CDs bought, received or copied in 2007:
Catherine Wheel's "Ferment"
The Trash Can Sinatras' "Cake"
Curve's "Doppelganger"
Dead Can Dance's "Toward The Within"
"Hello Oliver How Are You?" mix, by
oatmeal_texas CD86HMV New Music Playlist February 2007 (free with CD86)
Kronos Quartet's "Short Stories"
Kronos Quartet's "Released"
Brian Eno and David Byrne's "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts"
Music from
beeorkendurkey: Caroline, or Change soundtrack, Dead Kennedys, Enon, Fugazi, Gorillaz, Imogen Heap, Joanna Newson, Cat Power and Joni Mitchell
Brian Eno's "Music for Airports"
Arcade Fire's "Neon Bible"
Patrick Wolf's "
The Magic Position"
The Cure's "
Disintegration"
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Bjork's "Volta"
Oingo Boingo mix by
beeorkendurkeyThe Bathtime mix and Beirut Gulag Orkestar & Lan Gisland EP by
desayuno_inglesDebussey piano works 1
Feist's "The Reminder"
The Smashing Pumpkins' "Siamese Dreams"
The Best of Soft Cell
The Cranberries' "Everyone Else is Doing It so Why Can't We?"
Elis Regina's "Mito"
Bruno's Velvet Underground mix CD
Bruno's entire MP3 collection of Velvet Underground music
Girls Aloud's "
Tangled Up"
The Raveonette's "
Lust, Lust, Lust"
Lou Reed's "Transformer"
GOTH: 18 Classics from the Dark Side Read in 2007:
The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, The Times, The Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, The Stage, Variety, South London Press, Cab Trade News, Metro, Thelondonpaper, London Lite, Time Out, Financial Times, Evening Standard
Stephen Booth's Scared to Live
Melissa A. Thompson's Dreadful Paris
Alexander Masters' Stuart: a Life Backwards
Siri Hustvedt's The Blindfold
Penny Faith's Hello, Mr Magpie
William S. Burroughs Jr.' Speed
Morango Mofados de Caio Fernando Abreu
Ambit Vol. 187
The New Yorker Winter Fiction Issue - Dec 06/Jan 07 [magazine]
Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco's Killing Me Softly: Morir Amando
Vladimir Nabokov's Cloud, Castle, Lake [Penguin's £1.50 collection]
Françoise Sagan's Bonjour tristesse
Pen Pusher No.4 (winter 2007)
Bad Idea Issue 2 (winter 06/07)
Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood
Sarah Waters'
The Night WatchDaniel Clowes' David Boring [graphic novel, re-read]
Peter Ackroyd's London The Biography
Vidas Cegas de Marcelo Benvenutti
Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'N' Drugs 'N' Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Attitude May 2007 - The Sex Issue [magazine]
Katherine Dunn's
Geek LoveUrsula K. Le Guin's Steering the Craft
Azar Nafisi's
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in BooksMaxim Gorky's Philistines, in a version by Andrew Upton [play]
Penumbra magazine's issue 1
Seymour M. Hersh's
Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu GhraibDerek McCormack's The Haunted Hillbilly
Stef Penney's The Tenderness of Wolves
Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight
Kurt Vonnegut Jr's Cat's Cradle [re-read]
Charles Bukowski's New Poems Book 4
Out of Fashion, an anthology of poems, edited by Carol Ann Duffy [half-read]
Henning Mankell's
One Step BehindRevista Bravo - Julho 2007
Revista EntreLivros - Julho 2007
Pedaço de mim de João Silvério Trevisan
Robert Harris'
ImperiumOs anos mais antigos do passado de Carlos Heitor Cony
Rhonda Byrne's
The SecretO poder ultrajovem de Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Caros Amigos - Dezembro 2006
ISTOÉ - 22 Agosto 2007
Nicholas de Villiers' Glancing, Cruising, Staring - Queer Ways of Looking [essay]
Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light
Hermann Hesse's
Siddhartha [re-read]
Don DeLillo's White Noite
William S. Burroughs Jr.' Kentucky Ham
Café-da-manhã dos campeões de Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Colum McCann's Everything in this Country Must
P.D. James' Shroud for a Nightingale
Mome Fall 2005 [comics]
Daniel Clowes' Ghost World [graphic novel, re-read]
Robert McKee's Story
Ruth Rendell's Talking to Strange Men
Michel Houellebecq's
AtomisedTove Jansson's The Summer Book
Patrick Fillion's The Incredibly Hung Naked Justice, Vol.2 [comic book]
Peter Biskind's Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film
Vivienne Westwood's Active Resistance to Propaganda
Mary Renault's The Charioteer
Nick Hornby's Otherwise Pandemonium [Penguin's £1.50 collection]
Koji Suzuki's Spiral
Shaun Hutson's Erebus
Henry James' The Turn of the Screw
James Herbert's The Fog [1/3 read]
J. G. Ballard's
High-riseMarjane Satrapi's
PersepolisCamille Paglia's
Sex, Art, and American Culture [re-read]
Joe Haldeman's
The Forever WarE. M. Forster's
MauriceAlice Munro's
The View from Castle Rock Films seen at the cinema in 2007:
La Science des Rêves Wild Tigers I Have KnownLesbian Civilisation [short film] + Politics of the Heart
InfamousO Amor do Palhaço [short] + A Concepção
Shadows Choose Their Horrors [short film] +
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's DiaryTexticulos de Mary and Other Stories [short film] + As Filhas da Chiquita
SunshineThis is England
Den brysomme mannenLa vie en rose
The Velvet Underground and Nico &
The Velvet UndergroundDeath Proof
Control 30 Days of NightThe Golden Compass
Films seen on TV/DVD/airplane in 2007:
Little Miss Sunshine
Naked Fame
Shortbus
The Parrots of Telegraph Hill
The Devil's Backbone
A Room with a View [re-watch]
Cabin Fever
The Dead Pool
Jacob's Ladder [re-watch]
Two short films by David Lynch: Six Figures Getting Sick (Six Times) and The Alphabet
Murder by Numbers
Tracey Emin's Top Spot
Herzog's Invincible
The Transporter Basic Instinct [re-watch]
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert [re-watch]
Speed [re-watch]
Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón [Christmas gift from Kevin]
Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mépris
24-Hour Party People
Nightmare Alley
The Big Lebowski [re-watch]
Container [2/3 watched]
Klute
Rosemary's Baby [re-watch]
Shrek [re-watch]
Jésus de Montréal
Le Beau Mariage GreenfingersCat People
Dressed to Kill [re-watch]
La Vida es Silbar [2/3 watched]
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen [half watched]
Crank
The French ConnectionArt School Confidential [1/3 watched]
Shivers
Sans soleil
Along Came Polly [2/3 watched]
A Scanner Darkly
C.R.A.Z.Y.
Bound
Being There Harold and Maude [re-watch]
Derek Jarman's Blue
Les DiaboliquesIdiocracy
Valentin
The Prestige
The Parallax View
The Haunting (1963) [re-watch]
4 [2/3 watched]
Midnight Movies
Waiting for Guffman [re-watch]
Zodiac [in a plane]
Little Children [in a plane]
Doom
The Black DahliaLegally Blonde [re-watch]
Premonition 3
Sex, Lies and Videotape [re-watch]
Batman Begins
Steamboy
Slither
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow [re-watch]
Dracula 2000
Eyewitness
Bigger than the Sky
Flawless
The Craft [re-watch]
Laurel Canyon
The Motorcycle Diaries [re-watch]
Constantine
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [missed the ending]
Fargo [re-watch]
300
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou [1/3 watched]
Beverly Hills Cop [re-watch, in a plane]
Head-On
Inside Deep Throat
The Commitments [re-watch]
I Shot Andy Warhol [re-watch]
Dogfight [re-watch]
Groundhog Day [re-watch]
Party Animal
Porco Rosso
Casino Royale
Preaching to the Perverted Mad Max [re-watch]
Inland Empire [2/3 watched]
Orphée + Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
The Company
Strictly Ballroom [re-watch]
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory [re-watch]
The Host
Basic Instinct:
Camille Paglia commentary Pretty Woman [re-watch]
Barton Fink [re-watch]
Pee-Wee Herman's Big Adventure
La Tourneuse de pages
Cronos [re-watch]
Red Road
The Fountain
Holy Smoke
The Raspberry ReichWhat About Bob?
Savages [1/3 watched]
A Room with a View [re-watch]
Bully
La vie et rien d'autre
The Manchurian Candidate [2004]
Poison
Exils
Dangerous Liaisons [re-watch]
Babette's Feast [re-watch]
The Painted Veil
Les pays des sourds
Altered States
Christine [re-watch]
Blade Runner [Director's Cut]
Grey Gardens
Stir of Echoes [re-watch]
No. 13
Master and CommanderEntre tinieblas
Caché
Mysterious Skin
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Good Will Hunting
Die Hard 4.0
The Straight Story [re-watch]
Series/Shows/Documentaries watched on TV in 2007:
Return of the Hero
The Lost Worlds of Rider Haggard
C.S.I. Las Vegas
I'm a Child Anorexic
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
BBC News 24 Hours
Channel 4 News/More4 News
Newsnight/Newsnight Review
Harry Hill's TV Burps
Godless in America
Fatboy to Slim
Storyville:
The New York DollsMark Lawson interviews: Ian Rankin
Prime Suspect: The Lost Child
Prime Suspect: Innercircle [re-watch]
Fat Man Thin
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom
Dallas: episode 1 & 2, season 1
Life of a Child
Louis Theroux: The Most Hated Family in America
Prime Suspect: Series 5 [re-watch]
ITV at the Movies
Cracker: Series 3
Lucy: Teen Transexual
Great Designs Abroad
Build a New Life in the Country
Peep Show: Series 4
The Menace of the Masses
Horizon: The Six Billion Dollar Experiment
Cutting Edge: Trapped by my Twin
Panorama
True Stories: Death of a Nation [re-watch]
Have I Got News For You
Egomania
The Line of Beauty
Medium [1st episode, series 1]
The Seven Ages of Rock
Generation Xcess
Celebrity Sex Videos Rewound
Big Brother 8 [except last 6 weeks]
Big Brother 8: On the Couch
Big Brother's Big Mouth
Dawn and French: Series 6
Gay to Z
Big Brother's Little Brother
Hollywood Lives: Fame and Fortune
Britain's Youngest Boozers
Random episodes of Eterna Magia, Sete Pecados and Paraiso Tropical [Brasilian soap operas]
Jornal Nacional
Funk Rio
Child Star Confidential
Pequenos Grandes Consumidores
The Oprah Winfrey Show
Cultura Mundo: Viagem ao Anhui
Minha Periferia: Moçambique
Entre Linhas
Provocações: Andréa del Fuego
Aberto ao Público: Flip
Stuff on E! Entertainment, MTV and VH1
Happy Hour
The Simpsons [one episode]
Dexter [1st season]
Café Filosófico: Gerald Thomas
Roda Viva: Jorge Furtado
Superpop
TV Escola
The Enemies of Reason
Bouncers
Child Genius
Big Brother 8: What They Did Next
The Legend of Leigh Bowery
What Not to Wear
Extraordinary People: The Man Who Dreams the Future
Phonejacker
Heroes [1st season]
The Kids in the Hall [2nd season re-watch]
Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
Lucy: Teen Transexual in Thailand
Marple: Ordeal by Innocense
Ellen Degeneres: The Beginning
The X Factor
Lost - first episode of season 3
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
Louis Theroux: Under The Knife
Czech Dream
Russia's Village of Fools (AKA For God, Tsar and the Fatherland)
Three Minute Wonder: Europa [short-film]
Three Minute Wonder: 4talent [short-film]
Britney: Off the Rails
Dispatches: The Search for Madeleine
Brat Camp: Mums and Daughters
Michael Jackson: What Really Happened
The Most Annoying Pop Moments
Legends: Jacques Brel
Interview with a Cannibal
Visions of the Future: The Intelligence Revolution
Can Fat Teens Hunt?
Cranford
Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe
Brasil, Brasil
Father Ted - Christmas Special
Ben 10
Short Cuts - Being Maxine Carr
Children's TV on Trial
Oliver TwistThe Martians and Us
The End of the World CultFacehooked
What the Papers Say: Year Review
The Snowman
Charles Dickens and the Invention of Christmas
Last Man in Hammersmith
Plays/Ballets/Operas seen in 2007:
Happy DaysThe Man of Mode
The Reporter
Clockwork The Caucasian Chalk CircleAttempts on Her Life
Sizwe Banzi is Dead
The Rose Tattoo
Landscape with Weapon On The TownRafta, Rafta...
A Matter of Life and Death
Philistines The Five Wives of Maurice Pinder Saint Joan The Hothouse Exhibitions/Platforms/Talks/Fairs/Walks attended in 2007:
Climates, photos by Nuri Bilge Ceylan at NT's Olivier Foyer
The Thames whale exhibition
Marcel Dzama's
Moving PictureLondon Blues - photography by Nobby Clark
Gilbert & George - Major Exhibition The River Walbrook Walk Digitise or Die: What is the Future of the Book?Streetlevel: Myriam Thyes' Multiple Madonna and Boaz Kaizman's Maalesh
IMAGES 31 - The Best of British Contemporary Illustration 2007
Exposição Litografias Contemporâneas: impressões diversas (Ouro Preto)
Exhibição no Museu de Arte de Pampulha: Arquiteto Oscar Niemeyer, Brasileiro Cidadão
Keith Arnatt - I'm a Real Photographer, at the Photographer's Gallery
BP Portrait Award 2007
Matthew Barney: Drawing RestraintTaryn Simon: An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, at the Photographer's Gallery
From Emperor to Military Dictator: Shemelis Desta’s Ethiopian Archive 1963-1983, at the Photographer's Gallery
Antoine d’Agata: Insomnia, at the Photographer's Gallery
States of Flux )Futurist, Cubist and Pop movements) at the Tate Modern, in particular Jonas Mekas' Diaries, Notes and Sketches
Gigs/poetry readings attended in 2007:
Jazz duo at Uncle Sams, Dalston The Wrens LowBanda Electra na Festa do Bom Jesus
múmThe Beastie Boys at the Roundhouse (Electrelane as the opening act)
Siouxsie Sioux Stereo TotalA Hawk And A Hacksaw
Happy New Year!