Anjelah Johnson: That's How We Do It (2010)
Mo'Nique: I Coulda Been Your Cellmate! (2007)
Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit (1993)
Space Jam (1996)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Anastasia (1997)
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Argo (2012)
The Secret of Kells (2009)
Kevin Hart: Laugh At My Pain (2011)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Adventureland (2009)
Television
The Chicago Code - full series
The Black Donnellys - full series
The Guilt [web series] - season 1-5
Books
The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
Am I not allowed to make future posts anymore?
I'm in law school now! I should be reading or asleep, but my procrastination and insomniac tendencies haven't changed, at least.
Bringing this guy back for at least one reason-- documenting my year in consumed media. It's cool to come here and look back at my 2011, and I wish I would've done it consistently for my 2012.
Good Lord, I just looked at my icons. THERE'S a throwback to Darienne's fandoms circa 2010 or earlier. I haven't used it consistently since spring of 2010. And regularly since 2009. I just found the post where I lost my shit over Rizzoli & Isles before it actually came out. JESUS.
This whole account is just a microcosm of teenaged me. Wow.
Anyway. This is to shake a few cobwebs off.
And remind me to never ship my tweets to a blog again.
- Current Mood:
cranky
Cataloging my year in books, in movies, in television, in anything I can think of, including my own artsy projects. Some of this might be a reminder/to-do list, but it's mostly what I've done. To be continuously updated.
Books/Reading
Novels
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire Book 1) - Naomi Novik
The Furies of Calderon - Jim Butcher
Academ's Fury - Jim Butcher
Cursor's Fury - Jim Butcher
Captain's Fury - Jim Butcher
Princeps' Fury - Jim Butcher
Gun, With Occasional Music - Jonathan Lethem
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
Cancer Schmancer - Fran Drescher
Redeeming Love - Francine Rivers
First Lord's Fury - Jim Butcher
Machine of Death - edited by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo and David Malki !
Throne of Jade (Temeraire Book 2) - Naomi Novik
Naked Heat - Richard Castle
Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
Star Trek: Voyager; Homecoming - Christie Golden
Star Trek: Voyager; The Farther Shore - Christie Golden
Star Trek: Voyager; Flashback - Diane Carey
Assorted children's books
The Lightning Keeper - Starling Lawrence
To Fetch A Thief - Spencer Quinn
When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops? - George Carlin
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Across The Wall, A Tale of The Abhorsen and Other Stories - Garth Nix
The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J.K. Rowling
American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch; An Odyssey in the New China - Matthew Polly
Bossypants - Tina Fey
Fire Logic - Laurie Marks
Earth Logic - Laurie Marks
The Beekeeper's Apprentice - Laurie R. King
The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides (in progress)
Total: 30
Plays/Manifestos
The Ghost Sonata - August Strindberg
King Ubu - Alfred Jarry
The Interior - Maurice Maeterlinck
A handful of Futurist Sintesi - various Italian playwrights
The Gas Heart - Tristan Tzara
The Yellow Sound - Wassily Kandinsky
The Wedding on the Eiffel Tower - Jean Cocteau
The Jet of Blood - Antonin Artaud
No More Masterpieces (essay) - Antonin Artaud
The House of Bernarda Alba - Federico Garcia Lorca
The Metal Children - Adam Rapp
August Wilson vs. Robert Brustein (essay)
Bury The Dead - Irwin Shaw
Los Vendidos - Luis Valdez
Blasted - Sarah Kane
The Zoo Story - Edward Albee
Little Flower of East Orange - Steven Adly Guirgis
Total: 17
Movies
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010)
Good Hair (2009)
The Green Hornet (2011)
Ponyo (2008)
Black Swan (2010)
I Am Number Four (2011)
Sucker Punch (2011) [twice]
Wanda Sykes - I'ma Be Me (2009) [twice]
Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
Sex and the City (2008)
Fast Five (2011)
Thor (2011) [twice]
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Bridesmaids (2011)
Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)
Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)
The Hangover Part II (2011)
Midnight In Paris (2011)
Green Lantern (2011)
X-Men (2000)
Up (2009)
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008)
X-Men: First Class (2011)
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Serenity (2005)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
Read or Die (OVA) (2001)
Horrible Bosses (2011)
Bad Teacher (2011)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) [twice]
Super 8 (2011)
Jewel of the Nile (1985)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
V for Vendetta (2006) [twice]
Taken (2008)
Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
Under The Rainbow (1981)
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Imagine Me & You (2005)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)
RENT: Filmed Live On Broadway (2008) [twice]
30 Minutes Or Less (2011)
Die Hard (1988)
Die Hard 2 (1990)
My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Scooby Doo on Zombie Island (1998)
The Mummy (1999)
Matilda (1996)
I Love You, Phillip Morris (2009)
The Road To El Dorado (2000)
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Iron Man (2008)
The Thin Man (1934) [twice]
Home Alone 2 (1992)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
After The Thin Man (1936)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
Total: 60
To Be Watched
Dazed and Confused (1993)
The Social Network (2010)
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
The Help (2011)
Television
JAG - Season 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Castle - Season 3, 4 (to date)
Glee - Season 2, 3 (to date)
Star Trek: Voyager - Season 5, 6, 7
Body Of Proof - Season 1, 2 (in progress)
Doctor Who - Season 6
Mortal Kombat [webseries] - Season 1 (to date)
Pushing Daisies - Season 1, 2
Community - Season 1, 2, 3 (to date)
Dollhouse - Season 1, 2
Firefly - The Complete Series
Game of Thrones - Season 1
Rizzoli & Isles - Season 2
Wilfred - Season 1
Archer - Season 1, 2
Nurse Jackie - Season 2
The L Word - Season 1
Total: 33
To Be Watched:
30 Rock
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
In Plain Sight
Invader Zim
Plays/Theatre/Performances
American Idiot! - Broadway, January
Billy Elliot - Broadway, January
Jerry Finnegan's Sister - LSU Lab, January
In Between - Aerial silks performance at LSU, January [twice]
King Lear - LSU Mainstage, January
The Electronic Nigger - LSU Lab, Assistant Stage Manager (!), February
UTA Spring Revue - Performer (!), March
Outworks Festival 2011 - LSU Lab, March
The Metal Children - LSU Mainstage, March
LSU Spring Dance Concert - April
Rooney - concert at The Varsity (Baton Rouge), April
Our Lady of 121st Street - LSU Mainstage, May [thrice]
HEIST! - LSU MFA Performance, May
Hairspray - Baton Rouge Little Theatre, July [twice]
If Everything Happens That Can't Be Done... - LSU summer class performance, July
The Thundestorm - Meyerhold Biomechanics LSU summer workshop performance, July
Co-Ed Prison Sluts - The Annoyance Theatre in Chicago, August
Electra - LSU Lab, September
FREE by D. Baniewicz - Independent production, September
Shapeshifter - LSU Mainstage, September
Copenhagen - LSU Lab, September
The American Dream - LSU Lab, October
The Smoking Lesson - LSU Lab, October
Smell of the Kill - LSU Lab, November
August: Osage County - LSU Swine Palace, November
No Exit - LSU Lab, November
UTA Fall Revue - Performer (!), November
Total: 27
Traveling/Trips
New Jersey/NYC - 1 week, January
Boston - SB '11, April
Austin - June
New Orleans - June
Baton Rouge (pure vacation instead of school) - July
Chicago - August
Boston - October
Total: 7
Writing
Shake The Glitter - Faberry Glee fic (in progress)
Acceptance - Short one act play #1 (class assignment)
There Is Such A Thing As Too Laid Back [revised to Working Relationship] - Short story #1 (class assignment)
The Favorite - Short one act play #2 (class assignment)
Birds of Prey - Short story #2 (class assignment)
No Escape - Short one act play #3 (class assignment)
Total: 6
- Current Mood:
creative
Yes, I'm also doing NaNoWriMo. No, I haven't started writing yet. Yes, it's Kids of Eden again. No, I have no idea if I'm going to succeed or not.
Welcome back to my blog, self.
- Current Mood:
bored
Quick and dirty update on my life:
Mom was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer in February of 2010. We spent Superbowl Sunday in the hospital post a surgery to prevent her colon from being blocked in the future. She's since been on chemo, and is doing well. Prayers and well wishes are gladly appreciated.
I had a girlfriend from March until December 1st of last year. My first relationship, not my last, just officially ended yesterday for good. It hurts, it sucks, it's awkward. It'll eventually get better. (This is why I have a therapist. Okay, Mom is the reason I have a therapist. Dealing with this is just a side effect I enjoy.)
I ran my half marathon! It was awful hard, and I made four major mistakes: 1) I didn't have the music I wanted ready in a playlist. It's amazing how much difference the right music can make on run. 2) I ate food I hadn't pre-tested during training the night before (jambalaya and gumbo, for the record), and had a subsequently upset stomach the next morning. It wasn't too excessive, but enough to be a noticeable discomfort/distraction during the race. 3) I tapered off my training leading up to the race too sharply and too early. 4) I didn't take the weather forecast into account. With my old knee injury, swings from hot to cold (and vice versa) overnight leave me with some swelling and stiffness/achyness. It was comfortably cool for running, but my knee started acting up about 3 miles in, and it was hard going after that. Still, all things considered, I finished! 2:55:02, final time. And it was my first race! So, not too shabby.
I visited NYC and my bestie Kiah in NJ and saw Billy Elliot and American Idiot and met new people and had a fantastic week in a winter wonderland. Also, staked out Columbia/NYU neighborhoods in relation to the theater district and where my friends might be located in the future.
Also, got my wisdom teeth out! I'm mostly recovered now, but it was a torturous week and a half of not eating what I wanted and having to adjust NY plans accordingly.
Had a good break at home, a fantastic Christmas with my family (although sometimes I feel like it whizzed by. I wasn't in the Christmas spirit early enough, I guess), and spent my New Year with Liz and Ann and Katie, a habit that I'm not mad is forming. I've got a friend recovering from a serious ski accident from Christmas Day, but she's beastly and already doing super awesome in her recovery. More prayers and well wishes are totally appreciated, yet again.
I start spring semester of my junior year at LSU tomorrow, as an official English Major with Minors in Theater and Political Science. I'm taking 4 theater classes, an upper-level workshop English class and intro to Logic, so I can ace the LSAT. Oh, yeah, that's why I was mentioning Columbia and NYU-- I'm going to law school, and I want to go east. If not in NYC, a stone's throw from it; so D.C. and northward.
I think that's just about everything that has happened to me since my last update/previous updates that never happened, and nothing more than I would put on my Facebook, so this entry is public. I'm thinking of making this journal friends only, so if you're an anonymous lurking reader who used to enjoy my entries, post a comment here and let me know if you'd still enjoy reading my sporadic updates on what I call my life.
Can't say as if I'll be updating all the time, but I think I'll use my as yet-unnamed New Year's Resolutions to:
1. Write at least once a week, with rewards if I write every day.
2. Blog at least once a week, with a picture to go along with it. A project 52, of sorts. (50, if I don't retro-blog the first two weeks of January.)
3. Keep losing weight, as I've slowly been doing for about a year now.
Boom. Nutshell.
- Current Music:This Is Your Life // The Killers
Day 31: 3 miles - skipped
Day 32: 3 miles - skipped
Day 33 : Off
Day 34:
Distance: 7 miles
- 1:45:55 minutes
- t-shirt, Nike shorts, thin socks, sports bra
- Nike Citrus
Weather:
- 88 degrees, 60% humidity
- Overcast, occasionally breezy
~ @ 6:00pm
So, I was smart, and missed a couple runs this week. Ran out of time one day, didn't get up early another, piled up to four days without running coming up against my longest run yet. It was not pretty, or fast, or probably classified as a run at all, in truth. But I did it, though I didn't want to. And it has convinced me not to let up on my maintaining 3-4 mile runs during the week. (Because oh, sweet Jesus am I going to be feeling this tomorrow.)
It's like my teeth. Which, I realize I haven't mentioned. My wisdom teeth are coming in (impacted, with like two weeks time until I leave for school, essentially. Yeah, just as fun as it sounds), and I was a year and a half overdue for a cleaning. Let's just say it was bloody painful (pun totally intended). And it hurt like a biiiiitch. My poor gums were suffering PTSD for a couple days. Anyway, the point is that I'm not going to let my maintenance on them slide anymore (for reasons of pain and it being a genetic probability for me to be prone toward gum disease), and I'll be a regular-flossing, every-six-months-attending, soft-bristle-toothbrush-using fool to avoid a repeat of that performance.
The other thing I should keep up so diligently from here on out is my computer maintenance. Poor laptop has practically no space left on him, I abuse him so. Finally got an external hard drive, and with Liz's help, backed up all my videos, music, pictures and whatnot. As soon as I test it out on the desktop (and get my vids/pictures/music from there as well), I'll delete what I've got resting on here and hopefully free up space so he can run faster.
But, I'm meeting my aunts for lunch
- Current Mood:
tired - Current Music:Smooth Criminal // Michael Jackson
Day 29:
Distance: 3 miles
- 41:54 minutes
- t-shirt, Nike shorts, thick socks, sports bra
- New Balance Maroon Out
Weather:
- 82 degrees, 85% humidity
- Sun mostly set, wet, very light and intermittent precipitation
~ @ 8:00pm
>> Tomorrow's Run: Off
I've been feeling sore-ish and kinda tight the past few days. Not necessarily in a horribly bad way; it reminds me of the days when I was playing soccer almost every day of the week. Just kinda like... I've been exerting myself well, I suppose. Still not feeling perfectly fit, though, although I suppose after just one month I shouldn't expect too much.
I blame my bad time on a combination of bleeding for the past few days [see tag below] and how really fucking humid it was after it rained and stormed off and on all day before I got outside. Ran my neighborhood loop, feeling just okay. Noticed that my left leg was tighter/almost hurting a bit and tried to even it out. I'm not sure if I was overcompensating for something in my right leg, or if it was just the funny gait I've affected since my thighs met and decide to chafe now and then. I can't wait until it's cold and I'm running in pants again, it makes things very simple, if frictional. (Yes, that's a word.)
In Other News, I've now watched The Pandorica Opens of Doctor Who and the pilot of Covert Affairs and a second episode of Rizzoli & Isles. I loved all three. The first, I'll only say -- I KNEW that some form of that would be in the Pandorica, I fucking KNEW IT. The second-- cute, and quite actiony, although god damn it does it always have to be some guy? Sigh. And the third-- oh, I love it so. I don't care if it's bad or good, I'll enjoy it either way. "What? This is an optimal batting stance." "You're ruining a national pastime." Maura, Jane, never change.
In the middle of summer
All was golden in the sky
All was golden when the day met the night
- Current Mood:
sore - Current Music:Lisztomania // Phoenix
Day 27:
Distance: 6 miles - Cut short by a storm smacking me down like the hand of God.
- 33:34 minutes, approximately 2 miles accomplished
- t-shirt, Adidas shorts, thin socks, sports bra
- Nike Citrus
Weather:
- 88 degrees, 62% humidity
- Sun mostly set, dry until the deluge of biblical proportions rained down from the heavens.
~ @ 7:25pm
>> Tomorrow's Run: Off
So, in case you didn't get the point, my first six mile run was thwarted by a fucking thunderstorm. I almost made it back home in time not to get rained on, missed it by about ten blocks and five minutes. My ridiculously terrible time can be attributed to the downpour, being dehydrated because I slept most of the day and didn't have much water, and starting my period on Friday (at work, in a bathing suit, no less) for the first time in about four months. My body has A) finally gotten over its stress B) forgotten how to deal with it and C) remembered how much it likes to fuck with me.
My knee was giving me trouble on Friday for no reason, and I'm feeling sore now, despite barely running a third of my needed distance. I'm tempted to do a three mile run tomorrow to make up for the lack, although Sunday should be a day off. :frown: Not sure what to do. Try for the full six tomorrow? Only run three? Follow the schedule to a 'T' and take the off day as it should be? WHAT DO I DOOOOO--
Anyway, ended up watching 2012 with mom for the first time instead, and eating a lot of crap food for 'dinner,' up to and including a bagel, Easy Mac, V8 Fusion and Pink Lemonade Which leaves me feeling empty and hungry now at almost four in the morning. (Falling asleep on the couch was such a great idea, I know.)
Oh, I forgot to say yesterday: I finally got to see Wicked on stage! It was brilliant! Went with Liz for her birthday (which is coming up next week shitIstillneedtogetheragift >.>;) and managed to navigate Downtown with ease. Wore my glasses for the first time and I did see a difference, but I also got to assuage my worries that I needed them a lot. I'll be fine with or without them, but it is nice to know they're there now.
Elphaba was fantastic (and hot), Fiyero was WAY HOT (and the understudy! which made us wonder who the "real" Fiyero was), like, think if James Marsden and John Barrowman had a love-child, because he totally looked like Marsden in profile and had a Barrowman-esque smile and swagger. It was just so much fun to finally see it. I had to mouth the words to the songs so I wouldn't start singing them, and Liz and I were positively giddy the whole time. We held hands during "For Good" because it's our official best friends song (SHUT UP OKAY) and had our binoculars out like the whole show. We were in the uppermost gallery, because we're poor college students, but we were nigh on dead center and it worked out anyway.
As for Glinda, I was mostly 'meh' about her (in the, omg this whole show is AWESOME kind of way/I unabashedly am biased towared KCheno/Megan Hilty is up there too because I have a bootleg version that I watched) up until "Thank Goodness." She sang the line "bridges you didn't know you crossed until you've crossed" and sold me on the note as it built. It just had so. much. emotion. I teared up. That, and she did a flop back onto the bed during Popular that was SO HILARIOUSLY exhausted/exasperated with Elphaba (at what I can't remember for the life of me) that I loved. AND she had fantastic shoes.
In short, I fucking loved it, like I knew I would.
I'm going to go eat something made of chocolate now, and be mad at myself later/tomorrow (but not enough to restrain myself from doing this again in the future). Ta.
- Current Mood:
refreshed - Current Music:Thereby Hangs A Tail // Spencer Quinn (audiobook)
Distance: 3 miles
- jogged, walked twice
- 37:46 minutes
- t-shirt, Nike shorts, thick socks, sports bra, sunglasses
- New Balance Maroon Out
Weather:
- 89 degrees, 63% humidity
- HOT, some shade, mostly sunny
~ @ 10:35am
Ran at Memorial Park again like Monday. Holy Jesus it was hot today. And it wasn't even 11:00am. Decided to drive out and get my run done early after having to go to a super early work meeting at the J. Managed to jog for almost a full 20 minutes in the first half of the run. Note to self: yogurt doesn't sit well with me on a run. Had that and a donut about an hour before the run for breakfast at the pool, and it didn't upset me all that much, but enough for me to notice.
>> Tomorrow's Run: Off
Meanwhile, I finally finished Rachel's birthday present that I was painting for her, and she really liked it. Colorful teapots. You heard me.
I'm going to bed now, because my one day a week work has come around again. 8:30am is going to come around real quick.
- Current Music:Paparazzi // Greyson Chance covering Lady Gaga
- Current Mood:
apathetic
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