February 2012
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January 2012
4 posts
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Renata Adler, Speedboat Elvis Presley, Elvis Country (Legacy Edition) Robert Bresson retrospective at Film Forum Speyburn Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky Asmus Tietchens, Y-Menge 99% Invisible podcasts reading reading reading when it’s oh so cold…
memories
2011—A teeming, tangled year in which connections and threads continued to reveal themselves… Memories: Standing in the empty 46th floor of the lone completed World Trade Center-complex building listening to Arvo Pärt for the Guggenheim Museum’s “stillspotting nyc”; walking around Krakow at Unsound Festival with Morton Subotnick and hearing him stop and play, at variable...
December 2011
4 posts
Top 10 Archival Releases for 2011
1. The Beach Boys, The Smile Sessions (Capitol, 5xCD/DL) This stuff was majorly important to me when I first learned of it by way of the Elephant 6 swell in Athens, Georgia, when I was in college there. Can’t believe how good some of it is still. Not unrelated, I interviewed Brian Wilson in his hotel room a few years ago and will never forget the look in his eyes.
2. Dub Taylor, Lumière...
Top 10 Albums for 2011
1. Ben Frost & Daniel Bjarnason, Solaris (Bedroom Community, CD/DL/LP) A majestically controlled orchestral piece inspired by the film by Tarkovsky and the book by Lem, neither of which I knew well before. A personal choice in part (I saw it performed in Krakow, New York, and Reykjavik, and spent lots of time talking to Frost and others involved for a story not yet realized), but there’s...
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Ray Charles, Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles Alexander Payne, The Descendants Eleh, Floating Frequencies/Intuitive Synthesis Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, 60 Fotos Kenneth Anger, Inauguration to the Pleasure Dome Ryan Trecartin as writer Five Guys Takehisa Kosugi, Catch-Wave Ingmar Bergman, Persona Robert Bresson, Au Hasard Balthazar clementines!
November 2011
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October 2011
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Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker Miles Davis Quintet, Live in Europe 1967, The Bootleg Series Vol. 1 Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley/Elvis (Legacy Edition) Beer Here Nordic Rye Dub Taylor, Lumiere oysters Blake Butler, Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia Willem De Kooning at MoMA
September 2011
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Florian Hecker, Speculative Solution In a Lonely Place, director Nicholas Ray Sparks Steak House Sodastream Penguin Carbonator Balam Acab, Wander/Wonder D.T. Suzuki, Manual of Zen Buddhism 1967 Schwinn Collegiate Sport, blue what the sun and moon do in August
August 2011
2 posts
July 2011
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Frederick Seidel, Ooga-Booga Gil Trythall, Luxicon II / Echospace Corona, with lime Frank Sinatra, Sinatra: Vegas box-set the chords to “Moon River” on ukulele Lyonel Feininger at the Whitney Museum of American Art Ryan Trecartin at MoMA PS1 kombucha, any/all Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Animalinside Opal candies from Iceland
June 2011
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May 2011
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Fredric Jameson, The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998 Brian Eno, Drums Between the Bells V/A, Salsa Explosion! The New York Salsa Revolution 1969-1979 Slinky David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives blueberries Robag Wruhme, Thora Vukk Evan Williams Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey getting good shoes re-soled
inscrutable
Exceptionally complicated fortune-cookie message, still poring over…
“Love mankind, trust the majority, and never owe anyone.”
April 2011
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Meek’s Cutoff, director Kelly Reichardt The Ernie Kovacs Collection (Shout! Factory) Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, edited by Craig Dworkin & Kenneth Goldsmith re-emergence of taco-flavored Doritos lava lamp (timeless) lurking memories of recent Unsound Festival New York CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed...
nature/nurture
“‘But you are our equal, if not better,’ the Guermantes seemed, by all their actions, to be saying; and they said it in the nicest way imaginable, so as to be liked and admired, but not so as to be believed; to tease out the fictitious nature of this amiability was to have been what they called well brought up; to believe that amiability to be real was to lack breeding.”
—...
March 2011
3 posts
archive
This is the full director’s cut of a James Murphy/LCD Soundsystem profile that ran at about half its original length back in 2007. I was happy with the way it was published, but I thought I’d put the whole thing up here now—to mark the passing of a band worth memorializing—since it includes some good early history on Murphy that I don’t feel like I’ve come across before:...
antenna
“The ill-humor produced in her by my request to be introduced to the Prince resulted in a silence, which she was naive enough to think was an appearance of not having heard what I said.”
— Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gommorah
February 2011
2 posts
inflection
“Examine whether this increase of sensation ought not rather to be called a sensation of increase.”
— Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness
January 2011
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Nicholas Roeg, Walkabout Moonlight Brewing Co., in general Barry Hannah, Airships Kode9 & the Spaceape, Black Sun Destroyer, Kaputt Martin’s Pretzels good clementines as the season starts to obsolesce V/A, Superlongevity Five Harry Mathews, Singular Pleasures Walter Benjamin, Illuminations
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Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will Bulleit Bourbon Battleship Potemkin Lauren Redniss, Radioactive Cluster, Sowiesoso Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales, Noel de Calabaza Don DeLillo, Point Omega the prospect of resumed trash pickup in Brooklyn V/A, Baby, How Can It Be?: Songs of Love, Lust and Contempt from the 1920s and 1930s
December 2010
3 posts
Top 25
Here’s my list of 25 best, favorite, most resounding albums/releases of 2010.
1) Jonsi, Go (XL) 2) Das Racist, Sit Down, Man (no label) 3) Autre Ne Veut, Autre Ne Veut (Olde English Spelling Bee) 4) Efdemin, Chicago (Dial) 5) James Blake, CMYK (R&S) 6) LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening (Capitol) 7) Sam Amidon, I See the Sign (Bedroom Community) 8) Thomas Koner, Nunatak / Teimo /...
November 2010
6 posts
oh language
Linguistic/semantic phenomena that have really got me going of late:
- the head of snakes’-nest hair that is the word “betray”
- the difference between “invoke” and “evoke”
- pretty much everything having to do with the subjunctive mood
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What does it mean when a person says “I am a person that likes…” or “I am a person that goes…” as opposed to “I am a person who likes/goes…”? Something about the former construction has always creeped me out.
