Friday, 25 January 2013

That last mouthful...

That last mouthful of a crisp beer on a warm summer evening.

James Squire 'Four Wives' Pilsener 

Saturday, 19 January 2013

Silence breakers.


Some highlight reads from the past year, and a few classics to cross off the 'Books I really should read if I ever get around to it' list that everybody seems to have.
A bonus of this accomplishment is that I now have a few more books to talk about should I ever get into one of those really painful conversations with awkward, stretching silences with a new acquaintance who doesn't warm to verbal communication. In situations such as these a violent dose of verbal diarrhea on a subject that your acquaintance has little, or indeed zero interest in always seems the best solution.



The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger
1984 George Orwell
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John le Carre
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald

Friday, 18 January 2013

I'll start with a list.

The Seventh Seal (1957) Ingmar Bergman


Filmmakers I discovered (and much enjoyed) in the year that was 2012:


- Michelangelo Antonioni
 l'Avventura (1960) Michelangelo Antonioni

- Ingmar Bergman

- Yasujiro Ozu

- Wong Kar-Wai
In The Mood for Love (2000) Wong Kar-Wai

- Christophe Honore

- Michael Haneke

- Steve McQueen
Shame (2012) Steve McQueen


Could a year possibly get any richer? I will get back to you in 11.5 months.