CUTTY SPOT

[MY FAVORITE THINGS OF 2012]

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(I’m entirely certain that I left out some stuff & that I didn’t get a chance to hear // see // read everything notable this year – if you have any recommendations based on my lists, please let me know)

THESE ARE IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER

IF YOU’RE BORED BY A PARTICULAR SECTION, KEEP GOING – THERE’S A LOT HERE

BTW I WORKED ON THIS FOR HOURS

SRY

I also worked & schooled a lot in 2012 so I didn’t get a chance to check everything out :(

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MUSIC

Grimes – Visions

Flying Lotus – Until the Quiet Comes

Crystal Castles – III

Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action at a Distance

How to Dress Well – Total Loss

Purity Ring – Shrines

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes

Burial – Kindred EP

Andy Stott – Luxury Problems

Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend

Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d eity

Grizzly Bear – Shields

Beach House – Bloom

Tame Impala – Lonerism

Mount Eerie – Ocean Roar // Clear Moon

Frank Ocean – Channel Orange

Passion Pit – Gossamer

Hot Chip – In Our Heads

TNGHT – TNGHT EP

Wild Nothing - Nocturne

The Congos / Sun Araw / M. Geddes Gengres – Icon Give Thank

Holy Other - Held

Twin Shadow – Confess

Young Family – You Ruined It EP

The Caretaker - Patience

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EXPERIENCES:

• putting together & finishing my MFA thesis

• all the interviews / video responses I curated & received (thank you everyone who participated & watched!!!)

• when Steve Roggenbuck stayed on my couch for 2 nights in San Francisco

• creating the online lit mag GESTURE & soliciting writers like Lydia Davis, Franz Wright, Rosemarie Waldrop, Edward Mullany, Ben Mirov, Daniel Alexander, Steve Roggenbuck

• discovering Ted Berrigan’s interview w/ Jack Keroauc

• discovering Abner Jay

• reading at 851

• reading at QUIET LIGHTNING 

• when Dennis Cooper sent me a msg back on FB saying he was a ‘total devoted regular’ to Cutty Spot

• when I started writing some ‘reviews’ for I AM ALT LIT 

• all the reblogs I got from Tao Lin

• receiving this story from PETER BD

• being asked to read at the SHOPLIFTING AT AMERICAN APPAREL premiere in San Francisco

• listening to Panda Bear’s Person Pitch constantly

• when Annie Paradis wrote me a poem

FACEBOOK:

• Zachery Wood’s Facebook posts

• Diane Marie’s Facebook posts

• Writer’s Bloc 

• ALT LIT GOSSIP

• Heiko Julien 

• Michael Potter

• Murdoch LaMarche

• Janey Smith

• Steve Roggenbuck

• Austin Asia 

VIDEOS ETC:

• ‘Shitty Youth’ by Adam Humphreys

• How Hunter Makes It 

• Steve Roggenbuck on Let’s Paint TV

• Chris Dankland’s video poems

• Steve Roggenbuck’s 

• discovering the BBC David Foster Wallace Documentary

• discovering Terence McKenna’s ‘Evolving Times’

• DW Lichtenberg’s video of a Diana Salier poem

• Daniel Alexander’s’ Selected Tweets from May – June’

• Daniel Alexander’s’ EXPLORE, CREATE, LIVE’

• NEW ANIMAL – ‘FALLING UP’

• NARDWUAR

• ‘Conversations’ on Chart Attack 

• discovering possibly my favorite video ever – battle between Lions & Buffalo

• Paige Elizabeth’s documentary EVERYTHING HERE NOW

• Gabby Gabby’s’ i will write a nature poem about feeling grateful for my mouth’ 

• Ben Mirov’s trailer (directed by DW Lichtenberg) for HIDER ROSER 

• BABY BABY promotional video by Fontez Brooks 

• promo video for Mira Gonzalez’s book 

• my music video for Tedo Stone’s BEST IS YET

BLOGS ETC:

• Chris Dankland 

• Ashley Obscura 

• John Rogers 

• Michael Inscoe

• Kelly Schirmann

• Steve Roggenbuck 

• INTERNET POETRY 

• Pop Serial 

• HUNTER PAYNE 

• BANANGO LIT 

• THOUGHT CATALOG 

• HOLLER PRESENTS 

• HTMLGIANT 

• PITCHFORK 

• BEACH SLOTH 

• JACKSON NIEUWLAND 

• TAO LIN

• STEPHEN MICHAEL MCDOWELL 

• DENNIS COOPER

• EDWARD MULLANY 

• BRAD LISTI 

TWITTER:

Tao Lin

Kersey Chase

lil furny

nobdy

SANTINO DELA

V

body ghost

Reynard Seifert

the entire universe

sophie

Lexi Roberts

Zen Proverbs

J 

Hunter Payne

MOUNT ENNUI

Steve Roggenbuck

i am alt lit 

Crispin Best

Jackson Nieuwland

Edward Mullany

Jimmy Chen

BEACH SLOTH

Melissa Broder

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BOOKS // EBOOKS // E-MAGS:

Letters From Robots by Diana Salier

No One Can Do Anything Worse to You Than You Can by Sam Pink

The Collected Works of Scott McClanahan by Scott McClanahan

I AM READY TO DIE A VIOLENT DEATH by Heiko Julien

CITYSCAPES

ILLUMINATI GIRL GANG 

NAP

HAVE U SEEN MY WHALE

SADCORE DADWAVE

THENEWERYORK

CONGRATULATIONS YOU’VE BEEN SELECTED TO WIN ANOTHER DAY ON PLANET EARTH by Hunter Payne

UP

NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL ALTERNATIVE LITERATURE 

Metazen

GESTURE

Crush Dream by Lonely Christopher 

Raddddd by Daniel Alexander

Crunk Juice by Steve Roggenbuck 

UNTITLED by Chuck Young 

STEALING THINGSby Keegan Crawford

JAMES GANAS WAS MY BEST FRIEND AND I’M SORRY HE DIED SO YOUNG OF CANCER by James Ganas 

GOODBYE DRINKS by Sarah Jean Alexander 

I’M GOING TO FUCK AND THAT’S A PLACE YOU LITTLE ASSHOLE, NOT A VERB by Pancho Espinosa 

HIDER ROSER by Ben Mirov

SHABBY DOLL HOUSE

COME TO MY OCEAN by Moon Temple 

THINGS IN MY TO-READ PILE THAT I THINK WILL BE FAVORITES 

Snow Poems by Janey Smith

Airplane Food by Gabby Gabby 

I AM MY OWN BETRAYAL by Guillaume Morissette

YOU PRIVATE PERSON by Richard Chiem