• lost interest in Dreamcatcher by Stephen King (2001) -- hot and sweet Eggos

• watched Happy Endings (2005) -- if you liked this film, you'll also like Heights (2004), which Jesse Bradford also appears in, Crash (2004), Happiness (1998), 13 Conversations About One Thing (2001), The Anniversary Party (2001)

• listened to Revolutionary Wealth by Alvin and Heidi Toffler (2006)

• watched Fateless "Sorstalanság" (2005) -- the best film on the Holocaust


• * closed Monarch Gear storefront on Amazon

• watched Cypher (2002) -- what really goes on at conventions

• watched Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)


• watched Ghost in the Shell 2 : Innocence "Inosensu : Kôkaku kidôtai" (2004)


• watched bits and pieces of Mrs. Harris (2005)

• watched Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

• watched The Exorcist (1973)


• watched Haiku Tunnel (2001)

• watched The Rules of Attraction (2002) -- editing, cinematography, casting: superb; story and dialogue: deplorable

• rewatched Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)


• watched Nine Lives (2005) -- how do you sum up a person?


• * signed with Solid Cactus

• watched My First Mister (2001) -- f words, family, friendship, foregiveness

• rewatched Noises Off (1992)

• listened to The Drowning People by Richard Mason (2000)


• watched Sunshine State (2002)


• watched Vera Drake (2004)

• watched Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2005)

• lost interest in Bin Laden : The Man Who Declared War on America by Yossef Bodansky (2001)

• lost interest halfway through The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd (1999)

• watched Cat People (1982) -- made 40 years after the original, David Bowie sings the theme song

TOTAL for September 2006:

• 12 new books (.40 books per day): read 6, listened to 6, relistened to 1, lost interest in 1


• 8 new movies (.27 movies per day)


• 22 entries total (.73 entries per day)

• listened to The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (2002) -- pulpy, but good; well read


• listened to Leading with My Chin by Jay Leno (1996) -- hilarious

• watched Captains Courageous (1937) -- ****, love it, Freddie Bartholomew (Harvey) acted with W.C. Fields


• watched Funny Ha Ha (2002) -- awkward, tiresome, not funny. Do people like this exist?

• listened to Madam Secretary: A Memoir by Madeleine Albright (2003) -- could have been a tattoo parlor come on girl, Wellesley College grad

• watched Sunset Boulevard (1950)

• watched The World's Fastest Indian (2005) -- Burt Munro goes over 200 MPH on less than 1000 CCs

• listened to Soul Music by Terry Pratchett (1998)


• lost interest in The Tenth Insight : Holding the Vision by James Redfield (1996)

• listened to Swimming Lessons : Life Lessons from the Pool, from Diving in to Treading Water by Penelope Niven (2004)


• relistened to Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett (2000)

• watched Butterfield 8 (1960)

• watched I Capture the Castle (2003)

• read Making Faces by Kevyn Aucoin (1997)

• read Face Forward by Kevyn Aucoin (2000)


• read The Value of Honesty : the Story of Confucius by Spencer Johnson (1979) -- ValueTales

• read Unforgettable Color : Revlon Makeup with Confidence by Selene Milano (2003) -- one long ad for Revlon, but fun to read all the same

• read Working on Yourself Doesn't Work : A Book About Instantaneous Transformation by Ariel and Shya Kane (1999)

• watched Voyage in Time "Tempo di viaggio" (1983) -- Andrei Tarkovsky is homesick

• read The International Encyclopedia of Horses and Ponies (The Howell Equestrian Library) by Jane Kidd (1995)

• listened to Running with Scissors : A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs (2005) -- made into a movie


• watched Grandma's Boy (2006) -- oh Doris! oh Shirley! Heidi Hawking credited as Milk Maid. Hmmmm...

TOTAL for August 2006:

• 8 new books (.25 books per day): listened to 8, relistened to 2


• 17 new movies (.55 movies per day)


• 27 entries total (.87 entries per day)

• listened to The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt and Holter Graham (2005) -- very good, interesting short stories, vignettes of Venice

• watched Broken Flowers (2005) -- Bill Murray does it again, and by it, I mean another cryptic ending. Stop it!


• watched Grace of My Heart (1996) -- lots of famous faces, see Carole King


• watched Madea's Family Reunion (2006) -- farts are free

• listened to L'Affaire by Diane Johnson (2003)

• watched An Unmarried Woman (1978) -- watched all 3 films on the flight back from Amsterdam


• watched Friends with Money (2006) -- that's not an ending, what was resolved?


• watched Stick It (2006) -- fun