Lists and lists (Or: As far as my backlog is concerned, 2009 ain't over yet!)
BOOKS READ and MOVIES WATCHED IN 2009
BOOKS:
- "Generation Kill" by Evan Wright
- "Havemercy" by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett
- "The Demon's Lexicon" by Sarah Rees Brennan
- "Dreams from My Father" by Barack Obama
- "The Lies of Locke Lamora" by Scott Lynch
- "Red Seas Under Red Skies" by Scott Lynch
- "Death By Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries" by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- "World War Z" by Max Brooks
- "Naked Pictures of Famous People" by Jon Stewart
- "Salt: A World History" by Mark Kurlansky
- "Moab is My Washpot" by Stephen Fry (did I read it this year, or last? Can't remember)
- "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
Total: 12. Kind of totally embarrassing when seen over a year, and I sure as hell hope that I have just forgotten some, since I fail at taking note or blogging about these things. And most of my reading of "real books" this year actually happened when I was in Bangkok or traveling with Carmen. Must try and improve in 2010!
MOVIES:
- The Princess and the Frog
- (500)Days of Summer
- New Moon
- Watchmen
- 17 Again
- Up
- My Bloody Valentine
- Friday the 13th (2009)
- Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince
- I Love You, Man
- Inglourious Basterds
- Monsters VS Aliens 3D
- Star Trek Reboot
- X-men Origins: Wolverine
- The Hangover
- District 9
- Antique Bakery
- The Fall
- The Duchess
- Defiance
- Thumbsucker
- Let the Right One In
- Martyrs (UGHHHHHHHH)
- Twilight
- The Onion Movie
Total: 25. I think. Again, I fail at keeping record of these things, and actually had some 2008 stuff mixed in at first. Am probably forgetting a bunch that I watched on DVD as well. Hmm
I was thinking of doing comics/manga and TV series too, but eh. Nawww. Am not that OCD about it, yet. And TV series aside, I don't think I was very prolific wrt to the former anyways, finally getting to read Watchmen and some of Osamu Tezuka's older works aside.
In other news, I didn't manage to leave the house today and just tooled around the net forever (I made a giant sticky post for my art though, god that took ages!), but I did finally have a mad cleaning session. Everything is now nice and clean (to an extent), and there are fresh bathmats and dishtowels and sponges and I just about had to take pictures to commemorate this rare state of affairs lest Sabrina returns. I am either expecting her back today or tomorrow, and if she doesn't show I can at least be confident that she might be gone for a while (FINGERS CROSSED). Which makes that fact that she forgot THREE GIANT OPEN BAGS OF TRASH under the sink and the general state of everything in our common area even more reprehensible, but what else is new. fffuck did I summon her presence by mentioning her??
I did make the no less disgusting discovery that her preferred cigarette disposing method is to just throw the butts into old candle-holder glasses or mugs filled with water though. There were three hiding behind the piles of random mugs and dishes that I cleared off when I wiped down the kitchen, and wow does that ever have an ~~aroma. Why would you keep this crap? Does she find the stench of stale smoke and disgusting soup that results in the mugs appealing? I dumped the goop and tried to rinse it out a few times, but the ash has totally encrusted. Have liberally drizzled cleaning solution/Scheuermilch on everything though, and I don't even care that I dumped it all in a pot that she will probably use to cook in.
EDIT: FUCK FUCK FUCK she just came back. Ugh
BOOKS:
- "Generation Kill" by Evan Wright
- "Havemercy" by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett
- "The Demon's Lexicon" by Sarah Rees Brennan
- "Dreams from My Father" by Barack Obama
- "The Lies of Locke Lamora" by Scott Lynch
- "Red Seas Under Red Skies" by Scott Lynch
- "Death By Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries" by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- "World War Z" by Max Brooks
- "Naked Pictures of Famous People" by Jon Stewart
- "Salt: A World History" by Mark Kurlansky
- "Moab is My Washpot" by Stephen Fry (did I read it this year, or last? Can't remember)
- "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
Total: 12. Kind of totally embarrassing when seen over a year, and I sure as hell hope that I have just forgotten some, since I fail at taking note or blogging about these things. And most of my reading of "real books" this year actually happened when I was in Bangkok or traveling with Carmen. Must try and improve in 2010!
MOVIES:
- The Princess and the Frog
- (500)Days of Summer
- New Moon
- Watchmen
- 17 Again
- Up
- My Bloody Valentine
- Friday the 13th (2009)
- Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince
- I Love You, Man
- Inglourious Basterds
- Monsters VS Aliens 3D
- Star Trek Reboot
- X-men Origins: Wolverine
- The Hangover
- District 9
- Antique Bakery
- The Fall
- The Duchess
- Defiance
- Thumbsucker
- Let the Right One In
- Martyrs (UGHHHHHHHH)
- Twilight
- The Onion Movie
Total: 25. I think. Again, I fail at keeping record of these things, and actually had some 2008 stuff mixed in at first. Am probably forgetting a bunch that I watched on DVD as well. Hmm
I was thinking of doing comics/manga and TV series too, but eh. Nawww. Am not that OCD about it, yet. And TV series aside, I don't think I was very prolific wrt to the former anyways, finally getting to read Watchmen and some of Osamu Tezuka's older works aside.
In other news, I didn't manage to leave the house today and just tooled around the net forever (I made a giant sticky post for my art though, god that took ages!), but I did finally have a mad cleaning session. Everything is now nice and clean (to an extent), and there are fresh bathmats and dishtowels and sponges and I just about had to take pictures to commemorate this rare state of affairs lest Sabrina returns. I am either expecting her back today or tomorrow, and if she doesn't show I can at least be confident that she might be gone for a while (FINGERS CROSSED). Which makes that fact that she forgot THREE GIANT OPEN BAGS OF TRASH under the sink and the general state of everything in our common area even more reprehensible, but what else is new. fffuck did I summon her presence by mentioning her??
I did make the no less disgusting discovery that her preferred cigarette disposing method is to just throw the butts into old candle-holder glasses or mugs filled with water though. There were three hiding behind the piles of random mugs and dishes that I cleared off when I wiped down the kitchen, and wow does that ever have an ~~aroma. Why would you keep this crap? Does she find the stench of stale smoke and disgusting soup that results in the mugs appealing? I dumped the goop and tried to rinse it out a few times, but the ash has totally encrusted. Have liberally drizzled cleaning solution/Scheuermilch on everything though, and I don't even care that I dumped it all in a pot that she will probably use to cook in.
EDIT: FUCK FUCK FUCK she just came back. Ugh