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07/01/2010

Here is the 2009th year of our lord in list form



Laetitia's List (in no particular order):
  • Silk Flowers gig at the corner
  • Secret Life Of Us seasons 2-4
  • Lucy's Caramel and Macadamia Cheesecake
  • Frederik the Cat
  • Nisennenmondai at Islington Mill
  • Chain & the Gang record
  • Richard Serra sculptures 
  • Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti at the Deaf Institute
  • Former Bullies at Islington Mill 
  • The Sopranos box set
  • Times New Viking record
  • Good Grief shop!
  • Irma Vep
  • Perry's Tomato Gravy
  •  the film 'Mutual Appreciation' 
  • Waiters at the Corner
  • Single Ladies by Beyonce
  • Beyonce Live in Los Angeles
  • Decades by Joy Division
  • Ceylon Tea
  • Mad Men series 2
  • The Films of the Maysles Brothers
  • Sonia Delaunay Paintings
  • White Ribbon by Michael Haneke
  • Pintxos- Ham on bread- Basque-style
  • Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
  • Raymond Pettibon Book


Perry's Lists:
LIVE things
  • Young At Heart Chorus at RNCM
  • Marina Abramovich Presents... At Whitworth Art Gallery
  • Nisennenmondai at Islington Mill
  • Silk Flowers at the Corner
  • Mika Miko(R.I.P) at Manchester Academy
  • Times New Viking and Haunted Graffiti at Urbis
Books (not necessarily new, but studied and loved)
  • Jack Survives by Jerry Moriarty (buenaventura press)
  • Dogwalker by Arthur Bradford (Knopf) Thanks to Matthias  for the recommendation
  • Running Dog, Players, End Zone by Don DeLillo (Knopf)
  • 60 Stories by Donald Barthelme
  • The Stories of John Cheever (the big red book)
  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
  •  In The Sweet Bye & Bye by Margaret Kilgallen (red cat)

12"s and 7"s -  not in order
  • Christmas Island - '19' (captured tracks)
  • Dum Dum Girls - 'Dum Dum Girls' (captured tracks)
  • Magic Kids - 'Hey Boy' (goner)
  • YellowFever - 'Culver City' (hugpatch)
  • Oh Sees/ Ty Segall - 'Maria Stacks/ the Drag' (castleface)
  • Girls At Dawn - S/T (horizontal action)
  • The Beets -'Don't Fit In My Head' (captured tracks)


LP's
-  not in order
  • Simon Joyner - 'Out Into The Snow' (team love)
  • Chain & the Gang - 'Down With Liberty...Up With Chains' (K)
  • Ty Segall - 'Lemons' (goner)
  • Oh Sees - 'Dog Poison' (captured tracks)
  • Mika Miko- 'We Be Xuxa' (post present medium)
  • Finally Punk - 'Casual Goths' (germs of youth)
  • Nisennenmondai - 'Fan' (bijin)
  • Sic Alps - 'A Long Way Around To A Shortcut' (drag city re-ish)
  • Cass Mccombs - 'Catacombs' (domino)
  • Silk Flowers -'As Above So Below' (captured tracks)
  • Anni Rossi - 'Rockwell' (4AD)
  • Times New Viking - 'Born Again Revisited' (matador)
  • The Fresh & Onlys - 'The Fresh & Onlys' (castleface)
  • Box Elders - 'Alice & Friends' (goner)
  • Neil Burrell - 'You Have Reached... Outer Space' (self-released, re-ish pending)
  • Former Bullies - 'Greetings' (comfortable on a tightrope)
  • Irma Vep - 'Dylans Birthday Present' volumes 1 and 2 (volume 1 on comfortable on a tightrope, volume 2 available as free download)
  • Mount Eerie - 'Wind's Poem' (PW Elverum and Sun /Tomlab)
Films (not necessarily new)
  • Antichrist by Lars von Trier
  • White Ribbon and Funny Games (USA) by Michael Haneke
  • I for India
  • Billy The Kid
  • Sisters In Law
  • Beautiful Losers
  • Paradise Lost
2009 you were too kind, 2010 pleased to meet you.Treat us nice.