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Written by Diane Magras (she/her) on 2025-01-18 at 01:17

Just wanted to share a #film that I cannot stop thinking about: Wim Wenders's "Perfect Days," starring Koji Yakusho as a gentle man who spends his days cleaning Tokyo's public toilets, fostering tiny trees, and noticing small beauties. A gorgeous, poignant hug of a film. Here's the trailer: https://youtu.be/Iv8YO5BXCAQ?si=XZAbDaJKTzPya48a

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Written by Diane Magras (she/her) on 2025-01-18 at 01:15

Jesse Eisenberg's newest #film, A REAL PAIN, stars him and and Kieran Culkin as cousins who go on a Holocaust tour to honor their recently-deceased grandmother, a Holocaust survivor. It's a beautiful portrait of familial friendship and tensions with multiple layers of the title's meaning. I absolutely adored Eisenberg's character, though—a neurodivergent adult with a successful life and his own troubles, but still, a good life. I need to see more of that in films.

https://youtu.be/b2et8Vpu7Ls?si=eK28k_I2iyaAkggk

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Written by Diane Magras (she/her) on 2024-12-01 at 23:57

I absolutely love Caroline Shaw's compositions and how she combines brilliant ideas, sometime edgy ones, with gorgeous sounds. Here's a magnificent vocal and percussive piece (Shaw herself is performing too, the one in the striped shirt): Partita for 8 Voices, performed by Roomful of Teeth: https://youtu.be/NDVMtnaB28E

[#]ClassicalMusic #ModernMusic #Percussion #EdgyMusic

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Written by Diane Magras (she/her) on 2024-11-18 at 00:24

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

5 stars

I finally read this beautiful character-driven sci-fi about a species-diverse team that's hired to tunnel wormholes and is heading toward a big, dangerous job. On the journey, they become a close-knit family, even the most antisocial outsider among them. A deep, socially-conscious, and powerful portrait of strong relationships and so many big issues.

@bookstodon #Books #Bookstodon #AmReading #Reading #SciFi

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Written by Diane Magras (she/her) on 2024-09-05 at 01:31

Anyone looking for a short, super cozy, quiet, and beautifully nature-based sci-fi/fantasy should check out A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. A tea monk and a robot wander off the normal paths into woods and more to travel to a hermitage in ruins—and talk about how much one needs to exist, and whether just existing is enough (among other things). I just got around to reading it and am so glad I did. @bookstodon #books #BooksWorthReading

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Written by Diane Magras (she/her) on 2024-09-02 at 02:03

Some wonderful person on @bookstodon suggested The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells to someone, and I bought the four books for my 17yo—who loved them. It's taken me a while to get to them, but I just finished reading all four. What an incredible, powerful, delightfully fast-paced, engaging story. We socially-awkward introverts also adore seeing that in Murderbot. It's enormously fulfilling to have a powerful hero be like us in that way. So many thanks to whoever mentioned these books!

[#]Books

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