WHAT I WATCHED IN 2024
1 Blackberry πππ
2 Boy and the Heron ππ
3 Spirited Away ππππ
4 Man on Fire ππ
5 Grizzly Man πππ
6 Birdman ππ
7 Whiplash πππ
8 Mushishi πππ
9 Free Solo ππ.5
10 Princess Mononoke πππ
11 Big Fish πππ
12 Anastasia ππ
13 Jane Eyre (2011) ππ.5
14 The Cell ππ
15 Kill Your Darlings ππ
16 Everything Everywhere All At Once πππ
17 Society of the Snow πππ
18 In the Mood for Love ππ.5
19 The Fountain πππ
20 Roadrunner ππππ
21 Apocalypse Now ππππ
22 Hearts of Darkness πππ
23 Demonslayer πππ
24 Godfather ππ.5
25 Parasite ππππ
26 Rosemaryβs Baby ππ.5
WHAT I READ IN 2024
1) Mutual Aid by Peter Kropotkin ππ.5
2) The Prelude by William Wordsworth (1805 Edition) ππ.5
3) Time and Free Will by Henri Bergson πππ
4) This Time by Gerald Stern ππ.5
5) A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa, edited and translated by Richard Zenith ππ.5 (tho the Alberto Caeiro poems are ππππ)
6) Modern Occultism by Mitch Horowitz ππ.5 (fascinating info but full of typos & generally a little all-over-the-place)
7) Views from the Real World: Early Talks from G.I. Gurdjieff πππ
8) Gurdjieff: His Life and Ideas by John Shirley ππππ
9) In Search of the Miraculous by Ouspensky πππ
10) Mount Analogue by Rene Daumal πππ
11) The Golden Thread by Joscelyn Godwin πππ
12) Pluralistic Universe by William James ππππ
13) Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances Yates ππ.5
14) Walking to Marthaβs Vineyard by Franz Wright πππ
15) What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver ππ.5
16) Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake ππ.5
17) Politics and the Occult by Gary Lachman πππ
18) The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch πππ
19) Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung ππππ
20) The Art of Memory by Frances Yates ππ.5.
21) The Theosophical Enlightenment by Joscelyn Godwin ππ
TEXTS READ IN 2023
*1) La Gravedad y Otras Sustancias by Daniel Lievano π ππ
2) Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence by Stefano Mancuso and Alessandra Viola πππ
3) Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilsonπππ
*4) The Essential William James πππ
5) A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics by Donald Richie π ππ
6) Pedro PΓ‘ramo by Juan Rulfo πππ
7) Creativity and Taoism by Chung-yuan Chang π π
*8) Understanding Me by Marshall McLuhan πππ
9) Necessary Angel by Wallace Stevens ππ
*10) The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm πππ
11) El Aboroto de los Parajos by John Ashbery ππ
12) The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin πππ
*13) The Creative Mind by Henri Bergson πππ
14) The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard π π
*15) Soul Story by Tim Freke πππ
16) βIn Defense of Poetryβ by Percy Shelley πππ
17) βWhat is Enlightenment?β by Immanuel Kant πππ
18) βPraise to Difficultyβ by Estanislao Zuleta πππ
*19) Pragmatism Lectures by William James πππ
*20) Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas πππ
21) Manβs Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl πππ
22) Jung the Mystic by Gary Lachman πππ
23) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn πππ
*24) Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke (trans. by Robert Bly) πππ
25) I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by Rene Girardπππ
26) Notes on the Death of Culture by Mario Vargas Llosa πππ
BOOKS READ IN 2022
1 PESSOA by Richard Zenith ππΌ ππΌ
2 The Complete Works of Alberto Caiero ππΌ ππΌ
3 Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson ππΌ ππΌ
4 The Book of Images by Rainer Maria Rilke ππΌ ππΌ
5 Physics of the World-Soul by Matthew David Segall ππΌ ππΌ
6 Starmaker by Olaf Stapledon ππΌ ππΌ
7 Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa ππΌ ππΌ
8 German Idealist Philosophy: Selections from Kant, Fichte, Schelling, & Hegel ππΌ ππΌ
9 A Plato Reader ππΌ ππΌ
10 ee cummings: selected poems, ed. by Richard S. Kennedy ππΌ ππΌ
11 Cosmos and Psyche by Richard Tarnas ππ
12 Process and Reality by A.N. Whitehead πβ
13 Difference & Repetition by Gilles Deleuze πβ
14 The Prelude by Wordsworth πβ
15 The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram πππ