 My favorite diaries:
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bengliang profile - diary |
| comments: everybody needs toothpaste |
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alfian profile - diary |
| comments: a writer abridged |
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rubypan profile - diary |
| comments: someone who gives me epiphanies for my birthday |
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cityofrain profile - diary |
| comments: it might be sooner than you think. good stuff. |
My favorite music: |
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Belle and Sebastian |
| comments: If You're Feeling Sinister is my favourite album of all time!! but i love all their songs to bits |
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Carrington |
| comments: play this if you want me to cry |
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Wilco |
| comments: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is poetry |
My favorite movies: |
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Kandahar |
| comments: dir mohsen makhmalbaf. the burqas - columns of colour gliding across the desert in a wedding party. you don't know which voice belongs to which colour. 2 prosthetic legs parachuting down in a cloudless sky. |
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La Fille Sur Le Pont |
| comments: magical b&w fairytale about a girl and a knifethrower. lovely soundtrack too. |
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What Time Is It There |
| comments: dir tsai ming-liang. still-lifes. alone in rooms. lonely traveller. |
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This House Is Black |
| comments: dir forugh farrokhzad, iranian feminist poet-filmmaker, leper's colony with skincrusts and girls combing their hair. marvellous. |
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Big Mac Small World |
| comments: dir don't know. i still think about it 3 months after i watched it. a fascinating study of the worst and most consistent food in the history of cuisine. |
My favorite authors: |
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Milan Kundera |
| comments: don't die without reading unbearable lightness of being and the art of the novel |
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Anne Carson |
| comments: canadian poet genius. read 'plainwater', 'men in the off hours' and 'beauty of the husband' |
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Claire Tham |
| comments: my favourite singaporean prose writer. 'saving the rainforest' is one of the short stories i always go back to. |
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Adrienne Rich |
| comments: rewrites the atlas of a difficult world. you read hers with a microscope. |
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Gwendolyn MacEwen |
| comments: her poems 'the catalogues of memory' and 'languages (2)' are the kind i want to write |
