Fantastic Metropolis

Short stories

• “What I Didn’t See”, Karen Joy Fowler (SciFiction)
• “The Essayist in the Wilderness”, William Browning Spencer (F&SF)
• “The Rose in Twelve Petals”, Theodora Goss (Realms of Fantasy)

Movies

Spirited Away, Hayao Miyazaki

I love Peter Jackson, and I love Tolkien, but I hated The Two Towers: Spirited Away was magic in all the ways that The Two Towers wasn’t.

Les Yeux Sans Visage, Georges Franju

I’d never seen this before. I was amazed.

Music

• Blue Horses, The Be Good Tanyas
• Rabbit Songs, Hem
• Eternal Life, Future Bible Heroes
• Take Offs and Landings, Rilo Kiley