JUNE 2020 FINDS
june 2020 finds is very late. i hope you don’t mind that though. BOOKS 1. eat your greens is a 800-recipe gestalten book meant to help you include more vegetables into your diet. i love it! i see myself consulting it a lot in the future. 2. i’ve read a dictionary of quotations i had...
MAY 2020 FINDS
may 2020 finds is here. the cover photo is celebrating a year of porto. BOOKS 1. i finished swing time by zadie smith. i loved it! she found a very subtle way to talk about race in an engaging way. i really liked it. 2. i read comeback: a k-pop novel by lyn ashwood and...
APRIL 2020 FINDS
april 2020 finds is in time. because i had plenty of time, right? once again, the cover photo is pre-corona. 1.i finished the abysmal kids are not ok by ionut chiva. the story line was not credible and it got lost in a myriad of meaningless details. i didn’t think it was possible to use...
MARCH 2020 FINDS
march 202 finds is not necessarily a longer list than usual. that’s because my life was just as reclusive before corona came about. i hope everyone is ok, wherever you are. (the pic below is from last summer) 1.i have recently bought and read a novela grafica, sabrina by nick drnaso. it was the first...
FEBRUARY 2020 FINDS
february 2020 finds is here! 1.i’ll start with the berlin stuff. i spent one week there. it was kinda cold and the city seems a huge construction site. but i did have 3 sunny days. storm sabine/ciara seemed to be a huge problem, but we ultimately avoided it. 2. i went to the museum für fotografie,...
DECEMBER 2019 FINDS
december 2019 finds comes very late because i was in tokyo for the winter holidays. and i’ve been slowly getting over the jet-lag. 1.i’ll start by saying that i’ve been writing a novel. by now, i have a 450-page draft i will edit until it becomes what i need it to be. i’d be happy...
NOVEMBER 2019 FINDS
november 2019 finds is late. because i was away. in madeira. 1.i started the month with mucho flow. it’s a two day festival in the neighboring town of guimaraes. i got tickets as soon as iceage announced they were coming. the two days proved full of artists interesting beyond expectations. 2. i discovered franco marco there....
OCTOBER 2019 FINDS
october 2019 finds is probably the longest list ever. 1.the tiger lillies came to portugal during their 30 year anniversary tour. we couldn’t miss the date. so we drove to agueda to get our fix. 2. the venue of the concert was caa. we came early, to see their exhibitions. very nice, modern space. 3....
SEPTEMBER 2019 FINDS
september 2019 finds is here! the cover photo is a xavier velhan sculpture from the roof of maat in lisbon. 1. first, we went to guimaraes. we tried to do things we haven’t done the first time we were there, 7 years ago. so we went up the hill and visited 2 museums. View this...
AUGUST 2019 FINDS
august 2019 finds comes a little late. 1.this was it. i’ve said goodbye to both bucharest and valencia and i am now full time in porto since the end of the july. View this post on Instagram The chapel . . . #parquedaquintadocondedasdevesas #gaia #vilanovadegaia #porto #oporto #portugal #nofilter A post shared by little aesthete...
JULY 2019 FINDS
july 2019 finds is a little late. july was another busy month so spare time was scarce. 1.the dead never die by jim jarmusch. didn’t like it all that much. the highlight would be the famous cast. it’s an airplane film: see it, then forget about it. 2. i watched the second season of she’s...
JUNE 2019 FINDS
june 2019 finds is here! it was a weird month. i was away from home for most of it. 1.always be my maybe features ali wong and keanu reeves. it’s an airplane movie, you watch it and then forget it. 2. i watched the first series of teyana and iman. you may know her from...
