Culture - July

Books Read:

Stanislaw Lem - 'Solaris'
Iain Sinclair - 'London Orbital' (non-fiction)
Marcus Aurelius - 'Meditations' (non-fiction)
George Bataille - 'The Story of the Eye'
Martin Empson - 'Marxism and Ecology' (non-fiction)


Films Watched:

'Boyhood' (Richard Linklater) (at the Ritzy Picturehouse, Brixton)
'The Borderlands' (Elliot M.D. Goldner)
'Before Midnight' (Richard Linklater)
'Good Morning Vietnam' (Barry Levinson)
'Trouble Every Day' (Claire Denis)
'Norte, the End of History' (Lav Diaz) (at the ICA, London)


Albums Played:

Black Sabbath - 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath'
Black Sabbath - 'Paranoid'
Morrissey - 'World Peace is None of Your Business'
Manic Street Preachers - 'Futurology'
Family of the Year - 'Loma Vista'
Yo La Tengo - 'Fade'
Swans - 'To Be Kind'


Gigs Attended:

The Brian Jonestown Massacre (at Roundhouse, Camden)
Black Sabbath (at Hyde Park, London)

BBC Proms - BBC Philharmonic Orchestra playing Mahler (Royal Albert Hall)


Events:

Marxism Festival 2014 (at Institute of Education, Bloomsbury)