____
Music
in no order
1. Death Grips No Love Deep Web(Death Grips)
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2. Scott Walker Bish Bosch(4AD)
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3. Raime QuarterTurns Over a Living Line(Blackest Ever Black)
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4. Guided by Voices The Bears for Lunch(Fire Records)
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5. William Basinski The Disintegration Loops(Temporary Residence)
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6. Pinback Information Retrieved(Temporary Residence)
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7. Flying Lotus Until The Quiet Comes(Warp)
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8. Détective However Strange(Burger Records)
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9. New White Light Bela Tarr 7-13(bandcamp)
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10. Swans The Seer(Young God)
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11. Robert Pollard Jack Sells the Cow(GbV)
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12. Japandroids Celebration Rock(Polyvinyl)
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13. Grimes Visions(4AD)
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14. Spiritualized Sweet Heart Sweet Light(Fat Possum)
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15. Actress R.I.P.(Honest Jon's)
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16. Tame Impala Lonerism(modular)
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17. Julia Holter Ekstasis(Rvng Intl)
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18. Los Angeles 555/666/777(Mountain Fighting)
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19. El-P Cancer for Cure(Fat Possum)
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20. Crystal Castles III(Fiction)
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Fiction
in no order
1. Frank Hinton Action, Figure(Tiny Hardcore Press)
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2. Blake Butler Sky Saw(Tyrant Books)
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3. Richard Chiem You Private Person(Scrambler Books)
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4. Trinie Dalton Baby Geisha(Two Dollar Radio)
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5. Edouard Leve Autoportrait(Dalkey Archive)
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6. Sean Kilpatrick fuckscapes(Blue Square Press)
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7. xTx Billie the Bull(Nephew)
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8. Nikanor Teratologen Assisted Living(Dalkey Archive)
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9. Kevin Killian Spreadeagle(Publication Studio)
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10. Eric Raymond Confessions from a Dark Wood(Sator Press)
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11. Luis Chitarroni The No Variations(Dalkey Archive)
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12. Scott McClanahan The Collected Works of Scott McClanahan Vol. 1(Lazy Fascist Press)
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13. Blake Butler/Christopher Higgs/Vanessa Place One(Roof)
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14. Shane Jones Daniel Fights a Hurricane(Penguin)
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15. Stephen Michael McDowell Treees(treees-smm)
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16. Matt Bell Cataclysm Baby(Mud Luscious Press)
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17. Hilda Hilst The Obscene Madame D(Nightboat Books)
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18. Brian Evenson Immobility (Tor Books)
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19. Michael Seidlinger The Sky Conducting(Civil Coping Mechanisms)
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20. tieLindsay Stern Town of Shadows(Scrambler Books)
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M. Kitchell Slow Slidings(Blue Square Press)
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Poetry
in no order
1. Jon Leon The Malady of the Century(Futurepoem Books)
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2. Ben Kopel Victory(H_NGM_N Books)
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3. Joyelle McSweeney Percussion Grenade(Fence Books)
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4. Joe Brainard The Collected Writings (Library of America)
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5. Ben Mirov Hider Roser(Octopus Books)
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6. Ana Carrete Baby Babe (Civil Coping Mechanisms)
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7. Paul Cunningham Foamghast(NAP)
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8. Emmanuel Hocquard The Invention of Glass (Canarium Books)
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9. Guillaume Morissette I am My Own Betrayal(Maison Kasini)
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10. Melissa Broder Meat Heart(Publishing Genius)
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11. Ariana Reines Mercury(Fence Books)
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12. Steve Roggenbuck Crunk Juice(self-pub)
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13. Eileen Myles Snowflake / different streets(Wave Books)
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14. Justin Carter Trill(Reality Hands)
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15. tieKeegan Crawford Stealing Things(self-pub)
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Walter Mackey mysapcedotcom(judge judy etc.)
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___
Film
in no order
1. Wes Anderson Moonrise Kingdom
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2. Leos Carax Holy Motors
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3. Drew Goddard Cabin in the Woods
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4. Joachim Trier Oslo, August 31st
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5. Michael Haneke Amour
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6. Jeff Nichols Take Shelter
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7. James Benning The Second Cabin: Stemple Pass
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8. Luke Fowler All Divided Selves
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9. Pip Chodorov Free Radicals
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10. Michael Salerno/Marcus Whale Middle of Nowhere
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11. Adam Humphrey Shitty Youth
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12. Frances Stark My Best Thing
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13. Stanya Kahn Stand in the Stream
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14. Grant Scicluna The Wilding
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15. tieMojtaba Mirtahmasb & Jafar Panahi This is Not a Film
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Chris Butler & Sam Fell Paranorman
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__
Art
in no order
1. Aldo TambelliniThe Tanks/Tate Modern
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2. The enlargement of Palais de Tokyo
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3. O Novo OficioMuseu Colecção Berardo
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4. Guy Maddin SpiritismesCentre Pompidou
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5. Daniel Buren Excentrique(s)Grand Palais
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6. Edvard Munch L'Oeil moderne 1900-1944Centre Pompidou
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7. Ken Price Retrospective LACMA
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8. Torbjörn Vejvi The Object Without is the Object Within Glendale Community College Art Gallery
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9. Robert Crumb Crumb de 'Underground a la GeneseMusee d'Art Moderne
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10. Notorious (Christian Leigh)Castillo/Corrales Gallery
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11. Alex Rose MONO NO AWAREEnvoy Enterprises
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12. The world as will and wallpaperLe Consortium
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13. John Williams Record ProjectionCentre Pompidou
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14. Chris Burden Metropolis IILACMA
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15. Mike Kelley: Themes and VariationsStedlijk Museum
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______
Internet
in no order
espresso bongo
Alt Lit Gossip
LIEF+
i am alt lit
Fuck Yeah Pierre Clementi
Montevidayo
THE NEATO MOSQUITO ALT LIT FIREWORKS SHOW
{ feuilleton }
Isola di Rifiuti
Metazen
bright stupid confetti
POP SERIAL
MUBI
UbuWeb
Bright Lights Film Journal
Joe Brainard's Pajamas (The Sequel)
Muumuu House
Beach Sloth
judge judy etc.
If we don't, remember me
Art Fag City
Pangur Ban Party
KALEIDOSCOPE
prosthetic knowledge
the tape
Dead End Thrills
Pank
HTMLGIANT
*
p.s. Hey. So, tell me yours. Obviously, you don't have to be all formal and lengthy and make numbered lists and categories and stuff. But I'm very interested, if you're interested to tell. ** L@rstonovich, Hey! Dude, the mix was very sweet. I listened to it and didn't do nearly what I'd planned to do while listening 'cos it was too transporting. RIP: Ravi Shankar, yes. Really interesting that you were in his presence. Nice photo. I saw him from a distance on a couple of lit stages back in the day, but that's it. So, you're doing a nice, alert Xmas, basically. Sounds quite all right. Me too, I assume. ** 5STRINGS, They're for sale, but you have to buy all of them together, and they're pricey. Electronic toothbrush is like an electric toothbrush? I always found the latter to be totally useless and weird. I guess in theory they'd be magic like vibrating dildos or something, but they just seemed a gag gift or something. Gare du Nord is cool but it's very, very cold inside in the winter. GdN is the one that goes to England. Gare de l'Est is the best train station. Swear to God. Even people who don't live across the street from it like I do think so. ** Misanthrope, Has anyone ever seen you and Morrissey in the same room together? I haven't, that's for sure. The RnrHoF is a joke. You last long enough, you're in. That's pretty much it. I mean, the word 'Fame' is in the fucking title, so why am I or anyone surprised. ** David Ehrenstein, Ashes is hanging in there. Did a reading somewhere last night. New book of poetry coming out next week, and his new work is as great as his old work, so I guess he's doing pretty swell. I think maybe I heard that he can't really walk anymore, which is very sad. Whoa, you completely changed the visual look of the FaBlog. It looks all moody and serious now. ** Cobaltfram, Hi. Yeah, so maybe later then. I have a phone thing I have to do at 5 pm. Errands. Otherwise, I should be around. So, yeah, let's see if we can find each other. ** Billy Lloyd, Okay, cool, when you start making your trip plans and taking notes, I'll weigh in. I always drive from LA outwards, so I know and am into the stuff that's in the kind of lower-mid parts of the US, like southern Utah, which is insanely beautiful, etc. Uh, I'm weird because I don't like SF very much. But apparently an SF dislike comes with being a born and bred Los Angeleno, and I think the SF people have the same sort of inbred LA dislike. You know the NYC problems: expensive, intense. SF is, of course, mellower but still expensive. Dare I suggest LA as a possibility? It's the best place in the US of A by far in my opinion. Oh, well, I trust your instincts on 'Stranger', of course. Yeah, when you can't get a scone, you can jones for one, or I can. Food has weird superpowers sometimes. Food's sociopathic, manipulative evil nature is very underrated, which is undoubtedly all in food's evil plan. ** xTx, Hey! Yeah, I'm getting a cold, though. From standing around in freezing train stations too much yesterday. You know that dreadful feeling when you can feel you're getting a bad cold. Like a really, really less obnoxious variation on what I must feel like on death row on the day you're going to be executed maybe. I'm trying to get back into the novel. I am, but very slowly. I took too long off. That was a big mistake. I was in this intense spell writing the novel, and now I need to find my way back into it, and I haven't yet, But I will, I guess. I'm trying every day. You're pecking away, yes! So we're both pecking, but my beak can't find the food morsels yet and yours probably can. Oh, I would love to get the 'Billie' here in Paris, but if it's easier to send it to the LA address, that's totally cool, of course. It must be coming out any second, right? December is running out of days. Love, me. ** Antonio Heras, Hi, Antonio! Really nice to see you! No problem, of course, on the disconnection. There are infinitely bigger things at stake. Good question about 2013. Things don't seem as totally fucked up from the top down here in France as I think they are in Spain, so there isn't a feeling of impending disaster and/or pre-boiling public outrage and action around here, at least that I can tell. Could be, though. Being an American here, I don't think I can completely understand the situation or read the collective European mind very well. There might be only more more Xmas-y blog post coming, if that, so no worries. ** Patrick deWitt, Hi, Patrick! I miss you too! Hey, what happened to Deopening? I was all over that daily and then ... it didn't exist. I'm okay. It's cold here. It's pretty and cold. Trying to get back into my novel but not so successfully of late. And you? What's up with you? Come back to the Recollets maybe? Would be sweet, man. ** Un Cœur Blanc, Hi, good morning, and how are you today, my friend? ** Sypha, Howdy. ** Pisy caca, The talk in Lyon was kind of a total waste of time. It was Gisele and me talking about our collaborative work. The students hadn't seen our work and seemed lost and uninterested. Gisele did almost all of the talking, and I said about 15 words. Kind of pointless maybe. But it was nice to get out of town even if, as I said, I think I'm coming down with a bad cold from lengthy freezing train station inhabitation. Thanks about my poetry post. Fave books on your blog! I must see this. Hold on. Oh, I don't have the link at my fingertips, so I'll look later. Yum. Oh, yes, Frances is a major Malkmus fan. Malkmus and Jason Lowenstein of Sebadoh were/are her gods. Love from me. ** Bill P. in Chicago, Hi, Bill. Enough people whose opinions I respect have told me that I would hate the 'Kevin' movie that I'm avoiding it since I don't enjoy feeling hate. But there are obviously those with taste who like it. And how are you today? ** Postitbreakup, Thanks so much, Josh. It was a very well liked post, obviously, so hooray for everybody and for you especially. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Thanks for your lists. I will seek out what I haven't heard and seen from it, you bet. Need to see 'Room 237'. I love that kind intricately interpreting, clues-impacted of thing. I guess who doesn't. ** Steevee, Donna Summer is a good add. Is Giorgio Moroder in the RnRHoF? If not, that would be weird. Or, rather, predictable but ridiculous. ** Robert-nyc, Hi, Robert! Yeah, hopefully the exile will be finally over, and then we'll see. I think a half and half-ish, back and forth between LA and Paris situation is the outcome we'd most like, assuming he likes LA, of course. Lyon was okay despite the blah event we did, thanks. Okay, great, about the email, thank you! I'm excited to read it as soon as I can, of course. Excellent day to you, sir. ** Frank Jaffe, Hey Frank! Things are good, kind of, even though I'm getting a cold, but yeah. It was super awesome to get to hang out with Luke, and I'm really glad he enjoyed it too. He's really great, as I don't need to tell you. Right, Luke has all kinds of sisters, like four of them or something? Cool that you'll get to meet one. You guys have plans? I hope to get to see you soon too! Like I told Luke, you guys should definitely come over and do a Paris trip together, no? Like once it gets a little warmer probably. You have the most fantastic day as well, buddy. ** Rewritedept, I guess you'd have to live way outside of Vegas to find the tourism job biz exotic like I do. Nice about the jamming. Sight reading, really? You're like a real musician. Bummer about Ravi Shankar, for sure, but, yeah, he did a lot. You didn't sound beat, but, assuming you were, I hope you aren't now, for your sake at least. ** Bollo, Hi, J. Hope you're getting everything done. I have things to do, but I'm not. Par for the course. Yeah, want to know your year's faves, if it's easy. Final buche decisions will probably be made in the next couple of days. I think it's down to about six or so. And I can't find the store where the Plush one is on sale. I'm starting to think maybe it was a prank or something. Big day to you, man. ** Okay. Pony up with 2012 faves now, if you don't mind. Whether or not, it seems that I will see you tomorrow.
Music
in no order
1. Death Grips No Love Deep Web(Death Grips)
2. Scott Walker Bish Bosch(4AD)
3. Raime QuarterTurns Over a Living Line(Blackest Ever Black)
4. Guided by Voices The Bears for Lunch(Fire Records)
5. William Basinski The Disintegration Loops(Temporary Residence)
6. Pinback Information Retrieved(Temporary Residence)
7. Flying Lotus Until The Quiet Comes(Warp)
8. Détective However Strange(Burger Records)
9. New White Light Bela Tarr 7-13(bandcamp)
10. Swans The Seer(Young God)
11. Robert Pollard Jack Sells the Cow(GbV)
12. Japandroids Celebration Rock(Polyvinyl)
13. Grimes Visions(4AD)
14. Spiritualized Sweet Heart Sweet Light(Fat Possum)
15. Actress R.I.P.(Honest Jon's)
16. Tame Impala Lonerism(modular)
17. Julia Holter Ekstasis(Rvng Intl)
18. Los Angeles 555/666/777(Mountain Fighting)
19. El-P Cancer for Cure(Fat Possum)
20. Crystal Castles III(Fiction)
_____
Fiction
in no order
1. Frank Hinton Action, Figure(Tiny Hardcore Press)
2. Blake Butler Sky Saw(Tyrant Books)
3. Richard Chiem You Private Person(Scrambler Books)
4. Trinie Dalton Baby Geisha(Two Dollar Radio)
5. Edouard Leve Autoportrait(Dalkey Archive)
6. Sean Kilpatrick fuckscapes(Blue Square Press)
7. xTx Billie the Bull(Nephew)
8. Nikanor Teratologen Assisted Living(Dalkey Archive)
9. Kevin Killian Spreadeagle(Publication Studio)
10. Eric Raymond Confessions from a Dark Wood(Sator Press)
11. Luis Chitarroni The No Variations(Dalkey Archive)
12. Scott McClanahan The Collected Works of Scott McClanahan Vol. 1(Lazy Fascist Press)
13. Blake Butler/Christopher Higgs/Vanessa Place One(Roof)
14. Shane Jones Daniel Fights a Hurricane(Penguin)
15. Stephen Michael McDowell Treees(treees-smm)
16. Matt Bell Cataclysm Baby(Mud Luscious Press)
17. Hilda Hilst The Obscene Madame D(Nightboat Books)
18. Brian Evenson Immobility (Tor Books)
19. Michael Seidlinger The Sky Conducting(Civil Coping Mechanisms)
20. tieLindsay Stern Town of Shadows(Scrambler Books)
M. Kitchell Slow Slidings(Blue Square Press)
_____
Poetry
in no order
1. Jon Leon The Malady of the Century(Futurepoem Books)
2. Ben Kopel Victory(H_NGM_N Books)
3. Joyelle McSweeney Percussion Grenade(Fence Books)
4. Joe Brainard The Collected Writings (Library of America)
5. Ben Mirov Hider Roser(Octopus Books)
6. Ana Carrete Baby Babe (Civil Coping Mechanisms)
7. Paul Cunningham Foamghast(NAP)
8. Emmanuel Hocquard The Invention of Glass (Canarium Books)
9. Guillaume Morissette I am My Own Betrayal(Maison Kasini)
10. Melissa Broder Meat Heart(Publishing Genius)
11. Ariana Reines Mercury(Fence Books)
12. Steve Roggenbuck Crunk Juice(self-pub)
13. Eileen Myles Snowflake / different streets(Wave Books)
14. Justin Carter Trill(Reality Hands)
15. tieKeegan Crawford Stealing Things(self-pub)
Walter Mackey mysapcedotcom(judge judy etc.)
___
Film
in no order
1. Wes Anderson Moonrise Kingdom
2. Leos Carax Holy Motors
3. Drew Goddard Cabin in the Woods
4. Joachim Trier Oslo, August 31st
5. Michael Haneke Amour
6. Jeff Nichols Take Shelter
7. James Benning The Second Cabin: Stemple Pass
8. Luke Fowler All Divided Selves
9. Pip Chodorov Free Radicals
10. Michael Salerno/Marcus Whale Middle of Nowhere
11. Adam Humphrey Shitty Youth
12. Frances Stark My Best Thing
13. Stanya Kahn Stand in the Stream
14. Grant Scicluna The Wilding
15. tieMojtaba Mirtahmasb & Jafar Panahi This is Not a Film
Chris Butler & Sam Fell Paranorman
__
Art
in no order
1. Aldo TambelliniThe Tanks/Tate Modern
2. The enlargement of Palais de Tokyo
3. O Novo OficioMuseu Colecção Berardo
4. Guy Maddin SpiritismesCentre Pompidou
5. Daniel Buren Excentrique(s)Grand Palais
6. Edvard Munch L'Oeil moderne 1900-1944Centre Pompidou
7. Ken Price Retrospective LACMA
8. Torbjörn Vejvi The Object Without is the Object Within Glendale Community College Art Gallery
9. Robert Crumb Crumb de 'Underground a la GeneseMusee d'Art Moderne
10. Notorious (Christian Leigh)Castillo/Corrales Gallery
11. Alex Rose MONO NO AWAREEnvoy Enterprises
12. The world as will and wallpaperLe Consortium
13. John Williams Record ProjectionCentre Pompidou
14. Chris Burden Metropolis IILACMA
15. Mike Kelley: Themes and VariationsStedlijk Museum
______
Internet
in no order
espresso bongo
Alt Lit Gossip
LIEF+
i am alt lit
Fuck Yeah Pierre Clementi
Montevidayo
THE NEATO MOSQUITO ALT LIT FIREWORKS SHOW
{ feuilleton }
Isola di Rifiuti
Metazen
bright stupid confetti
POP SERIAL
MUBI
UbuWeb
Bright Lights Film Journal
Joe Brainard's Pajamas (The Sequel)
Muumuu House
Beach Sloth
judge judy etc.
If we don't, remember me
Art Fag City
Pangur Ban Party
KALEIDOSCOPE
prosthetic knowledge
the tape
Dead End Thrills
Pank
HTMLGIANT
*
p.s. Hey. So, tell me yours. Obviously, you don't have to be all formal and lengthy and make numbered lists and categories and stuff. But I'm very interested, if you're interested to tell. ** L@rstonovich, Hey! Dude, the mix was very sweet. I listened to it and didn't do nearly what I'd planned to do while listening 'cos it was too transporting. RIP: Ravi Shankar, yes. Really interesting that you were in his presence. Nice photo. I saw him from a distance on a couple of lit stages back in the day, but that's it. So, you're doing a nice, alert Xmas, basically. Sounds quite all right. Me too, I assume. ** 5STRINGS, They're for sale, but you have to buy all of them together, and they're pricey. Electronic toothbrush is like an electric toothbrush? I always found the latter to be totally useless and weird. I guess in theory they'd be magic like vibrating dildos or something, but they just seemed a gag gift or something. Gare du Nord is cool but it's very, very cold inside in the winter. GdN is the one that goes to England. Gare de l'Est is the best train station. Swear to God. Even people who don't live across the street from it like I do think so. ** Misanthrope, Has anyone ever seen you and Morrissey in the same room together? I haven't, that's for sure. The RnrHoF is a joke. You last long enough, you're in. That's pretty much it. I mean, the word 'Fame' is in the fucking title, so why am I or anyone surprised. ** David Ehrenstein, Ashes is hanging in there. Did a reading somewhere last night. New book of poetry coming out next week, and his new work is as great as his old work, so I guess he's doing pretty swell. I think maybe I heard that he can't really walk anymore, which is very sad. Whoa, you completely changed the visual look of the FaBlog. It looks all moody and serious now. ** Cobaltfram, Hi. Yeah, so maybe later then. I have a phone thing I have to do at 5 pm. Errands. Otherwise, I should be around. So, yeah, let's see if we can find each other. ** Billy Lloyd, Okay, cool, when you start making your trip plans and taking notes, I'll weigh in. I always drive from LA outwards, so I know and am into the stuff that's in the kind of lower-mid parts of the US, like southern Utah, which is insanely beautiful, etc. Uh, I'm weird because I don't like SF very much. But apparently an SF dislike comes with being a born and bred Los Angeleno, and I think the SF people have the same sort of inbred LA dislike. You know the NYC problems: expensive, intense. SF is, of course, mellower but still expensive. Dare I suggest LA as a possibility? It's the best place in the US of A by far in my opinion. Oh, well, I trust your instincts on 'Stranger', of course. Yeah, when you can't get a scone, you can jones for one, or I can. Food has weird superpowers sometimes. Food's sociopathic, manipulative evil nature is very underrated, which is undoubtedly all in food's evil plan. ** xTx, Hey! Yeah, I'm getting a cold, though. From standing around in freezing train stations too much yesterday. You know that dreadful feeling when you can feel you're getting a bad cold. Like a really, really less obnoxious variation on what I must feel like on death row on the day you're going to be executed maybe. I'm trying to get back into the novel. I am, but very slowly. I took too long off. That was a big mistake. I was in this intense spell writing the novel, and now I need to find my way back into it, and I haven't yet, But I will, I guess. I'm trying every day. You're pecking away, yes! So we're both pecking, but my beak can't find the food morsels yet and yours probably can. Oh, I would love to get the 'Billie' here in Paris, but if it's easier to send it to the LA address, that's totally cool, of course. It must be coming out any second, right? December is running out of days. Love, me. ** Antonio Heras, Hi, Antonio! Really nice to see you! No problem, of course, on the disconnection. There are infinitely bigger things at stake. Good question about 2013. Things don't seem as totally fucked up from the top down here in France as I think they are in Spain, so there isn't a feeling of impending disaster and/or pre-boiling public outrage and action around here, at least that I can tell. Could be, though. Being an American here, I don't think I can completely understand the situation or read the collective European mind very well. There might be only more more Xmas-y blog post coming, if that, so no worries. ** Patrick deWitt, Hi, Patrick! I miss you too! Hey, what happened to Deopening? I was all over that daily and then ... it didn't exist. I'm okay. It's cold here. It's pretty and cold. Trying to get back into my novel but not so successfully of late. And you? What's up with you? Come back to the Recollets maybe? Would be sweet, man. ** Un Cœur Blanc, Hi, good morning, and how are you today, my friend? ** Sypha, Howdy. ** Pisy caca, The talk in Lyon was kind of a total waste of time. It was Gisele and me talking about our collaborative work. The students hadn't seen our work and seemed lost and uninterested. Gisele did almost all of the talking, and I said about 15 words. Kind of pointless maybe. But it was nice to get out of town even if, as I said, I think I'm coming down with a bad cold from lengthy freezing train station inhabitation. Thanks about my poetry post. Fave books on your blog! I must see this. Hold on. Oh, I don't have the link at my fingertips, so I'll look later. Yum. Oh, yes, Frances is a major Malkmus fan. Malkmus and Jason Lowenstein of Sebadoh were/are her gods. Love from me. ** Bill P. in Chicago, Hi, Bill. Enough people whose opinions I respect have told me that I would hate the 'Kevin' movie that I'm avoiding it since I don't enjoy feeling hate. But there are obviously those with taste who like it. And how are you today? ** Postitbreakup, Thanks so much, Josh. It was a very well liked post, obviously, so hooray for everybody and for you especially. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Thanks for your lists. I will seek out what I haven't heard and seen from it, you bet. Need to see 'Room 237'. I love that kind intricately interpreting, clues-impacted of thing. I guess who doesn't. ** Steevee, Donna Summer is a good add. Is Giorgio Moroder in the RnRHoF? If not, that would be weird. Or, rather, predictable but ridiculous. ** Robert-nyc, Hi, Robert! Yeah, hopefully the exile will be finally over, and then we'll see. I think a half and half-ish, back and forth between LA and Paris situation is the outcome we'd most like, assuming he likes LA, of course. Lyon was okay despite the blah event we did, thanks. Okay, great, about the email, thank you! I'm excited to read it as soon as I can, of course. Excellent day to you, sir. ** Frank Jaffe, Hey Frank! Things are good, kind of, even though I'm getting a cold, but yeah. It was super awesome to get to hang out with Luke, and I'm really glad he enjoyed it too. He's really great, as I don't need to tell you. Right, Luke has all kinds of sisters, like four of them or something? Cool that you'll get to meet one. You guys have plans? I hope to get to see you soon too! Like I told Luke, you guys should definitely come over and do a Paris trip together, no? Like once it gets a little warmer probably. You have the most fantastic day as well, buddy. ** Rewritedept, I guess you'd have to live way outside of Vegas to find the tourism job biz exotic like I do. Nice about the jamming. Sight reading, really? You're like a real musician. Bummer about Ravi Shankar, for sure, but, yeah, he did a lot. You didn't sound beat, but, assuming you were, I hope you aren't now, for your sake at least. ** Bollo, Hi, J. Hope you're getting everything done. I have things to do, but I'm not. Par for the course. Yeah, want to know your year's faves, if it's easy. Final buche decisions will probably be made in the next couple of days. I think it's down to about six or so. And I can't find the store where the Plush one is on sale. I'm starting to think maybe it was a prank or something. Big day to you, man. ** Okay. Pony up with 2012 faves now, if you don't mind. Whether or not, it seems that I will see you tomorrow.