Tedious Lists 2013
February is half-over and I still haven't done my 2013 tedious lists? Baby care really does take over your life. I haven't really even remembered to log in to LJ in the past 3 months, so if anyone is still reading this, I apologize for being out of the loop. Now that Octavia is 2-1/2 months old and doesn't require constant freaking out and meltdowns on our part, I'm going to try to update again every once in a while. I know everyone reading this has been inundated with our baby photos and updates on Facebook, but I'll post the album links here again just to have them in one place:
Octavia 2013 - Birth to 3 weeks
Holidays in Redwood City 2013 - Octavia Meets The Whole Family
Ngày Đầy Tháng (Celebration Of First Month)
Octavia 2014
Flickr Album - Full Quality Photos
Back to the tedious lists. I'll do them in first-half, second-half format again since I know I don't have the time or attention span to try to consolidate them right now.
MUSIC Jan - Jul. (Formerly "2013 Albums" & "Albums From Previous Years Heard For The First Time In 2013")
1. Statuesque - Pop Full Stop
2. This new version of Creepy Tray that we recorded in Berlin, not to mention the whole playing-music-in-Berlin experience.
3. Richard Thompson - Electric
4. Trouble Was Born - the first leaked track from the upcoming Agony Aunts album, due out in November.
5. All of these awesome albums by people I know personally: The Real Numbers - 1-2-3-4-5, The Moore Brothers - California Sister, Maxi Dunn - Edmund & Leo, The Orange Peels - Sun Moon, honeychain - FUTURA
6. Kelly Jones & Melanie Penn Summershare tour. The Corner Laughers had the honor of opening for them at the Cafe du Nord.
7. Billy Bragg - Tooth & Nail
8. Andrea Perry - Four
9. Frank Turner - Tape Deck Heart
10. The Leisure Society - Alone Aboard The Ark
MUSIC July - December
1. The release of the 2nd Agony Aunts album "Big Cinnamon" and subsequent videos "You're So Vague" and "Mother Make Sleep".
2. Several fantastic 2nd-half-of-2013 albums by people I know personally: The Bye Bye Blackbirds - "We Need The Rain", The American Professionals - "We Make It Our Business", Kelly Jones - "Alta Loma", Wesley Stace - "Self Titled", David Brookings - "The Maze", Felsen - "I Don't Know How To Talk Anymore"
3. Mike Viola's trading card series - Ghoul
4. Tricycle Fest 2013 featuring The Corner Laughers and Alison Faith Levy
5. Andy Z's single "Drink More Water" featuring backing vocals by The Corner Laughers
6. Lisa Mychols - "Above, Beyond, And In Between"
7. Jake Bugg - "Shangri-La"
8. The Sensible Gray Cells - "A Postcard From Britain"
9. Kimberly Rew - "Healing Broadway"
10. Kacey Musgraves - "Same Trailer Different Park"
FILM, TV, AND OTHER VISUAL MEDIA Jan - Jun (Formerly "2013 Movies", "Movies From Past Years Seen For The First Time in 2013", "TV Shows") I don't think I've seen a single first-run movie in the theater this year, nor have I watched much TV live as it was happening. Since getting a Nexflix gift subscription I've been overwhelmed by such bounty that I am barely able to leave the house.
1. Continuum - As you well know, I will watch any time-travel movie or TV show, and this is one of them. The plots and dialogue are stupid-as-can-be; it's basically a macho cop show about terrorists, but the world of 2077 is brilliantly designed and the time travel loops are clever enough to keep you interested.
2. 56 Up
3. Wings Of Desire, One, Two, Three, The Lives Of Others: the best of the movies we watched to prepare for Berlin.
4. Orange Is The New Black
5. Arrested Development Season 4
6. Call The Midwife
7. Cemetery Junction
8. Planes, Trains & Automobiles - Why had I never seen this until this year?
9. Mad Men Season 6
10. The Mighty Boosh
FILM, TV, AND OTHER VISUAL MEDIA July - December
1. London - The Modern Babylon (2012)
2. Ray Davies: Imaginary Man (21 Dec. 2010)
3. Churchill (2003- )
4. Earthflight (2011-2012)
5. Saving Otter 501
6. My Life as a Turkey
7. Gravity (2013)
8. Searching for Sugar Man (2012)
9. Fish Story (2009)
10. The Music Never Stopped (2011)
11. Futurama: Bender's Big Score (2007)
12. Marley (2012)
13. Flower Drum Song (1961)
14. About Time (I) (2013)
15. Hawaii (1966)
BOOKS Jan - Jun (Books are still books, in whatever format.)
1.The Modern Antiquarian - Cope, Julian
2.Potboiler - Kellerman, Jesse
3.How Music Works - Byrne, David
4. The Casual Vacancy - Rowling, J.K.
5. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1) - Auel, Jean M.
6. Where'd You Go, Bernadette - Semple, Maria
7. Flight Behavior - Kingsolver, Barbara
8. The Solitude of Prime Numbers - Giordano, Paolo
9. How It All Began - Lively, Penelope
10. Timeskipper - Benni, Stefano
BOOKS July - December
1. Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy #1) - Ken Follett
2. Johnson's Life Of London: The People Who Made The City That Made The World - Boris Johnson
3. Room - Emma Donoghue
4. Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2) - Ken Follett
5. The Lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri
6. Reconstructing Amelia - Kimberly McCreight
7. Telegraph Avenue - Michael Chabon
8. Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d'Art - Christopher Moore
9. Just One Year (Just One Day #2) - Gayle Forman
10. The Love Song of Jonny Valentine - Teddy Wayne