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[theamericanpin-up]

Bill Randall - "Priscilla" - November 1965 Date Book Calendar Illustration - Kemper-Thomas Calendar Co. - American Pin-up Calendar Collection

[genevieveetguy]

. - I found out what the meaning of life is. - What's that? - It sucks.

And Justice for All, Norman Jewison (1979)

[sesiondemadrugada]

Mission: Impossible II (John Woo, 2000).

[lonesomedreamereccentriclover]

Happy Birthday Maya Rudolph!

[beautyguide375]

In Hochzeitsvorbereitungen? Hier gibt es vier Hochsteckfrisuren für jede Braut. Frisuren sind von dem Münchner Experten Thomas Kemper und das Make-up von Eren Bektas, der auch schon Sharon Stone, Kate Moss, Susan Sarandon, Iris Berben, Nadja Auermann, etc. geschminkt hat.

[jgthirlwell]

2022 Year In Review

This year once again I invited some friends and colleagues to reflect on 2022

JG Thirlwell

Composer Foetus Xordox Manorexia Steroid Maximus Venture Bros Archer www.foetus.org

2022 was a marathon year. I took on too much work, but somehow got through it. It challenged me. I played some excellent shows in Woodstock, Los Angeles, Orlando and NYC. Reconnected with Soft Cell at the Beacon. Reconnected with Sarah Lipstate. Wrote a ton of new music for Archer and a Venture Bros movie. Taught a class on film scoring at the New School. I still woke up 5am in a panic on too many occasions. And I saw some great concerts.It was difficult to whittle down this list but here are a lot of albums I enjoyed in 2022, in no particular order.

Tyondai Braxton Telekinesis (Nonesuch) Zeal & Ardor Zeal & Ardor (MVKA) Papangu Holoceno (Bandcamp) Extra Life Secular Works Vol 2 (Bandcamp) Carl Stone Wat Dong Moon Lek (Unseen Worlds) / Gall Tones (Unseen Worlds) / We Jazz Reworks Vol 2 (We Jazz Records) Louis Cole Quality Over Opinion (Brainfeeder) Ben Frost 1899 OST (Invada Records) Loraine James Building Something Beautiful For Me (Phantom Limb) Persher Man With The Magic Soap (Thrill Jockey) Anna Meredith Bumps Per Minute (Moshi Moshi) Sault Air (Forever Living Originals) The Smile A Light For Attracting Attention (XL) Shamblemaths Shamblemaths 2 (Apollon Prog) Julia Wolfe Oxygen (Cantelope) Heiner Schmitz’s Symprophonicum Sins & Blessings (Big Band Records) Burial Antidawn EP / Streetlands EP (Hyperdub) Gotho Mindbowling (Controcanti Produzioni) Oliver Coates The Stranger OST Gilla Band Most Normal (Rough Trade Records Ltd) Blanck Mass Ted K OST (Sacred Bones) Arcade Fire WE (Interscope) Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cool It Down (Secretly) Catarine Barbieri Spirit Exit (light-years) Felicia Atkinson Image Language (Shelter Press) Netherlands Kali Corvette (Three One G) Kemper Norton estrenyon (Zona Watusa) Elysian Fields Once Beautiful Twice Removed (Ojet) Simon Hanes Hurricane Salad Two Fingers Red Bass DJ Mix 22 (NoMark) Backxwash His Happiness Shall Come…(Ugly Hag) Bob Vylan The Price of Life (Ghost Theater) John Elmquist’s Hard Art Groop Stars and Bells / Zero Rest Mass / Trip Up reissues (Bandcamp) Dan Deacon Hustle OST (Netflix Music) Bent Knee Frosting (TTTH) Boris Heavy Rocks 2022 (Relapse) Wet Leg Wet Leg (Domino) Author and Punisher Kruller (Relapse)

Honorable mentions Hudson Mohawke Cry Sugar / Rival Consoles Now is / Haunted Horses The Worst Has Finally Happened / Sirom The Liquified Throne of Simplicity (Tak:Til)/ Meshuggah Immutable / Ani Klang Ani Klang / Pimpon Pozdrawiam (Pointless Geometry)

Shows

The Smile at Kings Theater Julia Wolfe Steel Hammer Carnegie Hall The Protomen LPR Tristan Perich St Thomas ChurchSparks Town Hall Anna Meredith Elsewhere Lingua Ignota LPR Royal Blood Terminal 5 Kraftwerk Radio City Hiro Kone Pioneer Works RATM / RTJ MSG Matmos LPR Rammstein MetLife Stadium Yeah Yeah Yeahs Forest Hills Stadium Melvins Irving Plaza Roxy Music MSG Sean Lennon Stone Elysian Fields The Owl The Comet Is Coming Bowery Ballroom Child Abuse TV Eye Fennesz Pioneer Works Helm Elsewhere

Film / TV

The Stranger All Quiet In The Western Front Dont Worry Darling Moonage Daydream The Velvet Underground Elvis Men Northman Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent White Lotus

Books

I read a ton of memoirs this year. Standouts were

Kid Congo Powers Some New Kind Of Kick Danny Sugerman Wonderland Ave

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Kemper Norton

LISTENING

My favourite album of the year was the dayglo psychedelic joy of Panda Bear/ Sonic Boom’s Reset , with honourable mentions for the amazing Aethiopes by billy woods and Alison Cotton’s beautiful The Portrait You Painted of Me. Also, must mention the massive , varied and crucial Rental Yields compilations on Front and Follow /Gated Canal Community in aid of homeless charities in the UK.

GIGS

Didn’t get out much this year but live events I loved this year here in Brighton, UK included the blasted joy of deafkids at The Hope, the final gig of the mighty Slum of Legs at The Green Door Store, and playing alongside Alexander Tucker’s Microcorps and Opal X at The Wire’s 40th anniversary shows at The Rosehill as part of the reanimated Outer Church.

In terms of radio, as well as Elizabeth Alker’s essential breakfast and Unclassified shows on Radio 3 there were loads of great shows on the fantastic Repeater Radio ( many previously on the mighty Neon Hospice) including Afternoon Delight by Ix Tab and the best of Eastern Europe showcased on Slav to the Rhythm by Catherine and Iris.

READING

Apart from the works of nonconformist Cornish poet Jack Clemo and American novelist Pete Dexter ( Deadwood and Paris, Trout ), new discoveries were thin on the ground this year. I read and reread a lot of old favourites ( Ray Bradbury, Cormac McCarthy, Pat Barker , Elmore Leonard ) and finally fell in love with Jane Austen.

WATCHING

My film and TV viewing in 2022 was largely informed / enforced by my 5 year old daughter, and the essential texts we rewatched repeatedly were the lively and proactive Gaby’s Dollhouse, multi-species global explorers the Octonauts , surreal UK gem Sarah and Duck and of course, the inspirational Aussie masterpiece Bluey. I did manage to catch a few films either new or new to me in 2022…

Wake in Fright ( 1971) : another Australian key text ( although less adorable than Bluey ). The horrors of closed environments, toxic masculinity and continuous drinking.

Enys Men (2022) : Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin’s spooky and minimalistic follow-up to his incredible Bait (2019) , a wonderful drama of local economic realities and identities. Would love to score one of his films but unfortunately he does an excellent job of this himself.

Stalker (1979) : As good as everyone said it would be.

EATING

Chorizo with honey Chinese black fungus

DRINKING

Everything by Burning Sky brewery ( Sussex, UK)

CREATING

I managed to churn out two tape releases in 2022 in between all the watching, listening, eating, drinking etc.

Estrenyon was released on tape and download with the Barcelona label zonawatusa and was inspired by historical UFO sightings throughout Cornwall from 1888 to 2021. Rife is the story of a Sussex Spring day and was released via Woodford Halse, who have released loads of great electronic and folky music by the likes of Xylitol and Sairie. On top of that , our first volume of download-only pay-what-you-like winter tunes Montol Melodies is available on our bandcamp until the traditional English old ‘ twelfth night ‘ ( January 12 2023).

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Lee Ranaldo

2022 LIST

I’m terrible at lists like this, and usually don’t keep track towards such a year-end summary. Pardon the self-focus, this is my year-in-review accounting, mostly just remembering to myself.

August in Vienna Leah and I spent the month of August in Vienna, creating a public artwork, sound+image, called Fermata. I discovered the world of small-body, near century-old, German + Austrian guitars. I wrote the main melodic material one one of these tiny, wonderful instruments,. At one point we had 3 of them in the apartment down in the MuseumQuartier. A whole new world of sound to explore. Side trips to Berlin and Prague. (https://tonspur.at/soundworks/lee-ranaldo-leah-singer/?lang=en) Exhibitions in Berlin and Eupen, Chile Media Arts Biennial, Covid Flowers online Exhibitions of my Black Noise record print editions in Berlin, Lost Highway road drawings in Belgium, and watercolor covid-flowers online. In Chile Leah and I created an outdoor sound/art work, Do You Read Me?, in a field of trees surrounding an observatory above Santiago. Sounds were generated from signals collected from deep space by another observatory in the Atacama desert. A sound displacement work.

Medicine Singers in Brasilia, Montreal, NYC Had fruitful wanderings this year with Yonatan Gat, working with indigineous players from the USA, Brasil and Canada. Recording sessions in Montreal at fabulous Hotel2Tango studio, and in a splendid house set on the edge of the city in Brasilia, one of my favorite places. Happy to have been invited along for this most interesting ride.

Touring resumes Mostly in Europe, mostly quite wonderful. After 2 years at home it felt good to stand up in front of audiences again. Lots of solo acoustic shows playing In Virus Times and singing songs, but also interesting collaborations with Yuri Landman; My Cat Is An Alien, Jean-Marc Montera and Sophie Gonthier, and a special ‘Velvets Suite’ with French legend Pascal Comelade in Banyoles, Spain. Also the beginnings of a new collaboration with Chicago guitarist Michael Vallera, in a great new space in NYC for experimental music, 411 Kent (aka Shift). Leah and I premiered the new version of our Contre Jour performance with suspended guitar and films, in A Coruna, Spain and at the Three-Lobed Fest in Durham, North Carolina – which was an amazing three days of music. Also a short NorthEast tour with Jeff Parker in May.

London/Paris/Leah/ Catpower My touring year ended with a month split between Europe and the UK. A friend-lent apartment in Paris as base, with shows and lectures in Nantes, and Brittany. Five shows in the UK, the most I’ve played in some time there, including a free-ranging set with the Pop Group’s Mark Stewart and an eclectic band. Wild night! Leah flew over to celebrate her birthday, with CatPower at Royal Albert Hall (first time there for us both) recreating Bob Dylan’s legendary show there – both acoustic and electric sets – from 1966. What a great night, and our time together, in London, Paris and Brittany, was splendid.

Hurricane Transcriptions This year I played solo keyboard shows for the first time ever – the solo-for-Fender-Rhodes performance of my Hurricane Sandy Transcriptions, first at Karma Gallery in NYC, accompanied by films from LA Artist Mungo Thomson, and also at a Xenakis celebration in Vienna and at the opening of my exhibition of Lost Highway drawings, ‘The Road Is Like The River, Constantly Changing Yet Ever The Same’ – at IKOB Museum in Eupen, Belgium. (ikob.be)

Circuit des Yeux at Green-Wood Cemetery I think my favorite gig of the year was Circuit des Yeux in Green-Wood Cemetery on a rainy night in June. The weather threatened the show all evening, which made this incredible performance – just Haley and Whitney Johnson (Matchess). Just a magical, powerful night.

Godard’s King Lear In late August I committed to introduce Jean-Luc Godard’s King Lear, which I’d never seen, at TriBeCa’s Roxy Cinema, which has been doing terrific programs organized by Illyse Singer. I love Godard’s films, they are an important touchstone for me, and I took this as an opportunity to discover both the film and Shakespeare’s play; my Shakespeare knowledge is terrible, so I boned up on the play. Four days before the screening, the great master died, which cast the whole night in a new light. The film has been described by Richard Brody of the NY’er as ‘one of the best films of all time’ – wow. Burgess Meredith, Molly Ringwald, Norman Mailer, Julie Delpy, Leos Carax, and Godard himself center-stage and the plugged/unplugged oracle Professor Pluggy. What a film. As usual with a Godard film: what a sound mix!. See it in 35mm.

Broken Circle / Spiral Hill I have had a long fascination with the work of Robert Smithson, since discovering the book of his writings in the 70s. In the early 80s on the first few SY tours, I ‘coaxed’ the band into visiting one of his 3 still existing artworks – Broken Circle/Spiral Hill – in the countryside of northern Holland. Back then it was like a treasure hunt trying to find it, in the dark, late on the way to Club Vera in Groningen. In 2020 I visited it for a third time w friend Carlos, in the week before the world shut down. It had been totally restored and ready for it’s moment – just at it’s 50-year mark. In 2022 the site-an old, long-unused quarry – was opened to the public for the first time in ages, across 8 weekends. This year I narrated a podcast for the Holt/Smithson Foundation and the Netherland’s Land Art Contemporary, about Smithson and the work, which went live in November. (brokencircle.nl)

Birdsong Project I worked on this project, as both producer and performer, to raise money to benefit the Audobon Society for the preservation of avian habitats. Over 200 musicians contributed to this 20-LP set, as well as writers, poets and artists. Uplifting and surprising. (https://www.audubon.org/birdsong-project)

James Jackson Toth In the early 2000s I produced an album – James and the Quiet – with Mr. Wooden Wand, who’s music I love. This year a group of friends organized a birthday tribute to James, with 33 of us recording versions of songs from his vast catalog. I recorded ‘Wired to the Sky’, a favorite from the album we made together, recorded in our Viennese apartment in August, which closes this Birthday Blues collection. (https://aquariumdrunkard.com/category/jamesjackson-toth/)

Some Music/Art/Books etc:

Lou Reed – Words + Music, 1971 RCA Demos David Bowie – Divine Symmetry Catherine Christer Hennix – Selected Early Keyboard Works (https://blankformseditions.bandcamp.com/album/selected-early-keyboard-works) Plus Instruments, Februari-April ’81 (first record I was ever on) on Domani Records, NYC. In/Out/In, Sonic Youth. So cool to see this release welcomed so warmly! Cecilia Vicuña, Tate Modern Turbine Hall Venus of Willendorf, Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna Matisse: The Red Studio, Museum of Modern Art, NYC Claude Monet – Joan Mitchell, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris Marco Fusinato, Desastres, Venice Biennale Family Affair, a 20-minute short film included in the Criterion Collection edition of Josh & Benny Safdie’s 2009 Daddy Longlegs, outlining our two families intertwined involvement in the making of the film. The most glorious home movie ever. The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling, Clinton Heylin. First of a 2-part bio of the (other) Bard, making first use of all the new material out from Tulsa’s Bob Dylan Center archive. Loved: Olivier Assayas’ Irma Vep mini series. He’d used SY’s ‘Tunic’ in his original 1995 film, and we became friends and occasional collaborators. The new limited series mines the story anew, meta-mixing in his 1995 film and Louis Feuillade’s 1915 original, Les Vampires. The most contemporary piece of ‘television’ I’ve seen in ages, just wonderful, with fantastic cast including a spot-on stand-in portrayal by Vincent Macaigne as the director, Alicia Vikander as Irma Vep, and Lars Eidinger as Gottfried. Also Devon Ross, Carrie Brownstein, many other great performances. Loved it. Still watching: Westworld, Handmaid’s Tale. Hal Willner Memorial, St. Anne’s, April. Miss Hal all the time…

---LR, Winnipeg, December 2022

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Brian Chase

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Brian chose to write about one album that impacted him in 2022

This write-up is in no way meant to be a formal review - I don’t deem myself qualified for that task here - rather, this is meant to share personal enthusiasm and bring an album to light - like, "Have you heard this, it's really really amazing and inspiring and why isn't there more talking about it, and…" As a musician working within a greater community, I am acutely aware of the creative drive to continually uncover new modes, methodologies, practices etc. of expressing our chosen art form - each performance and each album serving as an instance of discovery and offering new perspectives on old conundrums. Whether the genre is rock, jazz, noise, free-improvisation, modern classical etc. the relationship of discourse and dialogue is still the same. At the forefront of this dialogue is John Zorn, as he has been for decades, and a major contribution to the conversation is the 2022 album Incerto - Existentialism, Psychoanalysis, and the Uncertainty Principle. Here, Zorn is the composer and the performing ensemble consists of some of Zorn's tightest in recent years: Brian Marsella on piano, Julian Lage on guitar, Jorge Roeder on bass and Ches Smith on drums. As Zorn says in the liner notes, "Incerto is about possibilities, probabilities, inevitabilities and improbabilities." Formal logic for musical structure is considerably expanded with these compositions and never before have I heard such new forms for improvisation. In these pieces, unexpected juxtapositions and superimpositions abound, as foremost examples of its many distinct features. The syntax of this music is beyond the scope of any previous way that I've conceived of music existing. Not only are harmonic and rhythmic conventions regularly reconstructed - often replaced with adjacent compliments and aggressive contradictions - but entire paradigms of improvisatory behavior are game as well. Shifts in genre/mood/tempo/texture/harmonic character/melodic personality place the improvisor in varying contexts - often in a short amount of time - and each context requires its own set of responses. The whole scope of musical history+trends+possibilities takes on a dynamic relational co-existence, in ways that I've never previously heard or thought possible - like when angular atonal lead lines enter on top of a serene ostinato, or impressionistic chords alternate between stillness and motion, or genre styles and idiomatic references collide, or gravelly density and noise build tension culminating into a placid release. Plus, so much of the composed material is really just so cool. Paramount to it all is the music’s immense depth of feeling. The moods on this album are evocative, romantic and ecstatic as much as they are revolutionary, kaleidoscopic and mystifying. As the music winds through its structural twists and turns, the key that holds it all together is sincerity of spirit - the performance of this music, as well as listening to it, is a literal experience. And within each singular track is the remarkable performance of the individual musicians themselves - each a respective master at the craft. Additionally, the album as a collective whole, being comprised of eleven very different tracks, functions as a macro-structure in itself which expands on the themes present in each individual track. So many new modes of music making are presented here - integrating them into current music making will take a while as more people discover its brilliance and begin to absorb the concepts and ideas it conveys. It is uniquely Zorn and there for us musicians to process and in turn produce that which is uniquely ours. Incerto is a gem in the conversation - we can listen and run with it how we like - but we have to hear it first.

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David T. Little

composer www.davidtlittle.com

MUSIC (new, revisited, & in rotation)

Vile Creature – Glory! Glory! Apathy Took Helm! Burning Witch – Crippled Lucifer tryphème – Aluminia Louis Cole – Quality Over Opinion KANGA – You and I Will Never Die DELANILA – Overloaded Amyl & the Sniffers – Comfort To Me Kae Tempest – Let Them Eat Chaos Graindelavoix & Björn Schmelzer – Josquin, the Undead: Laments, Deplorations & Dances of Death Run The Jewels – 1, 2, 3, 4 The Cure – Disintegration, Wish, Show, Pornography Tenderheart Bitches – High Kicks George Walker – Piano Sonatas (Steven Beck) Rammstein – Herzeleid, Mutter, Sehnsucht, Untitled (in heavy rotation after the MetLife Stadium show) Living Colour – Vivid Utah Phillips – We Have Fed You All For A Thousand Years Tom Morello – Hold The Line (track, feat. grandson) ACRONYM – Oddities & Trifles: the Very Peculiar Instrumental Music of Giovanni Valentini Late Stravinsky (various) Son Lux – Everything Everywhere All At Once (ost) Harrison Birtwistle – The Moth Requiem Christopher Tin – The Lost Birds Karim Sulayman, Apollo’s Fire – Songs of Orpheus Hermann Nitsch – Symphony No. 9 “The Egyptian” Jay Wadley – Swan Song (ost) Herem – Pulsa diNura Danny Elfman – Big Mess / Bigger. Messier. (Deluxe.) Scott Walker – The Drift

FILMS & SERIES (new & rewatched) Hellraiser (Clive Barker) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman) Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Shin'ya Tsukamoto) Private Life (Tamara Jenkins) Double Take (Johan Grimonprez) After Life (Ricky Gervais) One Big Bag (Every Ocean Hughes) The Village Detective (Bill Morrison) Polia & Blastema (E. Elias Merhige) Sibyl (William Kentridge)

The Copper Queen (Crystal Manich) Wishes (Amy Jenkins) The Once and Future Smash (Sophia Cacciola & Michael J. Epstein) End Zone 2 (August Kane) All Quiet on the Western Front (Edward Berger) Everything Everywhere All At Once (Daniels) Russian Doll (multiple directors) Piggy (short) (Carlota Pereda) The Mitchells vs. The Machines (Michael Rianda & Jeff Rowe) WHAT DID JACK DO? (David Lynch) The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion) Pig (Michael Sarnoski) The Green Knight (David Lowery) The Northman (Robert Eggers) Muriel’s Wedding (P.J. Hogan) BoJack Horseman (multiple directors) Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)

BOOKS (some) Body Horror - Anne Elizabeth Moore Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf a ghost in the throat - Doireann Ní Ghríofa Cleanness – Garth Greenwell A Saint from Texas – Edmund White Out Loud – Mark Morris The Gastronomical Me – M.F.K. Fisher Agamemnon – Aeschylus (trans. Robert Fagles)

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Jonnine

HTRK

2022 good vibes - Hackedepicciotto tour photos such #couplegoals, kicking off the HTRK tour in Atlanta was exhilarating! Big hangs with my overseas buds Nathan Corbin and Yasmina Dexter, writing new songs with Nigel and keeping THE dream alive, my puppy Pali growing up into mumma’s good boy, instagram follows @the.holistic.psychologist (self healing)  @cracked.bolos (cakes), DJ Sundae, Amir Shoat, ‘Crush’ by Richard Siken (borrow from Nigel) writing bonkers dreams down again, Jonathan Richmond lyrics, tik tok #stayathomegirlfriend, jamming with Brother May in London and playing cafe OTO, second season Euphoria, White Lotus, Heartbreak High, rewatching Curb, Julia Fox’s eye makeup tutorial, films The Weekend and 45 Years by director Andrew Haigh, Charlotte Rampling interviews, fam long drives with Conrad and Pali finding songs for NTS <3 <3 Conrad got me into the Kinks!

Some music  i liked Actress — Dummy Corporation (Ninja Tune)  Autumn Fair - Autumn Fair  DALE CORNISH — Traditional Music of South London (The Death Of Rave)  Delphine Dora — A Stream Of Consciousness II (for piano solo) Coby Sey — Conduit (AD 93)  CS + Kreme — Orange (The Trilogy Tapes)  Harry Howard  - Slight Pavilions  Various / Kashual Plastik — Field of Progress Jonathan Richman - Jonathan Goes Country  Julia Reidy - World in World  Kitchen Cynics — Strange Acrobats Liz Durette - A Christmas Gift To You  Malvern Brume — Body Traffic (MAL)  Taylor E. Burch — The Best of Taylor E. Burch (Downwards)  The Incredible String Band — Wee Tam and the Big Huge  The Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society  Thomas Bush — Preludes Warm Currency — Returns (Horn Of Plenty) 

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Lawrence English

(Room 40 Records)

This year was the first time I had travelled internationally since 2019. The thing I realised I've truly missed is seeing people. The opportunity to share ideas, to be curious with others and to just be in the world was, well, magical. I think if anything the past few years has reminded me (us?) not to take things for granted…especially each other. This year was also the first time I returned to making solo electronic works. It had been about six years since I had completed Cruel Optimism and, if I am honest, I wasn’t sure if I still had an appetite for making solo electronic works. Approach however proved, to me at least, I can still derive great pleasure from working alone. Unexpectedly, I found the whole process of the album very satisfying, like it was new all over again, not something I always feel.

There’s been a tonne of great input into the system this year. Ergo Proxy totally got me thinking. I was late to the party, but it was a party I am glad I did make it to. Puce Mary made some tapes back in April, both of them were totally ace, filled with an acute sense of heaviness. I very much enjoyed Boy Harsher’s work this year too, outside my usual orbit in some ways, but they are really onto something of late. I caught up with my old and dear friend Kate Crawford, and had a chance to read over he excellent Atlas Of AI book, she is a tower of radiance. Annea Lockwood’s, work occupied a great deal of my thoughts this year, realising her Piano Transplants all at once was quite simply a delight. Adam Curtis’s TraumaZone left an indelible mark in more ways than one. I returned to Vancouver to photograph the crows that started off my homage to Masahisa Fukase, perhaps that tract of work is done? Oh and thanks to a dinner with Atsuo from Boris, and the encouragement of my small humans, we all started down the pathway of the epic saga of Gundam too. I missed that when I was younger, so it’s a long road to catch up on….but I started.

Oh and on a purely personal note I was able to commission a shikishi from Yoshihisa Tagami. Seriously, my 12 year old self was reborn when it arrived. The world is so much bigger, and smaller, than that little human could ever have imagined!

Love to you all and here’s hoping 2023 is full of curious surprises and wonder.

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John Tottenham

author

A LISTLESS LIST

Best Books:   Woodcutters Concrete Extinction| Wittgenstein’s Nephew Old Masters 

Thomas Bernhard

A Father and his Fate More Women than Men Manservant and Maidservant A Family and a Fortune  -  Ivy Compton Burnett   Hawkwind: Days of the Underground  -  Joe Banks

Best Songs:   Eunice Collins  –  At the Hotel Gloria Barnes  -  Old Before My Time Sonia Ross  -  Every Now and Then Rozetta Johnson  -  A Woman’s Way Debbie Taylor  -  I Don’t Wanna Leave You Denise LaSalle  -  Trapped by a Thing Called Love Barbara Stant  -  Unsatisfied Woman Ann Alford  -  If It Ain’t One Thing Big Martha  -  Your Magic Touch Helene Smith  -  Sure Thing     Best Shows By Octogenarians And Nonagenarians:

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott – Zebulon, LA  / Bob Dylan  -  Pantages, LA / Marshall Allen (Arkestra)  -  Zebulon, LA / Swamp Dogg  -  Teragram, LA / Doug Kershaw  -  Zebulon,  LA / Sonny Green  -  Barnyard & La Louisianne, LA / Tommy McClain  -  Stowaway, LA

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Brian Carpenter

Composer / Ghost Train Orchestra

My favorite recordings of 2022, in no particular order…also the most frequently played albums on my long-running radio show Free Association on WZBC in Boston. As I'm writing this I'm reminded that a lot of great records came out of bands from South London this year, across genres. 

The Comet is Coming - CODE Caroline - caroline Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork William Orbit - The Painter Akusmi - Fleeting Future

Electric Youth, David Sylvian, et al - A Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto - To the Moon and Back Portico Quartet - Next Stop The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention Zola Jesus - Into the Wild Mary Lattimore and Paul Sukeena - West Kensington Lucrecia Dalt - Ay! Bjork - Fossora Tindersticks - Stars at Noon Original Soundtrack Kamikaze Palm Tree - The Hit Bitchin Bajas - Bajascillators Bill Callahan - YTILAER Thurston Moore - Screen Time Bill Orcutt - Music for Four Guitars Horse Lords - Comradely Objects Curha - Curha III

Sharon Van Etten - We've Been Going About This All Wrong Aldous Harding - Warm Chris Weyes Blood - Hearts Aglow Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You Oneida - Success Brandon Seabrook - In the Swarm Jacob Garchik - Assembly Oren Ambarchi - Shebang The Lord and Petra Haden - Devotional Roedelius & Tim Story - 4 Hands Brian Eno - Foreverandevernomore Steve Reich - Runner Moor Mother - Jazz Codes Makaya McCraven  - Dream Another Sun Ra Arkestra - Living Sky Danger Mouse and Black Thought - Identical Deaths A Far Cry - The Blue Hour Nils Frahm - Music for Animals Mary Halvorson - Amaryllis Kronos Quartet, Van-Anh Vanessa Vo, Rinde Eckert - My Lai Attacca Quartet - Caroline Shaw: Evergreen

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DJ Food

Music: Clocolan - Empathy Alpha LP (Redpan) Brian Eno - The Lighthouse (Sonos HD) King Gizzard &The Lizard Wizard - Omnium Gatherum LP (Flightless) Twilight Sequence - Trees in General: and the Larch 12" (Castles In Space) WTCHCRFT - Drugs Here 12" (Balkan Vinyl) Ghost Power - Ghost Power LP (Duophonic Super 45s) Dexorcist - Night Watch 12" (Yellow Machines) The Advisory Circle - Full Circle LP (Ghost Box) Fenella - The Metallic Index (Fire Records) S'Express & Daddy Squad - Music 4 The Mind (DL)

Podcasts: The Bureau of Lost Culture We Buy Records Oh God, What Now?

Gigs / Events: The Orb play U.F.Orb @ The Fox & Firkin, London Staying in a restored Futuro House, Somerset Fogfest @ Iklectik, London Funki Porcini's Lasarium @ Iklectik, London The Trunk Groovy Record Fayre @ Mildmay Club, London

Books / Comics: 99 Balls Pond Road - Jill Drower (Scrudge Books) Radio Spaceman - Mike Mignola & Greg Hinkle (Dark Horse) A-Z of Record Shop Bags - Jonny Trunk (Fuel) Mud Sharks - Dave Barbarossa Good Pop, Bad Pop - Jarvis Cocker (Vintage) House Music - Andy Votel (The Modernist) Defying Gravity - Jordan Mooney w. Cathi Unsworth 69 Exhibition Road - Dorothy Max Prior (Strange Attractor) Judge Dredd - Mike McMahon (Apex Edition) It's Lonely At The Centre Of The Universe - Zoe Thorogood (Image Comics) The Black Locomotive - Rian Hughes (Picador)

Films: Get Back (Disney+) Who Killed The KLF? (Chris Atkins) In The Court of the Crimson King (Toby Aimes)

[hillside-dangler]

Serial Killers listed by highest I.Q

1. Ted Kaczynski IQ:167

2. Charlene Gallego IQ:160

3. Rodney Alcala IQ:160

4. Carroll Edward Cole IQ:152

5. Edmund Kemper IQ:145

6. Robert Browne IQ: 140

7. Charles Albright IQ:140

8. Michael Bear Carson IQ:138

9. Lawrence Bittaker IQ:138

10. Ted Bundy IQ:136

11. Thomas Dillon IQ:134

12. Gerard John Schaefer IQ:130

13. Marcel Petiot IQ:130

14. Harvey Glatman IQ:130

15. Angel Maturino Resendiz IQ:130

16. Juan Vallejo Corona IQ:130

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[delguy]

Bill Randall - “Babs” - June 1952 Date Book Calendar from The Kemper Thomas Calendar Co. - “Caught a Catalina mermaid the first time I cast my "line,” haven’t seen the land for days - but come on in - the water’s fine!“ 

[adamwatchesmovies]

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

Let’s just get right out and say it: the 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is not as good as the original. It’s too polished and too much of the plot outs it as a Hollywood production to generate the same kind of terror Tobe Hooper did in 1974. As a horror film, however, it’s pretty good thanks to a persistent feeling of dread throughout, genuinely disturbing imagery and a couple of good ol’ visceral thrills.

On August 18, 1973, five young adults - Erin (Jessica Biel), her boyfriend Kemper (Eric Balfour) and their friends Morgan (Jonathan Tucker), Andy (Mike Vogel), and Pepper (Eric Leerhsen) - pick up a hitchhiker. When she suddenly commits suicide, the friends contact the police. While Sheriff Hoyt (R. Lee Ermey) takes his sweet time getting there, the unsuspecting travelers encounter the horrifying Leatherface (Andrew Bryniarski).

Even if you don’t compare this film to the 1974 horror classic, some decisions made by director Marcus Nispel are straight-up bad. At multiple points limbs are severed and there’s no way it should be as easy as it’s portrayed. Along those lines, many shots linger unnecessarily on gruesome sights. We know the killer is a sadistic maniac. He’s wearing a mask of human flesh for goodness’ sake! When we see glimpses of mummified hands, of severed fingers, of rotting corpses it simply reiterates what we already know. Worse, it takes away some of the killer's mystique. The film's worst scenes are the ones where loud noises are played to remind us we’re watching a horror movie. There aren’t more than a handful but what’s good about the film makes you see what this could’ve been had they been omitted.

While this remake is unnecessary, it justifies its existence with some great scenes. The more you see of the backwoods surrounding the heroes, the more suffocating they become. These people are doomed. They were going to die the moment they picked up that hitchhiker. It’s bleak but shouldn’t a horror film leave you shivering and disturbed? If the loud rev of that chainsaw doesn’t do it, then R. Lee Ermey - perfectly cast as Sheriff Hoyt - is sure to have you sweating. His appearance signals the beginning of a nightmare that only gets worse. Soon after, you'll see Thomas Hewitt a.k.a. Leatherface wearing a new mask that’s been freshly cut and sown. It’s fuel for your night terrors.

Also effective is the contrasting imagery. It’s Texas. Everything is hot and dusty during the day but once we enter Hewitt's world, everything is dripping, moist and wet. It feels and looks gross even when blood isn’t shown. Then, the film suddenly subverts your expectations. The slasher might become the slash-ed, or a location typically associated with death - such as a slaughterhouse - suddenly becomes hopeful. "Twisted" is a recurring theme in this film and these play into it nicely.

It’s a shame that 2003's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre couldn't have been a movie inspired by the original rather than a remake of it. If you can only see one, there's no contest. This doesn’t necessarily make this update a bad film - let's keep in mind, we’re comparing it to one of the greatest cinematic horrors ever made. For what this picture does right, I say it's worth a watch. (On Blu-ray, January 25, 2019)

[mydaroga]

For the ask game! 16, 21, and 34

16. 3 drinks you consume the most I’m so boring! I actually really like water. Tap water, if I’m in a place where that’s ok. For a treat I love a good grape soda, like not Crush or whatever but a Stewart’s or Thomas Kemper or the like. For the record, purple flavor is VALID and if you don’t believe me I will happily rant about Concord grapes. And when I want a treat and can’t get a grape soda, I like Pepsi or gingerale. 

21. 3 things you are the most passionate about Ooh I think I’m a fairly passionate person, but how do you define that? What I want to do with my life? What I find important? Which Star Trek is superior? I’m fairly passionate about compassion in the way we interact with one another and the world. I firmly believe in acting in large part as if things are the way you want them to be, without turning a blind eye to the fact they aren’t. If that makes any sense at all. I could say “justice” or “social equity” or any host of things but I want to broaden it out. I’m passionate about how we care for the world and the people in it. I’m also passionate about making considered choices and not just defaulting to what’s easiest or in front of you or you’ve always known. Is that passion? I dunno. It’s just important to me right now, and always. Being mindful in the sense of interacting with the world on terms you’ve considered. This is not always easy and I fail a lot but I’m passionate about it as a goal.And yeah I tend to get really fired up about whatever my obsessions are, to a point where I, a person in their 40s, cannot stop talking about The Beatles or Captain Kirk or whatever it is, so I gotta throw that in there, too. Special Interests are NOT just for teenagers ok.

34. 3 people in history that inspire you the mostTrying to think how much inspo I get from historical figures! So interesting. It’s not that I don’t have people I look up to? But my heroes tend to be, not people whom I want to emulate in total, but people who offer me something I apparently need to absorb.

So like, Orson Welles. I don’t wanna be him. But boy does he fascinate and, I guess, inspire me. T.E. Lawrence, again, do not relate and do not want to, but I have drawn so much from his life (and semi-fictional portrayal) that has fed a lot of my speculation about human nature. And I guess Charlie Chaplin. These are all terrible! But they are all men (oh god) who went their own way and inspire me, if not to be like them, then to consider the ways in which I can exist and create within and without existing structures. 

Wow I am sus. On so many levels. "3 Things..." asks!

[theamericanpin-up]

Bill Randall - "Lady Godiva" - April 1965 Date Book Calendar Illustration - Kemper-Thomas Calendar Co. - American Pin-up Calendar Collection

[faithandarisadventures]

Aqueduct Near Rome by Thomas Cole Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri April 29, 2022

[galerie-r8m]

DANKE! In der neunten SCHAU FENSTER SCHAU präsentierte die Galerie r8m Arbeiten von Peter Dorn, Norbert Müller-Everling, Thomas Kemper und Ivo Ringe. Der Perspektivwechsel zwischen Konzepten, Arbeitsweisen und Ausdrucksformen soll die Wahrnehmung des Betrachters durch...

[shadydestinycollector]

Mahdeen Mays - Part I

The Texas Years {1894-1922}

The anecdote my father told me about my great-grandmother, Mahdeen, eventually became an evaporative myth. I’ll come back to the details in due time.

I wasn’t disappointed to find an indomitable woman born at the turn of the 20th century who bore witness to significant historical events, surrounded by brothers, seeking independence as a creative and single parent during the ‘20s and ‘30s.

Family Group Sheet Parents Walter M. Mays (1872-1901) Martha Aminee Rollins (1875-1957) Siblings Mahdeen Mays (1894-1968) - great grandmother Walter Edgar Mays (1896-1973) John Thomas Mays (1900-1986) Step-Father Andrew Jackson Mayberry Sr. (1857-1935) Step-siblings Lydia Ann Mayberry (1888-1952) Thomas Edward Mayberry (1889-1946) Charles Earl Mayberry Sr. (1892-1966) Half siblings Andrew Jackson Mayberry Jr. (1903-1981) Fred Monroe Mayberry (1905-1956) William Clyde Mayberry Sr. (1908-1986) Robert Earnest Mayberry (1910-1983) Spouse 1 and children; James William Roe Sr. (1887-1967) - great grandfather James William Roe Jr. (1915-1992) - grandfather John Ed Roe Sr. (1919-2000) Spouse 2 Anthony L. Ransdell (1885-?) Spouse 3  Arthur Roosevelt Summersett (1901-1990)

Note: citations that include links to news clippings should be viewable without a paywall.

Mahdeen Mays was my father’s paternal grandmother. She was born on 22 Feb 1894 in unspecified Texas, the oldest of the three Mays children. Her parents were Walter M. and Martha Aminee (Rollins) Mays.

Walter M. Mays, the fifth child among six siblings, was the son of a Confederate Civil War soldier. Walter's father, at age 18, served as a Private in the Texas Infantry & Cavalry, Company B, (Kirby’s) 3rd Battalion, and then, at age 19, as a Corporal in the Texas Infantry, Company F, (Allen’s) 17th Regiment. The Mays family were tried and true Texans.

Alabama, Texas, and Virginia, US Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958. Pension File Nos. 43291-43315. Application Years 1922-1927.

Martha Aminee Rollins, the eighth child among nine siblings, was the daughter of another Confederate Civil War soldier. Martha's father was 32 when he enlisted as a Private in the Mississippi Infantry, Company A, 35th Regiment. The Rollins family relocated from Kemper County, Mississippi, around 1869, after having lost and buried two children who died young. They settled in Brazos County, Texas, as evidenced by the 1870 census.

Alabama, Texas, and Virginia, US Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958. Pension File Nos. 05756-05810. Application Years 1844-1929. 1870 US Federal Census. Brazos County, Texas. Roll M593_1577. Page 66A. Image 135. FHL film 553076.

Mahdeen’s brother Walter Edgar was born on 24 Jun 1896, specifically in Caldwell, Burleson, Texas. During this period, Burleson County was renowned for ranching and cotton farming.

During the Jun 1900 census, Mahdeen, age 6, was living in Burleson with her father, Walter M., a farmer, age 27, mother Martha, who went by Mattie, age 24, and younger brother Walter, age 4.

Also living in the household was her widowed aunt by marriage, Mary Belle (Cunningham) Rollins, and her two children, Mahdeen’s cousins Mary Frances Rollins, age 14, and William Rollins, age 5. Although listed as widowed, I’ve been unable to find documentation regarding Mr. William W. Rollins’ death.

1900 US Federal Census. Justice Precinct 1, Burleson, Texas. Roll 1650. Page 22A. Enumeration District 0038. FHL microfilm 1241615.

Mahdeen’s baby brother, John Thomas, was born two months after the census on 28 Aug 1900, also in Caldwell. Their mother, Mattie, remarried in 1903, leaving a lingering question concerning the fate of their father, Walter.

Despite consulting conventional sources, information about Walter between 1900 and 1903 remained elusive and his death date was persistently left blank.

While looking for a public domain photo of Burleson County circa 1900 to add to this post, I came across a collection that included searchable Caldwell newspaper archives. I ran a search for Walter and lo and behold found his obituary.

Joiner, F. Lee. Caldwell News-Chronicle. Vol. 21 No. 44 Ed. 1. 29 Mar 1901. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth169333/m1/9/?q=%22Walter%20Mays%22: accessed 3 Mar 2024. University of North Texas Libraries. The Portal to Texas History. https://texashistory.unt.edu. Crediting Harrie P. Woodson Memorial Library.

The 1900 census had documented his birth as "Dec 1872.” With the help of an online date calculator, the obituary helped pinpoint the precise date as 17 Dec 1872. We now know that he died on 27 Mar 1901 and was laid to rest the following day at the Masonic Cemetery. His obituary was a touching tribute to the man, Walter M. Mays, my great-great-grandfather.

My question was what would cause the death of a young man who had been "sick only a short time" and render him unable to speak? A quick search returned a heartbreaking answer, Diphtheria.

We have to keep in mind that these rural families faced the indiscriminate mortality of yellow fever, influenza, pneumonia, whooping cough, tuberculosis, measles, typhoid, and diphtheria from intimate perspectives within their communities during the mid-19th to early 20th century.

Between the ages of 19 and 25, Mattie lost one family member each year: two nieces, a nephew, her father, a brother, and now her husband. Before Mattie was born, two of her siblings died young and an aunt had died at age 16. Due to the time and place, we have little in the way of death certificates to rely on regarding these deaths.

The earliest death certificate I found was for Mrs. Josie Greathouse, Walter’s younger sister. She died of tuberculosis at the age of 29 in 1912, leaving a husband and 3 children.

Walter and Mattie’s children and their ages at the time of Walter’s death:

Mahdeen, age 7

Walter, age 4

John, age 7 mos.

Several family events occurred after Walter’s death and before the 1910 census. In March 1903, Mahdeen's mother, Mattie, married Andrew J. Mayberry Sr. They were likely acquainted with each other's families years beforehand.

Mattie's sister, Mary Matilda (Rollins), had previously married Andrew's brother, Seaborn Burnett Mayberry, in 1889. Their first child, Ethel Aminee Mayberry, was born in 1890 and died when “the death angel visited” in 1899. Mattie attended her niece's funeral with her husband, who, at that time, was Walter.

Bryan-College Station Eagle. 31 Aug 1899. Page 3. https://www.newspapers.com/article/bryan-college-station-eagle-ethel-mayber/81529261/ : accessed 9 Mar 2024. clip page for the Obituary for Ethel Mayberry.

Andrew J. Mayberry Sr., at the time of his marriage to Mattie, was a widower whose first wife also died in 1901. From that marriage, he had three children, Lydia Ann, age 15, Thomas Edward, age 14, and Charles Earl Mayberry, age 11.

Lydia Ann Mayberry would marry at the age of 17 in 1905.

Mattie and Andrew J. Mayberry Sr. would have four children of their own;

Andrew Jackson Mayberry Jr. - 21 Dec 1903 - Merkel, Taylor, Texas

Fred Monroe Mayberry - 1 Dec 1905 - Merkel, Taylor, Texas

William Clyde Mayberry Sr. - 2 Mar 1908 - Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas

Robert Ernest Mayberry - 14 Dec 1909 - Merkel, Taylor, Texas

Andrew and Mattie (Rollins) Mayberry’s children would be double cousins or first cousins twice over to Seaborn and Mary (Rollins) Mayberry’s children...whenever siblings marry siblings, the children are double cousins.

My great-grandmother Mahdeen would marry my great-grandfather, James William Roe Sr., in Taylor County, Texas, early in the year, on 12 Jan 1910. She was one month shy of 16 years old. James was 22. She later testified during their 1923 divorce court proceedings that they met at a school party.

Texas, Select County Marriage Records, 1837-2015. Taylor County Clerk's Office. Abilene, Texas. Taylor County Marriage Records. Volume 6. Page 94.

In the Apr 1910 census of Merkel, Taylor, Texas, Mahdeen and her husband, Jim W., a farmer, resided with her stepfather who was a carpenter, her mother Mattie, two older stepbrothers, two younger brothers, and four younger half-brothers.

1910 US Federal Census. Merkel, Taylor, Texas. Roll T624_1593. Page 5A. Enumeration District 0272. FHL microfilm 1375606.

James and Mahdeen's sons, James William Roe Jr., my grandfather, and John Ed Roe, my granduncle, were born in Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas. James was born on 29 Jul 1915, and John on 29 Oct 1919, both during the era of World War I. In the years preceding World War II, it was commonly referred to as the “War,” the "Great War,” or the “World War."

Of note: their son John's middle name was Ed, not Edward.

The only immediate family member who served in the war was her brother John Thomas Mays. He enlisted in the US Army at the age of 17 on 29 Jul 1918 and was discharged on 16 May 1921. His obituary published in Dec 1986 didn’t mention the US Army but reported that he served in the US Navy. I have yet to find proof of Naval service.

The post-war 1920s stood out as a notable decade. Prohibition, commencing in 1920, and the ratification of women's right to vote in August of the same year were pivotal historical moments. In Texas, the '20s heralded the onset of the oil boom. In the local context of Fort Worth, colloquially known as "Cowtown," an extensive network of railways from across the nation played a vital role in supporting the cattle industry centered at the Fort Worth Stockyards. The railroad infrastructure, as evidenced by the impressive 1888 map, laid the foundation for the region's visions of financial success and stability. Presently, the “stockyards" have become a cattle-free tourist destination.

Wikimedia Commons: Paddock Fort Worth, TX, and Rail-Roads, 1888

The census dated 6 Jan 1920 in Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, shows Mahdeen living with her husband Jim, now a carpenter, and two sons: James, age 4, and John, age 2 months. Also, a young couple who were roomers.

1920 US Federal Census. Fort Worth, Ward 8, Tarrant, Texas. Roll T625_1850. Page 7A. Enumeration District 134. Image 168.

In July, seven months later, Mahdeen initiated divorce proceedings.

Fort Worth Star-Telegram. 28 Jul 1920. Page 10. https://www.newspapers.com/article/fort-worth-star-telegram-maude-files-for/141681011/ : accessed 23 Feb 2024. clip page for Maude Files for Divorce.

After almost two years, in Mar 1922, Judge Terrell dismissed 171 divorce cases, including hers, all of them “for want of prosecution.” At first, it sounded to me like an easy day for the Judge. Then again, I’m unfamiliar with divorce law in Texas during the 1920s. The 171 cases that were listed take up an entire column of the newspaper.

Fort Worth Star-Telegram. 11 Mar 1922. Page 5. https://www.newspapers.com/article/fort-worth-star-telegram-171-divorce-cas/141681126/ : accessed 23 Feb 2024. clip page for 171 Divorce Cases Dismissed.

Mahdeen “ain't” givin' up just yet! Stay tuned for more...

[jedivoodoochile]

Bill Randall - "Patti" - January 1952 Date Book Calendar Illustration - Kemper-Thomas Calendar Co. - American Pin-up Calendar Collection - Bill was the best cover-up artist ever!! The snowman looks very happy.

[brookstonalmanac]

Beer Events 12.1

Events

Basketball invented (1891)

Hermetically Closing Jug (1896)

Conrad Eurich bought Spring Garden Brewery (Baltimore, Maryland; 1908)

Grace Brothers Brewery closed (Santa Rosa, California; 1918)

Ontario, Canada voted for government control of liquor instead of prohibition (1926)

Prague tavern  opened, charging a flat hourly fee for drinking (1937)

Playboy 1st published (1953)

Michelob bottles 1st sold (1961)

Erik Helm and Richard Thorne patented Electrolysis of Fermented Beverages (1970)

Exploitation film “Sixpack Annie” premiered (1975)

Novato City Council approved Moylan's brewpub (California; 1993)

Anton Steinecker patented a Device for Heating Wort During Beer Production (1999)

Beermann's bottled 1,077 1-liter bottles of their Bourbon Barrel Barley-Wine Ale (2001)

Breweries Opened

Frank Steil Brewing, Maryland (1900)

Hudson County Consumers Brewing, New Jersey (1901)

Salt Lake Brewing, Utah (1984)

Thomas Kemper Brewing, Washington (1984)

Okanagan Springs Brewery, Canada (1985)

Lord Nelson Brewery Hotel, Australia (1986)

Pete's Wicked Brewing, California (1986)

Big Time Brewing, Washington (1988)

Grand Ridge Brewing, Australia (1988)

Kieler Brauerei, Germany (1988)

Black Mountain Brewing/Ed's Cave Creek, Arizona (1989)

Heritage Brewing, California (1989)

Pink Elephant Brewery, New Zealand (1990)

Minnesota Brewing, Minnesota (1991)

Rock Bottom #1, Colorado (1991)

Brewery at Lake Tahoe, California (1992)

Hangtown Brewery, California (1992)

Giatt Brothers Brewing, Canada (1993)

Northen Lights Brewing, Washington (1993)

Union Station Brewing, Rhode Island (1993)

Waterloo Brewing, Texas (1993)

Feathers Brewing, Canada (1994)

Long Island Brewing, New York (1994)

Galveston Brewery, Texas (1995)

Grebbestad Bryggeri, Sweden (1995)

Wilmington Brewing, North Carolina (1995)

Brass Ring Brewing, California (1996)

Dublin Brewing, Ireland (1996)

Huske Hardware House Brewing, North Carolina (1996)

King George Brewery, Georgia (1996)

La Fourche Brewing, Louisiana (1996)

Live Oak Brewing, Texas (1996)

Macau Brewing, Macau (1996)

Old North State Brewing, North Carolina (1996)

Skewers Brewpub, California (1996)

Sonora Brewing, Arizona (1996)

Volcano Brewery, New Mexico (1996)

Brasserie d Sainr Amand, France (1997)

Double Barrel Brewing, South Carolina (1997)

Foundry Ale Works, Pennsylvania (1997)

Park City Brewing, Utah (1997)

Railway Brewing, Alaska (1997)

Sagan Beer, Japan (1997)

Sunshine Coast Brewery, Australia (1997)

Mac & Jack's Brewery, Washington (1998)

Maxwell's Brewery & Pub, Washington (1998)

Race Book Brew Pub, Connecticut (1998)

Blue Frog Grog & Grill, California (1999)

Gem of the Sea Brewing, California (1999)

Holgate Brewhouse, Australia (1999)

Pearl Street Brewing, Wisconsin (1999)

Back Street Brewery, California (2001)

4th Street Brewing (Oregon; 2008)

Two Roads Brewing (Connecticut; 2012)