Woman With Basket, Juan Gris
Medium: oil,canvas
thesis: the “song playing from another room” phenomenon appeals threefold to the millenial experience of nostalgia, isolation, and the sensation of eavesdropping on the lives of others via social media and hyper-consumption of culture actively building upon itself at a rapid pace
What Color Is Your Soulmark?
You asked for it, now here it is. Have fun~
10 novels. at least eight nonfiction books. a buttload of papers.
my dears, it is time.
lol im going to uninstall tumblr from my phone for the meantime. going to stick around maybe until friday? there’s always been a queue running, but it might run out before i return… anyway, wishing whoever’s reading this as much luck as i will need myself!
Recommend me some reading material and films please
hi! thanks for the ask, i honestly don’t get many of these! i must confess that i’m not the best person to ask about these (bc i rarely finish books and i’m not such a movie fan), but i’ll try! i could also give you podcast recs – that’s the medium i devote most of my time to – if you’d like!
movies
(i didn’t include relatively recent ones bc you may have watched them? and i don’t want to feel like i’m pandering to some awards committee or whatever, just movies that i can watch without tiring, usually emotionally, of them)
- Bad Genius
- Catch Me If You Can
- Chicago
- The Meddler
- Pride & Prejudice (2005)
- The Watermelon Woman (haven’t watched this yet but i can already feel that i’m going to like it)
- What We Do in the Shadows
- Whip It
- Whisper of the Heart
reads
- i genuinely enjoyed reading Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Hélène Cixous, and Terry Eagleton for my theory classes. it’s something about the way they use language…
- i also read some of Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua’s This Bridge Called My Back for a class and got inspired to read the entire book
- there’s also “The affective, cultural and psychic life of postfeminism: A postfeminist sensibility 10 years on” by Rosalind Gill, which felt like a nice, good, punch to the face. a wake up call really
- in terms of fiction, i’m… working on reading Italo Calvino, Nick Joaquin, Maurice Leblanc (particularly his Arsène Lupin series, which im hoping to do my thesis on), Clarice Lispector, Qiu Miaojin, and Banana Yoshimoto (i’d like to explore non anglo-american lit!)
- i’ve been trying to read Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog for some time now, with no success bc of my schedule (I can only digest short stories and nonfiction). i hear Michael Ende’s Momo might also be of my taste
- i’m trying to read Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues without becoming too emotionally overwhelmed
- Anne Carson and Joan Didion are certainly worthy of their following among certain circles of tumblr literary blogs
- with poetry, i’m more open, but i do plan on checking out Anna Akhmatova, Audre Lorde, and Charles Simic someday. i must also say that i really would never have gotten to where i am (emotionally and intellectually) without having heard Maya Angelou doing spoken word of her own poems. and there are latin american women poets out there that i also want to read, but i’m really unfamiliar as of now
- finally, and tangentially, i also want to recommend Neil Leach’s Rethinking Architecture, bc it’s such a fascinating topic!
