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Lists

Lists (obviously).

Because lists are a perfectly valid form of writing. Updated whenever I feel like it.

Books that changed how I think

  1. 1The Order of Things — Foucault
  2. 2Thinking, Fast and Slow — Kahneman
  3. 3The Master and His Emissary — Iain McGilchrist
  4. 4How to Write a Sentence — Stanley Fish
  5. 5A Room of One's Own — Virginia Woolf
  6. 6The Shock Doctrine — Naomi Klein

Things I want to learn before I'm 35

  1. 1Play the piano — properly, not just 'Für Elise'
  2. 2Speak Portuguese fluently
  3. 3Sail a small boat
  4. 4Develop my own film photographs
  5. 5Cook a proper French tart
  6. 6Finish a novel

Places I still need to go

  1. 1Kyoto in cherry blossom season
  2. 2Oaxaca, Mexico
  3. 3Porto, Portugal
  4. 4The Lofoten Islands, Norway
  5. 5Istanbul
  6. 6Tbilisi, Georgia
  7. 7Patagonia

Films I want to rewatch every year

  1. 1Certified Copy — Kiarostami
  2. 2Mulholland Drive — Lynch
  3. 3Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Sciamma
  4. 4Stalker — Tarkovsky
  5. 5The Grand Budapest Hotel — Anderson

Sentences I keep coming back to

  1. 1"The only way out is through." — Robert Frost
  2. 2"We are all just walking each other home." — Ram Dass
  3. 3"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." — Einstein (possibly apocryphal)
  4. 4"Not all those who wander are lost." — Tolkien
  5. 5"Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?" — Mary Oliver

Albums I'd put on a desert island

  1. 1Fetch the Bolt Cutters — Fiona Apple
  2. 2Blue — Joni Mitchell
  3. 3Carrie & Lowell — Sufjan Stevens
  4. 4Dummy — Portishead
  5. 5Illinois — Sufjan Stevens
  6. 6Rumours — Fleetwood Mac