Summer Log (June-September), film and music.

[this will be updated throughout September]

films seen [theatrical/festival viewings only]:

06/04 - Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960) [Film Forum]

06/12 - Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (Ricki Stern & Anne Sundberg) [IFC Center]
06/18 - The Killer Inside Me (Michael Winterbottom) [IFC Center]

06/28 - Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich) [Clearview Caldwell Cinema 4]

07/06 - Cyrus (Jay & Mark Duplass) [Clearview Claridge Cinemas]

07/13 - Winter's Bone (Debra Granik) [Clearview Claridge Cinemas]

07/16 - A Serbian Film (Srdjan Spasojevic) [Concordia University/Montreal, QC Canada- part of the Fantasia Film Festival ]

07/17 - Eve's Necklace (Daniel Erickson, 2009) [Concordia University/Montreal, QC Canada - part of the Fantasia Film Festival]

07/20 - Inception (Christopher Nolan) [Clearview Bellevue Cinema 4]

07/27 - The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko) [Clearview Claridge Cinemas]

08/11 - Enter the Void (Gaspar Noé, 2009, director's cut) [Walter Reade Theatre - Film Society of Lincoln Center]

09/07 - The American (Anton Corbijn) [Clearview Bellevue Cinema 4]

albums bought:

06/08 - Subiza (Delorean)

06/22 - How I Got Over (The Roots)

07/06 - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (Big Boi)

07/27 - Mines (Menomena)

novels read [first time reading indicated by an asterisk]:

*Juneteenth (Ralph Ellison)

*The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)

The City and the Pillar (Gore Vidal)

*Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)

*The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Milan Kundera)

shows attended:

06/19 - The Morning Benders with Freelance Whales and Wild Nothing at Governor's Island

07/03 - Portugal. The Man with Alberta Cross and Hopewell at Governor's Island

07/22 - The Antlers with Dinosaur Feathers at Pier 54 on Hudson River Park

07/30 - Avi Buffalo with Chad VanGaalen at South Street Seaport

08/15 - Neon Indian, Prefuse 73, Nite Jewel, DOM, and Miniature Tigers at Governor's Island