Old Fire ITERATIONS (2023)

 

driving past disasters in the dark

Tim Hecker NO HIGHS (2023)

wish my other granddad lived long enough to teach me to hunt

The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome by Michael Parenti
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Invaluable crash course in Late Republic Rome for the layman. Read it mostly on the beach, so when discouraged at how little has changed in politics and class struggle, I could at least stare at something calming and beautiful. The plutocratic playbook is essentially unchanged for millennia, wild!

Fred again... & Brian Eno SECRET LIFE (2023)

:-)

Midwife & Viva Melinkolya ORBWEAVING (2023)

I wish my granddad had lived long enough to teach me to sail 

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

apparently sometimes conspiracies are real??

The Hold Steady THE PRICE OF PROGRESS (2023)

Craig Finn is a king among men, if I could join one band and play my saxophone like I had a month to live, it would be the Hold Steady, we'd turn the Springsteen knob up to 11 

The Big Lebowski by J.M. Tyree
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

essential for anyone who loves this film or is a fan of the Coen brothers. two of the giants of modern art, deserving of deep inquiry and exegesis. I'm pairing this with Tyree's excellent book on Pynchon's Inherent Vice, The Counterforce.