100 Movies in 2009 / 25 Books in 2009 / Concert List

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Movies:

1. Die Hard (1988)
   
2. Eagle Eye (2008)
   
3. Wayne's World (1992)
   
4. Waxwork (1988)
   
5. The Usual Suspects (1994)
   
6. Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
   
7. Dogma (1999)
   
8. Coraline (2009)
   
9. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
   
10. Funny Face (1957)
    
11. Paris - When It Sizzles (1964)
    
12. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
    
13. Watchmen (2009)
    
14. The African Queen (1951)
    
15. Sid & Nancy (1986)
    
16. His Girl Friday (1940)
    
17. Sixteen Candles (1984)
    
18. Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1973)
    
19. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
    
20. The Awful Truth (1937)
    
21. Say Anything... (1989)
    
22. I Love You, Man (2009)
    
23. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
    
24. Weird Science (1985)
    
25. Red Eye (2005)
    
26. Role Models (2008)
    
27. Run Fatboy Run (2007)
    
28. Milk (2008)
    
29. Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)
    
30. Sex Drive (2008)
    
31. Star Trek (2009)
    
32. Up (2009)
    
33. Muppets From Space (1999)
    
34. State and Main (2000)
    
35. Autopsy (1975)
    
36. Rope (1948)
    
37. Rear Window (1954)
    
38. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
    
39. Scream (1996)
    
40. Tokyo Gore Police (2008)
    
41. Uzumaki (2000)
    
42. Empire Records (1995)
    
43. District 9 (2009)
    
44. (500) Days of Summer (2009)
    
45. Tadpole (2002)
    
46. Stardust (2007)
    
47. Dead Snow (2009)
    
48. Zombieland (2009)
    
49. Failure to Launch (2006)
    
50. Ed Wood (1994)
    
51. The Apartment (1960)
    
52. Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
    
53. Manic (2001)
    
54. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
    
55. Charade (1963)
    
56. The Brothers Bloom (2008)
    
57. Best in Show (2000)
    
58. Coco avant Chanel (2009)
    
59. I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)
    
60. Soldier's Girl (2003)
    
61. The Princess and the Frog (2009)

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Books:

1. The Historian Elizabeth Kostova
   
2. The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman
   
3. 1984 George Orwell
   
4. Where The Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak
   
5. Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
   
6. Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
   
7. Brave New World Aldous Huxley - currently reading
   
8. Rant: An Oral History of Buster Casey Chuck Palahniuk
   
9. Pink Gus Van Sant
   
10. Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories Truman Capote
    
11. Chocky John Wyndham
    
12. Startled By His Furry Shorts Louise Rennison
    
13. Her Fearful Symmetry Audrey Niffenegger
    
14. Hero Perry Moore
    
15. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
    
16. Moral Disorder Margaret Atwood
    
17. A Little Stranger Kate Pullinger
    
18. Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner
    
19. Curse of the Spellmans Lisa Lutz

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Concerts:

1. Basia Bulat January 22, University of Ottawa
   
2. Basia Bulat January 23, Blacksheep Inn (Wakefield)
   
3. Birds & Rayguns February 20, Bass Line Station (Ottawa)
   
4. The Gertrudes, The Burning Hell, Femmebots April 4, Blacksheep Inn (Wakefield)
   
5. Flight of the Conchords April 21, Massey Hall (Toronto)
   
6. Birds & Rayguns June 5, The Boofs (Ottawa)
   
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs July 19, Bluesfest (Ottawa)
   
8. Coldplay August 1, Osheaga (Montreal)
   
9. Rufus Wainwright August 2, Osheaga (Montreal)
   
10. The Decemberists August 2, Osheaga (Montreal)

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Please feel free to make suggestions with regards to movies and books I might enjoy!