Books (fiction)
in no order
1. Eugene LimThe Strangers(Black Square Editions)
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2. Rachel Levitsky The Story of My Accident Is Ours(Futurepoem)
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3. Jeff Jackson Mira Corpora(Two Dollar Radio)
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4. Tao Lin Taipei(Vintage)
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5. Renee Gladman Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge(Dorothy)
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6. (tie)Ken Baumann Solip(Tyrant), Say, Cut, Map(Black Square Editions)
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7. (tie)Scott McClanahan Crapalachia(Two Dollar Radio), Hill William(Tyrant)
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8. Joyelle McSweeney Salamandrine: 8 Gothics(Tarpaulin Sky)
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9. Matthew Simmons Happy Rock(Dark Coast)
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10. Travis Jeppesen The Suiciders(Semiotext(e))
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11. Stephen Boyer Parasite(Publication Studio)
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12. Cassandra Troyan Throne of Blood(Solar Luxuriance)
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13. Heiko Julien I Am Ready to Die a Violent Death(Civil Coping Mechanisms)
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14. Casey Hannan Mother Ghost(Tiny Hardcore)
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15. Matt Bell In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods(Soho Press)
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16. Noah Cicero Go to Work and Do Your Job. Care for Your Children. Pay Your Bills. Obey the Law. Buy Products.(Lazy Fascist)
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17. Johannes Goransson Haute Surveillance(Tarpaulin Sky)
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18. Michael Seidlinger My Pet Serial Killer(Enigmatic Ink)
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19. Marcus Speh Thank You for Your Sperm(MadHat Press)
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20. Jarrett Kobek BTW(Penny-Ante Editions)
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21. Joy Williams 99 Stories of God(Byliner Inc.)
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22. Thomas Moore A Certain Kind of Light(Rebel Satori)
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23. Sean Kilpatrick Gil the Nihilist(Lazy Fascist)
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24. Lindsay Hunter Don't Kiss Me(FSG)
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25. James Greer Everything Flows (Curbside Splendor)
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Books (poetry)
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1. Gabby Bess Alone with Other People(Civil Coping Mechanisms)
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2. Dodie Bellamy Cunt Norton(Les Figues)
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3. Luna Miguel Bluebird and other Tattoos(Scrambler Books)
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4. John Ashbery Quick Question(Harper Collins)
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4. Mira Gonzalez i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together(Sorry House)
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5. Steve Roggenbuck if you dont love the moon, your an asshole(lief)
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6. Joseph Ceravolo Collected Poems(Wesleyan University Press)
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7. Grant Maierhofer Ode to a Vincent Gallo Nightingale(Drunk Uncle/Black Coffee)
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9. Walter Mackey i want to die peacefully in my sleep like that old lady from titanic but i want celine dion to sing my heart will go on after i die and not have some chick just hum it like in the movie or whatever because my life is already a big disappointment(plain wrap press)
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10. Robert Siek Purpose & Devil Piss(Sibling Rivalry)
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11. A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton(The Song Cave)
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12. Moon Tzu autumn of my youth(self-published)
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13. Ron Padgett Collected Poems(Coffee House)
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14. Paul Celan Corona: Selected Poems(Station Hill)
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15. Daniel Bailey Gather Me(Scrambler Books)
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16. Daniel Toumine The Hack Scribbler(self-published)
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Books (nonfiction)
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Peter Sotos Mine(Nine-Banded Books), Wayne Koestenbaum My 1980s & Other Essays(FSG), Christopher Higgs Becoming Monster(Tape-bound), Jamie Iredell I was a Fat Drunk Catholic School Insomniac(Future Tense), Hilton Als White Girls(McSweeneys), Michael Salerno & Peter Sotos Home (Kiddiepunk), Debra Kelly & Madeleine Renouard Barbara Wright: Translation as Art(Dalkey Archive), Roger Clarke A Natural History of Ghosts(Penguin), Will Alexander Singing In Magnetic Hoofbeat (Essay Press), Stacey D'Erasmo The Art of Intimacy: The Space Between(Graywolf), Tosh Berman Sparks-Tastic: Twenty-One Nights with Sparks in London(Rare Bird Books),...
Music
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1. Vår No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers(Sacred Bones)
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2. Death Grips Government Plates(DG)
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3. The Haxan Cloak Excavation(Tri Angle)
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4. Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven(Warp)
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5. Julia Holter Loud City Song(Domino)
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6. Moonface Julia with Blue Jeans On(Jagjaguwar)
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7. Tim Hecker Virgins(Kranky)
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8. Castavet Obsidian(Profound Lore)
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9. Robert Pollard Honey Locust Honky Tonk(GbV)
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10.Iceage You're Nothing(Matador)
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11. Aki Onda Cassette Memories Vol. 3: South of the Border(Important)
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12. Guided by Voices English Little League(Fire)
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13. Laurel Halo Chance of Rain(Hyperdub)
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14. Deerhunter Monomania(4AD)
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15. Wire Change Becomes Us(Pink Flag)
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16. My Bloody Valentine mbv(MBV)
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17. ÄÄNIPÄÄ Through A Pre-Memory(Editions Mego)
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18. Deafheaven Sunbather (Deathwish)
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19. Pharmakon Abandon(Sacred Bones)
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20. Burial Rival Dealer (Hyperdub)
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Film
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1. Terrence Malick To the Wonder
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2. Shane Carruth Upstream Color
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3. Carlos Reygadas Post Tenebras Lux
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4. Harmony Korine Spring Breakers
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5. Joshua Oppenheimer The Act of Killing
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6. Michael Salerno Silence
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7. Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel Leviathan
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8. Jim Jarmusch Only Lovers Left Alive
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9. Ryan Trecartin Center Jenny
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10. Jean-Marie Straub Un Conte de Michel Montagne
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11. James Batley Kneels Through the Dark
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12. Bruno Dumont Camille Claudel 1915
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13. Rachel Maclean Over the Rainbow 1915
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Art
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1. James Turrell Perceptual Cell(LACMA)
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2. Nakaya Ukichiro Museum of Snow and Ice (Kagaonsen, Japan)
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3. Mike Kelley @ Stedelijk Museum(Amsterdam)
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4. Gretchen Bender Tracking the Thrill(The Kitchen)
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5. Torbjorn Vejvi The object without is the object within(Glendale Community College Art Gallery)
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6. Chichu Museum(Naoshima, Japan)
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7. Pierre Huyghe(Centre Pompidou)
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8. Richard Hawkins @ Richard Telles Fine Art(Los Angeles)
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9. Fujiko Nakaya Permanent Clouds(Chateau Chaumont-sur-Loire)
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10. Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Promenade dans la salle des marquees(Palais de Tokyo)
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11. Jason Meadows @ Marc Foxx Gallery(Los Angeles)
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12. Scott Treleaven All-Nite Cinema(Invisible Exports, NYC)
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13. Chris Marker Planète Marker (Centre Pompidou)
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14. Philippe Parreno Anywhere, Anywhere Out of the World(Palais de Tokyo)
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15. Keiichiro Shibuya/Hatsune Miku The End (Theatre du Chatelet)
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Internet
in no order
espresso bongo
THE NEATO MOSQUITO SHOW
Cutty Spot
Harriet: The Blog
Fanzine
Unsaid
Alt Lit Gossip
i am alt lit
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Isola di Rifiuti
pantaloons
Beach Sloth
HTMLGIANT
Tiny Mix Tapes
UbuWeb
Bright Lights Film Journal
Other People with Brad Listi
Joe Brainard's Pajamas (The Sequel)
If we don't, remember me
Yuck 'n Yum
Locus Solus: The New York School of Poets
THEM, a trans* lit journal
giphy
prosthetic knowledge
The Quietus
The Wonderful World of TamTam Books
bright stupid confetti
weeatherhead
Illuminati Girl Gang
Shabby Doll House
mammal/habitat
Pop Serial
Grand Text Auto
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p.s. Hey. Just to add my pile of 2013 faves to all the other piles out there. And I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch of things that would be listed if my memory had fully cooperated with me. And, most importantly, please, if you don't mind, tell me some of your favorite things of the year in return, please? Thank you. ** Scunnard, Ha ha, yes. I'm really good, thanks for asking. Oh, cool, a quick glance at that guy's linked work really intrigued me, so I'll go spend a bunch of time with it in a bit. Thank you yet again, sir. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi, David. Oh, I keep forgetting to say that, first of all, immense thanks to you for sending along the 'RBH' excerpt. It's really beautiful, and I'll be be very proud to share it here on the blog on Saturday, the 28th! ** Bill, Hi. Okay, so Santacon is precisely what it sounded like it would be. Sort of a homebound, quirky, winter-bound Spring Break meets Burning Man without the spiritual overlay and sunburning and getting laid aspect or something? Kind of gross. Unlike Paul Reubens Day. That seems nice for the obvious reasons. Oh, how was Pere Ubu? What are they like/doing nowadays in their live incarnation? I was just thinking about Tim Wright from PU Mach One the other day. ** Steevee, Hey. Wow, a you-centric motherlode today. Great, okay, I will indulge in all of that shortly, and, for now ... Everyone, a bunch of great stuff for you to check out today from the mighty Steevee. First, here's his review of a film called 'Beatocello's Umbrella' from/in the Village Voice, and, secondly, here, most appropriately for today, is his 2013 film top 10 list, courtesy indieWIRE, and, finally, here's Steevee weighing in on Spike Jonze's new film 'Her'. ** _Black_Acrylic, Woo-hoo, Ben! I excitedly await my package! It might be my only Xmas gift this year, so it'll mean even more than it might. Thank you! And, oh, no, the day has come. What a simultaneously lovely and sombre day. Okay, ... Everyone, even the greatest things come to an end, they say, and today is the end of the wonderful Yuck 'n Yum zine, co-edited by _B_A, which has been kind of the DC's official adopted zine for many years, and, yeah, sad. But, on the other hand, there's the issue itself, which is no doubt packed with incredible must-see/read goodies, and it's here, right here. Go there and get an amazing rush while paying your respects. Thank you. ** Aaron Mirkin, Hi, Aaron! I look forward to my thoughts too. I'll be sure to share the info on the screenings here on the blog when the dates, etc. are announced because this place does have a fair amount of Parisian readers. Take care, sir. ** Toniok, Hey, man! Thank you so much again for yesterday. It was an awesome discovery. You rule. I did read 'The Wanderers' a long, long time ago, and I liked it a whole bunch. I haven't thought about that novel in years. I'm going to go look at it again. Thanks, buddy, and you have a truly splendid day! ** Martin Bladh, Hi, Martin! I sent you the two new answers this morning. Thank you, thank you. ** MyNeighbourJohnTurtorro, Hi, man. I gotcha. Sounds Paris-like, except I don't think they have carolers here, come to think of it. That's interesting. Yeah, the Pharmakon is great. Do you like Puce Mary? List time is right now. I know, we'll see about Vår. We also have a dream of either them or Iceage actually appearing/performing in the movie in this one scene that takes place at a gig, and Elias likes my books, so there's that 'in', but that's surely a dream too far. But we're going to try. ** Paul Curran, Cool, yes! ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hi, Jeff. Great popcorn + zoo story. I'm really glad I asked. Whoa. Nah, I haven't order the Wooster DVDs. It being Xmas, and me being focused on buying Xmas presents, it feels especially daunting to buy myself something at the moment. So let me know what they're like, please. Wow, that's amazing news about that Re:Voir Clementi DVD. Totally wow. I know of the film from scouring the more obscure corners of Clementi's CV, but I never thought I would get to see it. Now that's something I will buy for myself when it comes out, and giftees be damned. Very, very cool news. Thank you, man. ** Misanthrope, Doh! Ah, NYC in the rain. Uh, charming or its opposite. I think its opposite. Some cities are swell in the rain (Paris, LA) and some are just wet. 15 pounds? What've you been eating, buddy? It is winter. That does happen. There is a reason, biologists say. But 15 might be a pillow too many. Get that shit off yourself. NYC in the rain might start doing the trick. Yeah, I haven't seen LPS's videos yet because one of my brothers is visiting me, and yesterday was spent showing him Paris, but today I think I'm freer. ** Chris Dankland, Hi, Chris! Great to see you, my friend! Thank you so much for putting my poem in the MOSQUITO year-end thing. I was majorly honored. It was a great thing full of great things. I'm doing really well, thanks. The 'porn' film: Right now, we're finishing up the 'package', which is basically an illustrated pdf thing that states our intentions, casting and location plans, art direction ideas, etc. to present to the funders. And we're hoping we can nail down a production manager in the next couple of weeks to supervise the technical and casting stuff and oversee the shoot itself. So, we're in heavy prep mode in hopes of getting the advance stuff fairly in place before we go to Japan in early January. Dabs ... I've seen that term, but I wasn't completely sure what it referred to. That's interesting. Huh, cool. If imbibing THC didn't give me a mild nervous breakdown, I might try it. I agree with you totally about the impending legality thing. I think for sure. I understand the appeal of being sober since I've been basically sober for a long time and really, really digging it and really enjoying seeing writing and other people and life as the most exciting sensorial input. Dude, so good to see you! Do you have any 2013 favorite things you want to share? ** Okay. Please so spill on some of your 2013 faves, if you don't mind. That would be very cool. See both you and hopefully what things you liked tomorrow.