Favourite things of 2012
Papers
- Roodman (2007), ‘The Anarchy of Numbers: Aid, Development, and Cross-country Empirics’
- Barder (2010), ‘Aid policy vs development policy’
- Wilson (2005), ‘What is the Importance of Descartes’s Meditation Six?’. Skip to section V.
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.1055
Books
- The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse by hunners of folk
- Mortal Questions by Thomas Nagel
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
- The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
- Cujo by Stephen King (my first)
- Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman!
- Does Foreign Aid Really Work? by Roger Riddell
- Against Method by Paul Feyerabend
- The Social Construction of What? by Ian Hacking
- Monogamy by Adam Philips
- Museum without Walls by Jonathan Meades
Worst book: Diamonds are Forever by Ian Fleming.
Films / TV
- Moonrise Kingdom
- L’amour
- Seven Psychopaths
- Dredd
- Skyfall
-
Searching for Sugar Man
- Futurama SE7
- All of SMBC Theater
Albums
- Channel Orange - Frank Ocean
- In Our Heads - Hot Chip
- Kill for Love - Chromatics
- _Kindred - Burial
- Rebirth - Jimmy Cliff
- Little Martha - David Tattersall
- Long Black Cars - Wave Pictures
- musicforprogramming() - Various
- Out of the Game - Rufus Wainwright
- Paralytic Stalks - Of Montreal
-
Tucson - Howe Gelb
- Iris DeMent - Sing The Delta
- Miracle Musical - Hawaii: Part II
- Various Artists - The Songs of Tony Sly: A Tribute
- Actress - R.I.P.
- Chromatics - Kill for Love
- Feedtime - The Aberrant Years
- Burial - Kindred
- The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth
- Ben Prunty - FTL: Faster Than Light
- Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes
- Grimes - Visions
- Susanne Sundfør - The Silicone Veil
Songs
- Dour Percentage by Of Montreal,
- Chop My Money by P-Square,
- Tiger Rag by Ray Noble
- Love Out of Lust by Lykke Li,
- I Stand Corrected by Vampire Weekend,
- Flow Like Poe by MC Lars,
- GMF by John Green,
- Institutionalised Misogyny by Mr T Experience,
- Don’t Stop Believin by Low Strung,
- Wonderful World by Sam Cooke