Fiction
(in no order)
New Juche THE WORM (Infinity Land Press)
Meghan Lamb FAILURE TO THRIVE (Apocalypse Party)
Cecilia Pavón LITTLE JOY (Semiotext(e))
Jack Skelley DENNIS WILSON & CHARLIE MANSON (Fred and Barney Press)
Maggie Siebert BONDING (Expat Press)
Helen Marten THE BOILED IN BETWEEN (Prototype Publishing)
Alex Beaumais DOX (tragickal)
Sesshu Foster & Arturo Ernesto Romo ELADATL: A HISTORY OF THE EAST LOS ANGELES DIRIGIBLE AIR TRANSPORT LINES (City Lights)
Isabelle Nicou PARESIS & GENESIS O (Amphetamine Sulphate)
MM/DD/2020 RESIDUE (Calamari Press)
Elle Nash NUDES (Hobart Pulp Press)
Blair James BERNARD AND PAT (Corsair)
Mike Corrao RITUALS PERFORMED IN THE ABSENCE OF GANYMEDE (11:11 Press)
Camille Roy HONEY MINE: COLLECTED STORIES (Nightboat)
Big Bruiser Dope Boy SOMETHING GROSS (Apocalypse Party)
Shane Jesse Christmass LATEX, TEXAS (Selffuck)
Brontez Purnell 100 BOYFRIENDS (FSG Originals)
Ivan Boris MY WEEK WITHOUT GERARD (Morbid Books)
Alexandrine Ogundimu DESPERATE (Amphetamine Sulphate)
Troy James Weaver VISIONS (Apocalypse Party)
Leonor Fini ROGOMELEC (Wakefield Press)
Evan Isodine PHILOSOPHY OF THE SKY (11:11 Press)
Wayne Koestenbaum THE CHEERFUL SCAPEGOAT (Semiotext(e))
Kevin Lambert YOU WILL LOVE WHAT YOU HAVE KILLED (Biblioasis)
Ann Quin PASSAGES (And Other Stories)
Brooks Sterritt THE HISTORY OF AMERICA IN MY LIFETIME (Spuyten Duyvil)
Audrey Szasz TEARS OF A KOMSOMOL GIRL (Infinity Land Press)
Niven Govinden DIARY OF A FILM (Dialogue Books)
Mike DeCapite JACKET WEATHER (Soft Skull)
Jeffery Kennedy HUNG UP: A QUEER NOVELETTE (Independent)
Zak Ferguson THE SYSTEM COMPENDIUM (Sweat Drenched Press)
Joshua Dalton I HATE YOU, PLEASE READ ME (House of Vlad)
Richard Cabut LOOKING FOR A KISS (Sweat Drenched Press)
Poetry
(in no order)
Amy Gerstler INDEX OF WOMEN (Penguin)
Susana Théno OVA COMPLETA (Ugly Duckling Press)
Kate Durbin HOARDERS (Wave Books)
Nathaniel Mackey DOUBLE TRIO (New Directions)
Noah Ross ACTIVE RECEPTION (Nightboat Books)
Candice Wuehle FIDELITORIA: FIXED OR FLUXED (11:11 Press)
N.H. Pritchard THE MATRIX: POEMS 1960 – 1970 (Ugly Duckling Presse)
D.C. Wojciech DAY & NIGHT (Anvil Tongue Books)
Gabrielle Daniels SOMETHING ELSE AGAIN (Materials)
Lonely Christopher DOUBLE RAINBOW (Be About It Press)
Will Alexander THE COMBUSTION CYCLE (Roof Books)
Sonya Vatomsky AND THE WHALE (Paper Nautilus)
Clark Coolidge TO THE COLD HEART (Fenrick Books)
Ursula Andkjær Olsen OUTGOING VESSEL (Action Books)
Lily Duffy WET WATER HILL (Garden-Door Press)
Cliff Fyman TAXI NIGHT (Long News Books)
Gary J. Shipley BRIGHT STUPID CONFETTI (11:11 Press)
Nonfiction
(in no order)
Adrian Dannatt DOOMED AND FAMOUS: SELECTED OBITUARIES (Sequence Press)
M Kitchell THE ABYSS IS THE FOUNDATION OF THE POSSIBLE (Apocalypse Party)
David Trinidad, Editor NEW YORK DIARY BY TIM DLUGOS (Sibling Rivalry)
Tony Pipolo THE MELANCHOLY LENS: LOSS AND MOURNING IN AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE CINEMA (Oxford University Press)
Megan Milks TORI AMOS BOOTLEG WEBRING (Instar Books)
Bela Koe-Krompecher LOVE, DEATH & PHOTOSYNTHESIS (Don Giovanni Records)
Mercy Fontenot PERMANENT DAMAGE: MEMOIRS OF AN OUTRAGEOUS GIRL (Rare Bird Books)
Chris Kelso INTERROGATING THE ABYSS (Apocalypse Party)
Jennifer Lucy Allan THE FOGHORN’S LAMENT: THE DISAPPEARING MUSIC OF THE COAST (White Rabbit)
Joe Brainard A JOE BRAINARD SHOW IN A BOOK (Loewe)
Sarah Schulman LET THE RECORD SHOW: A POLITICAL HISTORY OF ACT UP NEW YORK, 1987-1993 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Helen Reddington SHE’S AT THE CONTROLS: SOUND ENGINEERING, PRODUCTION & GENDER VENTRILOQUISM IN THE 21st CENTURY (Equinox)
Rachel Kushner THE HARD CROWD (Scribner)
Albertine Fox GODARD AND SOUND: ACOUSTIC INNOVATION IN THE LATE FILMS OF JEAN-LUC GODARD (Bloomsbury)
Music
(in no order)
Guided by Voices EARTH MAN BLUES (GbV)
Tyler Holmes NIGHTMARE IN PARADISE (Ratskin Records)
Ai Aso LONE (Ideologic Organ)
Youth Code x King Josef A SKELETON KEY IN THE DOORS OF DEPRESSION (Youth Code)
Sam Dunscombe OUTSIDE LUDLOW/DESERT DISCO (Black Truffle)
Dry Cleaning NEW LONG LEG (4AD)
Innode SYN (Editions Mego)
Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt MADE OUT OF SOUND (Palilalia Records)
Screamers SCREAMERS DEMO HOLLYWOOD 1977 (Superior Viaduct)
Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda LIVE ATELIER CLAUS (Les Albums Claus)
Maraudeur PUISSANCE 4 (Maraudeur)
Hecker SYNOPSIS SERIATION (Editions Mego)
Leyden Jars GONE (Outer Reaches)
Yvette Janine Jackson FREEDOM (Fridman Gallery)
MXLX NEBULA RASA (kindarad)
Iceage SEEK SHELTER (Mexican Summer)
Stereolab ELECTRICALLY POSSESSED (SWITCHED ON VOL. 4) (Warp/Duphonic)
Marcus Schmickler SKY DICE / MAPPING THE STUDIO (Editions Mego)
Moor Mother & billy woods BRASS (Backwoodz Studioz)
Judith Hamann HINTERHOF (Longform Editions)
Lou Barlow REASON TO LIVE (Joyful Noise)
Film
(in no order)
Lisa Rovner SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS
Artavazd Pelechian NATURE
Steve Reinke & James Richards WHEN WE WERE MONSTERS
Daniel & Clara ON THE ISLAND
O.B. De Alessi MUDMONSTER
Roy Andersson ABOUT ENDLESSNESS
Tori Kudo ARCHIVE
Dalibor Barić ACCIDENTAL LUXURIANCE OF THE TRANSLUCENT WATERY REBUS
Prano Bailey-Bond CENSOR
Celeste Bell, Paul Sng POLY STYRENE: I AM A CLICHE
Stephen Broomer FAT CHANCE
Art
(in no order)
James Coleman (Centre Pompidou, Paris)
Thomas Ruff Tableaux chinois (David Zwirner, Paris)
Linus Bill + Adrien Horni GIFS (Galerie Allen, Paris)
Sarah Sze Night into Day (Fondation Cartier, Paris)
Hubert Duprat (Art : Concept, Paris)
Elles font l’abstraction (Centre Pompidou, Paris)
Francis Alÿs Don’t Cross the Bridge Before You Get to the River (David Zwirner, Paris)
David Hammons (Pinault Collection, Paris)
Nick Zedd (xxiii) THERE WILL BE BLOOD, SHAME, PAIN AND ECSTASY (Goswell Road, Paris)
Kenji Siratori’s SOCIAL MEDIA FEED (Facebook)
Oscar Tuazon L’École de l’eau (Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris)
Wang Bing L’œil qui marche (Le Bal, Paris)
Internet
(in no order)
SCAB
Profound Experience
Expat
Original Cinemaniac
Small Press Distribution
X-R-A-Y
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SELFFUCK
Invert/Extant
Please Kill Me
Wake Island
Bookworm
PlayTherapy/Tik Tent Radio
Rhizome
Theme Park Review
NO CARTRIDGE AUDIO
TOWARDS CYCLOBE
Musique Machine
Fanzine
Volume 1 Brooklyn
zoran rosko vacuum player
Kill the Darling
Gurochan
The Chiseler
Experimental Cinema
The Los Angeles Review of Books
3:AM Magazine
largehearted boy
pantaloons
Harriet
Open Culture
Locus Solus: The New York School of Poets
giphy
The Wonderful World of Tam Tam Books
Hobart
Entropy
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p.s. Hey. If anyone wants to return my volley and share your favorite things you’ve read, watched, heard, seen, and/or visited this year so far, that would be very cool. ** _Black_Acrylic, It seems so, not that I keep up with the shapeshifter set. But, yes, I thought that post had a cuddly retro vibe. My ears, my booty! Everyone, Hark! Enter your weekend with a bang thanks to Mr. _Black_Acrylic. He’ll explain: ‘The new episode of Play Therapy is online here at Tak Tent Radio! Ben ‘Jack Your Body’ Robinson brings you obscure Belgian Synth-Pop, classic Prog Synth, some very abstract Dub and assorted miscellany too.’ I’ll just add that if you take his cue, happiness surely awaits. Thank you, maestro! ** Dominik, Hi!!! Yes, almost every celebrity, it would seem. Scary! I feel like I should love kittens more than I do. I mean, they’re cool and everything obviously, but … Your choice of Harry Styles would make so many people all over the world so happy. It might just end war entirely and speed up excited scientists’ development of the cure for cancer and win you the Nobel Peace Prize. Wise choice, in other words. Ha ha, good one/love there, pal. Love crowding every book, record, film, artwork, and even website in my favorites post at the top of the International Best Seller list and putting everything currently on the International Best Seller list in thrift shops with a 50 cent price tag, G. ** Misanthrope, Nice try. Only a reptilian shapeshifter would say such a thing. Man, I’m glad I didn’t see Rigby at his sickest. I just got chills at the thought. Have big fun in Annapolis! ** Bill, I remember really liking ‘Sssssss’, albeit perhaps for all the wrong reasons. Is that the Udo Kier movie where he plays a, like, perfume aficionado or something in, like, Montana or something? If so, I’ve heard good things. ** T, Hi, T. So happy you liked it. Mm, I think that post dates from about 10 years ago or so? I just added the gifs because I thought it needed visual weight at the bottom. I think I probably assembled it the way I assemble most of the theme posts, by doing extensive web searches using various target words, but I don’t remember clearly. Ha ha, no, that crocodile one wasn’t what I was thinking of, but how delightful! I think your yesterday had a proper trajectory based on your limited information, so at least a qualified congratulations from me. That would be such a nice and terrifying weekend. The one you wished for me. Hm, I have to figure out how I can trigger that. And, maybe more importantly, how to switch it off. I’ve always been flummoxed by that saying ‘the world is my oyster’ as in ‘what in the world does that mean?’ and ‘why would that be such a positive thing?’, so I wish the world into being your oyster this weekend because I like being confused. xo, D. ** Steve Erickson, Is that a real theory? I’m out of it. I must admit conspiracy theories have lost all of their allure for me at present thanks to all of the you-know-whos. New song! Everyone, Steve Erickson says, ‘I wrote this song over the past two days. The production is supposed to sound a little harsh and in-the-red, especially the piano part.’ I must know of that film you saw but under a French title. Police brutality is a huge, huge issue here. Massive protesting in that regard against the police and against Macron’s government’s indifference to it. With very good reason. ** David Ehrenstein, Well, that would explain a lot, wouldn’t it? ** h (now j), Hi, h (now j)! Great to see you! I’m doing okay, thanks, you? I hope your busyness is the exhilarating kind, at least most of it. Things are lovely here. We’ll see how long that lasts, but, yes, just being out in the city and doing almost nothing continues to feel fresh and great. Take good care! ** Right. You know what you have on your plate this weekend, and please add to it if you feel like it and should you feel so kind. See you on Monday.