what I'm wanting

what I'm whating

Music:

Dream Theater--Black Clouds & Silver Linings

Scale the Summit--Carving Desert Canyons

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds--Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus

Elvis Costello--Secret, Profane, and Sugarcane

The Mars Volta--Octahedron

Books & Comics:

'The Areas of My Expertise' by John Hodgman

'American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House' by Jon Meacham

'The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World 1788--1800' by Jay Winik

'Stel' by Moebius

Movies:

Election

This is Spinal Tap

The Evil Dead

What I'm looking forward to:

'Asterios Polyp' by David Mazzucchelli

'Parker: The Hunter' by Darwyn Cooke

'R. Crumb's Book of Genesis'

96-page Frank project by Jim Woodring

'The Marquis: Inferno' by Guy Davis

Acme Novelty Library #20 by Chris Ware

The Brothers Bloom

Moon

A Serious Man

Doctor Who specials

Porcupine Tree--The Incident

My soundtrack for the last two weeks

The odd man out being the first one, Steven Wilson's Insurgentes album, which has significantly less double bass and electronic voice than the Death and Cynic albums, respectively. But all are the real goods.

Also, what has Dax been listening to lately?

What has Dax been reading lately?

Comics I've been enjoying of late: