Lists and lists (Or: As far as my backlog is concerned, 2009 ain't over yet!)

[kaiserkuchen]

BOOKS READ and MOVIES WATCHED IN 2009


BOOKS:
- "Generation Kill" by Evan Wright
- "Havemercy" by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett
- "The Demon's Lexicon" by Sarah Rees Brennan
- "Dreams from My Father" by Barack Obama
- "The Lies of Locke Lamora" by Scott Lynch
- "Red Seas Under Red Skies" by Scott Lynch
- "Death By Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries" by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- "World War Z" by Max Brooks
- "Naked Pictures of Famous People" by Jon Stewart
- "Salt: A World History" by Mark Kurlansky
- "Moab is My Washpot" by Stephen Fry (did I read it this year, or last? Can't remember)
- "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

Total: 12. Kind of totally embarrassing when seen over a year, and I sure as hell hope that I have just forgotten some, since I fail at taking note or blogging about these things. And most of my reading of "real books" this year actually happened when I was in Bangkok or traveling with Carmen. Must try and improve in 2010!

MOVIES:
- The Princess and the Frog
- (500)Days of Summer
- New Moon
- Watchmen
- 17 Again
- Up
- My Bloody Valentine
- Friday the 13th (2009)
- Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince
- I Love You, Man
- Inglourious Basterds
- Monsters VS Aliens 3D
- Star Trek Reboot
- X-men Origins: Wolverine
- The Hangover
- District 9
- Antique Bakery
- The Fall
- The Duchess
- Defiance
- Thumbsucker
- Let the Right One In
- Martyrs (UGHHHHHHHH)
- Twilight
- The Onion Movie

Total: 25. I think. Again, I fail at keeping record of these things, and actually had some 2008 stuff mixed in at first. Am probably forgetting a bunch that I watched on DVD as well. Hmm

I was thinking of doing comics/manga and TV series too, but eh. Nawww. Am not that OCD about it, yet. And TV series aside, I don't think I was very prolific wrt to the former anyways, finally getting to read Watchmen and some of Osamu Tezuka's older works aside.


In other news, I didn't manage to leave the house today and just tooled around the net forever (I made a giant sticky post for my art though, god that took ages!), but I did finally have a mad cleaning session. Everything is now nice and clean (to an extent), and there are fresh bathmats and dishtowels and sponges and I just about had to take pictures to commemorate this rare state of affairs lest Sabrina returns. I am either expecting her back today or tomorrow, and if she doesn't show I can at least be confident that she might be gone for a while (FINGERS CROSSED). Which makes that fact that she forgot THREE GIANT OPEN BAGS OF TRASH under the sink and the general state of everything in our common area even more reprehensible, but what else is new. fffuck did I summon her presence by mentioning her??
I did make the no less disgusting discovery that her preferred cigarette disposing method is to just throw the butts into old candle-holder glasses or mugs filled with water though. There were three hiding behind the piles of random mugs and dishes that I cleared off when I wiped down the kitchen, and wow does that ever have an ~~aroma. Why would you keep this crap? Does she find the stench of stale smoke and disgusting soup that results in the mugs appealing? I dumped the goop and tried to rinse it out a few times, but the ash has totally encrusted. Have liberally drizzled cleaning solution/Scheuermilch on everything though, and I don't even care that I dumped it all in a pot that she will probably use to cook in.

EDIT: FUCK FUCK FUCK she just came back. Ugh

Comments

[kaiserkuchen.livejournal.com]

I saw! And have that story open in a tab that will probably be read as a reward for when I get Uni Shit Done tomorrow :DD AND WHAAAAT IS THIS CONFIRMED?? March *_* Nice nice nice ♥ And I'll be in BKK so I could flip through my copy of the second book again, or maybe even buy the new one already, yesss~~ And iirc you just asked me if I'd read the second book and I basically forgot to reply because it was around the time I had to pack my shit to go to No-Internet-Land AKA visit my grandparents ^^ WHOOPS MY BAD.
And heh, I'm sure Andy will love it! I also read it thanks to some glowing reviews from my friends and didn't regret a minute <33

SHE IS. I think my tag devoted to her sadly has far too many entries, and oh god, we've been roommates since I started uni in September 2006. And the way things are looking, I'll probably be the one moving out first this August, even though she is like in her 12th semester by now. Just my luck that she is one of those assholes who seem to take forever to be done with uni for no real reason :||
...I did just now knock on her door and "talk" to her though, lol basically rattled off a jumbled, incomplete list of things that I hope we could get done this year ("I think it would be best if we both try to clean up after ourselves and leave no traces so that we see as little of each other as possible" and etc etc) and holy fuck I was shaking a bit when I returned to my room. Pathetic, but at least I said something and even if nothing happens (which is probably the case), I can at least not stew about it and stress out and compose angry hypothetical rants that I never end up saying to her anyways for a while.

TL;DR uh sorry for unloading on you up there. Ahem.

[betweenthebliss.livejournal.com]

ahh not at all honey, i have had insane roommate situations myself in the past (like the stoner who didn't know how to clean anything, or the spoiled princess who'd make herself a four course dinner and then laugh when i suggested she wash her dishes, or the ex-painkiller-addict who stole stuff from everyone in the house and gave herself an herbal abortion once....) but good for you for saying something to her, seriously, i can't believe you've had to put up with that shit for so long. >:O

and YES, 'the republic of thieves' is confirmed for a march release date. he published the prologue (a nice long one!) on his website, you should go check it out if you haven't seen it. XDDDDD

also, that icon, LUUUUUUUULZ.

[kaiserkuchen.livejournal.com]

OH MAN WHAAAAAAAAAAT. Damn dude, I bow down before your roomie tales! And whaaaaat, a herbal abortion what what whaaaaaaat O_o That is just. Wow.

I am seriously thrilled to hear this and will be checking the website out now! Hadn't been on there since last summer where I hit the internets, anxious for my next hit once I finished the second book XDD

♥ ♥

[betweenthebliss.livejournal.com]

to be fair, the stoner i could deal with, because i was unemployed for a lot of the time i was living w/her, so cleaning gave me something to do. XD however, the other two were in the same house along with me and six other people who all had their own neuroses and damages. plus my crazy at-the-time-gf, who was impossible to manage even when she was the only one i was living with. -___-;;;; let's just say i don't miss THAT place at all, lol.

and yeah, given that i've been waiting for the fifth installment of a song of ice and fire for over four years now, i need a distraction. :E thank you scott lynch for being awesome. XD

[kaiserkuchen.livejournal.com]

I can't even begin to imagine living in a house with so many people. I mean seriously, woaahhh :O. At least that place probably made you more resilient by dint of making it out of there in one whole piece? And you could probably mine some awesomely crazy anecdotes for your writing? Oh man...

Ahh, I think that is also another one of these book series that I have been meaning to read for aaaaaaaages. I hope I can get some serious reading done when I'm back home in BKK, ahhh ♥

[betweenthebliss.livejournal.com]

it was a pretty big house, but still, it was intense. no one who's heard those stories wonders why i want to live alone, lmao. but yeah, definitely more resilient, DEFINITELY crazy anecdotes. herbal abortion girl alone is like, three novels' worth of crazy. *eyeroll*

and omg, you totally need to read them-- they're incredible, really, martin is a master. if you like fantasy at all, you will be hooked. :D :D :D