List: Media to Check Out

by Austin on March 30, 2009

Everybody needs to keep a list like this. Wandering through the movie store, if you still do that sort of thing, looking for something to watch is the worst experience in the world. Serendipity may have worked for our forefathers, but we’ve accumulated too much cultural detritus.

Movies to Watch

Documentaries

  1. Man on Wire – ‘enthralling’ Trade Towers adventure
  2. Werner Herzog’s new one
  3. How Buildings Learn
  4. Helvetica
  5. The Unforseen – real-estate dev, manifest destiny, etc.
  6. Awake, My Soul (Sacred Harp Documentary) Official Site Review
  7. Harlan Ellison Documentary “Sharp Teeth”
  8. Vice Travel Guide to N Korea

Reg’lar Movies

  • Slither
  • Henry Poole
  • Shotgun Stories
  • The Sensation of Sight
  • Quarantine
  • CT’s 2008 List
  • Bandslam (apparently good!)

Thoughtful Movies

  • Ballast
  • Wendy and Lucy

Books to Read

  1. Emotions of Normal People
  2. Bonhoeffer’s Life Together
  3. The Coming Economic Collapse
  4. Finite and Infinite
  5. 5 Love Languages
  6. The Eye is Quicker
  7. Sun in a Bottle: Fusion History
  8. Arts of Darkness by Thomas Hibbs
  9. Never Let Me Go
  10. It’s not News, it’s Fark
  11. Never Let Me Go
  12. The Practice of Creativity

TV to Watch

Music to Hear

  • The Darkest Night – Over the Rhine
  • Daniel Merriweather

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