2014

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Keeping track of some of my favorite popular culture intake of the year. You're welcome to follow along, encouraged to comment, or ignore at your own leisure. I know I do.

Great 2013 (or older) Music First Heard in 2014 (or at least after my 2013 year-end list was compiled):

  • Wyoming by Water Liars (2013)

  • Endless Boogie (Endless)

  • Pharoah Overlord

  • Cupid Deluxe by Blood Orange (2013)

  • Every Kingdom by Ben Howard (2011)

  • Gulf Coast Museum by Shinyribs (2013)



Favorite Music released in 2014:

  • Morning Phase by Beck

  • Benjamin Booker by Benjamin Booker

  • Reliable The Unreliable EP by the Bones of J.R. Jones

  • Dark Was The Yearling by the Bones of J.R. Jones

  • Nansemond: by Nathan Bowles

  • Our Love by Caribou

  • Trout Steel/Places I Know/The Machine Gun Co. by Mike Cooper (re-issues)

  • Into The Wide by Delta Spirit

  • Stellar Motel by Mike Doughty

  • Single Mothers by Justin Townes Earle

  • Sunday '91 by Annie Eve

  • Blind Water Finds Blind Water by Adam Faucett

  • You're Dead! by Flying Lotus

  • House of Spirits by the Fresh and Onlys

  • Singles by Future Islands

  • Way Out Weather by Steve Gunn

  • Invisible Hour by Joe Henry

  • Bad Debt by Hiss Golden Messenger

  • Lateness of Dancers by Hiss Golden Messenger

  • I Forget Where We Were by Ben Howard

  • Small Town Heroes by Hurray For the Riff Raff

  • Everything's Different, Nothing's Changed by Armon Jay

  • Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son by Damien Jurado

  • Benji by Mark Kozelek

  • More Primitive by Lonesome Shack

  • Dark Night Of The Soul by Jimbo Mathus the Tri-State Coalition

  • After The End by Merchandise

  • Modern Kin by Modern Kin

  • Live In Ravenna by Moon Duo

  • We Are The Owls EP by the Owl Parliament

  • Sunbathing Animal by Parquet Courts

  • Kingfisher by Prawn

  • Madman by Sean Rowe

  • Lese Majesty by Shabazz Palaces

  • Metamodern Sounds in Country Music by Sturgill Simpson

  • Proof EP by Sojourn

  • They Want My Soul by Spoon

  • Heal by Strand of Oaks

  • Half The City by St. Paul & The Broken Bones

  • Lost Colony by William Tyler

  • Lost In The Dream by the War On Drugs

  • Refractory Obdurate by Wovenhand



Concerts:

  • 01/05/14 - Shawn Skinner, Justin Moody and Dylan Pratt at Crescent Ballroom

  • 03/08/14 - the Monks at the Whiten Leaf House

  • 06/08/14 - Adam Faucett and Shawn Skinner at the Western

  • 08/20/14 - Billy Joe Shaver with Jeremy Manley and Crazy Arms at the Rhythm Room

  • 08/24/14 - Grant Lee Phillips at Second Look

  • 10/03/14 - Shawn Skinner at the (relocated) Thomas Listening Room




Things Read in 2014:

  • Boxers & Saints by Gene Luen Yang (2013)

  • Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott (2005)

  • The Golden Plates, Volume One:The Sword of Laban and The Tree of Life by Michael Allred (2004)

  • Pagan Christianity? by Frank Viola and George Barna (2012)

  • Bird By Bird: Some Instructions On Writing And Life by Anne Lamott (1994)

  • Raised? Finding Jesus By Doubting The Resurrection by Jonathan Dodson and Brad Watson (2014)

  • Transformed by Caesar Kalinowski

  • Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers by Anne Lamott (2012)

  • In Search of Deep Faith by Jim Belcher (2013)

  • The Case For The Psalms by N.T. Wright (2013)

  • Lone Wolf and Cub Omnibus Volume 1 (2013)

  • Lone Wolf and Cub Omnibus Volume 2 (2013)

  • Samurai Jack Volume 1 (2014)

  • Lone Wolf and Cub Omnibus Volume 3 (2013)

  • Samurai Jack Volume 2 (2014)




Favorite Movies Watched in 2014:

  • Dear Mr. Watterson (2013)

  • Muscle Shoals (2013)

  • The Other F Word (2011)

  • Beware of Mr. Baker (2012)

  • The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

  • Life In A Day (2011)

  • Made In Iceland (2012)

  • Life Is Beautiful (1997)

  • Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (2012)

  • The Woman Who Wasn't There (2012)

  • The Imposter (2012)

  • The Act Of Killing (2012)

  • The Thin Blue Line (1988)

  • This is the Last Dam Run of Likker I'll Ever Make (2002)

  • No Cameras Allowed (2014)

  • St. Vincent (2014)

  • Searching For Sugar Man (2012)

  • Burt's Buzz (2013)

  • Big Hero 6 (2104)



Favorite Television Watched in 2014:

  • Sherlock (Season 03)

  • Bob's Burgers