2010 Media Log

January

Movies (seen for the first time):
- April Fools Day
- Bak Fasaden
- Monthy Python - The Meaning of Life
- Skjult
- Zack & Miri make a porno

TV:
- Dexter Season 3
- Dexter Season 4
- Started Cougar Town
- Started Modern Family

Games (completed till the end):
- Saw
- Condemned
- Resident Evil: Code Veronica X (second playthrough)

Have also played Little Big Planet a lot


February

Movies (seen for the first time):
- Avatar
- Up
- District 9

TV:
- Following Lost Season 6
- Following Desperate Housewives Season 6

Games Completed:

Games Playing:
-Dark Cloud
-Saint's Row 2
-Little Big Planet
-Blue Toad Murder Files
-Xenogears

May
Movies Seen:
Halloween (2007)
Shutter Island
True Romance
Dumbo
The Sword in the Stone
A Goofy Movie
Some Like it Hot
Amelie
Casablanca
Ilsa

TV Series following:
Happy Town
Lost
Desperate Housewives

Games completed:
Silent Hill Origins
Blue Toad Murder Files

Games Playing:
Boom Blox
Little Big Planet
FFVI:A
FFIV DS

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Originally Posted by The Man

This is probably a good idea. Maybe it'll inspire me to finish more books. I'm not even going to bother trying to list all the huge amount of music I listen to though; just see my Last.fm, which I try to keep as complete as possible (I have over 110,000 tracks played on it in slightly over four years of membership).

January

Books:
* Dresden Files vol. 1-3, Jim Butcher (completed)
* Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris (almost completed)
* Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson

TV:
* Battlestar Galactica, Season 2 (almost finished)
* Caprica
* Human Target
* Castle
* Better Off Ted

Films:
* Avatar (x2)

I have a lot of other books I'm in the middle of but I haven't really read enough of them in this month to make them worth listing. Lots of Pynchon, DeLillo and Gaddis which I need to start back up on. I kind of got side-tracked into "fun" sci-fi as you can probably tell. I see Rye mentioned Italo Calvino; I also need to get some of his work, as well as Nabokov's. Then again I already have far too many books I haven't read yet.

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I recommend starting with Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler... It is startling amazing. It definitely strikes a note similar to Nabokov's more unusual things. It's somewhat similar in premise to Nabokov's Pale Fire. Without spoiling, (as it says this on the back of the book), If on a Winter's Night a traveler... is basically about the character (only named as He-Reader or in the pages, "You") who is trying to read a book. It's freaking bizarre and fantastic. I'm only about 50 pages in, and I'm already in love, even though it's a bit hard to keep up with.

As for Nabokov, Lolita is the obvious first one to try, but I'd recommend An Invitation to a Beheading if you like dystopian literature.

Fun idea!

Score:
***** Awesome
**** Great
*** Pretty good
** Ok
* Sucks

January

Movies
Sherlock Holmes ***

Books
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco *** (incomplete)

Games
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess for Wii *****
Metroid Prime for Gamecube *** (incomplete)
Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days for DS ***
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story for DS **** (incomplete)
Dissidia Final Fantasy for PSP **** (incomplete)
Final Fantasy XI for PC * (never complete, for my overall experience I give this game a 5 but I haven't been feeling it this month)

TV
24 ****
The Big Bang Theory ****
Two and a Half Men ***
Modern Family *****
The Office ***
30 Rock ***
Fringe **
NFL Playoffs **


February

Books
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco ***
The Associate by John Grisham **** (incomplete)

Games
Metroid Prime for Gamecube ****
New Super Mario Bros. Wii for Wii *** (incomplete)
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story for DS **** (incomplete)
Dissidia Final Fantasy for PSP *** (incomplete)
Final Fantasy XI for PC *** (never complete)

TV
24 ***
The Big Bang Theory ****
Two and a Half Men ***
Lost *
The Amazing Race ****
Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains *****
Smallville ***

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Originally Posted by Rye

I recommend starting with Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler... It is startling amazing. It definitely strikes a note similar to Nabokov's more unusual things. It's somewhat similar in premise to Nabokov's Pale Fire. Without spoiling, (as it says this on the back of the book), If on a Winter's Night a traveler... is basically about the character (only named as He-Reader or in the pages, "You") who is trying to read a book. It's freaking bizarre and fantastic. I'm only about 50 pages in, and I'm already in love, even though it's a bit hard to keep up with.

As for Nabokov, Lolita is the obvious first one to try, but I'd recommend An Invitation to a Beheading if you like dystopian literature.

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Thanks for the recommendations. I was probably going to start with IoaWNaT anyway, so it's good to hear that it's as good as I was expecting it to be.

With Nabokov I was thinking I'd either start with Lolita or Pale Fire (I love metafiction when it's done right), but thanks for mentioning An Invitation to a Beheading; I'll probably check that out as well. His volumes are usually pretty slender if I remember correctly so hopefully I'll be able to try them all.

Also I'm probably going to reread The Catcher and the Rye and A People's History of the United States now since their respective authors just died. Haven't started doing so yet though.

"Also I'm probably going to reread The Catcher and the Rye and A People's History of the United States now since their respective authors just died. Haven't started doing so yet though."

I'd also add "Nine Stories" to that as I enjoyed it more than Catcher.

I'll have to do this sometime. Been too busy to really take in much but I'll add to this sometime soon.

Take care all.

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Originally Posted by Del Murder

Modern Family *****

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I've never heard of this. What's it about?

Movies:
Avatar *****
M ****
Hercules in New York ****

Games:
Gears of War 2 ****
Left 4 Dead 1&2 ***
Forza 3 *****
Splosion Man ***
Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts ***
Motorstorm Pacific Rift *****
Bayonetta *****

Books:
Franny and Zooey *

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Shiny

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Del Murder

Modern Family *****

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I've never heard of this. What's it about?

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It's a different take on the family sitcom. It's about 3 families: a 'traditional group' with mom/dad/3 kids, a gay couple with an adopted baby, and an older man who remarried a young Columbian (who has a son). It's like a cross between Arrested Development and The Office and it's hilarious.

Opz! January's over :) Time to add a new month~

February 2010

Books

-The Oracle's Queen by Lynn Flewelling (re-reading)
-His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik

Movies

-Pokemon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life (re-watching)
-Make the Yuletide Gay (re-watching)
-The Invention of Lying

Games

-Pokemon Platinum - Endgame stuff
-Dragon Age: Origins - Landsmeet & random sidequests

TV

-Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (series and OVAs)
-Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
-Fairy Tale
-Kobato
-Durarrara
-Brothers & Sisters
-Legend of the Seeker
-Bleach

February

Films
Still Walking
Ponyo

Albums
Romance is Boring - Los Campesinos!
Kollaps Tradixionales - A Silver Mt. Zion
Have One on Me - Joanna Newsom (OK not out yet but will be by the end of the month)

This is a fine idea. Count me in! :D

JANUARY:

Books:
- Alussa oli käännös (In the Beginning There Was Translation) by Riitta Oittinen & Pirjo Mäkinen ***
- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie ****
- Conference Interpreting Explained by Roderick Jones ***
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams ****
- The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ***
- The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper ****
- The Last Good-bye by Raymond Chandler *****
- The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle ****
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien *****
- Neuromancer by William Gibson ***
- Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs ***
- Tolkning på olika nivåer av professionalitet (Interpreting on Various Levels of Profession) by Gun-Viol Vik-Tuovinen ***
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson ***
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells ***
- Watership Down by Richard Adams *****

Films:
- The Alamo (1960 version) ****
- Bandolero! ***
- Blazing Saddles ***
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969 version) ***
- The Departed ****
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943 version) ****
- Gilda *****
- The Red Canvas ****
- Sherlock Holmes ****
- Slow Flows the Don ***
- A Star is Born (1954 version) ****

TV series:
- Alfred J. Kwak *****
- Bleach ***
- The Brothers Karamazov (2008 version) ****
- Darker Than Black Season 2 ***
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood ****
- Mighty Max ***
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 2 ***

Music:
- The Alamo (1960 version) by Dimitri Tiomkin ****
- The Beastmaster by Lee Holdridge ***
- Crimes of the Heart by Georges Delerue ****
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Complete Recordings) by Howard Shore *****
- Mao's Last Dancer by Christopher Gordon *****
- The Princess and the Frog by Randy Newman ****
- Red River (Rerecording) by Dimitri Tiomkin *****
- Rio Grande by Victor Young ****
- Scaramouche by Victor Young ***


FEBRUARY:

Books:
- Kollaa kestää (Kollaa Will Hold) by Erkki Palolampi ****
- Lapsia (Children) by Teuvo Pakkala ****
- Manillaköysi (The Manila Rope) by Veijo Meri ***
- Pikku ihmisiä (Little People) by Teuvo Pakkala ****
- Sudenmorsian (The Wolf's Bride) by Aino Kallas ****
- Suomen kirjallisuuden historia (The History of Finnish Literature) by Kai Laitinen ****
- Vieraan kypärän alla (Under a Foreign Helmet) by Niilo Lauttamus ****

Films:
- Chisum ***
- Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic ***
- Red River *****
- Waterloo Bridge (1940 version) *****

TV series:
- Life (BBC Documentary) ****

Music:
- Creation by Christopher Young ***
- Disneyland: Phantom Manor (Promo) by John Debney ****
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian by Harry Gregson-Williams ****
- A Single Man by Abel Korzeniowski ****


MARCH:

Books:
- Isänmaa (Fatherland) by Arvid Järnefelt ****
- Juhannustanssit (Midsummer Dances) by Hannu Salama **
- Kaukainen puutarha (The Distant Garden) by Katri Vala ****
- Kenttä ja kasarmi (The Field and the Barracks) by Pentti Haanpää ***
- Leijat Helsingin yllä (Kites Over Helsinki) by Kjell Westö ***
- Maa on syntinen laulu (The Earth is a Sinful Song) by Timo K. Mukka ****
- Moreeni (Moraine) by Lauri Viita ***
- Putkinotko by Joel Lehtonen *****
- Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers) by Aleksis Kivi ****
- Tehtaan varjossa (In the Shadow of the Factory) by Toivo Pekkanen *****

Films:
- Alice in Wonderland ***
- Transformers **
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg ***
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit? ****
- The Wild Bunch ***

Music:
- Agora by Dario Marianelli *****
- Alice in Wonderland by Danny Elfman ****
- Avatar (Complete Score) by James Horner ****
- God of War III by Gerard Marino etc. ****
- How to Train Your Dragon by John Powell *****

Web original:
- Darths and Droids ****
- Order of the Stick ****
- tGA ****


APRIL:

Books:
- Dikter (Poems) by Edith Södergran ****
- Helkavirsiä I & II (Whit Songs I & II) by Eino Leino ***
- In Search of Lost Time I: Combray by Marcel Proust ***
- Jääpeili (The Ice Mirror) by Aaro Hellaakoski ****
- Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot ****
- Koiruoho, ruusunkukka (Wormwood, Rose Flower) by P. Mustapää ***
- Nummisuutarit (The Heath Cobblers) by Aleksis Kivi ***
- Nykyaikaa etsimässä (In Search of the Present) by Olavi Paavolainen ****
- Länsimaisen kirjallisuuden historia (The History of Western Literature) by Pekka Vartiainen ***
- Maa kuuluu kaikille! (The Land Belongs to Everyone!) by Arvid Järnefelt ***
- Maamme kirja (The Book of Our Land) by Zachris Topelius *****
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe ***
- The Trial by Franz Kafka ***
- Tämä matka (This Journey) by Eeva-Liisa Manner ***
- Uni ja kuolema (Dream and Death) by Uuno Kailas ****
- Vänrikki Stoolin tarinat (The Tales of Ensign Stål) by J.L. Runeberg ***

Films:
- 3:10 to Yuma (2007 version) ****
- How to Train Your Dragon *****
- The Caine Mutiny ****

TV series:
- The Passion (2008 version) ***


MAY:

Books:
- Kuusi muistiota seuraavalle vuosituhannelle (Six Memos for the Next Millennium) by Italo Calvino **
- Luova mieli (A Creative Mind) by Claes Andersson ***
- The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town by Amos Tutuola ****
- Sanastotyön opas (A Guide to Terminology) by Risto Haarala ***
- Sanojen avaruus: luovan kirjoittamisen opas (The Space of Words: A Guide to Creative Writing) by Torsti Lehtinen ***
- Tekstioppi: johdatus ajattelun ja kielen yhteistyöhön (A Text Grammar: An Introduction to the Cooperation of Thinking and Language) by Anneli Kauppinen & Leena Laurinen **
- Terminology: An Introduction by Heribert Picht & Jennifer Draskau **


JUNE:

Books:
- Kuuntelua (Listening) by Aaro Hellaakoski ***
- Maan laiturilla (On the Earth's Jetty) by Katri Vala ***
- Paljain jaloin (On Bare Feet) by Uuno Kailas ***
- Paluu (The Return) by Katri Vala ***
- Pesäpuu palaa (The Nest Tree Burns) by Katri Vala ***
- Purjehtijat (Sailors) by Uuno Kailas ***
- Silmästä silmään (Eye to Eye) by Uuno Kailas ***
- Sininen ovi (The Blue Door) by Katri Vala ***
- Suursiivous eli kirjallisessa lastenkamarissa (The Great Housecleaning or in a Literary Nursery) by Olavi Paavolainen ***
- Tuliholvin alla (Under the Fiery Vault) by Eino Hosia ****
- Tuuli ja tähkä (The Wind and the Corn's Ear) by Uuno Kailas ***

Films:
- Casablanca *****
- Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone ***
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time ****
- Shrek the Third **
- Shrek Forever After ****

Music:
- Invincible by Two Steps from Hell ****
- The Last Airbender by James Newton-Howard ****
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time by Harry Gregson-Williams ****
- Shrek Forever After by Harry Gregson-Williams ****


JULY:

Books:
- The Essential Guide to World Comics by Tim Pilcher & Brad Brooks ***

Films:
- People I Know **

Music:
- The Alamo (Rerecording) by Dimitri Tiomkin *****
- Independence Day (Complete) by David Arnold *****
- Speed 2 by Mark Mancina ****


AUGUST:

Books:
- Lakeuksien lukko (Lock of the Plains) by Artturi Leinonen ****
- Leipäpappi (Bread Priest) by Artturi Leinonen ***
- Nuori Tuomaala (Young Tuomaala) by Artturi Leinonen ***

Films:
- Crank **
- Death Race **
- Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance ***

Music:
- Dangerous Beauty by George Fenton ****
- Highlander by Michael Kamen ***
- Kà by Cirque du Soleil ****
- Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty by Glen Stafford etc. ****


SEPTEMBER:

Books:
- Rummut (Drums) by Arvi Järventaus ***

Films:
- The 40-year-old Virgin ***
- Brüno *
- Chinatown ****
- Putkinotko ****

Music:
- The Mission by Ennio Morricone ****


OCTOBER:

Books:
- Alla kasvon kaikkivallan (Under the Face of the Almighty) by Eino Leino ***
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London ****
- A Daughter of the Snows by Jack London ***
- Profeetta (The Prophet) by Artturi Leinonen ****
- Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay ***

Films:
- Robin Hood (2010 version) ***

Music:
- Legend of The Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole by David Hirschfelder ***
- Medal of Honor by Ramin Djawadi **


NOVEMBER:

Books:
- Kolmanteen ja neljänteen polveen (Unto the Third and Fourth Generation) by Artturi Leinonen ***
- Maakunnan sinetti (The Seal of the Province) by Artturi Leinonen ***
- From Here to Eternity by James Jones ****

Films:
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse **
- Training Day ****

January/FebruaryOf those I know I've seen/read/played recently enough...

Reading Materials
- FHM ****
- Metro ****
- Dune *****
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - *** ongoing

Movies
- Avatar - ****
- How To Lose Friends and Alienate People - ***
- (500) Days of Summer - ****
- Pretty Woman - **
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse - **
- Transformers - ***
- Hero - ***

TV
- Modern Family - ****
- Lost - ****
- Got To Dance - ****
- The Simpsons - ***
- Mock the Week - ***
- Argumental - ***
- Alan Carr: Chatty Man - ***

Gaming
- Left 4 Dead *** Tried it on harder levels with Danielle, didn't get too far but still enjoyed ourselves
- Mass Effect 2 *****

March

Reading Materials
- FHM - ****
- Metro - ***
- Shortlist - ***
- Final Fantasy XIII Official Guide - ****

Movies
- The Princess and the Frog - ***
- The Silence of the Lambs - *****

TV
- Lost - ****
- The Simpsons - ***
- Alan Carr: Chatty Man - ***
- Mock The Week - ***

Gaming
- Uncharted 2 - *****
- FIFA 10 - ***
- Final Fantasy XIII - *****
- Flower - ***
- Trine (Demo) - ***

So long into March, and I've only just now been able to add anything ;.;

Started my March one up, too. Got a fair bit and hope to have a fair few more soon enough. :D