Monday 2 January 2012

startingaswemeantogoon





new year was all about the outside – a walk over the mashes at Aldeburgh in the evening and the next day the usual meeting at Covehithe. meanwhile a list of some of my highlights of the year, not all out this year but it was the year i found them.
Book, fiction – Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
Book, nonfiction – Folding Techniques for Designers – From sheet to form – Paul Jackson
Blog – http://www.thisiscolossal.com/tags/blog/
Podcast – Freakonomics closely followed as ever by in our time
Music, track – IMFAC party rock anthem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ6zr6kCPj8&ob=av2e
or Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXCh9OhDiCI
Music, album – Metronomy – The English Riviera http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFrNsSnk8GM
Music, video – i enjoyed the knowing postmodern madness of Duran Duran’s ‘film’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSMbOuNBV0s but
Film – Departed http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407887/ closely followed by
Norwegian Wood http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270842/
Film – documentary Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow http://overyourcities.com/
Gig – rubberbanditz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBT4ZWy6Lm4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNFfDirBE6w
Dance – Akram Khan Dance Company - Vertical Road http://www.akramkhancompany.net/html/
Theatre – The Strange undoing of Prudencia Hart – National Theatre of Scotland
Live art – shunt at Latitude http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbL_VvV9tT4 http://www.nigelandlouise.com/
Event – faster than sound with Christian Marclay - Hoffman Building Aldeburgh
Exhibition, art – Lee Yongback in the Korean Pavillion at Venice Biennale http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IVFtFZLmMU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbMjd5r1WYU
Television – Fresh Meat http://www.channel4.com/programmes/fresh-meat
Radio, series – in our time BBC Radio 4 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/in-our-time/
Radio show – Radcliffe and Maconie BBC Radio 6 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0100rp6 or Jarvis Cocker - Sunday Service http://editthis.info/cockers_sunday_service_archive/Main_Page