Weekly reading/watching meme
Apr. 23rd, 2013 06:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petroniaI suddenly really did not feel like filling this out, for some reason. XD; Anyway, I spent the bulk of the week reading Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow, which is very famous for good reason. (It turned out Kahneman and his collaborators originated a great deal of the research that made it into my MBA negotiation class, unattributed.) I'll probably post a bit about this on Tumblr.
Bought another volume of Borges' essays -- On Writing, in English this time -- but it's not as good overall, being a subject-based survey that contains some relative juvenilia Borges himself tried to suppress, one might concur for good reason. XD
Read a few comics: Nova up to #3, Iron Man up to #9 (iirc?). I don't particularly want to be buying this but Gillen is writing it well, and this current nexus** of "cosmic" stuff is just really well executed in general. It feels a bit like watching a space opera anime with multiple storylines/protagonists that are clearly intended to slowly come together. It's also obviously intended for movieverse fans, though not in the OH HAI TUMBLR vein of Young Avengers/Hawkeye.
Anyway I'm probably going to stop reading so much for a while, I need to integrate. XD
Watched:
** In my head Nova/Guardians/Gillen!IM is like one thing, and YA/Hawkeye is one thing (along with Secret Avengers/Winter Soldier, except I'm technically not reading those at the moment, and am actively ignoring Uncanny Avengers despite the presence of Wanda because I find it kind of depressing), and Captain Marvel/DeConnick!Avengers are one thing, and Hickman!Illuminati!Avengers is something else completely off to the side. I can't really convince myself that these four mental set-circles are meant to be one continuity, and tbh no one seems to be trying to convince me that they are, either. XD;
Bought another volume of Borges' essays -- On Writing, in English this time -- but it's not as good overall, being a subject-based survey that contains some relative juvenilia Borges himself tried to suppress, one might concur for good reason. XD
Read a few comics: Nova up to #3, Iron Man up to #9 (iirc?). I don't particularly want to be buying this but Gillen is writing it well, and this current nexus** of "cosmic" stuff is just really well executed in general. It feels a bit like watching a space opera anime with multiple storylines/protagonists that are clearly intended to slowly come together. It's also obviously intended for movieverse fans, though not in the OH HAI TUMBLR vein of Young Avengers/Hawkeye.
Anyway I'm probably going to stop reading so much for a while, I need to integrate. XD
Watched:
- Trance (cheap Tuesday with Anthony Easton), which was utterly ridiculous but had the merit of featuring Rosario Dawson as a full-fledged femme fatale who did not die and was not punished for her transgressions (real or imagined). I can't even remember another instance of that in noir. The fact that the movie is not at all about what/whom you think it's about is both its major strength and weakness, I guess.
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure ep.1-4. It is what it is. XDDDD I should dig up the old stuff I wrote about Dio; some of it has remained "unpublished." He was really such a compelling villain -- I find him more compelling in parts 1 and 6 than in 3, actually.
** In my head Nova/Guardians/Gillen!IM is like one thing, and YA/Hawkeye is one thing (along with Secret Avengers/Winter Soldier, except I'm technically not reading those at the moment, and am actively ignoring Uncanny Avengers despite the presence of Wanda because I find it kind of depressing), and Captain Marvel/DeConnick!Avengers are one thing, and Hickman!Illuminati!Avengers is something else completely off to the side. I can't really convince myself that these four mental set-circles are meant to be one continuity, and tbh no one seems to be trying to convince me that they are, either. XD;
