My Week in Media: March 5
Everything I read, listened to, and watched
Reading
The White Priory Murders, by John Dickson Carr
Brain Camp, written by Susan Kim & Laurence Klavan, illustrated by Faith Erin Hicks
Fence, Volumes 1-4, written by C.S. Pacat, illustrated by Johanna the Mad
Watching
Demonia
Lucio Fulci, 1990
Vertigo (rewatch)
Alfred Hitchcock, 1958
The Psychic (also released as Seven Notes in Black)
Lucio Fulci, 1977
Dead & Buried (rewatch)
Gary Sherman, 1981
Inferno
Dario Argento, 1980
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Billy Wilder, 1970
So much Eyeball Stuff this week, good lord. Just when I tell myself I’m going to bang through all of the Hitchcock, Argento, and John Carpenter that I either haven’t seen or want to revisit… I start watching Lucio Fulci again. The Psychic/Seven Notes in Black was the biggest surprise—it was much more in the vein of a straight-up giallo than one of Fulci’s more gonzo gorefests, and we both absolutely loved it.
My fave Jimmy Stewart/Hitchcock movies in order: Rear Window, Rope, Vertigo, The Man Who Knew Too Much. I actively HATE The Man Who Knew Too Much, like, throw the ENTIRE thing down a well, please. Thumbs up to the 1934 version with Peter Lorre, though. And I know that a lot of folks will regard the Vertigo placement as blasphemy, but we like what we like, right?
Watching
Television: Doctor Who
Doctor Who and the Silurians, 1970
There is a hilarious amount of Business Talk—like, people running a nuclear facility who squabble about how to deal with power outages and later, aliens—in this one, but for me it was especially notable for how much they sexed up Liz Shaw between the previous story arc and this one. In her first appearance, she had a big Scientist Lady bun and a short-but-still-sort-of-professional outfit. In this one, she’s styled to look much… softer—her hair is down and she’s basically dressed like she’s going to go out dancing.
Still adorable! Just maybe not so practical.
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Listening
Art, Culture, and History
Pop Culture Happy Hour
ICYMI
Maintenance Phase
Podcast Playlist
All Songs Considered
You’re Wrong About
Into It
Listen to Sassy
Answer Me This
Books & Language
By the Book
A Way with Words
If Books Could Kill
TV/Movies
Again with This
This Had Oscar Buzz
Extra Hot Great
Audiodramas & Actual Play D&D
The Storage Papers
Sons & Sonsibility (a Dungeons & Daddies Regency spin-off)
News
And now to start this week’s list!
Hope you got some good reading, watching, listening, writing, crafting, whatevering in this week.
Talk soon,
Leila
