Books (fiction)
in no order
1. Tao Lin Taipei(Vintage)
2. Joy Williams 99 Stories of God(Byliner)
3. Ken Baumann Solip(Tyrant)
4. Scott McClanahan Crapalachia(Two Dollar Radio)
5. Joyelle McSweeney Salamandrine: 8 Gothics(Tarpaulin Sky)
6. Matthew Simmons Happy Rock(Dark Coast)
7. Stephen Boyer Parasite(Publication Studio)
8. Cassandra Troyan Throne of Blood(Solar Luxuriance)
9. Heiko Julien There Is No Reason for Tigers to Be Beautiful, They Just Are(Pop Serial)
10. Casey Hannan Mother Ghost(Tiny Hardcore)
11. Matt Bell In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods(Soho Press)
12. Hannah Fantana Sans You(Habitat)
13. Johannes Goransson Haute Surveillance(Tarpaulin Sky)
14. Michael Seidlinger My Pet Serial Killer(Enigmatic Ink)
15. Marcus Speh Thank You for Your Sperm(MadHat Press)
Books (poetry)
in no order
1. Luna Miguel Bluebird and other Tattoos(Scrambler Books)
2. John Ashbery Quick Question(Harper Collins)
3. Thomas Moore The Night is an Empire(Kiddiepunk)
4. Mira Gonzalez i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together(Sorry House)
5. Steve Roggenbuck if you dont love the moon, your an asshole(lief)
6. Joseph Ceravolo Collected Poems(Wesleyan University Press)
7. Grant Maierhofer Ode to a Vincent Gallo Nightingale(Drunk Uncle/Black Coffee)
8. Gabby Gabby Airplane Food(nap)
9. Clark Coolidge A Book What and Ending Away(Fence)
10. Moon Tzu autumn of my youth(self-published)
11. Chris Dankland please please please, don't get your goddamn heart broken(self-published)
12. Vanessa Place Boycott(Ugly Duckling)
13. Jordan Castro Young Americans(Civil Coping Mechanisms)
14. Walter Mackey i want to die(Plain Wrap)
Music
in no order
1. Iceage You're Nothing(Matador)
2. The Haxan Cloak Excavation(Tri Angle)
3. Baths Obsidian(Anticon)
4. Aki Onda Cassette Memories Vol. 3: South of the Border(Important)
5. Guided by Voices English Little League(Fire)
6. Var No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers(Sacred Bones)
7. Secret Circuit Tactile Galactics(Beats in Space)
8. Deerhunter Monomania(4AD)
9. Wire Change Becomes Us(Pink Flag)
10. Love Black Beauty(High Moon)
11. My Bloody Valentine mbv(MBV)
12. Ensemble Pearl Ensemble Pearl(Drag City)
13. Deafheaven Sunbather (Deathwish)
14. Julia Holter Loud City Song(Domino)
Film
in no order
1. Terrence Malick To the Wonder
2. Shane Carruth Upstream Color
3. Carlos Reygadas Post Tenebras Lux
4. Harmony Korine Spring Breakers
5. Jeff Nichols Mud
6. Michael Salerno Dans le Silence
7. Jim Jarmusch Only Lovers Left Alive
8. Rian Johnson Looper
9. James Batley Kneels Through the Dark
Art
in no order
1. Nakaya Ukichiro Museum of Snow and Ice (Kagaonsen, Japan)
2. Mike Kelley @ Stedelijk Museum(Amsterdam)
3. Torbjorn Vejvi The object without is the object within(Glendale Community College Art Gallery)
4. Chichu Museum(Naoshima, Japan)
5. Dynamo(Grand Palais, Paris)
6. Richard Hawkins @ Richard Telles Fine Art(Los Angeles)
7. Pierre Henry: Autoportrait and 53 Tableaux(Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris)
8. Jason Meadows @ Marc Foxx Gallery(Los Angeles)
9. Scott Treleaven All-Nite Cinema(Invisible Exports, NYC)
10. Jack Goldstein Où est jack Goldstein? (Galerie Perrotin, Paris)
Internet
in no order
espresso bongo
THE NEATO MOSQUITO ALT LIT FIREWORKS SHOW
Cutty Spot
warmwombat
Fuck Yeah Pierre Clementi
Montevidayo
Alt Lit Gossip
i am alt lit
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Isola di Rifiuti
Everything is Chemical
Experimental Film Club
Zine Library
MUBI
UbuWeb
Bright Lights Film Journal
Joe Brainard's Pajamas (The Sequel)
If we don't, remember me
Art Fag City
KALEIDOSCOPE
prosthetic knowledge
bright stupid confetti
Illuminati Girl Gang
Shabby Doll House
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p.s. Hey. I made those lists while kind of jet lagged, and I'm probably forgetting all kinds of stuff I've liked a lot, but they'll do, and I stand by them. Of course I would love to see your 2013 so-far picks, if you care to share. Thanks. ** Jeff, Hi. I like the magic idea. I will look into Chômu, which I don't think I know, and thanks a lot. Yeah, the traveling Crispin Glover show. I've been waiting for him to bring it to Paris for yonks, but he hasn't yet unless I spaced out at the wrong time. Crispin Glover once came over to my apartment in LA because he thought he might want to use its front door in a film he was making, but my front door didn't quite fit his bill. All the best to you too. ** Sypha, Thanks, James. Nice to be present again. Oh, cool, about your vacation. Yeah, typing on those things, ugh, I get it. Thanks for braving the so-called keyboard to say hey, and have fun, and should you feel compelled to type with difficulty, I'd love to hear how things are going there. * David Ehrenstein, Thanks, Mr. E. I'm putting together a Japan blog post of sorts, and I guess I'll try to talk more about the trip then and as the comments ask/warrant. ** Matty B., Hey, buddy! Really nice to see you. I just yesterday saw that you're in that upcoming anthology of fiction inspired by Lynch. Really curious to get that. Your virtual scrapbook looks really beautiful. I'll scroll through and pore over it a little later. Inspiring, man. Everyone, the superb writer Matty Byloos is keeping an online/digital scrapbook re: a novel he's working on, and you can visit and try to decode it by clicking this. It looks beautiful and intriguing, so I recommend you do. Great that that is helping your process, and really cool to get to take a look inside. Take care, man. ** Tosh Berman, Oh, you stay in Meguro when you're in Tokyo? Wow. Yeah, it's a lovely area. We really liked it, although our time there was mostly involved in walking through to and from the subway stations. I'm sure you don't need a hotel rec. but, if you ever do, Hotel Claska in Meguro, where we stayed, is a fantastic hotel. I will write re: my time, and I would love to compare notes and experiences. I definitely fell in love, and, I think like I said, my friend and are already talking about a return visit, maybe this coming winter. ** Steevee, Hi. Nice review and interview with Almodovar. Kudos. Yeah, I've never gotten what the big deal is supposed to be about Kanye West's stuff, even the earlier things. His curatorial skills are quite good and canny, but it's always just sounded like curious, sometimes sharply designed decor to me, not that there's anything wrong with that. Cool timing on your lists, thanks. Interesting, of course. I really want to see the Assayas and 'Leviathan' the most from the not-seen portion of your lists. The Boards of Canada album is really nice, yeah. I probably would have listed it myself if I hadn't spaced. ** Bill, No, the parasite museum is one of the many things we didn't have time for, but it's in the cards for the next jaunt. Cool that Sydney seemed nice. I want to go there, or, I mean, to Australia in general. There's a tentative plan to make a trip to Antarctica early next year, and I was trying to see if we could get there easily from Australia and thereby kill two birds with one plane, but it doesn't look possible unless we want to do just do an Antarctica fly-over, which doesn't seem like enough. ** Scunnard, Thank you for the back welcome. Got your thing. So great and kind of you, and I wrote you back last night. Coolness. ** S., Yeah, RIP Jim Kelly. That was sad news. I am back, it seems. Fuzzily, but that will pass. Andrew WK is like the new Dick Clark or something. Haven't heard the Sabbath yet. Gotta do that. Just to hear new Iommi is enough, probably. Emo tumblr, cool. Russia seems like hell on earth-ish to me. Russia du jour, that is. Stackage! Everyone, S. has new Emo stack. You know what you should do, right? ** Patrick deWitt, Thanks! Yeah, the GM book failure was awful, but, you know, what can one do. There are parts I like a lot. I might clean them up and try to do something with them individually. One possibility for the new novel I'm working on is to include parts of the GM novel, since the new project relates to it on a certain level, but I'm not sure. Cool that the Paris novel is still clinging, and messiness is sometimes a virtue or something, at least for a good while, no? Lit. festival, right, nice. Awesome news from you, man. Any possibility of a Paris visit or stay being on your agenda? ** Kier, Hi, Kier! Oh, I hate when I can't write anymore. That happens to me a fair amount. It's just gone, or the words can't do anything but be words. It'll pass, I bet you. I say don't stress it. Just fool around and wait until drawing compels you to the point where you can't begin to have any value judgement about what you're drawing. Hope you got some most excellent sleep. ** Ken Baumann, Ken!!! Japan was heaven, basically. Start to finish. You went to Naoshima! That was one of the great and total highlights. We were there a little over two days. We stayed in The Oval, the hotel in the Benesse art museum, and, man, if you haven't done that, you simply must. We looked at a bunch of art house projects. We didn't get to the other islands' art houses and museums because we woke up late, and the ferries stopping running weirdly early. Maybe my fave thing on Naoshima was the Chichu Museum. Did you go to that? The underground museum? A perfect building, space, and impeccable tiny collection of Turrells, De Maria, Monet, etc. We walked around a lot, ate really well, especially at the Japanese restaurant in the art museum, whoa, got massages, ... Fantastic. People were incredibly nice, but then nice people seem to be the complete standard in Japan. Definitely want to go back to Naoshima. How great that you and Michael S. have become friends. Yeah, he's a fantastic guy. That's such good news. I miss him a lot too. Say hi and hugs from me. Lucky you to go to the Turrell retro. I'm hoping to do that in October. I'm trying to pull strings to get into that one piece where you're slid inside it on a bed alone for 15 minutes, and which seems to be totally sold out until November or something. Turrell is a god. That should be a great time. Very excited about the Boss Fight Books project, as you can imagine. Cool, cool. Are you doing more
'Solip' readings? At Skylight maybe? Man, what an amazing novel that is, my friend. Lots of love to you! ** Chilly Jay Chill, Shit, I think I realized that I didn't alert you that I was posting your post yesterday. Sorry, yikes. Anyway, it was great, and thank you so vert much. Particularly surprised me ... hm. In a weird way, everything both surprised me and didn't at all. Hard to explain. No, didn't get to the Reversible Destiny site. Next trip. Really, there was so much to do and see, and even the lengthy-ish time we had there wasn't nearly enough. That island time sounds beautiful. Having just spent time on two amazing ferry-only islands in Japan, I can feel that. That's so exciting that you have your galleys! Take a photo. Much love back to you. ** Misanthrope, Hi, G. Oh, that's scary but ultimately okay news about David K's mini-stroke. Give him my love when you next speak to him, okay? Of course the situation with Little Show and his mom is horrible and depressing. Man, she sucks. She really sucks. I had to stay back one year in school. I had to do 8th Grade twice. After the bad news sunk in, it wasn't any big deal to actually do it. Especially in a new place where it'll all be new people/students around him. But that's my bright side talking. No sweat about the unload. Anytime, you know it. Love, me. ** Rewritedept, Hi. Glad your weeks were mellow, and I like that you're rehearsing, whatever the big picture turns out to be. And that you'll have a recharging, creativity directed summer. That sounds weird and very complicated about the return of your old best friend. I don't know. I guess feel it out and keep your/her history in mind until you're sure it's a good move? No America in August, no. October at the earliest, I think. Japan was superb. A quick read-through with a bit hazy eyes/mind of your haiku and other piece gave much pleasure, man. I'll reread them when/if coffee gives me myself back this afternoon. Maybe some novel work today, or at least some early work on one of my collaborative projects in motion. ** Armando, Hi, Armando! Thanks a lot, man. Hugs and wishes for a good day right back at you. ** Okay. Peruse my lists, if you like, and spill yours, if you like, and I'll see you tomorrow.