Staying stoked.

I'm tumbling, but hopefully not to the ground.

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2016: 34 films seen in the cinema/special screenings.

1. January 16th @ Landmark Sunshine: Anomalisa

2. January 28th @ IFC Center: New French Shorts (E.T.E.R.N.I.T; Tuesday; Mother(s); Monsters Turn Into Lovers; Ave Maria; Sunday Lunch)

3. February 14th @ Regal Union Square: Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 3D

4. February 20th @ IFC Center: Mustang

5. March 29th @ Nitehawk: Green Room (Q&A with Jeremy Saulnier)

6. April 10th @ Regal Union Square: Everybody Wants Some!!

7. May 3rd @ BAM: A Woman is a Woman (1961 - Q&A with Anna Karina)

8. May 14th @ Angelika Film Center: The Lobster

9. May 18th @ Industry City (Rooftop films): Weiner

10. May 26th @ House of Vans (Rooftop films): Los Punks: We Are All We Have (Q&A with Angela Boatwright)

11. June 16th @ Old American Can Factory (Rooftop films): Tickled (Q&A with David Farrier)

12. June 22nd @ BAM: Newtown (Q&A with Kim Snyder and Newtown parents)

13. June 27th @ tiff bell lightbox (Toronto): De Palma

14. July 6th @ BAM: Swiss Army Man

15. July 9th @ Old American Can Factory (Rooftop films): Goodnight Brooklyn: The Story of Death by Audio (Q&A with Matthew Conboy)

16. July 15th @ Industry City (Rooftop films): Little Men (Q&A with Ira Sachs)

17. July 17th @ Williamsburg Cinemas: Ghostbusters

18. July 26th @ IFC Center: Gleason

19. August 5th @ Industry City (Rooftop films): Morris From America

20. August 6th @ BAM: Don’t Think Twice

21. August 11th @ Bushwick Generator (Rooftop films): White Girl (Q&A with Elizabeth Wood + cast)

22. August 24th @ IFC Center: Southside With You

23. August 27th @ Kips Bay AMC: Sausage Party

24. September 3rd @ IFC Center: Dekalog 1 & 2

25. September 11th @ IFC Center: Dekalog 3 & 4

26. September 17th @ IFC Center: Dekalog 5 & 6

27. September 24th @ IFC Center: Dekalog 7 & 8

28. September 24th @ IFC Center: Danny Says (Q&A with Brendan Toller)

29. October 5th @ IFC Center: Dekalog 9 & 10

30. November 2nd @ NY Marathon Pavillon: Tracktown (Q&A with Alexi Pappas Teicher)

31. November 4th @ BAM: Moonlight

32. December 19th @ BAM: Manchester by the Sea

33. December 20th @ BAM: La La Land

34. December 21st @ BAM: Lion

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2016: 32 books read. 19 female authors. 

Favorites: The Goldfinch // Open City.

1. M Train by Patti Smith

2. Landline by Rainbow Rowell

3. Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

4. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

5. H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

6. Open City by Teju Cole

7. Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon

8. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein

9. The Clasp by Sloane Crosley

10. In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri

11. The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera

12. Slumberland by Paul Beaty

13. Enter Jeeves 15 Early Stories by P.G. Wodehouse

14. The End of Men and the Rise of Women by Hanna Rosin

15. The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff

16. The Vegetarian by Han Kang

17. The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith

18. We Were Feminists Once by Andi Zeisler

19. Better Living Through Criticism by A.O. Scott

20. Blue Lights by Joan Didion

21. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

22. Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers

23. The Wife by Meg Wolitzer

24. Empire Falls by Richard Russo

25. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

26. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

27. White Noise by Don Delillo

28. Hot Milk by Deborah Levy

29. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami

30. The Wangs vs The World by Jade Chang

31. Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin

32. Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster

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Koreans are masters of the movie poster

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Here’s a list of the books I read in 2015. As always, I only read one book per author. 

1. Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov 2. Missing Person by Patrick Modiano 3. Friendship by Emily Gould 4. The Russian Debutante’s Handbook by Gary Shteyngart 5. I Was Told There’d be Cake by Sloane Crosley 6. The First Bad Man by Miranda July 7. Blood-Drenched Beard by Daniel Galera 8. Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay 9. On Beauty by Zadie Smith 10. New York 1 Tel Aviv 0 by Shelly Oria 11. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino 12. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron 13. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 14. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris 15. Kitchen Confidential: Adventure in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain 16. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami 17. On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee 18. Boy on Ice: The Life and Death of Derek Boogard by John Branch 19. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse 20. Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories by Megan Mayhew Bergman 21. The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer 22. Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg 23. Night Film by Marisha Pessl 24. The Music of Chance by Paul Auster 25. Purity by Jonathan Franzen 26. Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? by Dave Eggers 27. Lucky Alan and other stories by Jonathan Lethem 28. The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin 29. Infinite Home by Kathleen Alcott 30. John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead 31. Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff 32. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 33. Look At Me by Jennifer Egan 34. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 35. Lucky Girls by Nell Freudenberger

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films I saw in the theater/special screening in 2015

1. January 4th @ IFC Center: Two Days One Night  (Q&A with Marion Cotillard)

2. January 8th @ IFC Center: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (second time seeing it)

3. January 13th @ IFC Center: Mommy (Q&A with Xavier Dolan)

4. January 31st @ Landmark Sunshine: Red Army

5. February 19th @ IFC Center: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (third time seeing it)

6. March 23rd @ Nitehawk: It Follows

7. March 29th @ IFC Center: Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

8. April 28th @ IFC Center: Welcome to Me

9. May 25th @ Scotiabank Theatre (Toronto): While We’re Young

10. May 28th @ IFC Center: Mutual Appreciation (10 year anniversary screening) (Q&A with Andrew Bujalski / cast & moderated by Alex Karpovsky)

11. May 30th @ Old American Can Factory (Rooftop): 7 Chinese Brothers (Q&A with Bob Byington & Jason Schwartzman)

12. June 6th @ Industry City (Rooftop): The Wolfpack (Q&A with Crystal Moselle & The Wolfpack)

13. June 11th @ IFC Center: Dope

14. June 14th @ IFC Center: Results

15. June 17th @ IFC Center: Clouds of Sils Maria

16. June 20th @ Williamsburg Cinemas: Jurassic World

17. July 1st @ Landmark Mayan Theatre (Denver): Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

18. July 7th @ John Jay College (Rooftop): Tangerine (Intro/Outro with Sean Baker)

19. July 21st @ IFC Center: James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (Q&A with Jacqueline Woodson)

20. August 15th @ Village East Cinema: Tom at the Farm

21. August 18th @ Industry City (Rooftop): Digging for Fire (Q&A with Jake Johnson)

22. August 22nd @ Nitehawk: Mistress America

23. August 30th @ IFC Center: Queen of Earth

24. August 31st @ IFC Center: Paris, Texas (Q&A with Wim Wenders)

25. September 1st @ IFC Center: Sleeping with Other People (Q&A with Leslye Headland & Alison Brie)

26. September 6th @ Williamsburg Cinemas: American Ultra

27. September 8th @ IFC Center: Goodnight Mommy (intro with Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala)

28. October 15th @ Nitehawk: Room (Q&A with Emma Donnoghue)

29. October 24th @ IFC Center: Nasty Baby

30. October 28th @ IFC Center: Love 3D (Q&A with Gaspar Noe)

31. November 11th @ Angelika Film Center: Love 3D (second time seeing it)

32. November 13th @ BAM: The Martian 3D

33. November 28th @ Williamsburg Cinemas: Creed

34. December 2nd @ IFC Center: 45 Years (Q&A with Andrew Haigh and Charlotte Rampling)

35. December 8th @ BAM: A Married Woman (1964)

36. December 13th @ BAM: Carol

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This scene gets me every time. 

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This interview is so great. 

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They had gone shopping for a toothbrush. At no time was he happier than when the two of them would embark on these most mundane missions. A man and a woman can claim to love one another, they may even rent real estate in Brooklyn as a sign of their love, but when they take time out of a busy day to walk through the air-conditioned aisles of a drug mart to pick out a nail clipper together, well, this is the kind of relationship that will perpetuate itself if only through banality. Or so Vladimir hoped.

The Russian Debutante's Handbook - Gary Shteyngart

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A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014).

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Books I read in 2014

1. When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris

2. Beloved by Toni Morrison

3. Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman

4. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

5. Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart

6. The Circle by Dave Eggers

7. One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper

8. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

9. The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead

10. Home Land by Sam Lipsyte

11. Just Above My Head by James Baldwin

12. Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee

13. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

14. Arcadia by Lauren Groff

15. Strong Motion by Jonathan Franzen

16. The Melting Season by Jami Attenberg

17. A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami

18. The UnAmericans by Molly Antopol

19. Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin

20. Civilwarland in Bad Decline by George Saunders

21. My Dead Dad Was in ZZ Top by Jon Glaser

22. Your Republic is Calling You by Young-Ha Kim

23. Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith

24. Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

25. Desperate Characters by Paula Fox

26. Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem

27. The Invisible Circus by Jennifer Egan

28. Sunset Park by Paul Auster

29. A Fan’s Notes by Frederick Exley

30. Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid

31. Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

32. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

33. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

34. Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham

35. My Less Than Secret Life by Jonathan Ames

36. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

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I've been thinking of the past. There's a gauge and I never use it after. So grey, so unhappy, wonder how it is it caught me. A slow push in the right direction,  though I don't know why, I didn't cut it up at the start. I'm still hopeful of the future, what I know now lets it shine less brightly. One day we'll have children running through the house, one day will there be less of a doubt. A slow push in the right direction,  though I don't know why, I didn't cut it up at the start. No one will answer for you. I throw away this envy, so long since I've been lonely. A slow push in the right direction,  though I don't know why, I didn't cut it up at the start.

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RIP Death by Audio

Goodbye death by audio. Thanks for all the shows and awesome times. Here are some memorable ones I had the privilege of attending. 

July 8th, 2008 @ Death By Audio: King Darves, Woods, Meneguar, Vivian Girls

August 20th, 2008 @ Death By Audio: Little Gold, Best Friends Forever, Vivian Girls

August 25th, 2009 @ Death by Audio: Real Estate, The Beets, Vivian Girls

November 6th, 2009 @ Death by Audio: Coasting, Hot Box, Extra Life, Abe Vigoda

February 13th, 2010 @ Death by Audio: Tough Knuckles, Nude Beach, Beach Fossils, Christmas Island, The Beets

October 26th, 2010 @ Death by Audio: Dustin Wong, Japandroids

February 12th, 2011 @ Death by Audio: Ed Schrader, Dustin Wong, Thank You, Math the Band

April 29th, 2011 @ Death by Audio: Fergus & Geronimo, White Fence, The Beets

October 20th, 2011 @ Death by Audio: Aids Wolf, Double Dagger (last NYC show)

February 24th, 2012 @ Death by Audio: Mannequin Pussy, NT, Priests, Teenage Cool Kids

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There’s no hope for me, I’ve been set free. There’s no breeze, There’s no ship on my sea.

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« May each eye negotiate for itself. »

Histoire(s) du cinema.

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