You see her wrestle and lose. It’s so good
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You see her wrestle and lose. It’s so good
All the “foot’s big toe” and “room’s wooden floor” stuff in #infinitejest conjures feelings of both alienation from and connection to the physical universe. Very much “this is water”. It’s the way NYC makes you feel. Like an insect and like a giant depending
Two of my favorite authors I can’t wait to get back to. I think about both frequently
A book teaches you how to read it, someone said. So much of IJ is about internal struggles with objects and substances, obsession and avoidance. The book is a fucking Object, addictive and fearsome. I struggle
Yes! It’s about how space capsules in the 60’s are metal cages on top of fucking BOMBS that we put guys, dogs and a monkey in
The best
100 pages of The Idiot left. 20 pages in on Infinite Jest (30 anniversary book clubs await!). I know DFW was. Big Dostoyevsky guy. Questions of who’s fully human, who’s sub (per mental illness) or super human (per beauty or talent) might be in both?
Listening and writing songs out by hand is better than scrolling an iPad with 1000 chord charts and lyrics for many reasons. One is getting the chance to hear something wrong, then finding out the right lyric later—then sometimes preferring the wrong slightly! #lyrics #booksky #gettingyourhandsdirty
Encountered in the park
As a dedicated Odd Lots listener who turned 50 in December, my partner got me the perfect books. Breakneck was wonderful. On to scary scary AI!! #booksky #oddlots
Yes! Poor Frank Sinatra (not really. Fuck him of course, on a personal level). Though a brilliant singer, he had no business attempting that music.
The Housemaid is a bad movie that feeds a meagerness in men and makes a mean estimation of the world. It’s ashamed of its mission which is to get a good look at Sidney Sweeney naked and conduct tasteful fully vetted and restrained torture porn. #joyless #movies #nojokes #companionisagoodtrashymovie
Awesome. I’m 10 pages in and it’s funny and engaging. I can tell it’s going to be a barn burner
“Least Shelved” and probably still my favorite book of all time. People need to get on the Isaac Babel train!! #booksky #literaturesky
Having finished Turgenev’s Fathers and Children, to which Notes from Underground apparently is a direct response, I’m finally getting to my first major Dostoevsky. Here goes nothing :) #booksky
When your book freaks #flanneryoconnor out, you’re doing something right. #booksky #literaturesky
youtu.be/K_JzlJ9cTMk A one of one artistic vision, funny tender, sad, complex, and to top it off a drop dead gorgeous SINGER
If you’re a reader who likes sentences, please try Joy Williams. I mean, come on… #booksky
Forgot why I’d held this at the library months ago. Now I remember #booksky
It was the best. When Toni Collette is in the corner of the ceiling like a spider? Unreal. I can watch it now, know how funny Astor is, in a different light. It just goes so hard
Ranked order
3) No Country for Old Men - alone and baked out of my shoes. I thought I would die.
2) Hereditary - people screaming then laughing and clutching one another
1) Titanic - before anyone knew. Openly sobbing, throwing themselves into the aisles
In flight watch JFK to Grand Cayman: The Accountant
Return flight…The Accountant II
@jessehawken.bsky.social inspired by 🙏
#booksky its lines like this that brighten the world, making it more real than real, that I read for. (Other stuff too, but still…)
#booksky the most disorienting. I laughed until I cried.
music.apple.com/us/album/ran... Something powerful, magical, mischievous, happens when this song is played and sung communally at a bluegrass jam, in a room full of “strangers”:
“I looked for my friends, but I never could find them. I found they were all rank strangers to me…”
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... one of the great podcast episodes of all time
#Dylan Positively 4th St. is intentionally unlyrical, unpoetic, a wholly new concoction a singer could build an identity around.This alongside virtuosic displays like Its Allright Ma, and traditional reworkings—that could be hits today—like Moonshiner. The range is staggering
One a day Rilke. Symmetry here? Rage being taken in…core of cores…
Hell yeah. I took a Shakespeare class in college and loved it, but it was 100 years ago…if there’s anything worth returning to it’s this
Two curbside finds! One a portal to Joy Williams and the other is Hamlet, with wonderful introduction and essays. Both smell amazing. #booksky