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It was a great year of new books, re-discovered books, and books we meant to get to last year but didn't. The end of the year is nearly here and before we look forward, we'll take a look back. Last week, LAist Editors shared their favorite books of 2007. This week, a few LAist Contributors share their favorite book they read this year:

Since Watt is just coming off of a mini-tour, having just played the Vegoose Music Fest and playing a gig with Thurston Moore, it seemed appropriate to post a photo of his boat. Actually, it's a picture of the red thing in the boat, which is a recurring subject, like the red couch, but smaller. In case you didn't know, the boat is Watt's van. Watt has his own language. It's a combo of Pedro...

Sometimes I think the sign out front ought to read: EL INDIO: PROUDLY HELPING DRUNKS SOAK UP THE ALCOHOL FOR OVER 30 YEARS! 24-hours a day, this Northridge taco stand buzzes with a steady stream of policemen, students, and blue collar joes. But El Indio really starts hopping after the bars close down. Everyone in the valley knows this is the hotspot for post-party tacos. I secretly enjoy eavesdropping on packs of club-hopping young...

"Revelation satisfies all doubts, explains all mysteries except her own, and so illuminates the path of life, that fools discover it and stray no more." - William Cowper Sometimes I wonder how it happened. I try to think about how I used to be on the other side, a Cult of Mac hater...a Steve Jobs-despising PC fanboy. But now every time I boot up my Macbook Pro I think about how stupid I am...

There are some people, mostly retirees, who haunt the halls of the downtown LA courthouses, attending trials for entertainment. High-profile trials are mobbed, but the regulars know the secret is to attend the preliminary hearings instead. When the hearings were held for the Night Stalker, Richard Ramirez, the courtroom was practically empty. I only worked half-days, and I had graduated from taking acid to pills, so I had a lot of patience for just hanging...

Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton What Is Free to a Good Home? Last Gang Records released, July 24, 2007 Emily Haines' (of Metric) latest EP What is Free to a Good Home? is by far her greatest solo work to date. I've always felt that her debut full length Knives Don't Have Your Back was hit or miss, mostly the latter. I expect a lot from Ms. Haines. The songs just weren't as hard...

Sometimes I prefer to watch the film that completely and utterly fails than the one that half-succeeds. With the true catastrophe you can always laugh at the unintentional humor, take a trip to the bathroom without the least bit of hurry in your step, even check baseball scores on your cell phone and share the results with inquisitive aisle-mates. The almost-there movie, on the other hand, maddeningly demands your constant attention. You keep thinking that it's all about to start working, that it's almost up and over Mediocre Hill but the reality is that it never quite makes it. That's how I felt after seeing Introducing the Dwights.

Dear Mr. Bay, I have been waiting for a kick-ass Transformers movie to come out since I was a little kid. I love the Autobots. At one point, I even had plans to marry Optimus Prime, except that he died during one of the Transformers episodes before I had the chance to tell him of my love. When I turned five, I had a Transformers birthday cake. Sometimes I would pretend that my Malibu...

What if someone made a movie about your high school? Maybe it was a movie about the class that graduated the year before you started school. But even if you didn’t know some of the characters, you are only one degree of separation away. What We Do is Secret, a film about the life and death of Germs frontman Darby Crash, was kind of like that for me. I almost feel like I should recuse myself because I am too close to it to really give it an unbiased review.

Photo © An Tran 2007 Last week we teased you with photos from the Let’s Go Sailing record release party at the Troubadour, now here’s an interview with singer/songwriter Shana Levy. Formerly of the band Irving, Levy has broken out on her own to deliver bittersweet melodies alongside gentle vocals. As a fan on the LGS message board aptly described, “I love how sweet and fresh your voice is, like conversations with a good...

Sex is something that drives us, empowers us and gets us into really stupid situations with people we have no business seeing naked. Jen Sincero is the bestselling author and sexpert with the carnal knowledge you need. Ask her your questions (all are posted anonymously). Cuz there's no such thing as being too good in bed. Dear Jen, I have a question. Sometimes I think I might be able to have an orgasm from...

According to my roommate anything west of La Brea is the Westside. If that's the case, then I only travel to the Westside for two reasons: my job and to get my Brazilian wax done. Sometimes I find it difficult to willingly drive anywhere that's more than a 10-mile radius from my home. With that said, my nether region deserves special attentive care, and that's why I don't hesitate to make the trek to Beverly Hills. Since it's summertime I'll be traveling there more often. During these next hot Southern California months, my bikini will be a uniform for the weekends, and with the bikini wearing comes the mandatory pelvic maintenance.

So here I am, a nice 26-year-old Jewess living in and looking for love in Los Angeles. There happens to be a lot of us here, and meeting that nice Jewish boy your mother has always dreamt about is harder than it sounds, yes even in LA. Harder especially for us ladies who have a penchant for tattooed musicians and tortured artists with their own penchant for alcoholic beverages and the like. There are a...

The following dramatic reenactment is based on actual events. No names have been changed to protect anybody. MISS JAY: Hey Lisa. Want to go to Eagle Rock to see a band called Clown Eyes and Corn Nuts? LISA: Clown Eyes and Corn Nuts!? I'd go anywhere to see a band called Clown Eyes and Corn Nuts. The crushing blow came many hours later when it was discovered that I had misunderstood Miss Jay, and...

Sometimes I feel like the Gossip Roundups should be renamed the Britney Roundups... Like when she visited a hair salon this weekend to discuss extension choices to attach to her short do once it grows out a little more, she's having major hair shaving regret- Star Or her first brunette wigged-post rehab outing to a dance class and then sushi with girlfriends - People Clearly, dance class and sushi were not dramatic enough, because...

Sex is something that drives us, empowers us and gets us into really stupid situations with people we have no business seeing naked. Jen Sincero is the bestselling author and sexpert with the carnal knowledge you need. Ask her your questions (all are posted anonymously). Cuz there's no such thing as being too good in bed. Dear Jen: I've been married for 4 years and I am not happy. I've inwardly talked to myself about...

Still wondering what to give your sweet transgressive for Valentine's Day? Filthy, lovable, mustachioed filmmaker John Waters is releasing A Date With John Waters, a stirring yet suitably bizarre compilation album of his favorite love songs. To celebrate the album's release Waters will be at Amoeba Records in Hollywood tomorrow, February 6 at 6 PM, signing CDs and posing with fans in a Valentines setting.

The album spans oddities such as the first record Waters ever owned, "Tonight You Belong to Me" by Patience and Prudence, to the "first trisexual song ever recorded," "Ain't Got No Home" by Clarence "Frogman" Henry, to the wailing blues of Ike & Tina Turner's "All I Can Do Is Cry" to the "perfect song for an awkward moment," "Sometimes I Wish I Had A Gun" by Mink Stole.

A Date With John Waters
1. Tonight You Belong To Me – Patience & Prudence
2. Jet Boy Jet Girl – Elton Motello
3. Ain't Got No Home – Clarence "Frogman" Henry
4. I'd Love To Take Orders From You – Mildred Bailey
5. In Spite of Ourselves – John Prine with Iris DeMent
6. All I Can Do Is Cry – Ike & Tina Turner
7. Big Girls Don't Cry – Edith Massey
8. Imitation of Life – Earl Grant
9. Sometimes I Wish I Had A Gun – Mink Stole
10. Johnny Are You Queer? – Josie Cotton
11. (Night Time Is) The Right Time – Ray Charles
12. Hit The Road To Dreamland – Dean Martin
13. If I Knew You Were Coming I'd've Baked A Cake – Eileen Barton
14. Bewildered – Shirley & Lee

The Sun: I am The Sun. I am always shining. Shine: I'm called Shine, as was my father before me. Sometimes I shine. Sometimes I dont shine. The Sun: I am The Sun. See me shine. Shine: I am a son, called Shine. Can we swear for a second? Okay, here goes... Fucking amazing. Just fucking amazing. Last night's presentation of week 2 in the yearlong 365 Days/365 Plays festival was just that. The...

I've been seriously writing music since about 22 years old. I messed around with electric guitars since I was 12. But it wasn't until I was 19 and I really heard The Beatles White Album that I wanted to write my own songs. I wanted to know where that music came from which led me to Chuck Berry, 50s rock and roll, and then eventually Bob Dylan, Blues, and Traditional Folk. Then it became this american roots music thing that I was and currently am obsessed with.

Why did you leave Los Angeles for New York? Where else (if anywhere)
would you consider relocating to?

I left Los Angeles mostly cause I grew up there and was sick of the person everyone thought I was and expected me to be. Also LA doesn't really have a scene at all for roots music. I was reading some Bob Dylan biographies when I decided to move, so there was never a choice other than NYC. Sometimes I think of the Northwest, like Berkeley or Portland, maybe Seattle. I'd like to spend some time up there.

If someone in the subway tried to mug you, would you use your guitar
like a weapon, and bludgeon them with it?