Some Mer Water

Actress, Splazsh
Eddie Bo, In the Pocket
Abner Jay, One Man Band
Roky Erickson, I Have Always Been Here Before
Mount Kimbie, Maybes EP
Sleigh Bells, Treats

Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

Speak Spell

New strangeness out in Witness. More things forthcoming.

Listening:

Scratch Acid, Greatest Gift
AFX, Chosen Lords
Masta Killa, No Said Date (first half is brilliant, not so much the rest)
Pierre Fournier, Six Bach Cello Suites
Timber Timbre, s/t
Simone White, I'm the Man
Bill Withers, Just as I Am
Leonard Cohen, Live Songs
Mixes by Linger & Quiet
Demdike Stare, Symbiosis

Read, Eat, Write

Taking notes and listening to Bill May's self-titled album (1970). The orchestration sounds a bit like Scott Walker's, though it's not nearly as strange. Still, there's drama drama drama.

Watched Oldboy. Not sure what I think about it. Read Manohla Dargis's review, which is particularly scathing, and while I'm not sure that OB is a totem par examplar of cultural emptiness and pulp style, I'm not sure that I enjoyed it all that much. Tough film to like, like most Tartan releases.

Got the galleys for a forthcoming story in Witness, which is exciting. Can't wait until December.

Read two fantastic articles:

1. Padgett Powell in New York Times Magazine

2. Brock Clarke on the recent John Cheever biography and why it doesn't matter in the slightest.

Winter boots are here (picture soon?). Have sno sealed them. Now just waiting for winter.

Yoww Yoww Yoww

Listen

Un Dia by Juana Molina (really amazing)

Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective (yes)

Uproot by dj/rupture (yes yes)

Solo by Henry Grimes (i don't have this yet but am imagining its greatness)

Geodaddi by Boards of Canada (revisiting this)

Headz 2A and 2B which is part of a Mo wax collaboration from 1996 that features early dj shadow, dj krust, peshay, air, and a lot of other folks.