My Week In Media
Middledigit tagged me to take part in the ‘week in media’ meme, so here we go:
What I’ve read
I was mostly in Iceland the week of 07/08 so I actually managed to read a few old-school paper books rather then newspapers and blogs and shit. At the airport I picked up ‘Leadership and self-deception - getting out of the box
And I started reading ‘Drie oorlogen’ (which translates as Three wars) by Dutch historian Maarten van Rossum. Great book. Interesting Fact: A few U-Boats more and Nazi Germany might have won. Then there was Iceland Review - a nice glossy on everything Iceland that we found in our hotel room. Oh, and the Mountaintaxi excursion booklet of course. On the way back my girlfriend picked up a free newspaper, ‘De Pers‘, at the airport and found a little article on some work Kong just did. Nice.
What I’ve watched
Zodiac, by David Fincher (on-demand through UPC). Not nearly as good as Se7en, but a fun watch. I don’t really watch TV anymore but Crocodile Hunter on Animal Planet (which I had not seen before) kept me occupied for quite a few hours while in our hotel. Oh what a beauty. Oh what a pearl. I’ve also watched myself reach level 35 in Call of Duty 4 online and seen myself lose a lot playing Sensible World of Soccer on XBLA. I’ve also watched ice. Lots of ice, geysers, ice, more geysers, mountains, moon-like landscapes and ice.
What I’ve listened to
Icelandic people talking Icelandic. I downloaded a load of podcasts to listen to while airborne but the output signal of my ipod nano was too low to match the sound pollution inside a Boeing. So the BBC History podcasts didn’t reach my ears. It meant I had to play some strong stuff, like The Editors, Be[i]kon and the new Radiohead album (which I love).
In my car I seem to exclusively listen to Radio 1 these days (in Holland Radio 1 is national talk radio) and at work it’s usually Soma FM (both Illinois Street Lounge and Groove Salad) and ofcourse Dj Sow The Ungooglable. I’ve also played/listened a little Reason 4. But only just a little bit. For now.
Next on I’d like to tag Sean, Dom, Rubbishcorp and 0++0.
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nicely done. v jealous of your Iceland trip.
I forgot to mention that I check newssites (like nu.nl and news.bbc.co.uk) on my berry throughout the day. But that feels so logical it didn’t even cross my mind to scribble it down.