mid-June preoccupations

here’s a listicle of things I’m thinking about:

• Robert Alter’s translations of Genesis and Job

  • see: parataxis

• Geographic Information Systems

• String instruments

• Sharks

  • Shark movies, shark horror movies, Jaws (1975), Shark Week, shark stereotypes, bull sharks, Shark Smile by Big Thief

• Sharp Objects (2018) miniseries

  • Amy Adams and awards

• Music

  • Addison (2025) by Addison Rae

  • Incomprehensible, Shark Smile, Blue Lightning, Certainty - Big Thief

  • Bovine Excision, Dare, Lizard - Samia

  • Money Trees - Kendrick Lamar

  • Γ. Mosaïque solitaire - Damso

  • YeEun Kim’s interpretation and performance of Chopin’s posthumous Nocturne in C# Minor (Op. 20)

• Types of hiking