December 2009
63 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
Half Japanese (31)
David Byrne (12)
The Rolling Stones (10)
Feist and Ben Gibbard (10)
Nirvana (9)
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David Byrne: Miss America.
I found this weird...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
Dusty Springfield (25)
Tom Waits (15)
Ryan Adams (11)
Papa M (10)
Low/Dirty Three (7)
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“[12/10/09. Email from Justin:] Hi. I’m putting together a year-end post for...”
– HTMLGIANT / A Million Little Top 3’s: The 2009 List of Lists
These are some well-read and well-writing people and there are lots of good ideas here for things we should read.
Buck Owens: Christmas Time’s a-Comin’
...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →
Tom Waits (47)
Fennesz (18)
Neil Young (10)
Low/Dirty Three (9)
Papa M (9)
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Narratorial adjectives from first, eleventh,...
really, pretty, pretty, ugly, long, thin, splay-toed, yellow, little, thick, long, black, red, candy-striped, thick, white, wet, washed, shampooed, dark, whiny, big, thick, quite.
droopy, really, pretty, little, little, tiny, bright, wet-looking, wet, soaked.
very, crusty, well-lit, blue, brief.
great, really, animated, sick, old, new, personal, flat, wet, large.
open.
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incorrigible,...
“In Geertz’s essay, “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory...”
– Thick description.
lapetitebaobab: ifoundthis-yesidid: Dirty Three -...
Five Books I Read in 2009
Without any ordering.
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace
I started and haven’t finished Infinite Jest. I will. This book gave me a lot this year. So did David Foster Wallace. Rigorous, humble, light. This is a good book.
Vacation, Deb Olin Unferth
Surprises and not-irritating circumlocutions.
Sometimes My Heart Pushes My Ribs, Ellen Kennedy
I won...
Bored.
sianbeeton:
I am bored of blogs which are made up of just lots and lots of re-blogs from lookbook. There are only so many skinny girls, all looking the same, that I can look at before I want to go make myself have an eating disorder (and slap the people who feel the need to re-blog these things all the god damn time.)
Unfollow is my favourite thing lately — helps you curate your stream...
“So – much as I’d like to press that button and get the hardback of Wolf...”
– Liz Hoggard: Support a local bookshop this Christmas.
walkwhilereading:
The New Yorker has an excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King ‘All That’. I couldn’t bring myself to read a word of it.
Same.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6) →
Bill Callahan (29)
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (25)
Ryan Adams (20)
Neil Young (13)
Dirty Projectors (9)
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I went to see A Serious Man.
We went for burritos first. They were tasty. The guacamole was fresh but not spicy enough. In the cinema people were talking about what seats they had. We watched some adverts. There weren’t really any good ones. I had Choc Chip Poppets. They tasted weird. I didn’t finish them. The film started. It was not how I expected it to start. It was intriguing. It made me think about how it...
Thee Fair-Ohs: Summer Lake.
It will be nice when...
Trying to sell hardback fiction books at work,...
Some of my best friends are gay. Some of my favourite books are hardbacks.
Richard Yates, 'The Best of Everything' -- how a...
‘She blazed to her feet, but the cry that was meant for a woman’s appeal came out, through her tightening lips, as the whine of a wife. “Can’t they wait?”’
— The bold is Grace; the italic is Ralph; the bold and italic is Grace, Ralph, and the narrator. Grace and Ralph are about to get married. Yates, through his extremely adept use of focalisation, shows...
The room of her body is the size and shape of her...
She spent most of her life not noticing that she was in it. Those were the good times, when she was on assignment, in some country where no one knew her, from which she would report back on mass casualties and her own safety. But there were other times — usually in New York, usually at parties — when there was nothing that wasn’t her body. She became claustrophobic in her tight...
Started a two-person writing club tonight.
Meets weekly.
“All in all, it is a terrible viewing experience. Boring when it’s not...”
– The Twilight Saga: New Moon « The Chiaroscuro Coalition