Surface of Things

Movies (theater)
A Thousand Words dir. Brian Robbins

Movies (DVD)
General Orders No. 9 dir. Robert Persons
Yeh Saali Zindagi dir. Sudhir Mishra
Take Shelter dir. Jeff Nichols

Books
Life: An Exploded Diagram by Mal Peet

Caustic Exercise

Movies (theater)
A Dangerous Method dir. David Cronenberg
Carnage dir. Roman Polanski
John Carter of Mars IMAX 3D dir. Andrew Stanton

Movies (DVD)
Fruit Fly dir. H. P. Mendoza
Tiny Furniture dir. Lena Dunham

Blatantly Profane

Movies (DVD)
A Better Life dir. Chris Weitz
3 dir. Tom Tykwer

Movies (theater)
The Story of Temple Drake dir. Stephen Roberts
Call Her Savage dir. John Francis Dillon
Dr. Seuss' The Lorax 3D dir. Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye dir. Marie Losier

Books
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
Wandering Son Volume Two by Shimura Takako

Unsettling and Engrossing

Movies (DVD)
Super 8 dir. J. J. Abrams
Project Nim dir. James Marsh
Larry Crowne dir. Tom Hanks