Lawless (2012)

Amazing film about a family - the Bondurants - defying law and all when brewing and selling moonshine all over the Franklin county and beyond. Harsh, in your face, an amazing soundtrack, and a cool story.

Good acting. Good writing, most of all.

Beck & Warby Parker presents "Song Reader"

Score album by Beck, sung by various people.

• Heaven's Ladder: definitely should listen to this one again
• The Last Polka
• Old Shanghai
• Why Did You Make Me Care
• Americ Here's My Boy
• We All Wear Cloaks - must be Jack Black, very theatrical
• Do We We Do - folk

Valeria Luiselli - "Sidewalks"

"If there is an infinite aspect to space," writes Joseph Brodsky, "it is not its expansion, but its reduction. If only because the reduction of space, oddly enough, is always more coheren. It's better structured and has more names: a cell, a closet, a grave." 

The outcome of a long-awaited first meeting is often disappointing. The same is true of an encounter with a dead person, except that there's no need to hide the disappointment: in that sense, a dead person is always more agreeable than a living one."

It is a thin, amazing book of essays. Very well suited when travelling or walking through a city, even one so familiar. Do not read it fast. Take your time. Stare out of the window. Read a few more sentences. Read them again, your thoughts wandered the last six words or so. I don't agree with every observation she makes, but most are breath taking.

the Grand Budapest Hotel

As per usual, a wonderful tale by Wes Anderson. Slapstick humour - in the best way - and fairytale visuals with a light, dancing story.

Watching his films makes me want to write. Nothing deep, nothing dark, simply butterfly feet and raindrop moments.

Inspired by the writings of Stefan Zweig. Will have to look him up.