Favourite things of 2014
This year I decided to get into programming.
This year I quit silly local direct action.
Papers
Gartzke (2013), ‘The Myth of Cyberwar’
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1258055
Books
- Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn
- Cultural Amnesia by Clive James
- Collected by Philip Larkin
- Bartleby the Scrivener by Melville
- Antifragile by Taleb
- Collected by Norman MacCaig
- We Owe You Nothing by Punk Planet
- A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
- The Information by James Gleick
- Samuel Johnson is Indignant by Lydia Davis
- Mao’s Great Famine by Frank Dikotter
- Roadside Picnic by Strugatskys
- Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture
- For the Motherboard by Vanessa Hodgkinson
- Why Moral Theory is Boring and Corrupt
Worst book: Night of the Living Trekkies
Essays
Films / TV
- Boyhood
- Birdman
- Whiplash
- Lego Movie
- Gone Girl
- Raid 2
- John Wick
- Calvary
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What We Do in the Shadows
- Broad City
Albums
- Black Messiah D’Angelo
- G.I.M.P by Loki
- Burn your fire for no witness Angel Olsen
- Ibeyi Ibeyi
- Lese Majeste Shabazz Palaces
- Nikki Nack tUNEyards
- The Wave Pictures Play Artistic Vice
- To Live and Die in West Central Scotland Kimberley Steaks
- D’Angelo - Black Messiah
- Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again
- Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
- Mitski - Bury Me at Makeout Creek
- Aby Ngana Diop - Liital
- FKA twigs - LP1
- Wussy - Attica!
- Tim Timebomb - Tim Timebomb and Friends
- Margo Guryan - 27 Demos
Songs
Sunshine Hotel, You were Cool, Swinging Safari