Books
in no order
1. Blake Butler Ever (Calamari Press)
2. Abdellah Taia Salvation Army (Semiotext(e))
3. Vanessa Place & Robert Fitterman Notes on Conceptualisms (Ugly Duckling)
4. Patrick deWitt Ablutions (Norton)
5. Dodie Bellamy Barf Manifesto (Ugly Duckling)
6. Peter Sotos Public: The Collected Peter Sotos, Volume 2 (Creation Books)
7. Mary Gaitskill Don't Cry (Pantheon)
8. Brian Evenson Fugue State (Coffee House)
9. Brian Pera, editor Life as We Show It: Writing on Film (City Lights)
10. Jacques Roubaud The Loop (Dalkey Archive)
11. Louis-Ferdinand Celine Normance (Dalkey Archive)
12. Gary Indiana The Shanghai Gesture (Two Dollar Radio)
13. D.A. Powell & David Trinidad By Myself: An Autobiography (Turtle Point)
14. Ellen Kennedy Sometimes My Heart Pushes Through My Ribs (Muumuu House)
15. Thomas Moore Hospital (lulu)
Music
in no order
1. Sunn0))) Monoliths & Dimensions (Southern Lord)
2. Hecker Acid in the Style of David Tudor (Editions Mego)
3. Robert Pollard The Crawling Distance (Guided by Voices)
4. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)
5. Grizzly Bear Veckatimest (Warp)
6. Natural Numbers Ocean Ghosts (last.fm)
7. Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca (Domino)
8. Deerhunter Rainwater Cassette Exchange (Kranky)
9. Wavves Wavves (Fat Possum)
10. Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade (Southern Lord)
11. Boston Spaceships Planets Are Blasted (Guided by Voices)
12. Consumer Electronics Crowd Pleaser (Hand to Mouth)
13. Sonic Youth The Eternal (Matador)
Movies
in no order
1. Henry Jelick Coraline
2. Steve McQueen Hunger
3. Stephen Kijak Scott Walker: 30th Century Man
4. Peter Docter & Bob Peterson Up
5. Christophe Honore La Belle Personne
6. Scott Treleaven Last 7 Words
Live
in no order
1. Yves-Noel Genod Theatre Chaillot, Paris
2. John Williams Sister Gallery, Los Angeles
3. Jarvis Cocker Galerie Chappe, Paris
4. Une image petit cache une autre Grand Palais, Paris
5. Presences Electronique Centquatre, Paris
6. Sylvain Decloitre le Conservatoire, Paris
7. Jacques Tati: Deux Temps, Trois Mouvements La Cinematheque Francais
Internet
in no order
1. HTMLGIANT
2. UbuWeb
3. Put The Lotion In The Basket
4. The Rumpus
5. Silliman's Blog
6. Diane, A Shaded View on Fashion
7. Male Movies
8. Joe Brainard's Pajamas
9. Isola di Rifiuti
10. Milkboys
11. AmericanSuburbX
12. The Free Music Archive
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p.s. Hey. I'm hoping the post today will inspire you to share some of the things stamped 2009 that you've been liking the most. I'm certainly very interested to know, and I'm pretty sure most everyone else around here would be too. Thanks in advance for the input. So, I'm on route to the town of Belfort today where I'll be hold up working on the new theater piece through Thursday. I won't have internet access where I'm staying, but my plan is to get to the WiFi-enhanced rehearsal space -- otherwise known as the Centre Choreographique National de Franche-Comte a Belfort -- early every day whereupon I'll write the p.s. and launch the day's post before the heavy work gets going. The timing on when the posts will pop up is hard to predict at the moment, but they should appear fairly close to the time that they normally do when I'm in Paris. There's always the chance there'll be some kind of snag in my plan, but I'll try to alert you preemptively to any interference if I can do that. As usual when I'm in the midst of theater rehearsals, it's pretty likely that I'll be less talkative and in more of a rush than I normally am when typing the p.s., but I'll do my best. If the theater work is particularly interesting, I'll probably pass along anecdotes from the experience, and I'll almost certainly do a slideshow presentation of the week's activities at the end of the residency. I think that's the whole story for now. Have fine weekends both around here and elsewhere, and I'll see you on Monday.
