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2012: The Year in Review (WIP)

  1. Escape From New York (1981)
  2. Die Hard (1988)
  3. Fleetwood Mac, 'Over and Over' Tusk (1979)
  4. How to check your drinks for roofies. Kind of.
  5. William Gibson, Zero History (2011)
  6. Richard Price, Lush Life (2008)
  7. Quantum reality.
  8. The limits of intuition.
  9. The far side of the moon.
  10. "Accused Picasso Thief Pleads Guilty" Article @ NYTimes. (This will become important later on.)
  11. Woody Allen's first version of Midnight in Paris was a 1971 short story
  12. Modern polling research
  13. Boss (2011) 
  14. Diana Krall, 'Let's Face The Music and Dance,' 1999 (Irving Berlin, 1936)
  15. Eve Arnold
  16. Janwillem van de Wetering, The Corpse on the Dike (1976) ("I can never hit anything after I have been riding my bicycle; it seems that the vibration of a cycle affects the muscles of my arm." pp. 46-47)
  17. 1970 Camaro data. (This will become important later on.)
  18. "Alien lights on Pluto" article @ Time magazine. (This will become important later on.) 
(Pic: Oscar Wilde's tomb, Pere Lachaise 2012)

2 comments:

Stephen Stratford said...

Janwillem van de Wetering is fantastic. Hard to find these days but worth the effort.

I have no idea where he stands in the pantheon of Buddhist crime fiction novelists from the Netherlands but he's my favourite.

Chad Taylor said...

He's good, isn't he? Very droll. And very 70s.