october 2025

• watching a lot of movies
• alison bechdel
• watching fleabag (season 1)

september 2025

• being sick (…💀)
• watching severance (season 1, 2)

august 2025

• reading cixin liu
• watching solitary gourmet
• watching k-foodie meets j-foodie
• reading manga
  • 夜の名前を呼んで - call the name of the night
  • 気になってる人が男じゃなかった - the guy she was interested in wasn't a guy at all (aka "green yuri")
• rewatching 괴물 (beyond evil)

• mbti: INTP-A
• moral alignment: chaotic good
• enneagram: type 5
• 4 temperaments: choleric-phlegmatic
• big 5 personality: RCUEI
• love language: acts of service

Reading/Watching

• 夜の名前を呼んで - Call the Name of the Night (Manga)
  • reading physical copy
  • on volume 3 (last volume = volume 5)
• 気になってる人が男じゃなかった - The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All (Manga) - Ch. 137
  • https://mangadex.org/title/9d3d3403-1a87...
• 光が死んだ夏 - The Summer Hikaru Died (Manga)
  • TBD, will find a link
• チェンソーマン - Chainsaw Man (Manga) - Ch. 204
  • https://mangareader.to/read/chainsaw-man...
  • https://mangakatana.com/manga/chainsaw-m...
• チェンソーマン - Chainsaw Man (Ani...

To Watch Soon

• Succession
• VEEP
• Barry
• Daria
• Atlanta
• The Sympathizer
• Fantasmas
• Nathan For You
• The Curse
• The Rehearsal

On Hold

• What We Do In The Shadows (Season 6 🤯)
• Daredevil (Season 2)
• The White Lotus (Season 1)
• The Walking Dead (Season 3)
• Brooklyn 99 (Season 1, Ep. 22)
• Sex Education (Season 3)
• The Great (Season 1, Ep. 6)

• Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr. ; Nov 2024 - Feb 2025
  • pause on it for now. it's a rough read
• The Labyrinth - Simon Stålenhag ; Jan 2025 - Feb 2025 ⭑⭑⭑☆☆
• 저주토끼 (Cursed Bunny) - 정보라 (Bora Chung) ; Feb 2025 - Mar 2025 ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑
  • fucking ACE. love everything she writes. gimme gimme
• Sunrise on the Reaping - Suzanne Collins ; April 2025 ⭑⭑⭑⭑☆
  • ready for the movie
• Conflict is Not Abuse - Sarah Schulman ; April 2025
  • i'll get back to it someday. maybe.
• Dune - Frank Herbert ; May 2025 ⭑⭑⭑☆☆
  • i really wanted to do this justice, so aware it's the bestselling science fiction series of all time but it drags a little too much at times... i like it fine but n...

Currently Reading

• Private Rites - Julia Armfield
• Cop City Swagger - Mercedes Eng
• The Midnight Shift - Cheon Seon-ran

On Loan / Purchased

• Are You My Mother? - Alison Bechdel
• The Beast You Are - Paul Tremblay
• Model Home - Rivers Solomon
• The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa

Waiting / On Order

• Box Hill - Adam Mars-Jones
• The Night of Baba Yaga - Akira Otani
• Perfection - Vincenzo Latronico

Favourites

• Demian - Hermann Hesse
• 낙하하는 저녁 (Falling Into the Evening) - Kaori Ekuni
• 소년이 온다 (Human Acts) - 한강 (H...

At Home [11]

• The Wedding Banquet (2025)
• Phantom Thread (2017)
• The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
  • The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000)
  • The Lighthouse (2019)
  • Trainspotting (1996)
  • Eyes Without a Face (1960)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• Practical Magic (1998)
• Sunset Boulevard (1950)
• The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

In Theatres [2]

• Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc (2025)
• One Battle After Another (2025)

Recommended Films for Cinematography

• The Lighthouse (2019)
• Lost in Translation (2003)
• ✔ The Florida Project (2017)
• Apocalypse Now (1979)
• Chungking Express (1994)
• ✔ Suspiria (2018)
• Children of Men (2006)
• Tomboy (2011)
• Do The Right Thing (1989)
• ✔ In the Mood for Love (2000)
• ✔ No Country For Old Men (2007)
• ✔ Arrival (2016)

Céline Sciamma

• Water Lilies (2007)
• Tomboy (2011)
• Girlhood (2014)
• ✔ Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
• ✔ Petite Maman (2021)

Paul Thomas Anderson