David Allen ❄️

Korean-language concert poster for Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2 performed by the Korean National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Olari Elts with violinist Park Su-ye, at the Seoul Arts Center Concert Hall on March 7, 2026.

Saturday afternoon plans. My first time seeing the KNSO

Everything you need to know about the International Booker Prize 2026 longlist | The Booker Prizes From witchcraft to warfare, trauma to transformation, resilience to cruelty, this year’s longlist shines a light on a vast range of experiences

Congratulations to @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social for making the Booker International Longlist

Cover of the recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations played by Yunchan Lim.

Yunchan Lim's recording of the Goldberg Variations completely blew me away

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Me logging on to bs for the first time today

Quokka, a small macropod, foraging in the sand dunes, Wadjemup (Rottnest Island), Western Australia.

Burnt orange and gold grevillea flower against long green pointy leaves

Grevillea flower
#SmallJoys

Robert Duvall, Apocalypse Now and Godfather star, dies aged 95 From the classic To Kill a Mockingbird to blockbuster Gone in 60 Seconds, the Oscar-winning actor’s films spanned a remarkable range

RIP to the great Robert Duvall

Cover of “The Melancholy of Resistance” by László Krasznahorkai, featuring a dark background with gold circular and crescent motifs and text noting the author as a winner of the International Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025.

I have a couple of hours to kill until my movie so I grabbed a new book to read

Program booklet for “Venezia a Seoul,” featuring a misty forest cover design with a small silhouetted figure among trees and text referencing the 82nd Venice International Film Festival and Biennale di Venezia.

Open page of the Venezia a Seoul program booklet showing a congratulatory message in Korean and Italian, including references to the Venice International Film Festival.

Yesterday, I picked up the programme for the Venice film festival at Seoul Art Cinema and its very cool to see the Italian messages

Blue sea slugs found in the coastal waters of Japan!

These beautiful little tidepooling companions are, for me, the true representatives of Japan’s marine life 🫧 ͛.*

Korean-language poster for The Miracle of Klimt and Other Treasures from Galleria d’Arte Moderna Ricci Oddi, an exhibition featuring works by Gustav Klimt at My Art Museum in Seoul.

Korean-language poster for Moulin Rouge (2001), directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor.

Today's outing includes a few very exciting paintings and Moulin Rouge on the big screen

A stamp for the year of the horse 2002.

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekFforFramed

Close up of a delicate white flower with several buds underneath. The centre of the flower shows long straight styles and a hint of pink. The buds are covered in short hairs on the outside of the sepals

Drosera erythrogyne

One of the scrambling species of Drosera endemic to the southern coast of Western Australia near Albany. This one was seen growing near a granite outcrop in Torndirrup National Park in September.

#ozflora #wildoz #fierceflora #Drosera #nativeplants #inaturalist #nature

A tree martin with an opinion.
Bald Hill Beach, South Australia.
#birdsseenin2026

😍 That looks incredible

That sounds amazing

Very cool cover

Grilled beef and spicy kimchi cooking on a round Korean barbecue plate, with garlic cloves and raw meat visible in the background.

The Specialists (Gli Specialisti), 1969. Directed by Sergio Corbucci. Starring Johnny Hallyday, Gastone Moschin, and Mario Adorf.

Compañeros, 1970. Directed by Sergio Corbucci. Starring Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, and Jack Palance. Music by Ennio Morricone.

I giorni dell’ira (Day of Anger), 1967. Directed by Tonino Valerii. Starring Giuliano Gemma and Lee Van Cleef.

Saturday movie triple

Plate of chamchi deopbap with a mound of steamed white rice beside spicy tuna mixed with kimchi, onions, and vegetables in a red sauce, served on a white square plate.

I found a Kimbap Cheonguk!

And what an album it is

오이를 서리하는 고슴도치 민화랑 비슷하네요. 귀여움.

And what an album it is

Pink gum blossoms fading into honky nuts

Late summer in Sydney

One of my favourite films

Open book resting on a wooden table, showing two facing pages of printed verse titled “Canto VIII,” suggesting a classic poetry or epic text.

A couple of years ago I got up to the third book of The Faerie Queene before taking a break. Time to pick up this epic again

Cover for The Cribs album Selling a Vibe.

Tonight's commute music

I have work to do but my brain isn't cooperating this morning so I'll just sit here and have another cup of coffee I think

Album cover for Mahler: Kindertotenlieder, 5 Rückertlieder, and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, performed by Janet Baker with Sir John Barbirolli and the Hallé Orchestra.

Late night music

Me scrolling the timeline