2011's Reading & Viewing

Yikes, this year was the worst. After the jump is what I read and watched during it.

Other News: 

* On Beautiful/Decay I profiled Elijah Funk and Mei Yan Jane Lee's artwork.

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* Watch Heat Space TV's Late Lunch Live with Slave Labia; and video of their 15th House show.

BOOKS I READ IN 2011
(Particularly good ones marked with asterisks.)


1/08: Stephane Hessel – Indignez-Vous!
1/13: Slavoj Zizek – First As Tragedy, Then As Farce*
1/15: John Berger – And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos*
1/18: Cassandra Troyan – The Things We Embody Are The Things We Destroy 
1/22: Sara Drake – Small Advices
1/25: Simon Critchley – The Book of Dead Philosophers
1/27: Anne Elizabeth Moore – The Manifesti of Radical Literature 
2/02: Donna Haraway – The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness 
2/09: Kenneth Patchen – Hallelujah Anyway 
2/10: Wendy Lee Spacek – Oscines 
2/11: Terry Eagleton – How To Read A Poem*
2/12: Julia Wertz – Drinking at the Movies 
2/13: Robert Mankoff – The New Yorker Book of Art Cartoons 
2/14: Claudia Nashon – The Art of William Steig 
2/15: William Steig – Ruminations 
2/16: Mark Strand – Hopper 
2/16: Anders Nilsen – Ballad of the Two-Headed Boy 
2/16: C.F. – Powr Mastrs 3*
2/17: Brecht Evens – The Wrong Place 
2/20: John Kenneth Galbraith – The Economics of Innocent Fraud
2/23: Philip Roth – The Breast 
2/24: William Steig – Drawings 
2/26: Wiliam Steig – Sick of Each Other 
2/26: Robert Mankoff – The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons
2/26: Jean-Paul Sartre – Nausea 
2/28: Nina Kaiden – Artist and Advocate: An Essay on Corporate Personage 
2/28: Emma N. Young – So Soon We Shall See 
3/01: Nicholas Rombes – A Cultural Dictionary of Punk  
3/03: Paul Strathern – Plato in 90 Minutes 
3/04: Wendy Lee Spacek – Hypnagogia 
3/06: Matt Furie – Boy’s Club 4
3/07: Tom Stoppard – The Real Inspector Hound* 
3/07: Tom Stoppard – After Magritte 
3/12: Steve Roggenbuck – DOWNLOAD HELVETICA FOR FREE.COM 
3/13: Eugene Ionesco – Foursome 
3/15: Philip Hofer – Los Caprichos 
3/15: Philip Hofer – The Disasters of War 
3/15: Joseph Risel – Goya: Another Look 
3/18: Dwight Garner – Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements 
3/19: Shel Silverstein – The Giving Tree 
3/22: Simon Blackburn – Plato’s Republic: A Biography 
3/27: Aaron Miller – Party Life #1
3/27: James Payne – Austerity Pleasures
3/28: John Baker – Arguing for Equality 
3/30: Clifford Ross – The World of Edward Gorey
4/04: Karen Wilkins – Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey* 
4/07: Jack Murnighan – Beowulf on the Beach 
4/10: Adrian Tomine – Scenes from an Impending Marriage 
4/10: C.F. – The Core of Caligula
4/12: Ariel Schrag – Stuck in the Middle
4/13: Jacques Prevert – Paroles (French and English)*
4/16: Andrew Brighton – Introducing Picasso 
4/19: Ed Choy Moorman – Ghost Comics: A Benefit Anthology for RS Eden 
4/23: Jordan Castro and Mallory Whitten – Cute 
4/25: Ivy Compton-Burnett – Pastors and Masters 
5/03: Adam Gopnik – Paris to the Moon
5/04: Michael Garland – Dinner at Magritte’s 
5/14: James Baldwin – Giovanni’s Room*
5/15: Evelyn Waugh – The Loved One*
5/25: Edward Gorey – Amphigorey Also 
6/03: Sappho – Poems 
6/13: Charles Baudelaire – Paris Spleen 
6/21: Alex Haley – The Autobiography of Malcolm X as Told to Alex Haley*
6/22: Richard Bach – Jonathan Livingston Seagull 
6/23: James Sutton – Signs in Action 
6/30: Ana C. & Richard Chiem – Oh No, Everything is Wet Now 
7/16: James Baldwin – Nobody Knows My Name 
7/20: Julian Barnes – Before She Met Me 
7/20: K8 Hardy – Fashion, Fashion 
7/24: The Invisible Committee – The Coming Insurrection*
7/25: Rebecca Solnit – A Field Guide to Getting Lost 
7/30: Emma N. Young – Colored Letters
8/01: Sarah Glidden – How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less 
8/01: Andrea Boudreau – Short Stories Zine
8/02: Lucy Shelton Caswell & James Thurber - Ireland of the Dispatch 
8/07: Matthew Thurber – 1-800-Mice Issues #5, #6*
8/13: Joan Didion – The Year of Magical Thinking
8/13: Werner Herzog – Of Walking in Ice
8/16: Ernest Hemingway – A Moveable Feast 
8/18: Rainer Maria Rilke – Letters to a Young Poet
8/25: A.E. Taylor – Socrates: The Man and His Thought 
8/30: Bret Easton Ellis – The Rules of Attraction
9/07: Joan Didion – The White Album* 
9/12: Edward Lear – A Book of Nonsense 
9/13: Mark Gonzales – High Tech Poetry 
9/14: Cassandra and Cody Troyan – Places to Go to Die
9/21: Seth – Vernacular Drawings 
9/22: Joan Didion – After Henry 
10/04: Jason – The Left Bank Gang* 
10/05: Patti Smith – Just Kids 
10/17: Tim Hensley – Wally Gropius*
10/17: John Malta – An Asteroid Descends on Mount Moldy 
10/17: Tony Judt – The Memory Chalet 
10/23: Alice Walker – Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems
10/23: Anne Elizabeth Moore – Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh 
10/25: Daniel Clowes – The Death-Ray
10/25: Diana Salier – Wikipedia Says it Will Pass* 
10/28: Jen Angel: Becoming the Media: A Critical History of Clamor Magazine
11/04: Brooke Gladstone – Influencing the Media: Brooke Gladstone On The Media 
11/08: Wallace Shawn – Essays 
11/14: Joan Didion – Play It As It Lays* 
11/16: James Payne and Jack Ramunni: One Hour Publication
11/20: Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Memories of my Melancholy Whores 
12/07: Richard Minsky – The Art of American Book Covers: 1875-1930
12/08: C.F. – City Hunter
12/12: Paul Strathern – Berkeley in 90 Minutes
12/12: Elijah Funk – Sometimes When I am Feeling Sad
12/13: Joan Didion – Blue Nights*
12/17: Laura Szumowski – Tip of the Iceberg
12/24: Paul Buckley - Penguin 75: Designers, Authors, Commentaries
12/26: Ben Shahn – The Shape of Content
12/26: Matthew Thurber - 1-800-Mice* 
12/30: Robert Wolff - In Defense of Anarchism 


FILMS I WATCHED IN 2011
(Particularly good ones marked with asterisks.)


1/01: The Joy Of Statistics (Hans Rosling)
1/06: London Moods (Ken Russell)*
1/11: American Visions (Robert Hughes) 

1/23: Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny
1/24: Wittgenstein (Derek Jarman)*
1/25: Exit Through The Gift Shop (Banksy)
1/27: The Cool School 
1/28: A Bigger Splash (David Hockney)
1/30: To Philosophize is to Learn How to Die (Simon Critchley)
2/02: Burroughs

2/10: Dreams of Obama (Frontline)
2/19: Basic Brown, Basic Blue (Homer Groening)
2/23: Collapse
2/23: Wild Man Blues (Woody Allen)*
3/03: Tell Them Anything You Want (Spike Jonze / Maurice Sendak)
3/07: La Jetee (Chris Marker)
3/12: Goya: Crazy like a Genius (Robert Hughes)
3/15: Gently Down The Stream (Su Friedrich)
3/15: Sink or Swim (Su Friedrich)
3/20: Plato: The Republic
3/29: I Was a Male Yvonne de Carlo (Jack Smith)
3/29: Little Stabs at Happiness (Ken Jacobs)
3/29: Scotch Tape (Jack Smith)
3/29: Chumlum (Ron Rice)
3/31: Human, All Too Human (Heidegger)
4/02: Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields
4/03: Chris Burden: A Twenty-Year Survey, Newport Harbor Art Museum 

4/04: Visite a Picasso
4/06: Man on Wire
4/06: Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (Tamra Davis)
4/09: Condo Painting*
4/09: My Best Fiend: Klaus Kinski (Werner Herzog)*
4/13: Bored to Death: Season 1 (Jonathan Ames)
4/14: Human, All Too Human (Jean-Paul Sartre)
4/14: Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight
4/15: Two in the Wave
4/16: Human, All Too Human (Nietzche)
4/20: 30 Rock: Season 1
4/24: 30 Rock: Season 2
4/25: The Mystery of Picasso (Henri Clouzot)
4/28: Ms. Parker and the Vicious Circle
4/29: One Way Street: Fragments for Walter Benjamin
5/03: Howl
5/05: Pulling: Seasons 1 & 2
5/06: Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)*
5/09: Italian Fascism in Color 
5/10: Monty Python: Almost the Truth 
5/11: Ken Burn’s America: Thomas Hart Benton 
5/12: Waiting for Godot 
5/13: The End of the Affair
5/19: Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog)*  
5/31: Operation Peter Pan (Estela Bravo, Chris Awards)
6/01: Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures 
6/07: Transcendent Man (Ray Kurzweil)
6/07: Political Animals (Chris Awards)
6/10: A Poet on the Lower East Side
6/19: Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
6/21: The Mirror of Maya Deren 
6/21: Max Ernst (Peter Schamoni)
6/25: Fran Lebowitz: Public Speaking (Martin Scorsese)*
6/29: The French Revolution 
7/05: Grizzly Man (Herzog)
7/06: Chisholm 72: Unbought and Unbossed
7/09: All the Memory in the World (Mike Olenick)*
7/12: Encounters at the End of the World (Herzog)
7/13: John Adams Miniseries
7/20: The Trip (Michael Winterbottom)
7/29: Rabid (Mike Olenick)
7/29: For a Blonde… (Mike Olenick)
8/06: Page One: Inside the New York Times 
8/12: Blood Simple (Coen Brothers)
8/16: Stripmall (Roger Beebe)
8/17: Africa on the Move: The Power of Song (Chris Awards)
8/17: The Bonus March as told by Walter Waters (Chris Awards)
8/17: Apocalypse 2012 (Chris Awards) 
8/17: AIDS Turns 30 (Chris Awards)
8/17: Flirting or Hurting (Chris Awards)
8/18: Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune 
8/18: Party Girl*
8/18: Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
8/19: Cultures of Resistance (Chris Awards)
8/19: Stonewall Uprising (Chris Awards)
8/19: The Team (Chris Awards)
8/24: Daisies* 
8/27: The Panic in Needle Park (Didion/Dunne)*
8/29: Dominick Dunne: After the Party
8/29: Hype!
9/03: The Dinner Party
9/11: Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog)*
9/15: Rope (Hitchcock)
9/18: Made in the U.S.A. (Godard)
9/24: Bruce McClure at Skylab*
10/04: Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine)
10/07: American Experience: Jimmy Carter
10/10: Black Power Mixtape*
10/14: Films for 1 to 8 Projectors (Roger Beebe)
10/19: Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains
10/21: Man on Wire
10/21: Metropolitan*
10/22: The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu*
10/23: Hockney at the Tate
10/29: Big Chill
10/30: Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
10/31: Place de la Republique (Louis Malle)
10/31: Vive le Tour (Louis Malle)*
11/05: Caravaggio (Derek Jarman)
11/05: The Killing Fields
11/07: Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger)
11/13: These Hammers Don’t Hurt Us (Michael Robinson)*
11/13: The General Returns From One Place To Another (Michael Robinson)
11/16: Selection of David Gatten’s Films
11/22: American Experience: Woody Allen: A Documentary*
11/24: Take The Money And Run (Woody Allen)
11/25: Manda Bala* 
11/27: Married to the Eiffel Tower*
11/29: If a Tree Falls: The Story of the Earth Liberation Front*
12/03: Melancholia (Lars Von Trier)*
12/08: Bonnie and Clyde 
12/08: Swimming to Cambodia (Jonathan Demme)*
12/17: Reds (Warren Beatty) 
12/20: A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson) 
12/25: The Adventures of Tintin (Spielberg)*
12/29: Portlandia: Season 1
12/29: A Musical is Gone (Stacie Sells)
12/30: Remains of the Day (Mike Nichols)