2010 Media Log

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JanuaryJanuary:

Books:

Tales of Ordinary Madness - Bukowski
The Book of Martyrdom & Artifice - Ginsberg
A Doll's House - Ibsen
Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
& I just started Lolita (Nabokov), too. Although I should probably start New Grub Street (Gissing), which I have to read for next week. edit: Also started Swann's Way, Proust for reading texts module.

TV/Film:

My Name Is Earl, The IT Crowd (Seasons 1-3), Friends (Seasons 1, 2, just started 3...), Grave of the Fireflies, The Harder They Come, Withnail & I.

Music:

Beat Down Babylon - Junior Byles
Funk Drops vol. 1 & 2... and Quantic presents... The World's Rarest Funk 45's vol.2
Bert Jansch, (eponymous album)
Sounds of the Rooftop - Justice System
Draw Your Breaks - (Best of) Scotty
You & Me Presents... Count Machuki
& 3 Trojan Records box sets: Nyahbinghi box set, D.J. box set & the 'Tighten Up' series box set.
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February
February
Books

The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
The Last King Of Scotland - Giles Foden
finished Swann's Way - Proust
Illuminations (The Image Of Proust, Franz Kafka: On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death) - Walter Benjamin
The Calmative (Short Story) - Samuel Beckett

TV/Film

Dave Chappelle stand up show, Friends (into season... 9, now)
Princess Mononoke
The Cleveland Show

Music

Brown Girl In The Ring - The Maytones
Baba Boom Time - The Jamaicans
Check It - Mutabaruka
Things You Should Know - Joseph Cotton
Eastwood Rides Again - The Upsetters
Every Mouth Must Be Fed - Various Artists
From GG's Reggae Hit Stable vol.1 & 2 - Various Artists
The Good, The Bad & The Upsetters - The Upsetters
Mastered The Art - Greyboy
The Techniques - Little Did You Know
Jamaica - Keith & Ken With The Jamaican Steel Orchestra
Sufferer - The Kingstonians
Studio One Singles - The Gladiators
The Bootleg Series vol.1-3 - Bob Dylan
Chicken Scratch - Lee "Scratch" Perry
Come Let's Skalipso - Count Owen
The Complete Birth Of Cool - Miles Davis
Face to Face - Baby Face Willette
D.J. Clash Vol.2 - Billy Boyo & Little Harry
Life Could Be A Dream (Studio One Singles) - Toots & the Maytals
Midnight Monk - Thelonious Monk
Reggaemento - Stanley Beckford
Roast Fish, Collie Weed & Corn Bread - Lee "Scratch" Perry
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March

Books

The Turn Of the Screw - Henry James
Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg
A Man Without A Country - Kurt Vonnegut
The Yage Letters - William Burroughs/Allen Ginsberg
Queer - William Burroughs
Illuminations (On Some Motifs in Baudelaire,
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Unpacking My Library) - Walter Benjamin
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
(just started) Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

TV/Film

People Under The Stairs, The Simpsons, The Boy With The Striped Pyjamas, Knocked Up, Zombie Flesh Eaters, 9, The Cleveland Show, The Truman Show, The Turn of the Screw, The Last King of Scotland

Music

Bridges - Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson
Fist Fights and Foot Races - Artoffical
Charades - The Shivers
Sublime Vol.#1 - Jazz One
Winter in America - Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson
Time Being - Cyne
Travel At Your Own Pace - Y Society
I Feel The Spirit - Prince Buster
Heavy Rhyme Experience Vol.1 - The Brand New Heavies
Just Outside Of Town - Mandrill
Pieces Of A Man - Gil Scott-Heron
Labcabincalifornia - The Pharcyde
A Son Of The Sun - Uyama Hiroto
Lonely City - Specifics
The First Minute Of the Day - Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson
Modal Soul - Nujabes
Worrisome Heart - Melody Gardot
Zombie - Fela Kuti & Afrika '70
Small Talk at 125th & Lenox - Gil Scott-Heron
Shallow Nights Blurry Moon - Shinsight Trio
Sister Big Stuff - Prince Buster
Return of the Pusherman - Hustlin' Soul - Various Artists
Play Deep Funk - The Sound Stylistics
Peace Pipe Dub - Gladstone Anderson All Stars
Metaphorical Music - Nujabes
From South Africa To South Carolina - Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson
Free Will - Gil Scott-Heron
Typical Cats - Typical Cats
The Next Step - People Under The Stairs