2023 in Review

Books I Read - Completed

• never let me go - kazuo ishiguro

• the novelist - jordan castro

• true style - bruce boyer

• the correct sadist - terence sellers

• the jaguar smile - salman rushdie

• please kill me - legs mcneil & gillian mccain

• tender is the flesh - agustina bazterrica

• limitless - jeanna smialek

• the colonization of time - giordano nanni

• surf is where you find it - gerry lopez

• a concise history of premodern korea - michael j. seth

Books I Read - Didn't Complete

• decision to leave (screenplay, in korean) - park chan-wook

• godel escher bach: an eternal golden braid - douglas hofstadter

• actual air - david berman

• trust - hernan diaz (halfway, got bored)

• empty words - mario levrero

• statistical rethinking - richard mcelreath

• status & culture - david marx

• central banking 101 - joseph wang

Movies I Watched

• the incantation

• leave my girl alone (didn't finish)

• betty boop snow white

• touch of sin

• the menu (tv)

• step into liquid (tv)

• goryeojang

• the war room (tv)

• in the mood for love (rewatch)

• joyland (argin’s bday too)

• how to blow up a pipeline

• major league

• belly (tv)

• days of being wild

• andy irons: kissed by god (tv)

• kids (larry clark) (tv)

• revolution+1 - masao adachi

• martin margiela - in his own words (tv)

• barbie

• oppenheimer

• joint security area (tv)

• raising arizona

• oldboy (rewatch)

• wandering earth (flight)

• shylock's children (flight)

• millenium mambo (tv)

• empire of dust

• death by hanging - oshima

• asteroid city (flight)

• 다음 소희 (flight)

• godzilla minus one

• at eternity’s gate (saw julian schnabel + willem defoe speak after)

Places I Traveled

• NYC

• LA

• Managua, Nicaragua

• Seoul / Jeonju, Korea

• Taipei, Taiwan

• Tokyo / Hokkaido, Japan

• Madrid / Leon / Asturias, Spain

• San Diego, USA

• Austin, USA (work)

• Denver, USA (work)