#Gundam Sheng-long

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Easily Recalled 2024 Highlights

NewJeans, "how Sweet"

NewJeans, "Supernatural"

Lin Cheng-sheng's remarkable Murmur of Youth (1997) 

finding this Gundam supercut set to "It's the End of the World as We Know It" that my cousin showed me in like 1990 on vhs. how many hundreds of hours must it have taken to make this back then? 

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Harry Mathews, The Conversions (1962)

One Piece

DW Gibson, One Week to Change the World (2024)

hyukoh + sunset rollercoaster, AAA (here's the video for the wonderful "Young Man")

shabjdeed, al nather, riyadiyat, "rad saree3" (video is crazy)

discovering after many months that my phone wasn't actually broken, there was just a tiny piece of lint stuck in the charging port

untitled (halo), "emo is good"

astoundingly beautiful: Claire Cirocco - Drawing Circles Around the Center, amaro freitas - y'y

I probably watched Corteiz's "More to Come" ad a hundred times the day it dropped

Same with the United third kit launch which was an excellent use of "Born Slippy," and which is pretty depressing circa matchweek 18

vermut

Esther Yi, Y/N (2023)

tommy richman, 'million dollar baby'

I never missed an episode of Talk of the Devils and the Press Box

the cure, 'alone'

Jarvis Cocker talking about Salo in the Criterion Closet

BugCat Capoo, a cute and adorably violent taiwanese cartoon 

the breakfast burrito at Frontier in Albuquerque 

Aaron Cometbus, Loneliness of the Electric Menorah (2009)

this year I consumed too much: aperol, energy gels, random "hey can I ask how much do you pay in rent/do for a living?" type content 

Kobbie Mainoo

favorite t-shirt: "Reading is Fun" from one of the planet's great shops, Par Store

(2nd favorite: nine ty nine, y2k error machine)

favorite stores: VINYL 99 CLUB in Taichung's "Fusion Space" mall, Par, record shop in red hook, Community books, meridian vision, hvv, westsider books, yu and me, ergot, la central del raval, Bizarro-Wuxtry, unnameable books, the half moon books and rhino records in kingston 

Maurten's Gel 100 and discovering that Tate's cookies are a suitable "pre-workout"

best purchases: NewJeans umbrella at the Taipei pop-up, janji's afo middle short ultra, a CAYL raincoat 

DJ Sprinkles reissues

the collage video for vampire weekend's 'mary boone,' which seems to have been scrubbed from the internet (here's the official one)

galaxie 500 "shout you down" and the rest of Collected

Madonna del Bagni, a tiny church outside of Perugia filled with about 700 hand-painted tiles depicting various "miracles," many of them quite modern, one of them is actually a tile depicting a stolen tile recovered by a policeman on vacation

Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick, “Like That”

I watched way too much running content on IG this year

zlatan genuinely stressed on hot ones

favorite bar: Manhattan Cafe in Athens, GA

Nilufer yanya, “Just a Western”

"Snack of the Week" on Popcast Deluxe

X-Men House of X/Powers of X, which is thrilling yet genuinely harder to follow than grad school was

Megalopolis was not good, but it was the most absorbing movie I watched this year

cole palmer interviews fredric jameson interview by benjamin kunkel in paris review, especially fj's incredibly long and rigorously thoughtful answer to bk's first question, which was something innocuous like "where did you grow up?"

best ebay purchases: nemanja vidic "united's terminator," a stack of Film Quarterlies including the 'Wild Style' issue, 1990s longboxes

everything patrick shiroishi was involved with

christoph buchel's monte di pieta at fondazione prada venezia, a thoroughly batshit installation inspired by david graeber that shook me to my core

somewhat related, Flow was devastating!

enjoyable old man raps: Spice 1, Platinum O.G. 2

late 2023, but the Shrits Canal St cap

MK.gee, "rockman"

the last section of benjamin labatut's 'MANIAC'

central cee smiling all the time and dressing like lenny from 'of mice and men'

nala sinaphro, endlessness

I spent parts of june and july living/working in a castle in umbertide, and one of the purest delights was walking through the courtyard everday and hearing yuniya edi kwon practicing violin in her room

"AMAD DIALLO!"

Pavement playing a chronological set that ended with "Harness Your Hopes" and SM shrugging "Well that was it. That was our career."

burial, "phoneglow"

sumo citrus and "little guys" from long wind farm

Dexter's flirtation with Madchester/baggy during 'One Day' (I cried)

Sagrada Familia and the Basilica di San Francesco in Assisi  ... nearly made me a believer 

previous years:

A RAT YEAR :: 2020 THE MOON REPRESENTS MY HEART :: 2019 A SONG THAT DEGRADES EACH TIME YOU PLAY IT :: 2018 A CHURCH AND JOHN LENNON’S “IMAGINE” :: 2017  SIKH DEVOTIONAL MUSIC :: 2016 SPOOKY BLACK :: 2015

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