2006 in Review

[dotinthesky]

CDs I bought, received or copied in 2006:
Uncut Magazine's "John Peel's Festive 15"
punk_in_chains's "This Is So Gay 1 & 2 mix"
desayuno_ingles's "Something to Listen to"
desayuno_ingles's "Now On BBC1"
Maria Rita's "Segundo"
Tiga's "Sexor"
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man's "Out of Season"
Madonna's "Confessions on the Dancefloor"
Morrissey's "Ringleader of the Tormentors"
The Organ's "Grab That Gun"
The Best of A-ha
Uncut Magazine's "The Playlist May 2006"
beeorkendurkey's "A Beautiful Thing", "A Boy's Life 2, 3 & 4"
desayuno_ingles's "Mellow Drama Mix"
Guillemots' "Through the Windowpane"
desayuno_inlges's "The Plein Air Mix" (2nd version?), "Drink To Your Health Mix" & "Bring It Home, Gals! Mix"
Saint Etienne's "Finisterre"
Chamber Music of Europe: Brahms, Schubert, Beethoven, Dvorak, Franck, Janacek, Kempff
The Dears' "Gangs of Losers" [birthday gift from Kevin]
Broadcast's "The Future Crayon" [birthday gift from Kevin]
Happy Birthday mix [birthday gift from Silke]
"Anos 80" 1, 2, 3 & 4 [birthday gift from my mom]
beeorkendurkey's entire music collection (just about everything under the sun)
The Long Blondes' "Someone to Drive You Home"

Books read in 2006:
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment
John Sandford's Naked Prey
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
Vincent Banville's An Accident Waiting to Happen
Michael Morpurgo's War Horse
CJ Lines' Filth Kiss
Leticia Wierzchowski's A Casa das Sete Mulheres
Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake
Alan Moore's Watchmen [graphic novel]
Joey Comeau's Lockpick Pornography
Michael Connelly's The Black Ice
Barbara Vine's The Minotaur
Ali Smith's The Accidental
Daniel Pellizzari's Ovelhas Que Voam Se Perdem No Céu
Margaret Atwood's Murder in the Dark
João Guimarães Rosa's Grande Sertão: Veredas
J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World
Kate Mosse's Labyrinth
Posy Simmonds' Gemma Bovery [graphic novel]
Greg Bear's Blood Music
Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance [incomplete]
Will Self's The Book of Dave
Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones
Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
Zadie Smith's On Beauty
Jacques Tardi & Leo Malet's The Bloody Streets of Paris [graphic novel]
Jim Dodge's Fup
The End of Our Tethers: 13 Sorry Stories by Alasdair Gray
Peter Straub's If You Could See Me Now
Asne Seierstad's The Bookseller of Kabul
A few essay extracts by Slavoj Žižek in The Zizek Reader, edited by Elizabeth Wright and Edmond Wright.
Martin Davies' The Conjurer's Bird
Ruth Rendell's Thirteen Steps Down
PD James' The Lighthouse

Movies seen at the cinema in 2006:
Brokeback Mountain
Tale of Tales (short animated film)
Walk the Line
Hostel
8MM films by the Kuchar Brothers: A Woman Distressed, Night of the Bomb, The Confessions of Babette, Anita Needs Me, I Was a Teenage Rumpot and The Slasher
Grizzly Man
The Passenger
Short Film Summer School: The Rubbish Composer
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Tideland
Volver
Children of Men
The Departed
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
El Laberinto del Fauno

Movies seen on TV/DVD/airplane in 2006:
The Wicker Man
Testosterone
Seed of Chucky
Land of the Dead
2046
Milwaukee, Minnesota
The Edukators
Silence of the Lambs (re-watch)
Sphere
Les Valseuses
Halloween (re-watch)
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Creep
The Fluffer
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Broken Flowers
Tarnation
Love and Human Remains
Let Him Have It
The Reckoning
Wisconsin Death Trip
Flight Plan [airplane]
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [airplane]
Mr & Mrs Smith
The Count of Monte Cristo
Night Watch
The Ninth Gate
A History of Violence
The Secret Window
Red Eye
Wonder Boys [re-watch]
Fantabulosa
Nicholas Nickelby
My Summer of Love
Serenity
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Separate Lies
Edward Scissorhands [re-watch]
Hideous Kinky
Jurassic Park [re-watch]
A Taste of Honey
Querelle [re-watch]
Profundo Rosso
O Homem do Ano
Hudsucker Proxy [re-watch]
Breakfast on Pluto
Le Boucher
A Hole in My Heart
Stay
John Carpenter's The Fog
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Capote
The Shining [re-watch]
Laputa Castle in the Sky
Belleville Rendez-vous
Life of Jesus
The Grudge [japanese version]
Plein Soleil
Ghost Story [re-watch]
V for Vendetta
Persuasion
The Man Who Knew Too Much [1934]
Cuestión de Suerte
Letter to Brezhnev
Inside Man
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
In This World
The White Diamond
A Dirty Shame
John Carpenter's The Village of the Damned [half-watched]
Les Invasions Barbares
X-Men: The Last Stand
The Player
Carandiru
The Sum of All Fears

TV Series/Shows watched in 2006:
Lost
Celebrity Big Brother
Big Brother 7
Cracker (half of season 1)
C.S.I. (season 5)
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Prime Suspect
Brat Camp 3
The Apprentice
Planet Earth
Dalziel & Pascoe
Rebus
Jane Eyre
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Plays/Ballets/Operas/Mimes seen in 2006:
The Sleeping Beauty
Gamarjobat
Nights at the Circus
The Mikado
Measure for Measure
Southwark Fair
La Boheme
Burn/Chatroom
Citizenship/Chatroom
Royal Hunt of the Sun
The Voysey Inheritance
The Overwhelming
Sunday in the Park with George
2000 Years
Market Boy
The Field
Fuerzabruta
The Seagull
The Life of Galileo
Exiles
The Alchemist
The Seafarer
Caroline, or Change
Faust
Thérèse Raquin
Waves
Chroma/The Four Temperaments/DGV (Danse à Grande Vitesse)
Coram Boy revival [re-watch]

Exhibitions/Platforms/fairs attended:
The Welfare State at the Serpentine Gallery
Peter Stein speaking about the play Blackbird
Tate Britain's Triennial Exhibition 2006
Exposicao do Santos Dummond
Inner Worlds Outside at the Whitechapel Gallery
The Press Photographer's Year (at the National Theatre.)
In Conversation with Margaret Tyzack
Publish or Be Damned Zine Fair
Quentin Blake/Roald Dahl: The Illustrations
London Artist's Book Fair at the ICA
Artangel's Because the Night
Alien Nation

Gigs/poetry readings attended:
The Insomniacs Ball
Echo and the Bunnymen
Brasilintime
Patti Smith

Comments

[naturalbornkaos.livejournal.com]

Peter Straub's If You Could See Me Now

I can't remember if we talked about it already, but did you enjoy this?

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Very much so! Like Julia/Full Circle, I could see it as a fully-realized film. I might try one day writing a screen adaptation for one of the two novels, as an exercise on screenplay writing. I think they would both make awesome scary movies.