Wish lists

We’ve just completed our new album “Heartthrob” which will be released in 2013. We’ll be spending Christmas with family and we’ve been moving the locale each year to keep it fun.

1. The Vince Guaraldi Trio
   A Charlie Brown Christmas (MUSIC)

2. Daphni
   Jiaolong (MUSIC)

3. Chris Ware
   Building Stories (BOOK)

4. Emma Donoghue
   Astray (BOOK)

5. Kate Zambreno
   Heroines (BOOK)

6. Leos Carax
   Holy Motors (FILM)

7. Ben Affleck
   Argo (FILM)

8. Jason Moore
   Pitch Perfect (FILM)

9.
Michael Walker
Price Check (FILM)

10.
Kendrick Lamar
Good Kid, m.a.a.d City (MUSIC)

Footnote: Twin sisters Tegan and Sara have been playing songs together since childhood.

Krishnamachari: Over the holidays, I can work on the completion of my house in Alwaye , Kerala.

Komu: After the closing of the first edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale I will get back on to my work as an artist, planning a multimedia solo project on India with an “Idea of Newness”.

1. Orhan Pamuk
   My Name is Red (BOOK)

2. Satyajit Ray
   Pather Panchali (FILM)

3. Wim Wenders
   Pina (FILM)

4. Bahman Ghobadi
   Turtles Can Fly (FILM)

5. Ali Farka Toure
   In The Heart Of The Moon (MUSIC)

6. Samuel Beckett
   Waiting For Godot (play)

7. Andrei Tarkovsky
   Andrei Rublev (FILM)

We have a ton of book projects and workshops for 2013 including graphic designer Jessica Hische and the creative director at MoMA, Julia Hoffmann. I’ll be with family in Berlin at Christmas, offline and offscreen.

1. Super700
   Under the No Sky (MUSIC)

2. François de Roubaix
   Anthologie Vol 1 (MUSIC)

3. Johann Sebastian Bach
   Christmas Oratorio (MUSIC)

4. And Also the Trees
   Hunter Not the Hunted (MUSIC)

5. Erling Kagge and Kenneth Steven
   Philosophy for Polar Explorers (BOOK)

6. Richard Ford
   Canada (BOOK)

7. Jon Savage
   Teenage: The Prehistory of Youth Culture: 1875-1945 (BOOK)

8. Tim Burton
   The Nightmare Before Christmas (FILM)

9. JG Ballard
   War Fever (BOOK)

I’ll be with the family over the holidays but every year is spent editing a FILM. We’re finishing off the FILM we shot this year called “A Field in England” which is an English Civil War movie meets psychedelia.

1. Cluster
   Self-titled (MUSIC)

2. Harmonia
   Deluxe (MUSIC)

3. Tangerine Dream
   Phaedra (MUSIC)

4. Belbury Poly and The Advisory Circle
   Study Series 08: Inversions (MUSIC)

5. Brian Eno
   Music for films (MUSIC)

6. José Padilha
   Elite squad: The Enemy Within (FILM)

7. Peter Yates
   The Friends of Eddie Coyle (FILM)

8. Shane Carruth
   Primer (FILM)

9. Hayao Miyazaki
   Starting Point 1979-1996 (BOOK)

10. The Owl Service
    Alan Garner (BOOK)

We’ve just finished a tour in Eastern Europe and at this point it feels as if there are endless places to see, experience and of course eat. Dirty Beaches has two full length LPs for release in 2013, and I’ll be moving to Berlin this winter to record.

1. Andy Stott
   We Stay Together (MUSIC)

2. Femminielli
   Carte Blanche Aux Desirs (MUSIC)

3. Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto
   Revep EP (MUSIC)

4. Quincy Troupe
   Miles: The Autobiography (BOOK)

5. Grzegorz Królikiewicz
   The Dancing Hawk (FILM)

6. Hot & Cold
   Border Area (MUSIC)

For 2013 I will be exploring more of the technology-driven experiential work I have been doing. I am also working on an incredible Wu-Tang Clan documentary. New York is a great place to be around the holidays, I love the energy here as it ramps up to Christmas.

1. Paul Thomas Anderson
   The Master (FILM)

2. Jacques Audiard
   Un Prophète (FILM)

3. Stacy Peralta
   Bones Brigade: An Autobiography (FILM)

4. Richard Donner
   Scrooged (FILM)

5. Wes Anderson
   Moonrise Kingdom (FILM)

6. Carson Mell
   Tarantula (web animation series)

7. Miles Davis
   Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (MUSIC)

8. Ghostface Killah
   12 Reasons To Die (MUSIC)

9. Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics
   Inspiration Information 3 (MUSIC)

10. Adrian Younge
    Venice Dawn (MUSIC)

11. Jackson 5
    Jackson 5 Christmas Album (MUSIC)

12. Karriem Riggins
    Alone Together (MUSIC)

13. Walter Isaacson
    Steve Jobs (BOOK)

Christmas will be in Berlin and then we’ll hang out in Tenerife. For 2013 “Die Welt” and “Welt am Sonntag” will still be having fun challenging German mainstream opinion.

1. Asif Kapadia
   Senna (FILM)

2. Irgendwie und Sowieso (dvd)

3. Norbert Schoerner
   Third Life, Violette Editions (BOOK)

4. Rainald Goetz
   Johann Holtrop, Suhrkamp Verlag (BOOK)

Christmas is about good company and general merriment. I’ll be spending a quiet Christmas with friends and the New Year in Tuscany for a big old party. In early 2013 I’ll be in New York researching Robert Rauschenberg.

1. Azealia Banks
   kunt.fm (online radio)

2. Jean-Philippe Rameau
   Castor et Pollux (MUSIC)

3. Wham!
   Last Christmas (MUSIC)

4. Niccolò Machiavelli
   The Prince (BOOK)

5. Andy Warhol
   The Andy Warhol Diaries (BOOK)

6. David Abulafia
   The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean (BOOK)

7. Albert and David Maysles
   Grey Gardens (FILM)

8. Her Majesty the Queen
   The Queen’s Speech (TV)

For 2013 I’m working on a new album, finishing a new song and thinking about what’s next.

1. Peter Ivers
   Terminal Love (MUSIC)

2. T-REX
   Tanx (MUSIC)

3. Curtis Mayfield
   There’s No Place Like America Today (MUSIC)

4. Stanley Kubrick
   The Shining (FILM)

5. Russ Meyer
   Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (FILM)

6. Nicolas Winding Refn
   Drive (FILM)

7. Shigeru Mizuki
   Kappa No Sanpei (manga)

8. Kazuo Umezu
   Hyouryuu Kyoushitsu (manga)

9. Yoshiharu Tsuge
   Munou No Hito (manga)

We are launching a dedicated children’s imprint called Flying Eye BOOKs in the new year. Christmas is about getting everyone together once a year and showing you care – it’s not a religious thing to me.

1. Alt-J
   An Awesome Wave (MUSIC)

2. Flying Lotus
   Until the Quiet Comes (MUSIC)

3. Luke Pearson
   Hilda and the Bird Parade (BOOK)

4. Isaac Asimov
   The Foundation Series (BOOK)

5. Tinariwen
   Tassili (MUSIC)

6. Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano
   Untouchable (FILM)

Footnote: Nobrow are a London-based publishing house and store specialising in graphic novels.

I will probably be touring most of 2013 so right now I’m trying to think of a way that I can travel without having to deal with airports and planes. Maybe by waterskis. Recently I’ve been recording in LA with Dave Sitek but I’ll be spending Christmas in Denmark with family. It’s a tradition I look forward to.

1. Toy
   Toy (MUSIC)

2. Bat for Lashes
   Laura (MUSIC)

3. Jack London
   Klondike Tales (BOOK)

4. Tom Sachs
   Space Program (BOOK)

5. Asif Kapadia
   Senna (FILM)

6. John Hughes
   Home Alone (FILM)

7. Daniel Gordon
   A State of Mind (FILM)

8. Marc Webb
   The Amazing Spider-Man (FILM)

9. Frank Darabont
   The Walking Dead (dvd)

10. Radiolab (podcast)

Footnote: Before finding success in MUSIC, Oh Land was trained at the Royal Swedish Ballet School.

Christmas will be in Argentina, I don’t know exactly where, perhaps Buenos Aires or in the middle of the Pampa during a month-long tour.

1. Wim Wenders
   Wings of Desire (FILM)

2. Luis Buñuel
   Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie (FILM)

3. Xavier Dolan
   Laurence Anyways (FILM)

4. Oliver Sacks
   MUSICophilia (BOOK)

5. Charles Baudelaire
   Les Fleurs du Mal (BOOK)

6. Hermann Hesse
   Siddhartha (BOOK)

7. DJ Deep
   Kern Vol 1 (MUSIC)

8. Jacaszek
   Glimmer (MUSIC)

I like Christmas, eating lots of heavy food and doing all the usual preparations. Early 2013 I’ll be promoting my newest album “Smalhans”, playing shows and festivals all over the world. I’ll also spend as much time as possible in my studio in Oslo.

1. Bernard Knowles, The Beatles
   Magical Mystery Tour (FILM)

2. Donnie & Joe Emerson
   Dreamin’ Wild (MUSIC)

3. Dheeraj Akolkar
   Liv & Ingmar (FILM)

4. Wes Anderson
   Moonrise Kingdom (FILM)

5. Sensation’s Fix
   MUSIC Is Painting In The Air (MUSIC)

6. Harold Mcgee
   On Food And Cooking (BOOK)

7. Taken By Trees
   Other Worlds (MUSIC)

8. Simon Reynolds
   Retromania (BOOK)

9. Flying Lotus
   Until The Quiet Comes (MUSIC)

10. Jean Luc-Godard
    Weekend (FILM)

It’s exciting to see what artists are saying. In addition to FILMs in 2013, we will also present immersive, technology-driven installations in our New Frontier exhibition and MUSIC performances.

1. Cheryl Strayed
   Wild (BOOK)

2. Gillian Flynn
   Gone Girl (BOOK)

3. Ben Fountain
   Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (BOOK)

4. Dave Eggers
   Zeitoun (BOOK)

5. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
   All About Eve (FILM)

6. Bob Fosse
   All That Jazz (FILM)

7. Andrew Haigh
   Weekend (FILM)

8. Benh Zeitlin
   Beasts of the Southern Wild (FILM)

9. Peyton Reed
   Bring It On (FILM)

10. Dionne Warwick
    Greatest Hits (MUSIC)

11. Rodriguez
    Searching for Sugar Man soundtrack (MUSIC)

By the end of 2012 I will be working on my new novel and since I don’t know how long it will take me to complete, I am already depressed about it. It’ll take readers on an unusual journey across two empires, two continents and seven seas.

1. Hans Fallada
   Alone in Berlin (BOOK)

2. Samuel Arbesman
   The Half Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has An Expiration Date (BOOK)

3. Zainab Salbi
   Between Two Worlds (BOOK)

4. The xx
   Coexist (MUSIC)

5. Sandra Cisneros
   Woman Hollering Creek (BOOK)

6. Asghar Farhadi
   A Separation (FILM)

7. Terry Gilliam
   Brazil (FILM)