2015 In Books, Films + Music

I can't believe the last one of these was a year ago.

Anyhoo let's get straight into it...

What I Read:

• Stiff by Mary Roach
• Cause of Death - Memoirs of a Home Office Pathologist by Geoffrey Garrett

Wow only two, that's pretty terrible. Moving on...

What I Watched:

I'm doing well with films this year, watched four already this month. Better than the eight I watched all year in 2015!

It's because we've subscribed to Mubi. It's £40 for a year and there are 30 films available to watch, each on for 30 days so once one goes off, a new one comes on. 

• The Revenant Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu 5/5
• Insidious James Wan 2/5
• The Queen Steven Frears 4/5
• The Mule Angus Sampson 4/5
• Mad Max: Fury Road George Miller 3/5
• The Theory of Everything 4/5
• Ocean's Eleven Steven Soderbergh 4/5
• Black Mass Scott Cooper 4/5
• The Homesman Tommy Lee Jones 4/5
• Wild Jean-Marc Vallee 4/5
• The Program Steven Frears 4/5
• The Babadook Jennifer Kent 3/5
• Natural Born Killers Oliver Stone 4/5
• Every F---in Day of My Life Tommy Davis 3/5
• Brother's Keeper Joe Berlinger 3/5
• Raw Robert Townsend 3/5
• Seven Psychopaths Martin Macdonagh 4/5
• Get Hard Ethan Cohen 4/5
• Promised Land Gus Van Sant 3/5
• Magic Mike Steven Soderbergh 3/5
• Precious Lee Daniels 3/5
• Kill Your Darlings John Krokidas 3/5
• Frank Lenny Abrahamson 3/5
• Nowhere Boy Sam Taylor-Johnson 4/5
• Blue Jasmine Woody Allen 4/5
• The Sound of Insects Peter Leichti 4/5
• Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction Sophie Huber 4/5
• The Act of Seeing with Ones Own Eyes Stan Brakhage 4/5
• Cropsey Joshua Zeman 3/5
• A Certain Kind Of Death Grover Babcock 4/5
• Capturing The Friedmans Andrew Jarecki 3/5
• The Bridge Eric Steel 4/5
• West of Memphis Amy Berg 4/5
• Mama Andres Muschietti 2/5
• Filth Jon S. Baid 4/5
• Old Boy Spike Lee 3/5
• Ain't Them Bodies Saints David Lowery 3/5
• Inherent Vice Paul Thomas Anderson 4/5
• The Wolf of Wall Street Martin Scorsese 3/5
• Shutter Island Martin Scorsese 3/5

Bloody hell 40 films! That definitely makes up for last year. Follow me on Mubi 

What I Listened To:

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Project 365: Week 3

Day 15: And and and and that that's me getting ready for the next embroidery!

Day 16: Flying visit from that old familiar weirdo Mattia.

Day 17: Dem eyes!

Day 18: Found myself with five hours to myself at the weekend. 

Day 19: Fixed Ben's denim jacket on my green machine.

Day 20: I'll miss this lovely view when we move (which by the way we're planning on doing).

Day 21: A good excuse to have the heating on - Ben's making bread!

and it was goood.

:)

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2014 in Books, Music + Films

I was going to begin this post with a lovely, decorated list of goals for 2015. I was planning to write it out in a nice handwriting and take a photo of it. Then I thought hang on, what exactly would go on this list? There isn't really a point in setting out a list of goals for myself because I'm just so not going to stick to it. I have a blog planning journal with scheduled posts in that I haven't opened for months! Actually no, I can think of one. Drink more water. There that's my goal for the whole of next year and I bet I find it difficult to stick to just that one!

So I'm gonna skip right ahead to my round up of the books, music and films that have filled my 2014. You may be inspired to seek some of these out for yourself and if you've already discovered some or all of these, I'd love to hear what you thought of them.

What I read:

• Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell - I love depression era Americana
• F**k It Therapy by John C. Parkin - The second F It book. I can't recommend the first book enough. Everyone should read it! 
• Invisible Man by Ralph Emerson - Meh
• Jewellery & Silversmithing Techniques by Carles Codina - I did an evening course in silversmithing and would love to make my own jewellery so I like these kinds of books.
• The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley - Whoa
• Love Is A Dog From Hell by Charles Bukowski - Not for those of a sensitive disposition!
• On The Road by Jack Kerouac - Made me want to drink, smoke and travel
• Selected Poems by W. B. Yeats - Love a bit of Yeats

Currently Reading:

• Ten Years In An Open Necked Shirt by John Cooper Clarke - Evidently chicken town..
• Games People Play by Eric Berne, M. D. - Absolutely fascinating
• A Matter Of Life And Death: Inside The Hidden World Of The Pathologist - I'm very interested in post mortem activity and so I like to read books like this to teach myself.

What I listened to: 

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You can see more and follow me on last.fm here.

What I watched:

• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Ben Stiller 4/5
• Do The Right Thing Spike Lee 5/5
• Dallas Buyers Club Jean-Marc Vallee 4/5
• The Grand Budapest Hotel Wes Anderson 4/5
• Trees Lounge Steve Buscemi 3/5
• Bringing Out The Dead Martin Scorsese 4/5
• Under The Skin Jonathan Glazer 2/5
• The Big Sleep Howard Hawks 5/5

You can see more and follow me on Mubi here. 


Well that's that, I can't believe I only watched 8 films in one year!? Must improve on that in 2015. That's what I love about these websites that correlate data about your habits for you. It's actually quite surprising how much you end up over or under estimating about yourself. It's fascinating!

Anyway, much love to all who've been a part of my 2014, to old friends and new. Hope you all have a brilliant 2015 and don't get too drunk tonight!

oxoxo

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