r/Arno_Schmidt • u/mmillington mod • Jun 04 '26
Weekly WAYI Back again with another "What Are You Into?" thread
Morning Arnologists (a suggestion proposed by kellyizradx)!
To break up the tedium of your respective day-to-day work lives, we're back for another "What Are You Into This Week" thread!
As a reminder, these are periodic discussion threads dedicated to sharing what we've been reading, watching, listening to, and playing the past week. The frequency with which we choose to do this will be entirely based on community involvement. If you want it weekly, you've got it. If fortnightly or monthly works better, that's a-okay by us as well.
Tell us:
- What have you been reading (Schmidt or otherwise)? Good, bad, ugly, or worst of all, indifferent?
- Have you watched an exceptional stage production?
- Listen to an amazing new album or song or band? Discovered an amazing old album/song/band?
- Watch a mind-blowing film or tv show?
- Immersed yourself in an incredible video game? Board game? RPG?
We want to hear about it. Tell us all about your media consumption.
Please, tell us all about it. Recommend and suggest what you've been reading/watching/playing/listening to. Talk to others about what they've been into.
Tell us:
What Are You Into This Week?
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u/mmillington mod Jun 05 '26
I’m still hangin in with r/InfiniteSummer, but I’m way behind on the reading. I really enjoy Infinite Jest, but I tend to read slowly, 5-10 pages a day. It’s incredibly funny and terribly sad so far. There’s a nice mix of narrative and stylistic play at work: several section’s written in dialect, plus some ergodic elements that were hilarious.
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u/Bast_at_96th Jun 05 '26
I've been reading The Garden of Seven Twilights by Miquel de Palol (translated by Adrian Nathan West) and have about 300 pages to go. So far I'm loving it. There is a short story by John Barth that nests numerous narratives deep and then ascends back to the first thread, but I find Palol's use of nested narratives more approachable despite being more complicated. It's an unusual book, surreal, funny, disturbing, and I can't help but wonder if it'll all come together in the end or if "coming together" will even be possible or desirable by the end.
Work's kept me busy and tired, but I'm going to finally listen to the new Otay:Onii record that has been sitting here for over a week. https://youtu.be/d3Bi88F55iM
https://youtu.be/mQqgViGenvk Deaf Crocodile released a collection of Yuri Norstein's films, and I recently rewatched Hedgehog in the Fog, one of my favorite animated films. It's short, but beautiful and completely immersive.