So long, 2013!
Song
Endless Boogie, Long Island (No Quarter)
Mammane Sani et son Orgue, La musique electronique du Niger (Sahel Sounds)
Steve Gunn, Time Off (Paradise of Bachelors)
One of You, s/t (Little Axe)
v/a, Delta Swamp Rock, vol. 1 (Soul Jazz) + v/a, Delta Swamp Rock, vol. 2 (Soul Jazz)
Majical Cloudz, Impersonator (Matador)
William Onyeabor, Who is William Onyeabor? (Luaka Bop)
[sample track: "Body and Soul"]
Mocky, Graveyard Novelas EP + Mocky "Make You Rich" video (featuring Hilary Gay & Pegasus Warning)
Roy Harper, Flashes from the Archives of Oblivion (Pathé Marconi/EMI)
[sample track: "Me and My Woman"]
Brian Eno & John Cale, "Spinning Away"
Space Art, "Love Machine"
Kurt Vile, Wakin on a Pretty Daze (Matador) + It's a Big World Out There (And I am Scared) EP (Matador)
John Cale, Paris 1919 (4 Men With Beards)
Destroyer, Five Spanish Songs (Merge)
Yo La Tengo, Fade (Matador) + Yo La Tengo, Corona Theatre, Mtl, QC, Feb 11, 2013
Chris Bell, I am the Cosmos (4 Men With Beards)
Boubacar Traore, s/t (Little Axe)
Big Brother & the Holding Company, Cheap Thrills (Columbia)
Print
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Adam Leith Gollner, The Book of Immortality
David Tanis, One Good Dish
Douglas Starr, "The Interview," The New Yorker
Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Chad Robertson, Tartine Book No. 3: Ancient, Modern, Classic, Whole
Vincent Katz, ed., Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art
Andy Ricker, Pok Pok: Food and Stories From the Streets, Homes, and Roadside Restaurants of Thailand
John McPhee, The Pine Barrens
Faythe Levine & Sam Macon, Sign Painters
Jean Giono, Harvest
Hamilton & Hirsheimer, Canal House Cooks Everyday
Calvin Trillin, "Mozzarella Story," The New Yorker
Camilla Wynne, Les Conserves selon Camilla
Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel
Moving Images
12 Years a Slave (2013), dir. McQueen
Let the Fire Burn (2013), dir. Osder
Lola (1961), dir. Demy
A Band Called Death (2012), dir. Covino & Howlett
The Central Park Five (2012), dir. Burns, Burns, and McMahon
Prohibition (2011), dir. Burns & Novick
This Sporting Life (1963), dir. Anderson
Mud (2012), dir. Nichols
The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), dir. Cianfrance
Monterey Pop (1967), dir. D.A. Pennebaker
Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1972), dir. Maben
The Act of Killing (2012), dir. Oppenheimer
Tabloid (2010), dir. Morris
Dallas Buyers Club (2013), dir. Vallée
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), dir. Hellman
Vanishing Point (1971), dir. Sarafian
Gravity (2013), dir. Cuarón
Amour (2012), dir. Haneke
Girls, seasons 1 & 2
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010), dir. Herzog
Food & Wine
homemade smoked andouille sausage
Farm-to-Table VT (including Misery Loves Company, Pistou, and Vergennes Laundry)
fruit hunting in Montreal
seafood feasts on the Cape
Carolina BBQ pilgrimages, featuring:
Lexington Barbecue (Lexington, NC)
BBQ Center (Lexington, NC)
Allen & Son Pit-Cooked Bar-B-Que (Chapel Hill, NC)
Skylight Inn BBQ (Ayden, NC)
Scott's Bar-B-Que (Hemingway, SC)Turner country hams, bacon, and ham sandwiches, Fulks Run, VA
Wade's Mill cornmeal & grits, Raphine, VA
Marlow & Sons, Marlow & Daughters, & She Wolf Bakery, NY, NY
real VA, NC, and SC peanuts (including boiled peanuts)
Runaway Creek Farm, Arundel, QC
Boucherie Lawrence, Montreal
Acme Smoked Fish, NY, NY
Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr. small batch bourbon and straight rye
AEB sourdough rye
Michter's straight rye
3-2-1 method ribs
homemade congee
Miscellaneous
Cape Cod, MA
Charleston, SC
Asheville, NC
"Beat Nation," Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal
Indigo & Cotton, Charleston, SC
hand-knit Bohus sweaters
This American Life: "Harper High School, pts. 1 & 2," "Trends With Benefits," "When Patents Attack, pt. 2," "Confessions"
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