2016
Welcome to my Department of Record Keeping. Of sorts. This is where I keep track of my interest in cultural artifacts. As the title suggests, “Music, Books, Movies, Etc.” Lots of Etc. I like to keep track of things I like like that.
Feel free to peruse, browse, comment, make suggestions and the like. Or not. Whatever.
Great pre-2016 Music Discovered/Or At-Least Really Paid-Attention-To in 2016 (or at least after my 2015 year-end list was compiled):
Since I Left You by The Avalanches (2000)
Canned Heat
Interludes For The Dead by Circles Around The Sun (2015)
Chris Robinson Brotherhood
Music For Lava Lamps by Cobra Family Picnic (2015)
Lost Voices by Esmerine (2015)
Moon Blood by Fraction (1973)
The Glands by The Glands (2000)
Pacific Surf Line by GospelbeacH (2015)
Mehliana: Taming the Dragon by Mark Guiliana/Brad Mehldau (2014)
Houndog: Houndog (1999)
All the Roads That Lead Us Home by Gaelynn Lea (2015)
High on Tulsa Heat by John Moreland (2015)
Imperfecta by Murder of Crows (2012)
Israel Nash’s Silver Season by Israel Nash (2015)
Never Were The Way She Was by Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld (2015)
Favorite Music Reissues in 2016 (in alphabetical order):
My Life in a Hole in the Ground by African Head Charge (1981)
Environmental Studies by African Head Charge (1982)
Drastic Season by African Head Charge (1983)
Off the Beaten Track by African Head Charge (1985)
Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs by Eddie Hazel (1977)
Favorite Music released in 2016 (in alphabetical order):
We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service by A Tribe Called Quest
Fantomas by Amiina
Honest Life by Courtney Marie Andrews
Painting With by Animal Collective
Wildflower by the Avalanches
Daniel Bachman by Daniel Bachman
IV by BadBadNotGood
Old Factory EP by Chris Bathgate
Pond Scum by Bonnie Prince Billy
Blackstar by David Bowie
Country Girls in City Dresses by Doug Burr
Teens of Denial by Car Seat Headrest
case/lang/veirs by case/lang/veirs
Coloring Book by Chance the Rapper
Awaken, My Love by Childish Gambino
Anyway You Love, We Know How You Feel by Chris Robinson Brotherhood
You Want It Darker by Leonard Cohen
Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not by Dinosaur Jr.
Ere Gobez by Debo Band
American Band by Drive-By Truckers
The Rarity of Experience by Chris Forsyth
New View by Eleanor Friedberger
Future Standards by Howe Gelb
Requiem by Goat
Eyes On The Lines by Steve Gunn
Late Bloomer by Matt Haeck
Blue Rider Songs by Scott Hirsch
House in the Tall Grass by Kikagaku Moyo
Nonagon Infinity by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
untitled unmastered. by Kendrick Lamar
Ritual Spirit EP by Massive Attack
Mangy Love by Cass McCombs
How to Dance by Mount Moriah
Keep Me Singing by Van Morrison
Entranced Earth by the Myrrors
Night Fiction by Cian Nugent
My Woman by Angel Olsen
Malibu by anderson.paak
PAO! by Phoenix Afrobeat Orchestra
Midwest Farmer's Daughter by Margo Price
A Sailor’s Guide to Earth by Sturgill Simpson
Letting Go and Holding On by Shawn Skinner and the Men of Reason
A Seat At The Table by Solange
Destination Unknown by Some Dark Hollow
Get 'Em Next Time by Star & Micey
Shipwrecked by Sula Bassana
Waiting Room by Tindersticks
Modern Country by William Tyler
Golden Sings That Have Been Sung by Ryley Walker
Blue Mountain by Bob Weir
Schmilco by Wilco
Ghosts of Highway 20 by Lucinda Williams
City Sun Eater in the River of Light by Woods
Things Read in 2016 (in order read):
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1963)
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (1961)
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1961)
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1973)
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (1988)
Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1990)
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (2015)
Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut (1982)
March (Book 1) by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell (2013)
March (Book 2) by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell (2015)
The Soul of Man Under Socialism by Oscar Wilde (1891)
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey (1968)
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (1986)
Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1880)
A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'engle (1963)
A Wind In The Door by Madeleine L'engle (1973)
A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’engle (1978)
Many Waters by Madeleine L’engle (1986)
An Acceptable Time by Madeleine L’engle (1989)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958)
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (1959)
Powers: Who Killed Retro Girl? by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming (2006)
A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut (2005)
The Dark Tower (01): The Gunslinger by Stephen King (1982)
The Dark Tower (02): The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King (1987)
The Dark Tower (03): The Waste Lands by Stephen King(1991)
The Dark Tower (04): Wizard and Glass by Stephen King(1997)
The Dark Tower (05): Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King (2003)
The Dark Tower (06): Song of Susannah by Stephen King (2004)
The Dark Tower (07)): The Dark Tower by Stephen King (2004)
Welcome To The Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut (1968)
Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut (1985)
Prayer: Forty Days of Practice by Scott Erickson and Justin McRoberts (2016)
Water To Wine: Some Of My Story by Brian Zahnd (2016)
A Theology of Liberation by Gustavo Gutiérrez (2010)
George MacDonald: An Anthology 365 Readings by George MacDonald, edited by C. S. Lewis (2015)
We Are What We Pretend To Be: The First And Last Works by Kurt Vonnegut (2012)
Armageddon In Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut (2008)
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut (1965)
March (Book 3) by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell (2016)
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace (2011)
1984 by George Orwell (1949)
Silence by Shūsaku Endō (1966/2016)
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (2016)
Concerts:
02/06/16 Godspeed You! Black Emperor with Xylouris White at the Crescent Ballroom
04/28/16 Robert Earl Keen with Walter Salas-Humara at the Crescent Ballroom
04/30/16 David Sedaris at the Orpheum Theater
05/03/16 William Elliott Whitmore with Josiah and Some Dark Hollow at the Rebel Lounge
06/24/16 Some Dark Hollow/Shawn Skinner and the Men of Reason Album Release show with Speak Easy, Brea Burns and the Boleros and DJ Dana at the Rebel Lounge.
09/27/16 Cold War Kids with the Strumbellas at the Marquee Theater.
10/13/16 Matt Haeck with Shawn Skinner and Jason Stinson and Table Top Joe at the Thomas Listening Room.
10/21/16 Hiss Golden Messenger with Dead Tongues at the Valley Bar.
11/18/16 Sturgill Simpson with London Souls at the Fox Theater, Bakersfield, CA.
Favorite Movies and/Or Shorts Watched in 2016 (in order seen):
Ant-Man (2015)
To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
Finding Dory (2016)
Filmage: The Story of Descendents/All (2013)
Brother’s Keeper (1992)
Meet the Patels (2014)
The Little Prince (2015)
Finders Keepers (2015)
Borrowed Time (2016)
Tsumiki no ie (The House of Small Cubes) (2011)
Chef (2014)
13TH (2016)
Favorite Television Watched in 2016:
Parks and Recreation (2009-2015)
Outsiders Season One (2016)
The Office (2005-2012)
Death Note (2006-2007)
Stranger Things (2016)
The IT Crowd (2006-2013)
Haters Back Off Season One (2016)
The Flash (2014-Present)
Arrow (2012-Present)