running, reading, nonsense.
This epic spaghetti-western, directed by Sergio Leone, and featuring a star-making turn from legendary actor/director Clint Eastwood, is next up on my Classically Lacking list. As always, the idea is to decide whether a so-called-classic is still worth our time in 2019.
I've tried, several times, to read on my phone, but these screen-reading experiences have always been painful. Now, finally, I've broken my duck.
Pride and Prejudice is about gender norms in 19th century society. It is about the supposed duty of marriage. It is about injustice, imbalance, and inequality. But how qualified am I to talk about that? All I want is to express that in 2019, Pride and Prejudice is worth turning back to, because it is still funny.
A few words on Assassins Creed Odyssey doesn’t seem fair considering that it is one big mother of a game, but here we go.
Published in 1965, Dune manages to remain futuristic in it's vision today. It is no surprise that another film adaptation is on its way.
Out Run is not just an old SEGA game. It is an aesthetic sensibility, characterised by a popular subreddit which celebrates 80’s revivalist art. But yes, it is also an old SEGA game, and it has just been ported to the Nintendo Switch as part of the SEGA AGES series.
On Classically Lacking I will fill up and refresh the gaps in my classic repertoire. On a rotational basis I intend to tackle a classic a week: one game, one book, one film, repeat.
One of the marvels of writing is that so much can be done with so little, and Raymond Carver is a master of that.
This is a blog where I write words on some things. These things will, mostly, be books and games, but I make no promises. It will function as a chronicle of the media I consume, and as a scratch pad for ideas about them. At the end of the day I'm just trying to write… Continue reading Welcome.
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