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2012, 5/5/5

Here are my top five albums, movies, and books that I’ve listened to, watched, or read this year. This list will be on Anobium in a few days, but I wanted to share it here first.

Top 5 Albums
1. Gaza: No Absolutes in Human Suffering [2012]— A soundtrack for universal entropy. Heavy and dark as the Caspian Sea.

2. Old Man Gloom: No [2012]— I waited something like 10 years for this album, and it was well worth the wait. Functions as a mirror in special occasions.

3. Swans: The Seer [2012]— Michael Gira consistently creeps me out, and this album—cover-art included—gives me a classic case of the heebie jeebies, arousing some kind of Lynchian pleasure-in-self-loathing.

4. Sun Kil Moon: Among the Leaves [2012]— A Nick Drake iteration, minus the suicide (though there is a depressive current here). Plus, a song about Chicago.

5. Father John Misty: Fear Fun [2012]— I’m not a Fleet Foxes fan, but there’s something catchy about what the FF frontman is doing here. Maybe it’s the pseudo-religious aesthetic; can’t take nothin’ seriously.

Top 5 Movies
1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock) — The AFI put Vertigo at #1 this year, and the Siskel Film Center in Chicago screened an ultra-rare Technicolor IB version with original soundtrack. Worth it.
2. Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick) — So it’s not very new, and it’s not a very original choice, but it was my first time seeing it, and I saw it in a somewhat altered state, which made it pretty damn affecting.
3. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson) — Criticized for being obtuse, but who gives a fuck? Joaquin Phoenix is legit insane and cast perfectly, or imperfectly.
4. Breaking Bad: Season 5, Part 1 (Vince Gilligan) — Yes, I know, it’s not a movie, but it’s the penultimate entry in probably the most intense TV show ever made. Think of it like a serial movie, with a lot of violence and meth cooking.
5. Drive (Nicholas Winding Refn) — It came out in 2011, but I didn’t see it until 2012. Gosling eroto-mythos aside, this is a solid flick; not as solid as Refn’s Valhalla Rising, but still, totally cool (accept all nuance).
Top 5 Books
1. 2666 (Roberto Bolano) [2009]— No, it didn’t come out this year, but it has been on my list of longreads, and I finally did it, finishing it in about two weeks. Thematically, it’s a terrifying book, worthy to be matched with that Swans album I picked.
2. Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace) [2006]— Following up on that list of longreads, I finally tackled this behemoth as well.
3. HHhH (Laurent Binet) [2012]— Probably the most entertaining history book I’ve read, because it doesn’t take itself so damn seriously. A rare trait for an entry in the WW2/Nazi lore.
4. Revelations (Elaine Pagels) [2012]— In theological circles, Pagels might have a reputation for being kind of a pop-historian, but there’s some solid mythbusting happening here, shedding light on both historical and contemporary Christianity. A good read for everyone, and also for Christians.
5. Believing is Seeing (Errol Morris) [2011]— It’s good to know that Morris is just as good with a typewriter as he is with a camera.

Gore Vidal, 1925-2012

“The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.”

R.I.P.

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Nikolay Sazhin.

A White Bone, 1989. Colour pencil on paper, 56 x 76 cm.

Blue, 1989. Colour pencil on paper, 59 X 76 cm.

Green-Eyed, 1989. Colour pencil on paper, 56 x 76 cm.

Two and a Half, 1989. Colour pencil on paper, 56 x 76 cm.

 

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Tham and Videgard - Tree Hotel, 2012

Head in a Jar: Watching Artists

“That tension between wanting to erase oneself, becoming only the work yielded by the process of erasure, to find oneself not only more there than anybody else but also the subject of scrutiny, makes compelling narrative.”

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