Books (fiction)
in no order
Mark Doten The Infernal(Graywolf Press)
Joy Williams The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories(Knopf)
Derek McCormack The Well-Dressed Wound(Semiotext(e))
M Kitchell Spiritual Instrument(Civil Coping Mechanisms)
xTx Today I Am A Book(Civil Coping Mechanisms)
Jeremy M. Davies Fancy(Ellipsis Press)
Edouard Leve Newspaper (Dalkey Archive Press)
Sean Kilpatrick Sucker June(Lazy Fascist)
Lucia Berlin A Manual for Cleaning Women(FSG)
Eileen Myles Chelsea Girls(Ecco)
Darby Larson Ohey!(Civil Coping Mechanisms)
Mark Gluth The Goners(Kiddiepunk Press)
Lidia Yuknavitch The Small Backs of Children(Harper Collins)
Katie Jean Shinkle The Arson People(Civil Coping Mechanisms)
Sarah Jean Alexander Wildlives(Big Lucks)
James Nulick VALENCIA(Nine Banded Books)
Brandi Wells This Boring Apocalypse(Civil Coping Mechanisms)
Gregory Howard Hospice(FC2)
Tosh Berman June 1, 2014(Synaesthesia Press)
Molly Gaudry Desire: A Haunting(Ampersand Books)
Pierre Guyotat In the Deep(Semiotext(e))
Steven Millhauser Voices in the Night (Knopf)
Matthew Timmons Terrifying Photo(Wonder)
Ashley Farmer The Farmacist(Jellyfish Highway Press)
Anne Garréta Sphinx(Deep Vellum)
Sean H. Doyle This Must Be the Place(Civil Coping Mechanisms)
James Champagne Autopsy of an Eldritch City: Ten Tales of Strange & Unproductive Thinking(Rebel Satori Press)
Michael J. Seidlinger The Strangest(Or Books)
Johannes Goransson The Sugar Book(Tarpaulin Sky Books)
Grant Maierhofer Postures(Publication Studio/Fellow Travelers Series)
Urs Allemann The Old Man and the Bench(Dalkey Archive)
Oliver Mol Lion Attack!(Scribe)
Maggie Nelson The Argonauts(Graywolf Press)
Books (poetry)
in no order
Amy Gerstler Scattered at Sea(Penguin Books)
Elaine Equi Sentences and Rain(Coffee House)
Eileen Myles I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014(Ecco)
Ben Fama Fantasy(Ugly Duckling Presse)
Ron Padgett Alone and Not Alone(Coffee House Press)
Noah Cicero Bipolar Cowboy(Lazy Fascist)
John Ashbery Breezeway(Ecco)
Sonya Vatomsky Salt is for Curing(Sator)
Bhanu Kapil Ban en Banlieue(Nightboat Books)
John Wieners Supplication: Selected Poems(Wave Books)
Thomas Moore Skeleton Costumes (expanded edition)(Kiddiepunk)
Harry E Northup East Hollywood: Memorial to Reason(Cahuenga Press)
Leopoldine Core Veronica Bench(Coconut Books)
Richard Siken War of the Foxes(Copper Canyon Press)
Bernadette Mayer Eating The Colors Of A Lineup Of Words: The Early Books(Station Hill)
Heather Christie Heliopause(Wesleyan)
Corina Copp The Green Ray(Ugly Duckling Presse)
Nathaniel Mackey Blue Fasa(New Directions)
Susie Timmons Superior Packets(Wave Books)
Paul Cunningham Goal/Tender Meat/Tender(Horse Less Press)
Alice Notley Benediction(Letter Machine Editions)
Lewis Warsh Alien Abduction(Ugly Duckling Presse)
Mike Krutel Fogland(Magic Helicopter)
Books (nonfiction)
in no order
Joyelle McSweeney The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults(University of Michigan Press)
Dodie Bellamy When the Sick Rule the World(Semiotext(e))
Gary Lutz The Gotham Grammarian(Calamari Press)
Lucy K Shaw The Motion(421 Atlanta)
Jamie Iredell Last Mass(Civil Coping Mechanisms)
Gary Indiana I Can Give You Anything But Love(Rizzoli)
Janice Lee Reconsolidation: Or, it’s the ghosts who will answer you(Penny-Ante Editions)
Aaron Apps Intersex(Tarpaulin Sky)
Brian Oliu I/O: A Memoir(Civil Coping Mechanisms)
Mira Gonzalez and Tao Lin Selected Tweets(Short Flight/Long Drive Books)
Jarrett Earnest and Isabelle Sorrell, Editors For Bill, Anything(Pressed Wafer)
Wayne Koestenbaum The Pink Trance Notebooks(Nightboat)
Dale Peck Visions and Revisions(Soho Press)
Ken Baumann Earthbound(Boss Fight Books)
Michael Kimball Galaga(Boss Fight Books)
Matt Bell Baldur's Gate II (Boss Fight Books)
Ashly and Anthony Burch Metal Gear Solid(Boss Fight Books)
Gabe Durham Bible Adventures(Boss Fight Books)
Music
in no order
F ingers Hide Before Dinner
Sunn0))) Kannon
Oneohtrix Point Never Garden of Delete
Chelsea Wolff Abyss
Helena Hauff Discreet Desires
Dalglish Oidhche
RSS BoYS HDDN
Death Grips The Powers That B
Blanck Mass Dumb Flesh
Locrian InfiniteDissolution
Years of Abuse The Social Order
Alex G Beach Music
Deerhunter Fading Frontier
Wire Wire
John Wiese Deviate From Balance
Sauna Youth Distractions
Prurient Frozen Niagara Falls
Deafheaven New Bermuda
Ricked Wicky King Heavy Metal
The Inward Circles BELATED MOVEMENTS FOR AN UNSANCTIONED EXHUMATION AUGUST 1ST 1984
Thomas Brinkmann What You Hear (Is What You Hear)
Secret Circuit Cosmic Vibrations
Holly Herndon Platform
William Basinski Cascade
Container LP
Thee Oh Sees Mutilator Defeated At Last
Loke Rahbek & Puce Mary The Female Form
Dr. Yen Lo Days With Dr. Yen Lo
Robert Pollard Faulty Superheroes
Katie Dey asdfasdf
Shit and Shine 54-Synth-Brass 38 Metal Guitar 65 Cathedral
Film
in no order
Philippe Grandieux Malgré la nuit
Roy Andersson A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting On Existence
Crystal Moselle The Wolfpack
Joshua Oppenheimer The Look of Silence
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Cemetery of Splendor
Chantal Akerman No Home Movie
Aleksei German Hard To Be A God
James Benning natural history
Thom Andersen The Thoughts That Once We Had
Michael Salerno Elri Paints Himself as a Tornado
Stanya Kahn Don't Go Back to Sleep
Brad Peyton San Andreas
Art
in no order
Frances Stark UH-OH(The Hammer Museum, West LA)
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster 1887 - 2058(Centre Pompidou, Paris)
Trisha Donnelly(Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles)
Richard Hawkins New Work(Richard Telles, Los Angeles)
Henry Darger(Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris)
William Pope.L Trinket(MoCA, Los Angeles)
Charles Gaines Gridwork 1974-1989(The Hammer Museum, West Los Angeles)
Vincent Fecteau You Have Did the Right Thing When You Put That Skylight In(Kunsthalle Basel)
Bruce Nauman(Foundation Cartier, Paris)
Thomas Demand Pacific Sun(LACMA)
Agnes Martin(Tate Modern, London)
Chris Burden (Gagosian Gallery Le Bourget, Paris)
John Williams Halved and Quartered(Brennan & Griffin, NYC)
Inside(Palais de Tokyo)
Internet
in no order
Queen Mob's Teahouse
dark fucking wizard
Fanzine
Entropy
Enclave
espresso bongo
The Quietus
American Chordata
Broken Grey Wires
FUCKED BY NOISE
Solar Luxuriance
open culture
3:AM Magazine
largehearted boy
NEW WAVE VOMIT
THE NEATO MOSQUITO SHOW
Documentary Addict
Cutty Spot
Harriet: The Blog
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Isola di Rifiuti
pantaloons
Beach Sloth
Tiny Mix Tapes
UbuWeb
Other People with Brad Listi
Joe Brainard's Pajamas (The Sequel)
If we don't, remember me
Locus Solus: The New York School of Poets
giphy
The Wonderful World of TamTam Books
Illuminati Girl Gang
Shabby Doll House
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p.s. Hey. ** Kiddiepunk, M-ster! Very happy to have fed you! Talk later! ** Jonathan, Hi, J. Starting my day with two yays in a row is so nice, thank you. Ubu, yeah, good call. The snow's sneaking away already? We haven't gotten a flake here yet. I didn't get to taste the bonus buche, but I hear tell that it was a sugary mouth spa. Was your weekend bon? Mine was boon more than bon. Not extremely boon, but boon enough-ish. ** Oriol Rovira Grañen, Hi, welcome, very nice to see you! Oh, awesome, I'm so glad you got to see 'LCTG' and that you liked it! Thank you a lot! Very cool! It's so true about 'Where is the Friend’s House?', right? Sublime. Well, gosh, have a great day, sir, and please do come back in here anytime that the mood strikes. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi, D. Oh, that is interesting about it being on Ozu's birthday. And, yes, the FN got trounced in the election! A lot of sighing in relief going on over here. Lots left to do, but, yeah, a huge relief, that. And now it's Birkin's birthday? Or it was yesterday, I guess? HBD! Well, I'll have to learn French a billion times better than I currently know French to be able to do that, but, yes it's a smart idea. I'm actually going to start 'proper' French learning this week via an app. Fingers crossed. ** Steevee, Hi, Steve. I don't know Mohsin Makhmalbaf's work. I will look into straight away. Well, re: AFA, after an initial change of friendly emails and a promise from him to let me know very soon, he has been ignoring my emails and giving me the silent treatment. So I guess the answer is no? He did say in that initial exchange that there might be a possibility for the next calendar. It would be nice to get some kind of response from him, positive, negative, or otherwise. Anyway, no matter what, Zac and I both greatly appreciate your very kind help. ** Bill, Nolan should only make 8 minute movies. Wait, 5, no, 3. Yeah, 3. Did you go see that film after all? I really want to see that somehow. That has fascinating potential, obviously. ** Liquoredgoat, Hi, Douglas. 'Close-Up' is great. I recommend 'Shirin' too. So simple but so mesmerizing. If Korine had directed 'Kids', it would have been a different story. Still, the only two Larry Clark films I like much are the two Korine-written ones: 'Kids' and, moreso, 'Ken Park'. Serious advance finger crossing on the grad school acceptances. Surely, they'll recognize their golden goose as soon as they read about him. ** Misanthrope, Hi, G. Hm, to kind of echo Steevee, saying Ocean has faded is awfully preemptory. He's between records. You mean fading because his in-between time isn't being continually tracked by tabloids and paparazzi? He's being mentioned and discussed plenty enough. And I see stuff in the media about Sam Smith all the time. It sounds like you're asking for some openly gay pretty boy ubiquitous celebrity who happens to sing and release popular hits. I don't think that would have much of any effect on general homophobia, if that's what you're thinking. There have been very popular Black pop stars since the 1950s if not even earlier, and, well, look around you. Racism against Blacks is as bad as ever. I find the homogenizing and mainstreaming of queerness so uninteresting, personally. Let young gay kids find and idolize Antony, Ocean, Owen Pallett, Stephen Merritt, Edward Droste of Grizzly Bear, Bob Mould, Jonsi from Sigur Ross, that guy from Against Me, Matmos, and on and on and on. Let them have interesting, unique artists who happen to be openly gay as their role models. Have a blast and a half in NYC, but I think I'll probably talk with you before you split maybe. ** Bernard Welt, Ha, ha. Xx. ** White tiger, Math! Thank you! Any progress on the music project? ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, B. Neutral ... that's an interesting thing to imagine. I'm serious. That show and party-type event looks to have been fun upon fun. ** Thomas Moronic, Hey! I was a latecomer to his work too. And I think due to the urgings of the very same cheerleader. I'm glad you're going to get a break, and not just for our sake here, but there is that. You hanging out more would be booty. ** Flit, Hi. Really? I was the first? That phrase just popped inside my head like a balloon when I typed it so it must be applicable, right? Did Years & Years try to break in the States? Well, of course they would have. Sam Smith is as dull as the dullest dishwater as far as I'm concerned. Morning! ** Sypha, Hi. Sam Smith's looks are the least of his problems, ha ha. ** Okay. As you see, I got my thoughts together and picked out my favorites of the year today. Obviously, there's a bunch of stuff I haven't read, seen, or heard yet that would probably be up there too, but so goes list-making. I would love to hear what some of your favorites were/are from this year, so please pony up. See you tomorrow.