Release Day Picks…late of course

Books and Books caught my attention this week. Must be because I’m almost done with what I’m reading and so looking for the next.

Some highlights:

• Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception By Charles Seif

• The Wave by Susan Casey about surfing and studying big waves

• Dick and Jane and Vampires … oh lord

• Even Silence Has an End by Ingrid Betancourt…here’s a video excerpt from her appearance on Oprah this week.

• Always good picks from Word Bookstore

• New in Paperback (from last week…geez) including last year’s great graphic novel Stitches: A Memoir by David Small and this week

• And finally, the music releases of the week

A small roundup of release day picks UPDATED

Just a sampling of the many books, Dvds and music out this week. More should be added as the week goes on…

Music

• Spin reviews the new Interpol album and 7 more that are out this week. You can hear most of them here
• In honor of “Super Tuesday” Sept. 14, NPR has streams of many albums coming out next week, including Of Montreal and Robert Plant
• Listen to a live song from the Dirty Projectors, who are reissuing last year’s Bitte Orca. Out Sept. 28

DVD

• Tool’s Maynard James Keenan’s doc on his other passion: wine. Blood into Wine is out on DVD this week

Books

• C by Tom McCarthy is getting good reviews. Read an excerpt
• Read an excerpt from William Gibson’s sci-fi novel Zero History
• Amelia Gray’s story collection Museum of the Weird is out
• New York Times reviews  Sean Wilentz’s Bob Dylan in America
• Adventure Stories and comic strips, sounds like a perfect match to me in Kevin Huizenga’s The Wild Kingdom…NPR profiles the book
  

Graphic Novels

• Belle Yang’s Forget Sorrow

New Releases…sort of UPDATED

Ok, so I didn’t update the releases that came out last week, but there was some really good stuff. So here’s new releases for last and this week:

This Week:

DVD

• Interview with Temple Grandin of the HBO movie of the same name

Books:

• THE PAIN CHRONICLES: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering  By Melanie Thernstrom. Here’s a story about the book from NPR
• War is Boring by war reporter David Axe

• Commuters by Emily Grey Tedrowe
• NY Times article on The Curse of the Good Girl by Rachel Simmons
• The Four Fingers of Death By Rick Moody
• This week’s Book picks
• Nonfiction picks from NPR
• Comics out this week
• Books on “suburban ennui“
• Novels for your emerging adulthood

Last Week:

Dvd:

• Louie Bluie and Crumb

Books:

• The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise
• Rosecrans Baldwin’s debut novel You Lost Me There
• Composed by Rosanne Cash
• The Great Typo Hunt by Jeff Deck
• NPR lists paperback bestsellers of (last) week

Next Week:

• Jonathan Franzan‘s novel Freedom hits stores Aug. 31

Release Picks has taken a little break, but… UPDATED

So once again, we’re going to do release picks a little different this week, as I am feeling super lazy. I blame it on the heat. Anyways, dvd-centered release picks…

• This record store documentary was released on DVD
• Other dvds out can be found here and here
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs Live in London Concert DVD

Books

• Good picks again from the Largehearted Boy blog
• Review for the Top Chef Cookbook
• NPR’s paperback bestsellers

New Releases 7.21.10

Here’s a movie review for ‘Mother‘ about a fierce one, you wouldn’t want to piss off. I’m in.

Other releases can be found on the Amazon Links page

DVDs released today

I feel like listing the dvd picks this week:

• Brief Interviews with Hideous Men – Based on David Foster Wallace’s book of the same name, a grad student writes her dissertation on men after being dumped

• Gogol Bordello Non-Stop –  This documentary gives us a look behind the band of the same name

• The Cool School – This documentary examines the rise of the Los Angelos art scene

• Astro Boy – animated movie based on Osamu Tezuka’s classic anime story

• Twilight in Forks: The Saga of the Real Town – Sure Twilight: New Moon is out on DVD on March 20, but also out is a documentary about the Washington state town made famous by the books

• Veiled Voices – This documentary follows 3 Islamic female leaders whose divorces cause many to question their legitimacy as leaders

• Paris – Juliet Binoche stars as the sister of a dancer that is warned his job could kill him, so he reinvents his life

• The Princess and The Frog – Disney’s first African-American heroine about, well, princesses kissing frogs

• Wonderful World – A pessimistic pot head has to examine his cynicism after his roomate becomes ill

Also out: Did you Hear about the Morgans, White Strips Doc: Under Great White Northern Lights, Broken Embraces

I’ve never done this pretty much all on my own. How’d I do?

And check out all the new releases in Amazon Links

Drinking book for St. Patty’s week

I can’t believe I’ve never seen Zane Lamprey’s cult hit TV show Three Sheets, which is all about drinking! It airs weeknights at 10pm (will check it out tonight!) on the Fine Living Network. You can also watch full episodes on Hulu. Out today is his new book Three Sheets: Drinking Made Easy! 6 Continents, 15 Countries, 190 Drinks, and 1 Mean Hangover! about what else drinking.

I’m feeling a little under the weather today, so I’ve been slowly adding new releases to the Amazon links page…more to come as I feel better.

New Releases Links 3.9.10

So overwhelmed by the amount of new releases information I’ve been wading through today. So instead of weeding things out, here it all is for your viewing pleasure:

Music:

• Ahead of upcoming release of The Runaways Movie, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts has released a greatest hits album available today. Buy it here on Itunes…note: next week The Soundtrack to The Runaways movie is released. You can hear it now on Spinner.com

• Express Night Out’s review of Titus Andronicus‘ ‘The Monitor’

• The A.V. Club’s review of Gorillaz ‘Plastic Beach‘

• Pitchfork gives the “new” Pavement reissue a 10.0. What other albums have they given perfect marks

• This list covers pretty much all of the music releases out this week. Note: Most if not all the albums can be heard on Spinner.com

DVDs

• Great list (as always) of all the DVDs out this week

Books

• Whip Smart: Memoirs Of A Dominatrix by Melissa Febos

• Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy By Melissa Milgrom

• Oprah’s March Book Picks

More releases are out in the Store of Coolness – More to be added…

Books and Books I forgot to mention in February

So many books out, I try to get all the noteable, but a few of note were bound to slip through my fingers.

Here’s some I missed lately:

• Can’t believe I missed this one: Best Sex Writing 2010*
• Blame by Michelle Huneven
• Bloodroot by Amy Greene
• Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever by Justin Taylor*
• The Farmer’s Daughter by Jim Harrison
• The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason
• Luba by Gilbert Hernandez*
• Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt
• Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian
• Smile by Raina Telgemeier*
• Tails of Wonder and Imagination: Cat Stories by Ellen Datlow*
• The Unnamed By Joshua Ferris*
• Cornflakes with John Lennon and Blues and Chaos: The Music Writing of Robert Palmer
• Comics I missed…
• Other books I missed released February 2010, here’s Oprah‘s February 2010 picks

All the books above are now in the Store of Coolness

See this week’s picks in Release Day Picks and articles on each item I picked on the Amazon Links page…enjoy 🙂

*Books I’m most interested in checking out

Some links now:

• A review of all the Vampire Books worth noting ever published
• 10 rules for writing fiction, from some of our favorite writers
• LA Times Book Award Finalists = lots of good stuff I missed last year

Updates to Release Day

• The Chronicle’s review of The Possessed

• From The Fader Magazine: Stream Lightspeed Champion‘s new album ‘Life is sweet, nice to meet you‘

• Review of the Women in Trouble dvd

• More info about The Preservation album I mentioned yesterday

• And some more book picks

See the Amazon Links page for more books, music, and dvds released this week