First day of 2010
The first record I’ve loved in 2010 is Creatures’ ‘I, Lucifer’ LP. Awesome metallic hardcore in the vein of mid-era Ringworm. Definitely excellent. You can download it here. Even if metallic 90s-style hardcore isn’t your thing you should give this a couple of spins. Nothing not to like.
52 books in 52 weeks
Reading like a motherfucker in 2010.
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Orlando - Virginia Woolf
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
The Human Stain - Phillip Roth
Collected Shorter Plays - Samuel Beckett
Hamlet - Shakespeare
A Pale View of Hills - Ishiguro
Dance Dance Dance - Haruki Murakami
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
The Crystal Cave - Mary Stewart
The Confessions - Jean Jacques Rousseau
Ghosts, The Wild Duck & Master Builder by Ibsen
Pic - Jack Kerouac
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Hear The Wind Sing - Haruki Murakami
Cities of The Plain / Sodom and Gomorrah - Marcel Proust
Starving Unions - Kobo Abe
Midnight At The Well of Souls - Chalker
Almost Transparent Blue - Ryu Murakami
Sons and Lovers - D H Lawrence
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Under The Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
Empire - Orson Scott Card
Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton
Russia In Revolution - Lionel Kochan
L’abbe C - Bataille
Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
THe Paste Recaptured / Time Regained - Marcel Proust
Pinball 1973 - Haruki Murakami
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea - Yukio Mushima
A Personal Matter - Kenzaburo Oe
Thousand Cranes - Yasunari Kawabata
The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
Self Portraits - Osamu Dazai
At The Guidepost At The End of the Road - Kobo Abe
Kyoko - Ryu Murakami
A Prayer For Katerina Horowitzowa - Lustig
After Dark - Haruki Murakami
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Go Tell It On The Mountain - James Baldwin
Amrita - Banana Toshimoto
The Guermantes Way - Marcel Proust
Franny and Zooey - J D Sallinger
Ulysses - James Joyce
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
I’ve resolved a hundred times to use tumblr regularly and it has always fell through after a few posts. I figured that, as I don’t really use anything other than Collective-Zine and last.fm with any regularity, it might make sense to use something like this to keep anyone interested up-to-date with anything to do with cool records I’ve heard about or what’s happening with this zine I’m doing and everything. I’d just use the domain I’ve got for my distro but its a real pain logging in via Internet Explorer and waiting for all the shit to load.
There’s a lot going on for me just now. In January I’m hosting a poker game at my house — a £10 buy-in each with a pay-out for the top 3 sit-and-go just like on the internet. I’m only really inviting good players so I’m way excited about it. I’ll hopefully make myself some money from that. Some people are also going to come round and help me fold and spray paint all the inserts for the Men As Trees ‘Weltschmerz’ tape I’m putting together just now. We’ll listen to the new Gruel DLP tons. Around the same time, all the dudes who have been writing for this zine should be hanging out and pasting some stuff together. It feels good to be making some progress. Lastly, there should be an all-ages show at the GSC at the end of the month. Everything should be booked up and confirmed by the new year and I’ll have tons of flyering to do. Its all really exciting! Come mid-January, you can add university into the equation. Its going to be a busy year!
Today I got a new record player for Christmas and have been listening to Little Gold’s ‘On The Knife’ LP a lot. Its really sleepy, lo-fi country-ish stuff that is obviously related to Woods. You can try it here before you buy the LP. Recommended.
Christmas Viewing 20/12/2009
Miracle on 34th Street
Dirty Dancing
An American Haunting
Nightwatch
Tokyo Gore Police
