Best stuff I did in 2008, media edition
Jan. 6th, 2009 05:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cahnIn rough ascending order of how excited I was about it. This was a good year for media (except for movies); I had a tough time ordering this.
Movies: A sparse category this year, but I'll say Guys and Dolls. Because I have a crush on Marlon Brando this big, and seeing him sing love songs makes me swoon. He's only a minimally competent singer, actually, not a particularly good one, but he sells it well.
TV: The Office! The only TV show I actually watch on a current basis.
Books(first read, fiction): The Engineer Trilogy (Parker) squeaked in at the very end of the year. I'm not counting this as a series (although I should), mostly so's I can mention this along with Voigt. It's dark and reminds me rather of a fantastically precision-engineered Rube Goldberg contraption, but I really, really liked it all the same. Will try to post on this later. Post on the first book here. These books engage exactly the opposite circuits in my brain than the Tillerman books below.
Reread: Card's Memory of Earth series, which I don't think I've reread all the way through since high school; thoughts here.
Music: I am totally and incontrovertibly in love with Ian Bostridge. This is how in love I am: I'll even listen to him singing German art songs! though I prefer to hear him sing Britten or Handel. Honorable mentions:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
liuzhia hooked me on Wicked. Also, Angela Lansbury in the original cast recording of Sweeney Todd is just flipping amazing, as is the entire recording, even though I don't much like the movie version.
Book series: The Tillerman Cycle (Voigt). A Solitary Blue gets special mention here. These (YA) books are about families and reaching out and make my heart hurt. Weirdly, Voigt's fantasy books leave me almost entirely cold.
Books(first read, nonfiction): Sweet Anticipation (Huron)! Most completely awesome book I read this year, no competition, possibly the best book I've read for several years. Awesome subject matter, and Huron actually talks about it very intelligently and scientifically. However, I will note also in honorable mention that The Art and Craft of Making Jewelry (Gollberg) has beautiful pictures, and Photographing the Southwest (Martres) is extremely useful.
Movies: A sparse category this year, but I'll say Guys and Dolls. Because I have a crush on Marlon Brando this big, and seeing him sing love songs makes me swoon. He's only a minimally competent singer, actually, not a particularly good one, but he sells it well.
TV: The Office! The only TV show I actually watch on a current basis.
Books(first read, fiction): The Engineer Trilogy (Parker) squeaked in at the very end of the year. I'm not counting this as a series (although I should), mostly so's I can mention this along with Voigt. It's dark and reminds me rather of a fantastically precision-engineered Rube Goldberg contraption, but I really, really liked it all the same. Will try to post on this later. Post on the first book here. These books engage exactly the opposite circuits in my brain than the Tillerman books below.
Reread: Card's Memory of Earth series, which I don't think I've reread all the way through since high school; thoughts here.
Music: I am totally and incontrovertibly in love with Ian Bostridge. This is how in love I am: I'll even listen to him singing German art songs! though I prefer to hear him sing Britten or Handel. Honorable mentions:
liuzhia hooked me on Wicked. Also, Angela Lansbury in the original cast recording of Sweeney Todd is just flipping amazing, as is the entire recording, even though I don't much like the movie version.Book series: The Tillerman Cycle (Voigt). A Solitary Blue gets special mention here. These (YA) books are about families and reaching out and make my heart hurt. Weirdly, Voigt's fantasy books leave me almost entirely cold.
Books(first read, nonfiction): Sweet Anticipation (Huron)! Most completely awesome book I read this year, no competition, possibly the best book I've read for several years. Awesome subject matter, and Huron actually talks about it very intelligently and scientifically. However, I will note also in honorable mention that The Art and Craft of Making Jewelry (Gollberg) has beautiful pictures, and Photographing the Southwest (Martres) is extremely useful.
