This year was a year. That much we all know. For myself it held a bucket of bad things, health issues keeping me pushed below a feeling of personal comfort and of course writing a novella by hand (yeah, where this goes everybody knows) to only lose all of my work.
Next year will be another year but I have lofty hopes of so many good things to come. Re-releases from Safety Third, as well as a new release. I’m also writing again. My growing health drops have kept my body and mind far away from words but as we grow closer to the past tense for this summation of months I find myself refueled to create.
In no order, items of this year that generally revolve around consumption.
- I never thought that there would be a year that David Lynch would be a pinnacle point to two of my favorite albums I heard; of course, his eerie solo debut Crazy Clown Time, but also his production on Chrysta Bell’s This Train album.
- Matt Bell & Michael Kimball both wrote about life and death and made me cry in public as I read.
- A famed metal guitarist called me “straight gangsta” as I had pulled out blunts for a smoke out.
- Everything Housefire published on their site made me swoon.
- Yeah it came out last year but The Bad Wife by Julie Christmas still gives me quivers as she howls about fucking everything.
- Great season of Bored to Death, Breaking Bad, and Doctor Who. Huzzah for the eyes and ears.
- Unleashing the off-the-cuff debut poetry collection of Tom Cheshire. Memories of the book release reading still blanket me with joyness.
- Mel Bosworth & Scott McClanahan wrote books I read three times. They be that great.
- I pulled 14 muscles screaming during a reading.
- Atlanta’s Wizard Smoke & Lyonnais both put out albums that I enjoy much more than albums that were made for oogles of more money. (Speaking of Wizard Smoke I loved writing this article)
- Future of the Left returned goddammit, and that matters.
- Patton Oswalt’s book of essays Zombie Spaceship Wasteland got panned by a lot of people. I was not one of them.
- Rico Slade Will Fucking Kill You by Brandley Sands. Best to read before you commit crimes.
- House of Holes by Nicholson Baker should not be read in public. You will want to molest things and people.
- Tom Waits and Battles made albums that I am still listening to.
- The Book of Freaks by Jamie Iredell, reading is mandatory.
- Normally Special by xTx. I’m still speechless about it.
There’s more. but who can take a whole year when we shove it down so fast; a great meal stuffing ourselves and we can’t remember where it began. We just know that the next course is coming and it can’t get here soon enough.
:-)