Only Lovers Left Alive with Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton and awesome (awesome!) sets and costumes and dialogue and culture and inside literary jokes.
So very, very good.
Best movie I’ve seen in absolutely ages.
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My new jam.
Robot Koch “Trouble (Robots Don’t Sleep)”. Oh yes.
This song cannot get itself onto iTunes soon enough. OBSESSED.
Lo-Fang is blowing my mind.
Go buy Blue Film. It’s gorgeous.
On podcasts and changing my mind.
I often have very random preconceived notions about celebrities–ones I like, ones I dislike for whatever random reason. We all do, right? And it’s been intriguing me lately how their appearance on say, Jimmy Fallon or a late-night show rarely changes how I feel about them. But a 30- to 45-minute podcast interview, on the other hand, can have a huge effect.
For instance, I never watched That ’70s Show but I loved Topher Grace in both Win a Date with Tad Hamilton AND In Good Company. After listening to him and his idea for his new web site on The Nerdist podcast? Nope. The web site idea sounds a million years too late and what he wants to do on it has been so well and widely done elsewhere. No one who was really smart would think it was a good idea at all.
Whereas, say, B.J. Novak for whom I have harbored a perhaps (PERHAPS) irrational complete hatred for, for years, thanks to The Office and Inglorious Bastards, things I loved lots of things about and hated him in–after listening to him on the Nerdist, I think he’s so much smarter than I ever realized and I am totally going to buy his book of short (in some case, very short) stories.
In case you were wondering. Don’t lie, this is all stuff you couldn’t have gone on living without. Heh.
Peace Out, 2013.
This was really a quote about Christmas, but it actually applies to all of life.
The choice is ours to make, how we live into the possibilities of Christmas.
Here’s to better choices in 2014. Bring it on, possibility.
Duff at the Movies 2013
- 12 Years a Slave (12/30)
- Inside Llewyn Davis (12/29)
- American Hustle (12/27)
- Philomena (12/27)
- Out of The Furnace (12/24)
- Thor 2 (11/30)
- Catching Fire (11/29)
- Gravity (11/28)
- Dallas Buyers Club (11/16)
- The Heat (10/?)
- The Grandmaster (9/7)
- The Way, Way Back (9/1)
- Fruitvale Station (8/24)
- Spectacular Now (8/21)
- Elysium (8/17)
- Now You See Me (7/?)
- Frances Ha (7/4)
- Byzantium (6/29)
- Fast & Furious 6 (6/24)
- World War Z (6/22)
- Much Ado About Nothing (6/21)
- Mud (6/7)
- What Maisie Knew (6/2)
- Star Trek: Into Darkness (6/1)
- The Place Beyond the Pines (5/11)
- Upstream Color (4/13)
- Room 237 (4/6)
- Side Effects (3/9)
- Zero Dark Thirty (1/5)
- Flight (1/3)
Books Read in 2013
date refers to date finished; i.e., just b/c I finished two books in a given day doesn’t mean I read two entire books that day!
- An Unwilling Bride, by Jo Beverly (12/31)
- An Arranged Marriage, by Jo Beverly (12/30)
- Grave Mercy, by Robin LaFevers (12/30)
- Attachments, by Rainbow Rowell (12/29)
- Lady Beware, by Jo Beverly (12/27)
- Deadline, by Sandra Brown (12/26)
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone, by Laini Taylor (12/25)
- Fangirl, by Rainbow Rowell (12/24)
- Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception, by Maggie Stiefvater (12/23)
- Beautiful Wreck, by Larissa Brown (12/22)
- Froi of the Exiles, by Melina Marchetta (12/22)
- Finnikin of the Rock, by Melina Marchetta (12/6)
- The Panopticon, by Jenni Fagan (11/30)
- Eleanor & Park, by Rainbow Rowell (11/27)
- Breadcrumbs, by Anne Ursu (11/23)
- Doll Bones, by Holly Black (11/17)
- Reading in the Wild, by Donalyn Miller (11/10) (teaching)
- The Dream Thieves, by Maggie Stiefvater (11/10)
- The Raven Boys, by Maggie Stiefvater (11/9) (reread)
- This Song Will Save Your Life, by Leila Sales (10/19)
- How to Love, by Katie Cotugno (10/19)
- Endgame, by Ann Aguirre (9/13)
- Aftermath, by Ann Aguirre (9/13)
- The Golem and the Jinni, by Helene Wecker (8/31)
- One Crazy Summer, by Rita Garcia-Williams (8/31)
- Magic for a Price, by Devon Monk (8/31)
- The Shining Girls, by Lauren Beukes (8/16)
- The Faraway Nearby, by Rebecca Solnit (8/16)
- All Hands Stand by to Repel Boarders: Tales from Life as a Lutheran Pastor, by Cordell Strug (8/16)
- Let Me Go (Archie Sheridan and Gretchen Lowell #6), by Chelsea Cain (8/14)
- Kill Me Twice (Archie Sheridan and Gretchen Lowell #5), by Chelsea Cain (8/14)
- Wishes and Stitches, by Rachael Herron (7/20)
- Vampires in the Lemon Grove, by Karen Russell (7/6)
- The Summer Prince, by Alaya Dawn Johnson (7/1)
- Shades of Earth, by Beth Revis (6/23)
- A Million Suns, by Beth Revis (6/22)
- Across the Universe, by Beth Revis (6/21) (reread)
- Saving Zasha, by Randi Barrow (6/1)
- Blood Magic, by Tessa Gratton (5/25)
- Paper Valentine, by Brenna Yovanoff (5/4)
- Frost Burned (Mercy Thompson #7), by Patricia Briggs (5/1)
- The Rook, by Daniel O’Malley (4/29)
- The River of No Return, by Bee Ridgway (4/28)
- The Curiosities, by Maggie Stiefvater, Brenna Yovanoff and Tessa Gratton (4/20)
- Big Jack, by J.D. Robb (3/31)
- Sarah, Plain & Tall, by Patricia McLachlan (3/31)
- Etiquette & Espionage, by Gail Carriger (3/28)
- Choice Words, by Peter H. Johnston (3/25)
- The Giver, by Lois Lowry (3/18)
- Suspect, by Robert Crais (3/10)
- The Order of Odd Fish, by James Kennedy (3/10)
- Code Name Verity, by Elizabeth Wein (2/25)
- Blood Song, by Anthony Ryan (1/18)
- Touch of Frost, by Jennifer Estep (1/5)
- Seraphina, by Rachel Hartman (1/4)
Duff Does Live Music 2013
- Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (11/4)
- Mike Doughty (5th x) (10/24)
- Kishi Bashi (2/14)
I just read the best book you’ll read in 2014.
It’s called “Beautiful Wreck” by Larissa Brown and it’s outright heartrendingly wondrous. I’ll tell you more soon.
First/Multiple Listens: Rhye “Woman”
This is my favorite album I bought yesterday, even though I also bought Beyonce. I love them both but this one? This is anytime, anywhere music. Also there is a serious ’70s vibe to my ear and I just dig dig dig it.
I know everyone else hears Sade when they listen to this. I hear Julia Fordham. AND I LOVE IT.
Another Stephen Thompson recommendation. Geez, that guy.