• 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

• watched Thank You for Smoking (2005) on the flight to Amsterdam

• listened to Edenborn by Nick Sagan (2004) -- Penny rocks


• watched Cinderella Man (2005) -- James Braddock

• watched V for Vendetta (2005) -- It's Hugo Weaving! Plot is Michael Moore without facts. They did a background check AFTER she was hired?

• listened to Temporary Sanity by Rose Connors (2003)

• watched The Keys to the House "Le Chiavi di Casa" (2004) -- Charlotte Rampling could make a hemroid commercial classy

• watched Head On "Gegen die Wand" aka. "Duvara Karsi" (2004) -- unforgetable. bothersome, persistent, enduring images, enraging as Gorky Park, ****!!!

• watched My Beautiful Girl Mari "Mari Iyagi" (2002) -- big, white dog; theme: believe (see also: Polar Express jingle bell)

• relistened to The 5 Essential People Skills by Dale Carnegie Training (2004) -- no wonder this sounds familiar; I listened to it less than 3 months ago

• listened to Who's Your Caddy? : Looping for the Great, Near Great, and Reprobates of Golf written by Rick Reilly and read by Grover Gardner (2003)


• watched Capote (2005) -- ironic that Harper Lee was his conscience


• watched Metropolis "Metoroporisu" (2001)

• watched Our America (2002) -- it's part of you no matter where you live; you are connected. Lloyd Newman and LeAlan Jones update


• watched The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) -- the other shoe will drop; you always get what you deserve

• listened to Founding Mothers : The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts (2004) -- better than Stephen Ambrose, David McCullough, or Walter Isaacson


• watched Newsies (1992) -- Christian Bale sings, easy to imagine Martin Scorsese singing along

• relistened to Hogfather by Terry Pratchett (2000)

• relistened to Jingo by Terry Pratchett (2000)

• listened to Slim Forever - For Women : Subliminal Self Help by Audio Activation (2003) -- slim pickings at the Sylvania branch for hypnosis

TOTAL for July 2006:

• 9 new books (.29 books per day): listened to 9, relistened to 1, lost interest in 1


• 15 new movies (.17 movies per day), rewatched 4


• 30 entries total (.97 entries per day)


• listened to Men at Arms (UNabridged) by Terry Pratchett (1998) -- prefer the voices on the abridged 2-cassette version I'm always relistening to

• listened to The Secrets of an Inspirational (In-Spirit) Life by Wayne W. Dyer (2006) -- repeats other books, but still good


• watched The World "Shijie" (2004) -- isolation, desperation, theme park
  
  
  
  • Why leave when everything you need is right here?
  • Does anyone know I'm alive? Does my spouse remember me?
  • Will he come for me?
  • Does it matter if I'm alive?
  • Is this sacrifice worth my freedom?
  • Will I actually gain freedom?
  • You are now NOT free to move about the country.
  
  

• watched My Neighbors the Yamadas "Hôhokekyo tonari no Yamada-kun" (1999)


• watched The Man Who Planted Trees "L'Homme qui plantait des arbres" (1987) -- the story of one shepherd's long and successful singlehanded effort to re-forest a desolate valley, moral: be steadfast

• listened to A Song Flung Up to Heaven by Maya Angelou (2002)

• listened to The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier (2003) -- like the author's other books, too much like a romance novel

• watched The Chronicles of Narnia : The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) -- for kids, didn't hold my attention, they FORGOT to go home?!


• watched In Her Shoes (2005) -- loss is no disaster


• watched Match Point (2005) -- bad tennis pro, see also Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), far more sinister and DE-licious is Francis Urquhart (played by Ian Richardson) in House of Cards (1990)

• listened to Death of a Doxy by Rex Stout (2002) -- a Nero Wolfe mystery, Archie Goodwin


• watched Woof : A Guide to Dog Training (2000)