Art Garfunkel Memorial Reading List (January - June 2015)

1.) Seiobo There Below - Krasznahorkai (1/10)
2.) Kaspar - Handke (1/13)
3.) Dead Souls - Gogol (1/26)
4.) Existentialism is a Humanism - Sartre (1/27)
5.) Lean on Pete - Vlautin (1/29)
6.) Observatory Mansions - Carey (2/8)
7.) A Book of Memories - Nadas (2/28)
8.) Under the Frog - Fischer (3/6)
9.) Girl in a Band - Gordon (3/9)
10.) Tank Girl, Vol. 1 - Hewlett (3/10)
11.) Absalom, Absalom - Faulkner (3/18)
12.) Sex Criminals, Vol. 1 - Fraction (3/20)
13.) Sex Criminals, Vol. 2 - Fraction (3/21)
14.) Against Joie de Vivre - Lopate (3/25)
15.) Tragic Magic - Brown (3/28)
16.) Wittgenstein's Nephew - Bernhard (3/30)
17.) the Consummation of Dirk - Callahan (4/4)
18.) North American Lake Monsters - Ballingrud (4/8)
19.) the New Jim Crow - Alexander (4/12)
20.) the Luzhin Defense - Nabokov (4/15)
21.) Ways of Seeing - Berger (4/16)
22.) the Jade Cabinet - Ducornet (4/19)
23.) the Influencing Machine - Gladstone (4/20)
24.) Autoportrait - Leve (4/21)
25.) Sexual Perversity in Chicago - Mamet (4/22)
26.) A Minor Apocalypse - Konwicki (4/27)
27.) the Illusion of Separateness - Booy (4/28)
28.) Orfeo - Powers (5/5)
29.) Locas II - Hernandez (5/12)
30.) Loitering - D'Ambrosio (5/12)
31.) the Oranging of America - Apple (5/14)
32.) Pimp: the Story of My Life - Slim (5/21)
33.) In the Image - Horn (5/26) 
34.) the Sopranos - Warner (5/31)
35.) Fun Home - Bechdel (6/2)
36.) the UnAmericans - Antopol (6/8)
37.) the Empathy Exams - Jamison (6/13)
38.) the Atlantic Ocean - O'Hagan (6/19)
39.) the Blood Oranges - Hawkes (6/22)
40.) Pnin - Nabokov (6/29)

2014 in Review!

Films Released in 2014
10.) Gone Girl (Fincher)
9.) Jodorowsky's Dune (Pavich)
8.) Only Lovers Left Alive (Jarmusch)
7.) the Grand Budapest Hotel (Anderson)
6.) Ida (Pawlikowski)
5.) Whiplash (Chazelle)
4.) Boyhood (Linklater)
3.) We Are the Best! (Moodysson)
2.) A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Amirpour)
1.) Under the Skin (Glazer)

HMs: Advanced Style, Birdman, Blue Ruin, Borgman, the Double, Kumiko Treasure Hunter, Nightcrawler, the One I Love, Palo Alto, Proxy, Stranger By the Lake

5-Star Books Read in 2014
Anthropology - Rhodes
Baron in the Trees - Calvino
Daytripper - Moon
the Hour of the Star - Lispector
Locas - Hernandez
Men We Reaped - Ward
A Naked Singularity - De La Pava
Palomar - Hernandez
Remember Why You Fear Me - Shearman

Albums in 2014 (Alphabetical)
Caribou - Our Love
Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
EMA - the Future's Void
FKA Twigs - LP1
Lykke Li - I Never Learn
Perfect Pussy - Say Yes to Love
Perfume Genius - Too Bright
Robyn & Royksopp - Do It Again EP
Tacocat - NVM
Zola Jesus - Taiga

Misc. Top 10 2014
There were too many good things this year for a Top 10. Here's a sampling:

Being an officiant, Keith moving in, losing 25 pounds, returning to Lassen for a magical swimming time, also an excellent swimming in Lake Siskiyou + cave exploration on my sister roadtrip, meeting Tallulah, becoming real friends with Belinda, ending a long period of accidental celibacy, the Drag Race/Gong Show/Creepshow/Weirdest Movies weekly hangouts, D&D, You Must Remember This podcast, Love & Rockets comics, Ladies' Night, Goth Night, & Massachusetts Spring Break with Nora

Happy New Year! Already Looking Forward to 2015!

Art Garfunkel Memorial Reading List (July - December 2014)

1.) the Pleasure of the Text - Barthes (7/1)
2.) Like Life - Moore (7/1)
3.) the Remains of the Day - Ishiguro (7/6)
4.) Daytripper - Moon (7/8)
5.) Oryx & Crake - Atwood (7/12)
6.) A Universal History of Iniquity - Borges (7/14)
7.) Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Boo (7/18)
8.) Summer Sisters - Blume (7/21)
9.) Lost in the Funhouse - Barth (7/25)
10.) Honored Guest - Williams (7/30)
11.) Ice - Kavan (8/4)
12.) Betrayed by Rita Hayworth - Puig (8/9)
13.) the Passage - Cronin (8/20)
14.) A Naked Singularity - De La Pava (8/31)
15.) Lipstick Traces - Marcus (9/9)
16.) the Pure & Impure - Colette (9/11)
17.) the Hour of the Star - Lispector (9/12)
18.) Northline - Vlautin (9/14)
19.) Nadja - Breton (9/15)
20.) Anthropology - Rhodes (9/16)
21.) Falling in Place - Beattie (9/22)
22.) Ubik - Dick (9/26)
23.) Criminal Vol. 1- Brubaker (9/29)
24.) the Magus - Fowles (10/7)
25.) Role Models - Waters (10/8)
26.) In Persuasion Nation - Saunders (10/15)
27.) Bad Behavior - Gaitskill (10/21)
28.) I, Etcetera - Sontag (10/23)
29.) Petersburg - Bely (10/29)
30.) Asterios Polyp - Mazzucchelli (10/30)
31.) Evidence of Things Unseen - Wiggins (11/5)
32.) the End of the Affair - Greene (11/11)
33.) Chimera - Barth (11/17)
34.) From Hell - Moore (11/22)
35.) Vanishing Point - Markson (11/25)
36.) the Savage Detectives - Bolano (12/11)
37.) Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste - Bangs (12/21)
38.) A Sorrow Beyond Dreams - Handke (12/24)
39.) Reasons to Live - Hempel (12/26)
40.) Don't Kiss Me - Hunter (12/29) 

Art Garfunkel Memorial Reading List (January - June 2014)

1.) Transatlantic - McCann (1/5)
2.) Maus I - Spiegelman (1/8)
3.) Airships - Hannah (1/12)
4.) Hero - Moore (1/17)
5.) This Is Running For Your Life - Orange (1/25)
6.) It Happened in Boston? - Greenan (1/29)
7.) Emperor of the Air - Canin (1/31)
8.) Vampires in the Lemon Grove - Russell (2/4)
9.) Teaching a Stone to Talk - Dillard (2/7)
10.) the Maid's Version - Woodrell (2/11)
11.) Locas - Hernandez (2/15)
12.) Men We Reaped - Ward (2/20)
13.) the Lime Twig - Hawkes (2/24)
14.) City of Night - Rechy (3/4)
15.) the Assistant - Malamud (3/8)
16.) Baron in the Trees - Calvino (3/13)
17.) the Nearest Exit May Be Behind You - Bergman (3/18)
18.) the Heart That Bleeds - Guillermoprieto (3/26)
19.) the Sandman Vol. 1 - Gaiman (3/30)
20.) Amusing Ourselves to Death - Postman (4/1)
21.) Kentucky Straight - Offutt (4/4)
22.) Henderson the Rain King - Bellow (4/9)
23.) A Constellation of Vital Phenomena - Marra (4/14)
24.) the Little Friend - Tartt (4/21)
25.) the Goldfinch - Tartt (4/29)
26.) the Isle of Youth - Van Den Berg (5/2)
27.) Palomar - Hernandez (5/7)
28.) Our Lady of the Flowers - Genet (5/13)
29.) Mumbo Jumbo - Reed (5/19)
30.) Omensetter's Luck - Gass (5/26)
31.) Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat - Sacks (5/30)
32.) Let the Right One In - Lindqvist (6/5)
33.) Remember Why You Fear Me - Shearman (6/11)
34.) Encyclopedia of Early Earth - Greenberg (6/15)
35.) Pee on Water - Glaser (6/15)
36.) Searching for Caleb - Tyler (6/20)
37.) Ballad of the Sad Cafe - McCullers (6/23)
38.) Ayiti - Gay (6/24)
39.) the Boys of My Youth - Beard (6/26)

2013 in Review!

Favorite Films Released in 2013
10. Fill the Void (Burshtein)
9. Inside Llewyn Davis (Coens)
8. This is Not a Film (Panahi)
7. Leviathan (Castaing-Taylor & Paravel)
6. Side Effects (Soderbergh)
5. Computer Chess (Bujalski)
4. Spring Breakers (Korine)
3. Before Midnight (Linklater)
2. Her (Jonze)
1. Stories We Tell (Polley)

HMs: Short Term 12, Beyond the Hills, Amour, Blancanieves

Favorite Films 1st Seen in 2013
And the Pursuit of Happiness (Malle) 1986
I Killed My Mother (Dolan) 2009
the Lovers on the Bridge (Carax) 1991
Sherman's March(McElwee) 1985

5-Star Books Read in 2013
the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Chabon
Americanah - Adichie
Black Power - Carmichael
the Changeling - Williams
City of Thieves - Benioff
Concrete - Bernhard
Homesick: New and Selected Stories - Berlin
the Last Samurai - DeWitt
Leaving the Atocha Station - Lerner
Purple Hibiscus - Adichie
Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 - Reynolds
Speedboat - Adler

Misc. Top 10 2013
10. Having all students that have been at my school longer than me graduate
9. High School Girl Reunion
8. Tomato Jam
7. Impromptu Santa Cruz trip complete with surprise Gin Blossoms concert
6. Twin Peaks Party
5. Camping, specifically John reading the interpretative descriptions for hiking
4. Tule Elk in the Fog
3. the Clock by Christian Marclay
2. Barcelona and floating around in the Mediterranean Sea
1. Spirit Quest a.) Death Valley b.) Travertine Hot Springs c.) Solo pool time in Ridgecrest

Art Garfunkel Memorial Reading List (July - December 2013)

1.) Gemini - Tournier (7/1)
2.) This is Where I Leave You - Tropper (7/1)
3.) the Book of My Lives - Hemon (7/2)
4.) Pastoralia - Saunders (7/5)
5.) Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts On Violence, Freedom, and Urgent Means - Vollmann (7/19)
6.) the Changeling - Williams (7/23)
7.) the Emigrants - Sebald (7/28)
8.) Motherless Brooklyn - Lethem (8/4)
9.) Black Power - Carmichael (8/8)
10.) A Clockwork Orange - Burgess (8/11)
11.) Concrete - Bernhard (8/13)
12.) They Don't Dance Much - Ross (8/18)
13.) 253 - Ryman (8/22)
14.) Homesick - Berlin (8/28)
15.) the History of Luminous Motion - Bradfield (9/1)
16.) Middle C - Gass (9/11)
17.) Purple Hibiscus - Adichie (9/22)
18.) Life After Life - Atkinson (9/28)
19.) the City in History: Its Origins, Transformations, and Prospects - Mumford (9/29)
20.) Man in the Holocene - Frisch (9/30)
21.) Story of the Eye - Bataille (9/30)
22.) Down By the River Where the Dead Men Go - Pelecanos (10/4)
23.) Long, Last, Happy - Hannah (10/23)
24.) Americanah - Adichie (10/31)
25.) Suttree - McCarthy (11/8)
26.) the Ocean at the End of the Lane - Gaiman (11/10)
27.) Where'd You Go Bernadette - Semple (11/13)
28.) Dear Mr President - Hudson (11/17)
29.) the Son - Meyer (11/24)
30.) Mysterious Skin - Heim (11/26)
31.) World Within the Word - Gass (12/3)
32.) Speedboat - Adler (12/6)
33.) the Graphic Canon, Volume 1 (12/6)
34.) the Book Thief - Zusak (12/11)
35.) Going After Cacciato - O'Brien (12/17)
36.) the Burglar - Goodis (12/19)
37.) My Dark Places - Ellroy (12/27)
38.) A Thousand Years of Good Prayers - Li (12/31)

Art Garfunkel Memorial Reading List (January - June 2013)

1.) What Is Cinema? - Bazin (1/3)
2.) For A New Novel - Robbe-Grillet (1/12)
3.) Life: A User's Manual - Perec (1/16)
4.) A Million Heavens - Brandon (1/19)
5.) the Art of Fielding - Harbach (1/24)
6.) Give Us a Kiss - Woodrell (1/27)
7.) Consider the Lobster - Wallace (1/31)
8.) Seven Gothic Tales - Blixen (2/12)
9.) Altmann's Tongue - Evenson (2/18)
10.) Flying Leap - Budnitz (2/20)
11.) Hunts in Dreams - Drury (2/25)
12.) Black Skin, White Masks - Fanon (3/5)
13.) Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt - Hedges & Sacco (3/11)
14.) the Palm-Wine Drinkard - Tutuola (3/12)
15.) See Under: Love - Grossman (3/20)
16.) American Salvage - Campbell (3/22)
17.) Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Chabon (3/30)
18.) the Sisters Brothers - DeWitt, P. (4/2)
19.) At the Mouth of the River of Bees - Johnson (4/9)
20.) Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York - Sante (4/16)
21.) City of Thieves - Benioff (4/19)
22.) Black Swan Green - Mitchell (4/25)
23.) the Magic Barrel - Malamud (4/28)
24.) Paris Trout - Dexter (5/2)
25.) the Third Policeman - O'Brien (5/8)
26.) Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-84 - Reynolds
27.) the Wavering Knife - Evenson (5/21)
28.) Leaving the Atocha Station - Lerner (5/23)
29.) Zazen - Veselka (5/28)
30.) the Last Samurai - DeWitt, H. (6/5)
31.) Gender Trouble - Butler (6/11)
32.) V. - Pynchon (6/22)