March Uberlisting
A mealy five things off the list, and a bunch of them feel like cheats. I flailed around a bit in March, which doesn't please me. I feel like I forgot how to write or read. Anyway, details below.
3. Read a book - Mar
Hoping to write on it for Shelf Space, I took on Harlan Ellison's ELLISON WONDERLAND, a book of short stories acquired and partially digested at least three decades ago. Also read a mess of short stories in a bunch of other collections, which wound up with me not finishing any of them.
43. Try a new theatre company
Got to support a new friend by seeing her in the final performance of a five-week clowning intensive, in a venue I'd never been to.
48. House of Sparrows entry - Mar
March saw TWO House of Sparrows entries from me: a review of Kraftwerk's second gig in Oakland (which as I mention in the piece will likely turn out to be one of the year's great events), and a brief review of the marvelous French slowburn thriller STRANGER BY THE LAKE (which was 85% written at the start of the month and finished only a couple of days ago).
Nothing on Shelf Space - had intended to write on the two Ellison books but found I had little to say on either.
Movies - 73. Blind
I may have to rethink this - it's very, very difficult to ever go into a movie blind, without reading a capsule review or something. I'm going to mark off my viewing of the documentary PABLO (taken in at the Design & Architecture film series at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) - experience of a new series, jumping into the only screening available to me. Will rethink.
89. Get out of town for a night
Trekked down to Los Angeles for a pair of midnight screenings (RAZORBACK at Cinefamily, THE RAID: REDEMPTION at New Beverly). Enjoyed some good food, a record release party for the band Young Beautiful In A Hurry, and the entirety of Alan Spencer's BULLET IN THE FACE series.
3. Read a book - Mar
Hoping to write on it for Shelf Space, I took on Harlan Ellison's ELLISON WONDERLAND, a book of short stories acquired and partially digested at least three decades ago. Also read a mess of short stories in a bunch of other collections, which wound up with me not finishing any of them.
43. Try a new theatre company
Got to support a new friend by seeing her in the final performance of a five-week clowning intensive, in a venue I'd never been to.
48. House of Sparrows entry - Mar
March saw TWO House of Sparrows entries from me: a review of Kraftwerk's second gig in Oakland (which as I mention in the piece will likely turn out to be one of the year's great events), and a brief review of the marvelous French slowburn thriller STRANGER BY THE LAKE (which was 85% written at the start of the month and finished only a couple of days ago).
Nothing on Shelf Space - had intended to write on the two Ellison books but found I had little to say on either.
Movies - 73. Blind
I may have to rethink this - it's very, very difficult to ever go into a movie blind, without reading a capsule review or something. I'm going to mark off my viewing of the documentary PABLO (taken in at the Design & Architecture film series at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) - experience of a new series, jumping into the only screening available to me. Will rethink.
89. Get out of town for a night
Trekked down to Los Angeles for a pair of midnight screenings (RAZORBACK at Cinefamily, THE RAID: REDEMPTION at New Beverly). Enjoyed some good food, a record release party for the band Young Beautiful In A Hurry, and the entirety of Alan Spencer's BULLET IN THE FACE series.