Friday Fixations

What I'm into right now

Happy Friday, my fellow suffering beings. Each week, I share two things I’m digging right now (books, TV shows, movies, music, and the like) plus one online video of nearly zero cultural merit.

• The Bikeriders. Two caveats here: First, I consumed this movie on a plane where I had taken some klonopin to fend off claustrophobia, so I might’ve been slightly dazed in the watching. Second, I’m not here to make some table pounding, full-throated recommendation of this thing—to me, it didn’t quite feel like a full meal. That said, it's a cool milieu: biker gangs in midcentury America. Also, the performances were riveting. Specifically, Austin Butler and Tom Hardy.

  

• Into the Fire, on Netflix. Soapy and overwrought, but also a compelling and well-spun yarn. I’m a sucker for a good mystery—and this one involves rage, anger, denial, mental illness, and the power of a mother’s intuition.

• Is this CGI? I can’t imagine our cats submitting to this.

One last thing…

I have a couple of public events coming up: 

1. I will be doing a thing at Troutbeck, a lovely hotel in the Hudson Valley. I’ll guide a meditation and then take questions. November 24th. You can get tickets here. 

2. On December 9th, I’ll be doing a live Meditation Party in NYC with Sebene Selassie and Jeff Warren. It’s a benefit for the New York Insight Meditation Center. Tickets available here.  

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