Advised repair schedule: reboot startup disk, offline for thirty-six hours, and replace head

[sovay]

The trouble is that when I manage to get a day in which I do nothing except lie around and read and occasionally glance at the internet and go back to lying around reading—and now intermittently thinking about rewatching Hans Christian Andersen (1952)—I feel that I am wasting time. I am not writing poems. I am not writing stories. I am not writing movie reviews. I am not working my paying job. I am not looking for supplementary work, of which God knows I need some. The Protestant work ethic is killing this country as we speak and I'm not even Protestant and it has been a demonstrable fact for years that if I do not get time by myself, unplugged, unstructured, not interacting in any fashion including the internet, I go nuts. And yet I feel like I'm wasting my time. Time I can't afford. Time running out. Avoiding my way through the end of days. Title of this post determined by my current mood, not by what I'm watching.

Comments

[sovay]

ROCK! I have successfully merged on the information superhighway!

All taillights intact and no tickets!

I was sorting my ebooks last night and thought 'Hey, Sonya might possibly like this.'

I really appreciate the thought. And I'll keep an eye out for a copy in print.

Oh that's lovely.

Thank you.

[kore]

The other books also sound pretty amazing:

KINOfiles Filmmakers’ Companions
General Editor: Richard Taylor
Written for cineastes and students alike, and building on the achievements of the KINOfiles Film Companions, the KINOfiles Filmmakers’ Companions are readable, authoritative, illustrated companion handbooks to the most important and interesting people who have participated in Russian cinema from its beginnings to the present. Each KINOfile examines the career of one filmmaker, or group of filmmakers, in the context of both Russian and world cinema. KINOfiles also include studies of people who have been active in the cinemas of the other countries that once formed part of the Soviet Union, as well as of émigré filmmakers working in the Russian tradition.
KINOfiles form a part of KINO: The Russian Cinema Series.

Filmmakers’ Companions:
1 Nikita Mikhalkov, Birgit Beumers
2 Alexander Medvedkin, Emma Widdis
3 Dmitri Shostakovich, John Riley
4 Kira Muratova, Jane A.Taubman

Film Companions:
1 The Battleship Potemkin, Richard Taylor
2 The Man with the Movie Camera, Graham Roberts
3 Burnt by the Sun, Birgit Beumers
4 Repentance, Denise Youngblood and Josephine Woll
5 Bed and Sofa, Julian Graffy
6 Mirror, Natasha Synessios
7 The Cranes Are Flying, Josephine Woll
8 Little Vera, Frank Beardow
9 Ivan the Terrible, Joan Neuberger
10 The End of St. Petersburg, Vance Kepley,Jr.
11 Chapaev, Julian Graffy
12 Storm over Asia, Amy Sargeant


(see this is my downfall, I'm like 'Oh I could read this someday!' and get big piles. At least if it's free PDFs there's still room to walk in the house)

[sovay]

KINOfiles form a part of KINO: The Russian Cinema Series.

That is an amazing-looking series, like the BFI Guides for Russian cinema. I'd love to see the one about Tarkovsky's Mirror.

(see this is my downfall, I'm like 'Oh I could read this someday!' and get big piles. At least if it's free PDFs there's still room to walk in the house)

The primary furnishings of every apartment I have ever lived in have been books. I can live with this, but I still need more shelves.