- Above: The Gift of Room Tone by Criterion. I love it when companies take ‘throwaway’ material like this and turn it onto something genuinely sweet and watchable.
- I spent New Year’s Day finishing How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee. A rather beautiful and sad way to end 2020/see in 2021.
- Now I’m on to Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry (the sequel to Lonesome Dove – how did I only just discover these books this year?).
- Also read over Christmas: 64 Reasons To Celebrate Paul McCartney. I don’t think Paul has always been my favourite but he most definitely has been for the past few years, and this just cemented my feelings.
- Related to the Criterion video: How The Vince Guaraldi Trio Tune “Linus & Lucy” Became an American Standard.
- And the most depressing thing I read all Christmas? Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine (it really really is you know).
- So some music to relax us into 2021 like a freshly made bed: a selection by the great Jeffrey Silverstein from his Felt Time radio show: