2011

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This is just where I try to keep track of movies, books and music I intook this year. I like to try and keep track of the media and arts I've exposed myself to and my reaction to them. 

 

Great 2010 Albums First Heard in 2011 (or at least after my 2010 year-end list was compiled):

  • Black Dub: Self-Titled

  • Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger: Acoustic Sessions

  • Gungor: Beautiful Things

  • Sarah Jaffe: Suburban Nature

  • The Kopecky Family Band: The Disaster

  • White Pines: The Falls

  • Yasushi Yoshida: Grateful Goodbyer

  • Zoo Animal: Self-Titled

 

Best Music of 2011

  • Alabama Shakes: Alabama Shakes EP

  • The Antlers: Burst Apart

  • Arrange: Plantation

  • Balam Acab: Wander / Wonder

  • Jamie Barnes: The Mercy Seat EP

  • Chris Bathgate: Salt Year

  • The Black Keys: El Camino

  • Bon Iver: Bon Iver

  • Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Wolfrow Goes To Town

  • The Builders and the Butchers: Dead Reckoning

  • Cut Copy: Zonoscope

  • The David Wax Museum: Everything Is Saved

  • Dawes: Nothing Is Wrong

  • Mike Doughty: Dubious Luxury

  • Mike Doughty: Yes and Also Yes

  • Explosions In The Sky: Take Care, Take Care, Take Care

  • The Field: Looping State of Mind

  • Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues

  • Josh Garrels: Love & War & The Sea In Between

  • Tommy Guerrero: Lifeboats and Follies

  • Gungor: Ghosts Upon The Earth

  • Hauschka: Salon Des Amateurs

  • The Head and the Heart: The Head and The Heart

  • Joe Henry: Reverie

  • Cass McCombs: Wit's End

  • Cass McCombs: Humor Risk

  • M83: Hurry Up, We're Dreaming

  • Bill Mallonee: The Power and the Glory

  • Ramsay Midwood: Larry Buys A Lighter

  • Miracles of Modern Science: Dog Year

  • Modular by Matt Chamberlain, Victor Krauss and Dan Phelps

  • The Necks: Mindset

  • Neon Indian: Era Extraña

  • Over The Rhine: The Long Surrender

  • The Only Sons: American Stranger

  • Josh T. Pearson: Last of the Country Gentlemen

  • Real Estate: Days

  • Reigns: Widow Blades

  • Brooks Ritter: The War EP

  • Seryn: This Is Where We Are

  • Shabazz Palaces: Black Up

  • Social Distortion: Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes

  • Sojourn Music: The Water and the Blood

  • Aaron Sprio: Love

  • Colin Stetson: New History of Warfare Vol. 2: Judges

  • Allen Stone: Allen Stone

  • Aaron Strumpel: Birds

  • The Tree Ring: Generous Shadows

  • Kurt Vile: Smoke Ring For My Halo

  • Tom Waits: Bad As Me

  • Gilllian Welch: The Harrow and the Harvest

  • WIlco: The Whole Love

  • Wye Oak: Civilians

  • Youth Lagoon: The Year of Hibernation

 

Concerts

  • Zoo Animal and The Narrow Fields at the Thomas Listening Room (01/15/11)

  • Woven Hand at the Sail Inn (01/28/11)

  • Dr. Seahorse at Central Christian Church (Gilbert) (01/30/11)

  • Calexico at Corona Ranch (02/04/11)

  • Lucero at the Clubhouse (02/18/11)

  • Shawn Skinner and the Narow Fields at the Leaf House (03/18/11)

  • Tara-Leigh Cobble at the Leaf House (04/08/11)

  • Mumford and Sons/Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros/Old Crow Medicine Show in a parking lot by a train (04/23/11)

  • Old 97's and Sarah Jaffe at Martini Ranch (06/06/11)

  • Seryn at the Lost Leaf (06/08/11)

  • Seryn with Matt Beem at New Hope Covenant Church (06/25/11)

  • Seryn at the Thomas Listening Room (06/26/11)

  • Drew Grow and the Pastors' Wives at the Rogue Bar (07/14/11)

  • David Ramirez at the Thomas Listening Room (09/10/11)

  • Bill Mallonee at The Skinners' (10/14/11)

  • Shawn Skinner and Aaron Spiro at the Thomas Listening Room (10/22/11)

  • Kelley McRae at The Whiten Leaf House (11/05/11)

  • The Spiro at Spiro's home (11/10/11)

  • Chris Bathgate at the Whiten Leaf House (11/29/11)

 

Books Read in 2011

  • King's Cross by Tim Keller

  • Foreign to Familiar by Sarah Lanier

  • Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy

  • Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

  • Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

  • The Pearl by John Steinbeck

  • A Sweet and Bitter Providence by John Piper

  • Winter Wakes the Bear Who Sleeps by Aaron Youngren

  • The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

  • The Monster In The Hollows by Andrew Peterson

  • God No! by Penn Jillette

  • Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton

  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of FIre by J.K. Rowling

  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

  • The Dangerous Act Of Loving Your Neighbor by Mark Labberton

  • Gospel Wakefulness by Jared Wilson

 

Best Beers of 2011:

  • Hopslam by Bell's Brewing Inc.

  • Sneaky Pete Imperial IPA by Laughing Dog Brewing

  • Myrcenary by Odell Brewing Company

  • Old Guardian Belgo Barleywine by Stone Brewing Company