Mr Magpie

The works in film, literature and music that kept me warm this year, in no particular order. If you decide to have a crack at any, I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

To a less fucked new year, yeah?

Books:

• The Rest is Noise – Alex Ross
• The Overstory – Richard Powers
• Speak, Memory – Vladimir Nabokov
• The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
• Sculpting in Time – Andrey Tarkovsky
• On Photography – Susan Sontag
• An Unquiet Mind/Touched With Fire – Kay Redfield Jameson
• Morton Feldman: Essays
• The Lonely City – Olivia Laing
• The Inventions of the March Hare – T.S. Eliot {ed. Christopher Ricks}

Honorable Mentions:

• The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper – Roland Allen
• The Director – Daniel Kehlmann

Films:

• Sing Sing – Greg Kwedar
• Heartworn Highways – James Szalapski
• Before Sunrise – Richard Linklater
• Never Look Away (Werk ohne Autor) – Florian Henckel
• Flow – Gints Zibalodis
• Fargo – Cohen Brothers
• The Outrun – Nora Fingscheidt
• April – Dea Kulumbegashvili
• McCullin – David and Jacqui Morris
• Sentimental Value – Joachim Trier

Music (Tracks):

• Lucky – Radiohead
• Freak Train – Kurt Vile
• I Can’t Be Satisfied – Muddy Waters {Hard Again version}
• Plenary – Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Convention
• Inside Madeleine – Swans
• Harmonium (III) – John Adams
• For Children, Book II No. 26 – Béla Bartók
• Groung (take 2) – Zabelle Panosian
• Echoes – Steve Lehman Octet
• Transport – Juan Atkins and Moritz von Oswald

Honorable Mentions:

• Too many.

Music (Albums):

• Loveless – my bloody valentine
• Golliwog – billy woods
• Aftersun OST – Oliver Coates
• Eisoptrophobia – Akira Rabelais
• Sound of Light (Nordic Light Hotel) – The Field
• Implosion – The Bug and Ghost Dubs
• Different Trains / Electric counterpoint – Steve Reich
• The Rite of Spring – Igor Stravinsky {Bernstein 1913 Version}
• Sacred Harp Singing in Western Massachusetts 2000-2001 – Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Convention

Honorable Mentions:

• My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky – Swans
• SINNER GET READY – Lingua Ignota