Favorite Music of 2012

So I threw some stuff up on Frontier Psychiatrist and Windy City Rock already, but here is my personal list. Can do a definite top 10, followed by other favorites.

1) Fiona Apple - the Idler Wheel...



2) Miike Snow - Happy to You



3) Frank Ocean - Channel Orange



4) Grimes - Visions



5) Netherfriends - Middle America




6) Ed Schrader's Music Beat - Jazz Mind



7) Sharon Van Etten -Tramp



8) Liars - WIXIW



9) BBU - bell hooks



10) Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light



Other Favorites:
Delicate Steve - Positive Force
the Evens - the Odds
Guardian Alien - See the World Given to a One Love Entity
Young Magic - Melt
Paper Mice - the Funny Papers
Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II
Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror
Of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks
Chandeliers - Founding Fathers
Dustin Wong - Dreams Say View Create Shadow Leads
Kids These Days - Traphouse Rock

Didn't Listen to Enough, But Still Solid:
Air - Le Voyage Dans la Lune
Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Mellowhype - Numbers
Memoryhouse - the Slideshow Effect
Menomena - Moms
Patti Smith - Benga
Passion Pit - Gossamer
Twin Shadow - Confess
Ty Segall - Slaughterhouse
the XX - Coexist
Thee Satisfaction - Awe Naturale

Books I Read in 2012

35 books this year. Next year's goal = 52. All by women, minority, international, or LGQBT writers. Here's to 2013.   

Jennifer Egan - A Visit From the Goon Squad (2010)
Christopher Hitchens - Hitch 22 (2010)
Michel Houellebecq - the Map and the Territory (2012)
Aleksandar Hemon - the Lazarus Project (2008)
Sylvia Plath - the Bell Jar (1963)
Ben Marcus - the Flame Alphabet (2012)
Pico Iyer - the Man Within My Head (2012)
Teju Cole - Open City (2011)
Azar Nifisi - Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003)
Jay-Z - Decoded (2010)
Roald Dahl - the Umbrella Man and Other Short Stories (1996)
Truman Capote - In Cold Blood (1966)
Adam Levin - Hot Pink (2011)
Jonah Lehrer - Imagine (2012)
Mike Royko - Sez Who Sez Me (1983)
Rick Bass - In My Home There Is No More Sorrow (2012)
Michael Czyzniejewski - Chicago Stories (2012)
Franz Kafka - Amerika (trans. 1996)
David Eggers - You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002)
Etgar Keret - Suddenly a Knock on the Door (2012)
Toni Morrison - the Bluest Eye (1970)
David Eggers - a Hologram for the King (2012)
William Burroughs - Naked Lunch (1959)
Toni Morrison - Home (2012)
Zadie Smith - White Teeth (2000)
Zadie Smith - NW (2012)
Michel Houellebecq - the Elementary Particles (1998, trans. 2000)
Michael Chabon - Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2000)
Saul Bellow - the Adventures of Augie March (1953)
Peter Orner - Love and Shame and Love (2011)
Junot Diaz - This is How you Lose Her (2012)
Junot Diaz - the Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007)
Michael Pollan - The Omnivore's Dilemma (2006)
Adam McOmber - the White Forest (2012)
John Kennedy Toole - Confederacy of Dunces (1980)