In 2007:
I watched 17 productions and readings of plays. I was actually planning to cut down on watching theatre in 2007, and I did--I needed a break and didn't have much money for tickets. (In the past, I watched as many as 75 plays in a year.) Out of those 17, 12 were one-act play festivals or collections. I've just about had my fill of short play festivals for a while. My two favorite productions were Leslie Dillen's Action Jesus and The Lion King (on Broadway). The most disappointing was The Cherry Orchard at the Huntington Theatre--I went with high hopes because I love Chekov and it had a stellar cast and director. But the whole production felt oddly flat, and I longed for a more intimate environment for the play.
I watched at least 59 movies (some of these are TV series, too): (gotta love Netflix)
- Touch of Evil – Orson Welles
- Touch of Evil – Orson Welles (revised edition)
- Foyle's War episode 1 (a really terrific series of movies made for BBC TV)
- Foyle’s War episode 3
- Foyle’s War episode 4
- 40 Year Old Virgin
- Foyle’s War episode 5
- Little Miss Sunshine
- This Film is Not Yet Rated
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Foyle’s War, episode 6
- Foyle’s War, episode 7
- Foyle’s War, episode 8
- Anger Management
- Edward Scissorhands
- Foyle’s War, episode 9 (Enemy Fire)
- When The Levee’s Broke – Part 1
- Sankofa
- The Departed (x2)
- Foyle’s War, War of Nerves
- The Lives of Others
- Thank You For Smoking
- Courage Under Fire
- Volver
- Stranger than Fiction
- The Good Girl
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- The Conversation (one of my favorite movies of all time. )
- Children of Men
- The Good Shepherd
- Sicko (he's still got me fired up about health care)
- Curse of the Golden Flower
- The Devil Wears Prada
- Pursuit of Happyness
- Harry Potter and the Order of the
- Ocean’s 13
- Ratatouille
- Harry Potter 4
- Napoleon Dynamite
- I’m Through With White Girls (Roxbury Film Festival)
- Bridge to Tarabithia
- Emperor’s Club
- The Queen
- Letters from
- The Last King of
- Heroes (TV show, season 1 on DVD)
- The Price of Sugar
- The Mist
- Michael Clayton
- Miss Congeniality
- The Squid and the Whale
- Firefly (entire series) (possibly my pick of the year)
- Serenity
- Proof
- I Am Legend (whoah. Very intense. Much more of a horror-zombie pic than I expected, but Will Smith was great, as always)
- Delicatessen (watched this last night, and it's so weird yet so intricate. Jean-Pierre Jeunet may be one of my favorite directors.)
I read 28 books (3 of which are still unpublished):
- The Light of Day – Graham Swift
- Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott
- The Polysyllabic
- Guns, Germs, and Steel – Jared Diamond
- Housekeeping vs. The Dirt – Nick Hornby
- The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma – Michael Pollan (I read so many great books this year, but this might be my favorite by a slight bit.)
- The Hidden Wound – Wendell Berry
- The Well of Lost Plots – Jasper Fforde
- Digging to
- Big Money – P.G. Wodehouse
- Cezanne is Missing – Frank McMillan
- manuscript by Ingrid Blanco
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle – Barbara Kingsolver
- manuscript by Mark Dunn
- Sundown Towns – James W. Loewen (not a fast read, but important stuff)
- The Honey Thief – Elizabeth Graver
- Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister – Gregory Maguire
- Exit Strategy – Mike Wiecek
- A Prayer for the Dying – Stuart O’Nan
- Mindset – Carol Dweck
- Slam – Nick Hornby
- The Long Tail – Chris Anderson
- The Woman Who Walked Into Doors – Paddy Doyle
- The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
- Crazy in
In terms of other input and performances, I got to see the fabulous Snappy Dance Theater in Boston and also went to a bunch of book readings by some of my favorite authors.
For 2008, I hope to keep up the same pace, and maybe read a few more books, if I can make the time.
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