A Few of Our Favorite Things
Howdy All,
We thought it would be good to compile a ‘Best of 2007′ list before February hits (when we’re REALLY into 2008). The idea was to list things that were new to us in 2007 (though not necessarily new IN 2007). The list!
Andrew Smith-
Food:
Christos’ Falafel
John Ringhofer-
Music:
- Hansadutta, ‘The Vision’
- Beethoven, ‘Late String Quartets’
- The Motifs, ‘Away’Books:
- Jason Roberts, A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler
- Alan Moore, The Watchmen
- Barry Miles, Many Years From Now
- Ellis Jones, The Better World Shopping GuideFilms:
- Robert Bresson, Balthazar
- Bong Joon-ho, The HostRestaurant:
-Herbivore, now in Berkeley!Activities:
-Routinely falling asleep to quiet records
-Playing bass for The Curtains
-Sitting on the couch in the morning at the precise moment that sunlight enters the window (favorite)
Dan Zimmerman -
Reading:
- Teilhard de Chardin at the Jersey ShoreRecording:
- with Daniel Smith and other amazing familyre folkPlaying out:
- with Tony Jones and Joshua StamperWatching:
- Robin Z’s brilliant kitchen design take shapeRediscovering:
-cherished Golden Age of American Rock’n'Roll 1954-1963
-Jackson Pollock
-Charles Burchfield and the way my own painting is evolvingSeeing:
- I’m Not There in Princeton with Robin
- first Broadway show (Spamelot) with Robin, Michael, and Elizabeth ZTalking:
- to Robin about the marvelous memoir writing process
Joshua Stamper -
Music:
- Robert Wyatt, Rock Bottom; Ruth is Stranger Than Richard; Shleep; CuckoolandFilms:
- Thomas Riedelsheimer, Touch the Sound (documentary about percussionist Evelyn Glennie)Books:
- Anton Chekov, Lady With Lapdog and Other StoriesFood:
- Monk’s Burger
- St. Bernardus Abt. 12Places:
- Collingswood, NJ
Elin Smith -
Music:
- Margo GuryanFood:
- Black olives on pizzaBook:
- Vera Henriksen, DronningsagaenYarn:
- Baby AlpacaGlaze:
- “Metallic Awesomeness”New friends:
- Josh & Kory
Anita Santiago -
Films:
- Grey Gardens
- Tears of the Black TigerBooks:
- Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy WarholTV:
- MadmenOnline:
- etsy
- wardrobe_remix
- jezebel
Ted Velykis -
Music:
- Calypso music (especially the Lion)
- Pascal Comelade, The Oblique SessionsBooks:
- Lord Berners, A Distant ProspectFilms:
- Marco Ferreri, La Grande BouffeConcepts:
- The concept of entrepreneurialiizationalism and it’s sweet reward
Ken Fabianovicz -
Event of the Year:
- The birth of my son.2nd best event of the year:
- Joshua Stamper joining the Sounds Familyre Famile.Music (in no particular order):
Robert Wyatt, Comicopera
- Blues Control, Blues Control
- Yeasayer, All Hour Cymbals
- Ben + Vesper, All This Could Kill You
- Dirty Projectors, Rise Above
- Burial, Untrue
- Nick Lowe, At My Age
- Trolleyvox, Your Secret Safe/Luzerne
- Jens Lekman, Night Falls Over Kortedala
- The Return of Siltbreeze Records, Times New Viking; Sapat; Pink Reason
- Von Sudenfed, Tromatic Reflexxions
- Tinariwen, Aman Iman
- Rob Crow, Living Well
- Panda Bear, Person Pitch
- Ortolan (demos)
- Brenda Ray, Walatta
- Wooden Shjips, Wooden Shjips
- Skream, Skream!
- Meg Baird, Dear CompanionReissues:
- The Return of STAX Records!
- Jim Ford, The Sounds of Our Time
- Bobb Trimble, Iron Curtain Innocence and
Harvest of Dreams-Reissues on Secretly Canadian
- Rhys Chatham, multiple reissues on
Table of the Elements
- Tully, Sea of Joy Soundtrack
- Yatha Sidhra, A Meditation Mass
- Loren Connors, As Roses Bow: Collected Airs 1992-2000
Dorothy Ashby - Rubaiyat of Dorothy Ashby
- Henry Flynt & Nova’ Billy, Henry Flynt & Nova’ Billy
- Richard Crandell, Oregon Hill ; In the Flower of Our Youth
- Keith Hudson, Reissues on Pressure Sounds
- Everything on the Dust-To-Digital label
- Philip Cohran, Singles
- Telegraph Ave, Telegraph Ave
- Trees Community, The Christ Tree
- Lee Hazelwood, Reissues on Water Records & Rhino Handmade
- Moussa Doumbia, Keleya
- Noah Howard, The Black Ark
What’s on your ‘Best of 2007′ list? Feel free to leave a comment!
January 22nd, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Best ALBUMs 2007:
1. A Mountain Of One “Collected Works”
2. Burial “Untrue”
3. Of Montreal “Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?”
4. Lindström & Prins Thomas “Reinterpretations”
5. Nico Muhly “Speaks Volume”
6. Robert Wyatt “Comicopera”
7. Two Bands And A legend Featuring Cato Salsa Experience, The Thing And Joe McPhee
8. M.I.A. “Kala”
9. Panda Bear “Person Pitch”
10. Anna Järvinen “Jag Fick Feeling”
11. The Tough Alliance “New Chance”
12. Deerhoof “Friend Opportunity”
13. Arcade Fire “The Neon Bible”
14. LCD Soundsystem “Sound Of Silver”
15. Ciara “The Evolution”
16. Feist “The Reminder”
Well, something like that.
RETRO:
1. Harmonia “Live 1974″. Actually this is probably better than most of the things on my list with new music above. Awesome space kraut.
2. Young Marble Giants “Colossal Youth”
3. Pylon “Gyrate+”
More good new music:
1. I finally got around to buy the early albums by Talking Heads. They keep spinning and spinning without me realy being able to pinpoint what´s so good about them.
2. Deerhoof live at Debaser. Playful, energetic, generous, friendly Deerhoof.
3. The Sound Art of Hanna Hartman. Unique work with concrete sounds. Very few create such a tension between the sounds original context and their musical sound. Composition and collage are fitted together into 4 great artworks on the cd “Ailanthus”.
4. With “Hateless” Andreas Tilliander returns to noisier domains and renew hem with slow dubby sub-bass.
January 28th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
candy:
gummy peach rings
music:
kat jones–esp “sleeping winter fool”
bob dylan’s “street legal”, esp Senor.
hobbies:
making pillows, potholders, other things that start with “P”.
January 28th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
ps. i knew there was something else ..foodwise, Pho.
http://bestpony.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html
January 28th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Respectfully, here is my list.
Music either discovered or rediscovered:
- Namur - Songs From the Valley of Baca
- Untitled, The Void - “Atmospheres.”
- Women & Children - Women & Children
- Piano Magic - The Troubled Sleep of Piano Magic
- Arvo Part - De Profundis
- The Butterflies of Love - The New Patient
- Brian Eno - Apollo
- Blossom Dearie - Figure 8 (song)
- Untitled, The Void - “Phantoms.” EP
- Billy Bragg - Back to Basics
- bkrm - Experiment EP
- Daniel Johnston - 1990
- The Left Outsides
- The Madeleines
Films:
- Murmur of the Heart
- Julien Donkey-Boy
- Gummo
- Old Joy
- Tarnation
- Invincible (No, the Werner Herzog one)
- The Squid & the Whale
- Harold and Maude
- Fitzcarraldo
Reads:
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera
- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, by Milan Kundera
- Revisited the writings of J.D. Salinger
Moments:
- Enjoying my cassettes
- Ridding of my cassettes
- Being happy
- Seeing friends and eyes
- Understanding that sad woman
- Being in fields or forests
- Writing and recording music
- Artwork