Misanthropolis.

The Guardian's Books to Namedrop 2009

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:31:34 +0000

In the tradition of last year, I’ve worked out the most mentioned books in the Guardian’s two articles about 2009 (one by celebrities and the other by a staff writer).

In some sort of order, they are:

Colm Toibin Brooklyn

Selina Hastings The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham

Mary-Kay Wilmers The Eitingons

Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall

Sarah Waters The Little Stranger

Geoff Dyer Geoff in Venice

Don Paterson Rain

Brian Dillon Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives

Lorrie Moore A Gate At The Stairs

JM Coetzee Summertime

Javier Marias Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell

Wells Tower Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

hdot: Jonsi - Boy Lilikoi. Solo single by Sigur Ros’s lead...

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:33:21 +0000

hdot:

Jonsi - Boy Lilikoi.

Solo single by Sigur Ros’s lead singer.

Portishead - Chase the Tear on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:30:50 +0000

Portishead - Chase the Tear on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Yeasayer - Ambling Alp on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:28:42 +0000

Yeasayer - Ambling Alp on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Yeasayer “Ambling Alp” on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:27:57 +0000

Yeasayer “Ambling Alp” on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

infiniheart: “Madder Red”-Yeasayer

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:22:47 +0000

infiniheart:

“Madder Red”-Yeasayer

Arriving at my home tube station late last night I was greeted...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:27:09 +0000

Arriving at my home tube station late last night I was greeted by this fantastic/unexpected sight!

shrinkwrapped: This new track, Scissor, is from Liars...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:49:10 +0000

shrinkwrapped:

This new track, Scissor, is from Liars forthcoming album Sisterworld. The band are giving it away for free on the Sisterworld website.

I’ve been itching to find out what their direction would be this time…

(via DG Jones and gorillavsbear)

Weird self-reblogging.

2009 Flaming Lips Silver Trembling Fetus (via flaminglips) All...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:43:43 +0000

2009 Flaming Lips Silver Trembling Fetus (via flaminglips)

All real, apparently, even the jumper.

(Have no fear, I’ll be re-re-blogging my Mark E Smith Christmas story too, but not quite yet.

BBC News - A spiral light display in the sky mystifies Norwegians

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:13:08 +0000

BBC News - A spiral light display in the sky mystifies Norwegians

"When I grasped that some of the most complex, almost otherworldly fiction of the postwar era was..."

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:17:27 +0000

“When I grasped that some of the most complex, almost otherworldly fiction of the postwar era was composed on such a simple, functional, frail-looking machine, it conferred a sort of talismanic quality to Cormac’s typewriter. It’s as if Mount Rushmore was carved with a Swiss Army knife”

- Cormac McCarthy’s Typewriter Sells for $254,500 : The New Yorker