Books

• Cooking as Though You Might Cook Again is a cookbook for the soul fr. I'm cooking beans all the time now and it's great.

• Assata felt like how a religious experience probably feels. 

• Open Veins of Latin America was a similar rush to read. A history of colonialism from the indigenous perspective, it reveals the basic geological and social dynamics that have built and persisted the current world system.

  • Indigenous People's History of the United States is another history from the colonized perspective that should be required reading before you're 34 but space time is patchy.

• Crack Up Capitalism was an awesome book about how that world system has continued to dig into and warp geographic and social landscapes in ways that generate centripetal motion for one class of people, and centrifugal motion for the rest.

  • When McKinsey Comes to Town gave a deeper dive into how one multinational corporation executes this playbook. The section about McKinsey entering sports should get expanded into another book.

• The Wager was great.

• Every Man For Himself and God Against All was perfect.

Music

Here's a playlist of songs I liked this year; and some special mentions:

Heaviest Rotation

• Pile - All Fiction

  • Loops & Poisons. They need to get on late night TV asap

• Portrayal of Guilt - Devil Music

  • Burning Hand & One Last Taste Of Heaven - Drum Cam

• JPEGMAFIA/Danny Brown - Scarin' the Hoes

  • SCARING THE HOES & God Loves You

• Alex G - God Save the Animals

  • Runnner & Immunity

• Spirit of the Beehive - i'm so lucky

  • really happening & natural devotion 2

Avante Garde Pow Wow

Need to find more stuff like this next year.

• Joe Rainey - Niineta

  • bezhigo (official visual)

• Medicine Singers - s/t

  • Sunrise (Rumble) (@ Greenwood Cemetery)

Loud Albums

• MSPAINT - Post-American

• Kal Marks - My Name Is Hell

• They Are Gutting a Body of Water - s & Destiny XL

• draag me - lord of the shithouse

• Home Is Where - the whaler

Quiet Albums

• Claire Rousay - Sigh In My Ear

• Gia Margaret - Romantic Piano

• Lia Kohl - The Ceiling Reposes

• Kali Malone - Does Spring Hide Its Joy

• Old Saw - Sewn the Name

• Hayden Pedigo - The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored

• Silvana Estrada - Marchita

Memorable Live Shows

• Claire Rousay @ The Co-Prosperity Sphere

• MSPAINT @ Music Frozen Dancing

• They Are Gutting A Body of Water @ Beat Kitchen

• Spiritual Cramp @ Sleeping Village

• Built To Spill closing with Big Dipper and Carry the Zero @ Summerfest

• Japanese Breakfast @ Summerfest

• Spirit of the Beehive @ Empty Bottle

• Pile @ Sleeping Village

• Chat Pile @ Sleeping Village

• Draag Me @ Empty Bottle