Lockdown part. 4





jello (again) everybody my friends around the world,

I wish I had more time on my hands to get deeper into some subjects like I used to, but as a lot of you are very well aware, an 18month toddler and deep thinking are often incompatible... but it will come, I promise.

music:

I have to insist but I highly recommend you to tune on the forever beautiful playlist of my ex-restaurant l’ALFIERI.
50 hours of greaaaat music...
I keep on updating the list on a weekly basis.
an ever green you can always go back to!

a few albums that nowadays make me feel alive. 
they're not new, they're not hidden gems but they're soooo good!

podcast:

"Series examining the implications - social and cultural, economic and political - of the big ideas that are set to transform the way society functions"



book:

  • Baïkonour by Odile d'Oultremont (my sister's latest jewel :)

"Anka vit au bord du golfe de Gascogne, dans une petite ville de Bretagne offerte à la houle et aux rafales. Fascinée par l’océan, la jeune femme rêve depuis toujours de prendre le large. Jusqu’au jour où la mer lui ravit ce père qu’elle aimait tant : Vladimir, pêcheur aguerri et capitaine du Baïkonour.
Sur le chantier déployé un peu plus loin, Marcus est grutier. Depuis les hauteurs de sa cabine, à cinquante mètres du sol, il orchestre les travaux et observe, passionné, la vie qui se meut en contrebas. Chaque jour, il attend le passage d’une inconnue. Un matin, distrait par la contemplation de cette jeune femme, il chute depuis la flèche de sa grue et bascule dans le coma. Quelque part entre ciel et mer, les destins de ces deux êtres que tout oppose se croiseront-ils enfin ?"


article: 
"La crise sanitaire que nous vivons est différente de toutes celles que les générations précédentes ont pu connaître. Les convocations de la grande peste noire de 1348 ou de la grippe espagnole de 1918-1919 sont intéressantes en ce qu’elles nous permettent de repenser les conséquences des pandémies. Mais elles ne disent rien, pour autant, de la capacité de résilience d’une société dont l’économie est mondialement intégrée, et qui avait perdu presque toute mémoire du risque infectieux."


film:

"A big family that like any other one includes relatives that see each other often and others that rarely meet, reunite to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of grandma Alba and grandpa Pietro in a big Villa, on the island they moved to. Because of weather conditions they all remain stranded on the island and the idyll between them seems to be over." 




















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