What are we reading, listening to (music or books) or watching

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I thought I’d start a new thread as I have apparently dropped the ball in recent months - new job new country

Reading; I am reading an excellent book called The Recruit (alan drew) and its actually very good so far - thriller, white supremecists, neo nazis and a couple of murders to kick things off and it is quite entertaining.

Listening to Jonathan Kellerman The Museum of Desire - this is excellent as always.

I am trying to finish Make it Stick about learning, it was going quite well but travel has got in the way.

Music wise a lot of pearl jam, foo fighters and oasis are currently on the rotation interspersed with Paul Simon (S&G), Noah Kahan and Charles Wesley Godwin

Watching - Black Spot (Zone Blanche) on Netflix - its ok - slightly weird, not great but not terrible enough to stop.

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Just finished Dept Q on Netflix. Really good and added the next couple of books in the series to Libby. It’s a danish crime series that was moved to Scotland for the show.

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Two work colleagues put me onto this (Dept Q) on Friday. It’s great viewing. Up to episode 4.

Sounds like a single season which is a shame. But having said that, most of the really enjoyable series are short and leave you wanting more.

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Just finished Laughing out Loud UK. Fun reality show where they lock ten comics in a room for six hours and the winner is the last one to laugh. My partner and I were crying laughing several times. There are several English language versions including Ireland, Canada and South Africa. The Canadian one is pretty funny as well. Tom Greene, who I have never found to be funny, cracked me up several times.

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I read somewhere that they are going to renew it. There are numerous books in the series, so they should have material.

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My reading and listening are going hand in hand right now… I’m currently wrapping up “Lollapalooza”, which is basically just a bunch of snippets from interviews and other first hand accounts from the bands, roadies, managers, etc… It’s an easy read and pretty entertaining. Did anyone else forget that Metallica was the headliner in 1996? While reading, I was listening to all the bands that were on the bill for that year.

I’m also on the first couple of pages of “Tearing Down the Orange Curtain” about the Orange County, CA punk rock scene… so I’m guessing I’m going to be listening to a lot of Social Distortion, Adolescents and No Doubt. I started with some T.S.O.L. yesterday…

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I’ve seen a lot of buzz around this new release

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Its-Only-Drowning/David-Litt/9781668035351

From Brendan “Semi-Rad” Leonard

I don’t surf, but I loved William Finnegan’s Pulitzer-winning surfing memoir, Barbarian Days, which I think will be a far different book than David Litt’s new memoir about learning to surf as an adult, It’s Only Drowning. I mean, when your book has blurbs by Laird Hamilton, Judd Apatow, and the former U.S. Treasury Secretary, it probably comes from a unique perspective.

(I wanted to post this in the “Surfing” thread, but I’m already at my “3 posts in a row” maximum limit on that one, so …)

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I have this on my “want to read” list. That’s if I ever have time to read again.

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Just read Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks. Great memoir about sudden loss of a spouse.

And still have new Garbage LP on repeat. The last track (The Day That I Met God) is hypnotic.

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I’m only a few pages in and I’ve already come across this gem

“Learning to surf is like learning a language that wants to kill you”

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Reading, SG Maclean, The Bookseller of Inverness
historical thriller/murder mystery set in the decades after Culloden.
I learned there were Scots slaves working the tobacco fields in Virginia…
Author is a historian, and niece of Alastair Maclean (Guns of Navarone etc).
Also the Isabel Dalhousie series, protagonist is a philosopher in Edinburgh, same author as the No 1. Ladies’ Detective Agency.

listening to Fairground Attraction, they just released a live album from Japan.
their single hit,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txapREGWHp0

watching - TDF of course :wink:

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Seconded. Watching Le Tour. Also Foundation season 3. Just finished rewatching Masters Of The Air. Again.

Reading Surely You Are Joking Mr Feynman. :rofl: He’s an interesting person and funny as fell, for a scientist.

Trying to read James Joyce’s Ulysses. The book is FILLED with early 1900s Irish references. Like when Peter on Family Guy says this balloon is higher than Alyssa Milano and then the scene cuts to Alyssa Milano threatening to sue. That. But old and Irish. I’m so lost.