What I Read This Week: August 16, 2013
About What I Read This Week: I read a lot. All the time. Too much. I’d like to be held accountable. During my day-to-day, I keep a Google doc that I update with an article name, URL, and a quote of everything I read or watch. I blog the list every Friday.
Last Saturday morning I settled in and started reading a new book, The Cuckoo’s Calling. I finished it in two days—almost 500 pages. I thought my eyes might melt out of my head but they didn’t, so I went on to enjoy a whole week’s worth of of reading, watching, and listening—presented below.
Real, Actual Books
- Forgot to read: Manage Your Day-To-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind by Jocelyn K. Glei
- Amen: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
- Almost did an exercise from: Color by Betty Edwards: A Course in Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors
- Forgot about: Geometry of Design by Kimberly Elam
- One of the essays is slow going: Barry McGee by Alex Baker
- Yes! Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
- Two day read: The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith aka J. K. Rowling
On the Internet
- William Basinski: The Disintegration Loops review on Pitchfork
- Watched: Big Sean – “Control” ft. Kendrick Lamar, Jay Electronica Track Review on The Needle Drop
- Have a hard time living in the moment? Read this… by Jamie Living
- Forty Days of Dating – Day 33
- Chefs+Tech 8.13.2013 –Big Sean “Control (HOF)” [ft. Kendrick Lamar and Jay Electronica] on Pitchfork
- Kendrick Lamar blasts other rappers, crowns himself ‘King of New York’
- Open Content, An Idea Whose Time Has Come from The Getty Blog “Why open content? Why now? The Getty was founded on the conviction that understanding art makes the world a better place, and sharing our digital resources is the natural extension of that belief. This move is also an educational imperative.”
- Creative junk food and the quest for deliciousness. by Elle Luna, “I’ve been working alone for four months now. I need both divergent and convergent processes. And I’ve got to be self-aware enough to know where I am in my creative process so I can give my inner creative spirit what it needs to get things all the way to the finish line. Some days I need to bike and swim and lay in the park like the laziest bohemian artist imaginable and other days I need to get out of bed at 7 and take a shower and get dressed and be in my chair with coffee and email turned off by 8 because that’s just what we’re going to do today (we decided this the week before and by “we” I mean me. Just me. Dressed and ready for work at 8AM. Employee of the week right here. raises hand).”
- Watched: Inside Bjork, the documentary (at least part of it)
- Watched: Björk Swedish Documentary / Interview- Part 1
- Listened: This American Life, episode 502: This Call May Be Recorded… To Save Your Life
- The Art of Punk: Winston Smith and the Dead Kennedys
- Watched: The Art Of Punk – Dead Kennedys – The Art of Winston Smith – Art + Music – MOCAtv
- Watched: Björk – Interview on ARTE – Why Are You Creative? (2002)
- The Pier 70 Community by Wendy MacNaughton.
- And so it goes… by Alexandra Franzen
- Listened: No Age, ‘An Object’ First Listen
- Do you worry too much? on a Cup of JO
- “Are you still a Brain Surgeon?” by Danielle Steel, “But men who are annoyed by women’s success in business have to find a way to put them down. And what better way to insult someone than minimize what they do, imply that it’s really insignificant, and inquire if they’re still doing it?”
On Television
- Rosemary & Thyme – yup, on to season 3
- Cosmos: A Personal Voyage – episode 3
- Project Runway: season 12, episode 4
