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Everest and the bfi

The Epic of Everest on Nowness.com

Visualizing occupation

Freedom of movement. 

Or rather, denial of freedom of movement. 

Other corkers include: Prisoners, water access, and protest.

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Barno

No fit state at all

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I'm in love with kate tempest. 

no dash for gas

This lot did some direct action in the name of climate crime.
EDF tried to sue them £5million.
Over 65,000 people singed a petition in opposition...
And No Dash for Gas won.

This video explains why they climbed up a power station and occupied it for a week.
If you want to know more, go here, here or here. 

the spirit level

I'm reading The spirit level: why equality is better for everyone, at the moment.

 I'm halfway through and it seems to be taking me forever. This is probably due to my reading a handful of other books at the same time (mainly novels) that always seem to win. And this trailer, to be honest, is a bit shit. But the ideas are really good, and I consistently find myself using examples from the book in everyday chat... especially around SUV's in urban areas (hate that shit). 

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Ali Smith

“She looked round the room at all the books on all the shelves. A closed book on a shelf sat there quietly, not saying anything.”

There but for the

land

books

A wee while ago I asked my friends which books I should read. They came back with an eclectic list - because obviously my friends read a lot of books and (hopefully) also have excellent taste. After whittling out all of the vague authors names-with-no-book-titles, and already-read gems, I now have myself a list. Initially I was going to conduct a Kinders Al Kinley inspired 2013 challenge for myself - but I just don't think I have his determination. (However he did contribute to this list - for which I am grateful). I have added one of my own which has been sat by my bed for many moons (Oh What a Carve Up) which was given to me by a good friend many many months ago. Sorry Jules. It is on a list now, so don't worry. 

I'm not going to make a foolish promise to read all of the books below. Come on. But I will use this is a go-to list. Expect reviews. short and sweet ones. Soon. (Hopefully).

So here you go. My to-reads. 

Margaret Atwood - oryx and crake

Paul Auster – Leviathan

Paul Auster - Mr Vertigo

Franco Berardi - The Soul at Work

Mikhil Bulgakov - Master and margarita

Camus - The Outsider

Camus - The Plague

Jonathan Coe – Oh What a Carve up.

Michael Cunningham - A Home at the end of the world

Jared Diamond - Collapse

Junot Diaz - Oscar Wao + Drown

Dickens - Great Expectations

Jim Dodge - Stone Junction

David Eagleman - Sum

Jeffery Eugenides - Middlesex

Fitzgerald – Gatsby

Robert Girardi - Madeleine's Ghost

Ursula Le Guin - The Dispossessed

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls

Frank Herbert - Dune series

Huxley - Brave New World

Jeroen Krabbe - The Discovery of Heaven

Primo Levi - If This is a Man

Marquez - The General In His Labyrinth

Marquez - 100 Years of Solitude

Last of the Savages - Jay McInernery

Czesław Miłosz - Captive Mind

Haruki Murakami - IQ 84

Alun Paton - Cry the Beloved Country

Mervyn Peake - Ghormenghast trilogy

Marge Piercy - Gone to Soldiers

Thomas Pynchon - Gravities Rainbow

Antione de Sant Exupery - The Little Prince

Salinger - Franny and Zoey

Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis

Rebecca Solnit - Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disasters

John Steinbeck - East of Eden

Scarlett Thomas - End of Mr Y

Stefan Zweig - Chess Story

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