TOTAL for 2004:

• 232 new books (54%): 18 read, 204 on tape, 10 kids + 3 relistened to, 6 lost interest in/skimmed, 2 magazines


• 141 new movies (33%) + 9 shows, 6 educational, 20 rewatched


• 7 music or radio


• 426 entries total

• browsed Natural Organic Hair and Skin Care : Including A to Z Guide to Natural and Synthetic Chemicals in Cosmetics by Aubrey Hampton (1990)

• watched Ziemia Obiecana "The Promised Land" (1975) by Andrzej Wajda -- succeed by any means

• watched Angels: Good or Evil on the History Channel


• watched My Life (1993)


• watched Nightjohn (1996)


• watched Time Machine: Incorrupt Saints on the History Channel

• listened to Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell, read by John MacDonald (1932)

• browsed 1000 Symbols: What Shapes Mean in Art and Myth by Rowena and Rupert Shepherd (2002)


• listened to Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear, read by George Guidall (1999) -- baby boom, technical, too long, why no mention of ultrasound?


• watched Caught in the Draft (1941) with Bob Hope

• watched House of Cards (1991) with Ian Richardson -- deliciously Machiavellian
  
  
  
  • You might well think that, Mattie. I couldn't possibly comment.
  
  
  • Call me, Daddy. -- Playing with the hopes and dreams of a daughter, now gentle, now hard, rebuking and rewarding, chastising and forgiving. The pleasures of a father. Of a father of daughters. What greater power is there than that? Why should a man want more? Why should I yearn to be everybody's daddy?
  
  
  • She trusts me absolutely. I trust she does. And I, I trust her absolutely - to be absolutely human.
  
  

• listened to Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken (2003) -- Lexis Nexis knows all of your sins; didn't finish -- heard thru disc 5, too overdue

• watched A Clockwork Orange (1971) -- ambiguous ending, just like Brazil

• listened to The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (2003)

• listened to The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim (2003) -- much ado about nothing, a case where the movie might be better than the book

• listened to All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes written and read by Maya Angelou (1991)

• listened to The White-Haired Girl: Bittersweet Adventures of a Little Red Soldier by Jaia Sun-Childers, Douglas Childers (1997) -- references the movie, The White-Haired Girl (1950) co-directed by Wang Bin, Shui Hua

• listened to The Tipping Point : How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (2000) -- word-of-mouth campaigns, 6 degrees of separation, social networks, epidemics, Hush Puppies and syphilis in Baltimore, Lambesis and Airwalk shoes


• rewatched Jackie Brown (1997)

• listened to 1/3 of, then lost interest in The Ersatz Elevator (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 6) by Lemony Snicket, read by Tim Curry (2002) -- reads like the dictionary


• watched A Civil Action (1998)

• listened to The Millionaires by Brad Meltzer, read by Tony Goldwyn (2002)
  -- adventures in private banking; set in New York and Disney World

• watched Lady on a Train (1945) starring Deanna Durbin

• listened to Marrying the Mistress by Joanna Trollope, read by Lynn Redgrave (2000)

• listened to Eureka by William Diehl, read by Smith Cotter (2002)

• listened to Armor and Camouflage CDs by Patricia Tarr et. al.

• watched Porky's (1982)

• listened to Call Me Crazy written and read by Anne Heche (2001)

• listened to All Through The Night by Mary Higgins Clark, read by her daughter, Carol Higgins Clark (1998)

• listened to The Honored Society by Michael "Gambino" Pellegrino (2001) -- pure fiction

• listened to Flight of the Buffalo by James A. Belasco and Ralph C. Stayer (2001) -- leaders are always learning


• watched Black Widow (1987)

• listened to In the Company of Heroes : A True Story by Michael J. Durant and Steven Hartov (2003)

• listened to Louis L'Amour Cowboy Stories read by Randy Travis (1998)

• listened to Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen (1998)

• watched Chicken Run (2000)

• listened to How to Make Huge Profits in Commercial Real Estate by Scott Scheel and Ron LeGrand (2003)


• listened to The Joy Luck Club written and read by Amy Tan (1989)

• listened to Cassettes on a Regular Basis with Vena Jones-Cox: Asset Protection with Lee Phillips and I am the Short Sale Queen with Deb McMillan (July 2003)

• listened to The Keys to the Street by Ruth Rendell (2000)

• read Black English Vernacular (From "Ain't" to "Yo Mama") by Monica Frazier Anderson (1994)


• read Color Theory by Jose M. Parramon (1989)
  
  
  
  • RGB -- primary colors, additive synthesis; CMYK -- secondary light colors, subtractive synthesis
  
  
  • Local color: color of the object itself; tonal color: color variations resulting from light and shadow; reflective color -- reflected by other objects, environment
  
  
  • Color brighter and contrast greater in foreground v. background (condition of atmosphere)
  
  
  • Adding white to a color turns it gray
  
  
  • Never make a color lighter or darker by using white or black; use other colors, complimentary colors to darken, create contrast (e.g. yellow and violet)
  
  
  • Shadows are blue, contain darker tones of the object's color, and complimentary colors (e.g. red apple: blue, dark red, green shadow
  
  
  • Melodic range = monochromatic; harmonic range = complimentary
  
  
  • Color contrast comes from juxtaposing complimentary colors (fauvists)
  
  
  • A color throws it's compliment onto neighboring colors (e.g. lemon makes gray background seem blue)
  
  

• listened to Marriage Made in Heaven--Or Too Tired to Have an Affair written and read by Erma Bombeck (1993)

• listened to The Vision of Emma Blau written and read by Ursula Hegi (2000)

• listened to Nightmare in Pink (Travis McGee Mysteries) by John D. Macdonald, read by Michael Prichard (2001)

• listened to Dirty Work by Stuart Woods (2003)

• watched Return of the Jedi : Star Wars Trilogy (Widescreen Edition) on DVD (2004) -- don't like Anakin's face change. Why does Lucas keep tweaking?

• listened to Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Abridged edition) written and read by Rebecca Wells (2004)

• listened to Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland (2001) -- like The Red Violin for a Vermeer painting


• watched Christmas in Connecticut (1945) -- before Martha Stewart, there was Elizabeth Lane


• watched The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)

• watched An Everlasting Piece (2000)

• rewatched The Turning Point (1977)


• watched Max Dugan Returns (1983)

• read Millionaire Real Estate Mentor : Investing in Real Estate: A Comprehensive and Detailed Guide to Financial Freedom for Everyone by Russ Whitney (2003) -- finally finished! An excellent, one-stop manual for real estate investment.

• listened to The Dance of Intimacy written and read by Harriet Lerner (1997)