An image from the film this blog is named after.

An image from the film this blog is named after.

Sunday, February 25, 2024

Top Books

Top 10:

A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick

Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett

Watchmen, Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins

The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien

The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

Neuromancer, William Gibson

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Eduardo Galeano

Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams 

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald



The Rest:


1984, George Orwell

2312, Kim Stanley Robinson

A Series of Unfortunate Events, Daniel Handler

A Terrible Country, Keith Gessen

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

Art Nouveau, Klaus-Jürgen Sembach

Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, and Lynn Varley

Behemoth: The Structure & Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944, Franz Neumann

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

Call of the Wild, Jack London

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl

Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White

Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler

Discourse on Colonialism, Aimé Césaire

Doctor Faustus, Thomas Mann

Dune, Frank Herbert

Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card

Escape from Freedom, Erich Fromm

Falling Up, Shel Silverstein

Flags of our Fathers, James Bradley with Ron Powers

Four Futures: Life After Capitalism, Peter Frase

From Hell, Alan Moore

Germinal, Émile Zola

Gulliver’s Travel, Jonathan Swift

Gustav Klimt: Art Nouveau Visionary, Eva di Stefano

Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling

Hatchet, Gary Paulsen

Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

Hokusai, Sarah Thompson, Joan Wright, and Philip Meredith

Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson

Imperialism: A Study, J.A. Hobson

Light in August, William Faulkner

Lord of the Flies, William Golding

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Stephen Crane

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman

Max Beckmann in New York, Sabine Rewald

My Brilliant Friend, Elana Ferrante

Nationalism and Culture, Rudolf Rocker

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution, China Mieville

One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, Ando Hiroshige and Henry D. Smith

Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism, and Syndicalism, Bertrand Russell

Redwall, Brian Jacques

Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

Sailor Twain: Or the Mermaid in the Hudson, Sailor Twain

Salem’s Lot, Stephen King

Scott Pilgrim, Bryan Lee O’Malley

Season of Migration to the North, Tayeb Salih

Seconds, Bryan Lee O’Malley

Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor, Elizabeth J. Perry

Six Months in Red Russia, Louise Bryant

Steel Beach, John Varley

Strike!, Jeremy Brecher

Ten Days that Shook the World, John Reed

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

The Anatomy of Fascism, Robert O. Paxton

The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre, H.P. Lovecraft

The Bolsheviks and Workers’ Control, Maurice Brinton

The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer

The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss

The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason, Felix Biederman, Matt Christman, Brendan James, and Will Menaker

The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

The Crucible, Arthur Miller

The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank

The Gadfly, E.L. Voynich

The Giver, Lois Lowry

The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein

The Glass Key, Dashiell Hammett

The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros

The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis

The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann

The Mandate of Heaven: Marx and Mao in Modern China, Nigel Harris

The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury

The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov

The Noir Style, Alain Silver

The Odyssey, Homer

The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

The People of the Abyss, Jack London

The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli

The Rebel, Albert Camus

The Reel Civil War: Mythmaking in American Film, Bruce Chadwick

The Secret of Nimh, Robert C. O’Brien

The Shining, Stephen King

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein

The Soul of Man Under Socialism, Oscar Wilde

The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution, Harold Isaacs

The Unknown Revolution, Voline

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Frank L. Baum

This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate, Naomi Klein

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

Ubik, Philip K. Dick

Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand

Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul, Jeremiah Moss

Vincent Van Gogh, Isabel Kuhl

Ways of Seeing, John Berger

We Want Everything, Nanni Balestrini

Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak


Top Albums

Some New Favorites: 

Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions, Killing Joke
Freak Frequency, Stuck
Vengeance, New Model Army
Information, Disturbed Furniture
Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads
Dusk at Cubist Castle, The Olivia Tremor Control
The Prize, Heavy Feelings
Egopushin', Gladboy
Gyrate, Pylon


Abrakadabra, Klockwerk Orange

All Day, Girl Talk

American Water, Silver Jews

Appetite for Destruction, Guns N’ Roses

Attack on Memory, Cloud Nothings

Blues for the Red Sun, Kyuss

Cable Ties, Cable Ties

Cross, Justice

Curses, Future of the Left

Discipline of Sun Ra, EABS

Doolittle, The Pixies

Dybbuk Tse!, Yoni Mayraz

Entertainment!, Gang of Four

Freezepop Forever, Freezepop

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, Dead Kennedys

Funky Sound Bombers, Casiopea

Galaxy, The Players

Genclik Ile Elele, Mustafa Ozkent

Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death, Dead Kennedys

Good Living is Coming for You, Sweeping Promises

Help!, The Beatles

Home Movies, Rodeo Boys

In Search of a Better Tomorrow, EABS Meets Jaubi

It’s All Over, Sad Park

Just Look at that Sky, Ganser

Kill ‘em All, Metallica

Last Building Burning, Cloud Nothings

Live-Evil, Miles Davis

On, Altin Gun

Pink Flag, Wire

Play With Fire, L.A. Witch

Playing with a Different Sex, The Au Pairs

Plays CB Radio Gorgeous, CB Radio Gorgeous

Rhapsody in Blue, George Gershwin

Satellites, Satellites

The Woods, Sleater-Kinney

Someone to Drive You Home, The Long Blondes

Suck My Shirt, The Coathangers

Super Champon, Otoboke Beaver

Super Snooper, Snooper

Surfer Rosa, The Pixies

The Day the Country Died, Subhumans

The Lonesome Crowded West, Modest Mouse

The Singles, Bikini Kill

Ugly, Screaming Females

You’re Living All Over Me, Dinosaur Jr. 


The Top 15:

Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd

Vs., Mission of Burma

Travels with Myself and Another, Future of the Left

If I Should Fall from Grace with God, The Pogues

Revolver, The Beatles

Songs for the Deaf, ,Queens of the Stone Age

IV, Led Zeppelin

Rain Dogs, Tom Waits

The Black Saint the Sinner Lady, Charles Mingus

Elephant, The White Stripes

Daydream Nation, Sonic Youth

Discovery, Daft Punk

A Badly Broken Code, Dessa

The Rite of Spring, Igor Stravinsky

Tago Mago, Can



The Rest:


21, Adele

A Love Supreme, John Coltrane

At Folsom Prison, Johnny Cash

Best of Bowie, David Bowie

Bitches Brew, Miles Davis

Blue Record, Baroness

California, Mr. Bungle

Ceremonials, Florence + The Machine

Chet Baker in New York, Chet Baker

Chet Baker: The Italian Sessions, Chet Baker

Chronicle Vol. 1, Credence Clearwater Revival

Closer, Joy Division

Congratulations, MGMT

Cream: Gold, Cream

De Stijl, The White Stripes

Emily’s D+Evolution, Esperanza Spalding

Emperor Tomato Ketchup, Stereolab

Era Vulgaris, Queens of the Stone Age

Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix

Fancy Ultra-Fresh, Freezepop

Giant Steps, John Coltrane

Greatest Hits, Weird Al, Weird Al Yankovic

High Risk Behaviour, The Chats

Hot Rocks, The Rolling Stones

Icky Thump, The White Stripes

Illmatic, Nas

Kala, M.I.A

King of the Surf Guitar, Dick Dale

Lasers, Lupe Fiasco

Layla and other Assorted Love Songs, Derek and the Dominos

Led Zeppelin I, Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin

London Calling, The Clash

London Sessions, LCD Soundsystem

Lungs, Florence + The Machine

Master of Puppets, Metallica

Matangi, M.I.A.

McLusky Do Dallas, McLusky

Meat Puppets II, The Meat Puppets

Mezcal Head, Swervedriver

Moanin’ in the Moonlight, Howlin’ Wolf

Mondo Cane, Mike Patton

Neu! 75, Neu

Nothing’s Shocking, Jane’s Addiction

Okoshiyasu!! Otoboke Beaver, Itekoma Hits, Otoboke Beaver

Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys

Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Pink Floyd

Raw Power, Iggy and the Stooges

Ride the Lightning, Metallica

Rome, Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi

Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash, The Pogues

Run the Jewels 3, Run the Jewels

Run the Jewels 4, Run the Jewels

Scumfuck Flowerboy, Tyler the Creator

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles

Silver Apples, Silver Apples

Sketches of Spain, Miles Davis

Surrealistic Pillow, Jefferson Airplane

Tender Prey, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Thank You Happy Birthday, Cage the Elephant

The Cool, Lupe Fiasco

The Essential Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash

The Miraculous Mandarin, Bela Bartok

The Obliterati, Mission of Burma

The Plot Against Common Sense, Future of the Left

The Who: Ultimate Collection, The Who

Them Crooked Vultures, Them Crooked Vultures

Third, Portishead

This Nation’s Saving Grace, The Fall

Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever, Explosions in the Sky

Tijuana Moods, Charles Mingus

Trax on da Roxx, Thomas Bangalter

Turmoil and Tinfoil, Billy Strings

Veckatimest, Grizzly Bear

White Blood Cells, The White Stripes