Jan 14, 2005 4:29:04 PM
In keeping with the grand tradition of years past, I present the 2005 movie list! This is a list of movies I've seen in an actual theater. Will I hit 52 movies again? Only time will tell!
January
1. Purple Butterfly - 2004 (2 1/2 - just too murky with the timeline thing)
2. Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1998) - 2 1/2
3. Takeshi Kitano's "Dolls" (2002) - 3
4. Fear and Trembling - 3
5. Coward Bend the Knee - 2 1/2
February
6. I Was Born, But ... (1932) - 3 (Part of Yasujiro Ozu retrospective)
7. Tokyo Story (1953) - 3 1/2
8. Tokyo Twilight (1957) - 2 1/2
9. Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) - 3
10. Untold Scandal (2003) - 3
11. Woman of Tokyo (1933) - 2 1/2
12. Autumn Afternoon (1962) - 3
13. Donkey Skin (1970) - 3
14. What Did the Lady Forget (1937) - 2
15. Late Spring (1949) - 3
16. That Night's Wife (1930) - 2
17. The Lady and the Beard (1931) - 3 (extremely funny movie, well worth seeing)
18. Male and Female (1919) - 3 1/2 (one of the best silents I've ever seen - though it gets an extra 1/2 star for camp value)
19. Floating Weeds (1934) - 3
20. Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar Wai) - 3 1/2
An Inn in Tokyo (1935) - 3 (the scene of the dad pretending to drink the pretend sake his kids poured for him was great)
March
21. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) - 2 (it's sad, but it just never really engaged me)
22. Nomi Song - 3 (a documentary but a fantastic record of New Wave New York City)
April
23. Steamboy - 2 1/2 (too long)
24. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill - 3 (I like birds, what can I say!)
25. Kung Fu Hustle -4 (I just loved this too much to not say it was perfect, even if it wasn't deep)
May
26. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith - 2 (just couldn't get into it)
June
27. 9 Songs - 3 (pleasant enough to watch and short enough to not bore me)
29. El Crimen Ferpecto - 3 (very, very funny black comedy)
29. Howl's Moving Castle - 3 1/2
30. The Place Promised in Our Early Years - 2 1/2 (kind of interesting story, very pretty to watch)
July
30. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - 1 (pure crap, wish I could get those two hours back!)
31. Layer Cake - 3 (very pleasant caper flick)
32. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the new one) - 2 (just not that exciting)
August
33. "Smoking, Drinking, and Sex" (various shorts, mostly silent: "Honeymoon Hotel" - I'll add the others as I remember them)
34. "Dennis Nyback's Favorite Shorts" ("That Thing Called Heidelberg," The Noble Sisslet Band in "That's the Spell," "The Ural Truck," Ladslas Starevitch's "The Mascot," and "Assembly Line.")
35. Funny Films at Orphan Studios: "A Tour of Christie Studios" (1921), "Swiss Movments," "For Sadie's Sake" (1928), "Two Cylinder Courtship," "Wedding Vows," "Idle Eyes" (1928), "Haunted Spooks"
36. "When 'Educational Films' meant Slapstick" ("Dime a Dance" with Imogen Coca and Danny Kaye, 1938; "Weekend Driver" with Larry Seaman and June Allison, 1928; "Kid Speed" Larry Saman and Oliver Hardy - as the heavy - 1924; Burth Larh in "Off the Horses" and "No More West;" and "Blue of the Night" with Bing Cosby.)
37. The Writer of O - 3 (a documentary)
38. Hump - 2 1/2 stars (a novelty)
39. The Navigator (1924) -3 + The Boat (1921) - 2 1/2, Buster Keaton silent film festival at the Paramount. Navigator was a total classic silent slapstick movie, really funny and well-acted (I was finding the lead actress doing a very good job of keeping a straight face as she pretended to be asleep and did things that made Keaton's pratfalls more hysterical) with a unique underwater sequence.
September
40. The Kid Brother (1927) - 2 1/2 - part of a Harold Lloyd festival at the Varsity - a lovely, restored print.
43. Brothers Grimm - 3
44. Buster Keaton's The Balloonatic (1923) - 2 1/2 - and Sherlock Holmes, Jr. (1924) 3
45. 2046 - 3 (pretty but sloppy, and a bit too long)
October
46. My Beautiful Girl, Mari (2002) - 3 (pretty to watch and some interesting examination of child psychology, and trippy to boot)
47. Me & You & Everyone We Know 3 (really good movie but I subtracted 1/2 for use of digital - it just killed the cinematography)
48. Mirrormask 2 1/2 (pretty enough but just not enough story to keep my attention)
49. Wedding Crashers - 3 (crass as hell but so damn funny it really rolled well)
50. Wallace and Grommit's Curse of the Wererabbit - 3 (fun, enough puns and visual humor to work for adults)
November
51. I Love You Again (1940) - 2 1/2
52. Libeled Lady (1936) - 2 (pleasant but really light)
53. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 3
54. Corpse Bride - 2
55. Ballets Russes - 3
December
56. Aeon Flux - 2
57. Cafe Lumiere - 2 1/2 (by Hou Hsiao Hsien)
58. Pride and Prejudice - 3
Posted by webcowgirl @ Jan 14, 2005 4:29:04 PM [Link]
Jan 11, 2005 9:46:03 PM
I think I'm buying fewer books since I started keeping a list of them - but real control still hasn't been exerted.
January
1. Darkness Illuminated: Essays on His Dark Materials
2. The Devil's Account: Phillip Pullman and Christianity - Hugh Rayment-Pickard
3. The Boudoir
February
4. How to Use Your Eyes - James Elkins
5. Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
6. Beasts - John Crowley
7. Frommer's England 2005
8. Rick Steve's England 2005
March
9. Bizarre Sex Underground - Michael Leigh
10. Nudes of the '20s and '30s - Thomas Walters
11. Where to Find Fossils in Southern England - R. Coram
12. The Dark Angel: Aspects of Victorian Sexuality - Fraser Harrison
13. The Browser's Guide to Erotica - Roy Harley Lewis
April
14. The Life of the World to Come - Kage Baker
15. Mangajin's Basic Japanese Through Comics
16. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill - Mark Bittner (met the author and everything!)
May
17. The Longest Beach: An Eccentric Guide to Washington State's Long Beach Peninsula - Fay Malloy and Marilyn Zornado
18. Eragon - Christopher Paolini
19. But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes - Anita Loos
June
20. Wild Side of Sex: The Book of Kink - Midori
21. Metallic Love - Tanith Lee
22. The New American Splendor Anthology- Harvey Pekar
23. Perdido Street Station - China Mieville
24. Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
25. The Spider Garden - Michael Manning
26. Hydrophidian - Michael Manning
July
27. Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body - Armand Leroi
28. Deep Secret - Diana Wynne-Jones
29. Cart and Cwidder (The Dalemark Quartet Bk. 1) - Diana Wynne-Jones
30. Drowned Ammet (Dalemark Quartet, Bk.2) - Diana Wynne-Jones
31. A Tale of Time City- Diana Wynne-Jones
32. Power of Three - Diana Wynne-Jones
33. The Magicians Of Caprona - Diana Wynne-Jones
34. The Time of the Ghost - Diana Wynne-Jones
35. The Invitation: The Book of Magic - Neil Gaiman, John Bolton, and Carla Jablonski
36. Alphabet of Thorn - Patricia McKillip
37. Gnarl!: Stories - Rudy Rucker
38. The Hacker and the Ants - Rudy Rucker
39. Seek! Selected Nonfiction - Rudy Rucker
40. Frek and the Elixir - Rudy Rucker
41. The Golden Age - John C. Wright
42. The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing - James Elkins
43. The Tangled Wing (Revised and Updated) - Melvin Connor
44. The Tiger in the Well (The Sally Lockhart Trilogy, Bk. 3) - Phillip Pullman
45. Banewreaker : Volume I of The Sundering - Jaqueline Carey
August
45. The Undergrowth of Literature - Gillian Freeman
46. The Worm in the Bud: The World of Victorian Sexuality
47. The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-nineteenth Century England (a gift, actually) - Steven Marcus
48. The Orton Diaries - edited by John Lahr
49. Sexual Moralities in France, 1780-1980 - Antony Copley
50. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris
September
51. Smoke and Shadows - Tanya Huff
October
52. Od Magic - Patricia McKillip
53. Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
54. Frommer's Memorable Walks in Paris
55. Rick Steve's Guide to Paris
56. Vita Sexualis - Ogai Mori
57. Naughty Fairy Tales from A to Z - Alison Tyler
58. Up in Heaven - Pierre LaTour (an old Grove Press title)
59. La Tarantula: An Erotic Tale of Spain - Don Luis de V***
60. Memoirs of a Voluptuary - Anonymous (anohter "Wordsworth Classic Erotica" title)
61. States of Ecstasy (contains "The Amorous Adventures of a Japanese Gentleman" and "Blind Lust") - Anonymous
62. Violette - Anonymous ('first published in Brussels in 1892)
63. Menage - Emma Holly (this isn't a classic but I liked the teaser on the back about living with two gorgeous guys)
64. 21st Century Kinkycrafts - edited by Janet W. Hardy
65. Erotic Lifestyles - Iris and Steven Finz
66. The Velvet Underground - Michael Leigh (alas, I had already bought this as "Bizarre Sex Underground")
67. When Passion Reigned: Sex and the Victorians - Patricia Anderson
68. Erotica: An Illustrated Anthology of Sexual Art and Literature - Charlotte Hill and William Wallace
November
69. To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis
70. The Scar - China Mieville
71. Altered Carbon - Richard K Morgan (autographed)
72. Salome/Under the Hill - Oscar Wilde/Aubrey Beardsley
73. The Hedonism Handbook - Michael Flocker
74. Woken Furies - Richard Morgan (since Altered Carbon rocked)
December
75. Thinks - David Lodge
76. Hot Monogamy - Patricia Love and Jo Robinson
77. Frommer's Paris 2006
78. Blood Price - Tonya Huff
79. Saratoga Backtalk - Stephen Dobyns (I wonder if I have all of the Charlie Bradshaw mysteries yet?)
80. Spin State - Chris Moriarty
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Posted by webcowgirl @ Jan 11, 2005 9:46:03 PM [Link]
Jan 11, 2005 9:41:05 PM
Of course I've already started buying books, but I think finishing two in two weeks is pretty darn good considering that I read less than 20 books last year. I blame a lot of this on the Japanese class, of course.
January
1. The Changeling Sea - Patricia McKillip
2. Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
February
3. Shadow of the Warmaster - Jo Clayton
March
4. The Anvil of the World - Kage Baker
5. All Tomorrow's Parties - William Gibson
6. A Door In The Hedge - Robin McKinley
April
7. Across the Nightingale Floor (The Otori, Book 1) - Liz Hearn
8. Sorcery And Cecelia, or: The Enchanted Chocolate Pot - Patricia C. Wrede & Caroline Stevermer
9. The Firework-Maker's Daughter - Phillip Pullman
May
10. The Life of the World to Come - Kage Baker
11. The Spider Garden - Michael Manning
July
12. But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes - Anita Loos
13. Tortilla Flat - Joseph Steinbeck
14. Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
August
15. Eragon - Christopher Paolini
16. Hydrophidian - Michael Manning
17. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris
September
18. The Vesuvius Club - Mark Gatiss (a hoot)
October
19. Smoke and Shadows - Tanya Huff (fluffy but pleasant)
20. Od Magic - Patricia McKillip
November
21. Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan (exciting, couldn't put it down!)
22. Sex with Kings - Eleanor Herman (a very slight book)
December
23. Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
24. The Dirt - Motley Crue
25. How To Be An Alien -
26. Saratoga Backtalk - Stephen Dobyns
27. To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis
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Posted by webcowgirl @ Jan 11, 2005 9:41:05 PM [Link]
Jan 11, 2005 9:36:13 PM
Squeezed 56 performances in last year - how many will I see this year?
January
1 & 2: His Dark Materials pt 1 and 2 (at the National Theater)
3. Grand Hotel (at the Donmar Warehouse)
4. Ukelooza (fundraiser for Rain City Projects at the ReBar)
5. Buttrock Suites 2 (at Velocity Dance Studios)
February
6. Venus and Adonis - John Blow (Early Music Guild)
7. Stravinsky programme (Apollo, Rite of Spring, Firebird) - Pacific Northwest Ballet
8. Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty - Capitol Hill Arts Center
March
9. PNB's Choreographer's Showcase
(works by Gaines, Maraval, Porretta, Wevers, Dawkins)
10. The Secret in the Wings - Seattle Rep
April
11. Hellhound on My Trail - Theater Schmeater
12. Fallen Women's Follies - the REbar
May
13. Tales of Hoffman - Seattle Opera
14. The Magic Flute - Northwest Puppet Center
15. Silk - Goodman Theater
June
16. Le Nuove Musiche - Women in Early Music
July
17. Macbeth - Wooden O Theater
18. Twelfth Night - Wooden O Theater
August
19. Night of the Iguana - ACT
20. Mark Bourne's Highland Fling - Sadler's Wells
September
21. Green Night
22. PNB's Opening Night Gala (Diamonds pas de deux, Balanchine; Red Angels, Dove; Duo Concertant, Balanchine; Symphony in Three Movements, Balanchine)
23. Cathay, directed by Ping Chong - Seattle Rep
24. Death of an Anarchist - Strawberry Theater at Hugo House.
October
25. Arkham - Open Circle Theater (short stories by H. P. Lovecraft, adapted for the stage)
26. Sleeping Beauty Notebooks - Spectrum Theater at The Moore
27. The King and I - 5th Avenue Theater
28. Carmen - Lyric Opera Northwest (a night of spectacular badness)
29. Flashdance, as done by Brown Derby Theater (at the ReBar)
30.The End of the Affair - Seattle Opera (really muddled plot and hysterical libretto)
November
31. Past, Present, and Future (Pacific Northwest Ballet, Balanchine's "Concerto Barroco," Nacho Duato "Jardi Tancat," and Stowells "Hail to the Conquering Hero," plus one other piece)
32. Tennessee William's "Camino Real" - Theater Simple at Freehold
33. Raven and the Box of Daylight - Northwest Puppet Center
34. Pulp Vixens' Double Feature ("A Fistful of Lesbians" and "Hung by the Chimney")
December
35. The Snowflake Factory
36. Mary Poppins (London)
37. Aladdin - The Old Vic
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Posted by webcowgirl @ Jan 11, 2005 9:36:13 PM [Link]