The Watch List: Gabe Durham Edition

This week we have a special edition of The Watch List courtesy of Gabe Durham. Gabe has been kind enough to give away three copies of his chapbook "The Complete Genealogy of Everyone, Ever," to the first three people to e-mail him at gabe.durham@gmail.com. Just put "OA Giveaway" in the subject line. (Congrats to the WINNERS... Mel Bosworth, Ben Segal, and Pete Anderson!)

Listening:
1. Vampire Weekend - Contra - hey, I like them now! track 4 makes incredible use of autotune
2. David Bazan - Curse Your Branches - his best-produced album in awhile. still spiritually pissed
3. The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed - not just for bar jukeboxes and Martin Scorsese movies anymore

Reading:
1. Sam Lipsyte - Homeland - hilarious, devastating
2. Grace Paley - The Little Disturbances of Man - her first collection
3. EL Doctorow - Sweet Land Stories - a strong collection of five longish stories with one of the most innocuous cover/title combos in recent memory
4. Quick Fiction #16 - good as always
5. Shellie Zacharia - Now Playing - quick, fun, vulnerable stories
6. Charles Simic - That Little Something

Wishing:
1. Sam Lipsyte - The Ask
2. The Magnetic Fields - Realism
3. Spoon - Transference
4. A Failed Entertainment

Getting
1. The Wrens - 20 Years of Juvenilia - new b-sides disc. I will buy anything they ever put out
2. The Lifted Brow #6 - contributor copy! big book + 2 CDs. awesome, awesome

Watching:
1. Twin Peaks: Season 2 DVD - I found out who killed Laura and maybe now I'll stop watching
2. The Mean World Syndrome - news and violence make us scared of everyone
3. Moon - Sam Rockwell moon clones
4. Big Fan - Patton Oswalt can act
5. 70-minute video review of the Phantom Menace - as narrated by The Internet Himself, or what I imagine He sounds/acts like.