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)