july 2025

  • listening to oasis (consolation for missing out on the tour)
  • reading cixin liu
  • watching what we do in the shadows
    • accidentally started with season 6...
  • getting back into baking
    • biscuits
    • brownies
    • pain de campagne
    • lemon berry yogurt cake
    • fresh apricot cake

june 2025

  • re-watching twin peaks
  • experiencing severe music drought...
    • love story - taylor swift on repeat (thank you richie) along with animal - pearl jam (desperate attempt to lock in)
jan 5 2025 ∞
jul 27 2025 +
  • mbti: INTP-A
  • moral alignment: chaotic good
  • enneagram: type 5
  • 4 temperaments: choleric-phlegmatic
  • big 5 personality: RCUEI
  • love language: acts of service
aug 11 2022 ∞
sep 30 2024 +

Reading/Watching

On Hold

jul 22 2020 ∞
oct 6 2024 +

To Watch Soon

  • Succession
  • VEEP
  • Barry
  • Daria
  • Atlanta
  • Twin Peaks (Again)
  • Severance
  • The Sympathizer
  • Fantasmas
  • Nathan For You
  • The Curse
  • The Rehearsal

On Hold

  • Daredevil (Season 2)
  • The White Lotus (Season 1)
  • The Walking Dead (Season 3)
  • Brooklyn 99 (Season 1, Ep. 22)
  • Sex Education (Season 3)
  • The Great (Season 1, Ep. 6)
oct 8 2018 ∞
jun 6 2025 +
  • Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr. ; Nov 2024 - Feb 2025
    • pause on it for now. it's a rough read
  • The Labyrinth - Simon Stålenhag ; Jan 2025 - Feb 2025 ⭑⭑⭑☆☆
  • 저주토끼 (Cursed Bunny) - 정보라 (Bora Chung) ; Feb 2025 - Mar 2025 ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑
    • fucking ACE. love everything she writes. gimme gimme
  • Sunrise on the Reaping - Suzanne Collins ; April 2025 ⭑⭑⭑⭑☆
    • ready for the movie
  • Conflict is Not Abuse - Sarah Schulman ; April 2025
  • Dune - Frank Herbert ; May 2025 ⭑⭑⭑☆☆
    • i really wanted to do this justice, so aware it's the bestselling science fiction series of all time but it drags a little too much at times... i like it fine but not enough to read Dune Messiah? i will watch the movies though. it took me some ef...
jan 5 2025 ∞
jul 27 2025 +

On Loan / Purchased

  • I Ate the Whole World to Find You - Rachel Ang
  • Zig Zag - J. D. O’Brien
  • Life After God - Douglas Coupland
  • Virtuoso - Yelena Moskovich
  • Entitlement - Rumaan Alam
  • The Narrowing: A Journey Through Anxiety and the Body - Alexandra Shaker

Waiting / On Order

  • Death’s End - Cixin Liu
  • Cop City Swagger - Mercedes Eng
  • The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa
  • Stag Dance - Torrey Peters
  • Luminous - Silvia Park
  • Lemon - Kwon Yeo-sun
  • The End of August - Yu Miri

Favourites

  • Demian - Hermann Hesse
jul 22 2020 ∞
jul 27 2025 +

At Home [ ]

  • Phantom Thread (2017)
  • Yi Yi (2000)
  • Happiness (1998)
  • Drylongso (1998)
  • Show Me Love (1998)
  • Bound (1996)
  • Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
  • Saving Face (2004)
  • Do the Right Thing (1989)
  • Victor/Victoria (1982)
  • After Yang (2021)
  • Brokeback Mountain (2005)
  • Hard Eight (1996)
  • Kurosawa Double Feature
    • Cure (1997)
    • Pulse (2001)
  • Cassavetes Double Feature
aug 9 2020 ∞
jul 27 2025 +

Recommended Films for Cinematography

  • The Lighthouse (2019)
  • Lost in Translation (2003)
  • The Florida Project (2017)
  • Apocalypse Now (1979)
  • Chungking Express (1994)
  • Suspiria (2018)
  • Children of Men (2006)
  • Tomboy (2011)
  • Do The Right Thing (1989)
  • In the Mood for Love (2000)
  • No Country For Old Men (2007)
  • Arrival (2016)

Céline Sciamma

  • Water Lilies (2007)
  • Tomboy (2011)
  • Girlhood (2014)
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
  • Petite Maman (2021)

Paul Thomas Anderson

jan 5 2025 ∞
jul 27 2025 +