Wild Hotels

Still been catching up on a lot of 2018 releases over the last six weeks, and I have now made a list of my favorite records/eps, singles and comps from 2018. Bandcamp linked where applicable. my list from 2017 is here Alvar - I Sew A Blanket Of All The Broken Clouds Aos - Violent Light BMG* & Derek Plaslaiko - Acid Series Vol 4 Carly Barton - Vidya World 8 Cygnus ‎- Ne0 Ge0 Drew McDowall ‎– The Third Helix Future - Beast Mode 2 Gnork - Magic Arp Hieroglyphic Being ‎- The Language Of Strings Vol 4 HVL ‎- Ostati J Mono - Redate Lady Blacktronika - Wax Cylinder Only Lamusa II ‎- Vago Libero Lil Mofo Business - basically every mix they brought out in 2018 Maoupa Mazzocchetti ‎- Gag Flag Marie Davidson - Working Class Woman Mattheis ‎- Thin Sections Mozzy - Gangland Landlord Odd Shy Guy & Rose Again - Bristol NormCore Quin Kirchner - The Other Side of Time Route 8 - 303 Exercise Teresa Winter ‎– What The Night is For Topdown Dialectic - Topdown Dialectic Various ‎- CULTED001 Various ‎- Det Är Grymt I Norr Various ‎– From The Dark Volume 1 on Cultivated Electronics Various ‎- Stages of Grief Vol 1. 'Convalesence' on Vaknar WAV FUZZ, Krycek ‎- BootlegFM Rap Singles: 03 Greedo - Fortnite Aidonia - VVS   Don Toliver - Back End   Sada Baby & Drego - Bloxk Party Yhung T.O. -  Betrayal Young Thug - To Me Comps: •ГАР001: Михаил Чекалин - Экзальтированная Колыбельная 1979 – 1987 •Carola Baer - The Story of Valerie •Kale Plankieren - Dutch Cassette Rarities 1981 - 1987 Vol​.​2 •Industrial Landscapes From The Hungarian Electronic Underground by Hungarian Old School EBM Clan •La Contra Ola - Synth Wave & Post Punk From Spain 1980-86 •Nouvelle Ambiance! Sounds from the Pan-African Paris Underground •Onda De Amor (Synthesized Brazilian Hits That Never Were 1984-94) •Paris to Calcutta: Men and Music on the Desert Road •Satan In Love – Rare Finnish Synth-Pop & Disco 1979-1992 •Switched-On Eugene on Numero Group •Tokyo Nights (Female J-Pop Boogie Funk: 1981 To 1988)

highlights from the book “Art Nouveau 1890-1914″ From top to bottom: -the studio of Elvira, designed by August Endell, Munich, 1899 -“Apparations” brooch, Eugene Grasset and Maison Vever, gold, enamel, ivory and topaz, 1900 -design for The Climax from Oscar Wilde’s Salome, Aubrey Beardsley, 1893 -walnut armchair designed by Rupert Carabin, 1896 -”Des Caresses”, Fernand Khnopff, oil on canvas, 1896 -Cabinet designed by Hector Guimard, pear and ash woods, bronze, mirrored glass, c1899 -”Armoire a layette”, Alexandre Charpentier, sycamore and pewter, 1893 -Women’s Pavilion, Exposition Universelle, 1900 -part of a table setting, Jeu de l’echarpe, b Agathon Leonard, 1898 -interior of the studio of Elvira again

Today's harrowing and sobering bus reading: an account of the Holocaust in Budapest, from the book "The Siege of Budapest: 100 Days in World War II".by Krisztián Ungváry. Includes first-hand accounts from diaries and goes into detail about the terror that happened from October 1944 to February 1945. Definitely recommend it. If you've ever toured Dohány Synagogue, you might know a few parts from this story, but this book goes into way more history. The section about the persecution of Jewish people begins on page 10 of the pdf, but start earlier if you want to read more background about the Arrow Cross. link here

Transformationsakt (Quick Change) (Walter Spies, 1920)

Ladies run, there is a man in the rose garden (Leonora Carrington,1948, oil on panel)

"Down with corporate parties" Soviet poster, 1960s

damaged photographs that I found in a house outside Budapest, February ‘18

Szerelem: Anna Margit - Amos Imre (Együttérzés)

Translation: Love: Margit Anna and Imre Amos (Sympathy)

Anna Margit, 1942. Tempera on paper

Portrait of the dancer Alexander Sacharoff (Alexej Jawlensky, 1909)

Cover art for the album Dedicato A Frazz by Semiramis (1973)

Frank Bidart

Dorette (Gerald Brockhurst, 1933)

"I, Gerald Ford am the 38th Puppet of the United States”, Emory Douglas for the Black Panther Party, 1974

Been watching movies from 2017 and there were several that I really liked (Western, Florida Project, Get Out, Good Time) and a bunch of other solid ones. But I just watched "Laissez Bronzer Les Cadavres" (Let The Corpses Tan) and it was really incredible, maybe even it is a new kind of movie that I have not seen before. A little bit Spaghetti Western or Sam Peckinpah, a little bit French heist/gangster, mixed up into an explosive psychedelic movie. It's abstract and sensory but still holds the same appeal as a thriller in a certain way. Maybe not everyone's cup of tea. But I really loved it. Highly recommended

-Wallace Stevens