Ubiquitous End of Year List: Movies and Books
I suppose I should post a third part to my Ubiquitous End of Year Pop Culture List, which would be movies and books, but honestly I don't watch too many movies nowadays. I'd much rather read about them in Entertainment Weekly than watch them. My attention span goes far better with things that don't take up as much time. TV shows are small 25-45 min increments that I can walk away from if I so choose and take back up at a later date. Music I can listen to while I go about other things, so I'm not tied down to it. A movie ... well, it takes up much more of my time. The same goes with books. It takes a lot to pull me in and get me to commit the hours or days. So, instead I thought I'd just list the movies I went and saw in the movie theater ... a list that isn't quite that long considering I have two kids and if I'm going to get away it's not going to be to do something I can do from my own home. So ...
1. True Grit
2. Bridesmaids
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
4. 30 Minutes or Less
5. The Muppets
That worked out well. I saw exactly 5 movies in the theater to round out my top 5 list. They aren't exactly a Top 5 just well, 5 movies I saw.
As far as books, I only read 4 this year. I started off 2011 reading BossyPants by Tina Fey which was a fun, but not very deep book written by one of my female idols. Next was Patti Smith's 'Just Kids' a book I went into without having any knowledge of the legendary singer it was based on. I enjoyed it, but had a hard time emphasizing with the other main character, Robert Mapplethorpe, after he contracted HIV, since he lived his live so dangerously. I suppose though that during the 60s and 70s people weren't too concerned with safe sex. I also read Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, which was good, but mostly for fans of the show ie ... me. I finished off the year by reading a book called The Forest of Hands and Teeth. It's a YA novel about a teenage girl living in a commune after zombies have taken over the earth. I liked it to a point. I think this was the book that make me realize I'm too old for YA. The whole love triangle annoyed me, which seems to be necessity for every YA novel these days (thanks, but not really I'm being sarcastic, Twilight). Honestly as I read I just wanted to get back to the zombies.
1. True Grit
2. Bridesmaids
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
4. 30 Minutes or Less
5. The Muppets
That worked out well. I saw exactly 5 movies in the theater to round out my top 5 list. They aren't exactly a Top 5 just well, 5 movies I saw.
As far as books, I only read 4 this year. I started off 2011 reading BossyPants by Tina Fey which was a fun, but not very deep book written by one of my female idols. Next was Patti Smith's 'Just Kids' a book I went into without having any knowledge of the legendary singer it was based on. I enjoyed it, but had a hard time emphasizing with the other main character, Robert Mapplethorpe, after he contracted HIV, since he lived his live so dangerously. I suppose though that during the 60s and 70s people weren't too concerned with safe sex. I also read Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, which was good, but mostly for fans of the show ie ... me. I finished off the year by reading a book called The Forest of Hands and Teeth. It's a YA novel about a teenage girl living in a commune after zombies have taken over the earth. I liked it to a point. I think this was the book that make me realize I'm too old for YA. The whole love triangle annoyed me, which seems to be necessity for every YA novel these days (thanks, but not really I'm being sarcastic, Twilight). Honestly as I read I just wanted to get back to the zombies.