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Week Ending: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Books
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| A quick snap of the "Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris" on the drive to the hotel in Paris this summer |
Another exhausting week's gone by. So many things are going through my head; luckily...it's the weekend! (Queue the fanfare Tanya)
I'm trying to keep my weekends organized as possible. I've been creating these lists of what I want to do and get done in the weekend and I thought, hey! Why don't I channel that into my Week Endings.
It is essentially the same as the first Week Ending post, but it's more compact and doable for each and every week.
I'll try to summarize the week in a one liner and give an update on how things are going.
So! Here it is, the second edition of Week Ending:
I've started writing again and I'm pretty excited about how it's going. I'm just freewriting* at the moment so I can't really say what it's about. As you can all guess it will be postmodernist. I got the inspiration for it listening to Charles Mingus' "Please Don't Come Back From the Moon" and I thought it would be an interesting prompt.
Bibliography
Since what I'm working on is a postmodern novel, I need some texts to analyze. As crazy as it sounds but it's required. ** The main character, Nicole, meets Bruno. They're discussing Jorge Luis Borges collection of short stories, Ficcones, when Bruno tells Nicole about his theory that the first book in "The New York Trilogy" by Paul Auster is based in the mythological setting of Jorge Luis Borges' short story, "The Lottery in Babylon". So of course coming up with this "theory" I had to read both stories. The Lottery in Babylon is quite interesting, it's run by a law where everything is run by a lottery (chance). It's all one giant extended metaphor about the uncertainty of life as we know it but it is really very interesting and actually a quick read.
Filmography
A cinéphile friend and I had been discussing their scripts, whose theme reminded me of the cinematographic style of Wes Anderson (I don't know why but it did). Thinking of Wes Anderson, I started thinking about Paul Thomas Anderson. *** Thinking of Paul Thomas Anderson I remembered how he had so much attention to detail in his storylines.
Phew, that took a while.
The point is, I suddenly became really interested in Paul Thomas Anderson's obsession with close ups and I was almost certain that I'd seen something on it before on the internet. So I had a long, long, search to try and find it (Tanya was busy otherwise it would've taken her five minutes). I eventually found it. It was a two and a half minute video mash up of all of the uses of extreme close ups in Paul Thomas Anderson's filmography and it was pretty darn aesthetically pleasing.
Jams
It's been a long week. I just want to calm down and focus on the important things. What's the soundtrack to this weekend?
Charlie "Bird" Parker is known as one of the best jazz (alto)saxophonists in the industry. He's the king of bebop and a great 12-bar-blues writer. This is one of my favorite albums and has the ideal tempo to relax but not fall into a coma.
Gastronomy
Being the eccentric weirdo that I am, I get really excited and find new obsessions. I've found a new interest in coc- mocktail making.
It's really hard to find decent mocktail recipes that aren't just fruit juices with garnish. I stumbled upon a pretty cool one that I'd thought I'd share with you, it's a non-alcoholic version of the French 75.
Check out:
- This BBC article on spotting a liar
- This custom playlist maker based on your mood
*: an act of just going on as you write, no previous preparing etc. (I don't know if I've coined this term or no)
**: also, I'm not trying hard to make it a postmodern novel but it's turning into one and I want to talk about a book or a film or something because I like to
***: as you can see my train of thought carries high explosives
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