• 30 essays (29/30):
  • Looking Good: The Lesbian Gaze and Fashion Imagery , by Reina Lewis (I didn't like this although it sounded like it would be great - I don't personally vibe w/ the idea of the lesbian gaze the author describes)
  • Conceptualisation, History, and Future of the Paraphilias (Moser and Kleinplatz) (This brought up some interesting questions about the point of the DSM, the point of psychopathology, etc, but other than that it wasn't revelatory)
  • Nietzsche, Genealogy, History (Foucault) - Waaay easier to understand than I was expecting and made lots of sense, idk why all academics who like Foucault are so annoying because this was pretty good.
  • 'They Wonder to Which Sex I Belong' - The Historical Roots of Modern Lesbian Identity (M Vicinus) - Omg soooo good, added like...

general, interesting

• rym top 486 albums by female artists
• blow up magazine 600 essential albums
• 1001 albums you must hear before you die...
• 500 experimental albums
• curious/weird/attractive/repulsive album...
• Irregularity Error Knockout or 200 most ...
• the wire's 100(+30) records that set the...
• the wire's 100 most important records ev...
• freak records
• records that changed my life into someth...
• 80 greatest alternative albums made by w...

rym 1000 you should hear while you're still alive

• the canon
• the suite
• the complement
• the gems
• the beast
• the patchwork

english:

• camaraderie
• escapades
• diabolical
• habadashery
• periphery

latin:

• ululare (to wail)
• spelunca (cave)

chinese:

• 雨 (rain)
• 范 (small buzzing insect)

• 61/1 (heidelberg)
• 61/2 (heidelberg)
• 61/3 (heidelberg)
• 152/2 (theodor korner)
• 164/1 (trenck)
• 164/2 (trenck)
• 164/4 (trenck)
• 182/2 (anna und elisabeth)
• 182/3 (anna und elisabeth)
• 1000-2100 (1927-1928)
• 1515/1
• 1792/1
• 3183/1 BOUGHT
• 6540/1
• 6543/1
• 6741/1
• 6792/1 BID, SIGNED COPY
• 6794/1
• 6794/2
• 6846/1
• 7187/1 (theodor korner)

• tiananmen square
• wudaoying hutong
• eat peking duck
• forbidden city
• 798 art district
• shichahai lakes
• chaoyang park
• jingshan park (chongzhen suicide tree)
• temple of heaven
• silk market
• summer palace
• workers' stadium
• olympic forest park
• national museum
• drum and bell towers
• dongyue temple
• dingling tomb
• panjiayuan flea market
• capital museum
• zhengyici theatre for peking opera
• gubei water town

• classical chinese - can follow texts w/ dictionary
• english - native
• latin - a-level standard
• mandarin - hsk4-ish speaking and upper hsk-5 reading

+ i wish... modern

• arabic (msa)
• amharic
• armenian
• cantonese (!)
• german
• hungarian
• japanese
• korean
• navajo
• russian
• suzhounese
• wenzhounese
• !xu

bfi sight and sound

• 1952 top 33
• 1962 top 34
• 1972 top 20
• 1982 top 20
• 1992 top 131
• 2002 top 341
• 2012 critics IN PROGRESS
• 2012 directors

other top lists

• cinephilia 10x10
• vatican 45 best films
• cahiers du cinema 2007 top 100
• bbc 100 greatest foreign-language films
• c4 50 films to see before you die

country-specific

• kinema junpo's greatest japanese films
• kenji's japanese canon
• best 100 chinese motion pictures

overall goal: 10 films from each year, 1930-1979

• 1 chinese film from every year up to 1979
• 1 (more) american film from every year up to 1979
• full filmography: marilyn monroe
• full filmography: marlene dietrich
• all 1930s films on 1001
• all 1930s films on criterion
• film school dropouts 2021 (every friday from first week of jan)
• a film per year from each of the 'big 5' studios (rko,fox, paramount, warner brothers, mgm) from their respective conceptions until the end of the studio era or their collapse
  • rko: 1928-1959
  • fox: 1935-1954
  • paramount: 1912-1954

• read sappho in original
• read hlm in original in full
• finish sight and sound 2012 list
• visit china

• aesthetics
• ai
• astrophysics
• compsci (theory)
• economics
• english poetry
• existentialism
• game theory
• history
  • of china
  • of judaism
  • of russia
  • of sub-saharan africa
• history of architecture
• history of photography + famous photographers
• history of popular music
• horticulture (names of plants etc.)
• jewish theology
• law