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Movies watched in 2010
09
Jan, 2010

This year I’m not going to separate between cinema and home viewings, but keep a tally over what I see overall. I’m not going to aim to beat 2009′s number as I did in fact see 52 films in the cinema last year and that’s high enough to feel satisfied ;)

  1. Daybreakers
  2. The Wall
  3. Nixon
  4. Girl on a Motorcycle
  5. The Assassination of Richard Nixon
  6. Galaxy Quest
  7. The Road
  8. Superbad
  9. Good hair
  10. Up in the Air
  11. Species
  12. Sweeney Todd – Concert version
  13. It’s complicated
  14. Avatar (3D)
  15. Gattaca
  16. Jumper
  17. Youth In Revolt
  18. Watchmen
  19. Cloudy with a chance of meatballs
  20. The Proposal
  21. Alice in Wonderland
  22. Robot Chicken – Star Wars
  23. Julie & Julia
  24. Get Smart
  25. Frequently asked questions about Time Travel
  26. The secret of Kells
  27. Heavenly Creatures
  28. Inglorious Basterds
  29. The Princess and the Frog
  30. Capitalism – A love story
  31. Whip It
  32. Guys and Dolls
  33. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant
  34. Hot Tub Time Machine
  35. A Single Man
  36. How To Train Your Dragon
  37. I love you Philip Morris
  38. Kick-Ass
  39. An Education
  40. The Blind Side
  41. The September Issue
  42. Ironman 2
  43. The Real Cabaret
  44. Blood Diamond
  45. L.A. Confidential
  46. The Fountain
  47. Taken
  48. Zack and Miri Make a Porno
  49. Blood Diamond
  50. Fiddler On the Roof
  51. Harry Brown
  52. Sex and the city 2
  53. Prince of Persia
  54. Get him to the greek
  55. The A-Team
  56. The Karate Kid
  57. Toy Story 3
  58. Knight and Day
  59. Twilight: New Moon
  60. Twilight: Eclipse
  61. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
  62. Inception
  63. Ponyo
  64. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  65. Synecdoche, New York

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End of the year post
01
Jan, 2010

Happy new year, internets! It’s sure been a busy one. I have watched an almost ridiculous amount of movies in the cinema and read quite a few books, a large portion of which appeared to be about Southern vampires. Go figure.

I also almost worked myself to death trying to manage a full time job and three university courses at the same time. That’s not a mistake I am likely to make again, after coming too close to exhaustion than what is healthy. My only resolution for 2010 is to not destroy myself by trying to manage too much in too little time. I also promise to have MORE FUN and play more video games.

Artists I listened to this year:

1
468
2
318
3
278
4
275
5
260
6
221
7
208
8
179
9
150
10
131

Songs I overplayed this year:

1 Loved track
48
2 Loved track
33
3 Loved track
26
3 Loved track
26
5 Loved track
24
5
24
7
23
8
21
8
21
8
21

To be honest I spent less time listening to music this year than I’ve ever done. I can’t manage to study and listen to music at the same time, so most of the time my speakers were off. But my new artist of the year is without a doubt Frankmusik, who I also managed to catch live at Koko last month.

TV shows I enjoyed:

  • True Blood
  • How I Met Your Mother
  • The Big Bang Theory
  • Gossip Girl
  • Flash Forward
  • Doctor Who
  • Battlestar Galactica
  • Buffy (although I’m a bit slow and have only reached season 2)

Good things this year:

  • Got a seriously good grade in my Java course, go me!
  • Completed two courses during the year
  • Got a new job in an industry that’s more right for me and is very supportive with regards to my somewhat special needs.
  • Got an implant in my arm to replace taking the pill every day
  • I moved my blog over to WordPress, which I’m liking a lot
  • Exchanged commitment rings with Mr Pharmacist
  • Saw a lot of films at the film festival!
  • Went to Disneyland Paris
  • Had the bathroom redone while we were in Disneyland
  • After two years of waiting, finally got placed in weekly therapy
  • Saw Faith and the Muse again! Their new album is gorgeous
  • I had a root canal. Not good for most people but for someone like me who has dental phobia it was a win!
  • Saw some awesome musicals and plays in West End, and am now a massive fan of David Shannon, previously of Les Miserables, currently of Phantom of the Opera. FAB singer!
  • Saw Rufus Wainwright with family and friends at Royal Albert Hall
  • Appeared as a guest on Made of Fail, which was awesome
  • Ran Race for Life again and beat my old fund-raising amount

Not so good things this year:

  • Had a ridiculous amount of migraines
  • Panic attacks returned with a vengeance
  • Gained even more weight – blah!!
  • Dropped a fair bit in salary so struggling more month to month
  • Only went on holiday for four days – very little time off in general
  • Most of my time off was spent studying
  • Light sensitivity at gigs reached all time low – lost almost all interest in live music that isn’t singer/songwriters as I am very unlikely to have any fun at large gigs as I’m too worried about the lights triggering migraines
  • Didn’t have much energy to socialize and lost touch with a fair few people as a result
  • Twitter took over my brain and I ended up blogging less
  • My good friend Mads passed away in a motorcycle accident in May. I met up with his mother and went to his grave during Christmas. I miss him terribly.
  • Another friend, Jan Kenneth Barkved, was found dead in his own home in October. His ex girlfriend is a very close friend of mine, they were still good friends. I urge you to check out his band Elusive, if you like goth rock. They were fantastic.

To the ones we lost, you can never be replaced. To the ones who were there when I really needed someone, thank you. To the new year and new decade – bring it on. It was a tough decade in many ways, I’m glad to see the back of it.

To Mr Pharmacist and my family, by blood or otherwise: I love you. Happy new year!

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Books read in 2010
01
Jan, 2010

In 2008, I read 44 books. In 2009, I read 51 books. I doubt I’ll have time to beat that this year! Then again, I did get a Kindle from Mr Pharmacist and I am most certainly a book addict.  Edit: Holy crap, I’ve read almost 40 books and it is only June at the time of writing. New personal best??)

  1. Iain M. Banks – The Algebraist
  2. Sean O’Neill – The Suicide Factory: Abu Hamza and the Finsbury Park Mosque
  3. Sapphire – Push
  4. Charles Storss – Glasshouse
  5. Rachel Caine – Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires #1)
  6. Laurell K. Hamilton – Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1)
  7. Laurell K. Hamilton – The Laughing Corpse (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #2)
  8. Joe Haldeman – The Forever War
  9. Martin Roach – Take That: Inside the Biggest Comeback in British Pop History (horrible, and badly researched!)
  10. Laurell K. Hamilton – Circus of the Damned(Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #3)
  11. Rachel Caine – The Dead Girls’ Dance (The Morganville Vampires #2)
  12. Rachel Caine – Midnight Alley (The Morganville Vampires #3)
  13. Rachel Caine – Feast of Fools(The Morganville Vampires #4)
  14. Rachel Caine – Lord of Misrule (The Morganville Vampires #5)
  15. Rachel Caine – Carpe Corpus (The Morganville Vampires #6)
  16. Rachel Caine – Fade Out (The Morganville Vampires #7)
  17. Iain M. Banks – The Wasp Factory
  18. Arthur Conan Doyle – A Study in Scarlet/The Sign of Four
  19. Wil Wheaton – Just a Geek
  20. Martin Millar – The Good Fairies of New York
  21. Rick Riordan – The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson #1)
  22. Rick Riordan – The Sea Of Monsters (Percy Jackson #2)
  23. Rick Riordan – The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson #3)
  24. Laurell K. Hamilton – The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #4)
  25. Laurell K. Hamilton – Bloody Bones (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #5)
  26. Stieg Larsson – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  27. Stieg Larsson – The Girl who Played with Fire
  28. Stieg Larsson – The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest
  29. Philip Pullman – The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
  30. Melissa Marr – Stopping Time
  31. Orson Scott Card – Shadow of the Hegemon
  32. Rick Riordan – The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson #4)
  33. Rick Riordan – The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson #5)
  34. Seth Grahame-Smith – Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
  35. Terry Pratchett – Equal Rites
  36. Melissa Marr – Radiant Shadows
  37. Robert J. Sawyer – FlashForward
  38. Stephenie Meyer – The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner
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End of year music and such
09
Jan, 2009

I keep putting off doing the whole new year thing, so I think it’s time now, or it’ll be May before I get around to it.

My most played artist on last.fm in the last 12 months:

1 Play
149
2 Play
123
3
120
4 Play
115
4 Play
115
6 Play
112
7 Play
104
8 Play
98
9 Play
90
10 Play
81

Who, you say?

more…

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Films I’ve seen in 2009
08
Jan, 2009

In 2008, I watched 117 films, 43 in the cinema and 74 on tv/DVD/etc. This will be tough to beat, but I shall try!

Films I’ve seen in the cinema in 2009

  1. Milk
  2. Slumdog Millionaire
  3. Frost/Nixon
  4. Valkyrie
  5. Watchmen (IMAX)
  6. Monsters VS. Aliens
  7. 17 Again
  8. Coraline
  9. Star Trek (IMAX)
  10. Terminator Salvation
  11. The Hangover
  12. Star Trek (again, yes.) (IMAX)
  13. Pour elle (Anything For Her)
  14. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (IMAX)
  15. Public Enemies
  16. Sunshine Cleaning
  17. My Sister’s Keeper
  18. The Proposal
  19. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  20. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (IMAX) *
  21. Moon
  22. The Time Traveler’s Wife
  23. Lord of the Rings – Fellowship of the Rings
  24. Lord of the Rings – Two Towers
  25. Adam
  26. District 9
  27. Adventureland
  28. (500) days of Summer
  29. District 9 (IMAX)
  30. Flickan som lekte med elden
  31. Surrogates
  32. The Invention of Lying
  33. Up
  34. The Fantastic Mr Fox
  35. The Men Who Stare at Goats
  36. Paper Heart
  37. Cold Souls
  38. The Informant!
  39. Burning Down The House
  40. Mother
  41. Precious – based on the novel Push by Sapphire
  42. American – The Bill Hicks Story
  43. Metropia
  44. Zombieland
  45. 2012
  46. A Serious Man
  47. Avatar
  48. Up (3D)
  49. Twilight – New Moon
  50. The Men Who Stare at Goats (Repeat – with Mr Pharmacist)
  51. Avatar
  52. Sherlock Holmes

Films I’ve seen elsewhere in 2009

  1. Hello Dolly
  2. Sherrybaby
  3. Citizen Kane
  4. Wall Street
  5. Tropic Thunder
  6. My Fair Lady*
  7. Jesus Camp
  8. The Chronicles of Narnia – Prince Caspian
  9. 2 days in Paris
  10. The Reader
  11. The War on Democracy
  12. 3:10 to Yuma
  13. The Road to Guantanamo
  14. 9/11 The falling Man
  15. Hallam Foe
  16. High School Musical 2
  17. Hancock
  18. I’m Not There
  19. Twilight *
  20. A Tale of Two Sisters
  21. All the President’s Men
  22. Hiroshima (BBC documentary – partially dramatized)
  23. Let the right one in
  24. Stephen Hawking’s Theory Of Everything
  25. Confessions of a Shopaholic
  26. Up
  27. Wall-E *
  28. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Only made it half way through the film – too slow!)
  29. High School Musical 3
  30. Resident Evil
  31. Miss Congeniality *
  32. Waitress *
  33. 27 Dresses *
  34. Teeth
  35. The Times of Harvey Milk
  36. Sympathy For Mr Vengeance
  37. Rent
  38. Junebug
  39. Rendition
  40. The Edge of Love
  41. Alexandra
  42. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor)
  43. An American Crime
  44. The Truman Show
  45. Max Manus
  46. Persepolis*
  47. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button*
  48. Bolt
  49. Beauty and the Beast *
  50. The Hurt Locker
  51. Drag Me To Hell
  52. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor)
  53. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
  54. W.
  55. Pineapple Express
  56. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
  57. 17 Again *
  58. The Proposal *
  59. Weapons of Mass Deception
  60. Precious *
  61. Up*
  62. Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
  63. Bolt *

Total films: 115

* – denotes repeat viewing

I have a feeling I’ve forgotten a few I’ve watched at home.

Pour elle

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Books read in 2009
08
Jan, 2009

It’s a new year, time for a new list. In 2008, I read 44 books. I want to read more this year!

Reading list for 2009:

  1. Kurt Vonnegut – Mother Night
  2. Mark Haddon – A Spot of Bother
  3. Mohsin Hamid – The Reluctant Fundamentalist
  4. Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men
  5. Mikhail Bulgakov – The Master and Margarita
  6. David Frost – Frost/Nixon
  7. Jeff Povey – The Serial Killers Club
  8. Orson Scott Card – Speaker for the Dead (Audio Book)
  9. Caroly Jessop – Escape
  10. Andy Secombe – The last house in the galaxy
  11. Richard Matheson – I am Legend
  12. Neil Stephenson – Cobweb
  13. Kurt Vonnegut – Slapstick – or lonesome no more
  14. Elissa Wall – Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect
  15. Mikael Niemi – Populärmusik från Vittula
  16. Barack Obama – The Audacity of Hope (audio book)
  17. Ben Goldacre – Bad Science
  18. Marjane Satrapi – Embroideries
  19. Barney Stinson – The Bro Code
  20. Phillip P. Pan – Out of Mao’s Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China
  21. Elissa Wall – Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect
  22. Kurt Vonnegut – Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
  23. Neal Stephenson – Anathem
  24. John Hodgman – Areas of my expertise (audio book)
  25. John Scalzi – Old man’s war
  26. Mark Brooks -  World War Z
  27. Orson Scott Card – Xenocide (Ender saga book 3)
  28. Melissa Marr – Wicked Lovely
  29. Orson Scott Card – Children of the Mind (Ender saga book 4)
  30. Orson Scott Card – Ender’s Game (repeated read)
  31. Rachel North – Out of the Tunnel
  32. Will Wheaton – Dancing Barefoot
  33. Melissa Marr – Ink Exchange
  34. Melissa Marr – Fragile Eternity
  35. Terry Pratchett – Nation
  36. Reza Aslan – How to win a cosmic war
  37. John Scalzi – The Ghost Brigades
  38. Charlaine Harris – Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse #1)
  39. Charlaine Harris -Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2)
  40. Charlaine Harris – Club Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #3)
  41. Max Brooks – The Zombie Survival Guide
  42. Gwen Ifill – Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama
  43. Charlaine Harris- Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, #4)
  44. Charlaine Harris – Dead as a Doornail (Sookie Stackhouse, #5)
  45. Charlaine Harris – Definitely Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #6)
  46. Charlaine Harris – All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #7)
  47. Charlaine Harris – From Dead to Worse (Sookie Stackhouse, #8)
  48. Charlaine Harris – Dead and Gone (Sookie Stackhouse, #9)
  49. Alfred Bester – The Stars My Destination
  50. Peter F. Hamilton – The Dreaming Void
  51. Michael Wolff – Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch

Way past last year :)

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Books read in 2008
01
Jan, 2008

1. John C. Beck – Got Game? How the Gamer Generation Is Reshaping Business Forever
2. Neil Stephenson – The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer
3. Mick O’Hare – Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze?
4. Madeleine D’Engle – A Wrinkle in Time
5. Madeleine D’Engle – A wind in the door
6. QI Team – The Book Of General Ignorance
7. Terry Pratchett – The Colour of Magic
8. Terry Pratchett – The Light Fantastic
9. Laurence Rees – Auschwitz
10. Richard K. Morgan – Altered Carbon: A Takeshi Kovacs Novel
11. Truman Capote – Breakfast at Tiffany’s
12. Stephen Colberg – I Am America (And So Can You!)
13. Robert Graysmith – Zodiac
14. Al Franken – Lies and the lying liars that tell them
15. JK Rowling – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
16. JK Rowling – Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban
17. Laruence Rees – Nazis (a warning from history)
18. JK Rowling – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
19. Jon Krakauer – Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
20. JK Rowling – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
21. Allan Moore – Watchmen (graphic novel – still counts!)
22. JK Rowling – Harry Potter and the half-blood prince
23. JK Rowling – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
24. Stephenie Meyer – Twilight
25. Stephenie Meyer – New Moon
26. Stephenie Meyer – Eclipse
27. Stephenie Meyer – Breaking Dawn (I’ve clearly lost my mind. Send help!)
28. Orson Scott Card – Enders Game
29. Kurt Vonnegut – God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
30. Michael Moore – Mike’s Election Guide
31. Art Spiegelman – Maus (complete)
32. Art Spiegelman – In the shadow of no towers
33. H.G. Wells – The War of the Worlds
34. Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
35. Madeleine D’Engle – A swiftly tilting planet
36. Richard Dawkins – The God Delusion
37. Barack Obama – Dreams of my father
38. Neil Gaiman – The Graveyard Book
39. Akira (Complete Series)
40. Y – The last man (Complete Series)
41. Craig Shaw Gardner – The Cylons’ Secret: Battlestar Galactica
42. Kurt Vonnegut – Timequake
43. Philip K. Dick – Minority Report (A collection of short stories)
44. Andy Secombe – Endgame

End of list.

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Films I’ve seen in 2008
01
Jan, 2008

Films I’ve seen in the cinema in 2008
1. I am Legend* (IMAX)
2. Juno
3. Cloverfield
4. Sweeney Todd – Demon Barber of Fleet Street
5. Fucking Åmål*
6. Definitely Maybe
7. There Will be Blood
8. Lars and the Real Girl
9. No country for old men
10. The Orphanage
11. Happy Go Lucky
12. I’m a Cyborg, and that’s okay
13. Son of Rambow
14. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
15. In Bruges
16. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
17. Iron Man
18. Indiana Jones 4
19. Iron Man
20. Memories of Matsuko
21. Sex and the City
22. Kamikaze Girls
23. Memories of Matsuko
24. The Incredible Hulk (IMAX)
25. Blade Runner (Final Cut) (IMAX)
26. X-men (IMAX)*
27. X-men 2 (IMAX)*
28. Mamma Mia
29. Wall-E
30. Batman – The Dark Knight
31. X-Files – I want to believe
32. Wall-E*
33. Flammen & Citronen
34. City of Ember
35. Sunshine Barry and the Disco Worms
36. Religulous
37. Rachel getting married
38. The Posters came from the Walls
39. Hamlet 2
40. James Bond – Quantum of Solace
41. Burn after reading
42. Twilight
43. Twilight. Shut up.

Films I’ve seen elsewhere in 2008
1. Knocked Up
2. 13 going on 30*
3. Say Anything*
4. Stardust*
5. Battle Royale
6. Stargate
7. But I’m a cheerleader
8. Indiana Jones – Raiders of the Lost Ark
9. Zodiac
10. The Pianist
11. Hairspray
12. Fantastic Four – rise of the silver surfer
13. The Crying Game
14. Shrek the Third
15. The Break Up
16. Shaolin Soccer
17. Happy Feet*
18. Becoming Jane*
19. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix*
20. Shrek 2*
21. The Kite Runner (flight)
22. Enchanted* (flight)
23. Shallow Grave
24. Transformers*
25. Death Note
26. Death Note – the last name
27. Persepolis
28. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
29. Gone baby Gone
30. Enchanted* (yes, again. Shut up. It will appear again.)
31. Casanova (Heath Ledger version)
32. The Others
33. Juno*
34. Enchanted*
35. In the shadow of the moon
36. Miss Potter
37. Michael Clayton
38. Whisper of the heart
39. Enchanted*
40. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire*
41. Funny Face
42. Indiana Jones – Raiders of the Lost Ark*
43. Batman Begins*
44. This film is not yet rated
45. Indiana Jones and the temple of doom
46. Eastern Promises
47. Cars
48. Twin Peaks – Fire Walk With Me
49. Kissing Jessica Stein
50. Jerry Springer The Opera
51. Sicko
52. Jerry Springer The Opera*
53. The Notebook
54. Enchanted
55. Baby Mama
56. 27 Dresses
57. Evening
58. Alvin and the chipmunks
59. Itty Bitty Titty Committee
60. Evening
61. Jane Austen Book Club
62. Peter Pan – Return to Neverland
63. Marie Antoinette
64. Mr & Mrs Smith
65. Sweeney Tood*
66. Rain Man*
67. It’s a wonderful life
68. Derailed
69. Wall-E*
70. Indiana Jones – Kingdom of the crystal skull*
71. High School Musical*
72. My Fair Lady*
73. It’s a wonderful life
74. Constatine

Total films: 117

* – denotes repeat viewing

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