• 30 essays (29/30):
    • Looking Good: The Lesbian Gaze and Fashion Imagery , by Reina Lewis (I didn't like this although it sounded like it would be great - I don't personally vibe w/ the idea of the lesbian gaze the author describes)
    • Conceptualisation, History, and Future of the Paraphilias (Moser and Kleinplatz) (This brought up some interesting questions about the point of the DSM, the point of psychopathology, etc, but other than that it wasn't revelatory)
    • Nietzsche, Genealogy, History (Foucault) - Waaay easier to understand than I was expecting and made lots of sense, idk why all academics who like Foucault are so annoying because this was pretty good.
    • 'They Wonder to Which Sex I Belong' - The Historical Roots of Modern Lesbian Identity (M Vicinus) - Omg soooo good, added like...
dec 20 2020 ∞
jan 4 2021 +

english:

  • camaraderie
  • escapades
  • diabolical
  • habadashery
  • periphery

latin:

  • ululare (to wail)
  • spelunca (cave)

chinese:

  • 雨 (rain)
  • 范 (small buzzing insect)
may 31 2019 ∞
jul 8 2020 +
  • 61/1 (heidelberg)
  • 61/2 (heidelberg)
  • 61/3 (heidelberg)
  • 152/2 (theodor korner)
  • 164/1 (trenck)
  • 164/2 (trenck)
  • 164/4 (trenck)
  • 182/2 (anna und elisabeth)
  • 182/3 (anna und elisabeth)
  • 1000-2100 (1927-1928)
  • 1515/1
  • 1792/1
  • 3183/1 BOUGHT
  • 6540/1
  • 6543/1
  • 6741/1
  • 6792/1 BID, SIGNED COPY
  • 6794/1
  • 6794/2
  • 6846/1
  • 7187/1 (theodor korner)
jul 3 2020 ∞
jul 8 2020 +
  • tiananmen square
  • wudaoying hutong
  • eat peking duck
  • forbidden city
  • 798 art district
  • shichahai lakes
  • chaoyang park
  • jingshan park (chongzhen suicide tree)
  • temple of heaven
  • silk market
  • summer palace
  • workers' stadium
  • olympic forest park
  • national museum
  • drum and bell towers
  • dongyue temple
  • dingling tomb
  • panjiayuan flea market
  • capital museum
  • zhengyici theatre for peking opera
  • gubei water town
jan 3 2021 ∞
jan 3 2021 +

❦ = one day but as yet untouched, ✱ = beginner level, ❀ = proficient or fluent

  • indo-european
      • armenian ❦
    • balto-slavic
      • slavic
        • russian ✱
    • germanic
      • east germanic
      • west germanic
        • german ✱
        • english ❀
    • greek
nov 15 2020 ∞
nov 15 2020 +
  • classical chinese - can follow texts w/ dictionary
  • english - native
  • latin - a-level standard
  • mandarin - hsk4-ish speaking and upper hsk-5 reading

+ i wish... modern

  • arabic (msa)
  • amharic
  • armenian
  • cantonese (!)
  • german
  • hungarian
  • japanese
  • korean
  • navajo
  • russian
  • suzhounese
  • wenzhounese
  • !xu
may 5 2019 ∞
nov 14 2020 +

overall goal: 10 films from each year, 1930-1979

  • 1 chinese film from every year up to 1979
  • 1 (more) american film from every year up to 1979
  • full filmography: marilyn monroe
  • full filmography: marlene dietrich
  • all 1930s films on 1001
  • all 1930s films on criterion
  • film school dropouts 2021 (every friday from first week of jan)
  • a film per year from each of the 'big 5' studios (rko,fox, paramount, warner brothers, mgm) from their respective conceptions until the end of the studio era or their collapse
    • rko: 1928-1959
    • fox: 1935-1954
    • paramount: 1912-1954
dec 10 2020 ∞
dec 26 2020 +
  • read sappho in original
  • read hlm in original in full
  • finish sight and sound 2012 list
  • visit china
jul 8 2020 ∞
jul 8 2020 +
  • aesthetics
  • ai
  • astrophysics
  • compsci (theory)
  • economics
  • english poetry
  • existentialism
  • game theory
  • history
    • of china
    • of judaism
    • of russia
    • of sub-saharan africa
  • history of architecture
  • history of photography + famous photographers
  • history of popular music
  • horticulture (names of plants etc.)
  • jewish theology
  • law
apr 28 2020 ∞
oct 23 2020 +