IDEAL home Noise Columns

Jeff’s long-running IDEAL HOME NOISE column in The Fanzine features an eclectic round-up of fiction, photography, visual art, graphic novels, film, and music that’s worth taking up space in your head. It might also provide some sideways insight into his own work.

#1: Jan Sagl’s photography collection of Czech underground culture Dancing on the Double Ice; O. Schrauwen’s graphic novel Arsene Schrauwen; Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Blu-ray box set Six Films 1963-1974. Read more...

#2: Tom McCarthy’s novel Satin Island; Mickey Zacchelli’s first collection of her comix serial Rav; Bob Dylan and The Band’s The Complete Basement Tapes. Read more...

#3: Wim Wenders photography book Written in the West; Costa-Gavras’ films State of Siege and The Confession; Stewart Home’s anti-novel The 9 Lives of Ray the Cat Jones. Read more...

#4: Vera Chytilova’s film Fruit of Paradise; Silvina Ocampo’s short story collection Thus Were Their Faces; Louise Bourgeois visual art catalogs The Cells: Structures of Existence and I Have Been to Hell and Back. Read more...

#5: Chicago psychedelic art collective The Collected Hairy Who Publications: 1966-1969; Derek McCormack’s novel The Well-Dressed Wound; Aleksei German’s film Hard to Be a God. Read more...

#6: Merce Rodereda’s novels Death in Spring and War, So Much War; Bill Henson’s photography book Particle Mist; Michael Haneke’s film Code Unknown. Read more...

#7: Masterworks of American Avant-Garde Experimental Film: 1920-1970 Blu-ray collection; Caitlin Skaalrud’s graphic novel Houses of the Holy; Jonah Freedman and Justin Lowe’s art installations Black Acid Co-Op, Bright White Underground, Stray Light Grey, and Artichoke Underground. Read more...

#8: The Jacques Rivette Collection, a massive 16-disc DVD and Blu-Ray box set of his films from the 1970s. Read more...

#9: Avant manga collections from 1960s Japanese masters Sasaki Maki and Seiichi Hayashi; Wallace Berman visual art catalog American Aleph; Phyllis Galembo’s photography book Maske. Read more...

#10: Marcel Broodthaers visual art catalog; Blutch’s graphic novel Peplum; Alejandra Pizarnik’s Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972. Read more...

#11: Krzysztof Kieslowski’s The Dekalog, a collection of 10 films; D. Foy’s novel Patricide; Raymond Pettibon’s drawings Homo Americanus: Collected Works. Read more...

#12: Robert Frank’s Film Works set that collects his 27 films, along with several catalogs and essays. Read more... 

#13:  Alan Clarke’s BBC films collected in the Blu-ray box Dissent & Disruption: 1969-1989; Julio Cortázar’s lectures Literature Class; Pushwagner’s proto graphic novel Soft City. Read more...

#14: Kiju Yoshida’s Love + Anarchism, a set of his radical 1970s films; Greg Tate’s essay collection Flyboy 2; Anouck Durand’s Eternal Friendship which is part photobook, graphic novel, and historical meditation. Read more...

#15: Fleur Jaeggy’s short fiction and essays; Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel’s conceptual book of found photographs Evidence; Robert Bresson’s film L’Argent, collected interviews, and his book Notes of the Cinematograph; Gregory Halpern’s photography book ZZYZX. Read more...