Books
(in no order)
1. Christopher Higgs The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney (Sator)
2. Zachary German Eat When You Feel Sad (Melville House)
3. Ben Brooks An Island of Fifty (Mud Luscious Press)
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4. Pierre Guyotat Coma (Semiotexte)
5. Justin Taylor Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever (Harper Perennial)
6. Laurence Lillvik Tongues Tied to Anchors (The Cartophile Imprint)
7. Joshua Cohen Witz (Dalkey Archive)
8. James Greer The Failure (Akashic)
9. Mike Young We are All Good if They Try Enough (Publishing Genius)
10. James Schuyler Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems (Farar, Straus and Giroux)
Music
(in no order)
1. Owen Pallett Heartland (Domino)
2. Crystal Castles Crystal Castles (Fiction)
3. Locrian Territories (At War With False Noise)
4. Robert Pollard Moses on a Snail (GbV)
5. Emeralds Does It Look Like I'm Here? (Mego)
6. Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record (Arts & Crafts)
7. Xathsur Portal of Sorrow (Disharmonic Variations)
8. Pacific Blush Fashion Chrysalis (Japanese Alice)
9. Ariel Pink Before Today (4AD)
10. Oneohtrix Point Never Returnal (Mego)
Film
(in no order)
1. Gaspar Noe Enter the Void
2. Wes Anderson Fantastic Mr. Fox
3. Christophe Honore Non ma fille, tu n'iras pas danser
4. Jean-Luc Godard Film Socialisme
5. Patrick Chiha Domaine
6. Ryan Trecartin P.opular S.ky
7. Todd Solondz Life During Wartime
8. Unknown 181_HotFuckingSex
9. Sylvain Chomet/Jacques Tati L'Illusionist
Visual Art
(in no order)
1. Sturtevant The House of Horrors (Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris)
2. Nemo (Centquatre, Paris)
3. Alex Rose Withdrawal (Envoy Enterprises, NYC)
4. Crime et chatiment (Musee d'Orsay, Paris)
5. Scott Treleaven Cimitero Drawings (Marc Selwyn Gallery, LA)
6. Federico Fellini La Grande Parade (Jeu de Paume, Paris)
7. Vincent Fecteau (greengrassi, London)
8. Crazy Horse (Palais de Tokyo, Paris)
9. Dreamlands (Centre Pompidou, Paris)
Web
(in no order)
espresso bongo
North of Onhava
The Evening Redness in the West
A Journey Round My Skull
Silliman's Blog
HTMLGIANT
Transductions
bright stupid confetti
Fanzine
Captain Crawl
Ubuweb
Flatmancrooked
oh, renoir
The Wonderful World of Tam Tam Books
Waiting for John
David E's FaBlog
Memoirs of a Heroinhead
Yuck 'n Yum
Voorface
Floored
the purest of treats
'Stoopid Slapped Puppies'
sometimes they don't come back
little presents from the floating world
THE RE-BLOG
FLESH WORLD
antonio
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p.s. RIP: Sebastian Horlsey. Not fair, not fair at all. Here's a very beautiful remembrance of Mr. Horlsey by the great writer and the blog's own Tony O'Neill that I strongly recommend to you whether you knew Horlsey and his work or not. Hey. I post those lists with trepidation since I just know I'm forgetting some obvious highlights. Anyway, point is I want to hear what you guys have particularly liked this year so far. ** Killer Luka, I can tell. ** Tonyoneill, Oh, Tony, I'm so sorry. It's such terrible, terrible news. I met him once briefly when he came to see 'Jerk' in London with Carrie last year, and even though we barely exchanged words, he just dazzled the hell out of me. Such presence, such a fascinating and noble guy, such a wonderful book. Your tribute to him at 3AM is amazing, man. Take care, Tony, hang in there, and lots of love from me. ** David Ehrenstein, Nice Joan Rivers and, well, Tony Holland anecdote. Is Tony the one singing in the clip? He was great in it, in the film. Okay, if I come across that lad, I'll sing your praises and make sure to have some chloroform handy just in case. ** Tosh, Great, lovely remembrance of Sebastian Horlsey. Thank you, Tosh. ** Alan, Hey. ** Sypha, Well, that's two of you who thought the Ellis dropped off. Yikes. I won't ask you why because I don't want to prejudice my reading of it at all, but I'll be interested to talk more about it with you once I have. ** Stan_cz, Hear you, man. I will say that at least the WC isn't mostly the excuse for a parade of overhyped commercials and mini-concerts by mostly fading rock superstars with a new album to flog. At least it's an event that appears to be about what it's actually about. ** Steevee, The Rivers doc sounds worth it. The melancholy you mention is the biggest pull for me. ** Oscar B, Hey. What's up up there? ** Dooflow, Oh, Danielle, thanks. That'll help. Weird you mention Eljiah Burgher 'cos I just put together a future blog post about his work not two days ago. Yeah, he's very cool and a friend/comrade of my friend and fellow Recollet resident, the artist Scott Treleaven, whose work I'm imagining you know. ** Jesse Hudson, Hey. I think that either SH was working on a book or was being coaxed into writing another book by the Harper Perennial people, I can't remember which. ** Memoirs of a Heroinhead, Hi, Shane. A fucked up, wrong death for sure. Really glad to hear you've been busy painting. I'm busy with my shit too. Here's a high, busy five and all that. Well, yeah, you bet I'll give your new blog a shout and a half, man. Can't wait to see it myself, obviously. ** Bollo, Hey, J. Good to see you. My brain is on the edge of going bye bye too. Here's a high, brain dead five to you and all that. Yeah, awesome book: 'Foul Perfection'. I bet Mike could write a helluva novel. I tried to suggest he should a few times, but he just squawked and cackled at me like he does. I just saw that HTMLG thing about your friend yesterday, although I haven't had the minutes available to watch the clips yet. Will do. Everyone, Bollo alerts us to a post over on the mighty HTMLGIANT about and featuring the work of his pal the artist Joan Healy. Please join me in getting to know her stuff starting here. ** Oliver, Hey, man. Oh, your piece on 'Trash Humpers' looks just fantastic. I can't wait to read it immediately post-p.s. I love what you're doing, writing, etc., over on Voorface in general. Everyone, the writer, thinker, player, watcher and d.l. of high note Oliver has written a long, rich review and think-piece on Harmony Korine's 'Trash Humpers' over on his sterling Voorface blog, and you owe it to yourselves to spend some time with it. Thanks, Oliver. Oh, obviously, if a post for here happens with interest for you, that would be really great. Thank you for that too. Any preliminary thoughts about the arrival of Nintendo's and Playstation's 3D systems/games? ** JW Veldhoen, Hey, John. Very, very, very curious about this essay/review of course. Keep me up. ** _Black_Acrylic, Tonight's the night, eh? The return of Yuck 'n Yum and, just as momentous, of the legendary Ben 'Jack Your Body' Robinson. Do alert us about all such things as soon as an alert is possible. I want vid of B'JYB'R whirling the discs. ** Chris (British), Well, the WC was the drug of choice until the disaster last night. The hangover starts today. Go New Zealand! ** Pilgarlic, Hey. Oh, audio will do just fine. Thanks. There was one Atlanta venue I especially loved, although I can't remember its name for the life of me. If your fellow Atlantan Casey McKinney is in eyeshot today, he'll know, 'cos we saw Fugazi play there back in the mid-ish 90s. Kind of a warehouse-y place. Not sure if it's still in use. I heard a track or maybe two of that How to Destroy Angels project album, and it didn't do much for me, but I'm not a big Reznor guy. ** The Dreadful Flying Glove, I need to hear you play 'Witchita Lineman' on the piano. What's that gonna take? You know, I've been meaning to get 'The Yard Went on Forever' for, well, forever. I think you've just pushed me over the edge. Webb still does stuff, right? Any good? I should do a La Monte Young Day. ** Justin, Yury has his eye on some camera that's supposedly top notch and cheap too. A Canon, I think. It's digital. I'm not sure if you're going for digital. Anyway, I could ask him what the camera in question is, if you'd like. ** David, Hey. ** Colin, Hi, Colin. Nice portrait of SH. I know the name Ian Bruce from somewhere, so maybe I know his work a bit, hm. I'll check more of his site when I'm done here. Everyone, courtesy of the very fine poet, writer, and d.l. Colin, here's a portrait of the newly and tragically late Sebastian Horlsey by the artist Ian Bruce. Very cool about the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop gig. Just breathe deeply and you'll blow them away. ** Statictick, Hey. Oh, ugh, the theater rehearsing, etc. work was so intensive and lengthy that day that I was prevented from seeing Wire, and I'm still kind of crushed. Dude, sucks intensely about the new back pain. As back pain semi-regular, I think there are few worse body attacks. Hope that gets settled and dashed asap. Haven't heard a word before about 'Airdoll'. Hm. Can't imagine its theatrical reach will extend over over here. ** Nb, Hey, bud. ** Trees, Hey there, Trees. Splendiferous to see you. I saw somewhere, maybe Facebook, that you were reading in NYC, and I thought, Huh! Does where you work have a website, hopefully with 24/7 cam for its patrons who are otherwise indisposed? Well, that's cool about the underwater welder guy. If he's still 'the underwater welder guy' and not, like, 'sweetie pie' or something, it must be pretty hot. I mean, go for it, why not? Cool. I'm well. Even weller (not as in Paul) now that you've checked back in. ** Postitbreakup, Hey. No, no stabs of bad memories, don't worry. Your need to escape the circumstances is totally understandable, and I know alcohol does the trick, and I'm not going to preach about quitting it because I don't understand alcohol or your situation nearly enough. Me, I wish you'd escape into your creativity and write or use it in some other way because it's so much more productive an escape, and I guess also because that's what I do, but I know you find working with your talent difficult enough that it's not the kind of immediate escape you want. Look, you can post here when you're drunk if you want. It's not some terrible thing for the blog or anything. And you're often fun and lively here in that state. Sometimes there seems to come a point where your comments become cries for help. Those are difficult because you seem to forget precisely what this place is, and you start asking for something unfeasible from the wrong person in the wrong place. But your commenting while inebriated is no better or worse now than it was years ago. The idea that you were somehow cuter or more charming when you were younger is just you beating yourself up. It holds no truth for me. You're well liked here, always have been, and your fantasy that you're not liked here is one of the big problems. You can work all this stuff through here on the blog. It's one of your homes, and you're greatly cared about by me and others, but just try to remember what gets you into trouble with yourself when you're here, and do your best to keep the reality and unreality of this place separate if you can. ** Rigby, Okey-doke. ** Inthemostpeculiarway, Hm, Sarah Michele Gellar is in that movie. Weird. I mean weird I didn't know about it. She seems to have finally lost the teen simulacra look. She looks a little like what's-her-name who just married Harrison Ford in some shots. I'm so very curious to find out about this drop in quality in the middle of Bret's book. Hm. Gerard Butler in 'Citizen Kane' was funny. Well, if my exile sounded ultra-French, your nap in the shade sounded very Texan in the good way. It did. I will watch 'True Blood' as soon as I'm able. When my novel's finished, life will begin again. Oh, hold on. Everyone, Itmpw linked everyone here to this clip of a song by Snoop Dog about 'True Blood', and I pass it along to those of you who haven't found the secret entrance to the comments section. My day: The water pressure isn't as bad as Yury said. He just didn't try twisting the nozzle. My novel was more cooperative, thankfully. It took up a lot of my day, as usual. The Monop supermarket-ette where I buy my non-vegetarian-specific food stop carrying the pre-made egg salad sandwiches I love and am addicted to yesterday, and that was a terrible shock. Now they only sell these knotty looking sandwiches full of meat. That made me mopey for a while. Gisele's already in Brest working on 'TIHYWD', and she called with an update. All is on track. I'll join her and the crew there on Tuesday. I read some more of some things I'm reading: 'Coma', 'An Island of Fifty' (see: above lists), and future novels by Blake Butler and Justin Taylor, each of them a windfall of greatness. That blocked phone number person called me three times. In fact, he or she just called me again not one minute ago. Wtf?! Hey, blocked phone number person, if you're out there, I'm never going to take your call if you don't leave me a voice message first, okay? Uh, I watched France get destroyed by Mexico in the World Cup match. Ouch. By then, night had fallen pretty hard, putting me ultimately to sleep. Your turn, my fine feathered friend. ** Bill, I have a call in to the powers that be. I talked to Gisele, and she doesn't know if the shows are sold out, although she said it is possible. She said I should be able to reserve a ticket for you through the company without too much trouble. I'm sure I'll hear back from the company person today, and, if Gisele's right, I'll just go ahead and reserve you a ticket for ... err, the 13th, right? And I'll let you know as soon as it's secured. ** 'Stoopid Slapped Puppies', What a time to mix up your drugs, man. I won't tell France. It'll be our little secret. So, for the Holland match today, how about taking whatever you took for the Switzerland-Spain match. That drug was quite a dandy. Thanks, swami. ** Schlix, Good morning, or, wait, probably good evening. ** Misanthrope, Oh, genre fiction, very good point. Yeah, I bet audience is a real player when you play that game. Interesting. Turow's scum. Doing books in hardcover at this point is ridiculous, although publishers do need all the income they can get these days, and hardcovers help fill the tills that keep them in business, and I can't really blame them for that. Fingers crossed for this mysterious new possible great thing in your life, man. Interesting. ** Little foal, Thanks for accepting my FB friendship. I never do hardly anything on my Facebook page. I always think I should warn people who friend me not to expect anything. Show me how it's done, man. I can't quite suss out what I could do there that I can't do better here, I guess. Hugs. ** L@rstonovich, Awesome show, bud. It was too good to waste on room cleaning impetus. I might go for another today. You finer than fine? ** I leave you with my interim faves lists, and give me your lists or tips or anything you like or not. Until tomorrow ...
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