WHAT I’M DIGGING
musings on music, film, books, art, and pretty things.
2013
November - playlist : listening
Hold On - Angus & Julia Stone
Holocene - Bon Iver
Elko in the Rain - Jason Lytle
Mouthful of Diamonds - Phantogram
Runaway - The National
Sunshine - DeVotchKa
Video Games - Lana Del Rey
Intro (ft. Zola Jesus) - M83
Love Interruption - First Aid Kit
The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face (f. Erykah Badu) - The Flaming Lips
Manhattan - Cat Power
November - playlist : watching
Watching:
Sherlock and Elementary
26 - alt-J, MGMT, Angus & Julia Stone. Boom.
26 - My MIL’s bday #63. My BIL and his SO staying with us. Popcorn and homemade ice cream: vanilla and pumpkin! Watched The Heat for the second time. I love to hear my MIL laugh.
26 - Finished Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief. We search and discover the things that may connect and keep us connected to our kids (specific) and to youth (universal).
August
Cloud Atlas
2012
December 2012
31 - Watching Rise of Planet of the Apes for a slammin’ NYE party with siblings Two and Six.
October 2012
11 - Watching Homeland.
June 2012
15 - Listening to Echo & The Bunnymen.
01 - Reading Jennifer Egan’s The Keep and James Dashner’s The Death Cure. Also: Michael Bierut’s Seventy-nine Short Essays About Design. Listening to Joseph Arthur
Went to Oregon Children Theater’s production of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.
April 2012
23 - Watched Contagion. Chilling. ***1/2
22 - Watched Our Idiot Brother. ***1/2 Paul Rudd is our long-lost sibling.
January 2012
19 - Listening to Joseph’s Yer Only Job
17 - Listening to Cat Power’s Remember Me
13 - Listening to Philip Glass on a Friday evening.
2011
November
A November playlist : listening all month long
Life in Technicolor - Coldplay
Back In Your Arms - Bruce Springsteen
The Alley - DeVotchKa
Lovers in Japan / Reign of Love - Coldplay
Everybody’s Changing - Keane
All the Sand in all the Sea - DeVotchKa
Lost? - Coldplay
A November playlist : November 7 “driving home”
Cherbourg - Beirut
Antichrist Television Blues - Arcade Fire
Things the Grandchildren Should Know - The Eels
History of Lovers - Iron & Wine / Calexico
Astair - Matt Costa
Up The Wolves - the Mountain Goats
Something’ For The Kids - Astronautilus
Jeanne, If You’re Ever in Portland - Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
The Greatest - Cat Power
The Air Is Thin - Jesse Sykes
Chemicals Collide - Cloud Cult
June
21 - Hung, S1E1
25 - Chuck season 3, episode 2
April
Mouthful of Diamonds - Phantogram
2010
January
24 - Watching Veronica Mars S3. Our daughter has been wanting to choose records to listen to all by herself. So today: Footloose soundtrack.
2009
September
29 - No television tonight. Dancing to Queen and Jack Johnson.
July
28 - Listening to Sigur Ros and David Gray with Lanessa. Watching Boston Legal with her and Becca.
05 - Watching Seinfeld, snuggled up with my sis Lanessa, post-holiday.
May
Listening: Hot Chip - Over and Over, Santigold - L.E.S. Artistes, MGMT - Kids, Okkervil River - Unless It’s Kicks
March
24 - Our 20-month old is loving to listen to Donovan and Queen, and loving to read Dr Seuss’s “Oh Say Can You Say.” Minus the afore-mentioned figure, we have been watching House.
09 - Listening to “I Went to the Animal Fair” on vinyl, Baby Beluga on CD, and Chinese on the telly with a 20-month old.
2008
November
15 - Listening to Blackalicious and Bishop Allen
August
13 - Wednesday. On a shoot for a hybrid book-web-video hybrid series in Sumter, Oregon. Watched Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead with a fellow crew member in his RV after filming. Sydney Lumet : that saturation-drenched, orange-ish visual indicative of so many ‘70s auteurs.
September
26 - Watching Numbers on DVD
21 - Watching Curb Your Enthusiasm, season 5 with Becca and Jeremy
March
30 Sunday - Listening to James Blunt, Andreas Bocelli, Peter, Paul & Mary
21 - Listening to Jack Johnson, BOAT, Bishop Allen, and NPR
21 - Reading Blueprint, Dwell, and ReadyMade magazines.
January
27 - Watching Unbreakable with Becca and Jeremy. Still one of my favorite films ever. “Do you ever feel like you’re not doing what you’re supposed to be doing?” - Mr. Glass
24 - Listening to Eric Satie, the Rapture, and Diana Krall. Conversing about Hillary versus Obama.
15 - Watching Jeopardy and Without a Trace. Listening to Belle & Sebastian, Mates of State, Sound of Music soundtrack. Working on Lund book and Willow Lakes.
Also: Becca and I return to doing crosswords. I study Nietzsche.
10 - Listening to Ravel.
(Re)reading Mere Christianity.
2007
December
Our daughter’s first December playlist includes:
Bing Crosby, Sinatra, various indie rock collections, Maybe It’s Christmas compilations, and Jack Johnson’s Rudolph.
Other non-Christmas listening: Old 97s, Prince’s Free, and Uncle Matt’s sampler CD
November
02 - Listening to NPR. Reading Domino magazine. Watching the Danielson family documentary.
October
29 - Reading Domino magazine. Watching Home and Garden TV - addictive. Listening to Cocteau Twins and Blackalicious.
24 - Watching Design on a Dime. Love it. Listening to Air and Pavement. Still trying to like the latter.
September
21 - Listening to Last of the Mohicans soundtrack