Favorite Things: Crane Giamo

Music
The River by William Basinski (Raster Norton, 2003)
Cosmogramma by Flying Lotus (Warp, 2010)
My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky by Swans (Young God, 2010)
Swim by Caribou (Merge, 2010)
Disingenuity b/w Disingenuousness by Keith Fullerton Whitman (Pan, 2010)
Going Places by Yellow Swans (Type, 2010)

Film
Night and Fog (dir. Alain Resnais, 1955)
Tropical Malady (dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
Trash Humpers (dir. Harmony Korine, 2009)
Fata Morgana (dir. Werner Herzog, 1971)
Workingman’s Death (dir. Michael Glowagger, 2005)
The Sacrifice (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986)

Poetry
To Anacreon in Heaven by Graham Foust (Minus A Press, 2010)
This Time We Are Both by Clarke Coolidge (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010)
“Country Girl” by Hannah Weiner n (1971) (orpheus.ucsd.edu)
Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows by Leslie Scalapino (Starcherone Books, 2010)

Essays and Talks
To Be at Music: Essays and Talks by Norma Cole (Omnidawn, 2010)

Fiction
The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat (Grove Press, 1994)
Babyfucker by Urs Allemann (Les Figues Press, 2010)
By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano (New Directions, 2003)

Art
Takashi Itsuki’s amputee robot doll bondage series
Kiyoshi Yamashite’s chigiri-e images
Anatomical Illustrations from Edo Period Japan (pinktentacle.com)
Dash Snow’s Polaroids
YouTube Capture by Yves Keebaugh (http://www.youtube.com/user/AshtonKucher)
Fire in My Belly(1987)by David Wojnarowicz and Diamanda Galas
Moment of Political Hysteria
9-11 FreedomhatingIslamofascistMadMullahTerrorMosque

Moment of Political Confrontation
“Killing One Human Being is Killing Humanity as a Whole” by Turkish Foreign Minister Mr. Ahmet Davutoglu (address to the United Nations in response to Israeli Defense Forces storming a flotilla of ships transporting aid to the Gaza Strip)

Culinary
Flax Seed Oil
Green Chile Apple Pie
Qahwa Tea

Sport
Michael Vick