This Week's Favorites List
Some great creative podcasts I listened to this week:
Everything Happens: Kate Bowler and Elizabeth Gilbert in conversation
The Autonomous Creative: Austin Kleon on your Creative System
Bullseye Podcast: this is old but good cartoonist Lynda Barry interview
Something I ate
Something I made
This Quilt Coat using the Nova Coat Pattern
The quilt I used was mass produced, probably from Kmart or something similar. I am afraid to cut up antique quilts. The quality wasn’t great but I’m really pleased with the way it turned out.
Something I watched
The Tragedy of Macbeth. I watched this because I thought I should. I haven’t read Shakespeare since highschool, and I had been thinking I want to experience Shakespeare just for cultural literacy. I have zero interest in reading it because it feels like too much and also it’s supposed to be experienced as a play. So I watch Denzel Washington as Macbeth, the first 10 minutes I was kind of confused trying to decifer all the language and what was going on but then I just settled in and went along for the ride. It was so good. I was shocked by how much I liked it. Five stars. I think I want to slowly make my way through this list of film adaptations of Shakespeare.
Something I Read
I get my books from the library, so I’m usually a year or so behind on whatever everyone else is reading. I just finished The Sea of Tranquility and enjoyed it. Time travel! Pandemics! Space Colonization! It had all the things.
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Emily St. John Mandel is one of my very favorite authors. I read a lot and am picky, and also very indecisive and highly critical, so I think that says something. I love that you mentioned her book.
Have you made a quilt? That’s seems like a thing you’d do.