2008: Movies watched, books read
As of 11 Aug 08:
I've had the same goals for the last couple of years - watch at least 100 movies, read at least 20 books. lfaelfae told me that I should totally post my lists, since she and Lana and Alex have been doing so. OKAY.
I have doubts that I will hit 100 movies by the end of the year. I'm doing pretty well, I think, but man. There's NOTHING I want to see from now until the end of August. I COULD just put a DVD on, I guess, but dude. What about FLAILING ONLINE, HMMM?
And I had had fears of not even reading 20 books this year - a very moderate target, I know, but I was pretty sure as of a month ago that I wouldn't even hit five. For some reason, I've just not been up to reading much this year. Blame it on work, flail, what have you. But now that I've started again, I'm, like, why the hell did I stop!?!? And maybe I will hit 20 by year's end - I'm on a kids' fantasy kick right now, which makes for easier and faster reading than, say, BILL CLINTON'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. (Which I enjoyed, don't get me wrong. But man. 1,000 pages of text like this took me AGES.)
Movies
1. In the Valley of Elah
2. National Treasure: Book of Secrets
3. Eastern Promises
4. I Am Legend
5. Elizabeth: The Golden Age
6. American Gangster
7. Dan In Real Life
8. Michael Clayton
9. The Darjeeling Limited
10. Cloverfield
11. The Savages
12. 27 Dresses
13. Mr Average
14. Grease
15. Grease 2
16. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (x2)
17. Away From Her
18. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
19. Atonement
20. CJ7
21. Gone Baby Gone
22. Kung Fu Dunk
23. Juno
24. No Country for Old Men
25. Persepolis
26. There Will Be Blood
27. La Vie En Rose
28. Charlie Wilson's War
29. L: Change the World
30. August Rush
31. The Spiderwick Chronicles
32. Grace Is Gone
33. Be Kind Rewind
34. Horton Hears A Who
35. Becoming Jane
36. Semi-Pro
37. The Bucket List
38. I'm Not There
39. Street Kings
40. Definitely, Maybe
41. The Other Boleyn Girl
42. The Wizard of Oz
43. Iron Man
44. Harold & Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay
45. Nim's Island
46. Wilde
47. Made of Honour
48. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
49. Sex and the City: The Movie
50. Baby Mama
51. Mad Money
52. Fargo
53. Out of Africa
54. Wanted
55. Get Smart
56. Penelope
57. Kung Fu Panda
58. Hancock
59. It's A Boy/Girl Thing
60. Hellboy II: The Golden Army
61. Red Cliff
62. The Dark Knight
63. X-Files 2: I Want To Believe (x2)
64. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
65. Journey to the Centre of the Earth
66. Mad About English
67. Wall-E
68. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
69. Step Brothers
70. Mamma Mia (x5!)
71. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
72. A Prairie Home Companion
73. Burn After Reading
74. Bottle Shock
75. Blindness
76. High School Musical 3
77. Falling In Love
78. Tropic Thunder
79. Heartburn
80. Where In The World Is Osama bin Laden?
81. Quantum Of Solace
82. The Bridges of Madison County
83. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
84. Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (I've Loved You So Long)
85. Sex Drive
86. Ghost Town
87. Bolt
88. Four Christmases
89. Body Of Lies
90. Cape No 7
91. City Of Ember
92. Zack And Miri Make A Porno
93. Twilight
94. Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist
95. Yes Man
96. Bedtime Stories
97. Australia
98. The Visitor
99. Seven Pounds
100. Manhattan
Books
1. Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
2. Carnation of the Upper Fourth - Elinor M Brent-Dyer
3. Inkspell - Cornelia Funke
4. A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
5. Rebel Angels - Libba Bray
6. The Sweet Far Thing - Libba Bray
7. The Island Of Adventure - Enid Blyton
8. Stork Naked - Piers Anthony
9. The Thief Lord - Cornelia Funke
10. Hollow Tree House - Enid Blyton
11. The End of Mr Y - Scarlett Thomas
12. Night Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
13. Day Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
14. Twilight Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
I've had the same goals for the last couple of years - watch at least 100 movies, read at least 20 books. lfaelfae told me that I should totally post my lists, since she and Lana and Alex have been doing so. OKAY.
I have doubts that I will hit 100 movies by the end of the year. I'm doing pretty well, I think, but man. There's NOTHING I want to see from now until the end of August. I COULD just put a DVD on, I guess, but dude. What about FLAILING ONLINE, HMMM?
And I had had fears of not even reading 20 books this year - a very moderate target, I know, but I was pretty sure as of a month ago that I wouldn't even hit five. For some reason, I've just not been up to reading much this year. Blame it on work, flail, what have you. But now that I've started again, I'm, like, why the hell did I stop!?!? And maybe I will hit 20 by year's end - I'm on a kids' fantasy kick right now, which makes for easier and faster reading than, say, BILL CLINTON'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. (Which I enjoyed, don't get me wrong. But man. 1,000 pages of text like this took me AGES.)
Movies
1. In the Valley of Elah
2. National Treasure: Book of Secrets
3. Eastern Promises
4. I Am Legend
5. Elizabeth: The Golden Age
6. American Gangster
7. Dan In Real Life
8. Michael Clayton
9. The Darjeeling Limited
10. Cloverfield
11. The Savages
12. 27 Dresses
13. Mr Average
14. Grease
15. Grease 2
16. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (x2)
17. Away From Her
18. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
19. Atonement
20. CJ7
21. Gone Baby Gone
22. Kung Fu Dunk
23. Juno
24. No Country for Old Men
25. Persepolis
26. There Will Be Blood
27. La Vie En Rose
28. Charlie Wilson's War
29. L: Change the World
30. August Rush
31. The Spiderwick Chronicles
32. Grace Is Gone
33. Be Kind Rewind
34. Horton Hears A Who
35. Becoming Jane
36. Semi-Pro
37. The Bucket List
38. I'm Not There
39. Street Kings
40. Definitely, Maybe
41. The Other Boleyn Girl
42. The Wizard of Oz
43. Iron Man
44. Harold & Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay
45. Nim's Island
46. Wilde
47. Made of Honour
48. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
49. Sex and the City: The Movie
50. Baby Mama
51. Mad Money
52. Fargo
53. Out of Africa
54. Wanted
55. Get Smart
56. Penelope
57. Kung Fu Panda
58. Hancock
59. It's A Boy/Girl Thing
60. Hellboy II: The Golden Army
61. Red Cliff
62. The Dark Knight
63. X-Files 2: I Want To Believe (x2)
64. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
65. Journey to the Centre of the Earth
66. Mad About English
67. Wall-E
68. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
69. Step Brothers
70. Mamma Mia (x5!)
71. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
72. A Prairie Home Companion
73. Burn After Reading
74. Bottle Shock
75. Blindness
76. High School Musical 3
77. Falling In Love
78. Tropic Thunder
79. Heartburn
80. Where In The World Is Osama bin Laden?
81. Quantum Of Solace
82. The Bridges of Madison County
83. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
84. Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (I've Loved You So Long)
85. Sex Drive
86. Ghost Town
87. Bolt
88. Four Christmases
89. Body Of Lies
90. Cape No 7
91. City Of Ember
92. Zack And Miri Make A Porno
93. Twilight
94. Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist
95. Yes Man
96. Bedtime Stories
97. Australia
98. The Visitor
99. Seven Pounds
100. Manhattan
Books
1. Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
2. Carnation of the Upper Fourth - Elinor M Brent-Dyer
3. Inkspell - Cornelia Funke
4. A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
5. Rebel Angels - Libba Bray
6. The Sweet Far Thing - Libba Bray
7. The Island Of Adventure - Enid Blyton
8. Stork Naked - Piers Anthony
9. The Thief Lord - Cornelia Funke
10. Hollow Tree House - Enid Blyton
11. The End of Mr Y - Scarlett Thomas
12. Night Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
13. Day Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
14. Twilight Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko