Wow. 2022. That was really something. When in doubt (and there were many, many occasions to do so), believe in love. Please. Hell, believe in unicorns and pegasi if you have to. Whatever you do, don’t stop believing in art and culture.
Here are some of the things that helped us get through.
Audio: Song
Tears for Fears, “Mad World”
Destroyer, Labyrinthitis + Destroyer @ The Phoenix, Toronto, ON, May 10, 2022
Sample track #1: “Tintoretto, It’s For You”
Sample track #2: “June”
Weyes Blood, And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow
Sample track: “Twin Flame”
Rosalía, Motomami +
Sample track #1: “La Fama”
Sample track #2: “Candy (Remix)”
The Staple Singers, Freedom Highway
Mavis Staples, Only For the Lonely
Sample track: “What Happened to the Real Me”
The Staples Jr. Singers, When Do We Get Paid
Florist, Florist
Jana Horn, Optimism
Sample track: “Jordan”
Yendry, “YA”
Nilüfer Yanya, “Midnight Sun”
Nick Cave + Warren Ellis, CARNAGE World Tour, Place des arts, Montreal, QC, April 2, 2022
Kurt Vile, “Run, Run, Run”
Can, “Vitamin C”
Indigo Sparke, Hysteria
Sample track: “Why Do You Lie”
Marlena Shaw, The Spice of Life
V/A, Saturno 2000: La Rebajada de los Sonideros, 1962-1983
Khruangbin + Leon Bridges, Texas Moon EP
Vieux Farka Touré + Khruangbin, Ali
Graham Nash, Songs for Beginners
Etran de l’Aïr, Agadez
Cate le Bon, Pompeii
Orchestre Massako, Orchestre Massako (Limited Dance Edition)
Sample track: “Boungoumoune”
Sudan Archives, “Home Maker”
Lizzo, “About Damn Time”
Fer Sher, Maison des Artistes, Montreal, August 14, 2022 + “Elkin (Demo)”
Beyoncé, “Break My Soul”
Lucinda Williams, “Unsuffer Me”
Dry Cleaning, Stumpwork
Sample track: “Conservative Hell”
Billie Eilish, “TV”
Caetano Veloso, “Cucurrucucu Paloma”
Orchestra Baobab, “Mariama”
Super Mama Djombo, “Alma”
Jimmy Scott, “Nothing Compares 2 U”
Audio: Podcasts
Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery
Decoder Ring: “The Most Famous Poet No One Remembers: Searching for Rod McKuen”
Decoder Ring: “The First Alien Abductees”
The Ezra Klein Show: “This Conversation Will Change How You Think About Trauma”
This American Life: “Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map”
This American Life: “Watching the Watchers”
This American Life: “Name. Age. Detail.”
This American Life: “The Pink House At the Center of the World”
This American Life: “A Couple Walks Into a House” and “A City Walks Into an Investigation”
Moving Images
Aftersun (2022), dir. Wells
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022), dir. Poitras
The Eternal Daughter (2022), dir. Hogg
The Souvenir, Part 2 (2021), dir. Hogg
Licorice Pizza (2021), dir. Anderson
Inherent Vice (2014), dir. Anderson
Petite Maman (2021), dir. Sciamma
Fire of Love (2022), dir. Dosa
All That Breathes (2022), dir. Sen
Decision to Leave (2022), dir. Park
Parallel Mothers (2021), dir. Almodóvar
La Panthère des neiges (2021), dir. Amiguet et Munier
Flee (2021), dir. Rasmussen
The Worst Person in the World (2021), dir. Trier
Drive My Car (2021), dir. Hamaguchi
Incident at Oglala (1992), dir. Apted
Belfast, Maine (1999), dir. Wiseman
At Berkeley (2013), dir. Wiseman
In Jackson Heights (2015), dir. Wiseman
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017), dir. Wiseman
Monrovia, Indiana (2018), dir. Wiseman
She Said (2022), dir. Schrader
Urbanose (1972), dir. Régnier
An American Werewolf in London (1981), dir. Landis
Don DeLillo, White Noise
Robert Macfarlane, Underland
Nick Cave, Stranger Than Kindness
Warren Ellis, Nina Simone’s Gum book signing, Librairie Résonance, Montreal, QC, April 4, 2022
Jennifer M. Volland and Chris Marino, eds., Edith Heath: Philosophies
Lauren Elkin, No. 91/92: A Diary of a Year on the Bus
Angela Davis, An Autobiography
C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
Robert Darden, Nothing But Love in God’s Water, Vol. 1: Black Sacred Music From the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
Robert Darden, Nothing But Love in God’s Water, Vol. 2: Black Sacred Music from Sit-Ins to Resurrection City
Catherine Porter, Constant Méheut, Matt Apuzzo, and Selam Gebrekidan, The Ransom, “The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers,” The New York Times, May 20, 2022
Lazaro Gamio, Constant Méheut, Catherine Porter, Selam Gebrekidan, Allison McCann, and Matt Apuzzo, The Ransom, “Haiti’s Lost Billions,” The New York Times, May 20, 2022
Matt Apuzzo, Constant Méheut, Selam Gebrekidan, and Catherine Porter, The Ransom, “How a French Bank Captured Haiti,” The New York Times, May 20, 2022
Claudia Roden, The Food of Spain
Dan Richer with Katie Parla, The Joy of Pizza: Everything You Need to Know
Strunk, White, and Kalman, The Elements of Style (illustrated)
Sight & Sound’s “The Greatest Films of All Time,” December 1, 2022
Laura Mulvey, “The Greatest Film of All Time: Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles,” Sight & Sound, December 1, 2022
Food & Drink
Mister Jiu’s, San Francisco, CA
The Progress, San Francisco, CA
Chez Panisse Café, Berkeley, CA
Tartine Manufactory, San Francisco, CA + Heath Ceramics, Sausalito/San Francisco, CA
Tart Vinegar, Brooklyn, NY
Pizzeria Ida, Burlington, VT
Bistro Otto, Montreal, QC
Spanish birthday fun packs
Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, Berkeley, CA—50th Anniversary!
Ordinaire Wine, Oakland, CA
Bay Grape, Oakland, CA
Horn Barbecue, Oakland, CA
The Crown: Royal Coffee Lab & Tasting Room, Oakland, CA
Tony’s, Marshall, CA
Hog Island Oyster Company, Marshall, CA
California apricots, in-season, in California
Paris, Paris, Toronto, ON
Tinc Set, Montreal, QC
Vin Mon Lapin, Montreal, QC for late-night Harry’s Bar-style pressed scallop sandwiches & bubbles!
Wills Beer, Montreal, QC (Instagram)
3001: A Cookie Odyssey, Gia, Montreal, QC, December 18, 2022—Michelle Marek + Natasha Pickowicz!
Fifth Quarter, Waitsfield, VT
Little Gordo, Burlington, VT
first saffron harvest, Milk House, Washington County, VT
Corn chowder with chanterelles
Miscellaneous
Edith Heath: A Life in Clay, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Stranger Than Kindness: Nick Cave, The Exhibition, Galerie de la maison du festival, Montreal, QC
Warren Ellis Pure Exploitation Egg Cup
National Film Board of Canada Archives, Montreal, QC
Andy Goldsworthy tour, The Presidio, San Francisco, CA
I Am Here: Home Movies and Everyday Masterpieces, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
Alexander Henderson—Art and Nature, McCord Museum, Montreal, QC
Ontario weddings 1: C & K!
Ontario weddings 2: C & D!
Umami Mart, Oakland, CA
Tail of the Yak, Berkeley, CA—50th Anniversary!
Bernal Cutlery, San Francisco, CA
”Bear, bear, bear, bear, bear…”
R.I.P.
Domenico “Dom” DeMarco
Diana Kennedy
Christine McVie
Pharoah Sanders
Betty Davis
Mike Davis
Barbara Ehrenreich
Jean-Luc Godard
Monica Vitti
William Klein
And all those lost in a senseless, disgusting, and illegal war against Ukraine.
FIN
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