transcending the universe, time, etc.

spinning trees from andrei tarkovsky's ivanovo detstvo, 1962

(best of 2007)

music:

-3/4hadbeeneliminated: theology (soleilmoon recordings)
-amiina: kurr (ever records)
-asher: in camera (homophoni)
-asher: untitled composition (for b) (leerraum)
-asher: the depths, the colors, the objects & the silence (mystery sea)
-william basinski: shortwave music (2062)
-william basinski: el camino real (2062)
-the beautiful schizophonic: musicamorosa (crónica)
-maurizio bianchi & jozef van wissem: das platinzeitalter (incunabulum)
-bonnie "prince" billy: ask forgiveness (drag city)
-bonnie "prince" billy: wai notes (sea note)
-james blackshaw: the cloud of unknowing (tompkins square)
-gavin bryars, philip jeck and alter ego: the sinking of the titanic (touch)
-vashti bunyan: some things just stick in your mind - early singles and demos 1964-1967 (dicristina stair)
-bill callahan: woke on a whaleheart and diamond dancer (dragcity)
-jefre cantu-ledesma: shining skull breath (students of decay)

-jefre cantu-ledesma: the garden of forking paths (spekk)
-michael cashmore: the snow abides (dutro jnana)
-celer: red seals (archaic horizon)
-celer: neon (s/r)
-celer: scols/sunlir (s/r)
-andrew chalk: the river that flows into the sands II (cd version, faraway press)
-andrew chalk: ghost on water & senshu (with daisuke and naoko suzuki) (faraway press)
-andrew chalk: goldfall (cd version, faraway press)
-andrew chalk: the days after (with daisuke suzuki) (faraway press)

-andrew chalk: time of hayfield (faraway press) (guessing, have not heard)
-richard chartier: fabrication (with asmus tietchens) (die stadt)
-sylvain chauveau: nuage (type records)
-sylvain chauveau: s (type records)
-circle: tower (last visible dog)
-jonathan coleclough & andrew liles: torch songs (die stadt)
-colleen: les ondes silencieuses (leaf)
-eric cordier: osorezan selected field recording 1993 - 2006 (herbal records)
-karen dalton: cotton eyed joe (reissue)
-taylor deupree & christopher willits: listening garden (line)
-nick drake: family tree (tsunami)

-marcel duchamp: musical erratum + in conversation (reissue, ltm)
-earth: hibernaculum (southern lord)
-fear falls burning: once we all walk through solid objects (tonefloat)
-fennesz/ryuichi sakamoto: cendre (touch)
-food: molecular gastronomy (runegrammofon) (i am guessing, have not heard)
-ben frost: steel wound (rerelease room40)
-ben frost: theory of machines (bedroom community)
-gogooo: à côté (moar)
-the hafler trio: an answer (die stadt)
-hala strana: heave the gambrel roof (music fellowship)
-tim hecker: norberg (room40)
-arve henriksen: strjon (runegrammofon)
-fovea hex: allure ep (die stadt/janet)
-john hudak: sunday (bremsstrahlung recordings)
-guiseppe ielasi: august (12k)
-islaja: ulual yyy (fonal)
-vikki jackman: of beauty reminiscing (faraway press)
-jgrzinich: minema (maaheli editions)
-jgrzinich: rudiment of two (edition sonoro)
-klimek: dedications (anticipate)

-christina kubisch: night flights (important)
-jean-françois laporte: soundmatters (23five)
-larsen and friends: abeceda (important)
-jasper leyland: fieldstone (benbecula records)
-francisco lópez: lopez island (elevator bath)

-m83: digital shades vol. 1 (s/r)

-machinefabriek: weeler (lampse)
-machinefabriek: zeeg (rutger zuydervelt & mariska baars & wouter van veldhoven)
-machinefabriek + leo fabriek: fabriek + fabriek (s/r)
-machinefabriek: koploop (w/ anne bakker & greg haines + alt. version) (s/r)
-machinefabriek: piano.wav (s/r)
-machinefabriek & aaron martin: cello recycling/cello drowning (type records)
-stephan mathieu: myspace transcriptions
-daniel menche: wolf's milk (utech)

-meursault: sleeping debris (students of decay)
-moljebka pvlse: driftsond (gears of sand)
-murmer: we share a shadow (helen scarsdale agency)
-joanna newsom: joanna newsom & the ys street band ep (drag city)
-bj nilsen: second childhood (with hildur gudnadóttir and stilluppsteypa) (quecksilber)
-bj nilsen: the short night (touch)

-alva noto: xerrox vol. 1 (raster-noton)
-yui onodera: suisei (and/oar)
-yui onodera: rhizome (gears of sand)
-ov: noctilucent valleys (soft abuse)
-panda bear: person pitch (paw tracks)
-steve peters: three rooms

-eliane radique: chry-ptus (schoolmaps)

-radiohead: in rainbows (s/r)

-steve roden: 9-sided room (touch radio)
-steve roden: dark over light earth (w/ jacob danziger) (new plastic music)
-steve roden: one stone. and arcs and ears. (new plastic music)

-sigur rós: hvarf - heim (xl recordings)
-valgeir sigurðsson: ekvílibríum (bedroom community)
-richard skelton: box of birch (s/r)
-richard skelton: riftmusic (s/r)
-steven r. smith: the anchorite (important)
-stars of the lid: carte-de-visite (s/r)
-stars of the lid: stars of the lid and their refinement of the decline (kranky)
-steinbrüchel: basis (room40)
-supersilent: supersilent 8 (rune grammofon)
-susanna: sonata mix dwarf cosmos (rune grammofon)
-david sylvian: when loud weather buffeted naoshima (samadhisound)
-tape & minamo: birds of a feather (ex-po/headz)
-tenniscoats: tan-tan therapy (hapna)
-tenniscoats: totemo aimasho (room40)
-tzesne: cliffs under the mist (mystery sea)
-christian wallumrod: the zoo is far (ecm)
-mark wastell: come crimson rays (kning disk)
-chris watson: oceanus pacificus (touch)
-wilco: sky blue sky (nonesuch)
-christopher willits + ryuichi sakamoto: ocean fire (12k)
-jozef van wissem: stations of the cross (incunabulum)
-peter wright: at last a new dawn (students of decay)
-peter wright / the north sea / agitated radio pilot: split (deserted village)
-robert wyatt: comicopera (domino)
-savvas ysatis + taylor deupree: the sleeping morning (12k)
-various artists: airport symphony (room40)
-various artists: yasujiro ozu - hitokomakura (and/oar)
-various artists: extract: portraits of soundartists (nvo)


dvds/movies:

-robert bresson: mouchette (criterion)
-paul robeson: portraits of the artist (criterion)
-vittorio de sica: bicycle thieves (criterion)
-sidney gilliat: green for danger (criterion)

-claude berri: the two of us (criterion)
-michael powell: 49th parallel (criterion)
-mikio naruse: when a woman ascends the stairs (criterion)
-kon ichikawa: fires on the plain & the burmese harp (criterion)
-jules dassin: the naked city & brute force (criterion)
-jean-pierre melville: army of shadows (criterion)
-kenji mizoguchi: sansho the bailiff (criterion)
-akira kurosawa: yojimbo/sanjuro (criterion)
-carol reed: the third man (criterion)
-lindsay anderson: if... (criterion)
-lindsay anderson: o lucky man! (warner home video)
-hiroshi teshigahara: three films by hiroshi teshigahara (criterion)
-billy wilder: ace in the hole (criterion)
-andrei tarkovsky: ivan's childhood (criterion)
-jim jarmusch: stranger than paradise & night on earth (armin mueller-stahl, rome and helsinki only) (criterion)
-georg wilhelm pabst: the threepenny opera (criterion)
-terrence malick: days of heaven (criterion)
-rainer werner fassbinder: berlin alexanderplatz (criterion)

-monte hellman: two-lane blacktop (criterion)
-criterion eclipse series (ozu, bergman, fuller, bernard)
-frantisek vlácil: marketa lazarová (second run)
-werner herzog: rescue dawn (mgm)
-david lynch: twin peaks vol. 2 (plus vol 1 + 2 boxset i am guessing) (paramount home video)
-abbas kiarostami: five dedicated to ozu (kino)
-evelina domnitch + dmitry gelfand: camera lucida (line)
-tony richardson: the loneliness of the long distance runner (warner home video)
-nuri bilge ceylan: climates (zeitgeist films)
-fritz lang: the return of frank james (20th century fox)
-nicholas ray: the true story of jesse james (20th century fox)
-john ford: ford at fox (twentieth century fox)
-kenneth anger: the films of kenneth anger (fantoma)
-sigur rós: heima (xl recordings)
-philip gröning: into great silence (zeitgeist films)
-david lynch: inland empire (theater + dvd)
-charles burnett: killer of sheep (theater + dvd)
-david cronenberg: eastern promises (theater + dvd)
-paul greengrass: the bourne ultimatum (theater)
-cohen brothers: no country for old men (theater)
-pt anderson: there will be blood (theater)

leather cover (1932) from

walter benjamin's archive (verso press)

books:

-walter benjamin's archive (verso)
-bergman interviews (univ press of mississippi)
-marco breuer: early recordings (aperature)
-paul celan: snow part (the sheep meadow press)
-thomas joshua cooper: ojo de agua / eye of the water (pace wildenstein)
-joseph cornell: navigating the imagination (yale university press)
-joseph cornell's dreams (exact change)
-gregory crewdson: fireflies (skarstedt)

-lorraine daston & peter galison: objectivity (zone books)
-leonardo da vinci: experience, experiment, and design (princeton univ. press)

-declaring space: mark rothko, barnett newman, lucio fontana, yves klein (prestel)
-rainer werner fassbinder: berlin alexanderplatz (schirmer/mosel)
-edward hopper: an intimate biography (rizzoli) (still need to read)
-edward hopper (mfa boston)
-silent theater: the art of edward hopper (phaidon)
-anselm kiefer (skira)
-anselm kiefer / paul celan: myth, mourning and memory (thames & hudson)
-edvard munch: signs of modern art (hatje cantz)
-the painter's garden: design, inspiration, delight (hatje cantz)
-richard pare: the lost vanguard: russian modernist architecture 1922-1932 (monacelli)
-as in a dream: odilon redon (hatje cantz)
-richard serra sculpture: forty years (moma)
-richard serra: rolled and forged (steidl)
-instant light: tarkovsky poloroids (thames & hudson)
-j.m.w. turner (tate publishing)
-vincent van gogh, painted with words: letters to emile bernard (rizzoli)
-vermeer (the overlook press)