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)