Favourite things of 2013
This year I decided to get into the third culture (3quarksdaily, Edge, scientists who can write).
This year I quit manual labour.
Papers
- Buckner (2013), ‘Morgan’s Canon, Meet Hume’s Dictum: Avoiding Anthropofabulation in Cross-Species Comparisons’
Books
- What Should We Be Worried About?
- All of SMBC
- Whereabouts by Alistair Reid
- Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
- Poems of the Late Tang by Angus Graham
- The Art of Procrastination by John Perry
- Kluge by Gary Marcus
- The Rorty Reader by Rorty
- Stranger Music by Leonard Cohen
- The Meaning of Recognition by Clive James
- Flat Earth News by Nick Davies
- Selected Poems by George Mackay Brown
- Both Flesh and Not by DFW
- The Emotional Brain by Joseph leDoux
- The Campus Trilogy by David Lodge
- Ethel and Ernest by Raymond Briggs
Worst book: Sniper, Pavel Hak
Essays
- Django Unchained, or, The Help
- http://www.expansivepoetryonline.com/journal/cult122001.html
Films / TV
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- Blue Ruin
- Stoker
-
The World’s End
- Black Mirror SE2
- Hannibal
- The Americans
- Dancing on the Edge
Albums
- Another Time, Another Day Various
- City Forgiveness Wave Pictures
- Fragments of Memories TPR
- Fuzz, Psych and Surf Various
- How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident Future of the Left
- Loud City Song Julia Holter
- Modern Vampires of the City Vampire Weekend
- Pale Green Ghosts, John Grant
- Plucklings Howe Gelb
- The Invisible Way Low
- Theory of Justice: the Musical Eylon Aslan-Levy
- Jon Hopkins - Immunity
- John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
- Nils Frahm - Spaces
- 青葉市子 [Ichiko Aoba] - 00
- Cate Le Bon - Mug Museum
- Deafheaven - Sunbather
- Sturgill Simpson - High Top Mountain
- Tim Minchin - Matilda the Musical
- Bo Burnham - what.
- Half Man Half Biscuit - Urge For Offal
Songs
- I’ll Have a Theory,
- Candy,
- Fabulous Muscles,
- Raglan Road