media diary: november/december '24
Media Diary:
November/December 2024
Books
The Diary of Anais Nin Volume One: 1931-1934
The Venus Hottentot by Elizabeth Alexander
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Devotions by Mary Oliver
The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney
Didion & Babitz by Lili Anolik
Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass by Lana Del Rey
Fleabag by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (special edition of the one-woman show script)
The PowerBook by Jeannette Winterson
Geography III by Elizabeth Bishop
Poems
"Untitled" by James Baldwin
"Modern Declaration" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Want" by Joan Larkin
"We Alone" by Alice Walker - absolutely one of my favorite poems ever
"For What Binds Us" by Jane Hirshfield
"Tranqui" by Rosabetty Nunez, trans. by Claudia Nunez de Ibieta
"Walking to Work" by Frank O'Hara
"I have to tell you" by Dorothea Grossman
"I Wrote a Good Omelet" by Nikki Giovanni
"Spoiler" by Hala Alyan
"Laura, I Want You Pulling Your Hair Back" by Natalie Dunn
"Brutal" by Andrea Cohen (what's new; I fell in love with this poem in, like, 2019)
"Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" by W.B. Yeats
"May You Always Be the Darling of Fortune" by Jane Miller
"Shapes" by Ruth Stone
"Munich, Winter 1973 (for S.)" by James Baldwin
"The World Has Need of You" by Ellen Bass
"When Giving is All We Have" by Alberto Rio
"poem I wrote sitting across the table from you" by Kevin Verrone
Movies, TV, etc.
Wicked (2024)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Normal People (2020) rewatch
Fleabag (2019) rewatch
Visual Art, Essays, and Other Obsessions
Re-evaluating my relationship to perfectionism and academia...like, why do I feel so rushed? Why do rest and fallow creative periods feel wrong? Why does contentment make me afraid of writing?
Caring for other beings as a form of creation.
Living as poetry; life itself as writing.
What are my dreams for this next year?
Silver bangles and the sound they make.
Gel nails. Getting my nails shaped by the nail tech. I like seeing my nails all pointy and sharpened.
Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones.
Gratitude (or, at least, attempting it).
The sound my cat makes (it's this weird chirping, whirring noise unique to his cat breed, apparently).
Unfrosted sugar cookies with black coffee at odd hours of the day/night.
Sleeping in the middle of the bed instead of sleeping on one side or the other.
The fact that when your body identifies an area of weakness (a muscle, for instance, that is underdeveloped), it tenses up in order to "create support" - in reality, it just hurts.
Red ballet flats.
Picking up my holds at the Boston Public Library - the walk down, rummaging in my purse for my library card, finding the books on the holds shelf, the self-checkout ritual, putting my returns in the little return slot.
Albums and Playlists
I made this playlist called didion & babitz, which includes, I think, every song/album referenced in Lili's book.
I've unearthed my Dolly Parton playlist.
2 by Mac Demarco
Ultraviolence by Lana Del Rey
Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd by Lana Del Rey
Memoir of a Sparklemuffin by Suki Waterhouse
At the BBC by Amy Winehouse
The Alexander Technique by Rex Orange County
Beach House by Beach House
True Blue by Madonna
Black Oak Arkansas by Black Oak Arkansas
Strange Days by The Doors
Great Big Cow by Great Big Cow
In the Flat Field by Beach House
Alligator Bites Never Heal by Doechii
See u next year!
xoxo,
Meg
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