monthly log


may

Read Watched Listened
books
- quicksand (wr. nella larsen)
- desire/love (wr. lauren berlant)
- i'll be right there (wr. shin kyungsook)
- the real story of ah-q and other tales of china: the complete fiction of lu xun (wr. lu xun) [100% completed]


essays & articles
- haunted housekeeping: fatal attractions of servant and mistress in twentieth-century female gothic literature
- the poetry of shin kyong-nim


manga / manhwa
- senrei (wr. kazuo umezu)
- namida ame to serenade (wr. haruka kawachi)
- natsuyuki rendezvous (wr. haruka kawachi)
- kigi wa haru (wr. nakaoka naka)


- heaven is still far away - ryusuke hamaguchi - remains - tokyo shoegazer
- mamihlapinatapai - illit
- another sunny day - honeydip
- a.s.o. (feat. alias error) - a.s.o.
- shaker + 3 - akina nakamori
- + 3 - samba jean-baptiste
- remains - tokyo shoegazer
- bowery electric - bowery electric
- shalala - taeyong
- tap - taeyong
- lucifer - shinee
- a i a: alien observer - grouper
- southeast limits - mount shrine
- feeler - perfume tree
- perpetual - ryuichi sakamoto / illuha / taylor deupree


april

Read Watched Listened
books
- black skin, white masks (wr. frantz fanon)
- the go-between (wr. l.p. hartley)
- waitress in fall: selected poems (wr. kristín ókmarsdóttir)
- the real story of ah-q and other tales of china: the complete fiction of lu xun (wr. lu xun) [60% completed] - kim soyeon's translated poems


essays & articles
- abstraction and nonsense, the real in fiction
- ibn arabi on imagination and the creation of the universe
- take care but not too much, the invention of codependency
- queue republic: how time is stolen from the poor
- the fanfare around the band geese actually was a psyop
- interview with kim soyeon: continuing until we become our outsides


manga / manhwa
- ai no seikatsu (wr. kyoko okazaki)
- thomas no shinzoi (wr. hagio moto)
- amadare no koro (wr. suika momoko)
- aku no hana (wr. shuzo oshimi)
- koi no kokoro ni kuroi hane (wr. tomoko yamashita)
- je t'aime, café noir (wr. tomoko yamashita)
- boku wa shitteiru. (wr. josee)
- yuugai muzai gangu (wr. ura shino)
- dekireba wo tsuzuritai (wr. roji)
- the king of home cooking (wr. gawee)
- the king of home dating (wr. gawee)


- on the beach at night alone (dir. hong sangsoo)
- chaar phool hain aur duniya hai (dir. achal mishra)
- labyrinth of dreams (dir. gakuryū ishii)
- kaun? (dir. ram gopal varma
- flcl (dir. kazuya tsurumaki)
- cure - miki nakatani
- dog dreams - lucy liyou
- kaiba orignal soundtrack - kiyoshi yoshida
- fruits clipper - capsule
- s.f. sound furniture - capsule
- nail - yves
- vrioon - ryuichi sakamoto & alva noto
- transient - gaelle
- the box tree - skúli sverrisson & óskar guðjónsson
- goodnight shining - vidulgi ooyoo
- mercuric dance - haruomi hosono
- i love you because you're in love with the world - quiet light
- the red - red velvet
- ode to love - nct wish
- my april playlist

march

Read Watched Listened
books
- all that's left to you: a novella and short stories (wr. ghassan kanafani)
- women and gender in islam: historical roots of a modern debate (wr. leila ahmed)
- amrita (wr. banana yoshimoto)
- dubliners (wr. james joyce)


essays & articles
- talks at the yenan forum on literature and art
- umberto eco on the elusive concept of ugliness
- policing labour in empire: the modern origins of the kafala sponsorship system in the gulf arab states
- leaving the movie theatre
- rapture as resistance, notes of leaving the movie theatre
- the decay of cinema



manga
- mushishi gaitanshuu
- houmonsha (wr. moto hagio)
- a drunken dream & other stories (wr. moto hagio)
- ping pong (wr. taiyo matsumoto)
- boku wa mondai arimasen (wr. natsujikei miyazaki)
- yume kara sameta ano ko to wa kitto umaku shaberenai (wr. natsujikei miyazaki)
- tsuki wo mezasu, hoshi ni (wr. naka nakaoka)


- ping pong: the animation (dir. takehiro kubota et al.)
- om shanti om (dir. farah khan)
- serpent's path (dir. kiyoshi kurosawa)
- kaiba (dir. masaaki yuasa et al.)
- shiseikatsu - miki nakatani
- stratosphere - duster
- dog dreams - lucy liyou
- the perfect red velvet (repackage) - red velvet
- cover the windows and the walls - grouper
- 005.1999.06 (uhm junghwa)

february

Read Watched Listened
books
- the name of the rose (wr. umberto eco)
- the place of shells (wr. mai ishizawa)
- discourse on colonialism (wr. aimé césaire)


essays & articles
- casteist. communalist. racist. and now, a nobel laureate
- china in africa: a critical assessment
- thoughts about “a maoist response to china in africa” article
- our aesthetic categories: an interview with sianne ngai
- why i am an atheist
- domestic heteropessimism
- poets should be socialists


manga
- hanaizawa-chou kouminkan dayori (tomoko yamashita)
- illumination (tomoko yamashita)
- tatsumaki (tomoko yamashita)
- zetsubou ni nake (shinou ryo)
- omoide emanon (kenji tsuruta and shinji kajio)
- mata ashita aeru yo (yuco sojima)
- kotonoba drive (hitoshi ashinano)
- position (hitoshi ashinano)
- koi wo suru nara hirefushite (kon harumoto)
- aoi uroko to suna no machi (youko komori)
- sono saki no fuukei (kaoru fujiwara)
- fetish (kaoru fujiwara)
- kanpeki na machi (kiko urino)
- seoha (yakkuk)
- yumemiru seiza (sakae kusama)
- koori no jouheki (kocha agasawa)


- infernal affairs (dir. alan mak siu-fai & anderew lau wai-keung)
- no other choice (dir. park chanwook)
- distance (dir. hirokazu koreeda)
- an elephant sitting still (dir. hu bo)
- i love you... - oh yoko
- aero - vidulgi ooyoo
- montalvo [tru008] - colle
- pure hearts - quiet light
- here to stay - trpp
- happy - sugar plant
- 于是我们出发 - 出海部
- 渦になる - kinoko teikoku
- 静焔 - coo:ya
- 上弦の月 - coo:ya
- 少年の日 - coo:ya
- women of mongolian pop & trance
- silent hill but it's a 2000's alt rock album
- silent hill but it's a 2000's alt rock album vol 2
- my february playlist

january

Read Watched Listened
books
- yi sang: selected works (ed. don mee choi and trans. choi, jack jung, sawako nakayasu, and joyelle mcsweeney)
- a winter's promise (wr.christelle dabos)
- death and the dervish (wr. meša selimović)
- the myth of the holy cow (wr. d.n. jha)
- CONTENERE (wr. frenchie and el)


essays & articles
- caught by the tides - film review
- mandarin trip-hop: a field guide
- han kang nobel prize lecture
- the aliens have landed! reflections on the rhetoric of biological invasions
- romance & heteropessimism


manga
- ginsei no proust (emofuu)
- hyakki yakou shou (ima ichiko)
- gengetsurou kitan (ima ichiko)
- itoko doushi (ima ichiko)
- hensei (hayashi waka)
- aru oshiire atama otoko no hanashi (fuhito fujimiya)
- kani ni sasowarete (panpanya)
- makura uo (panpanya)
- yasashiku oshiete (ido gihou)
- water. (kiriko nananan)
- caught by the tides (dir. jia zhangke)
- a novelist's film (dir. hong sangsoo)
- chainsaw man – the movie: reze arc (dir. tatsuya yoshihara)
- ek din achanak (dir. mrinal sen)
- ikoku nikki [ep 1 - 2]
- fable — faye wong
- 너- lee junghyun
- what, me worry? - yukihiro takahashi
- delulu pack - kiikii
- shiawase ni kurasōne - kinoue64
- al jamilat - yasmine hamadan
- ice cream cake - red velvet
- anywhere - yawning portal
- belong - jay som
- adult romantix - winter
- the azure sun suite - .foundation
- still dreaming, still deafening - yuragi
- eureka - kinoko teikoku
- lush - mitski
- long goodbye - kinoko teikoku
- HEAL — pavel milyakov & lucas dupuy
- the book about my idle plot on a vague anxiety - toe
- mandarin trip-hop playlist
- eerie pop ballads from taiwan
- funk, beat and psych from taiwan
- my january playlist