Alistair Kiley

Don't get me started. I've been meaning to do a list of the Pollard albums I've acquired this year, but I'm kinda freaked about how many I bought and then obsessively listened to

24 from 2024 #21 reading Illuminations central novella "What Can We Know About Thunderman" will (maybe deservedly) ruin your ability to enjoy any Marvel movie, permanently.

24 from 2024 #24 the one I'm itching to read next. Everything Graeber ever wrote feels essential

24 from 2024 #23 How I'm ending the year. With this enormous fkn beast of a book, 30 pages in and I'm hooked

24 from 2024 #22 Ballard's most terrifying bit of prescience "the suburbs dream of violence"

24 from 2024 #20 terminally late in digging into this guy. From 2024 his style does look dated and overblown but I read it with a sneaking suspicion that 90%of punk rock rules and prejudices could probably be traced directly back to Lester Bangs

24 from 2024 #19 speed freak jive with a killer cover

24 from 2024 #18 more Delaney, gotta feeling this is going to turn into my 2025 crush

24 from 2024 #17 a timely overview of mind altering drugs from self experimentation to moral panic, prohibition and back

24 from 2024 #16 a fizzy cyberpunk good time, almost an intentional parody of Neuromancer, but really is its own weird fun thing in the end

24 from 2024 #15 legendary manager and music industry mover and shaker. Goes big on his relationship with the Master Musicians of Joujouka and hopefully puts a dignified end to the 80s/90s schism. I hung out with Rikki a few years ago at Joujouka and he is a true legend, this book fkn rules!

24 from 2024 #14 how I started the year. A slick, slightly cynical (Kurt gets a lot more book space than Kim) rock bio. Worthy of mention for turning me on to the Bush Tetras.

24 from 2024 #13 memoirs from 70s queer bohemia

24 from 2024 #12 more from Gary Indiana, my favourite of his books that I've read so far

24 from 2024 #11 the one where the author died when I was halfway thru reading it. Literary gossip thinly disguised as fiction, I went on a major Gary Indiana reading binge /voyage of discovery this year. Hilarious, shocking, sexy and tragic.

24 from 2024 #10 Joan's devastating critique of the stupidity of Reagan's regime change on the cheap policies, the human residue left on the board, and the absolutely fatal inability to imagine the consequences

24 from 2024 #9 the novel Bret Easton Ellis wishes he wrote. American Psycho but with queer teenagers

24 from 2024 #8 The one that makes you realise how fast things change. From outsider refuge and community base, to the nightlife zeitgeist, then onwards into an (app driven) obsolesence propped up by hen parties. What exactly are Gay Bars for now?

24 from 2024 #7 The one that makes you want to travel back in time to late 70s LA and hang out at Madame Wong's with Pleasant Gerhman and Belinda Carlisle. Far less depressing than its counterpart NY oral punk history "Please Kill Me"

24 from 2024 #6. The one that looked dull but was fascinating, profound and inspiring. Some guy goes for a big walk in East Anglia and thinks about stuff. Far better than I've just made it sound. Pre-hipster psychogeography and brilliant digressions

24 from 2024 #5 The book I bought for its cover but has remained unread. Two of Gurdjieff's minions have a terrible time in Paris, this is their correspondence. Awesome cover anyway.

Last year I did William Gibson. 2022 Ursula K Le Guin. 2025 may be the year of Samuel R Delaney.

24 from 2024 #4 The Project. For the last few years, I've become fixated on a different writer each year and done my best to devour their entire back catalogue. This is 2024's High Rise of JG Ballard.

24 from 2024 #3. The talisman and divining tool "At dawn, after driving all night, they reached the suburbs of Hell. The pale flares from the petrochemical plants illuminated the wet cobbles. No one would meet them there."

24 from 2024 #2 The one I'm too scared to do more than skim. Asking the biggest question. So how exactly do we end the entire fossil fuel industry before it ends us? Even more pertinent 2 weeks after the floods destroyed a big chunk of the south and west suburbs of València.

First post. 24 from 2024. #1 The book I'm living in right now and the CD I'm playing. Delaney's interstellar queer futurism vs Pollard's KC pastische. I could probably do a list of the (more than) 24 Robert Pollard records I've acquired this year, but that a weirder afternoon than I'm looking for