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2016

Brent Thomas

Welcome to my Department of Record Keeping. Of sorts. This is where I keep track of my interest in cultural artifacts. As the title suggests, “Music, Books, Movies, Etc.” Lots of Etc. I like to keep track of things I like like that.

Feel free to peruse, browse, comment, make suggestions and the like. Or not. Whatever.

Great pre-2016 Music Discovered/Or At-Least Really Paid-Attention-To in 2016 (or at least after my 2015 year-end list was compiled):

  • Since I Left You by The Avalanches (2000)

  • Canned Heat

  • Interludes For The Dead by Circles Around The Sun (2015)

  • Chris Robinson Brotherhood

  • Music For Lava Lamps by Cobra Family Picnic (2015)

  • Lost Voices by Esmerine (2015)

  • Moon Blood by Fraction (1973)

  • The Glands by The Glands (2000)

  • Pacific Surf Line by GospelbeacH (2015)

  • Mehliana: Taming the Dragon by Mark Guiliana/Brad Mehldau (2014)

  • Houndog: Houndog (1999)

  • All the Roads That Lead Us Home by Gaelynn Lea (2015)

  • High on Tulsa Heat by John Moreland (2015)

  • Imperfecta by Murder of Crows (2012)

  • Israel Nash’s Silver Season by Israel Nash (2015)

  • Never Were The Way She Was by Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld (2015)


Favorite Music Reissues in 2016 (in alphabetical order):

  • My Life in a Hole in the Ground by African Head Charge (1981)

  • Environmental Studies by African Head Charge (1982)

  • Drastic Season by African Head Charge (1983)

  • Off the Beaten Track by African Head Charge (1985)

  • Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs by Eddie Hazel (1977)


Favorite Music released in 2016 (in alphabetical order):

  • We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service by A Tribe Called Quest

  • Fantomas by Amiina

  • Honest Life by Courtney Marie Andrews

  • Painting With by Animal Collective

  • Wildflower by the Avalanches

  • Daniel Bachman by Daniel Bachman

  • IV by BadBadNotGood

  • Old Factory EP by Chris Bathgate

  • Pond Scum by Bonnie Prince Billy

  • Blackstar by David Bowie

  • Country Girls in City Dresses by Doug Burr

  • Teens of Denial by Car Seat Headrest

  • case/lang/veirs by case/lang/veirs

  • Coloring Book by Chance the Rapper

  • Awaken, My Love by Childish Gambino

  • Anyway You Love, We Know How You Feel by Chris Robinson Brotherhood

  • You Want It Darker by Leonard Cohen

  • Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not by Dinosaur Jr.

  • Ere Gobez by Debo Band

  • American Band by Drive-By Truckers

  • The Rarity of Experience by Chris Forsyth

  • New View by Eleanor Friedberger

  • Future Standards by Howe Gelb

  • Requiem by Goat

  • Eyes On The Lines by Steve Gunn

  • Late Bloomer by Matt Haeck

  • Blue Rider Songs by Scott Hirsch

  • House in the Tall Grass by Kikagaku Moyo

  • Nonagon Infinity by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

  • untitled unmastered. by Kendrick Lamar

  • Ritual Spirit EP by Massive Attack

  • Mangy Love by Cass McCombs

  • How to Dance by Mount Moriah

  • Keep Me Singing by Van Morrison

  • Entranced Earth by the Myrrors

  • Night Fiction by Cian Nugent

  • My Woman by Angel Olsen

  • Malibu by anderson.paak

  • PAO! by Phoenix Afrobeat Orchestra

  • Midwest Farmer's Daughter by Margo Price

  • A Sailor’s Guide to Earth by Sturgill Simpson

  • Letting Go and Holding On by Shawn Skinner and the Men of Reason

  • A Seat At The Table by Solange

  • Destination Unknown by Some Dark Hollow

  • Get 'Em Next Time by Star & Micey

  • Shipwrecked by Sula Bassana

  • Waiting Room by Tindersticks

  • Modern Country by William Tyler

  • Golden Sings That Have Been Sung by Ryley Walker

  • Blue Mountain by Bob Weir

  • Schmilco by Wilco

  • Ghosts of Highway 20 by Lucinda Williams

  • City Sun Eater in the River of Light by Woods


Things Read in 2016 (in order read):

  • Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1963)

  • James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (1961)

  • Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1961)

  • Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1973)

  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (1988)

  • Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1990)

  • The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (2015)

  • Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut (1982)

  • March (Book 1) by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell (2013)

  • March (Book 2) by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell (2015)

  • The Soul of Man Under Socialism by Oscar Wilde (1891)

  • Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey (1968)

  • Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (1986)

  • Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1880)

  • A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'engle (1963)

  • A Wind In The Door by Madeleine L'engle (1973)

  • A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’engle (1978)

  • Many Waters by Madeleine L’engle (1986)

  • An Acceptable Time by Madeleine L’engle (1989)

  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958)

  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)

  • The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (1959)

  • Powers: Who Killed Retro Girl? by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming (2006)

  • A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut (2005)

  • The Dark Tower (01): The Gunslinger by Stephen King (1982)

  • The Dark Tower (02): The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King (1987)

  • The Dark Tower (03): The Waste Lands by Stephen King(1991)

  • The Dark Tower (04): Wizard and Glass by Stephen King(1997)

  • The Dark Tower (05): Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King (2003)

  • The Dark Tower (06): Song of Susannah by Stephen King (2004)

  • The Dark Tower (07)): The Dark Tower by Stephen King (2004)

  • Welcome To The Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut (1968)

  • Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut (1985)

  • Prayer: Forty Days of Practice by Scott Erickson and Justin McRoberts (2016)

  • Water To Wine: Some Of My Story by Brian Zahnd (2016)

  • A Theology of Liberation by Gustavo Gutiérrez (2010)

  • George MacDonald: An Anthology 365 Readings by George MacDonald, edited by C. S. Lewis (2015)

  • We Are What We Pretend To Be: The First And Last Works by Kurt Vonnegut (2012)

  • Armageddon In Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut (2008)

  • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut (1965)

  • March (Book 3) by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell (2016)

  • The Pale King by David Foster Wallace (2011)

  • 1984 by George Orwell (1949)

  • Silence by Shūsaku Endō (1966/2016)

  • The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (2016)


Concerts:

  • 02/06/16 Godspeed You! Black Emperor with Xylouris White at the Crescent Ballroom

  • 04/28/16 Robert Earl Keen with Walter Salas-Humara at the Crescent Ballroom

  • 04/30/16 David Sedaris at the Orpheum Theater

  • 05/03/16 William Elliott Whitmore with Josiah and Some Dark Hollow at the Rebel Lounge

  • 06/24/16 Some Dark Hollow/Shawn Skinner and the Men of Reason Album Release show with Speak Easy, Brea Burns and the Boleros and DJ Dana at the Rebel Lounge.

  • 09/27/16 Cold War Kids with the Strumbellas at the Marquee Theater.

  • 10/13/16 Matt Haeck with Shawn Skinner and Jason Stinson and Table Top Joe at the Thomas Listening Room.

  • 10/21/16 Hiss Golden Messenger with Dead Tongues at the Valley Bar.

  • 11/18/16 Sturgill Simpson with London Souls at the Fox Theater, Bakersfield, CA.


Favorite Movies and/Or Shorts Watched in 2016 (in order seen):

  • Ant-Man (2015)

  • To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)

  • Finding Dory (2016)

  • Filmage: The Story of Descendents/All (2013)

  • Brother’s Keeper (1992)

  • Meet the Patels (2014)

  • The Little Prince (2015)

  • Finders Keepers (2015)

  • Borrowed Time (2016)

  • Tsumiki no ie (The House of Small Cubes) (2011)

  • Chef (2014)

  • 13TH (2016)


Favorite Television Watched in 2016:

  • Parks and Recreation (2009-2015)

  • Outsiders Season One (2016)

  • The Office (2005-2012)

  • Death Note (2006-2007)

  • Stranger Things (2016)

  • The IT Crowd (2006-2013)

  • Haters Back Off Season One (2016)

  • The Flash (2014-Present)

  • Arrow (2012-Present)