Sunday, January 11, 2009

New Books and Movies

I made a list of every new book I read and every new movie I saw in 2008. Here it is:

Movies I've Seen In 2008 (first-time movies only)
1. Hitch
2. La Vie Est Belle
3. Punch-Drunk Love
4. Sweeney Todd
5. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
6. Twelve Monkeys
7. Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
8. The Shining
9. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
10. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
11. Talk Radio
12. City of Lost Children
13. No Country for Old Men
14. Delicatessen
15. Be Kind Rewind
16. Little Shop of Horrors
17. A Streetcar Named Desire
18. Long Day's Journey Into Night
19. Cabaret
20. 1776
21. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
22. Dumbo
23. Atonement
24. Network
25. Machuca
26. Of Mice and Men
27. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
28. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
29. Lonesome Dove
30. Brokeback Mountain
31. Being There
32. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
33. Repo Man
34. 1/2 of Into the Wild (BUT IT SUCKED SO BAD)
35. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
36. Milo and Otis
37. Death Lends A Hand (Columbo)
38. There Will Be Blood
39. Wall-E
40. Futurama II - The Beast With A Million Backs
41. The Muppet Movie
42. I'm Not There
43. A Little Romance
44. Pee Wee's Big Adventure
45. MST3000: Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders
46. MST3000: Santa Claus
47. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
48. Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control
49. Koko the Talking Gorilla
50. Tremors
51. They Live
52. Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex (1992)
53. W.
54. When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
55. Aliens
56. Aguirre The Wrath Of God
57. The Seventh Seal
58. The Future of Food
59. Synecdoche, New York
60. Hatley High
61. After Hours
62. In Bruges
63. Sunshine
64. Labyrinth
65. Bringing Up Baby
66. Holiday
67. Slumdog Millionaire
68. The Philidelphia Story
69. Vertigo
70. The Devil Wears Prada
71. Field of Dreams
72. Sullivan's Travels
73. Eight Men Out

Books I've Read In 2008 (first-time books only, and only books I fully read cover-to-cover)
1. Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen
2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
3. The Persian Letters by Montesqueiu
4. As You Like It by William Shakespeare
5. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
6. Contact by Carl Sagan
7. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
8. Henry IV, Pt. I by William Shakespeare
9. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
10. Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
11. Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware
12. Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill
13. Henry IV, Pt. II by William Shakespeare
14. Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser
15. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
16. Paradise Park by Charles Mee
17. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
18. The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno
19. Antony & Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
20. Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
21. Master of Reality by John Darnielle
22. The Lover by Marguerite Duras
23. The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
24. Lila the Werewolf by Peter S. Beagle
25. The Line Between by Peter S. Beagle
26. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
27. Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
28. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
29. Nickel & Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America by Barbara Ehrenreich
30. Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
31. Homegrown Democrat by Garrison Keillor
32. The Thirteen Clocks by James Thurber
33. The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
34. The Favorite Game by Leonard Cohen
36. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
37. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
38. The Misanthrope by Moliere
39. Tartuffe by Moliere
40. The Problem of Nature by David Arnold
41. Tastes of Paradise by Wolfgang Schivelbusch
42. Rameau's Nephew by Denis Diderot
43. The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
44. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
45. Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster by Michael Eric Dyson
46. Hind Swaraj by M.K. Gandhi
47. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
48. Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
49. In the Solitude of Cotton Fields by Bernard-Marie Koltes
50. Tropisms by Nathalie Sarraute
51. It's Beautiful by Nathalie Sarraute
52. Liberty by Garrison Keillor
53. The Waltz of the Toreadors by Jean Anouilh
54. Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
55. Lazarillo de Tormes (Anonymous)