“Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and one’s desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord.”
- John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings
“We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”
- Henry James, The Middle Years
“Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.”
- Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
Favorites [In Progress]
- Authors: Don DeLillo, William Faulkner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Eugene O’Neill
- Musicians: Bon Iver, The Carter Family, Charles Ives, Mississippi John Hurt, Arvo Pärt, Radiohead, Erik Satie, Igor Stravinsky, Anton Webern
- Visual Artists: Thomas Hart Benton, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Albrecht Dürer, Thomas Eakins, Caspar David Friedrich, Francisco Goya, El Greco, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Clarence John Laughlin, Claude Monet, Edward Steichen, Andrew Wyeth
- Books: Absalom, Absalom!, The Ghost Writer, Go Down, Moses, Light in August, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Le Père Goriot, White Noise
- Television: ’Allo ’Allo, Arrested Development, Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Friends, Jeeves and Wooster, Parks and Recreation
Top Anticipated Films of 2013:
- Aimer, Boire et Chanter, Alain Resnais
- Amour Fou, Jessica Hausner
- Before Midnight, Richard Linklater
- Computer Chess, Andrew Bujalski
- Drinking Buddies, Joe Swanberg
- A Field in England, Ben Wheatley
- Hide Your Smiling Faces, Daniel Patrick Carbone
- Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel & Ethan Coen
- Noche, Leonardo Brzezicki
- Norte, the End of History, Lav Diaz
- Tom à la Ferme, Xavier Dolan
- Yo Soy la Felicidad de este Mundo, Julián Hernández
- The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies, 2011)
- Mistérios de Lisboa (Raúl Ruiz, 2010)
- Marriage Material (Joe Swanberg, 2012)
- Cold Weather (Aaron Katz, 2010)
- Weekend (Andrew Haigh, 2011)
- Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)
- Boxing Gym (Frederick Wiseman, 2010)
- “The Day He Arrives”: (Hong Sang-soo, 2011)
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog, 2010)
Rating System: 1 star = 1 – 2.5 | 2 stars = 3 – 4.5 | 3 stars = 5 – 6.5 | 4 stars = 7 – 8.5 | 5 stars = 9 – 10
