2009 sound + vision
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top 3 concerts/shows of 2009:
1. cocorosie @ aladdin
2. patrick wolf @ WUK
3. sundance celebration of music @ sundance house
honorable mention: m. ward @ aladdin
top 3 songs of 2009:
1. big pink - velvet
2. edwarde sharpe & the magnetic zeroes - home
3. tie: lily allen - not fair; cold cave - love comes close
top 3 albums of 2009:
1. dark was the night
2. the horrors - primary colours
3. tie: edwarde sharpe & the magnetic zeroes - up from below; the raveonettes - in and out of control
top 5 films of 2009:
(not counting SFF, i saw 3 films in the theatre this year--watchmen, the new star trek, and where the wild things are--so this is going to be a list of my favorite 5 films that i "saw" in 2009)
1. push (currently released as precious)
2. head-on
3. where the wild things are
4. let the right one in
5. branagh's as you like it
top 3 obsessions of 2009:
1. all things carny. circus school & aerial acrobatics, freak show history, sideshow banners, LOVE, coney island, aerialists, you name it.
2. reconnection
3. la plantation du paon
3 "good things" of 2009:
1. tie: la plantation du paon, my job
2. travel destinations (10 of 'em), traveling visitors to portland (11+ of you!)
3. starting up yoga, circus school; cycling regularly
honorable mention: turning thirty
3 "bad things" of 2008:
1. spilling water on my laptop
2. missing my flight in amsterdam
3. swine flu
honorable mention: 100 proof
trips of 2009:
1) park city UT
2) san franny CA (x2)
3) seattle WA (x2)
4) vegas NV
5) demiworldtour (orlando, london, amsterdam, vienna, prague, nyc)
2009 booklist:
1) three cups of tea - greg mortenson and david oliver relin
2) the sexual politics of meat - carol j. adams
3) how we are hungry - dave eggers
4) a room of one's own - virginia woolf
5) hot water music - charles bukowski
6) the road - cormac mccarthy*
7) becoming a man - paul monette
8) virgin suicides - jeffrey eugenides*
9) listen up: voices from the next feminist generation - barbara findlen*
10) the catcher in the rye - j.d. salinger
11) cunt: a declaration of independence - inga muscio
12) the people look like flowers at last - charles bukowski
13) de profundis - oscar wilde
14) lullaby - chuck palahniuk
15) nerve: literate smut - genevieve field and rufus griscom (ed)
16) portland noir - kevin sampsell (ed)
17) rubyfruit jungle - rita mae brown
18) the missouri review: haunted
19) just as i thought - grace paley*
20) the whalestoe letters - mark z. danielewski
21) into perfect spheres such holes are pierced - catherine barnett*
22) martin and john - dale peck*
23) second nature: a gardener's education - michael pollan
24) oh my goth! version 2.0 - voltaire
25) spy in the house of love - anais nin*
26) by a slow river - phillippe claudel
27) school of arts - mark doty
28) look both ways: bisexual politics - jennifer baumgardner*
29) the secret history - donna tartt*
30) the death of bunny munro - nick cave
31) twitterville - shel israel
32) the b book - brian randall
*favorites
unfinished:
collected poems - dylan thomas
the filth - grant morrison, chris weston, gary erskine
temperament - stuart isacoff
top 3 concerts/shows of 2009:
1. cocorosie @ aladdin
2. patrick wolf @ WUK
3. sundance celebration of music @ sundance house
honorable mention: m. ward @ aladdin
top 3 songs of 2009:
1. big pink - velvet
2. edwarde sharpe & the magnetic zeroes - home
3. tie: lily allen - not fair; cold cave - love comes close
top 3 albums of 2009:
1. dark was the night
2. the horrors - primary colours
3. tie: edwarde sharpe & the magnetic zeroes - up from below; the raveonettes - in and out of control
top 5 films of 2009:
(not counting SFF, i saw 3 films in the theatre this year--watchmen, the new star trek, and where the wild things are--so this is going to be a list of my favorite 5 films that i "saw" in 2009)
1. push (currently released as precious)
2. head-on
3. where the wild things are
4. let the right one in
5. branagh's as you like it
top 3 obsessions of 2009:
1. all things carny. circus school & aerial acrobatics, freak show history, sideshow banners, LOVE, coney island, aerialists, you name it.
2. reconnection
3. la plantation du paon
3 "good things" of 2009:
1. tie: la plantation du paon, my job
2. travel destinations (10 of 'em), traveling visitors to portland (11+ of you!)
3. starting up yoga, circus school; cycling regularly
honorable mention: turning thirty
3 "bad things" of 2008:
1. spilling water on my laptop
2. missing my flight in amsterdam
3. swine flu
honorable mention: 100 proof
trips of 2009:
1) park city UT
2) san franny CA (x2)
3) seattle WA (x2)
4) vegas NV
5) demiworldtour (orlando, london, amsterdam, vienna, prague, nyc)
2009 booklist:
1) three cups of tea - greg mortenson and david oliver relin
2) the sexual politics of meat - carol j. adams
3) how we are hungry - dave eggers
4) a room of one's own - virginia woolf
5) hot water music - charles bukowski
6) the road - cormac mccarthy*
7) becoming a man - paul monette
8) virgin suicides - jeffrey eugenides*
9) listen up: voices from the next feminist generation - barbara findlen*
10) the catcher in the rye - j.d. salinger
11) cunt: a declaration of independence - inga muscio
12) the people look like flowers at last - charles bukowski
13) de profundis - oscar wilde
14) lullaby - chuck palahniuk
15) nerve: literate smut - genevieve field and rufus griscom (ed)
16) portland noir - kevin sampsell (ed)
17) rubyfruit jungle - rita mae brown
18) the missouri review: haunted
19) just as i thought - grace paley*
20) the whalestoe letters - mark z. danielewski
21) into perfect spheres such holes are pierced - catherine barnett*
22) martin and john - dale peck*
23) second nature: a gardener's education - michael pollan
24) oh my goth! version 2.0 - voltaire
25) spy in the house of love - anais nin*
26) by a slow river - phillippe claudel
27) school of arts - mark doty
28) look both ways: bisexual politics - jennifer baumgardner*
29) the secret history - donna tartt*
30) the death of bunny munro - nick cave
31) twitterville - shel israel
32) the b book - brian randall
*favorites
unfinished:
collected poems - dylan thomas
the filth - grant morrison, chris weston, gary erskine
temperament - stuart isacoff
