Way late on this, but this draft has been sitting around for awhle. It was a pretty awful year for films, w/ Moneyball being the only film that sticks out in my memory.
Music (no particular order):
- Bill Frisell - All we are Saying
- Bon Iver - s/t
- Elbow - Build a Rocket Boys
- Fitz and the tandrums - Pickin’ up the Pieces
- Goddamn electric bill - Jazz
- The great book of john - s/t
- Jason isbell and the 400 unit - Here we Rest
- My Morning Jacket - Circuital
- Russian Circles -Empros
- Tom Waits - Bad as Me
- TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light
- The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
Books (no particular order):
- The Creative Habit - Twyla Tharp
- God is Dead - Ron Currie Jr.
- The F-ing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel - Dan Sinker
- Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- Recording the Beatles - Kevin Ryan
- Here There and Everywhere - Geoff Emerick
- The War of Art (re-read) - Steven Pressfield
- A Confederacy of Dunces (re-read) - John Kennedy Toole
- A Whole New Mind - Daniel Pink
Last.fm = 445 different artists in the last 12 months. The idea of statically listening to the same music over and over until I die sound miserable. It’s like reading the same ten books over-and-over and just letting a part of my brain shrivel away. There’s too much good stuff out there to ignore. I need to keep my mind open and my preconceived notions buried away. I’m glad that I use something like last.fm to remind myself to keep looking and keep searching for new music.