Fiction
(in no order)
Laura Vasquez THE ENDLESS WEEK (Dorothy)
Charlotte Northall PRACTICING DYING (Pilot Press)
C.L. Methvin EUSECT (tRaum Books)
Mark Doten WHITES (Graywolf Press)
sasha hawkins FOR DISOBEYING (Calamari Archive)
Thomas Moore WE’LL NEVER BE FRAGILE AGAIN (Amphetamine Sulphate)
Andrew Gallix LOREN IPSUM (Dodo Ink)
Mike Corrao BEING TOWARDS DEATH (Crop Circle Press)
Victoria Brooks SILICONE GOD (House of Vlad)
Grace Nissan THE UTOPIANS (Ugly Duckling Presse)
Kenward Elmslie THE ORCHID STORIES (Pilot Press)
Hob Broun CARDINAL NUMBERS (Calamari Archive)
Lynne Tillman THRILLED TO DEATH: SELECTED STORIES (Soft Skull)
Calvin Westra MOTH GIRL (ExPat Press)
Francis Whorrall-Campbell THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT HAVE BEEN DOWNLOADED (Good Press)
Gonçalo M. Tavares A GIRL IS LOST IN HER CENTURY, LOOKING FOR HER FATHER (Dalkey Archive)
David Leo Rice THE SQUIMBOP CONDITION (11:11 Press)
Kit Schluter CARTOONS (City Lights)
Helen DeWitt & Ilya Gridneff YOUR NAME HERE (Dalkey Archive)
Arreshy Young CODON (Calamari Archive)
Tony O’Neill FORGED PRESCRIPTIONS (Far West Press)
Mr. Omar King AN ODYSSEY OF DINGBATS! (IP)
Joshua Escobar DEMONS OF EMINENCE (Publication Studio)
Ronald M. Schernikau SMALLTOWNNOVELLA (Ugly Duckling Presse)
Logan Berry DOOM IS THE HOUSE WITHOUT A DOOR (Inside the Castle)
Grant Maierhofer TRAUMNOVELLE (Erratum Press)
Pierre Guyotat IDIOCY (NYRB)
Matthew Kinlin SO TENDER A KILLER (Filthy Loot)
Joe Westmoreland TRAMPS LIKE US (MCD)
Robert Gluck PURPLE MEN 2000 (Ssnake Press)
Poetry
(in no order)
Kay Gabriel PERVERTS (Night Boat)
Amy Gerstler IS THIS MY FINAL FORM? (Penguin)
Ron Koertge PANDORA’S KITCHEN (Red Hen Press)
Gloria Frym LIES & MORE LIES (BlazeVox)
Elaine Equi OUT OF THE BLANK (Coffee House)
Jerome Sala GLOP (BlazeVox)
Emily Skillings TANTRUMS IN AIR (The Song Cave)
David Trinidad NEW PLAYLIST (Pitt Poetry Series)
Paul Cunningham SOCIOCIDE AT THE 24/7 (New Michigan Press)
Margaret Ross SATURDAY (The Song Cave)
Ron Padgett PINK DUST (NYRB)
Thomas Moore I RUINED YOUR LIFE (Kiddiepunk)
Tony Towle LATE SKETCHES & STUDIES (Kulvert Books)
Ariana Reines THE ROSE (Graywolf Press)
Brian Alan Ellis THE ERRORS TOUR (House of Vlad)
Kevin Killian PADAM PADAM: COLLECTED POEMS (Nightboat)
Cletus Crow JESUS FREAK (Pig Roast)
Sholto Buck LIGHT FILM (Pilot Press)
Kit Robinson TUNES & TENS (Roof Books)
Dom Lyne THE SKY WAS EMPTY, BUT THE THUNDER STILL ROLLED (Queer Mojo)
Nonfiction
(in no order)
Avital Ronell AMERICA: THE TROUBLED CONTINENT OF THOUGHT (Polity)
Ian Penman ERIK SATIE THREE PIECE SUITE (Semiotext(e))
Clark Coolidge & Tom Clark ROCK NOTES (Lithic Press)
Yasmine Shamma, Rona Cran, eds. CONVERSATIONS WITH NEW YORK SCHOOL POETS (Edinburgh University Press)
Naomi Falk THE SURRENDER OF MAN (Inside the Castle)
Peggy Ahwesh SOURCEBOOKS (Visual Studies Workshop)
New Juche HEAT DEATH ISSUE 2 (Gallows Fruit)
Lidia Yuknavitch READING THE WAVES (Penguin)
Ron Padgett DICK: A MEMOIR OF DICK GALLUP (Cuneiform)
Robert Ford, Trent Adkins, Lawrence Warren, ed.THING (Primary Information)
Mike Hoolboom WORK (Canadian Film Institute)
Nathan Kernan A DAY LIKE ANY OTHER: THE LIFE OF JAMES SCHUYLER (FSG)
Chris Kelso ON MELTING: ESSAYS AGAINST THE BODY (Filthy Loot)
Stewart Home FASCIST YOGA (Pluto Press)
Joe Brainard LOVE, JOE: THE SELECTED LETTERS OF JOE BRAINARD (Columbia University Press)
J. Hoberman EVERYTHING IS NOW (Verso)
Jeff Copeland LOVE YOU MADLY, HOLLY WOODLAWN (Feral House)
Music
(in no order)
7038634357 WATERFALL HORIZON (Blank Forms Editions)
Läuten der Seele UNTERHALTUNGEN MIT LARVEN UND ÜBERRESTEN (World of Echo)
Sparks MAD! (Transgressive Records)
Um, Jennifer? UM COMMA JENNIFER QUESTION MARK (Final Girls)
Destroyer DAN’S BOOGIE (Merge)
Kali Malone THE SACRIFICIAL CODE (Ideologic)
Dean Blunt ft. Elias Rønnenfelt LUCRE (World Music)
Tashi Dorji WE WILL BE WHEREVER THE FIRES ARE LIT (Drag City)
Guided by Voices THICK RICH AND DELICIOUS (Rockathon)
Yallah and Debmaster GAUDENCIA (Hakuna Kulala)
KMRU KIN (Editions Mego)
Lucy Railton BLUE VEIL (Ideologic Organ)
The Fall SINGLES LIVE VOL. 1: 1978-81 (Bella Union)
Jenny Hval IRIS SILVER MIST (4AD)
Haswell & Hecker UPIC DIFFUSION SESSION #23 (Editions Mego)
Youth Code YOURS, WITH MALICE (Sumerian)
Kevin Drumm IF TOMORROW GETS HERE (iDeal)
Backxwash ONLY DUST REMAINS (Ugly Hag Records)
Nina Garcia BYE BYE BIRD (Ideologic Organ)
Aki Onda IN THE DEPTH OF ILLUSION: A SOUNDTRACK FOR NERVOUS MAGIC LANTERN (Drowned World)
Stephen O’Malley BUT REMEMBER WHAT YOU HAVE HAD (SPGRM 015)
Anthony Braxton B-X0 N0-47A (BYG Records)
Collapsible Shoulder Big Band A MAP OF BOOKS (Cuneiform)
Film
(in no order)
Harmony Korine BABY INVASION
Mona Convert UN PAYS EN FLAMMES
Albert Serra AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE
Wes Anderson THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME
Julian Castronovo DEBUT, OR, OBJECTS OF THE FIELD OF DEBRIS AS CURRENTLY CATALOGUED
Robina Rose NIGHTSHIFT (restoration)
Alex Ross Perry PAVEMENTS
Tanner D. Masseth, Blake Robbins, Jay Villalobos, Jose Perez, Hank Allen, Breeding Castle, Melissa Cha, Crisis Acting, Dana Dawud, Kayla Drzewicki, Gavin DuBois, Andrea Florens, Janelle Howerton, Levels of Nuance, Emma Murray, Progga, Abbey Pusz, Redacted Cut, Max Rooney, Paranoia State, Twee Whistler, Elijah Valter, Brian Wiebe, Esteban Alarcón, Dziga Vertov MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA
Jinho Myung SOFTSHELL
Gary Hustwit ENO
James Benning LITTLE BOY
Art
(in no order)
LUC DELAHAYE (Jeu de Paume)
JOHN BALDESSARI (Bozar, Brussels)
B Wurtz 13 WORKS (Garth Greenan Gallery)
Louise Bourgeois GATHERING WOOL (Hauser & Wirth, NYC)
Robert Rauschenberg FABRIC WORKS OF THE 1970s (Menil Collection)
RAMMELLZEE (Palais de Tokyo)
Stephen Prina A LICK AND A PROMISE (MoMA, NYC)
Mark Leckey AS ABOVE SO BELOW (Lafayette Anticipations)
Stanya Kahn LOVE HOURS: RITES AND CURSES (Gattopardo)
Alice Coltrane MONUMENT ETERNAL (Hammer Museum)
Bruce Nauman PASADENA YEARS (Marian Goodman, Los Angeles)
Vaginal Davis MAGNIFICENT PRODUCT (PS1)
Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell WORLDS OF ECHO (Red Cat)
Matthew RonayTHIRTEEN FORMS (Perrotin, Paris)
Deana Lawson (Pinault Collection, Paris)
Lecia Dole-Recio ESSAYS ON ABSTRACTION, PART 3 (The Fold Gallery)
James Turrell AT ONE (Le Bourget)
G.B. Jones THE FILMS OF G.B. JONES (Air de Paris)
Jason Yates HURTS TO WALK (Gatto Pardo)
NOAH DAVIS (Hammer Museum)
Amy Sarkisian THIS. (Alto Beta/Night Gallery)
Internet
(in no order)
Zona Motel
SCAB
ASTERISM
Anna’s Archive
zlibrary
The Wire
Original Cinemaniac
GAMESCENES
Skullcrushing Hummingbird
Internet Archive
VK Video
PLAY THERAPY V2.0
Solidarity Cinema
otherppl
WAKE ISLAND
Mattazine Society
pixiv
{ feuilleton }
SHABBY DOLL HOUSE
too scared to tell my mom
espresso bongo
X-R-A-Y
Art and Trash
Legsville
Rhizome
Theme Park Review
ok.ru
Musique Machine
ANGUSRAZE
PEPPERLAND SPICERACK
Beaucoup
Expat
SOAP2DAY
Volume 1 Brooklyn
Experimental Cinema
The Los Angeles Review of Books
3:AM Magazine
largehearted boy
pantaloons
Locus Solus: The New York School of Poets
giphy
The Wonderful World of Tam Tam Books
Hobart
Ubuweb
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p.s. Hey. So, there are my favorites of this year. I am certain that I’ve forgotten things that should be in there. If you feel like sharing your 2025 favorites with me, that would be highly welcome, thank you. As usual when I’m freshly returned from some distant place, I have rather bad jet lag this morning, and that will affect my responses today, and my apologies in advance. ** Dominik, Hi, D!!!! I’m jet lagged but otherwise good. Can you even remember whether you made yourself leave your house that weekend? On the buches, we waited too long and our top choices (cheese wheel, melted apples, a few others) are all sold out! We have a fallback choice which we’ll find out if we can score today. Fingers crossed. Buddy-like conversation over a few beers then I screwed Love’s butt into a pile of mashed potatoes. Pity he won’t kiss, G. ** _Black_Acrylic, Thanks, pal. Everything went really well. Hope you get the calendar. ‘Erratic Boulders’ is a nice name. Yay, a UK Xmas disaster! I’ll go pore over that shortly. Thank you, maestro.** Misanthrope, Hi, G. Really nice seeing you and the boys and having a lovely if too brief chat. Hope you guys maxed out NYC. ** KW, Hi! I hope you got to see it. ** Bill, Christianity and dubious taste in art would seem to be a historic problem. You get your list together? ** julian, Hi, julian! Things have been good. ‘Longpig’ is a curious term. I guess pig but longer in stature? You got me. At the NYC reading I read from the script-in-progress for Zac’s and my next film because you had to read works-in-progress and that is the only thing I have that qualifies. Great about the EP. I’m excited to get and hear it! Everyone, The very highly talented julian aka Julian Sellers has released an EP of songs and, even without yet hearing it, I can guarantee it’s essential. Hear it here. ** Jules, Hey! Did you come to the screening? Excuse me if I know you did and my jetlag is repressing my memories. Have you made progress on or finished the fiction piece? Curious to hear how that went. ** Brendan, Hey, B! I saw your show, as you know, and it was and remains a big treat!!! ** Vincent Truant, Hi! Thank you! What a lovely poem. A grateful bow to you. What else is going on with you? ** Justin D, Hi, Justin. Yeah, obviously we were super psyched to make John Waters’s list. Thanks a lot. How are you doing? ** Alice, Hi, Alice. The trip went very well, thanks. That AI advice, spooky. Collaborative video editing its so much fun. Well, as long you generally agree, I guess. I hope that pans out. I’m happy to see you again, and of course I look forward to any conversations you feel like having. Hopefully I’ll be less cloudy in the brain by then. ** Dustin, Hi, Dustin! Very nice to see you. And thanks to Jay for that. Thank you about ‘Closer’. I will absolutely go find _9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9 as soon as my brain is fully functioning again, thanks so much! Sounds pretty exciting. Obviously, feel very free to hang out here and talk or whatever if you feel like it. ** Steve, Hi, Steve. The trip was great. All of the screenings were packed and enthusiastic. We couldn’t have been happier. I’ll go find your review, thank you! There were some memorable questions, but my brain is too hazy this morning to recollect them. Everyone, Here’s Steve: ‘I posted the next-to-last “Radio Not Radio” episode of 2025 tonight. This one features Hayward X Dalek, Sonitus Misssarium, Logic Lost, Voivod, Ortopedic Quartet, Qasu, Zu, Effie, Chappell Roan (DJ Ericnem remix), Aphex Twin, Racio Sensacion & Stereo, Not For Radio, Hopeasiivet, Infinite Coles, Ezya, Syztema, Brenda, Opiate, Midori Hirano, Klein, Split Enz, Anthony Moore, Peter Hammill, SPELLLING, Marta Del Grandi and Metal Preyers.’ ** Jeff J, Hi, Jeff. The screenings went really, really well, thanks. Highlights: mm, the NYC screenings were fantastic, and that was probably the highlight. Seeing friends. The Vaginal Davis and Stephen Prina retrospectives in NYC were topnotch. I saw your emails, thank you! I’ll get to them and get back to you when my brain is awake, tomorrow or thereabouts. So cool about your successful screenings! Amazing, really. Sure, let’s catch up when your time is right. And thanks about the help with the possible screening. We’re starting to set up the next batch of screenings now. ** Carsten, Hi, pal. Everything went really well on the tour/trip. The Brain Dead Studios experience was excellent. Packed, and the response was great, and the BDS people were very welcoming. Thanks about the Waters list thing. Yeah, that was a great surprise. A lot of people I know in NYC were sick or coming down with something. Winter, I suppose. Lovely to see you. ** Nicholas., Haha, yeah, that was super nice getting to meet you and talk little. Thanks a lot for being so kind and cool. Me too: tired. But good tired, like you, I presume. But without the time difference damage to the system. Take care, and talk with you again pronto. ** Laura, Hey there! Travels were great. I guess the NYC screenings were the big highpoint. I’m happy the slaves tided you over and triggered your thoughts and that they triggered your typing fingers. I start editing my stuff while I’m still drafting it. I don’t know how else to proceed. Aw, thanks about ‘Try’. I have heard the live Husker Du thing, and, yeah, it’s stellar. I’ll go read your poem once my brain is worthy of it. My poetry? I guess the Selected Poems book ‘The Dream Police’? It’s probably the only one in print if it’s even in print. We’re trying to sort out the buche today and eat it tomorrow if that turns out to be possible. I’ve read about the Heated Rivalry adaptation, but that’s all. Italian kid … which one is that? I don’t think any of them are Italian in reality? Luck with the editing. We had snow in NYC, and I think I’ve gotten my fill for now. ** horatio, Hi, horatio! And there it is up above for better or worse. There are a number of old guys on the slave sites that want to be snuffed. More than young wannabe snuffees. I just never put them here because my concentration is on the younger slaves. Great to see you! Next time I’ll be actually awake and functioning properly, I hope. ** Steeqhen, Oh, well, you can’t see everything. Yeah, thanks about the JW list. That was amazing. Brandon Flynn hosted the Q&A at the second NYC screening. He was very nice. He’s adapting Gary Indiana’s novel ‘Rent Boy’ into a film that he’ll direct and star in. Writing group: great. Those can be really valuable. Let me know when you pop over here, yes. ** HaRpEr //, Hi, Harper! All went well. A lot of people in NYC had the flu while we were there. Whoa. first draft finished, big congrats. That’s always the worst part, for me anyway. Yes, The Dare was at the first screening in NYC, and his being there caused quite the fuss. Let’s see your list! ** Connie, Hi, Connie! Thank you about the Waters thing. And thanks for attending to the slaves. Yes, your Xmas piece was/is sweetness! Xmas is soon. I’m unprepared although I don’t do anything for Xmas other than eat a buche and make sure I have cigarettes before all the tabacs close. What do you have going on, Xmas-wise? ** darbz (⊙ _ ⊙ ), Hi! Trip was really good, thanks. Fuck the poetry rejectors. That happens more often than not. Good, smart poetry venue editors are not the rule, unfortunately. Let me think about suggestions because my brain power is weak this morning, if you can’t tell. No, I think there are no traces of any visual art I ever made, thank god. How someone can so activate your heart and imagination as to cause you to put out writing is as good as life gets maybe? You were the butt plug! Congratulations! xoxo. ** Right. I guess attend to my lists and I guess I will try to go get my sleeping patterns in much better order, and I will see you tomorrow whether that works or not.
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Solid bunch of interesting shit as always. Really keen to read that Vic Brooks book. And the Kay Gabriel. Both on a big pile of unread stuff next to me. Hope you’re well DC. Xo. SJX
Welcome back to Europe just in time for Xmas! Some nice choices up here and this is my own list of the great and good:
FILM
Eddington (Ari Aster) I’m with John Waters on this one.
BOOK
Charlotte Northall – Practicing Dying (Pilot Press)
Thomas Moore – We’ll Never Be Fragile Again (Amphetamine Sulphate)
MUSIC
Rian Treanor & Cara Tolmie – Body Lapse (Planet Mu)
Polygonia – Dream Horizons {Dekmantel)
SB&C – Pulsatrix (Signals)
Welcome back, Dennis! Always a joy to see your year-end list. A great bit of insight into what’s hooked you, and a reminder for me to read more new small press fiction.
Here are my (very long) lists! All are pretty much done besides film. Always playing catchup until February. Glad to have caught Debut at the Maryland Film Festival, and Afternoons of Solitude was another Serra banger. Both are in my top 20, but these are long enough as it is. I’d have to email the rest, along with my album/EP charts, lol.
BOOKS
Be Dead – Mayah Monet Lovell (poetry)
Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life – Dan Nadel (nonfic)
I Do Know Some Things – Richard Siken (poetry)
Living in Your Light – Abdellah Taïa, tr. Emma Ramadan (fic)
Near Flesh – Katherine Dunn (fic)
No Sense in Wishing – Lawrence Burney (nonfic) [biased cuz it’s my cousin, but it’s also a great essay collection]
Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring – Brad Gooch (nonfic)
Underground Barbie – Maša Kolanović (fic)
MUSIC
Earl Sweatshirt – Live Laugh Love
Los Thuthanaka – S/T
Clipse – Let God Sort Em Out
Annahstasia – Tether
keiyaA – hooke’s law
Rochelle Jordan – Through The Wall
billy woods – GOLLIWOG
Navy Blue – The Sword & The Soaring
MIKE- Showbiz!
Model/Actriz – Pirouette
Dean Blunt & Elias Rønnenfelt – Lucre
Burial – Comafields / Imaginary Festival
FILMS
It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)
One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson)
Weapons (Zach Cregger)
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Rungano Nyoni)
The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)
Baby Invasion (Harmony Korine)
Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)
Room Temperature (Dennis Cooper, Zac Farley) [❤️❤️]
Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)
ART
SCOUT Art Fair (ArtScape)
Subscape Music Fest
Oh, how could I forget? THING is probably my most used coffee table book. Everyone just swipes it to flip through.
Hey Dennis! Hope you’re well. I would certainly put both of the new Thomas Moore in my top end-of-year list too. The Chris Kelso was amazing too. I think you’re maybe my premier alternative source of recommendations, so I’ve got a big overlap with yours. “THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT HAVE BEEN DOWNLOADED” was really, really so good too.
I would say in terms of film, “Magic Farm” was maybe my favourite thing this year. I liked the new “Rosalia” a lot too, it was the techno/classical/baroque fusion that I’ve always kind of fantasised about. “Blue Prince” is also maybe the best game I’ve played for years, although I’m not anywhere near done with it (despite having 50-odd pages of notes about various puzzles) – that game’s been kind of constantly bubbling over in the background of my head, it’s very interesting. Oh, and the new Jon Fosse was amazing, although not super different from the rest of his writing. I kind of agree with you not including effedupmovies on your end-of-year list, that site seems to have taken a huge downslide recently, I think the more interesting curator may have given the position to someone a bit more straightforwardly edgy. Anyway, thanks for the list, see you!
Hi Dennis!
Thank you so much for the honour of inclusion in your list! Good to have you back. I read Steve Erickson’s review of RT and I really can’t wait to see it. When and how might this be possible?
My list is simply what I can remember consuming and liking this year:
Repetition – Peter Handke
Slow Homecoming – Peter Handke (mostly just the whole of the first part)
The Language of the Third Reich – Victor Klemperer
The Leopard – GT Di Lampedusa
Germinal – Zola
The Mollino Set – Lytle Shaw
Also recently read a series of books about Francis Bacon released by his estate. Criticism not my sort of thing usually, but I went down a rabbit hole with it. I know you don’t like Bacon, I’d be very interested to hear why. I find him compelling even though I think most of his paintings are ultimately unsuccessful. But their failure is somehow a part of what compels me, I think.
Thanks again!
x
Hi, Dennis!! How are you?
I’m sorry I haven’t been here for a long time. I’ve been very busy and also the blog was on vacation a few times I checked. I hope the film tour went super well. And that you get over jet lag asap! Any news on the Barcelona festivals front? I thought of you a lot in Sitges! Such a shame the film was not there. The movies I saw were pretty bad.
Thank you for the list! I’d like to read ‘Practicing Dying’, Thomas’s books and a few more.
Last week I saw Marie Losier’s ‘Barking in the Dark’, which vas very cool. I really like her films. I also liked ‘Die My Love’ and ‘Peter Hujar’s Day’.
One of my favorite records has been Water From Your Eyes’ ‘It’s a Beautiful Place’. They played here a couple of weeks ago. Nice gig. Looking forward to listening to the music from the list I don’t know yet.
Take care and good luck with the buches!
Love,
Montse
Dennis!
Lovely list, as always. Thanks for sharing it. I was particularly pleased to see Zona Motel up top!
A recent book, film, and game I’ll likely return to:
Wave of Blood by Ariana Reines
One Battle After Another
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Mostly my head this year was submerged in older stuff. I work at my alma mater and they offer staff a big discount on their grad programs, so I’m now in their Middle Eastern Classics master’s program (part-time). Gilgamesh is fucking fantastic!
Life is good. We’re in the “care for our parents” phase right now but are set up to do so mostly comfortably. Still living in Santa Fe. Aviva builds and remodels homes now, has her own business and everything. I keep plugging away at essays & reviews via my Substack and Zona Motel, and I put out my tenth book this year (a little novella called The Christian: A Comedy). Blake and I co-edited and published a paperback anthology called You May Now Fail To Destroy Me, too. It was great to revive that collaborative part of our relationship, and we talked on the phone a lot about art and life and politics this year, which ruled.
I hope you and yours are in great shape (jetlag be damned). We miss and love you!
— Ken & Aviva
Welcome back, Dennis!
Hope everything went well, you found receptive crowds, had good conversations, etc. Wishing you a swift jet lag recovery for sure.
Also, wow. Lots of homework for me to dig into here. Definitely some stuff I wish I’d have checked out, but haven’t yet! A lot of the films I saw in 2025 just didn’t quite hit for me (except Weapons), so it’s good to have some more movies on my plate to check out, especially. For new music, based on your list, you may want to check out the album Halo On The Inside by a Chicago artist called Circuit des Yeux. Operatic post-industrial drone/ambient if I had to roughly put a name on her music. Amazing singer. I saw her open for Alan Sparhawk from Low at the beginning of this year and was in awe the whole time during her set.
Welcome back!
May your jet lag disappear ASAP!
I’ve noticed that a lot of people here are getting sick. I thought I might have the flu last week, but I saw my doctor yesterday, and he says it’s just allergies.
What’s the new version of MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA?
top 10 films:
BLKNWS: TERMS AND CONDITIONS
CAUGHT BY THE TIDES
CLOUD
THE MASTERMIND
MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS PART I: LAST AIR IN MOSCOW
PREDATORS
REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND
SINNERS
THE TEMPLE WOODS GANG
VULCANIZADORA
(I’m going by American theatrical runs or streaming premieres in 2025.)
Top 10 Albums:
Sudan Archives, The BPM (Stones Throw)
Benefits, Constant Noise (Invada)
Rosalia, Lux (Columbia)
Neko Case, Neon Grey Midnight Green (Anti-)
YHWH Nailgun, 45 Pounds (AD93)
Kali Uchis, Sincerely (Capitol)
Sadness/Soulless, Burning As The First Light (self-released)
Tropical Fuck Storm, Fairyland Codex (Fire)
Little Simz, Lotus (AWAL)
Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi Recordings)
The next 10:
The Beths, Straight Line Was A Lie (Anti-)
Aya, Hexed! (Hyperdub)
FKA twigs, Eusexua & Eusexua Afterglow (Atlantic)
Geese, Getting Killed (Partisan)
The Ex, If Your Mirror Breaks (self-released)
Lorde, Virgin (Republic)
U, Archenfield (Lex)
Circuit des Yeux, Halo on the Inside (Matador)
MC Yallah & Debmaster, Gaudencia (Hakuna Kulala)
Billy woods, Golliwog (Backwoodz Studioz)
Thanks for including Skullcrushing Hummingbird my friend!!!! I’ll work on a little list while I’m on the clock today and I look forward to diving deeper into yours!
Hi Dennis,
Cigarettes and Buche sounds like an awesome holiday plan. Smoke/eat like one million of them for me! I’m going to be heading home in a couple days and spending the week with my family. I’m looking forward to it but being there that long makes me crazy. I also have to see my uncle who is a youth pastor and sends kids to conversion therapy, that’s bleh. I’m working on a video mix for a friend so at least I’ll be busy. Also my family has a hot tub and that’s gonna save me. I need to get high in hot tub so bad. It’s my holiday tradition.
Love to see Kay Gabriel on this list!
Two of my fav reads this year were Jeanne Thornton’s A/S/L, and Pedro Lemebel’s My Tender Matador (old but new to me). Davey Davis’ Casanova 20: or, Hot World was also great. I also appreciated the structural swing of Jamie Hood’s Trauma Plot.
Hope your jet lag goes quick! x
Thank you so much for the shoutout!! Apparently “longpig” is a term for a victim of cannibalism. Any insight into what the in-progress script entails, or would you prefer to keep that a secret? I will definitely be looking into as many of these recommendations as I can. I admit I don’t read quite enough or go to enough galleries to make a list of my favorites in those categories from this year. Maybe I can make that a New Year’s resolution. But here are some of my favorite albums/films I’ve seen/heard this year:
MUSIC:
Swans – Birthing
YHWH Nailgun – 45 Pounds
e4444e – Authentic Natural Tradition
Lifeguard – Ripped and Torn
aya – hexed!
Uniflora – More Gums Than Teeth
FILM:
Harmony Korine – Baby Invasion
Andrew DeYoung – Friendship
David Cronenberg – The Shrouds
Dennis Cooper/Zac Farley – Room Temperature (!!!)
Yorgos Lanthimos – Bugonia
hey! i like your songs! listening to Dionysus feels weirdly familiar, like how didn’t this song already exist? which is a compliment <3
Thank you so much!!
@darbz (⊙ _ ⊙ ): Saw your earlier post & agree with Dennis: fuck the rejectors! My advice: hit Submittable & see what opportunities there are & whether any of them look appealing to you. The DC’s community’s very own Bernard steered me toward Submittable & it’s by far the easiest way to sift through one’s options. I for one had luck (as in having rather experimental poems published) with Cathexis Northwest Press, The Dewdrop, The Closed Eye Open, & The Raw Art Review, whose book division UnCollected Press is putting out my chapbook next year. I’d say good luck but fuck luck too, it’s perseverance that counts my man.
Hey hey Dennis,
What a great list this year. Many thanks for the inclusion. Always an honour.
Can’t believe it’s the end of another year… almost. Any plans for Xmas? I’m going to be spending it at my dad’s this year. It’ll be good to escape London for a few days I think. Thankfully my work for the year is mostly complete, just a bit of editing to do. That chapter I’m co-authoring for the therapy book has been submitted for its second edit, and they seem to love it, so that’s all good.
Life in general is a bit.. I dunno… I don’t want to tempt fate by using the word ‘crazy’, but yeah my antipsychotic meds have started to not work as well as they should, so I’m trying to get that sorted. The issue is that when I did the trauma stuff, I was discharged from my old team, and l they’ve restructured the mental health stuff in the area and my GP can’t change my psych meds… so I gotta wait until for the new team to see me. It’s kinda ridiculous really. I mean, I’m sane enough to know my meds need changing, but I’ve got to wait until mid-January to see somebody, and it’s like… by then?
*sighs* Life. All else is good though.
Hope everything is well with you, how is the RT film quest going? It’s nice to see so many venues and events.
Hugs and love,
Dom x
hey Dom Lyne, want to read your book! i’m aghast you’ve got to wait till mid Jan, too. hold on in there, what a life. <3
bravo at the roxy showing! gorgeous movie. my favorite shot was towards the beginning, the slow pan from the janitor to the neighbor or whoever over the landscape to the house and the dad coming out. and the musical number is a lovely touch. thanks for coming to NY. What you read re: the next one sounds really funny and touching, can’t wait.
some favs of the year:
Lucile Hadzhihalilovic THE ICE TOWER
Kleber Mendonça Filho THE SECRET AGENT
Albert Serra AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE
Matthew Rankin UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE
Mike Nichols HARD TRUTH
Jia Zhangke CAUGHT BY THE TIDES
Oliver Laxe SIRAT
Ellen Arkbro NIGHTCLOUDS
Alex G HEADLIGHTS
bbtrickz + depresion sonora DEPRESIONTRICKZ
Maria Somerville LUSTER
Rafael Toral TRAVELING LIGHT
Oklou CHOKE ENOUGH
Chuquimamani-Condori (the four or five DJ E mixes)
Mary Ruefle THE BOOK
Robert Plunket LOVE JUNKIE
Thomas Pynchon SHADOW TICKET
Thomas Pynchon VINELAND
Jose Donoso THE OBSCENE BIRD OF NIGHT
Knut Hamsun GROWTH OF THE SOIL
Jon Fosse SEPTOLOGY
Giuseppe Caputo AN ORPHAN WORLD
John Ashbery THE TENNIS COURT OATH
SCENES OF DISCLOSURE (Greene Naftali)
Nayland Blake (Matthew Marks)
Robert Irwin/Larry Bell THE 60s (125 Newbury)
Alvaro Urbano TABLEAU VIVANT (SculptureCenter)
TO IGNITE OUR SKIN (SculptureCenter)
Joan Mitchell TO DEFINE A FEELING (David Zwirner)
Irving Penn KINSHIP (Pace)
Louise Bourgeois GATHERING WOOL (Hauser & Wirth)
Hardy Hill LANDSCAPING FOR PRIVACY (15 Orient)
Ambera Wellmann DARKLING (Hauser & Wirth) / ONE THOUSAND EMOTIONS (Company)
Cheers, happy holidays
Hey! Ah! great lists, so much stuff I want to get to up there. Thanks for the view into your mind!
I’ll leave you with some sort of window into my own year.
As I’ve said before, I don’t tend to get around to books immediately after they’re published, though I did read some recent books this year. This is just some out of the many books I read this year for the first time that I really liked, the same goes for film. The music however is all new, and I had to pare it back quite a bit and so the included stuff is music that I’ve played over and over again. Like you said yourself, there’s undoubtedly stuff I’ve missed, and for some reason film is the most filled section and I don’t know why, but anyway, bring on the lists.
BOOKS:
John Ashbery – Three Poems
Dodie Bellamy – The Letters of Mina Harker
Thomas Bernhard – Woodcutters
Alfred Doblin – Berlin Alexanderplatz
Kenward Elmslie – The Orchid Stories
Kay Gabriel – A Queen in Bucks County
Witold Gombrowicz – Pornografia
Henry Green – Nothing
Hesse K – Disquiet Drive
Kevin Killian – Argento Series
Garielle Lutz – The Complete (Garielle) Lutz
Wolfe Margolies – Shame
James McCourt – Queer Street
Ann Quin – Berg
David Trinidad – Hand Over Heart
Robert Walser – Jakob Von Gunten
FILM:
Hail the New Puritan (dir. Charles Atlas)
La Luna (dir. Bernardo Bertolucci)
Pola X AND It’s Not Me (dir. Leos Carax)
Ellie Parker (dir. Scott Coffey)
Waiting for Guffman (dir. Christopher Guest)
Dans Paris (dir. Christophe Honore)
Out of the Blue (dir. Dennis Hopper)
The Cremator (dir. Juraj Herz)
The Dead (dir. John Huston)
Drop Dead Gorgeous (dir. Michael Patrick Jann)
Pavements (dir. Alex Ross Perry)
The Death of Maria Malibran (dir. Werner Schroeter)
Storytelling (dir. Todd Solondz)
Lots of films by Ryan Trecartin
Zero de Conduite (dir. Jean Vigo)
Castration Movie: Anthology i, Traps (dir. Louise Weard)
MUSIC:
aya – hexed!
Dean Blunt and Elias Ronnenfelt – Lucre
Danny Brown – Stardust
Ethel Cain – Perverts
Frost Children – Sister
Geese – Getting Killed (also ‘Heavy Metal’ by Cameron Winter but that came out last december)
The Last Dinner Party – From The Pyre
Mydreamfever – 1. Silence Is The New Noise, 2. Blue Lucent Reverie, 3. How I See Nothing But You (a trilogy of albums all released this year)
Oklou – Choke Enough
Addison Rae – Addison
Jane Remover – Revengeseekerz
Sharp Pins – Balloon Balloon Balloon
Um, Jennifer? – Um Comma Jennifer Question Mark
Billy Woods – Golliwog
d-
wow, lots of books on there i need to get. all i’ve read this year that’s new was we’ll never be fragile again and roddy bottum’s memoirs, the royal we. both were great, though.
as far as movies go, i saw eddington, which i enjoyed a lot, and one battle after another, which i also really enjoyed, and roofman, which was cute but nothing groundbreaking.
music, let’s see. newest PLOSIVS, swami john reis, facet/haunted horses split LP, haunted horses full-length that came out in january rules too, mclusky, black eyes, savak, julian calendar, heet deth, ramleh, gbv, jad fair and yo la tengo (though i’m pretty sure it’s a reissue), that hüsker dü live box that came out, tony molina, dazy, shiner, the new afghan whigs single, that swell maps peel sessions LP. those are all blowing my mind right now. that ramleh album is particularly amazing, it’s like a perfect midpoint between latter-day swans and like mid-period whitehouse. very noisy, very textural, very fun with headphones on.
how’s tricks? i am hanging out with my cat, listening to music, might go jerk off. life is being stressful but nothing i can’t handle. my roommate quit his job two sundays ago and says he’s gonna doordash to bring in cash. so far, he’s done it once, for like three hours. so. i dunno. as long as the rent gets paid, i’m not saying anything, but also i’m kinda like ‘if you need money, you have to get out there and work.’ but, i’m the guy who will stay going to a job i hate for years because i’m too lazy to look for another one and i don’t quit a job without having another one lined up. that’s something old chris used to do, and it’s not a luxury i allow myself anymore.
been doing lots of reading, but mostly old shit. read a bunch of PKD short stories, ballard short stories too. working my way through ‘rock and the pop narcotic’ by joe carducci, which is good, but dense. am planning on reading neuromancer next i think. read a really good one not too long ago on the people’s committee to investigate the FBI, and their subsequent exposing of COINTELPRO. it’s called the burglary. life in america is strange and terrifying right now, even moreso now that we’re about to be going to war again.
anyway. hope things are great in yr neck of the woods. any word on a streaming or physical release of room temp for those of us who can’t make a screening? i want so badly to see it!
have a great friday. talk soon.
-c.
Welcome back Dennis and Zac! Good to hear the trip went well.
I didn’t know there’s a new David Leo Rice, Robert Gluck (just ordered!), Brainard letters, New Juche, etc. Will check out ASAP. And that’s a mighty classic Braxton album.
It’s been a busy month here, and I’m leaving tomorrow. Been a slow time for live music, but saw some good art: Sun Yuen’s Can’t Stop Myself is in a group show, and this is very interesting:
https://www.mplus.org.hk/en/exhibitions/dream-rooms-environments-by-women-artists/
Faves of 2025:
Books:
Samuel Moss, The Veldt Institute
Daniel Kehlmann, The Director
Rose Keating, Oddbody
Renee Gladman, My Lesbian Novel
Julia Elliot, Hellions: stories
Joel Lane, The Terrible Changes (reissue)
Andr Mesquita, Gran Fury: Art is Not Enough
Michael DeForge, Holy Lacrimony
Bob Ostertag, Encounters with Men
Charlene Elsby, Violent Faculties
Juliet Escoria, You Are the Snake: stories
Movies (very behind on current stuff):
Queer Panorama (dir. Jun Li)
Room Temperature (dir. Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley)
The End (dir. Joshua Oppenheimer)
A Different Man (dir. Aaron Schimberg)
The Passenger (dir. Carter Smith)
Lurker (dir. Alex Russell)
Peter Hujar’s Day (dir. Ira Sachs)
It Was Just an Accident (dir. Jafar Panahi)
Music (squonky improv/jazz):
Laura Altman, Holy Trinity
Henry Threadgill, Listen Ship
Don Malfon/Vasco Trilla, Towers of Silence
Tom Jackson/Daniel Thompson, Dark Kitchen
Jean-Luc Guionnet, Per Sona
Euphotic, Clastic
Eraslan/Thieke, Weaving Waves
Pat Thomas, Sufi Women
Jeff Kimmel/Jack Langdon, The Other Side of the Air
Phil Perkins, thirteen feet nine inches
Veronika Mayer+Gobi Drab, Live Recording Session #1
Music (abstract pop):
picoFarad, survival techniques Vol 2
Seamus Cater/Fagaschinski, Secrets
Filterbeds, Mutualism
Music (composed):
Ian Pace plays Michael Finnissy Piano Works (4-CDs)
Live music:
2/9 Jarvi cond. SF Symphony, San Francisco
2/14 John Bischoff, Suki O’Kane/Ron Heglin/Tom Djll at Tom’s Place, Oakland CA
2/16 John McCowen/Madison Greenstone at the Lab, San Francisco
2/22 Salonen cond. SF Symphony plays Prokofiev #2, Rite of Spring, San Francisco
5/23 Salonen cond. SF Symphony, Firebird, Berg violin conc, Lindberg, San Francisco
8/23 Larry Ochs/Ben Goldberg/Fred Frith/Thomas Dimuzio/Scott Amendola at Center for New Music, San Francisco
9/14 hr-SinfonieOrchester Frankfurt plays Saunders, Lachenmann, Philharmonie, Berlin
9/16 Michael Thieke at Berlin solo improv fest, Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin
9/23 Busan Phil plays Pagh-Pahn, Messiaen etc at Philharmonie, Berlin
9/24 JACK 4tet plays Lachenmann at Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin
10/1 Ligeia Liberatore, Andreas Voccia/Jung-Jae Kim at Zwitschermachine, Berlin
Art:
Dream Rooms: environments by women artists ’50s-now at M+, Hong Kong
Ithell Colquhoun retrospective at Tate Britain, London
Edward Burra retrospective at Tate Britain, London
Wolfgang Kunde, Roael D’Haese at Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Berlin
Cyprien Gaillard Fireside Angel installation at Scharf-Gerstenberg, Berlin
Modern Milieu (Leonora Carrington, Dorothea Tanning etc)at Wendi Norris Gallery, San Francisco
f.64 at SFMOMA (esp. Kunie Sugiura)
Kara Walker installation at SFMOMA
Leonora Carrington, Surrealisms, Hugh Hayden at Rose Art Museum, Boston
John Zorn at Drawing Center, NY
The Uncanny at Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
Morimura/Cindy Sherman at M+, Hong Kong
Hoo Mojong at Asia Society HK Center, Hong Kong
Louise Bourgeois at Hauser and Wirth, Hong Kong
Bill
Forgot Dance:
Suichu Megane at Dance Mission, San Francisco
Best dance performance I’ve seen in years.
Bill
Hey Dennis
That’s interesting about the adaptation of Rent Boy Brandon Flynn is working on, I’ll keep my eyes on news for that in the coming year, and try read the original text in the meantime.
Yeah, I hope the writing group continues. Thinking of going into the city tomorrow just to keep up the writing at a cafe, although I always find that I become too aware of my surroundings when I try to do that…
I’m pleased to recognize a fair few of the showcased pieces today, and a whole lot more to add to my ever growing list of things (that I will perhaps never get around to but will forever plan to!). I personally haven’t seen many films this year, so I can’t give many recommendations for that, though I have listened to a lot of albums.
I’ve really been into a lot of the up-and-coming alternative country and folk music like the band Wednesday and their album “Bleeds”, Geese’s “Getting Killed” and their frontman Cameron Winter’s solo album “Heavy Metal”, Ethel Cain’s “Willougby Tucker”, and CMAT’s “Euro-Country”, although that’s more pop country. Speaking of Ethel Cain, her EP from January, “Perverts”, is probably my favourite release of the year; it’s gorgeous. Other albums I enjoyed were Oklou’s “choke enough”, “Waterfall Horizon” by 7038634357, “Lux” by Rosalia, “Tranquilizer” by Oneohtrix Point Never, and Lorde’s “Virgin”. It’s normally this stretch of time between pre-Christmas and New Years where I actually make my way through a lot of albums I’ve put off, so I know there’s some gems I either haven’t given enough time or flew under my radar.
shit, Tranquilizer, totally blanked out on that one, super good. ^_^
hey Dennis!
how’s yr jet lag? omg a Christmas gift of a round up! so much to pick up! ya 3ami, ty ^_^
this year has been slow for me discovery-wise and we intersect a tad which is boring for you so i’ll keep it basique (which is in itself a basic word by now hence p perfect)
fiction:
Ocean Vuong, The Emperor Of Gladness. not sure i like his prose as much as his poetry but this def made an impact, further thoughts following probably.
Pierre Guyotat, Idiocy. duh lol.
Agustín Gómez Arcos, El Cordero Carnívoro (The Carnivorous Lamb). this is huge if you’re Spanish and just huge in general. dunno if he’s been translated to English, best known in France obvi.
Bruna Dantas Lobato, Blue Light Hours. this book is almost boring and the constant references to Brazil vs. America meaning the U.S. are maddening by design (i hope) but it’s like… the saudade and the metatranslation stuff, what it can do, what it can’t, idk.
Poetry:
Kevin Killiam, Padam Padam. uh, duh.
Nick Makoha, The New Carthaginians. highkey distrust the mcguffin, still had a good time. supposed i sometimes like stuff i don’t trust.
David Trinidad, New Playlist. totally awesome poetry kitchen sink, obvi. also, like me, he likes dolls, so, avanti my dude.
Agustín Gómez Arcos, Poesía. the pain! the homeland! he was so good.
Nonfiction:
Laura Hojman, Un Hombre Libre (A Free Man i guess). this is obvi a documentary, wasn’t sure where to put it, so here. long time coming fr.
Ian Penman’s Erik Satie Three Peace Suite. i love Satie, both to play and to listen. he really is the Rimbaud of music or whatever. like they both wrote just as purely and there’s that matching rational derangement/objectivity quest thing and the same sort of… aloneness right up there at the peak? i feel this Penman guy could have been a bit less chipper but anyway that’s a miserly note to give lol.
Music:
Rosalía, Lux. this is just everything good in the world. she went w one of my fav bits of Quran, too.
Jenny Hval, Iris Silver Mist. almost exclusively for the lyrics, but she’s always got those. women don’t write like her super often… there’s also this recurring d&b suggestion which routinely accomplishes the opposite effect…? like it really makes you feel you’re in the future relative to some other time lol.
Guided By Voices, Thick Rich and Delicious. Bloke’s permanently on fire, can never not make it onto a list lol.
Hüsker Dü, 1985: The Miracle Year. nice to meet them all over again!
Film:
you should have sneaked in a cheeky link or smth! now i can’t judge, which, sad, Dennis lol
Jafar Panahi, It Was Just An Accident. suppose it’s like, uh, welcome back, man, those Ayatollahs don’t know who they’re fucking with etc.
Dea Kulumbegashvili, April. i almost never not like a Georgian film. poor Nina, this one could have been straight up exploitation but it transcends at the right times? fr it’s more like idk watching Santa Rosa de Lima in maso mode while being this angel or whatever.
Harry Lighton, Pillion. dunno if i liked it, it’s better than Babygirl. still sort of gimmicky? but i’m thinking about it so it must have made some impact. there was that clever line about submission actually evening out the scales or smth. more thoughts to follow maybe.
Harmony Korine, Baby Invasion. uh, duh.
Art:
Kimsooja, To Breathe – Coachella Valley. this one is just like me fantasising or smth, basically ‘they’ve come so far, i’ve lived this long, at least i must just go and say hello’, all of that.
Louise Bourgeois, Twosome. obvi it’s the tank for me. it’s a weather station from hell it’s a rifle scope it’s a spasmy cyborg vagina lit up from within by utter hatred lol hasn’t aged a day.
Katharina Grosse, Choir. idek why i like this one. it’s like a rip-off of Twombly’s Bacchus, which i love, but bigger and she’s German and this should have been shown in Berlin (idk maybe it has been?) bc you know how Berlin is hideous but on such a grand scale it just becomes gorgeous? this thing, same, sorta. also blood is lipstick is some Akira thing spilling out, alright.
Internet:
nahh man, most relevant fun i’ve had this year is probably watching beige and brown fascists at The Apricity humiliation-kink one another bc they’re all in this massive denial about themselves and hyperaware of everyone else but deep down they know. there’s this one spanish weirdo who should really face the music and take an ancestry test soon lmao, that’s all i got, moving on.
you should have read my poem already! it really isn’t any sort of a big deal, now you’ll be all expectation-y and disappointed lol. i’ll get my hands on Dream Police. you get good reviews! also, bit comforting to know you write and edit too, just how do ppl manage to wait and wait and
yr slaves (well not your slaves, making it sound like you’ve got this hotelful of randos) def kept me company and now i sort of want to write a character in the style of those down bad reviewers, they’re great. like their whole thing is this river of cum or whatever, all of the one-handed-typed dada, but then, suddenly, divine and bright, lol, ‘trepidatious’. so inspiring.
you’re spoilt for snow! ^_^ i’ve not seen any since last time my longterm condition randomly went away for the last time and i spent winter in Oslo where they only salt important streets but that was whatever bc my foot neuropathy was gone so i could walk on ice w joy in my… wherever. ever since covid i can only just about walk on my knuckles and heels, which i reckon you can only tell if you can see my feet bc i otherwise make it work for what short stretches i must, but anyway, thinking about it makes me super sad, wtf, like i might cry? and snow was alright. don’t be done w it, lol, and never be done w yr feet either. thank them often like a total weirdo.
now it’s back to editing for me, which ugh, the holidays… got my here muse Dima on my mind bc of whom i’m largely doing this thing w/o knowing if he’d tell me to fuck off, and i really just don’t want him to be dead. like, what an ugly world then. and what a selfish thing to say too. but there it is.
P.S. the Italian kid was maybe a something De Alessi? can’t miss him tho, he was like, younger and Italian-looking lol and the film p much ended on a note of him.
<3
Last year-ish
Books:
Atlas of Unknowable Things – McCormick Templeman
The Golden Hour – Matthew Specktor
The Mobius Book – Catherine Lacey
On The Calculation Of Volume (I, II, III) – Solvej Balle
Never Understood / The Jesus and Mary Chain – Jim and William Reid
Final Cut – Charles Burns
How To Sell A Haunted House – Grady Hendrix
Agatha (Poems) – Lex Orgera
Atom and Void (Poems) – Aaron Fagan
An Incomplete Catalog of Disappearance – Diana Oropeza
Movies:
Weapons
Final Destination : Bloodlines
Music:
Horsegirl – Phonetics On and On
Orcutt Shelley Miller
Group Inerane – Marhajan Bianou
Tsapiky! Modern Music From Southwest Madagascar
Nowhere Flower – Heat Dome
The Plastic Harmony Band – I’m Trying To Carry A Spark Into The Future
Matt Baldwin – NEW UNIVERSAL SOLAR CALENDAR
Hi Dennis!!
My memory is really shot and also I didn’t consume a whole lot new this year but such as it is –
– Thomas’s books – his best yet!
– Joy Williams – The Pelican Child
– Philip Best/Maggie Dunlap – Pure Innocence, Pure Evil
– New Juche – Heat Death 2
– Watt/Baiza/Corsano – live
– Daniel Menche – live
– Carousel – live
– John Weiss – live
Hope you are great man, but if a rough patch here but looking up!
Thank you so much, Dennis! I’ve been in a slump but seeing this today was was just lovely. So many interesting things to chase up from these lists as always. I’ll try and get my brain into list making moods and post some favourites. Lots of love, Thomas xoxo
Dennis: a conundrum. I want to put effort into giving you an actual list but I am working on applications, which have been sort of universally consumptive on me. A resolution: popping in for a quick hi because I’ve missed you, and because items on this list (The Endless Week, Cartoons, Sociocide amongst others) remind me of how much any list would draw from the blog. How was America? I am leaving it soon, if only for a bit.
Hey there! Thanks so so much for including Jesus Freak among so many greats! I’m a big Kevin Killian fan. I’ve been offline a lot lately, but I have social media again after about a two year hiatus. Life was pretty crazy the past 6 months, but things are slowing down finally. I recently saw some posts about your film showing in NY. And how John Waters loved it. Amazing! Hope your holidays are happy.
Dear Dennis,
Many thanks for including Loren Ipsum (and 3:AM)! What a lovely surprise! Two of my favourite books this year: Tonyinterruptor by Nichola Barker and We Live Here Now by CD Rose.