Name: Rod Boyle
Location: Nelson, BC.
Age: FIFTYSOME. Ouch!!!
Politics: Generally Extreme.
Education: B.A. U of A + Postgraduate diploma/ Web Development
Places Lived: Edmonton, London (England), Prague (Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic), Moose Jaw, Victoria, Calgary, Nelson, back to Calgary...back to Nelson
Traveled: Nepal, Tokyo, Tangier, Mexico, around and about the back-roads of Saskatchewan, Alberta, BC, Northern US States, ...
This is a forum for miscellaneous ideas, scraps, opinions & rants. My politics are generally unfashionable, but where possible and convenient I'll substantiate my views with links to related articles so that you can come to your own conclusions. In any event, while I welcome disagreement, please do so in a civilized and courteous fashion, and arm yourself with the facts.
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Currently:
- Reading: A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat - Arthur Rimbaud
- Watching: Good Will Hunting
- Reading: My Journey To Lhasa - Alexandra David-Neel
- Reading: The Marsh Arabs - Wilfred Thesiger
- Reading (Again) - The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
- Reading: The Burn - Vassily Aksyonov
- Reading: Zuni Fetishes - Frank Hamilton Cushing
- Watching: The Saragossa Manuscript
- Watching: The Decalogue (again!!!) - Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Reading: The Euahlayhi Tribe - A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia - by K. Langloh Parker
- Reading: Primitive Religion - Robert H. Lowe
- Reading: Primitive Mentality - Lucien Levy-Bruhl
- Reading: Ambrose Bierce - Fantastic Fables
- Reading: Julio Cortázar - Hopscotch
- Watching: White Noise - Noah Baumbach
- Reading: Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan - Isabella Bird
- Reading: Murder on the Plains - R. G. Evans
- Reading: John L. Stephens - Incidents of Travel in Yucatan - Volume 2 (1843)
- Reading: Big Sur and The Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch - Henry Miller
- Reading: Stranger Than Fiction - Chuck Palahniuk
- Reading: Lectures on Don Quixote - Vladimir Nabokov
- Reading: The Dream of Heroes - Adolfo Bioy Casares
- Reading: John L. Stephens - Incidents of Travel in Yucatan - Volume 1 (1843)
- Reading: Mark Twain - Letters from the Earth
- Watching: Guillermo del Toro - Pinocchio
- Reading: Gabriel García Márquez - Living to Tell the Tale
- Watching: Downsizing
- Watching: Cloud Atlas
- Watching: Black Mirror
- Watching: 1899
- Watching: Triangle of Sadness - Ruben Östlund
- Watching: Guillermo del Toro - Cabinet of Curiosities
- Reading: Mark Twain - Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
- Reading: Haruki Murakami - First Person Singular
- Reading: Chuck Palahniuk - Rant
- Watching: Häxan - Benjamin Christensen
- Reading: How to Interpret Your Own Dreams - Chetwynd
- Watching: The Innocents (Norwegian, 2021)
- Watching: Eisenstein in Guanajuato - Peter Greenaway
- Reading: The Four-Chambered Heart - Anais Nin
- Watching: The Sparks Brothers (documentary)
- Watching: Nope - Jordan Peele
- Reading: Of Love and Other Demons - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Reading: Cariboo Yarns - J.W. Lindsay
- Watching: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
- Watching: Californication
- Reading: Chuck Palahniuk "Consider This"
- Watching: The Lost World (1925)
- Reading: Ralph 124C 41 +
- Watching: Looper
- Reading: Strange Tales of World Travel: Gina & Scott Gaille
- Reading: Alaska and the Klondike Gold Fields - A.C. Harris
- Reading: Trails of '98 - Pierre Berton
- Reading: Bruce Chatwin - What am I doing Here?
- Watching: Inglorious Bastards - Quentin Tarantino
- Watching: The Matrix - Resurrections
- Watching: Ghostbusters - Afterlife
- Watching: The Green Knight
- Reading: Difficult Loves & Marcovaldo - Italo Calvino
- Reading: Kamongo or, The Lungfish and the Padre - Homer W. Smith
- Watched: The French Dispatch - Wes Anderson
- (re)Watching: The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
- Reading: Cabeza de Vaca - Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
- Watching: The Wolfpack
- Watching: LAMB (2021, Iceland)
- Watching: Under the Shadow
- Watching: MA
- Watching: A Tale of Two Sisters
- Watching: I Saw the Devil
- Watching: Train to Busan
- Watching: The World of Tomorrow & The Burden of other peoples thoughts - Don Hertzfeldt
- Watching: Playtime - Jaqcues Tati (1967)
- Watching: Goltzius and the Pelican Company - Peter Greenaway
- Watching: The Villainess - Jung Byung-gil (Korean)
- Reading: Imaginary Lives - Marcel Schwob
- Reading: Josef Skvorecky - The Republic of Whores
- Watching: Phantom of the Paradise - Brian De Palma
- Reading: Self Unfoldment - Manly P. Hall
- Watching: Annette - Leos Carax
- Watching: Battle Royale - Kinji Fukasaku
- Watching: Rick and Morty, Season 5
- Watching: Ong-Bak
- Watching: Gentlemen Broncos
- Watching: The Big Blue (Le Grand Bleu) - Luc Besson
- Watching: Apocalypto - Mel Gibson
- Watching: Grizzly Man - Werner Herzog
- Watching: Better Call Saul
- Reading: 10,000 Dreams Interpreted - Gustavus Hindman Miller
- Watching: The Fountain of Youth - Orson Welles
- Reading: Karl Ove Knausgaard - A Man In Love
- Watching: Surviving Death - Netflix
- Watching: Mank - David Finch (Netflix)
- Watching: Coco - Pixar
- Watching: Soul - Pixar
- Reading: The Beast Within - Adam Douglas
- Reading: Henry Miller on Writing
- Reading: For the Time Being - Annie Dillard
- Watching: I'm thinking of ending things - Charlie Kaufman
- Watching: Captain Fantastic
- Watching: System Crasher
- Watching: On Body and Soul
- Watching: Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock
- Watching: Collateral - 2004
- Watching: Ozark - Netflix Series
- Watching: Elle - Paul Verhoeven
- Watching: Starship Troopers - Paul Verhoeven
- Watching: True Grit - The Coen Brothers
- Watching: 3:10 to Yuma
- Watching: Prisoners - Denis Villeneuve
- Watching: Leave no trace
- Watching: US - Jordan Peele
- Watching: 12 Monkeys - Terry Gilliam
- Watching: Used Cars (1980, Kurt Russel)
- Reading: Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales - Vernon Lee
- Watching: El Topo
- Reading: The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian - Paul Radin
- Reading: The Prospector - J.M.G. Le Clezio
- Watching: Uncut Gems - The Safler Brothers
- Reading: Gold Panning in the Cariboo - Jim Lewis & Charles Hart
- Watching: The Joker (2019)
- Watching: Do The Right Thing - Spike Lee
- Watching: The Wailing - Hong-jin Na
- Watching: Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
- Reading: Cariboo Gold Rush - Heritage House (Various Historical Sources)
- Reading: The Cariboo Trail - Agnes C. Laut
- Reading: Lost Bonanzas of Western Canada - Garnet Basque
- Reading: West Kootenay - The Pioneer Years - Garnet Basque
- Reading: Psychedelics - Peter Stafford
- Watching: Cinema Paradiso (again!!)
- Watching: Mandy (Nicholas Cage)
- Watching: The Irishman
- Reading: A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud
- Watching: Halloween - 1978
- Reading: Wind, Sand and Stars - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- Reading: Tutankhamun and the Valley of the Kings - Otto Neubert
- Watching - Night of the Living Dead - George Romero (1968)
- Watching: Rick and Morty
- Listening: Mazzy Star - Into Dust
- Reading: The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols - Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant
- Reading: A Dictionary of Symbols - J.E. Cirlot
- Listening: Ghosteen - Nick Cave
- Reading: In Evil Hour - Gabriel García Márquez
- Watching: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote - Terry Gilliam
- Watching: The Twilight Zone - The Howling Man
- Watching: The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser - Werner Herzog
- Reading: The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories - Charles Bukowski
- Reading: The Deceitful Marriage & Other Exemplary Tales - Cervantes
- Watching: Little Dieter Needs to Fly - Werner Herzog
- Watching: Even Dwarfs Started Small - Werner Herzog
- Watching: Signs of Life - Werner Herzog
- Watching: Dogtooth - Yorgos Lanthimos
- Watching: White & Red - Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Watching: Blue - Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Watching: In the Mouth of Madness - John Carpenter
- Watching: It Follows (meh)
- Watching: Napoleon Dynamite
- Watching: The Lives of Others
- Reading: The Vampire - His Kith and Kin - Montague Summers
- Listening: Lots and Lots of Trip-Hop...
- Listening: Take A Drop and Have a Good Trip - Trip-Hop Mix
- Listening: The Winds of Change - A Trip Hop Mix
- Listening: Iron Horse - The Sound Defects
- Listening: None Shall Pass - Aesop Rock
- Watching: The House on Haunted Hill
- Reading: How To Recognize and Destroy Real Vampires - Montague Summers
- Listening: Mixed Cavalry - Panurge
- Listening: All Thoughts Are Prey to Some Beast - Bill Callahan
- Watching: Bird Box
- Watching: Bandersnatch - Charlie Brooker
- Watching: The Favorite - Yorgos Lanthimos
- Reading: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Yuval Noah Harari
- Watching: Roma
- Watching: A Quiet Place
- Reading: The Black Arts - Richard Cavendish
- Watching: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- Reading: On The Road - Jack Kerouac
- Watching: I'm Not There
- Watching: Wild Wild Country
- Watching: Let the right one in
- Listening: Hello My Old Heart
- Watching: Enter The Void
- Watching: The Dekalog
- Listening: Lost in My Mind
- Watching: The Shape of Water
- Watching: Straight Outta Compton
- Watching: The Killing of a Sacred Deer
- Watching: Holy Motors
- Watching: Oldboy
- Watching: Winter Light - Ingmar Bergman
- Watching: Nice Guys
- Watching: The Devils - Ken Russell
- Watching: The Tribe
- Reading: Letters on Demonology & Witchcraft - Sir Walter Scott
- Reading: Necropolis - Santiago Gamboa
- Listening: I Break Horses - Bill Callahan
- Watching: Blade Runner 2049
- Watching: A Ghost Story
- Watching: Poesia Sin Fin - Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Reading: Journey to Ixtlan - Carlos Castanada
- Reading: A Man with a Maid
- Watching: Blue Jay
- Watching: Colossal
- Listening: Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats: S.O.B.
- Watching: The Room - Tommy Wiseau
- Watching: Wings of Hope - Werner Herzog
- Watching: My Name is Nobody
- Watching: Hang 'em High
- Watching: The Outlaw Josey Wales
- Watching: Tombstone
- Watching: Pale Rider
- Listening: DJ Shadow - Nobody Speak
- Listening: Badfinger - Day after Day
- Listening: Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl
- Listening: Aimee Mann - Wise Up
- Listening: Jewel - Who Will Save Your Soul
- Listening: Portland Cello Project - Denmark - Gideon Freudmann
- Listening: The Dead South - In Hell I'll Be Good Company
- Listening: Milky Chance - Feathery
- Watching: Reservoir Dogs - Quentin Tarantino (Meh)
- Reading: Dante - The Inferno - Robert Pinsky
- Watching: Force Majeure
- Watching: HyperNormalisation - Adam Curtis
- Watching: Goodnight Mommy
- Watching: Kong: Skull Island
- Watching: King Kong (1933)
- Watching: Wings of Desire - Wim Wenders
- Reading: Bartolome De Las Casas - A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
- Watching: Get Out
- Watching: Brimstone and Treacle
- Watching: John Wick Chapter 2
- Watching: The Dirty Dozen
- Watching: The Candidate (2010)
- Watching: Withnail and I
- Watching: V is for Vendetta
- Reading: John Carter of Mars/The Skeletons of Jupiter - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Reading: The People That Time Forgot - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Watching: A Monster Calls
- Watching: Submarine
- Watching: Good Night Mommy
- Watching: Mars et Avril
- Watching: David Brent - Life on the Road
- Watching: Magical Universe
- Watching: Office Christmas Party
- Watching: Hunt for the Wilderpeople
- Reading: Richard Brautigan - Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt
- Reading: The Voyage of Argo - Apollonius of Rhodes
- Watching: The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
- Watching: Midnight Special (2016)
- Watching: Dr. Strange
- Watching: Synchronicity (2015)
- Watching: Arrival
- Watching: Samurai - Musashi Miyamoto
- Reading: The Land of Twelve Foot Davis
- Watching: 10 Cloverfield Lane
- Reading: Rainer Maria Rilke - Sonnets to Orpheus
- Watching: Don't Breathe
- Watching: Hell or High Water
- Watching: Stranger Things
- Watching: Lo and Behold - Werner Herzog
- Watching: Blackfish
- Listening: Cat Stevens - Oh Very Young
- Reading: Pellucidar - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Watching: North by North West
- Watching: Once Upon A Time in the West
- Watching: The Tribe
- Watching: Rashomon - Kurosawa
- Watching: The Lobster
- Watching: Jules and Jim (Secret Cinema)
- Watching: Cropsy
- Reading: Trout Fishing in America - Richard Brautigan
- Watching: The Lure
- Listening: Florence and the Machine - Ship to Wreck
- Watching: Far Out Isn't Far Enough - The Tomi Ungerer Story
- Watching: The Act of Killing
- Watching: Warning Shadows: A Nocturnal Hallucination
- Reading: The Man Eater of Malgudi - R. K. Narayan
- Listening: Lamento Della Ninfa - Monteverdi
- Listening: Sarah Harmer - Escarpment Blues
- Reading: Roadside Geology of Washington - David D. Alt and Donald W. Hyndman
- Listening: MC Frontalot - Mornings Come and Go
- Listening: Pussy Riot: Chaika
- Listening: Joanna Newsom - Time, as a Symptom of Love
- Listening: George Ezra - Blame it on Me
- Listening: Laura Marling - Rambling Man
- Listening: Laura Marling - My Manic & I
- Watching: 20,000 Days On Earth (documentary on Nick Cave)
- Watching: Army of Shadows - Jean-Pierre Melville
- Watching: Memories of Murder - Bong Joon-ho
- Watching: The Hateful Eight - Quentin Tarantino
- Listening: Will Stratton - You Divers
- Watching: A Perverts Guide to Ideology
- Watching: Star Wars - The Force Awakens
- Listening: Laura Marling - Ghosts
- Listening: Atlas Volt - Memento Mori
- Listening: Postmodern Jukebox - Mad World
- Listening: No Diggity vs. Thrift Shop - Ed Sheeran & Passenger
- Listening: Layla - Smokestacks
- Listening: Pearl Jam - Just Breathe
- Listening: Art of Shades - All Away
- Listening: Sufjan Stevens - No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross
- Listening: Blitzen Trapper - Furr
- Watching: Synecdoche, New York - Paul Kaufman
- Listening: Fiona Apple - Paper Bag
- Watching: Theeb
- Watching: The Killing - Stanley Kubrick
- Reading: Trilby - George Du Maurier
- Reading: Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov
- Watching: Tim's Vermeer
- Listening: Jacky Bastek - No Exit
- Listening: Vance Joy - Riptide
- Reading: The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell
- Listening: Pretty Lights - Color of My Soul
- ******* FILMS FOR THE DAUGHTER *********
- Watching: An Honest Liar
- Watching: Dark Crystal
- Watching: Legend (Ridley Scott)
- Watching: National Treasure
- Watching: Vacation (2015, twoonie X 3 Tuesday in Peace River. Ooops.)
- Watching: A Year on the Ice
- Watching: Shane (1953)
- Watching: Mission Impossible - Rogue Nation
- Watching: Arrested Development (TV Series)
- Watching: Get Hard (her choice...not suitable for children)
- Watching: Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)
- Watching: Fury Road
- Watching: John Wick
- Watching: Leon: The Professional
- ***************************************
- Watching: Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
- Reading: Bruno Schulz - "The Street of Crocodiles"
- Watching: The Mirror
- Listening: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home
- Listening: Noah and The Whale - 5 Years Time
- Watching: Stalker (1979)
- Watching: Jurassic World
- Watching: Repo Man
- Watching: Fury Road
- Watching: Dark Star
- Watching: They Live
- Watching: Apocalypse Now
- Listening: Badfinger - Baby Blue
- Watching: David Lynch - Mulholland Dr.
- Watching: Serenity - Firefly BOLLOCKS!
- Watching: Force Majeure - Eddie Izzard BOLLOCKS!
- Watching: Two Days One Night
- Watching: Under the Skin
- Watching: F is for Fake
- Watching: Better Call Saul
- Watching: Breaking Bad
- Watching: Snowpiercer
- Watching: What We Do In The Shadows
- Watching: Cinema of Regret
- Watching: Old Trouts - Famous Puppet Death Scenes
- Reading: Joseph Campbell - The Hero with A Thousand Faces
- Watching: Rebecca Northan - Troublemaker
- Watching: A Woman Walks Home Alone At Night
- Watching: Pink Floyd - The Wall
- Watching: Leviathan
- Reading: The Creative Process - Edited by Brewster Ghiselin
- Watching: Inherent Vice
- Watching: The Imitation Game
- Watching: Down By Law (Jim Jarmusch)
- Watching: Venus in Fur (2013, Polanski, 5*)
- Watching: The Double (2014)
- Watching: Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies (-5*)
- Watching: Citizenfour
- Watching: The Life Aquatic
- Watching: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
- Watching: Nightcrawler (*****)
- Watching: Abre Les Objos
- Listening: Crickets slowed to human scale appear to be the voices of angels...
- Watching: Derren Brown: Infamous
- Listening: INVENTORY: UNDER OBJECTS UNDER OATH
- Watching: Birdman
- Reading: The Fine Art of Literary Mayhem - Myrick Land
- Watching: St. Vincent
- Watching: Interstellar
- Watching: The Dance of Reality - Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Reading: Ghost Towns of British Columbia - Bruce Ramsey
- Watching: The Zero Theorem - Terry Gilliam
- Watching: Svengali - Derren Brown
- Watching: Primer
- Reading: Chronicle of a Death Foertold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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- 6 Weeks of the daughter, a variety of classic (and not so) films revisited for her education. Including...
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Total Recall - 1990 Version
- The Thing
- Alien
- Aliens
- Robocop
- The Road Warrior
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Point Break
- Die Hard
- The Shining
- 2012
- Groundhog Day
- Armageddon
- Deep Impact
- Galaxy Quest
- Godzilla (2014)
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- Reading: Exotic Pleasures - Peter Carey
- Reading: The Lost Lemon Mine - "Frontier Book No. 4"
- Reading: The Art of Getting Things Done - David Allen
- Watching: Goltzius and the Pelican Company - Peter Greenaway
- Watching: Volver
- Watching: The Fall
- Watching: The Damnation of Faust - Terry Gilliam, Berlioz
- Watching: Fando y Lis - Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Watching: Jodorowsky's Dune
- Listening: Seething - Max Cooper
- Watching: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Terry Gilliam
- Reading: The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana - Umberto Eco
- Watching: Fear and Desire - Stanley Kubrick
- Listening: The Nitrate Hymnal
- Listening: Wim Mertens (A Secret Burning)
- Listening: Passenger (Let Her Go)
- Reading: Psycho-Cybernetics - Maxwell Maltz
- Listening: This is Water - David Foster Wallace
- Listening: Piss Factory (Patti Smith)
- Listening: Gloria (Patti Smith)
- Watching: My Best Fiend
- Watching: Killer's Kiss
- Watching: High Plains Drifter
- Watching: Pale Rider
- Watching: Finding Vivian Maier & here & here
- Watching: Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog)
- Reading: The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick - Peter Lamont
- Watching: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
- Watching: Aguirre, The Wrath of God
- Watching: Russian Ark
- Watching: The Adventures of Prince Achmed
- Watching: Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Reading: AN Experiment with Time
- Watching: The Rainbow Thief
- Watching: The Holy Mountain
- Watching: A Touch of Zen
- Watching: A Field in England
- Watching: Easy Rider
- Watching: The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza)
- Watching: The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Watching: The Vanishing (SpoorLoos)
- Watching: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- Watching: Meet the Feebles
- Watching: Arsenic and Old Lace
- Watching: Melancholia
- Watching: Enemy
- Watching: Sansho the Bailiff
- Watching: The Moaning of Life
- Watching: L'Avventura
- Watching: Close-Up
- Watching: La Jetee
- Watching: The Killer
- Watching: Wes Anderson - Bottle Rocket
- Watching: Ma Nuit Chez Maude (My Night at Maud's)
- Listening: 2Cellos - Thunderstruck
- Listening: Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage
- Watching: The Spirit of the Beehive
- Watching: Breathless - Jean-Luc Godard
- Watching: Pay It Forward
- Listening: Orange Sky - Alexi Murdoch & Pete Townshend
- Watching: The Seventh Seal - Ingmar Bergman
- Watching: For a Few Dollars More.
- Watching: A Fistful of Dollars
- Watching : The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
- Watching: The Thin Blue Line
- Reading: Ovid - Orpheus in the Underworld
- Watching: The Immortal Augustus Gladstone
- Reading: Louis De Bernieres - A Partisan's Daughter
- Reading: Harry G. Frankfurt - On Truth
- Reading: David Thorne - I'll Go Home Then; It's Warm and Has Chairs
- Listening: Fear and Delight - The Correspondents
- Watching: The Wolf of Wall Street
- Watching: Frida
- Watching: Peter Greenaway - Act Of God
- Watching: Peter Greenaway - The Baby of Macon
- Listening: Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
- Listening: Bright Eyes - At The Bottom Of Everything
- Listening: Cage The Elephant - Ain't No Rest For The Wicked
- Listening: Wooden Shjips - Back To Land
- Reading: Montague Summers - The Werewolf in Lore and Legend
- Listening: OF Monsters and Men - Little Talks
- Listening: Florence and the Machine - Cosmic Love
- Reading: Lost Bonanzas of Western Canada
- Reading: Handbook of Magic and Witchcraft - Charles W. Olliver
- Reading: The Teachings of Don Juan - Carlos Castaneda
- Reading: The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
- Reading: H.P. Lovecraft - The Lurking Fear and other stories
- Reading: H.P. Lovecraft - The Shuttered Room and other tales of Terror
- Reading: The Chemistry of Tears - Peter Carey
- Reading: The History of Witchcraft and Demonology - Montague Summers
- Reading: Elementary Geology Applied to Prospecting - John F Walker
- Reading: The Identification of Common Rocks
- Watching: Jim Jarmusch - Dead Man
- Listening: Ben Howard - Keep Your Head Up
- Listening: Ben Howard - The Fear
- Listening: Patrick Watson - Lighthouse
- Listening: The Magnetic Fields - Too Drunk to dream
- Listening: Neko Case - Deep Red Bells
- Listening: Mumford & Sons - I Will Wait
- Listening: High Society - One Day
- Listening:The Magnetic Fields - Andrew in Drag
- Listening: Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
- Listening: Lindsey Stirling - Electric Daisy Violin
- Listening: Malvina Reynolds - The Money Crop
- Listening: I Hate Work - Shred Kelly
- Reading: The Bridge over San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
- Reading: The Adventures of A Modern Occultist - Oliver Bland
- Reading: The Atheist's Mass - Honore De Balzac
- Reading: Portrait of Hemingway - Lillian Ross
- Reading: The Conquest of New Spain - Bernal Diaz
- Reading: The Consolation of Philosophy - Boethius
- Reading: The Act of Creation - Arthur Koestler
- Reading: The Colony of Unrequited Dreams - Wayne Johnston
- Reading: The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown
- Reading: Quirkology - How We Discover The Big Truths in Small Things - Richard Wiseman
- Reading: Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There - Richard Wiseman
- Listening: Bjork - Virus
- Watching: Hysteria
- Watching: Indie Game - The Movie
- Watching: Moonrise Kingdom
- Watching: Headhunters
- Reading: The Tools - Barry Michels & Phil Stutz
- Reading: Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
- Reading: The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg
- Listening: Jeff Wayne - War of the Worlds
- Reading: Rousseau - Reveries of a Solitary Walker
- Reading: Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
- Reading: Treasure of the Sierra Madre - B. Traven
- Listening: Sia - Breathe Me
- Listening: The Avett Brothers - Head Full Of Doubt/Road Full Of Promise
- Reading: The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- Listening: Lanhorne Slim - Oh Honey
- Listening: Patrick Watson - Into Giants
- Listening: Bhi Bhiman - Time Heals
- Listening: Ben Howard - The Wolves
- Listening: Jon Gomm - Passionflower
- Listening: Amy Wood - Lonely
- RE-reading: Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- Listening: Nick Cave - The Ship Song
- Reading: Rhymes of a Northern Rambler - Book II - Ron E. Frederickson
- Listening: Rise Up - Eddie Vedder
- Listening: Hard Sun - Eddie Vedder
- Listening: Eric Stanley - Eminem - Love The Way You Lie
- Listening: Michael Nyman - Prospero's Books
- Reading: Gabriel Carcia Marquez- Of Love and Other Demons
- Reading: Alaa Al Aswany - The Yacoubian Building
- Reading: Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
- Reading: Isaac Bashevis Singer - SCUM
- Reading: Andre Gide - Lafcadio's Adventures
- Reading: P.T. Barnum - Struggles and Triumphs
- Listening: My Brightest Diamond - Inside a Boy
- Listening: Austra - Lose It
- Listening: The Dudes - Girl Police
- Reading: Casanova in London and Other Essays - Peter Quennell
- Listening: Sting - The dream of the Blue Turtles
- Listening: Laurie Anderson - Let X = X
- Listening: Johnny Cash - Ain't no grave (can hold my body down)
- Reading: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush - Eric Newby
- Reading: The Story of a Ship-Wrecked Sailor - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Listening: Gil Scott-Heron
- Listening: Patrick Watson- The Cinematic Orchestra
- Listening: Ken Nordine
- Listening: Andrew Bird
- Reading: The Luck Factor - Richard Wiseman
- Reading: The Vanishing Hitchhiker - Jan Harold Brunvand
- Listening: Lech Jankowski
- Reading: Henry Miller - Under the Roofs of Paris
- Reading: Grey Owl - Pilgrims of the Wild
- Reading: Peter Fleming - Brazilian Adventure - Excellent
- Reading: Casanova's Chinese Restaurant - Anthony Powell
- Listening: The Killers - Mr. Brightside
- Reading: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - Pablo Neruda
- Listening: Bryce Kulak
- Listening: Angelite & Huun Huur Tu
- Reading: In the Shape of a Boar - Lawrence Norfolk
- Listening: This is the Day - The The
- Listening: The Host of Seraphim - Dead Can Dance
- Reading: The Secret Voyage of Francis Drake - Samuel Bawlf
- Reading: Fleshmarket Close - Ian Rankin
- Watching: Nightwatching - Peter Greenaway
- Listening: OK Go - Invincible & The House Wins
- Reading: Love in Excess - Eliza Haywood
- Watching: Fritz Lang - M
- Reading: How to Travel with a Salmon: And other essays - Umberto Eco - Meh
- Reading: My Journey to Lhasa - Alexandra David-Neel
- Reading: True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
- Reading:Magic & Mystery in Tibet - Alexandra David-Neel
- Reading: The Heptameron - Margueritte of Navarre
- Reading: Reincarnation & Immortality - Alexandra David-Neel
- Reading: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
- Reading: Absurdistan - Gary Shteyngart
- Reading: Travelers' Tales Tibet
- Watching: Fritz Lang - Dr. Mabuse
- Watching: Donnie Darko
- Reading: The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
- Reading: Way Out There - The Best of Explore - Edited by James Little
- Reading: The Island of the Day Before - Umberto Eco
- Reading: Travels in West Africa -Mary Kingsley
- Reading: The Lost City of Z - David Grann
- Reading: The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
- Reading: The Hours - Michael Cunningham
- Reading: Arabian Sands - Wilfred Thesiger
- Listening: 10,000 Maniacs - Eden
- Listening: Natalie Merchant - Ophelia
- Listening: Moomal Rano
- Reading: An Artist's Life - Sir Alfred Munnings
- Listening: Coldplay - Lost
- Reading: Jaguars Ripped My Flesh - Tim Cahill
- Reading: Tibetan Marches - Andre Migot
- Listening: Phoenix - Lisztomania
- Reading: Robert Cushman Murphy - Logbook for Grace
- Reading: Richard Wiseman - 59 Seconds: Think a little, Change a lot
- Listening: OK GO - This Too Shall Pass
- Reading: Aldous Huxley - Point Counter Point
- Listening: Johnny Cash - When the Man comes around
- Listening: Johnny Cash - Hurt (9 Inch Nails Cover)
- Reading: Tacitus - The Agricola and The Germania
- Reading: Nicola Barker - Darkmans - irrelevant
- Reading: Choderlos de Laclos - Les Liasons Dangereuses Masterpiece
- Reading: The Nibelungenlied
- Reading: Francis Parkman - The Oregon Trail - Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life
- Reading: Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
- Reading: Will Ferguson - Happiness
- Reading: Jon Ronson - The Men who Stare at Goats
- Reading: Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
- Reading: George Orwell - Coming up for Air
- Reading: George Orwell - The Clergyman's Daughter
- Reading: George Orwell - Keep the Aspidistra Flying
- Reading: Farid Ud-Din Atta - The Conference of The Birds
- Reading: Richard Bernstein - Ultimate Journey
- Reading: Procopius - "The Secret History"
- Reading: Will Ferguson "Hitching Rides with Buddha"
- Listening: Cab Calloway
- Reading: Umberto Eco "The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana"
- Reading: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
- Reading: Petronius - "The Satyricon" / Seneca - "The Apocolocyntosis"
- Listening: Bryce Kulak - "Letters From Sadie" - Very Fine
- Reading: Douglas Hofstadter - "I am a Strange Loop" - Ho Hum
- Reading: Carl Jung - "Memories, Dreams, Reflections". Excellent
- Listening: Joanne Newsom - "Sawdust and Memories". Excellent as well
- Watching: Jan Švankmajer - "Animated Shorts". Yep, I'm livin the life.