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music

• JG Thirlwell: Manorexia – The Mesopelagic Waters
• Richard Skelton: Landings
• Flying Lotus: Cosmogramma
• These New Puritans: Hidden
• Phew: 5 Finger Discount
• Sei Miguel: Esfíngico
• Lula Pena: Troubadour
• Ela Orleans: Lost
• Konrad Becker: Grand Piano Classics
• Sachiko: Kunado
• The Magic Theatre: London Town
• Dolly Mixture: Everything and More (Re-Issue)
• Zeitkratzer: James Tenney
• Zeitkratzer – John Cage
• Marc Almond: Varieté
• The Drums: The Drums
• Broadcast & The Focus Group: Ghost Box Study Series
• Reines d’Angleterre: Les Comores
• The Minimal Wave Tapes: Volume One

film/tv

• Shutter Island, Martin Scorcese
• A Serious Man, Ethan & Joel Coen
• Catfish, Joost/Schuleman
• Lourdes, Jessica Hausner
• Four Lions, Christopher Morris
• Metropolis Reconstructed, Fritz Lang
• Sleep Dealer, Alex Rivera
• Mad Men, Series 4, Matthew Weiner
• Rubicon, Series 1, Jason Horwitch
• True Blood, Series 4, Alan Ball
• Louie, Series 1, Louis CK

books

• Rivka Galchen: Atmosphärische Störungen
• João Tordo: O Bom Inverno
• Nick Dyer-Witheford & Greig de Peuter: Games of Empire
• Benjamin Moser: Why This World, A Biography of Clarice Lispector
• Hannah Arendt & Gershom Sholem: Der Briefwechsel
• Valter Hugo Mãe: A Máquina de Fazer Espanhóis

concerts

• Maja Ratke @ Méteo, Mulhouse
• Wolf Eyes @ Kilbi, Bad Bonn
• Michael Rother @ Kilbi, Bad Bonn
• Charlotte Gainsbourg @ Cirque Royal, Bruxelles

misc.

• Wikileaks
• Google’s Nexus One with Android
• Apple’s Macbook Air

disappointments

• Craig Venter, Entrepreneur with a God-complex
• Ray Kurzweil, ‘Transhumanist’
• Lost, Series 6 (last Series), Abrams/Lieber/Lindelof
• Jaron Lanier: You are not a Gdget
• iPad, Apple’s Tablet-PC
• Diaspora, self-designated Facebook alternative
• Swineflu

R.I.P.

• Dennis Hopper, Actor and Icon
• Malcom McLaren, Artist
• Captain Beefheart, Musician and Painter
• Martin Büsser, Writer, Ed. Testcard, Ventil Verlag
• Christoph Schlingensief, Theatre-Maker
• Claude Chabrol, Filmmaker
• Alex Chilton, Musician
• Ari Up, Original Punk, Singer of The Slits
• Prince Chunk, fat cat
• Henryk Mikolaj Górecki, Composer
• Sigmar Polke, Painter
• Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson, Founding Member of Throbbing Gristle