Author: Paul Greer
Fourteen recent Photoghosts.
Still some snow on the ground.
Rabbit Colourways!
On account of humanity being like a rainbow, and us all liking different things, I have started a colourways series for the Jazzed Rabbits design.
I have started on orange and will be working my way through the spectrum.
191/365 – Commuter Drawing
191/365
This mornings commuter drawings, with added quotes from a motivational podcast by GaryVee I was listening to at the time.
20-30 mins
Notebook: Beto.
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2017 Review: Film
These are the films I remember watching/rewatching in 2017.
Highly Recommended
The Shape of Water (2017)
Mirror (1975)
Recommended
King Kong (1933)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
Logan (2017)
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Spider-man: Homecoming (2017)
Hidden Figures (2016)
Moonlight (2016)
La La Land (2016)
Singing in the Rain (1952)
Legion season 1 (2017)
Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 (2017)
Blade Runner (1982)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Dark River (2017)
Inside Out (2015)
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
Putney Swope (1969)
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (2013)
Jessica Jones Season 1 (2015)
Little Women (2017)
Also Seen
Clash of the Titans (2010)
Titanic (1956)
Man of Steel (2013)
Wonder Woman (2017)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Finest Hour (2016)
Dunkirk (2017)
Iron Fist season 1 (2017)
Batman Begins (2005)
The Dark Knight (2008)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Taboo season 1 (2017)
Not Recommended
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
See also what I read and listened to in 2017.
2017 Review: Music
Here are some of the highlights of the music I listened to the most in 2017.
There’s a full playlist of the tracks I listen to the most here, and a playlist of all the songs I was recommended/found/started listening to in 2017 here.
As always I keep a rolling playlist of stuff I’m listening to at the moment update nearly daily here.
Melatonin by A Tribe Called Quest
To Be A Young Man by Nadine Shah
I Give You Power by Arcade Fire and Mavis Staples
The Heart Part 4 by Kendrick Lamar
How Long by The Pointer Sisters
Open Eye Signal by Jon Hopkins
nobody-but-yourself
A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words.
This may sound easy. It isn’t.
A lot of people think or believe or know they feel — but that’s thinking or believing or knowing; not feeling. And poetry is feeling — not knowing or believing or thinking.
Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.
To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
2017 Review: Books
These are the books I have read in the last 12 months:
author: James Joyce published: 1914
Always love this. It’s more of a comfort read for me these days.
The Essays of Montaigne, Book 1
author: Michel de Montaigne published: 1580 rating: 5
author: Rutu Modan published: 2008 rating: 5
Great mixture of the everyday, the extraordinary and the fantastic. Stories beautifully told.
author: Carlos Sampayo published: 1989 rating: 3
Author: John Steinbeck published: 1939 rating: 5
“I want to put a tag of shame on the greedy bastards who are responsible for this.”- John Steinbeck, 1936. I have always known of this book but never read it or even knew very much about what is was about. I really wasn’t prepared by how relevant it was to so many situations occurring globally at the moment. The mass migration of populations due to climate changes, infrastructure collapse and economics, the refusal of a system to help and indeed the full demonisation of those in transit.The language is beautifully simple and yet says so much about strength, sadness, suffering, perseverance and dignity.
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
author: Hilary Mantel published: 2014 rating: 5
The Fortune of the Rougons (Les Rougon-Macquart, #1)
author: Émile Zola published: 1870 rating: 5
Worth having an idea of the background and circumstance of the coup d’etat of the Second French Empire (Wikipedia will do), as knowledge seems to be assumed.
Deadpool & the Mercs For Money, Volume 0: Merc Madness
author: Cullen Bunn published: 2016 rating: 3
The Collected Stories Volume 4
author: Arthur C. Clarke published: 1956 rating: 4
Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom #1)
author: John Updike published: 1960 rating: 4
A really intense, gruelling book about a pretty loathsome wretch. Horrible thing is there’s a billion Rabbits in the actual world. Ahead of its time in many ways. This is my first Updike. His writing is profound. But yeah. Relentless.
Captain Marvel, Volume 3: Alis Volat Propriis
published: 2015 rating: 5
When the World Screamed (Professor Challenger, #4)
author: Arthur Conan Doyle published: 1928 rating: 4
Captain Marvel, Volume 2: Down
author: Kelly Sue DeConnick published: 2013 rating: 4
author: Homer published: -750 rating: 5
Captain Marvel, Volume 1: In Pursuit of Flight
author: Kelly Sue DeConnick published: 2011 rating: 4
The Schoolmaster and Other Stories
author: Anton Chekhov published: 1921 rating: 5
author: Alan Moore & Brian Bolland published: 1988 rating: 4
author: Christian Williams rating: 4
author: Katsuhiro Otomo published: 1984 rating: 4
author: E.M. Forster published: 1908 rating: 5
author: Anne Brontë published: 1848 rating: 5
author: Mark Todd published: 2006 rating: 5
author: Thomas Pynchon published: 2009 rating: 5
Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor
author: Lynda Barry published: 2014 rating: 5
author: Marcus Aurelius published: 180 rating: 4
author: Stephen King published: 1977 rating: 5
Better than the film.I do love the film, though.
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
author: Naomi Klein published: 2006 rating: 5
Heavy going and ten years old. But does help you understand this place where we are is a logical step from where we’ve been.
The Descent of Man, and Other Stories
author: Edith Wharton published: 1903 rating: 3
I’m Still on:
SPLIT: True Stories About The End of Marriage and What Happens Next
editor: Katie West published: 2017
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
author: George R.R. Martin published: 1998
author: Dorothea Brande published: 1934
Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels
author/editor: Tom Devlin published: 2015
Sunrise near Stone End Batch. Still some snow on the ground.
Haven’t really been straying from the hearth too much the last few days. Very embedded in the Winterval. Hope yours is going well too. x (at Church of SS Quiricus & Julietta, Tickenham)
Paul Greer 