September next year, Jeff Koons will exhibit his giant sculptures indoors and outdoors at the Palace of Versailles.

Marie Antoinette c1769

I get real emails with these kinds of headlines, no joke:

“Our whole house has scarlet fever, Victorian tea party cancelled!”

I started a project for my 33 birthday documenting all my favorite records since the year I was born.  Ideally I wanted to dj a set by picking one song from each year, but the task proved to be impossible. You can see I am still working on the list and I plan to make it a lifelong project.  It is a fun project to do.  You should give it a try.

1975
Another Green World – Brian Eno
Deluxe – Harmonia
Neu! ’75 – Neu!
Landed – Can
Young Americans – David Bowie

1976
Modern Lovers – Modern Lovers
The Ramones – The Ramones

1977
Heroes – David Bowie
Talking Heads: 77 – Talking Heads
Trans Europe Express – Kraftwerk

1978
The Cars – The Cars
Germ Free Adolescents – X-Ray Spex
The Man Machine – Kraftwerk
Parallel Lines – Blondie
Some Girls – The Rolling Stones
This Heat – This Heat

1979
The B-52s – The B-52s
Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an
Umbrella – Nurse With Wound
Entertainment! – Gang Of Four
Fear of Music – Talking Heads
The Pleasure Principle – Gary Numan
The Raincoats – The Raincoats
Unknown Pleasures – Joy Division
Eat to the Beat – Blondie

1980
Freedom of Choice – Devo
Double Fantasy – John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Sandinista! – The Clash
Kings of the Wild Frontier – Adam and the Ants
Autoamerican – Blondie

1981
The Beauty and the Beat – The Go-Go’s
Computer World – Kraftwerk
Deceit – This Heat
Duran Duran – Duran Duran
Freeze Frame – J. Geils Band
Non-stop Erotic Cabaret – Soft Cell

1982
Thriller – Michael Jackson
Avalon – Roxy Music
Complete Madness – Madness (greatest hits)
Rio – Duran Duran
1999 – Prince
Vacation – The Go Gos
Dexys Midnight Runners  Come On Eileen

1983
Let’s Dance – David Bowie
War – U2

1984
Heartbeat City – The Cars
She’s So Unusual – Cyndi Lauper
Like a Virgin – Madonna
Stop Making Sense – Talking Heads

1985
Hounds of Love – Kate Bush
Hunting High and Low – a-ha
Psychocandy – The Jesus and Mary Chain
This Is Big Audio Dynamite – Big Audio Dynamite

1986
Atomizer – Big Black
Control – Janet Jackson
Licensed to Ill – The Beastie Boys

1987
Locust Abortion Technician – Butthole Surfers
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me – The Cure
Kick – INXS
Bad – Michael Jackson
Jane’s Addiction – Jane’s Addiction
Escape From Noise – Negativland
Substance – New Order
Come On Pilgrim – Pixies
The Young Gods – The Young Gods
The Joshua Tree – U2

1988
Across the Universe – Laibach
Daydream Nation – Sonic Youth
Surfer Rosa – Pixies
The Lion and the Cobra – Sinéad O’Connor
The Land of Rape and Honey – Ministry
Kylie – Kylie
Nothing’s Shocking – Jane’s Addiction
101 – Depeche Mode

1989
Cosmic Thing – The B-52’s
Disintegration – The Cure
Technique – New Order
Like a Prayer – Madonna
Pretty Hate Machine – Nine Inch Nails
Bleach – Nirvana
Energy – Operation Ivy
Full Moon Fever – Tom Petty
Doolittle – Pixies
Mother’s Milk – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Tweez – Slint
The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
Mind Bomb – The The

1990
Violator – Depeche Mode
Repeater – Fugazi
This Is Our Music – Galaxie 500
Confessions Of A Knife – My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got – Sinéad O’Connor
Nowhere – Ride
Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To – Spacemen 3
Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic – The Sundays
Pod – The Breeders

1991
White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity – Swans
The Real Ramona         Throwing Muses
Spiderland      Slint
Gish    The Smashing Pumpkins
Whirlpool – Chapterhouse
Steady Diet of Nothing  Fugazi
To Mother       Babes in Toyland
Blood Sugar Sex Magik   Red Hot Chili Peppers
Nevermind       Nirvana
Screamadelica   Primal Scream
Love’s Secret Domain – Coil
Unsane – Unsane
Goat – Jesus Lizard

1992
Swans – Love of Life
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 – Aphex Twin
Little Earthquakes -  Tori Amos
Doppelgänger    Curve
Honey’s Dead    The Jesus and Mary Chain
Slanted and Enchanted   Pavement
Dry     PJ Harvey
Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs   Ministry
Broken (EP)     Nine Inch Nails
Fixed (EP)      Nine Inch Nails         Remix EP

1993
Tabula Rasa   -  Einstürzende Neubauten
Extra Width – Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements – Stereolab

1994
Fracture / Tied (10) – Seefeel
Exile in Guyville    –     Liz Phair
Debut  –   Björk
In Utero – Nirvana
So Tonight That I Might See – Mazzy Star
Angst – KMFDM
4-Track Demos – PJ Harvey
Muslimgauze (too many to mention)
Rid of Me – PJ Harvey
There Is No-One What Will Take Care Of You – Palace Brothers

1994
Selected Ambient Works Volume II – Aphex Twin
Live Through This – Hole
Evanescence – Scorn

1995

The Great Annihilator – Swans
Truth Is Born Of Arguments – Locust
To Bring You My Love – PJ Harvey
Further Down the Spiral – Nine Inch Nails
Post РBj̦rk
Disco Volante – Mr. Bungle

1996
Soundtracks for the Blind – Swans
Ende Neu – Einstürzende Neubauten
Richard D. James – Aphex Twin
Endtroducing….. – DJ Shadow

1997
Telegram – Bjork
Dig Your Own Hole – Chemical Brothers
Ultra  -  Depeche Mode
Halim  -   Natacha Atlas
Symbols  -  KMFDM
Come to Daddy   -  Aphex Twin
All Music Has Come to and End – Cristian Vogel

1998
Mezzanine – Massive Attack
Is this Desire?  – PJ Harvey

1999
To Venus and Back -  Tori Amos

2000
Silence Is Sexy – Einstürzende Neubauten

2001
Ayeshteni – Natacha Atlas

2002

2003
100th Window – Massive Attack

2004
The Greater Wrong of the Right – Skinny Puppy
Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters
Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned- The Prodigy
I Com – Miss Kittin
R̻ves M̩caniques РThe Hacker
Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
Wet From Birth – The Faint
Flora & Fauna – Dominik Eulberg
76/77 – Cobra Killer
Plays Love Songs – Burnt Friedman
Casting Shadows – Wolfsheim

2005
Shadows and Dust – Lene Lovich
Supernature – Goldfrapp
Spirituals – Flanger
Odyssey – Fischerspooner
New World Observer – Deadbeat
Push the Button – The Chemical Brothers
Silent Alarm – Bloc Party
Nouvelle Vague – Nouvelle Vague

2006
Someone To Drive You Home – The Long Blondes
Colleen Et Les Boîtes À Musique – Colleen

2007
And Their Refinement Of The Decline – Stars of the Lid

I finally had a chance to see the lovely, super cute and smart film
Ratatouille (2007) Directed by Brad Bird

The Orphanage (2007) reminded me of
some of my favorite films The Others, The Omen,
and The 6th Sense.
Look at their beautiful official movie site.

Shrewd, Selfish Scarlett: A Complicated Heroine by Karen Grigsby Bates

Totally interesting NPR story that I heard today about one of my favorite (complex) characters of all time.

Necessary evils: Whether plotting a conquest at a picnic or engineering a comeback from poverty, Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh) had no qualms about doing what it took.

In mourning: Scarlett broods while Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) woos.