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2020 Media Diet

All Caps Bold - Film

All Caps - TV SHOW

Italics - Book

Quotation Italics - ”Miscellaneous” (Short Film, Short Stories, Articles etc)

1601

THE TWO POPES

BECOMING NOBODY

1701

AD ASTRA

THE SHOPLIFTERS

1801

THE SERVANT (1)

LITTLE AMERICA (1)

PATRICK MELROSE (2)

ARES (8)

TERMINATOR: DARK FATE (Why?)

ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA

1901

IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA (5)

2001

IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA (3)

THE OUTSIDER (3)

2101

IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA (2)

2401

PANDEMIC: HOW TO PREVENT AN OUTBREAK (2)

THE KOMINSKY METHOD (2)

IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE

I SEE YOU

IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA (2)

2501

THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY

CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM (6)

2901

WORK IN PROGRESS (3)

3001

UNCUT GEMS

RAGNAROK (3)

3101

RAGNAROK(5)

0102

TWIN PEAKS (2)

0202

THE STRANGER (6)

BROOKLYN

BOJACK HORSEMAN (13)

THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN

Just Enough Research

User Story Mapping

0402

HIS DARK MATERIALS (8)

0502

OCTOBER FACTION (8)

0602

LUNA NERA (6)

WORK IN PROGRESS (2)

0702

RAMY (8)

LOCKE AND KEY (8)

0802

LOCKE AND KEY (2)

NIGHT ON EARTH (1)

South Park (2)

THE OA (2)

BLACK SUMMER (8)

0902

WAVES

1002

THE DEAD DON’T DIE

1102

THE OA (6)

2202

TWIN PEAKS (3)

LINE OF DUTY (1)

CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM (1)

2202

Normal People

Exhalation

TWIN PEAKS (2)

2302

TWIN PEAKS (1)

2402

HIGH FIDELITY (2)

TWIN PEAKS (1)

THE OUTSIDER (1)

2602

I’M NOT OKAY WITH THIS (3)

2709

LINE OF DUTY (2)

ALTERED CARBON (1)

2809

ALTERED CARBON (1)

I’M NOT OKAY WITH THIS (4)

0103

ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD

 0203

 ALTERED CARBON (2)

 CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM (2)

 0403

 TOKYO GHOUL (4)

 ALTERED CARBON (1)

 0403

CONTAGION

1303

ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES

1503

LOST GIRLS

TOKYO GHOUL (4)

MONSTER - ANIME (5)

1603

MONSTER - ANIME (8)

1703

MONSTER - ANIME (3)

1803

DARK WATERS

MONSTER - ANIME (2)

2703

THE HANDMAID’S TALE (7)

2803

THE HANDMAID’S TALE (7)

2903

THE HANDMAID’S TALE (7)

0804

SAINT FRANCES

1705

PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE

1904

PANIC ROOM

1105

SICARIO PEEPING TOM

0807

SNOWPIERCER

The Silent Patient

0907

I MAY DESTROY YOU

BORDERTOWN

1107

I MAY DESTROY YOU (3)

BORDERTOWN (1)

TRAVELLERS

1207

I’LL BE GONE IN THE DARK (1)

1707

CENTRAL PARK(1)

1907

SHAMELESS (6)

2007

SHAMELESS (3)

2107

BLACK AF(4)

2307

INDIAN MATCHMAKING(4)

2507

INDIAN MATCHMAKING(5)

2607

NORSEMEN (5)

2707

NORSEMEN (3)

3107

UMBRELLA ACADEMY (5)

0308

UMBRELLA ACADEMY (3)

0508

YOUNG ADULT

CARRIE PILBY

0708

TRAIN TO BUSAN

0808

INVISIBLE

0808

INVISIBLE

1208 * GLITCH * Lonely City

1408

OUTSIDE IN

1508

REMAINS OF THE DAY

1608

A little life

1707

THE 100 (2)

2108

POWER PILL

SEINFELD (5)

A little life

2208 - FIRST COW

2508 - SHE DIES TOMORROW

2608 - MAURICE

2308

RITA

2908

DA 5 BLOODS SHE DIES TOMORROW

3008

DOGS OF BERIN (3)

3108

DOGS OF BERLIN (2)

0109

DOGS OF BERLIN (2)

0203

IN MY SKIN

0303

IN MY SKIN

0509

I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS

1710

ADAPTATION

0411

SCHITT’S CREEK When no one is watching

0511

SCHITT’S CREEK PARANORMAL (1)

0611

LUTHER (1)

0711

LUTHER (1) MEEK’S CUTOFF -4

0811

LUTHER (2) QUEEN OF HEARTS (2019) -3,5

0811

THE SKIN OF THE WOLF -3.5

0911

LUTHER (3)

1011

LUTHER (2)

1211

LUTHER (2)

1911

The obesity code

2011

The obesity code

2111

THE CROWN (2)

2311

SORRY TO BOTHER YOU THE CROWN (4)

2411

THE CROWN (4) HILBILLY ELEGY

2611

SCHITTS CREEK (4)

2711

LAYER CAKE

2811

TEACHERS SEASON 1 (2) Strange Weather in Tokyo

2911

Strange Weather in Tokyo

3011

Strange Weather in Tokyo

0112

The Midnight Library SCHITT’S CREEK (2)

0212

The Midnight Library STRIKE (3)

0312

The Midnight Library ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT (5)

0912

TOKYO SONATA

1012

TOKYO SONATA

1212

ZERO DARK THIRTY FAWLTY TOWERS (5) The Midnight Library

1312

1512

THE MANDALORIAN (2)

1612

The Midnight Library HIS DARK MATERIALS (1)

1712

GAMAK GHAR Short Film - Walker YES, GOD, YES

1812

UNION LEADER THE RIPPER (3) The Midnight Library

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koī miltā hai to ab

koī miltā hai to ab apnā pata pūchhtā huuñ

maiñ tirī khoj meñ tujh se bhī pare jā niklā

- Muzaffar Warsi

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#charles bukowski

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Madadayo | Akira Kurosawa | 1993

Tatsuo Matsumura, et al. 

Buying horse meat

#akira kurosawa #kurosawa

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“I read books to read myself,” Sven Birkerts wrote in The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age. Birkerts’s book, which turns twenty-five this year, is composed of fifteen essays on reading, the self, the convergence of the two, and the ways both are threatened by the encroachment of modern technology. As the culture around him underwent the sea change of the internet’s arrival, Birkerts feared that qualities long safeguarded and elevated by print were in danger of erosion: among them privacy, the valuation of individual consciousness, and an awareness of history—not merely the facts of it, but a sense of its continuity, of our place among the centuries and cosmos. “Literature holds meaning not as a content that can be abstracted and summarized, but as experience,” he wrote. “It is a participatory arena. Through the process of reading we slip out of our customary time orientation, marked by distractedness and surficiality, into the realm of duration.”

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Poem to my child, if ever you shall be by Ross Gay

      —after Steve Scafidi

The way the universe sat waiting to become, quietly, in the nether of space and time,

you too remain some cellular snuggle dangling between my legs, curled in the warm

swim of my mostly quietest self. If you come to be — And who knows? — I wonder, little bubble

of unbudded capillaries, little one ever aswirl in my vascular galaxies, what would you think

of this world which turns itself steadily into an oblivion that hurts, and hurts bad?

Would you curse me my careless caressing you into this world or would you rise up

and, mustering all your strength into that tiny throat which one day, no doubt, would grow big and strong,

scream and scream and scream until you break the back of one injustice, or at least get to your knees to kiss back to life

some roadkill? I have so many questions for you, for you are closer to me than anyone

has ever been, tumbling, as you are, this second, through my heart’s every chamber, your teeny mouth

singing along with the half-broke workhorse’s steady boom and gasp. And since we’re talking today I should tell you,

though I know you sneak a peek sometimes through your father’s eyes, it’s a glorious day,

and there are millions of leaves collecting against the curbs, and they’re the most delicate shade of gold

we’ve ever seen and must favor the transparent wings of the angels you’re swimming with, little angel.

And as to your mother — well, I don’t know — but my guess is that lilac bursts from her throat

and she is both honeybee and wasp and some kind of moan to boot and probably she dances in the morning —

but who knows? You’ll swim beneath that bridge if it comes. For now let me tell you about the bush called honeysuckle

that the sad call a weed, and how you could push your little sun-licked face into the throngs and breathe and breathe.

Sweetness would be your name, and you would wonder why four of your teeth are so sharp, and the tiny mountain range

of your knuckles so hard. And you would throw back your head and open your mouth at the cows lowing their human songs

in the field, and the pigs swimming in shit and clover, and everything on this earth, little dreamer, little dreamer

of the new world, holy, every rain drop and sand grain and blade of grass worthy of gasp and joy and love, tiny shaman,

tiny blood thrust, tiny trillion cells trilling and trilling, little dreamer, little hard hat, little heartbeat,

little best of me.

#poem #poetry #rossgay

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Weekend desk setup 1

#desk #deskview #decor #muji #fabindia #logitech #flowers

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Inferno (Dario Argento, 1980)

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A Union with Self

[On the poet’s 97th birth-anniversary]

My bed is here

But like shoes and shirt

take off your body too

Keep it on the stool there

Nothing unusual—

It is a custom of one’s country

(Translated from Amrita Pritam’s ‘आत्ममिलन’)

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for New Scientist

p.s. get my artwork and comics at www.tomgauld.com

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युगन युगन हम योगी अवधूता, युगन युगन हम योगी आवे ना जाये मिटे ना कबहुं शब्द अनाहत भोगी अवधूता, युगन युगन हम योगी For ages and ages, I've been a Yogi Oh wanderer, for ages and ages, I've been a Yogi I don't come or go, I never disappear I enjoy the endless sound Oh wanderer, for ages and ages, I've been a Yogi सब ठौर जमात हमारी सब ठौर पर मेला हम सब मांय, सब हैं हम मांय हम है बहूरी अकेला अवधूता, युगन युगन हम योगी Everywhere I see my community Everywhere i meet with them I'm in all, all are in mine I am alone and together Oh wanderer, for ages and ages, I've been a Yogi हम ही सिद्धि समाधी हम ही हम मौनी हम बोले रूप सरूप अरूप दिखा के हम ही हम में हम तो  खेले अवधूता, युगन युगन हम योगी I'm the realized one, I'm realization itself I'm silent, I speak I show outer form, inner form, no form I play within myself Oh wanderer, for ages and ages, I've been a Yogi कहें कबीरा सुनो भाई साधो नाहीं न कोई इच्छा अपनी मढ़ी में आप मैं डोलूँ खेलूँ सहज स्वइच्छा अवधूता, युगन युगन हम योगी 

Kabir says, listen friend I have no desire I sway myself in my hut I play simply to please myself Oh wanderer, for ages and ages, I've been a Yogi

#kabir

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It felt as if one’s entire worldwas one, long Sunday afternoon. Nothing to do. Nowhere to go. Edward Hopper, Room in New York

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जब मैं बात करूँगा समलैंगिकों के हक़ में आप ढूँढेंगे मेरे अंदर एक समलैंगिक जब मैं मुस्लिमों के हक़ की बात करूँगा आप ढूँढेंगे मेरे अंदर का मुस्लिम

आप ढूँढिएगा मेरे भीतर प्रेम फिर किसी दिन अंधेरा दुःख और सुख क्रोध और ग्लानि यहाँ तक कि अपना अकेलापन भी मेरे भीतर ढूँढिएगा आप

मैं इसकी आशा नही करता मगर फिर भी अगर किसी एक दिन जब आप भी खड़े होंगे शोषण के दायरे में मैं आपके हक़ में बोलूँगा तब आप अगर ढूँढ सकें तो मेरे अंदर अपने आप को ढूँढिएगा

मैं आपका ईश्वर हूँ आपकी अनास्था से जन्मी आस्था का ईश्वर

~ पुनीत शर्मा

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Tom Gauld

Tom Gauld

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‘Old age is a ceremony of losses’: the late poet Donald Hall on a life lived long

This short documentary from the New York-based filmmaker Paul Szynol finds the late US Poet Laureate Donald Hall (1928-2018) in the autumn of his accomplished life, when his days oscillated between calm solitude and painful loneliness. From his rural New Hampshire home, Hall discusses his career in poetry and the enduring loss of his second wife, the US poet Jane Kenyon, to cancer more than two decades earlier. ‘My companion was her absence,’ says Hall, reflecting on a mourning period that never ended, only evolved. Around him, if only half-acknowledged by Hall, a host of women provide the care that allows him a certain ease in his ageing. Like Hall, Szynol mines poignance from quiet moments and an economy of form, crafting a sparse, atmospheric tribute very much worthy of its subject.

Director: Paul Szynol

Website: Itchy Dog Films

https://aeon.co/videos/old-age-is-a-ceremony-of-losses-the-late-poet-donald-hall-on-a-life-lived-long