i am usually a physical book person but i recently started listening to marina abramovic's memoir via audiobook and her voice narrating it is soooo fucking good
(i did a free trial on https://www.audiobooks.com/ )
especially poetry!!! hearing ada limón read “instructions on not giving up” actually saved my life a little. current listen is “checkout 19” by claire-louise bennett
as much as I love my parasocial podcaster friends, it’s nice to feel like you’re filling your ears with something more substantial. Plus a good narrator can imbue new meaning into a text you wouldn’t have gotten otherwise. I just listened to Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (what the movie was based on) and loved it.
see: werner herzog's every man for himself and all against god // david lynch's catching the big fish i like to imagine that both herzog and lynch are my grandfathers while i listen note that both of these are available on sp*tify with a premium subscription
i think it was david lynch who said he's only lost 2 good ideas in his life and it's because he didn't write them down
i have lots of ideas and forget everything so having a disatrous notes app / notebook with me is a must
tbd on whether i do anything with them
the completeness of a start to finish in one sitting
The skill of conveying something in a limited time frame
the care and work put into eternalizing one story
Movies rock I love them
- AGO for arttt
- Toronto Reference library & BMV for books
- Type Books if you want more ~ curated ~ vibes
- Paradise theatre for movies
- get coffee and a cookie & ppl watch at the ace hotel
- union on ossington/foxley/midfield/bernhardt's/bar raval/little jerry for dinner/drinks
- badiali or mac's for pizza
- peaches or sweaty betty's for dives
- walk along queen st, ossington, or college st for vibes (most of the places i mentioned are on these streets)