movies godzilla minus one - highly recommended. great monster movie with solid effects and an even better story. alien: romulus - solid effects, really did a pretty solid job of keeping things in the weyland-yutani universe. i was entertained throughout. a quiet place: day one - solidly entertaining. blink twice - actually, better than i was expecting. i’m surprised that the broligarchy hasn’t been protesting this one. the fall guy - i loved this way more than i should have....
goal target: 30 - read: 12 (so far) if i were a better man, i’d do something focused and high minded. like targeting research in a specific vein of study. i am not that man. books note: this is a running list. (in reverse chronological order) how should a person be? (sheila heti) i added this to my queue based on reading the work of art last year. i was left with the impression that this sparked a fair amount of debate and/or there was a fair amount of discussion around the format (somewhere between memoir and fiction) and the depiction of women-women friendships....
movies dumb money (2023) - watched this on the plane. if you remember this time, it was bonkers and kind of beautiful at the same time. (4/5) the gentlemen (2019) - watched this in the plane too. guy ritchie has a style. fun, solid cast, a couple of novel twists. (3.5/5) please don’t destroy: the treasure of foggy mountain (2023) - i watched this on peacock. i fell asleep through a chunk of it....
goal target: 30 - read: 31 books liberty’s daughter (naomi kritzer) notes green earth (kim stanley robinson) notes the future of the responsible company: what we’ve learned from patagonia’s first 50 years (yvon chouinard, vincent stanley) notes the death and life of the great lakes (dan egan) notes a hacker’s mind (bruce schneier) notes shop class as soulcraft (matthew b. crawford) notes the lost cause (cory doctorow) notes a sand county almanac (aldo leopold) notes under a white sky: the nature of thefuture (elizabeth kolbert) notes number go up (zeke faux) notes blindsight (peter watts) notes the happiness curve: why life gets better after 50 (jonathon rauch) notes range: why generalists triumph in a specialized world (david eptstein) notes master of the revels (nicole galland) notes writing to learn (william zinnser) notes the resistance: digital dissent in the age of machines (joel achenbach) 2034: a novel of the next world war (ackerman, stavridis) notes numbers don’t lie (vaclav smil) notes the message (ta-nehisi coates) notes polostan (neal stephenson) notes the art of thinking (vincent ruggiero) notes amusing ourselves to death (neil postman) notes erasing history (jason stanley) notes looking at photographs (john szarkowski) the real internet architecture (zave, rexford) notes the creative act: a way of being (rick rubin) notes antarctica (kim stanley robinson) notes last entry point: stories of danger and death in the boundary waters (joe friedrichs) notes brave new world (aldous huxley) notes our posthuman future: consequences of the biotechnology revolution (francis fukuyama) notes al franken, giant of the senate (al franken) the work of art (adam moss) notes
notes bookshop link recommended: highly this has been sitting on the end table since this summer. i sat down to “grind” through it after i’d hit the target of 30 books this year. the book is physically beautiful. it’s one of those things that you just want to hold in your hand and work through. i’m surprised by how much i simply enjoy the feeling of this book in hand. books rarely feel like this....