2013

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Just keeping track of some popular culture intake. You're free to follow along or ignore at your own leisure.


Great 2012 (or older) Albums First Heard in 2013 (or at least after my 2012 year-end list was compiled):

  • Alt-J: Awesome Wave (2012)

  • Chris Forsyth: Paranoid Cat (2011)

  • Greg Haines: Digressions (2012)

  • Johann Johannsson: Copenhagen Dreams (2012)

  • Lucius: Lucius EP (2012)

  • Pearl and the Beard


Favorite Music of 2013:

  • Airhead: For Years

  • Air Review: Low Wishes

  • Atoms For Peace: Amok

  • James Blake: Overgrown

  • Burial: Truant/Rough Sleeper

  • Neko Case: The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You

  • Cyclopean: Cyclopean EP

  • Foreign Fields: Tuscaloosa

  • Howe Gelb: The Coincidentalist

  • Golden Gunn: Golden Gunn

  • Steve Gunn: Time Off

  • Hiss Golden Messenger: Haw

  • the Hollands!: Over Land And Leas

  • Howard Ivans: Red Face Boy/Pillows

  • Chuck Johnson: Crows In The Basilica

  • Glenn Jones: My Garden State

  • Junip: Junip

  • Local Natives: Hummingbird

  • Mazzy Star: Seasons Of Your Day

  • Modern Kin: Modern Kin

  • My Bloody Valentine: mbv

  • Northern Hustle" Forgether

  • Owl & Penny: Milk & Sugar

  • Phosphorescent: Muchacho

  • Dylan Pratt: Beg For Fire

  • the Prowling Kind: Tennessee

  • the Riveras: We don't remember the dream but the dream remembers us

  • Kurt Vile: Wakin on a Pretty Daze

  • Waxahatchee: Cerulean Salt

  • Yo La Tengo: Fade

  • Zomby: With Love


Concerts:

  • 01/11/13 - Karla Adolphe and Ree Boado at the Thomas Listening Room

  • 01/12/13 - Greg Brown at the Crescent Ballroom

  • 03/04/13 - Kishi Bashi with Tall Tall Trees at the Crescent Ballroom

  • 03/09/13 - Christian Lee Hutson, Shawn Skinner and Steve Deckel at the Thomas Listening Room

  • 03/16/13 - The Cold Desert, Tres Lunas, The Lions Club and Shawn Skinner at the Crescent

  • 04/03/13 - The Last Bison with AJ Odneal at the Fellowship Hall

  • 04/13/13 - The Cold Desert, Old Hours and Luke Oliver at the Thomas Listening Room

  • 05/05/12 - DJ Efecto, Foreknown, Eshon Burgundy, Beautiful Eulogy and Propaganda at Desert Springs Community Church

  • 06/11/13 - Ramsay Midwood with Shawn Skinner at the Thomas Listening Room

  • 06/21/13 - Air Review with Brent Miles and the Enablers at the Thomas Listening Room

  • 08/25/13 - Seryn at the Thomas Listening Room

  • 08/27/13 - Seryn at the Crescent Ballroom

  • 08/28/13 - Shawn Skinner and the Men of Reason with Some Dark Hollow at the Tempe Tavern

  • 09/12/13 - Neko Case with Pickwick and Jon Rauhouse

  • 09/14/13 - Denison Witmer with Shawn Skinner and Chase Randall at Last Exit Live

  • 09/21/13 - Northern Hustle, Christian Lee Hutson and Dylan Pratt at the Bear Den.

  • 10/14/13 - Steve Earle and the Dukes at Scottsdale Center For The Performing Arts

  • 11/04/13 - Northern Hustle with Owl & Penny, B.O.T.S. and Dylan Pratt at Crescent Ballroom.

  • 11/08/13 - Obadiah Parker, Nick Flora and the Hollands! at the Thomas Listening Room.


Things Read in 2013:

  • Hearing Her Voice: A Case For Women Giving Sermons by John Dickson

  • The Holy Spirit by Winfield Bevins

  • Suttree by Cormac McCarthy

  • Marble Season by Gilbert Hernandez

  • Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman

  • Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman

  • As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

  • Mo' Meta Blues by Questlove

  • Ghost World by Daniel Clowes

  • The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Volume One) by Alan Moore

  • The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Volume Two) by Alan Moore

  • V For Vendetta by Alan Moore

  • "The Soul Of Man Under Socialism" by Oscar Wilde

  • Death By Living by N.D. Wilson

  • Julio's Day by Gilbert Hernandez

  • We Shall Have Spring Again by Andrée Seu

  • A Prayer Journal by Flannery O'Connor

  • The Sandman Volume One (Preludes & Nocturnes) by Neil Gaiman, etc.

  • The Sandman Volume Two (The Doll's House) by Neil Gaiman, etc.

  • Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

  • A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor

  • The River by Flannery O'Connor

  • The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Flannery O'Connor

  • A Temple Of The Holy Ghost by Flannery O'Connor

  • Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott


Favorite Movies Watched in 2013:

  • Hugo (2011)

  • A Town Called Panic (2009)

  • Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011)

  • A Band Called Death (2012)

  • Holy Rollers: The True Story of Card Counting Christians (2011)

  • Bernie (2011)


Favorite Television Watched in 2013:

  • Parenthood

  • Whisker Wars

  • Arrested Development (Season 4)

  • The Killing

  • Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee

  • Breaking Bad

  • The Walking Dead

  • Small Town Security

 

Favorite beers tried for the first time in 2013:

  • Hop Shortage Triple IPA by Knee Deep Brewing

  • Enjoy By 02.15.13, 08.0213, etc. by Stone Brewing Company

  • Palate Wrecker by Green Flash Brewing

  • Big Eye IPA by Ballast Point

  • RuinTen by Stone Brewing Company