Culture - August

Books Read:

Luke Rhinehart - 'The Dice Man'
Joseph Conrad - 'The Secret Agent'
Andrew Marr - 'The Making of Modern Britain' (non-fiction)
J.G. Ballard - 'Vermillion Sands' (short-stories)

Films Watched:

'Oldboy' (Park Chan-Wook)
'The Talented Mr. Ripley' (Anthony Minghella)
'The Mist' (Frank Darabont)
'The Sixth Sense' (M. Night Shamalyan)
'Hunger' (Steve McQueen)
'Encounters at the end of the world' (Werner Herzog) (documentary)
'London - A Modern Babylon' (Julian Temple) (documentary)
'RoboCop' (Paul Verhoeven)
'Take This Waltz' (Sarah Polley) (@ Ritzy Playhouse, Brixton)
'Tenebrae' (Dario Argento)
'Synecdoche, New York' (Charlie Kaufman)

Albums Played:

Blur - 'The Great Escape'
The Beatles - 'Rubber Soul'
Bob Dylan - 'Bringing it all back home'
Robert Fripp & Brian Eno - 'The Equatorial Stars'
Neil Young - 'After the Gold Rush'
Nick Drake - 'Pink Moon'
Wire - 'Pink Flag'
This Will Destroy You - 'Young Mountain EP'
Belle & Sebastian - 'The Boy with the Arab Strap'

Exhibitions:

'Travel Photographer of the Year Award' @ Royal Geographic Society (photography)
'Damien Hirst - Retrospective' @ Tate Modern
'Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands' @ British Library