The Speakeasy
after hours
“Tell me what you watch and I'll tell you who you are. Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you want to be. Tell me what you listen to and I'll tell you what you feel at 2 a.m.”
Cinema
Music
Books
Cinema
— the ones I return to
Les Misérables
Tom Hooper · revolution as grief in costume
When Life Gives You Tangerines
Kim Won-seok · time is the cruelest love language
Interstellar
Christopher Nolan · the math of missing someone
BoJack Horseman
Raphael Bob-Waksberg · the funniest thing about despair
Black Mirror
Charlie Brooker · every nightmare we built on purpose
Books
— the stack
Pilgrimage
Paulo Coelho · consciousness before it had a name
The Money Trap
Alok Sama · the system, undressed
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · the green light as a lifestyle choice
The Time Machine
H.G. Wells · class warfare, eventually
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë · love as a form of weather
Ideas I geek about
- Gravitational waves and black holes
- Trying to convince myself that financial markets are not a made-up thing
- Detailed analysis of If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
- Abstract art and the parts of it I don't understand
- How to escape Mumbai without escaping Mumbai