culture consumed (August, 2019)

[hermionesviolin]

tv

• finished Season 3 of One Day at a Time (3.11-3.13)
  
• the first 2 episodes of Slings and Arrows
  
• assorted tv while with the Florida fam
  
  
  • a bunch of episodes of Diagnosis (Netflix):
    • 1.04 "Looking for a Village" -- Kamiyah (drop sickness, KCNMA1)
      
    • 1.05 "A Question of Trust" -- Lashay (rumination)
      
    • 1.06 "Déjà Vu" -- Matt (deja vu, heart stops)
      
    • 1.03 "The Wisdom of the Crowd" -- Willie (Gulf War illness)
    
    
  • parts of some HGTV kind of shows -- Tiny House Nation 5.02 "Going Tiny To Make Things Right" (Stephanie and her father Jim in Zionsville, Indiana) and Good Bones 4.02 "New House, Old Spirit" (the disgusting Parkway house)
    
  • pieces of some kids' shows -- Super Why! 3.06 "The Alphabet's Sad Day", Llama Llama 1.12 "Beach Day; Mama Llama's Mother's Day", Top Wing Eggcellent Missions DVD
  
  
  art
  • the MFA's Gender Bending Fashion exhibit again (3 more times, in fact -- with Thom G, my mom, and Holly)
  
  
  live theatre
  • Cymbeline (Shakespeare on the Common)
    
  • The Donkey Show (with assorted friends who had never been and wanted to go before it closed; I had been early in its run ten years ago)
  
  
  music
  • Elsie Eastman's EP Postcard
  
  
  books
  • We See a Different Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology ed. Fabio Fernandes & Djibril al-Ayad
    
  • The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang (graphic novel) -- so good
    
  • Except When They Don't written by Laura Gehl and illustrated by Joshua Heinsz (picturebook) -- meh
    
  • Hexarchate Stories by Yoon Ha Lee (anthology, set in the Machineries of Empire universe, lots of which is flash fiction, but it also includes the "Glass Cannon" novella sequel to Revenant Gun)
    
  • The Winged Histories by Sofia Samatar (feminist sci-fi bookclub) and its companion novel, A Stranger in Olondria
    
  • On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden (graphic novel)
    
  • and read over a dozen picture books to M
  
  
  spoken word poetry -- serenadestrong reminded me that Sarah Kay exists, and I went down a bit of an Internet rabbit hole
  • Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye "An Origin Story"
    
  • "Private Parts" by Sarah Kay
    
  • 9 Sarah Kay Poems To Share With Someone Who Gives You The Feels -- which I was going to power through, but the first couple I really wanted to savor
    
    
    1. Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye "When Love Arrives"
       
    2. Sarah Kay - "The Type"
       
    3. Sarah Kay - "Still Here" (song, not spoken word)
       
    4. Sarah Kay - "Scaffolding" (also a song, and really hard to hear her in this recording)
       
    5. [Private Parts]
       
    6. Sarah Kay - "Worst Poetry"
       
    7. Sarah Kay - "Postcards"
       
    8. Sarah Kay - "Dreaming Boy"
       
    9. [If I should have a daughter]
    
    
  • Sarah Kay TED2011 "If I should have a daughter..."
    
  • (and on a YouTube recommendation) Phil Kaye at TEDxFoggyBottom "Poetry in maximum security prison"
  
  
  movies
  • (most of) Julie Taymor's 2010 The Tempest starring Helen Mirren as Prospera -- which was Not Good (we fast-forwarded through most of the "comedic" scenes)
    
  • Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (fannish movie night) which was actually really fun (including some of the DVD bonus features)