Based on my limited intake, here are my top cultural victuals of 2008. Immediate thoughts: (a) I don’t read enough fiction; (b) I have no idea what’s hip in music anymore (although to be fair the wondrous Lykke Li is quite hip, I think). Oh, and with this post, a change of theme for this is yogic.
B O O K S
Fiction
Will Self Liver
Joe Dunthorne Submarine
Poetry
D.S. Marriott Voodoo Hoodoo
Jen Hadfield Nigh-No-Place
Iain Sinclair The Firewall
M U S I C
Albums
Lykke Li Youth Novels
MySpaces
Orphans & Vandals
Jeremy Warmsley
Concerts
Saul Williams @ Cargo
Lykke Li @ Latitude
The Renaissance Singers @ Temple Church
A R T
Barbican Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art
F I L M
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
T E L E V I S I O N
BBC Spooks
BBC God on Trial
BBC Wallander
T H E A T R E
The Shoemaker’s Holiday @ The Rose
1927, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea @ BAC
Tom Chivers 