Monday 3 January 2022

2021 Reading

  • Iain Banks: Transition (****)
  • Anthony Bourdain: Kitchen Confidential (****)
  • Vincent Bugliosi & Curt Gentry: Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (*****)
  • Alan Dean Foster: Alien (***)
  • Alan Dean Foster: Aliens (****)
  • Alan Dean Foster: Alien 3 (****)
  • Daphne du Maurier: My Cousin Rachel (****)
  • Mark Frost: The Secret History of Twin Peaks (second reading; ***)
  • Mark Frost: The Final Dossier (second reading; ****)
  • H.R. Giger: Giger (****)
  • Thomas Harris: Red Dragon (third reading; *****)
  • Thomas Harris: The Silence of the Lambs (****)
  • Frank Herbert: Dune (second reading; ****)
  • Rick Moody: The Ice Storm (****)
  • Haruki Murakami: First Person Singular (***)
  • Stephen Morris: Record Play Pause: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist (****)
  • Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club (***)
  • Adam Steiner: Into the Never: NIN and the Creation of The Downward Spiral (***)  
  • Quentin Tarantino: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (***)
  • Various: Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View (***)
  • Various: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back: From a Certain Point of View (****)
  • Stefan Zweig: The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig (****)
  • Stefan Zweig: The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig (***).

2021 in Television

  • 01. Fargo, Season 4
  • 02. Only Murders in the Building, Season 1
  • 03. Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror
  • 04. Squid Game, Season 1
  • 05. Line of Duty, Series 6
  • 06. Inside No. 9, Series 6
  • 07. Time
  • 08. The Bambers: Murder at the Farm
  • 09. Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer
  • 10. Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel.

2021 in Film

  • 01. Saint Maud
  • 02. The Power of the Dog
  • 03. Sound of Metal
  • 04. Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
  • 05. Dune
  • 06. Mortal Kombat
  • 07. Last Man Standing: Suge Knight and the Murders of Biggie and Tupac
  • 08. The Card Counter
  • 09. The Dig
  • 10. Worth.

 2021 films I have yet to see:

  • Censor.
  • The Father.
  • The Velvet Underground.
  • The French Dispatch.
  • Drive My Car. 
  • Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

2021 in Music

  • 01. Pan Daijing: Jade 
  • 02. Jon Hopkins: Music for Psychedelic Therapy 
  • 03. Gazelle Twin & NYX: Deep England 
  • 04. Danny Elfman: Big Mess 
  • 05. A Winged Victory for the Sullen: Invisible Cities 
  • 06. The Grid & Robert Fripp: Leviathan 
  • 07. Ulver: Hexahedron 
  • 08. Nala Sinephro: Space 1.8 
  • 09. David Bowie: The Width of a Circle 
  • 10. MONO: Pilgrimage of the Soul.

Honourable mention: 

  • Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra: Promises 
  • Blanck Mass: In Ferneaux 
  • King Crimson: Music is Our Friend (Live in Washington and Albany, 2021) 
  • Katia Krow: I've Called Off the Search, I Know Exactly Where You Are 
  • Zombi: Liquid Crystal.