Favourites of 2012

[Siderealpress]

Dear all,

Dans list of his 2012 favourites (added at the bottom of this post) inspired me to draw up my own.

In no order they are:

Books

The Empire of Death - Paul Koudounaris
Lord Lyllian - Jacques D’adelswärd Fersen
The Times Deceas'd - Timothy D'Arch Smith
We have Always Lived in The Castle - Shirley Jackson
Medical Muses - Asto Hustvedt
The Thief and Others - Georg Heym
A Certain Slant of Light - Peter Bell
Requiems and Nightmares - Guido Ganzanno
In Deliriums Circle - Stephen J. Clark
Cruel Banquet - Monika Strauss
At Dusk - Mark Valentine
The Ten Dictates of Alfred Tesseller - Dan Watt
In Morbid Colours - Otto Urban

(I have reviewed some of the above on the Side Real website)

Music

Cyclobe - Wounded Galaxies tap at the Window
http://www.Radiodismuke.com (this is also my favourite new discovery)

REGARDS!

J


Here is Dans list:

Books
An Ermine in Czernopol by Gregor von Rezzori
Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Josef Sudek: The Legacy of a Deeper Vision by Maia-Mari Sutnik
In the Search of the Essence of Place by Petr Kral
Proust, Blanchot and a Woman in Red by Lydia Davis
The Hunger Angel by Herta Muller
A Life in Letters by Joseph Roth
Traveler of the Century by Andres Neuman
Ten Poems from Hafez by Jila Peacock
A Little Hungarian Pornography by Peter Esterhazy
My Berlin is a Monologue by Nora Iuga
Waiting for the Dog to Sleep by Jerzy Ficowski
The Celestial Bibendum by Nicolas de Crecy
Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
Les Derniers Jours de Stefan Zweig by Guillaume Sorel
Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk
Her Not All Her by Elfriede Jelinek
Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper
Best European Fiction 2013 edited by Aleksandar Hemon

The discovery of the year: Sylph Editions. Truly outstanding little books released by a wonderful independent press in London. No other small press like Sylph Editions.

Music
Feasting with Panthers by Marc Almond & Michael Cashmore
Love This Giant by David Byrne and St. Vincent
The Seer by Swans
Kadavar by Kadavar
Hell Money by Rome
Dar de Duh by Dordeduh
A True & Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Years between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits by Maarten van der Vleuten
The Laughing Stalk by Wovenhand
Opus Eponymous by Ghost
Like Water by Pedro Negresco & Luiza Zan
Step Inside by Troubled Horse
"Jhonn," Uttered Babylon by Myrninerest
Bacovia Overdrive by Robin and the Backstabbers
Catholic by Gavin Friday

i hope it is okay to add to this thread. "best of" lists always get the juices flowing:
some favorite reads in 2012 (in no order):

The Ten Dictates Of Alfred Tesseller by D.P. Watt
In Delirium's Circle by Stephen J. Clark
Anna Kavan - everything this woman has written
Shrike by Quentin S. Crisp
Scarecrow & other anomalies by Oliverio Girondo
Strange Epiphanies by Peter Bell
Ghosts by R.B. Russell
On The Hill Of Roses by Stefan Grabinski
The Aesthete Hagiographer by Derek John
The Translation of Father Torturo by Brendan Connell
The Architect by Brendan Connell
Non-stop Inertia by Ivor Southwood
Elements Of Refusal by John Zerzan
Celebrant by Michael Cisco
Nightingale Songs by Simon Strantzas
A Cage For The Nightingale by Phyllis Paul
Strangers & Pilgrims by Walter de la Mare
the other city by michal ajvaz
A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys
Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham
Boys & Murderers by Hermann Ungar
Glorious Nemesis by Ladislav Klima
The Lovers Of The World by Edgar Saltus
The Art Of Memory by Frances A. Yates
Black Sun by Julia Kristeva
Embers by Sandor Marai
Seven Terrors by Selvedin Avdic
Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk
Gaspard de la Nuit by Aloysius Bertrand
The Succubus by Vlado Zabot
The Decapitated Chicken by Horacio Quiroga
Drood by Dan Simmons
The Matrix by Jonathan Aycliffe
The Faster I Walk The Smaller I Am by Kjersti A. Skomsvold
i don't watch many films anymore, but here are a few i enjoyed:

Beyond The Black Rainbow
L'Annulaire
White Lightnin'
The Sound Of Insects

and a bit of music:

kreng - grimoire
ufomammut - oro
juanita family & friends
ben frost - by the throat
dragged into sunlight - hatred for mankind
albert huybrechts - chamber music I
un festin sagital - epitafio a la permanencia
high on fire - de vermis mysteriis
matt elliott - broken man
yoga - megafauna
akira rabelais - caduceus
harpsicorpse
kadavar
bsbc/irr. app. (ext.) - split lp
black mass rising soundtrack
the sound of insects soundtrack
jim haynes - telegraphy by the sea

[Piranesi]

Some of this year’s great adventures in literature (in chronological order):

Centuries of Meditations by Traherne
The Government Inspector by Gogol
The King in the Golden Mask and Other Stories by Marcel Schwob
The Soul of Man under Socialism by Oscar Wilde
The Story of a Nobody by Chekhov
Verses and Decorations by Dowson
On the Hill of Roses by Stefan Grabinski
Boys & Murderers by Hermann Ungar
Other’s Paradise by Paul Leppin
Rhapsody: A Dream Novel by Arthur Schnitzler
Glorious Nemesis by Ladislaw Klíma
Radetzkymarsch & Die Geschichte von der 1002en Nacht by Joseph Roth
Das Abenteuerliche Hertz by Ernst Jünger
Die Welt von Gestern by Zweig
An Ermine in Czernopol by Von Rezzori
King Cophetua by Julien Gracq
Noctuary by Ligotti
Flex Mentallo by Grant Morrison
The Hummingbird Cabinet: A Rare and Curious History of Romantic Collectors by Judith Pascoe
The Dracula Papers Book 1 by Reggie Oliver
Batman: Noël by Lee Bermejo
The Horror Anthology of Horror Anthologies edited by D.F. Lewis
Secret Europe by Valentine & Howard
The Ten Dictates of Alfred Tesseller by D. P. Watt
The Aesthete Hagiographer by Derek John


A few of the authors listed above – Rezzori, Ungar, Klíma & Gracq – I might never had heard of if not for recommendations of the fine members of TLO. With gratitude,
Thomas

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