Still Under Quota

Thanks to those who have sent in Year-End lists privately and to those who have recently been posting them in the Auld Lang Syne thread below. Our correspondence staff (pictured in part above) is more than capable of handling additional submissions, so please keep them coming in. I hope to have everything compiled into a new post by the close of the weekend, time and bourbon supply permitting.

Once you’ve turned your dispatch be sure to swing over to Point of Departure’s newly launched ninth issue. Bill Shoemaker brings in the big guns of Art Lange, Brian Morton and Evan Parker(!) to wax perspicacious on topics ranging from the cultural connectivity of Ornette Coleman and Thomas Pynchon to the new work of a passel of creative clarinetists. I’m still digesting the Parker lecture on Coltrane and the numerous nuggets therein.

Also worth a lengthy look: the new ish of Paris Transatlantic, which marks the New Year with one of its most voluminous offerings yet and yet another mp3 Blog, Gizmo, in the midst of a Derek Bailey love-in that includes the first four Company LPs on Incus, presumably otherwise out of print.

I’ll take my leave now and return to dusk-lit screening of Cassavetes’ A Woman Under the Influence, a film that has me routinely short-circuiting my internal mortification meter in response to Gena Rowlands deeply peculiar portrayal of a suburban housewife spiraling in and out of madness.