Month: May 2021

Sorry about skipping last week; I’m sure the three of you were let down and confused, but I am back and ready to share with you my snobby cultural picks of the week. What I Watched My wife had never seen Peter Greenway’s The Pillow Book (1996), so we watched it the other night. Combining […]

What I Watched Come and See (1985), directed by Elem Klimov. One of the most devastating war movies ever shot, Come and See, is about a boy played by Aleksei Kravchenko finding a gun and joining the resistance in Belarus during Germany’s invasion in World War II. The movie is so dark and devastating that […]

What I Read With my wife and I moving from a farmhouse on the edge of a haunted cherry orchard and the sky is endless to a more urban setting on the east coast encased in lights, I can’t stop thinking about the book, Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard. The book is about the […]