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  1. Imagine being a billionaire who bent the knee at the first sign of aggression from Trump and watching that press conference. D y i n g
  2. Unreal lmao
  3. This is def his breakout year. I don't think I've heard a bad or poorly written song from him. Whole catalogue of socially conscious folk bangers.
  4. Jesse Welles has been killing it for a couple of years now. Guy is an incredibly talented musician/singer/songwriter
  5. She's young; give her time
  6. You'd think the business leaders of America would have something to say about government statistics disappearing
  7. One positive about listening to books over reading them is that you can listen to Morning Glory Milking Farm while out and about and no one can call you a pervert
  8. I was an English major at one time and ended up with a degree in linguistics (not that I ever did anything with it lmao). I find the enjoyment of reading Nabokov myself versus listening to Jeremy Irons read Nabokov to me to both be beautiful and fulfilling ways to consume Nabokov's work. They are just different, and ultimately they enhance each other. Maybe my internal narrator just sucks. 😕
  9. I guess my question (and probably the source of my apparent insecurity about the concept) is this then: what actually makes it different? What am I losing or missing out on by listening to a novel instead of reading it? I've done both. I've been incredibly touched by both. What is the point of it being a "hill to die on" to quote our conversation stater, if not to striate media consumption? (Yes I know he's not being entirely serious there)
  10. The BBC series of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is also quite good, but not up to the novel's standards imo Fair enough. $4 on Amazon
  11. I don't believe I implied that, but there's for sure a tint of smugness around the argument. Barely was released in the States. The ending, as I'm sure you remember it from the book, is not one that American movie audiences usually tend to flock to. Ben Whishaw is Grenouille. Dustin Hoffman is Baldini (probably the weakest performance of the movie but it's not bad or anything). Alan Rickman and Rachel Hurd-Wood round out the principal cast as the father/daughter duo. Tom Tykwer directed it and it's hypnotic to watch.
  12. Actually, the movie of Perfume is fucking great and really underrated/under seen.
  13. Absolutely agree about either one being better than neither! And I definitely won't argue that you can get different things out of the same book by reading versus listening. I just don't think one is inherently better than the other. It's all contextual.
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