

TEAM SAUBER (C13)

Name: Andy Bear (Bear)

Based on: Andrea de Cesaris

Speed:

Torque:

Grip: ✰✰✰✰✰

Weight: ✰✰✰✰✰

SECRET DRIVERS

After beating the 4 basic rounds in Crash Race, in the World Round you have to face 3 new drivers based on legendary ex-pilots and if you win against them too, a final challenger awaits you...

TEAM WILLIAMS (FW 14/15)

Name: Professor Alan (Hawk)

Based on: Alain Prost

Speed: ✰✰✰✰

Torque: ✰✰✰✰

Grip: ✰✰✰✰✰

Weight:

Name: King Lion (Lion)

Based on: Nigel Mansell

Speed: ✰✰✰

Torque: ✰✰✰

Grip:

Weight: ✰✰✰

TEAM LOTUS (L 99T)

Name: Sir Nakazee (Owl)

Based on: Satoru Nakajima

Speed: ✰✰

Torque: ✰

Grip: ✰✰

Weight:

FINAL CHALLENGER

TEAM MCLAREN (MP 4/6)

Name: Prince Phoenix (Phoenix)

Based on: Ayrton Senna

Speed: ✰✰✰✰✰

Torque: ✰✰✰✰✰

Grip: ✰✰✰✰

Weight: ✰

Here is a longplay if you are interested some more.

[professionalowl]

Actually, while we're shaming people for their 452 unread books, here's a list of unread books of mine of which I own physical copies, attached to the year I obtained them, so that you can all shame me into reading more:

2024: Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence (James Bridle; just started)

2021: Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape (Cal Flyn)

2024: Extreme Fabulations: Science Fictions of Life (Steven Shaviro)

2021: The Unreal & The Real Vol. 1: Where on Earth (Ursula K. Le Guin)

2023: A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle)

2023: Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living (Dmitri Xygalatas)

2023: Vibrant Matter: A political ecology of things (Jane Bennett)

2023: The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present (Chris Gosden)

2018: Ways of Seeing (John Berger)

2022: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Ed Yong)

2020: Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl (Jonathan C. Slaught)

2023: My Life in Sea Creatures (Sabrina Imbler)

2020: The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think (Jennifer Ackerman)

2023: Birds and Us: A 12,000-Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation (Tim Birkhead)

2020: Rebirding: Restoring Britain's Wildlife (Benedict Macdonald)

2022: The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human (Siddhartha Mukherjee)

2022: An Anthropologist on Mars (Oliver Sacks)

2021: Sex, Botany & Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks (Patricia Fara)

2023: At The Mountains of Madness (H.P. Lovecraft)

2019: Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino; I have been trying to finish this forever and am so, so close)

2023: Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf (Sean Duffy)

2021: What is History, Now? How the past and present speak to each other (Helen Carr and Suzannah Lipscomb; essay collection, half-read)

2020: Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England (Thomas Penn)

2022: Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation (Silvia Federici)

2020: Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Touissant Louverture (Sudhir Hazareesingh; half-read)

2019: The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hallie Rubenhold; 3/4 read)

2022: Lenin on the Train (Catherine Merridale)

2020: October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (China Miéville)

2019: The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution (Mark Roseman)

2019: Heimat: A German Family Album (Nora Krug)

2018: Maus I: My Father Bleeds History (Art Spiegelman)

2020: Running in the Family (Michael Ondaatje)

2022: Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys; also never technically "finished" Jane Eyre, but I did my time, damn you)

2023: Time Shelter (Georgi Gospodinov)

2019: Our Man in Havana (Graham Greene; started, left unfinished)

2019: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (John le Carré)

2021: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Reni Eddo-Lodge; half-read)

2017: Rebel Without Applause (Lemn Sissay)

2022: The Metamorphosis, and Other Stories (Franz Kafka)

2011?: The Complete Cosmicomics (Italo Calvino; vaguely remember reading these when I was maybe 7 and liking them, but I have forgotten their content)

2022: Free: Coming of Age at the End of History (Lea Ypi)

2021: Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland (W.B. Yates)

Some of these are degree-related, some not; some harken back to bygone areas of interest and some persist yet; some were obtained willingly and some thrust upon me without fanfare. I think there are also some I've left at college, but I'm not sure I was actually intending to read any of them - I know one is an old copy of Structural Anthropology by Claude Levi-Strauss that Dad picked up for me secondhand, which I...don't intend to torment myself with. Reading about Tom Huffman's cognitive-structural theory of Great Zimbabwe almost finished me off and remains to date the only overdue essay I intend to never finish, mostly because the professor let me get away with abandoning it.

There are also library books, mostly dissertation-oriented, from which you can tell that the cognitive archaeologists who live in my walls finally fucking Got me:

The Rise of Homo sapiens: The Evolution of Modern Thinking (Thomas Wynn & Fred Coolidge)

The Material Origin of Numbers: Insights from the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (Karenleigh A. Overmann)

Archaeological Situations: Archaeological Theory from the Inside-Out (Gavin Lucas)

And, finally, some I've actually finished recently ("recently" being "within the past year"):

The Body Fantastic (Frank Gonzalo-Crussi, solid 6/10 essay collection about a selection of body parts, just finished earlier)

An Entertainment for Angels: Electricity in the Enlightenment (Patricia Fara, also a solid 6/10, fun read but nothing special)

Babel: An Arcane History (R.F. Kuang, 8/10, didactic (sometimes necessary) but effective; magic system was cool and a clever metaphor)

The Sign of Four (A.C. Doyle, 2/10 really racist and for what)

Dr. Space Junk vs. the Universe: Archaeology and the Future (Alice Gorman, 8/10, I love you Dr. Space Junk)

In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology (Lucy Moore, 8/10, I respect some of these people slightly more now)

The Dispossessed (Ursula K. Le Guin, 9/10 got my ass)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (A.C. Doyle, 7/10 themez 👍)

[clementinecompendium]

Book List: Aesthetics, Neuroaesthetics, & Philosophy of Art

Why Science Needs Art: From Historical to Modern Day Perspectives 1st Edition by Richard Roche (Author), Sean Commins (Author), Francesca Farina (Author)

Feeling Beauty: The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience by G. Gabrielle Starr (Author)

An Introduction to Neuroaesthetics: The Neuroscientific Approach to Aesthetic Experience, Artistic Creativity and Arts Appreciation 1st Edition by Jon O. Lauring (Editor)

Brain, Beauty, and Art: Essays Bringing Neuroaesthetics into Focus by Anjan Chatterjee (Editor), Eileen Cardilo (Editor)

Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy) by Noël Carroll (Author)

Philosophy of the Arts: An Introduction to Aesthetics 3rd Edition, by Gordon Graham (Author)

The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics (Oxford Handbooks) Revised ed. Edition by Jerrold Levinson (Editor)

Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: The Analytic Tradition, An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies) 2nd Edition, by Peter Lamarque (Editor), Stein Haugom Olsen (Editor)

What Art Is by Arthur C. Danto (Author)

After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History - Updated Edition (Princeton Classics Book 10) by Arthur C. Danto (Author), Lydia Goehr (Foreword)

Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series (Penguin Books for Art) by John Berger (Author)

Art and Its Significance: An Anthology of Aesthetic Theory, Third Edition 3rd Revised ed. Edition, by Stephen David Ross (Editor)

But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory by Cynthia Freeland (Author)

The Art Question by Nigel Warburton (Author)

Arguing About Art: Contemporary Philosophical Debates (Arguing About Philosophy) 3rd Edition by Alex Neill (Editor), Aaron Ridley (Editor)

Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Cynthia Freeland (Author)

Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Illustrated Edition, by Bence Nanay (Author)

The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Aesthetics and the Arts (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology) by Pablo P. L. Tinio (Editor), Jeffrey K. Smith (Editor)

Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies) 2nd Edition, by Steven M. Cahn (Editor), Stephanie Ross (Editor), Sandra L. Shapshay (Editor)

Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger by Albert Hofstadter (Author, Editor), Richard Kuhns (Author, Editor)

Art, Aesthetics, and the Brain Illustrated Edition, by Joseph P. Huston (Editor), Marcos Nadal (Editor), Francisco Mora (Editor), Luigi F. Agnati (Editor), Camilo José Cela Conde (Editor)

[slowtides]

Reading List for 2023

I have settled on my reading list for the year and my reading goal. The books below encompass the books I will choose from (I don't expect to finish all of them). My goal is to read 52 books this year, not including JAFF. I will probably return to this list several times just to discuss how it is going.

Nonfiction

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein (2014)

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde (1982)

Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis de Veaux (2006)

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (2007)

Blue Nights by Joan Didion (2011)

Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion (2021)

A House of My Own: Stories from My Life by Sandra Cisneros (2015)

A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story by Elaine Brown (1992)

Some of Us Did Not Die by June Jordan (2002)

On Call: Political Essays by June Jordan (1998)

The Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara Ahmed (2004)

Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver (2016)

Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas (2004)

The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Edith Eger (2017)

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (2021)

Ohitika Woman by Mary Brave Bird (1994)

And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos by John Berger (1991)

Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T Fleischmann (2019)

Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman (1998)

The Care Manifesto by The Care Collective (2020)

Dancing at the Edge of the World by Ursula K. Le Guin (1997)

Fiction

A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion (1977)

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami (2014)

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (2019)

The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante (2013)

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante (2014)

The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante (2015)

The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante (2008)

The Bone People by Keri Hulme (1986)

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2006)

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811)

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (1814)

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (1817)

Atonement by Ian McEwan (2003)

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (2021)

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams (2021)

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954)

The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954)

The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien (1955)

Babel by R.F. Kuang (2022)

Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz (2020)

The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz (2018)

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (2013)

Poetry

Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong (2022)

Blue Iris: Poems and Essays by Mary Oliver (2006)

Work

The Hidden Inequities of Labor-Based Contract Grading by Ellen Carillo (2021)

Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence by J. Logan Smilges (2022)

Our Body of Work ed. by Melissa Nicolas and Anna Sicari (2022)

Teachers as Cultural Workers by Paulo Freire (2005)

Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed (2017)

The Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara Ahmed (2004)

The Vulnerable Observer by Ruth Behar (1997)

Getting Lost by Patti Lather (2007)

Race, Rhetoric, and Research Methods by Alexandria Lockett, Iris D. Ruiz , James Chase Sanchez, and Christopher Carter (2021)

Opening Spaces by Patricia Sullivan and James Porter (1997)

Decolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith (2021)

Counterstory by Aja Y. Martinez (2020)

The Courage to Teach by Parker Palmer (2017)

We Make the Road by Walking by Paulo Freire and Myles Horton

Writing with Power by Peter Elbow (1998)

Writing without Teachers by Peter Elbow (1998)

The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop by Felicia Chavez (2021)

[the-two-germanys]

La guerre.

La caricature allemande pendant la guerre

Frédéric Régamey, ed. Paris: Berger-Levrault, Libraires–Editeurs, 1921.

[tabellae-rex-in-sui]

I know that compared to today, a lot of 18c writing seems romantic/sexual when it was just how friends would write each other. But I'm sorry, Voltaire takes Being Gay with the Homies to a new level. He even writes the suggestive parts in Italian like he did in actually erotic letters to Madame Denis...

"Je joins les sentiments de la plus tendre reconnaissance à un attachement d'environ quarante années, mais j'ay des passions malheureuses et la jouissance de l'objet aimé m'est interditte par ordre du médecin. Si votre belle imagination trouve quelque tournure pour que je puisse bacciar vi la mano quand vous irez à Montpellier ce serait pour moy l'heure du berger. E perche no? Un gran Re m'ha bacciato la mano, a me, si, la brutta mano, per incitar mi a rimanere nel suo palazzo d'Alcina, ed io bacciero la vostra bella mano con un piu grande e saporito piacere. Ah! signore amabile, signore cortese e bravo, la vita si perde, si consuma et la speranza ancora si distrugge."

— 7 September 1753, Voltaire to le Duc de Richelieu

[TR: "I combine the feelings of the most tender gratitude to an attachment of about forty years, but I have unfortunate passions and the pleasures of the beloved object is forbidden to me by order of the doctor. If your beautiful imagination finds some twist so that I can kiss your hand when you go to Montpellier, that would be the hour of lovers for me. Why not? A great King has kissed my hand, me, yes, this ugly hand, to incite me to remain in his palace in Alcina, and I kissed your beautiful hand with a more grand and tasty pleasure. Ah! amiable lord, courteous and good lord, life is lost, is consumed and hope is still destroyed."]

I italicized that parts that were in Italian

And here's what "l'heure du berger" meant....

Voltaire, do you want us to think you blew Richelieu? Cuz you're making it sound like you blew Richelieu. My guy, whyyy did you write kiss your hand in Italian

[notalkingbusiness]

Carol & Daryl - Icons of the Apocalypse

Let’s start at the very beginning – do you know what “apocalypse” means?

Most people would probably say something like, “the end of the world” and that’s not wrong.

But it’s important to note that “apocalypse” doesn’t necessarily mean the end of everything.  There’s got to be something left in a post-apocalyptic narrative – otherwise there’s no story to tell.

Let’s think about what apocalyptic narratives are all about.

According to Lois Parkinson Zamora (1989), apocalypse: “derives from the Greek apokálypsis, to uncover, reveal, disclose (the root is kalypto, to cover or conceal, and is familiar to us in the name of the nymph Calypso, who hides Odysseus for seven years)”.  Apocalyptic stories are fundamentally concerned with uncovering or revealing and the best storylines in TWD stay true to this central theme: like how the apocalypse uncovered Carol’s strength and revealed Daryl’s softer side.

James Berger (1999) describes the apocalypse as a process that “burns and distils” – akin to a cleansing fire.  This is interesting because Carol is repeatedly linked with a fire motif: she burned bodies in Season 4, she started a fire at Terminus, and burned Saviors alive in Seasons 6 and 9.  And Carol references fire when she talks about her own journey from an abused housewife to a post-apocalyptic powerhouse: 

“Who I was with him [Ed], she got burned away. And I was happy about that.  I mean, not happy but . . . At the prison, I got to be who I always thought I should be, what I should’ve been.  And then she got burned away.  Everything now just consumes you.”  

At this moment in time, every burning feels like another death.  Every time Carol drops another facade (e.g., soccer mom, wolf, helpless woman in the slaughterhouse, queen, Commonwealth baker), she burns through another self.  But the way I see it, each burning is like a cleansing fire and Carol’s getting closer to her real self each time.  Every burning leads her closer to finally accepting her authentic self.  Every burning brings her closer to achieving freedom and happiness with Daryl.

How does Daryl respond to Carol’s comments in Consumed?  

He replies, “we ain’t ashes.”

Daryl’s response plays into another key component of apocalyptic convention as “the belief in a second chance underpins most apocalyptic thinking” (Maria Manuel Lisboa, 2011).  Daryl doesn’t see Carol as depleted, or tainted, or beyond saving.  There’s hope for her yet. And there’s hope for them to move forward together.  

Hope is a word that comes up again and again with Caryl.  They find hope in each other, and they inspire hope in viewers.  And you know what?  Apocalyptic narratives are all about hope.  There are always some good people left and you see total strangers moved to kindness.  The world may have altered beyond recognition, but it’s usually implied that there’s a better future ahead (it might just take a little while to get there).

Catherine Keller (2004) writes, “apocalypse transforms the object of fear into the site of hope”. And this is the thing that strikes me about Caryl – in a way, the apocalypse was the best thing that could have happened to them.  The apocalypse allowed them to break free of their shackles, the apocalypse gave them a found family, the apocalypse made them become better versions of themselves. Most importantly of all, the apocalypse brought these two soulmates together.  And Caryl have found hope, love, and comfort in one another from the first Cherokee Rose.

Carol and Daryl are icons of the apocalypse.  They embody so much of what the genre is all about and that’s one of the things that makes their dynamic so compelling.  

Caryl on!

[stickylittleleaves]

BOOKS & FILMS I FIRST READ/WATCHED IN 2022 THAT I RATED 4 OR MORE STARS

BOOKS

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) by Maya Angelou

Ways of Seeing (1972) by John Berger

Blacksad (2006) by Juan Díaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido

Saints and Strangers (1985) by Angela Carter

Discourse on Colonialism (1950) by Aimé Césaire

Stories of Your Life and Others (2002) by Ted Chiang

Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003) by Angela Y. Davis

Demons (1873) by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Absalom, Absalom! (1936) by William Faulkner

33 ⅓: J Dilla’s Donuts (2014) by Jordan Ferguson

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2009) by Mark Fisher

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938) by C.L.R. James

The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States (2020) by Walter Johnson

Horror: A Very Short Introduction (2021) by Darryl Jones

Red Pill (2020) by Hari Kunzru

White Tears (2017) by Hari Kunzru

Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853) by Herman Melville

Selected Poems (1912 - 1950) by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Socialism: A Very Short Introduction (2005) by Michael Newman

The Sympathizer (2017) by Viet Thanh Nguyen

The God of Small Things (1997) by Arundhati Roy

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1606)

Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1606)

Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare (1605 - 1606)

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (2012) by Cheryl Strayed

The Little Stranger (2009) by Sarah Waters

The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic (2017) by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (ed.)

FILMS

It Happened One Night (1934) dir. Frank Capra

Bicycle Thieves (1948) dir. Vittorio De Sica

The Northman (2022) dir. Robert Eggers

Battleship Potemkin (1925) dir. Sergei Eisenstein

Smoke Signals (1998) dir. Chris Eyre

Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971) dir. John Hancock

Grizzly Man (2005) dir. Werner Herzog

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) dir. Tobe Hooper

Whisper of the Heart (1995) dir. Yoshifumi Kondō

First Blood (1982) dir. Ted Kotcheff

Dr. Strangelove (1964) dir. Stanley Kubrick

Eyes Wide Shut (1999) dir. Stanley Kubrick

M (1931) dir. Fritz Lang

Do The Right Thing (1989) dir. Spike Lee

The Green Knight (2021) dir. David Lowery

My Neighbor Totoro (1988) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

A Matter of Life and Death (1946) dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

Pig (2021) dir. Michael Sarnoski

The Fall (2006) dir. Tarsem Singh

Prey (2022) dir. Dan Trachtenberg

Citizen Kane (1941) dir. Orson Welles

The Animatrix (2003) dir. various