June texts

Well, I'm now at a more human 27 books a month (and really, one of those was a website archive, another was a long essay that formed a section of a book, one was a pamphlet and one was a picture book really, so that's 23 real books only).

Next month may be even fewer, since I'll be busy with World Interplay. :) Illiteracy, here I come.

Also, despite having read books from Italy, India, Ireland, Singapore, Nigeria, Japan, Egypt, Colombia and France/Cote D'Ivoire this month, it still feels like I've had an unhealthy focus on books from the USA. Have also realised I never read any books from Australia. Well, that will change.

*POETRY*
Tiruvalluvar's "The Kural"
+Mary Oliver's "The Leaf and the Cloud"
+“Selected Poems of William Carlos Williams” (ed. Robert Pinsky)
+Allen Ginsberg’s ”Kaddish and Other Poems”
Denise Levertov’s “Evening Train”

*FICTION*
Soseki Natsumi's "The 210th Day"
+Nancy Kress's "Beggars in Spain”
+Rabindranath Tagore’s “Two Sisters”
+Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Changing Planes”
+Don Delillo’s “Cosmopolis”
+Woody Allen’s “Complete Prose”

*DRAMA*
+Lenin El-Ramly's "In Plain Arabic"
Stella Kon's "Butterflies Don't Cry"
Wole Soyinka’s “The Jero Plays”
+J.M. Synge’s “The Playboy of the Western World”
+Martin Sherman's “Bent”

*NON-FICTION*
+Stanley Cavell's "The Avoidance of Love"
+Malcolm Gladwell's "The Tipping Point"
+Gabriel García Márquez's “The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor”
+Stewart Home's ”Mind Invaders: A Reader in Psychic Warfare, Cultural Sabotage and Semiotic Terrorism”

*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
Neill Strauss and Bernard Chang's "How to Make Money Like a Porn Star!"
+Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie’s “Aya”
+The online archives of the “New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest”
Inc. Cosmic Debris Etc's “Emily the Strange: Seeing is Deceiving”
Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli's “Creatures of the the Night”
+Igort's “5 Is the Perfect Number”

*UNCLASSIFIABLE PROSE*
+Theatreworks's “The Book of Longing”

*PERFORMANCES*
+Mark Chan's "Dreaming of Kuan Yin, Meeting Madonna"
+Shaun Parker's "Blue Love"
+Tang Fu Kuen's "Forward Moves"
+Checkpoint Theatre's "Cogito"
+Sylvie Guillem and the Akram Khan Company's "Sacred Monsters"
+Musical Theatre Ltd's "Georgette"
Raffles Junior College Theatre Studies Department's "Toys R Us", +"Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" and "Behind the Curtain"
The Finger Players's "Wong Kar Wai Dreams"
Cake Theatrical Productions’s “A Thousand Little Things”
Peter Sau and +Li Xie’s “Full Frontal”
Mabou Mines’s “DollHouse”
+People’s Association’s “Gentarasa 2007: Titisan Cacamerba”
Cho-In Theatre’s “The Train”

*FILMS*
Auraeus Solito's "The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros"
Kelvin Tong's "Men in White"
David Fincher's "Zodiac"
+George Sidney's "Annie Get Your Gun"
+“Experimental Films by Maya Deren”
Matthew Barney’s +”Cremaster 3”, “Cremaster 4”, “Cremaster 5” and “Drawing Restraint 9”
+Andrew Fleming's ”Nancy Drew”
+Mamoru Hosoda’s “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time”
+Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright’s “Hot Fuzz”

*EXHIBITIONS*
+Donna Ong's "Project Eden"
Genevieve Chua's "As Brutal As"
+Craig Walsh and Shaun Gladwell's "Streetworks: Inside Outside
Yokohama"
Venice Architecture Biennale Singapore Pavilion's "Singapore: Built and Unbuilt"
Lee Sik Khoon's "Bodies and Relationships"
+Simryn Gill and Tino Djumini's "Picturing Relations"
+NUS Museum's "Highlights of Southeast Asian Collection"
+Erica Lai, Genevieve Chua and Jennifer Koh’s “extra ordinary”
PKW’s “The 9th Emerging Artists’ Show”
+John Clang's "A White Book"