January texts, 2008 edition!

And let's go!

*POETRY*
+Cole Swensen’s “The Glass Age”
+Cyril Wong’s “Hegira” [manuscript]
+Alan Popa’s “Samsara”

*FICTION*
Michel Houellebecq’s “Platform”
+Kadrey’s “Butcher Bird”
+Mario Vargas Llosa’s “In Praise of the Stepmother”
+Warren Ellis’s “Crooked Little Vein”
+Austin Grossman’s “Soon I Will Be Invincible”

*DRAMA*
+Suzan Lori-Parks’s “Topdog/Underdog”
+Nick Dear’s “Zenobia”
+Caryl Churchill's "The Skriker"
Francis Tanglao-Aguas’s “When the Purple Settles”

*NON-FICTION*
+Karen Armstrong’s “Through the Narrow Gate”
+William Lim’s “Postmodern Singapore”

*GRAPHIC TEXTS*
+Craig Thompson’s “Blankets”
+Posy Simmonds’s “Tamara Drewe”
+Larry Gonick’s “The Cartoon History of the Universe Vol. 3; From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance”

*PERFORMANCES*
The KnAM Theatre’s “Suhobezvodnoie (The Dry Place)”
+The Necessary Stage and 7:84 Theatre Company’s “Eclipse”
+Quorum Ballet’s “Relations”
+STAGES’s “Chesty Nutty Bang Bang”

*EXHIBITIONS*
Nathalie Daoust’s “Frozen in Time”
Susie Wong’s “Trace”
Ming Wong’s “Filem-Filem-Filem”
+Singapore Management University’s “Always Here But Not Always Present: Art in a Senseless World”
+Ayala Museum’s “The Diorama Experience”, “Damian Domingo” and “Pioneers of Philippine Art”
Ramilito Paragsa Subang‘s “Ancestral Home Interior”
Juvenal Sanso’s “Water: The Medium”
+Leonardo T. Cruz’s “Noli Me Tangere”
Poklong Anading’s “Transient Body”
+San Agustin Museum
Casa Manila
+“National Museum of the Philippine People” (especially for its art wing)

*FILMS*
Richard Attenborough’s “A Chorus Line”
+Woody Allen’s “Sleeper”
+Katsushiro Otomo’s “Akira”
+Julie Taymor’s “Across the Universe”
+Anne Fletcher’s “27 Dresses”
+Matt Reeves’s “Cloverfield”
way too much of Kim Kim Kyong-Mook’s “Faceless Things”, which is basically a gay Korean schoolboy "Two Girls One Cup"... I don't want my eyes anymore...