Things worth exploring

Life is vast and there is endless stuff to explore at all times. I use this page as a redirect site from my browser website blocker: whenever I try to load a webpage I consider a time sink, my browser drops me in here.

Art, Fiction and Fun

Music

  • Ali Farka Touré
  • Leonard Cohen
  • Radiohead: In Rainbows
  • Son House
  • Robert Johnson
  • Bach: Lute Suites
  • Korai Öröm

Literature

  • Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus
  • Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet

Movies

  • The Brutalist
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Sátántangó, The Turin Horse
  • Breathless (1961)
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • Citizen Kane
  • Casablanca
  • Pickpocket
  • Hannibal
  • Psycho
  • Alien
  • Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • Kill Bill, Vol. 1 & 2
  • Reservoir Dogs
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Snatch
  • The Big Lebowski

Photography

  • Susan Sontag: On Photography
  • John Berger: Ways of Seeing
  • Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Mind’s Eye

Poetry

  • Sándor Petőfi (Hungarian)

Nonfiction, Science and Engineering

Books

  • Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing Since Democritus

Papers

  • [Salsa] von Renesse, Christine, and Volker Ecke. “Mathematics and Salsa dancing.” Journal of Mathematics and the Arts 5, no. 1 (2011): 17-28.
  • [Musical Chords] Tymoczko, Dmitri. “The geometry of musical chords.” Science 313, no. 5783 (2006): 72-74.

Fun blogs and blogposts