My Bookless Mountain Cave
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Virginia Woolf, Don Delillo, Henry James, Isaac Babel, Flannery O’Connor, D. H. Lawrence etc.
100 pages of The Idiot left. 20 pages in on Infinite Jest (30 anniversary book clubs await!). I know DFW was. Big Dostoyevsky guy. Questions of who’s fully human, who’s sub (per mental illness) or super human (per beauty or talent) might be in both?
February 8, 2026 at 3:09 PM
100 pages of The Idiot left. 20 pages in on Infinite Jest (30 anniversary book clubs await!). I know DFW was. Big Dostoyevsky guy. Questions of who’s fully human, who’s sub (per mental illness) or super human (per beauty or talent) might be in both?
Listening and writing songs out by hand is better than scrolling an iPad with 1000 chord charts and lyrics for many reasons. One is getting the chance to hear something wrong, then finding out the right lyric later—then sometimes preferring the wrong slightly! #lyrics #booksky #gettingyourhandsdirty
January 19, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Listening and writing songs out by hand is better than scrolling an iPad with 1000 chord charts and lyrics for many reasons. One is getting the chance to hear something wrong, then finding out the right lyric later—then sometimes preferring the wrong slightly! #lyrics #booksky #gettingyourhandsdirty
Encountered in the park
January 15, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Encountered in the park
The Housemaid is a bad movie that feeds a meagerness in men and makes a mean estimation of the world. It’s ashamed of its mission which is to get a good look at Sidney Sweeney naked and conduct tasteful fully vetted and restrained torture porn. #joyless #movies #nojokes #companionisagoodtrashymovie
January 10, 2026 at 5:31 PM
The Housemaid is a bad movie that feeds a meagerness in men and makes a mean estimation of the world. It’s ashamed of its mission which is to get a good look at Sidney Sweeney naked and conduct tasteful fully vetted and restrained torture porn. #joyless #movies #nojokes #companionisagoodtrashymovie
“Least Shelved” and probably still my favorite book of all time. People need to get on the Isaac Babel train!! #booksky #literaturesky
January 1, 2026 at 12:53 AM
“Least Shelved” and probably still my favorite book of all time. People need to get on the Isaac Babel train!! #booksky #literaturesky
Having finished Turgenev’s Fathers and Children, to which Notes from Underground apparently is a direct response, I’m finally getting to my first major Dostoevsky. Here goes nothing :) #booksky
January 1, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Having finished Turgenev’s Fathers and Children, to which Notes from Underground apparently is a direct response, I’m finally getting to my first major Dostoevsky. Here goes nothing :) #booksky
December 24, 2025 at 2:36 AM
youtu.be/K_JzlJ9cTMk A one of one artistic vision, funny tender, sad, complex, and to top it off a drop dead gorgeous SINGER
Blue Driver
YouTube video by Michael Hurley - Topic
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
youtu.be/K_JzlJ9cTMk A one of one artistic vision, funny tender, sad, complex, and to top it off a drop dead gorgeous SINGER
Ranked order
3) No Country for Old Men - alone and baked out of my shoes. I thought I would die.
2) Hereditary - people screaming then laughing and clutching one another
1) Titanic - before anyone knew. Openly sobbing, throwing themselves into the aisles
3) No Country for Old Men - alone and baked out of my shoes. I thought I would die.
2) Hereditary - people screaming then laughing and clutching one another
1) Titanic - before anyone knew. Openly sobbing, throwing themselves into the aisles
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Ranked order
3) No Country for Old Men - alone and baked out of my shoes. I thought I would die.
2) Hereditary - people screaming then laughing and clutching one another
1) Titanic - before anyone knew. Openly sobbing, throwing themselves into the aisles
3) No Country for Old Men - alone and baked out of my shoes. I thought I would die.
2) Hereditary - people screaming then laughing and clutching one another
1) Titanic - before anyone knew. Openly sobbing, throwing themselves into the aisles
In flight watch JFK to Grand Cayman: The Accountant
Return flight…The Accountant II
@jessehawken.bsky.social inspired by 🙏
Return flight…The Accountant II
@jessehawken.bsky.social inspired by 🙏
December 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
In flight watch JFK to Grand Cayman: The Accountant
Return flight…The Accountant II
@jessehawken.bsky.social inspired by 🙏
Return flight…The Accountant II
@jessehawken.bsky.social inspired by 🙏
music.apple.com/us/album/ran... Something powerful, magical, mischievous, happens when this song is played and sung communally at a bluegrass jam, in a room full of “strangers”:
“I looked for my friends, but I never could find them. I found they were all rank strangers to me…”
“I looked for my friends, but I never could find them. I found they were all rank strangers to me…”
Rank Stranger by The Stanley Brothers on Apple Music
Song · 1962 · Duration 3:06
music.apple.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
music.apple.com/us/album/ran... Something powerful, magical, mischievous, happens when this song is played and sung communally at a bluegrass jam, in a room full of “strangers”:
“I looked for my friends, but I never could find them. I found they were all rank strangers to me…”
“I looked for my friends, but I never could find them. I found they were all rank strangers to me…”
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... one of the great podcast episodes of all time
Joy Williams: Honored Guest
Podcast Episode · Bookworm · 02/17/2005 · 30m
podcasts.apple.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... one of the great podcast episodes of all time
#Dylan Positively 4th St. is intentionally unlyrical, unpoetic, a wholly new concoction a singer could build an identity around.This alongside virtuosic displays like Its Allright Ma, and traditional reworkings—that could be hits today—like Moonshiner. The range is staggering
November 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
#Dylan Positively 4th St. is intentionally unlyrical, unpoetic, a wholly new concoction a singer could build an identity around.This alongside virtuosic displays like Its Allright Ma, and traditional reworkings—that could be hits today—like Moonshiner. The range is staggering
One a day Rilke. Symmetry here? Rage being taken in…core of cores…
November 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
One a day Rilke. Symmetry here? Rage being taken in…core of cores…
Two curbside finds! One a portal to Joy Williams and the other is Hamlet, with wonderful introduction and essays. Both smell amazing. #booksky
November 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Two curbside finds! One a portal to Joy Williams and the other is Hamlet, with wonderful introduction and essays. Both smell amazing. #booksky
Rilke one poem a day. Going great so far. I think my fav so far is this one about a tomb. Not the only corpse handling by a long shot in his work. #booksky
November 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Rilke one poem a day. Going great so far. I think my fav so far is this one about a tomb. Not the only corpse handling by a long shot in his work. #booksky
Can’t stop listening to this. It’s a perfect pop song melody. The chord progression rules
November 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Can’t stop listening to this. It’s a perfect pop song melody. The chord progression rules
months ago I began yoga. Prompted by a health scare, that’s has passed, and mild arthritis that hasn’t, I signed up for classes. The initial weeks coincided with my reading Moby Dick, and one complimented the other. Omnidirectional visions of Whale, parts and whole. Inversions, transpositions etc.
November 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
months ago I began yoga. Prompted by a health scare, that’s has passed, and mild arthritis that hasn’t, I signed up for classes. The initial weeks coincided with my reading Moby Dick, and one complimented the other. Omnidirectional visions of Whale, parts and whole. Inversions, transpositions etc.
#literarychainreaction #booksky
From Marshall Berman All that is Solid Melts into Air, with a gorgeous chapter on Gogol and modernity, I must read Dead Souls. From Dead Souls, keep the flame alive, I must read a Gogol bio. Turns out Nobokov wrote one of the most freewheeling lit bios ever…
From Marshall Berman All that is Solid Melts into Air, with a gorgeous chapter on Gogol and modernity, I must read Dead Souls. From Dead Souls, keep the flame alive, I must read a Gogol bio. Turns out Nobokov wrote one of the most freewheeling lit bios ever…
November 6, 2025 at 1:13 AM
#literarychainreaction #booksky
From Marshall Berman All that is Solid Melts into Air, with a gorgeous chapter on Gogol and modernity, I must read Dead Souls. From Dead Souls, keep the flame alive, I must read a Gogol bio. Turns out Nobokov wrote one of the most freewheeling lit bios ever…
From Marshall Berman All that is Solid Melts into Air, with a gorgeous chapter on Gogol and modernity, I must read Dead Souls. From Dead Souls, keep the flame alive, I must read a Gogol bio. Turns out Nobokov wrote one of the most freewheeling lit bios ever…
Currently reading. Currently rereading. Both concerning countries struggling to be born or whatever. There’s a nihilist in one. #booksky
November 2, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Currently reading. Currently rereading. Both concerning countries struggling to be born or whatever. There’s a nihilist in one. #booksky