Recommendations (October 2019)
Newsletter October 2019
Dear friends,
Sorry for the radio silence. I got sick (viral laryngitis in August = 2 lonely weeks without any voice). Then, I moved. I knew it’d be a stressful, logistical task but I waaay underestimated how emotionally grueling it would be. I’ve (mostly) settled now and no longer feel like I’m living in a tornado.
I haven’t written anything that’s ready for for public consumption but I have a bunch of stuff I really enjoyed. So, please enjoy a bumper list of recommendations while I’m getting back to ‘normal’ life:
- A portrait of courage, PTSD and why journalism matters: A Private War (followed by these videos: 1, 2 (the interviewer is v.annoying, but it's worth it.) & 3)
- A joyous conclusion to a great show: Transparent. (It’s a musical, but still good!)
- A character study involving a heavy-handed musical score, lots of entangled naked bodies and steady-cam shots of Chris O’Dowd’s toxic masculinity face: Love After Love
- A re-imagining of the rom-com for the woke era: The Long Shot
- An LGBTIA+ mini-series that everyone should watch: Tales of the City
- A show I didn’t think would be as good as the hype: Derry Girls
- A photo-series I didn’t think we needed: Animal/food mashups
- Comedy wildlife photos of the year (Source of the header image).
- Also, the very pretty actual wildlife photos of the year.
- Did you know that plants can hear themselves been eaten? (Just ate a pear *shudder*)
- This newsletter for book recommendations you won’t see everywhere else.
- Can the comments from a website's cookery section really be that funny? Yep!
- If you want to learn things: pussypedia.
- Just when you though you couldn’t fall in love w Keanu Reeves any more.
- AOC puts Mark Zuckerberg through a very uncomfortable 5 minutes. (Never forget this guy built a business off a platform he created to compare women to farm animals/rate their appearances.)
- A video so good I watched it twice and took notes: Variety's transgender round table
- A podcast that made me cry (& learn things): 1619 the podcast
- How can you connect people across a border? How can you show how actions on one side of the border have a direct consequence on the other side? This is a start.
- A film that was pretty schmaltzy but good enough to watch when you’re sick: Collateral Beauty
- A sweet love story: My Days of Mercy
- An OK show that lit up in the final episode when Bette Midler and Judith Light showed up. Why couldn’t the whole season be about them? I hope next season will be.
- If that's all too much, watch this racoon get sad when his candy floss melts. He learns impressively quickly!
Until next time,
Clare
