Kirk's Picks

Kirk's Picks

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Kirk's Picks episodes

  • Kirk's Picks No. 11 - MUBI [streaming service]

    MUBI is a movie streaming service that presents arthouse and festival films.

    • MUBI
    • Theme music: Honest Labor, composed and performed by Timo Andres.

      If you enjoyed the podcast, follow it on Apple Podcasts or in your favorite podcast app. For show notes and links to my pick, go to kirkville.com/picks. You can support this podcast by purchasing items via my affiliate links, or you can sign up for my Patreon and donate a few bucks a month.

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      5 min
    • Episode 10: Kirk's Picks No. 10 - David Hockney, The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020 [Book]

      David Hockney's new exhibit of art created on an iPad celebrates the arrival of spring during lockdown.

      • David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020
      • Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy
      • The Arrival of Spring in 2011
      • Theme music: Honest Labor, composed and performed by Timo Andres.

        If you enjoyed the podcast, follow it on Apple Podcasts or in your favorite podcast app. For show notes and links to my pick, go to kirkville.com/picks. You can support this podcast by purchasing items via my affiliate links, or you can sign up for my Patreon and donate a few bucks a month.

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        5 min
      • Kirk's Picks No. 9 - In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust [Book]

        To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time is one of the richest novels ever written, one that may be with you for the rest of your life.

        • Why an Imperfect Version of Proust Is a Classic in English | The New Yorker
        • Reviving the dread deity | The Guardian
        • Articles I've written about Proust
        • Remembrance of Things Past (Montcrieff/Kilmartin)
        • In Search of Lost Time (Modern Library)
        • Swann's Way (vol. 1 of the new Penguin translation)
        • Theme music: Honest Labor, composed and performed by Timo Andres.

          If you enjoyed the podcast, follow it on Apple Podcasts or in your favorite podcast app. For show notes and links to my pick, go to kirkville.com/picks. You can support this podcast by purchasing items via my affiliate links, or you can sign up for my Patreon and donate a few bucks a month.

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          6 min
        • Episode 8: Kirk's Picks No. 8 - Foregone, by Russell Banks [Book]

          Foregone, the new novel by Russell Banks, is a moving novel about the past, about truth, and about the acceptance of death.

          • Foregone, Russell Banks
          • Affliction
          • The Sweet Hereafter
          • Cloudsplitter
          • Theme music: Honest Labor, composed and performed by Timo Andres.

            If you enjoyed the podcast, follow it on Apple Podcasts or in your favorite podcast app. For show notes and links to my pick, go to kirkville.com/picks. You can support this podcast by purchasing items via my affiliate links, or you can sign up for my Patreon and donate a few bucks a month.

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            5 min
          • Episode 7: Kirk's Picks No. 7 - Bosch [TV series]

            The seventh and final series of Bosch, after the novels of Michael Connelly, is now on Amazon Prime Video.

            • Bosch
            • The Next Track: Episode #177 - Author Michael Connelly on Music in the Harry Bosch Novels and TV Series
            • Theme music: Honest Labor, composed and performed by Timo Andres.

              If you enjoyed the podcast, follow it on Apple Podcasts or in your favorite podcast app. For show notes and links to my pick, go to kirkville.com/picks. You can support this podcast by purchasing items via my affiliate links, or you can sign up for my Patreon and donate a few bucks a month.

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              4 min
            • Episode 6: Kirk's Picks No. 6 - Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans [Music]

              This new five-disc retrospective contains music from across Bill Evans's career, and also has a recently discovered live set from 1975.

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              • Turn Out the Stars
              • Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans
              • On a Friday Evening
              • Theme music: Honest Labor, composed and performed by Timo Andres.

                If you enjoyed the podcast, follow it on Apple Podcasts or in your favorite podcast app. For show notes and links to my pick, go to kirkville.com/picks. You can support this podcast by purchasing items via my affiliate links, or you can sign up for my Patreon and donate a few bucks a month.

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                4 min
              • Episode 5: Kirk's Picks No. 5 - Grateful Dead, Skull & Roses [Music]

                The Grateful Dead have just released a 50th anniversary edition of their 1971 live album, Skull & Roses, which is one of the best introductions to the band's music.

                • Skull & Roses
                • Dead Ahead (Grateful Dead live DVD, 10/31/80)
                • Theme music: Honest Labor, composed and performed by Timo Andres.

                  If you enjoyed the podcast, follow it on Apple Podcasts or in your favorite podcast app. For show notes and links to my pick, go to kirkville.com/picks. You can support this podcast by purchasing items via my affiliate links, or you can sign up for my Patreon and donate a few bucks a month.

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                  5 min
                • Episode 4: Kirk's Picks No. 4 - Amazon Unbound, Brad Stone [Book]

                  Brad Stone's Amazon Unbound looks at the history of Amazon, and Jeff Bezos, since the release of his previous book The Everything Store.

                  • Amazon Unbound
                  • The Everything Store
                  • Theme music: Honest Labor, composed and performed by Timo Andres.

                    If you enjoyed the podcast, follow it on Apple Podcasts or in your favorite podcast app. For show notes and links to my pick, go to kirkville.com/picks. You can support this podcast by purchasing items via my affiliate links, or you can sign up for my Patreon and donate a few bucks a month.

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                    5 min
                  • Kirk's Picks No. 3 - Robert Fripp, Music for Quiet Moments [Music]

                    Robert Fripp's Music for Quiet Moments is a series of soundscapes he has released every week for the past year. I link to an Apple Music playlist of all 52 of these tracks, lasting nearly nine hours.

                    • Frippertronics: How Robert Fripp and Brian Eno brought looping to life
                    • Robert Fripp - Soundscapes (DGM Live)
                    • Salisbury Cathedral, June 2 1997
                    • Music For Quiet Moments
                    • Music for Quiet Moments playlist (Apple Music)
                    • Theme music: Honest Labor, composed and performed by Timo Andres.

                      If you enjoyed the podcast, follow it on Apple Podcasts or in your favorite podcast app. For show notes and links to my pick, go to kirkville.com/picks. You can support this podcast by purchasing items via my affiliate links, or you can sign up for my Patreon and donate a few bucks a month.

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                      4 min
                    • Kirk's Picks No. 2 - Lake Pictures, Lucinda Devlin [Photobook]

                      My pick this episode is Lake Pictures, a book of photos by Lucinda Devlin. This book is a series of photos of Lake Huron, showing the water, the sky, and the horizon on different days and at different times. It is very relaxing to look at.

                      • Lake Pictures - Amazon
                      • Hiroshi Sugimoto - Seascapes
                      • Lucinda Devlin's website
                      • Lucinda Devlin's Instagram
                      • Theme music: Honest Labor, composed and performed by Timo Andres.

                        If you enjoyed the podcast, follow it on Apple Podcasts or in your favorite podcast app. For show notes and links to my pick, go to kirkville.com/picks. You can support this podcast by purchasing items via my affiliate links, or you can sign up for my Patreon and donate a few bucks a month.

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                        4 min

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                      In this brief podcast, Kirk McElhearn discusses something interesting he's discovered recently: books, music, films, tech, and more.