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Books Read - 2011
  1. Long Day’s Journey Into Night - Eugene O’Neill
  2. Under Western Eyes - Joseph Conrad
  3. Guerillas - V.S. Naipaul
  4. Regeneration - Pat Barker
  5. Angels in America - Tony Kushner
  6. Wolf Dreams - Yasmina Khadra
  7. Darkness Visible - William Styron
  8. The Violent Bear It Away - Flannery O’Connor
  9. Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
  10. Wit - Margaret Edson
  11. My Loose Thread - Dennis Cooper
  12. The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, & Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
  13. Proust Was a Neuroscientist - Jonah Lehrer
  14. Possession - A.S. Byatt
  15. Collected Poems - Frank O’Hara
  16. This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  17. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
  18. 1984 - George Orwell
  19. A Gate at the Stairs - Lorrie Moore
  20. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
  21. White Teeth - Zadie Smith
  22. Changing My Mind - Zadie Smith
  23. A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
  24. The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides
  25. 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
  26. Collected Poems - Anne Sexton
  27. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
  28. Raise the High Beam Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction - J.D. Salinger
  29. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
  30. If on a winter’s night a traveler - Italo Calvino

Favorites bolded. Terrible are struck through.

Books Re-Read

Re-reading is actually far more enjoyable, but I try to put at least four years between each re-read, so college favorites will have to wait a little longer. Wait for me, Brideshead Revisited! (Jk?)

✖  ⟲ Reblog   ✒lit  ✒resolution: read more nonfiction. even if you don't finish it.  ✒2011 
Bill Cunningham New York My favorite movie of 2011. I didn’t expect much going into it - Bill Cunningham is undeniably awesome, but an entire documentary? Well, I was wrong. Bill Cunningham is so sincere, passionate, free of pretension, dedicated, and endlessly curious. He sees fashion as beauty, but also as something that moves him, that he wants to share, that fits so much emotion into a microcosm of expression. Bill’s dedication to something that is both personal to him and universal captures so well what it feels like to have a way of life fade away while still living in a manner that embodies what your entire history has been about.  Very Enjoyable Movies Released In 2011, in my limited viewing experience - Bill Cunningham New York The Descendants* Beginners Submarine The Artist* Midnight in Paris* Hanna Certified Copy Mediocre and/or Terrible of 2011 -  Somewhere* Wild Grass* The Fighter* Winnie the Pooh* Source Code The King’s Speech The Tree of Life* Blue Valentine *Watched in the theater

Bill Cunningham New York

My favorite movie of 2011. I didn’t expect much going into it - Bill Cunningham is undeniably awesome, but an entire documentary? Well, I was wrong. Bill Cunningham is so sincere, passionate, free of pretension, dedicated, and endlessly curious. He sees fashion as beauty, but also as something that moves him, that he wants to share, that fits so much emotion into a microcosm of expression. Bill’s dedication to something that is both personal to him and universal captures so well what it feels like to have a way of life fade away while still living in a manner that embodies what your entire history has been about. 

Very Enjoyable Movies Released In 2011, in my limited viewing experience -

  1. Bill Cunningham New York
  2. The Descendants*
  3. Beginners
  4. Submarine
  5. The Artist*
  6. Midnight in Paris*
  7. Hanna
  8. Certified Copy

Mediocre and/or Terrible of 2011 - 

  • Somewhere*
  • Wild Grass*
  • The Fighter*
  • Winnie the Pooh*
  • Source Code
  • The King’s Speech
  • The Tree of Life*
  • Blue Valentine

*Watched in the theater

✖  ⟲ Reblog   ✒2011  ✒bill cunningham  ✒film 
I feel as though I rarely listen to the ‘year’s best music’ the year it is released, but I’ve made a marginal effort this time. Rather than post my favorite songs of the year, I gathered my favorite ‘new’ songs and made a bit of a novelties mix. The truth is, most of this isn’t anywhere in my so-called ‘canon’, but I’ve never tried to form a playlist this way before, so… why not. 1. I Know Places - Lykke Li 2. Machu Picchu - The Strokes 3. One and Only - Adele 4. The Devil Is in the Beats - The Chemical Brothers 5. Grown Oceans - Fleet Foxes 6. The Rip Tide - Beirut 7. The Last Living Rose - PJ Harvey 8. Dealbreaker - Rachael Yamagata 9. Never Let Me Go - Florence + The Machine 10. Salinas - Laura Marling 11. Midnight City - M83  12. Trellick Tower - Emmy the Great 13. House - Patrick Wolf 14. Codex - Radiohead 15. Summer Camp - Summer Camp 16. I Don’t Want Love - The Antlers 17. Saying I Love You - Girls 18. Cruel - St. Vincent 19. Tigers - The Submarines DOWNLOAD! Ho-ho-hum. Contemporary music. Well, at least it’s not adult contemporary. Not quite yet.

I feel as though I rarely listen to the ‘year’s best music’ the year it is released, but I’ve made a marginal effort this time. Rather than post my favorite songs of the year, I gathered my favorite ‘new’ songs and made a bit of a novelties mix. The truth is, most of this isn’t anywhere in my so-called ‘canon’, but I’ve never tried to form a playlist this way before, so… why not.

1. I Know Places - Lykke Li
2. Machu Picchu - The Strokes
3. One and Only - Adele
4. The Devil Is in the Beats - The Chemical Brothers
5. Grown Oceans - Fleet Foxes
6. The Rip Tide - Beirut
7. The Last Living Rose - PJ Harvey
8. Dealbreaker - Rachael Yamagata
9. Never Let Me Go - Florence + The Machine
10. Salinas - Laura Marling
11. Midnight City - M83 
12. Trellick Tower - Emmy the Great
13. House - Patrick Wolf
14. Codex - Radiohead
15. Summer Camp - Summer Camp
16. I Don’t Want Love - The Antlers
17. Saying I Love You - Girls
18. Cruel - St. Vincent
19. Tigers - The Submarines

DOWNLOAD!

Ho-ho-hum. Contemporary music. Well, at least it’s not adult contemporary. Not quite yet.

✖  ⟲ Reblog   ✒mix tape  ✒audio  ✒2011 
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