lowbatterie

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