A Day Without Immigrants

A recent video shot and edited for Storyboard:

Favorite Songs of 2016

15. "Good as Hell" - Lizzo







14. "In Care of 8675309" - Lamchop







13. "Drunk Driver/Killer Whale" - Car Seat Headrest







12. "We The People" - A Tribe Called Quest







11. "R.E.D. Ft. Yasiin Bey, Narcy, and Black Bear" - A Tribe Called Red







10. "Dark Water" - DiCaprio





9. "You Want it Darker" - Leonard Cohen







8. "Cranes in the Sky" - Solange







7. "A 1000 Times" - Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam







6. "Ultralight Beam" - Kanye West

5. "I Have Been to the Mountain" - Kevin Morby







4. "Lazarus" - David Bowie







3. "Finish Line/Drown" - Chance the Rapper







2. "The Numbers" - Radiohead







1. "Formation" - Beyoncé

Favorite Albums of 2016

10. Dex Romweber - Carrboro

Dex's best work in recent years. His full range of abilities are on display here.

9. A Tribe Called Red - We are the Halluci-Nation

Indigenous EDM you should be listening to.

8. Noname - Telefone

Chance's best and frequent guest artist finally has a mixtape of her own, and it's everything I hoped it would be.

7. Beyoncé - Lemonade

A call to arms if I've heard one, using personal struggles to speak to broader issues in society.

6. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got it From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service

What could have been a decent nostalgia trip was actually something pretty remarkable and couldn't have come at more pertinent time.

5. Blood Orange - Freetown Sound

Sonic, rich, timeless, genre-bending.

4. David Bowie - Blackstar

Normally it's difficult for me to deal with the posthumous works of artists -- it's hard to tell how much of my feelings for the album is on the work itself or the events surrounding the artist But to see a person have so much creative control around his very death is transcendent, and Bowie really created something special here.

3. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book

The gospel album Kanye thought he made.

2. Kevin Morby - Singing Saw

This is an artist I can't believe I just discovered this past year. More traditional and organic than most on this list, but no less current.

1. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

A rich, gorgeous, personal album. Less conspiracy theories, more vulnerability. Thom Yorke sounds better when he's (somewhat) less paranoid.

Favorite Books of 2016

I'm not really good at introducing lists.

So here are some favorite books I read during 2016. Let me know what you think! What should I read in 2017? What were some of your favorites of the year?


Biggest surprise: The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton

Favorite book every white person should read: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Favorite book by an author I read for the first time: Austerlitz by W. G. Seabald

Most beautiful prose on fly fishing I’ve ever read (and some of the most beautiful prose period): A River Runs Through It by Norman MacLean

Favorite canonical novel I should have read a long time ago: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Favorite graphic novel: Saga: Volume 5 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

Favorite novel I should have finished by now: The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa

Favorite oral history: Voices From Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich

Favorite essay collection: The Death of Adam by Marilynne Robinson

Favorite short story collection: The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley


Favorite poetry collection: Requiem for Used Ignition Cap by J. Scott Brownlee

Weekly Discoveries (From a Few Months Ago)

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Favorite Books of 2015

Here are my favorite books I read in 2015:

The Musical Brain by César Aira

Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community by Wendell Berry

Falconer by John Cheever

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust

I Scrape the Window of Nothingness: New and Selected Poems by Stella Vinitchi Radulescu

Disturbances in the Field by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Memento Mori by Muriel Spark

All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews

Weekly (or Monthly) Discoveries

These are all very, very old (by internet standards). Sorry.



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// Favorite Upcoming Android Feature (or, Why I Own an Android Phone) - The new Photo app is great too, but this feature is crazy.







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// Favorite First Letterman Show - Goodbye, Dave. You will be missed.

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Favorite Songs of 2014

Just pretend this was posted a few months ago.




16. "Hear Me" - The Very Best






15. "Just One of the Guys" - Jenny Lewis






14. "Hang On" - Shad and DJ T.LO





13. "Blue Moon" - Beck






12. "Traditional Arrangement: Moonshine" - Alexandre Desplat






11. "My Wrecking Ball" - Ryan Adams





10. "Parade" - The Antlers






9. "Silver Joy" - Damien Jurado






8. "High Ball Stepper" - Jack White






7. "Water Fountain" - tUnE-yArDs






6. "Two Weeks" - FKA Twigs






5. "Terror of Wide Open Spaces" - Momcat


If embed code isn't working.....  momcat.bandcamp.com


4. "Red Eyes" - The War on Drugs






3. "Had Ten Dollaz" - Cherry Glazerr  (kinda cheated on this one, learned of this only a couple months ago, but oh well)






2. "Do You?" - Spoon






1. "Courtney Barnett" - Avant Gardener

Favorite Books of 2014

Beginning today I'll be looking back at some of my favorite media of this past year. Starting out, it's my favorite fifteen books of 2014:

American Blues by Evan Guilford-Blake

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

Blood Meridian, or, The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

Cathedral by Raymond Carver

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Ghosts by Cesar Aira

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples

Too Late the Phalarope by Alan Paton

Underworld by Don Delillo

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

White Girls by Hilton Als

What were some of your favorites for the year? Anything I need to put on my list for 2015?

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// Favorite Podcast -   You Must Remember This



// Favorite Book -   We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

// Favorite Review of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves -  This one by the great Ian North.

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Another belated weekly discovers. Think more monthly.


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// Favorite Song/Music Video - Thanks to Michial for this one.






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// Favorite Wedding Highlight Reel - My brother's wedding!






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// Favorite Late-Night Bit - Finally, the Chad Smith/Will Ferrell drum-off.










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