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posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 08:55pm on 30/09/2013 under ,
Books read (39-42)
The Derring-Do Club and The Empire of the Dead, David Wake (2013)
The Devil in a Forest, Gene Wolfe (1976)
Saga Vols #1 and #2, Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples (2012-13, 2013)
The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman (2013)

Films watched (92-122) (25 at the cinema, 4 DVD, 2 stream)
(Cambridge Film Festival post to follow)
Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers
Kill List
The Great Beauty
The Machinist
Twelve Monkeys
(rewatch)
Tron (rewatch)
The Ipcress File
Once Upon a Time In Mexico
(rewatch)
Just Before Losing Everything (short)
Hawking
Blue Jasmine
The Lebanese Rocket Society
Growing Pain
(shorts)
For Those In Peril
Hannah Arendt
Blackbird
Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth
No Surrender
Rock and Roll's Greatest Failure: John Otway The Movie
The Fifth Season
Roland Klick: The Heart is a Hungry Hunter
Deadlock
Upstream Colour
Natan
White Star
Thomas Dolby: The Invisible Lighthouse
Anguish
Dead Cat
Eyes On The Sky
The Redemption of the Fish
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology


Gigs, comedy, clubs etc (20-25) (cheating a bit as the Otway and Dolby were film/live performances and are on both lists)
Sebastiao Salgado: Genesis (photography, Natural History Museum, London)
Neil Innes, A Second Chance to Get It Right (music, Junction, Cambridge)
Austentatious (improv, Leicester Square Theatre, London)
John Otway: Rock and Roll's Greatest Failure (film/music, Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
Thomas Dolby: The Invisible Lighthouse (film/music, Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
Creative Cabaret (Union Bar, Cambridge)

Books incoming 4 (1 loan, 2 purchased, 1 proofread, read 20/26)

Good: lots of stuff
bugshaw: (Brazil)
posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 09:30pm on 30/09/2013 under
Film details are online but the most easily navigable option seems to be to download the brochure
**Asterisks mark those films the majority of people on my friends list are most likely to enjoy

Top picks
*The Fifth Season
The Redemption of the Fish
**The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
**Upstream Colour
Just Before Losing Everything (short)

Also pretty darned good
For Those In Peril
*Blackbird
**Dead Cat
Roland Klick: The Heart is a Hungry Hunter
Growing Pain (shorts)

Fun yarns/interesting docs if you share a taste with [livejournal.com profile] bugshaw
Rock and Roll's Greatest Failure: John Otway The Movie
Thomas Dolby: The Invisible Lighthouse
Anguish
No Surrender
Natan
The Lebanese Rocket Society

Not as much my bag as the other films, though many have redeeming features and in a usual month I'd rate them higher
Hawking
Hannah Arendt
Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth
Deadlock
Eyes On The Sky
White Star (Dennis Hopper is a redeeming feature)
Blue Jasmine

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