Kirk's Picks: Recent Episodes
Kirk McElhearn
In this brief podcast, Kirk McElhearn discusses something interesting he's discovered recently: books, music, films, tech, and more.
The Oxford Lieder Festival is streaming more than 100 concerts, and you can watch live or on demand.
- The Oxford Lieder Festival
- The Next Track, Episode #218 - Sholto Kynoch, Pianist and Director of the Oxford Lieder Festival
Theme music: Honest Labor, composed and performed by Timo Andres.
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The Wire is one of the great TV series of the past couple of decades, depicting cops and robbers in Baltimore.
- The Wire: iTunes Store
- The Wire: Blu-ray
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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The Theragun Prime is a deep muscle percussive massager, great for massaging muscles that get tense when working at a computer.
- Theragun Prime
- Supersoft attachment
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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Ingmar Bergman's Cinema, a box set from the Criterion Collection, contains 39 films on 30 Blu-Ray discs.
- Amazon US
- Amazon UK
- BFI Ingmar Bergman Volume 1
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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Stephen King's latest novel Billy Summers is a taut thriller about an assassin who tries to be a good person.
- Billy Summers
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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Daisy Jones and the Six follows a fictional rock band in the 70s as they find success.
- Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones and the Six
- David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue
- Almost Famous
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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The Thin Man is a joyous movie from 1934, from Dashiell Hammett's novel of the same year.
- The Thin Man
- Nick & Nora glases
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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Stalker is Andrey Tarkovsky's existential science fiction film.
- Stalker
- Zona, by Geoff Dyer
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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The Comfort Book is a book of short chapters and aphorisms, written to provide comfort, as the author Matt Haig said, "during the frazzlement of 2020."
- The Comfort Book
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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The Sonos Roam is a small, portable speaker that works with both Bluetooth and wi-fi.
- Sonos Roam
- Sonos Move
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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My pick this episode is Jiro Dreams of Sushi, a documentary about Jiro Ono, one of the world's best sushi chefs, and head of the first sushi restaurant to get a Michelin three-star rating.
- Jiro Dreams of Sushi - Amazon, iTunes 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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