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"Before you know it as the years go by, you're just like other people you have seen, with all those peculiar human ailments. Just another vehicle for temper and vanity and rashness and all the rest. Who wants it? Who needs it? These things occupy the place where a man's soul should be." -- Henderson the Rain King

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Final 2010 Movie List

Along the lines of my reading list which I posted yesterday, here are the films I saw in 2010. This is primarily based on Netflix ratings so I may be missing some stuff I saw in the theater...

  1. Withnail and I
  2. Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel
  3. Jennifer's Body
  4. District 9*
  5. Extract
  6. The Hurt Locker*
  7. Taking Woodstock
  8. Volver
  9. Whatever Works
  10. Zombieland*
  11. New York, I Love You
  12. Dear Zachary*
  13. Girl on a Motorcycle
  14. Mitch Hedberg: Mitch All Together
  15. (500)Days of Summer
  16. Moon*
  17. Down By Law*
  18. The Squid and The Whale*
  19. Neil Young: Heart of Gold
  20. Good Hair
  21. Paranormal Activity
  22. Where The Wild Things Are
  23. Broken Embraces
  24. The Men Who Stare at Goats
  25. Grizzly Man*
  26. Black Dynamite
  27. Fantastic Mr. Fox*
  28. Crazy Heart
  29. The Informant
  30. Gentleman Broncos
  31. The Guatemalen Handshake
  32. Shutter Island*
  33. My Effortless Brilliance
  34. Public Enemies
  35. A Serious Man
  36. The Road
  37. Greenberg*
  38. Hot Tub Time Machine
  39. Capitalism: A Love Story
  40. In The Loop
  41. The Room*
  42. Youth In Revolt
  43. The Vice Guide To Travel
  44. Happy Go-Lucky*
  45. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
  46. The White Ribbon*
  47. Big Fan
  48. Beyond The Valley of Dolls
  49. Apocalypse Now Redux*
  50. Get Him To The Greek
  51. Burden of Dreams*
  52. The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
  53. Winter's Bone*
  54. Red Cliff
  55. City of God*
  56. Exit Through The Gift Shop*
  57. Stranger Than Paradise*
  58. The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
  59. Coffy
  60. Knife in the Water
  61. Hannah Takes The Stairs
  62. My Winnipeg
  63. The Girlfriend Experience
  64. Following
  65. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
  66. Stroszek
  67. Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior
  68. In Cold Blood
  69. The Book of Eli
  70. Alice in Wonderland
  71. Inception*
* - Highly recommended

2009 movie list
2008 movie list
2007 movie list

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Friday, January 21, 2011

Final 2010 Reading List

Alas my blog has basically died, but in the interest of keeping my list of what I've read for future reference I thought I'd post it here. Maybe one of the days I'll even get back to some regular posts, but no promises.

I didn't quite hit my 50 book goal this year, but Infinite Jest should really count for about 10 :-)

  1. Like a Velvet Glove Cast In Iron - Daniel Clowes
  2. Ransom - Jay McInerney
  3. Nog - Rudolph Wurlitzer
  4. Let The Great World Spin* - Colum McCann
  5. Welcome to The Terrordome - Dave Zirin
  6. Eating Animals* - Jonathan Safran Foer
  7. Juliet, Naked* - Nick Hornby
  8. Asterios Polyp - David Mazzucchelli
  9. Point Omega - Don DeLillo
  10. Electric Literature #2 - Various
  11. Boomerang - Barry Hannah
  12. Baseball's Greatest Series - Chris Donnelly
  13. Infinite Jest* - David Foster Wallace
  14. How It Ended - Jay McInerney
  15. More of This World or Maybe Another* - Barb Johnson
  16. Alternadad - Neal Pollack
  17. The Unnamed* - Joshua Ferris
  18. Tin House: Spring 2010 - Various
  19. Electric Literature #1 - Various
  20. New Stories From The South 2009 - Various
  21. Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine* - Thom Jones
  22. The Bullpen Gospels - Dirk Hayhurst
  23. Imperial Bedrooms - Bret Easton Ellis
  24. You Are Not a Gadget - Jaron Lanier
  25. The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande
  26. Footnotes in Gaza - Joe Sacco
  27. The Lonely Polygamist* - Brady Udall
  28. True Grit* - Charles Portis
  29. Super Sad True Love Story - Gary Shteyngart
  30. Brief Interview With Hideous Men* - David Foster Wallace
  31. Scott Pilgrim Vol. 1 - Bryan Lee O'Malley
  32. The Ask - Sam Lipsyte
  33. Scott Pilgrim Vol. 2 - Bryan Lee O'Malley
  34. The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
  35. Scott Pilgrim Vol. 3 - Bryan Lee O'Malley
  36. Nemesis - Philip Roth
  37. Scott Pilgrim Vol. 4 - Bryan Lee O'Malley
  38. Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives* - Brad Watson
  39. Scott Pilgrim Vol. 5 - Bryan Lee O'Malley
  40. Scott Pilgrim Vol. 6 - Bryan Lee O'Malley
  41. The Dog of the South - Charles Portis

* = highly recommended

My 2009 reading list
My 2008 reading list
My 2007 reading list
My 2006 reading list
My 2005 reading list

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