reading watching listening

reading

Vermilion – Molly Tanzer
Late Wife – Claudia Emerson
The Love Bunglers – Jamie Hernandez
Marabou – Jane Yeh
The New Prophets of Capital – Nicole Aschoff
Girl in a Band – Kim Gordon
Uprooted – Naomi Novik
God’s War – Kameron Hurley
Fra Keeler – Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi
The Autobiography of Red – Anne Carson
Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood – Tomas Moniz and Jeremy Adam Smith, editors
Sex Coven – Jillian Tamaki
Mythago Wood – Robert Holdstock
Violence Girl – Alice Bag
Lavondyss – Robert Holdstock
Memoria del Fuego I. Los Nacimientos – Eduardo Galeano

watching

What Happened, Miss Simone?
You Weren’t There: A History of Chicago Punk
The Lego Movie
Drunk History
Documentary Now
The Incredibles
Big Hero 6
Arrested Development
30 Rock
Hotel Transylvania

listening

Weirdo Shrine – La Luz
Orphaned Deejay Selek 2006-2008 – AFX
A Love Supreme – John Coltrane (always helps when the world is awful)
The Golden Echo – Kimbra
The Best Day – Thurston Moore
Borders and Matahdatah Scroll 01 “Broader Than A Border” – M.I.A.
Aquarius – Nicole Mitchell’s Ice Crystals
Paragon – Sam Rivers
Offering: Live at Temple University – John Coltrane
Akira – Geinoh Yamashirogumi
But You Cain’t Use My Phone – Erykah Badu

reading watching listening

Reading
Mirror Empire – Kameron Hurley
Event Factory – Renee Gladman
Elysium, or the World After – Jennifer Marie Brissett
Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
The Ninjas – Jane Yeh
On the Steel Breeze – Alastair Reynolds
Ancillary Justice – Ann Leckie
Texture Notes – Sawako Nakayasu
Just Kids – Patti Smith
Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible and Fried: My Life as a Revolting Cock – Chris Connelly
Totally Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews – Simon Reynolds
Lapsos – Inés Estrada
Susceptible – Geneviève Castrée
Heads or Tails – Lilli Carré

Watching
The total non-event that was RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 7
The amazingness of Swansea City FC
The continuing sadness of the Chicago Fire
This fabulous season of the Chicago Red Stars
Women’s World Cup 2015
Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce
Uncle Grandpa

(and as chosen by my son…)
Alice in Wonderland
The Wizard of Oz
Big Hero 6
Home
Scooby Doo
Minions
Justice League

Listening
Syro – Aphex Twin
Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 EP – Aphex Twin
Jerusalem – Sleep
Rosa – La Lá
Hasta la Raiz – Natalia Lafourcade
Ison – Me Jane You Listen
There are like ten songs that absolutely rule by Nicki Minaj. I’ve been listening to those.
Fountainsun, Wrekmeister Harmonies, Hide. Live at Bohemian National Cemetery. A live show, even!
The Unquiet Sky, Guiltless, and From All Purity – Indian

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