We still live in an inner suburb of Melbourne, so have a lot of access to film festivals, and a wealth of second-hand bookshops. This year I ramp up the number of new books to 100, contrary to my earlier conviction that it is ridiculous and unsustainable. I maintain this conviction - but I did it anyway.
BOOKS 2014
B01. The Paper Chase, Hal Porter.
B02. Am I Black Enough for You?, Anita Heiss.
B03. Meanjin 1/1992: Women's Knowledge.
B04. A Hard Day's Night, John Burke.
B05. Sandman in Siberia, Steve Abbott.
B05a. Fat Chance, Simon Gray.
B06. Birth of the Motion Picture, Emmanuelle Toulet (tr. Susan Emanuel).
B07. Black & Violet, Jason Andrew Updike.
B08. What Did You Expect?, Ben Baker.
B09. Fun at 1: The Story of Comedy at Radio 1, Tim Worthington.
B10. Quarterly Essay 22: Voting for Jesus: Christianity and Politics in Australia, Amanda Lohrey.
B11. Poll Dancing: The Story of the 2007 Election, Mungo MacCallum.
B12. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, David Sedaris.
B13. The Tree of Man, Patrick White.
B14. A Cry in the Jungle Bar, Robert Drewe.
B15. Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl, Donald Sturrock.
B16. North Face of Soho: Unreliable Memoirs Volume IV, Clive James.
B17. Comics: A Decade of Comedy at the Assembly Rooms, John Connor.
B18. Fawlty Towers: The Story of the Sitcom, Graham McCann.
B19. Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators in The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy, "Text by Robert Arthur".
B19a. Seven Little Australians, Ethel Turner.
B20. Art of McSweeney's, the Editors of McSweeney's.
B21. I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution, Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum.
B21a. No Shitting in the Toilet: The Travel Guide for When You've Really Lost It, Peter Moore.
B21b. My Uncle Oswald, Roald Dahl.
B22. Loot, Joe Orton.
B23. Herge: The Man who Created Tintin, Pierre Assouline (tr. Charles Ruas).
B24. The Pillow Fight, Matthew Condon.
B25. Lennon Remembers: The Rolling Stone Interview, Jann Wenner.
B26. Monty Python's Flying Circus: Complete and Annotated ...All the Bits, GC JC TG EI TJ MP et al, annotations some twat.
B27. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past, Simon Reynolds.
B27a. Voss, Patrick White.
B27b. Mister Roberts, Alexei Sayle.
B28. A Hostile Beauty: Life on Macquarie Island, Alistair Dermer and Danielle Wood.
B29. This Accursed Land: Douglas Mawson's Incredible Antarctic Journey, Lennard Bickel.
B30. Funemployed: Life as an Artist in Australia, Justin Heazlewood.
B31. Quarterly Essay 6: Beyond Belief: What Future for Labor?, John Button.
B32. Clockwise (aka Clockwise: A Screenplay aka Clockwise: Original Screenplay), Michael Frayn.
B32a. The Bedtime Leunig, Michael Leunig.
B32b. You and Me, Michael Leunig.
B32c. Eat the Rich, P. J. O'Rourke.
B32d. Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway, Clifford Stoll.
B33. Loveless, Mike McGonigal.
B33a. The B'stard File (aka The B'Stard File: The New Statesman aka The B'Stard File: The New Statesman Expose), Rik Mayall (text by L Marks, M Gran, N Hornick, J Cutrara, T Bagley).
B34. Pilcrow, Adam Mars-Jones.
B35. The Silent Cry, Kenzaburo Oe.
B35a. Monty Python: the Case Against, Robert Hewison.
B36. Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World, Sarah Vowell.
B37. The Funky Squad Annual, S Cilauro, T Gleisner, J Kennedy.
B38. All Windows Open and Other Stories, Hariklia Heristanidis.
B39. Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD, Martin Aston.
B40. Patrick White, Geoffrey Dutton.
B41. Cedilla, Adam Mars-Jones.
B42. Dark Horse: The Secret Life of George Harrison, Geoffrey Giuliano.
B43. The Family Law, Benjamin Law.
B43a. Paradoxical Undressing, Kristin Hersh.
B44. No More Curried Eggs For Me, compiler Roger Wilmut.
B45. Readings from International Conference on Humour: A Special Issue of the Australian Journal of Comedy; 1997, v. 3, no. 1, G Matte et al.
B46. The Longest Cocktail Party: An Insider's View of the Beatles, Richard DiLello.
B47. Super Expanded Deluxe Edition, Tim Worthington.
B48. American Hoax, Charles Firth.
B49. An Angel at my Table (Autobiography 2), Janet Frame.
B49a. 'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?', Spike Milligan.
B50. Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels, Justin Vivian Bond.
B51. Black Postcards, Dean Wareham.
B52. Mr Manchester and the Factory Girl: The Story of Tony and Lindsay Wilson, Lindsay Reade.
B52a. Holidays in Hell, P.J. O'Rourke.
B53. The Embassy of Cambodia, Zadie Smith.
B54. The Bridegroom Was a Dog, Yoko Tawada (tr. Margaret Mitsutani).
B55. Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan (tr. Irene Ash).
B56. Petit Mal, DBC Pierre.
B57. Tirra Lirra by the River, Jessica Anderson.
B58. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Yasutaka Tsutsui (tr. David Karashima).
B59. Traditional Molvanian Baby Names, S Cilauro, T Gleisner, R Sitch.
B60. Monanisms, The Museum of Old and New Art.
B61. Real Wild Child, Narelle Gee.
B62. Riders in the Chariot, Patrick White.
B63. The Crucible, Arthur Miller.
B64. The Daylight and the Dust: Selected Short Stories, Janet Frame.
B64a. The Lost Goon Shows, Spike Milligan.
B65. Fraud, David Rakoff.
B66. [Untitled children's story], Kit WIlliams.
B67. The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell.
B68. Under Stones, Bob Franklin.
B69. A Bit More Fry & Laurie, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
B70. Quarterly Essay 52: Found in Translation: In Praise of a Plural World, Linda Jaivin.
B71. The Burnt Ones, Patrick White.
B72. TATP: Talk About the Passion, Ben Baker and Tim Worthington.
B72a. Scarcely Relevant: Writings from The Scrivener's Fancy, Tony Martin.
B73. The Good Soldier Schweik, Jaroslav Hasek.
B74. Whoops Apocalypse: A State of the World Report, Andrew Marshall & David Renwick.
B74a. The Hippopotamus, Stephen Fry.
B74b. Dancing on Hot Macadam: Peter Carey's Fiction, Anthony J Hassall.
B75. Joseph Anton: A Memoir, Salman Rushdie.
B76. The Road to Mars, Eric Idle.
B77. The Floating World, John Romeril.
B78. Goon Abroad, Harry Secombe.
B79. The ITMA Years, Ted Kavanagh et al.
B80. The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, David Stratton.
B81. Contemporary Australian Television, Stuart Cunningham & Toby Miller.
B81a. Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby, Donald Barthelme.
B82. The Crystal Bucket: Television Criticism from the Observer 1976-79, Clive James.
B83. Moon Lake, Eudora Welty. (Penguin Mini Modern Classics)
B84. Hal Porter, Mary Lord. (OUP Australian Writers and their Work series)
B85. Frank, Jon Ronson.
B86. A Point of View, Clive James.
B87. The End of the World, Paddy O'Reilly.
B88. More Please, Barry Humphries.
B89. To the Islands, Randolph Stow.
B90. Australian Literary Studies, Volume 19 No 2 1999.
B91. People, Alan Bennett.
B92. Nagasaki, Éric Faye (tr. Emily Boyce).
B93. A History of Capitalism According to the Jubilee Line, John O'Farrell.
B94. A Bone of Fact, David Walsh.
B95. Acorn, Yoko Ono.
B96. Higher Than the Sun, Tim Worthington.
B97. Three Stories, J M Coetzee.
B98. Not on Your Telly, Tim Worthington.
B99. The Hell of it All, Charlie Brooker.
B100. L'Amour, Marguerite Duras (tr. Kazim Ali and Libby Murphy).
B100a. The Solid Mandala, Patrick White.
In 2014 I am slowly working through Patrick White, while also reading a lot of books for what I consider the final time as I decide to discard them. A fascination with the more forgotten spatterings of English pop culture is given strong representation by all the Tim Worthington books: these excavations of cultural crannies were always interesting as a foreigner in the UK - though to be fair by 2018 and ensconced back in Australia I don't find myself going back to much of it.
I can strongly recommend Donald Sturrock's authorised biography of Roald Dahl, which authorised or not is unflinching on Dahl's inherent shittiness. I also wish all popular biographies were as densely detailed as this is.
I considered updating the details of the annotator of B26, but it is truly so awful I feel obliged to (a) not embarrass the man by naming him, and (b) warning any potential reader to avoid.
B66 is a puzzle picture book by the author of Masquerade; one of the puzzles was to establish the name of the book. I was unable to solve this so have left the title blank.
MOVIES 2014
M00a. The Parole Officer, 2001.
M01. The Battle of the Sexes, 2013.
M01a. The Best Bits of The Late Show Volume Three, 1994.
M02. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, 2012.
M03. The Wolf of Wall Street, 2013.
M04. The Trip, 2010.
M04a. Cremaster 1, 1995.
M04b. Cremaster 2, 1999.
M04c. Cremaster 3, 2002.
M04d. Cremaster 4, 1994.
M04e. Cremaster 5, 1997.
M05. 風立ちぬ ('The Wind Rises'), 2013.
M06. L'Année dernière à Marienbad ('Last Year in Marienbad'), 1961.
M07. Biba! One Island, 879 Votes, 2011 (including 2013 postscript).
M08. 12 Years A Slave, 2013.
M09. Blue Jasmine, 2013.
M09a. The Best Bits of The Late Show Volume One, 1993.
M09b. The Best Bits of The Late Show Volume Two, 1993.
M10. Half / ハーフ, 2013.
M11. 百合子、ダスヴィダーニヤ ("Yoshiko and Yuriko"), 2011.
M12. A Life Exposed: Robyn Beeche, 2013.
M13. Carts of Darkness, 2008.
M14. Winter's Bone, 2010.
M15. Philomena, 2013.
M15a. キューティー ハニー ("Cutie Honey"), 2003.
M16. The Grand Budapest Hotel, 2014.
M17. American Hustle, 2013.
M18. The King's Speech, 2010.
M19. The Book Thief, 2013.
M19a. The Tulse Luper Suitcases 1: The Moab Story, 2003.
M19b. The Tulse Luper Suitcases 2: Vaux to the Sea, 2004.
M19c. The Tulse Luper Suitcases 3: From Sark to the Finish, 2004.
M20. The Zero Theorem, 2013.
M21. Alexei Sayle's Pirate Video, 1982?
M22. Under the Skin, 2013.
M23. Les Creatures ("The Creatures"), 1966.
M24. リアル ("Real"), 2013.
M25. Sans toit ni loi ("Vagabond"), 1985.
M26. ドールズ ("Dolls"), 2002.
M27. Snowpiercer, 2013.
M28. Believe in Me, 2007.
M29. Little Noises, 1991.
M30. Hross í oss ("Of Horses and Men"), 2013.
M31. August: Osage County, 2013.
M32. Dallas Buyers Club, 2013.
M33. The Tempest, 2010.
M34. Hořící keř ("Burning Bush"), 2013.
M35. Dylan Moran: Monster, 2004.
M35a. Down Among the Z Men, 1952.
M36. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, 1982.
M37. Tom a la ferme ("Tom at the Farm"), 2013.
M37a. Backbeat, 1993.
M38. Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, 2010.
M39. Monty Python Live: One Down, Five To Go (90 min TV edit shown on SBS), 2014.
M39a. Spies Like Us, 1985.
M40. バトル ロワイアル ("Battle Royale"), 2000.
M41. Bjork: Biophilia Live, 2014.
M41a. Brazil, 1985.
M41b. The Draughtsman's Contract, 1982.
M42. Down Terrace, 2009.
M43. 小さいおうち ("The Little House"), 2014.
M43a. Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, 1974.
M43b. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2004.
M44. Mad Dog Morgan, 1976.
M44a. Erik the Viking, 1989.
M45. Red Dawn, 2012.
M46. Tomorrow, When the War Began, 2010.
M47. Harry Brown, 2009.
M48. Wired, 1989.
M49. The Mule, 2014.
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