Culture - January

Books read:

William S. Burroughs- 'The Naked Lunch' (re-read)
F. Scott Fitzgerald - 'The Great Gatsby'
Christopher Hitchens - 'God Is Not Great' (non-fiction)
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels - 'The Communist Manifesto' (non-fiction)
George Orwell - 'Critical Essays' (non-fiction)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (and other poems)'


Films watched:

'Come and See' (Elem Klimov)
'The Wind that shakes the Barley' (Ken Loach)
'Pickpocket' (Robert Bresson)
'DIal M for Murder' (Alfred Hitchcock)
'About Schmidt' (Alexander Payne)
'Network' (Sidney Lumet)
'Of Gods and Men' (Xavier Beauvois)
'Shame' (Steve McQueen)

Exhibitions:

'Don McCullin - Shaped by War' - Imperial War Museum, London (photography)

Albums played:

The Big Pink - 'Future This'
Saul Williams - 'The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust'
I Break Horses - 'Hearts'
M83 - 'Saturdays = Youth'