Lists

Lists

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

Books that changed how I think

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

Things I want to learn before I'm 35

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

Places I still need to go

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

Films I want to rewatch every year

  1. 1.Certified Copy — Kiarostami
  2. 2.Mulholland Drive — Lynch
  3. 3.Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Sciamma
  4. 4.Stalker — Tarkovsky
  5. 5.The 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. 1.Fetch the Bolt Cutters — Fiona Apple
  2. 2.Blue — Joni Mitchell
  3. 3.Carrie & Lowell — Sufjan Stevens
  4. 4.Dummy — Portishead
  5. 5.Illinois — Sufjan Stevens
  6. 6.Rumours — Fleetwood Mac