Music, Film, And Book Recommendations From Tatler Friends: Elena Coyiuto, Paul Soriano, Bobby Cuenca
PAUL SORIANO
Listening: Anything Cecil Licad, especially while writing. I do listen to various musical scores, specifically, right now, to John Williams. Most of the time, however, I love silence; it allows me to listen to my thoughts.
Watching: Nomadland, First Cow, Sound of Metal
Rewatched: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Signs, Taxi Driver, Day for Night, The Rider, Singin’ in the Rain and M Night’s Servant
Reading: Paul Schrader’s Transcendental Style in Film, a lot of storylines and scripts for different filmmakers.
ELENA COYIUTO
Listening: When working out: Celebrate by Pharell Williams, Don’t Start Now by Dua Lipa, Don’t Stop the Music by Rihanna, September by Earth, Wind & Fire and Rain On Me by Lady Gaga
What I play on the piano: Wind Beneath My Wings, What A Wonderful World, That’s What
Friends Are For, Memory, If We Hold On Together and Colours of the Wind
Reading: The Educated by Tara Westover, Rules of Civility by Amor Towles, Anxious People by Fredrick Bachman, The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls and Pachinko by Min Jin lee
BEA SORIANO DEE
Listening: Nina Simone songs. She’s such an inspiration. My dream is to play the piano like her.
Watching: The Mandalorian. Every time (I watch it), I convince my son to watch with me.
Reading: I’m re-reading the entire business library of Patagonia. They talk a lot about their company values that I really resonate with.
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CHRIS JOHNSON
Listening: PNL, Bon Iver, Joji, Silk Sonic (Anderson Paak and Bruno Mars), The Weeknd, Pop Smoke and Aya Nakamura
Watching: This Giant Beast That Is The Global Economy on Amazon Prime, Formula 1: Drive to Survive on Netflix, The Mandalorian on Disney Plus, and Atlanta on FX
Reading: The Disruption Mindset by Charlene Li, Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria, Tribe of Mentors by Tim Ferriss, How To Be F*cking Awesome by Dan Meredith
Following: @stopasianhate; @childhope_ph; @techcrunch; @savethereef; @entrepreneur; @manchesterunited
BOBBY CUENCA
Listening: I use a French music streaming service called Deezer, listening mostly to jazz and classical music. I hardly listen to podcasts although maybe I should.
Watching: I’ve just finished watching Call My Agent and Joanna Lumley’s travel series.
Reading: At the start of the pandemic, I decided to stop wasting time on social media and concentrate on reading more, especially classics that I haven’t read. So far I’ve finished Brideshead Revisted and James Joyce’s Ulysses. I’m about to finish Don Quixote.
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BIANCA BRANDNER
Listening: Escape by Zoology
Watching: Connected on Netflix
Reading: How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Barrett
Following: @ancientmemez is pretty hilarious
CARLOS OTERMIN
Listening: I’ve been listening to the entire After Hours album from The Weeknd, perfect for the 24x7 work mode we are all going through during this lockdown. I’ve also started listening to more Spanish music to connect with my roots after two years of not going back home. There’s an amazing artist called C Tangana that has been breaking records; he even made it to Spotify’s top 20 worldwide.
Watching: My wife (Samantha Hiranand) and I have been watching a lot of movies at home; we started a habit of watching a movie together every night. We even started watching some amazing old movies like those of John Ford and Akira Kurosawa. I love interviews and talk shows so I was able to catch up on
all the Joe Rogan episodes I missed and started following a lot of David Rubenstein’s YouTube interviews, the one with Jeff Bezos is my favourite.
Reading: I have tried to read more classics this year and not just business books. I felt it was the best way to compensate for not being able to travel. I really enjoyed Kapuscinski; both his The Emperor and The Shadow of the Sun are fantastic.
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PHILIP CU-UNJIENG
Listening: Depending on my mood, listening to the new albums of Balthazar, SG Lewis and Arlo Parks. I’m keeping it eclectic.
Watching: The five films that make up Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology, and I’m practically done with the Oscars-nominated Best Picture (just missing on one, The Father), and completed the nominees for Best Animated Feature.
Reading: Ethan Hawke’s A Bright Ray of Darkness and The Coyotes of Carthage by Steven Wright.