Starting a little weekly (ish?) project to share what I’m reading, watching, working on, etc.
I love reading roundups like this, so I thought I’d try my hand at writing one. At the very least to have an outlet for processing and metabolizing all the content I’m ingesting.
So here’s what was up last week.
I finished Lauren Groff’s collection of short stories, Florida, in about two days because it was so engaging. The only time I’ve ever been to Florida it was in a haze of denial about the failing relationship that I was purposely-not purposely destroying on my own strength. So Groff’s vivid, emotional prose had some help from the layer of my own wrenching regret. But the stories still would have made me feel things without that. I really liked the portrayal of not-perfectly-likeable women, being one myself, and their saintly partners who put up with them. All of the children seemed a little overly precocious, but she’s the one who actually has kids so what do I know. And despite being autonomous and discrete, the stories still all hang together somehow, beyond whatever gestures they gave to the Sunshine State. It was good. I enjoyed it. And I don’t want to hear about Florida anymore for a while.
I love Gustav Klimt. I once spent an entire afternoon staring at his portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer in New York’s Neue Galerie. But before last week I had never seen or heard of “Farm Garden with Crucifix.” And it is exactly my shit. So I got a print of it to hang in my office.
The Preds beat the Sharks EIGHT to zero on Saturday, and it was just wild. Every time I looked up, they’d scored again. The Preds lost to the Kraken, who are at the very bottom of the Pacific Division, on Wednesday, just going to show that this team is absolutely unpredictable and crazy-making and I hate them. Juuse Saros is the man, Jeannot for Calder, etc.
Song of the week was Thriving, by Diet Cig, who reminds me very much of early-2000’s Letters to Cleo.
OK that’s all.
See you next week maybe!