Media Consumption, Part i of j
I've been consuming a lot of media over the last few months, to the point where I've overwhelmed my ability to track it. I'm posting this consumption list to give people some idea about what I've been up to, but I think that future installments, if they come, will come without annotations of any kind, because it just makes it all too much of a project. moconno told me about Tumblelogs the other day, and I think that this sort of thing should probably be handled by that sort of thing. We'll see what happens.
- Music
- Medeski Martin & Wood , "End of the World Party (Just in Case)"
- KT Tunstall, Eye To the Telescope
- Mos Def: Black on Both Sides
- Jeff Buckley: Grace
- Podcasts
- Fresh Air: 25 Apr 2007. Who knew Nixon was so delicate?
- Fresh Air: 26 Apr 2007.
- Fresh Air: 17 May 2007; Alice Cooper: From Ghoul Rock to Golf Monster; wow. he's so erudite.
- Quirks and Quarks: 28 Apr 2007
- Quirks and Quarks: 5 May 2007
- Quirks and Quarks: 12 May 2007
- Quirks and Quarks: 17 May 2007
- In Our Time: Spinoza
- In Our Time: Victorian Pessimism
- In Our Time: Gravitational Waves
- This American Life #332: The Ten Commandments; be sure to also hear this bonus
- This American Life #204: 81 Words
- This American Life #102: Roadtrip!; including a very sweet story about roadtripping Europe
- This American Life #333: The Office of Army Lessons Learned; with special bonus podcast-only material. You should give them money.
- Escape Pod: The Watching People, by Paul Berger; ooh. creepy.
- Escape Pod: Lust for Learning, by Pete Butler; Rated X, but I didn't think it was that dirty. It's not porn. Though the end-credit song is a hoot.
- Escape Pod: Impossible Dreams, by Tim Pratt; Hugo Award Nominee
- Escape Pod: The House Beyond Your Sky, by Benjamin Rosenbaum; Hugo Award Nominee. Also, bizarre
- Escape Pod: Eight Episodes
- Wait Wait Don't Tell Me: 28 April 2007
- Wait Wait Don't Tell Me: 06 May 2007; With scary Bob Dylan references and Ted Koppel being funny.
- Wait Wait Don't Tell Me: 13 May 2007
- Wait Wait Don't Tell Me: 20 May 2007
- American Public Media Weekend America: 12 May 2007: Hour 1
- American Public Media: Weekend America: 12 May 2007: Hour 2
- American Public Media: Weekend America: 19 May 2007: Hour 1
- American Public Media: Weekend America: 19 May 2007: Hour 2
- Gobs more of these, but actually my podcast listening dropped off as my reading picked up
- Short Stories
- Crow, by Stephanie Burgis. A magical realism piece about family relations.
- Sufficient Cause, by Tina Conolly. Cute.
- Bunches that are in Asimov's: Roxie & Bullet Dance come to mind right away
- TV on DVD (or... something)
- Stargate, Season 6, 7. 6 was a very inconsistent season, but I particularly liked "Changeling".
- Heroes, Season 1. Back from hiatus, and so exciting already.
- Battlestar Galactica, Season 3; I can hardly wait for next season to start.
- Movies
- Music & Lyrics; cute, funny. Not bad. Not as good as "Love Actually", though.
- Fearless; pretty good. I don't know if I would have liked it as much if I wasn't reading into the character's motivations and the historical setting, though.
- Spider-Man III; best summed up in this review
- Ocean Odyssey
- 10 Items or Less
- V for Vendetta
- The Rise of the Silver Surfer
- The Lady in the Water
- Books
- The Little LISPer, Ch 1-3; though the edition I'm thumbing through is much older than this one.
- The Cartoon Guide to Statistics, Ch 1-5
- In the Beginning: Recollections of Software Pioneers, Bob Glass, ed.; Baber's essays on correctness-by-design have my interest piqued; ch. 5
- Green Lantern: Rebirth
- Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering, by Bob Glass
- The latest issue of Asimov's SF magazine