Tuesday, December 31, 2013

So long, 2013!

Song

long island

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

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)

pants off to roy harper

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

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)

BT 2

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

tartine book no. 3

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

cross rib shoulder roast

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 title

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_xlg

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

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

Impasto, Montreal, QC

Le Vin Papillon, Montreal, QC

McCrady's, Charleston, SC

Hominy Grill, Charleston, SC

Butcher & Bee, Charleston, SC

The Ordinary, Charleston, SC

Martha Lou's, Charleston, SC

homemade smoked andouille sausage

burlington farmers' market

Farm-to-Table VT (including Misery Loves CompanyPistou, and Vergennes Laundry)

fruit hunting in Montreal

seafood feasts on the Cape

BBQ sandwich, Allen & Son

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

holiday rye

AEB sourdough rye

Michter's straight rye

3-2-1 method ribs

homemade congee

Miscellaneous

hip vs. square

Cape Cod, MA

Charleston, SC

Asheville, NC

"Beat Nation," Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal

Indigo & Cotton, Charleston, SC

green mist bohus

hand-knit Bohus sweaters

This American Life:  "Harper High School, pts. 1 & 2," "Trends With Benefits," "When Patents Attack, pt. 2," "Confessions"


miss audrey

In memoriam:  Miss Audrey (2001-2013)

aj

1 comment:

Andrea said...

Good list, mixture of things I know of and mostly don't, but now want to. Best wishes for '14.