Some of the media I read/saw/listened to/downloaded/purchased in 2011. Sadly, not in any kind of order. If you've consumed any of these, I'd love to know what you thought. If you want to know more of my opinions about any of these, just ask.
Paper Books and eBooksKarl Schroeder,
Lady of MazesWalter Mosley,
Walkin’ the Dog; The WaveKen Grimwood,
ReplayS.J. Day, “Eve of Sin City”;
Eve of Darkness; Eve of DestructionBarbara Ehrenreich,
Bright-sidedSeanan McGuire,
Rosemary and Rue (October Daye #1);
A Local Habitation (October Daye #2)
Laurie R. King,
Monstrous Regiment of Women (Mary Russell #2)
Erving Goffman,
StigmaJudi Dench,
And FurthermoreEllen Kushner and Delia Sherman,
The Fall of the KingsKen Belson and Brian Bremner,
Hello Kitty: The Remarkable Story of Sanrio and the Billion Dollar Feline PhenomenonJudith Kohlberg and Kathleen Nadeau,
Add-Friendly Ways to Organize Your LifeLaurell K. Hamilton,
Hit List (Anita Blake #20)
Annie Cheney,
Body Brokers: Inside America's Underground Trade in Human RemainsThomas Sniegoski,
A Kiss Before the Apocalypse (Remy Chandler #1)
Sally Mitchell,
Daily Life in Victorian EnglandJeff Chang,
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip Hop GenerationNnendi Okorafor,
Zahrah the WindseekerMichael Chabon,
Yiddish Policeman's UnionLois McMaster Bujold,
Diplomatic Immunity; CryoburnNathaniel Philbrick,
Why Read Moby Dick?Jo Walton,
Among OthersCally Hall,
Gemstones; Antoinette Matlins,
Colored Gemstones: The Antoinette Matlins Buying Guide; Judith Crowe,
The Jeweler's Directory of GemstonesAudio BooksScott Lynch,
Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard #1);
Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard #2)
William Somerset Maugham,
Short Stories of William Somerset Maugham, Volume 1Eleanor Updale,
MontmorencyTerry Pratchett,
Monstrous RegimentJohn Varley,
Press EnterIsaac Asimov,
The End of EternityAndrea Camilleri,
The Snack Thief (Inspector Montalbano #3);
Excursion to Tindari (Inspector Montalbano #5);
The Smell of the Night (Inspector Montalbano #6);
Rounding the Mark (Inspector Montalbano #7);
The Patience of the Spider (Inspector Montalbano #8)
Jeaniene Frost,
Halfway to the Grave (Night Huntress #1);
One Foot in the Grave (Night Huntress #2)
Ilona Andrews,
Magic Bites (Kate Daniels #1);
Magic Burns (Kate Daniels #2)
Ian Fleming,
Goldfinger;
Quantum of SolaceJulie Kagawa,
The Iron KingAlexander McCall Smith,
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective AgencyBetsey Dexter Dyer,
Unseen Diversity: The World of Bacteria (Lecture series);
Charlaine Harris,
Grave Sight (Harper Connelly #1);
Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse #1)
Simon Brett,
Dead Side of the Mike (Charles Paris #5)
Kim Harrison,
Dead Witch WalkingRobert Wittman,
Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen TreasuresAgatha Christie,
The Secret of Chimneys;
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Poirot #1);
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple #1)
Gail Carriger,
Soulless (Alexia Tarabotti #1)
Walter Mosley,
Fear of the Dark (Fearless Jones #3);
Black Betty (Easy Rawlins, #3)
William Gibson,
Count Zero (Sprawl trilogy #2)
Pearl S. Buck,
The Good EarthHerman Melville, "Billy Budd"
Deborah Blum,
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New YorkMichael Innes,
Appleby's End (Appleby #10)
John Mortimer,
Rumpole of the Bailey; Rumpole's Last Case & Other StoriesRichard Adams,
Watership DownJames A. Owen,
Here There Be Dragons (Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica #1)
Virginia Woolf,
To the LighthouseNaomi Novik,
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire #1)
Ursula K. Le Guin,
City of IllusionsBaroness Orkzy,
The Scarlet PimpernelSara Gruen,
Water for ElephantsAlexandre Dumas,
The Three MusketeersM. Lee Alexander,
Modern Scholar: Detective Fiction from Victorian Sleuths to the Present Lecture series
Hal Clement,
NeedleKurt Vonnegut,
The Sirens of TitanM. John Harrison,
Nova SwingRex Stout,
Not Quite Dead EnoughSam Kean,
The Disappearing SpoonOliver Sacks,
AwakeningsOctavia Butler,
Wild SeedAlex Haley,
RootsAmir D. Aczel,
Present at the Creation: The Story of CERNWilkie Collins,
The MoonstoneDVDs/Movies/TVTerry Jones’ Medieval Lives (8-episode TV documentary)
Terry Jones: Gladiators: The Brutal Truth (documentary)
Hogan’s Heroes (TV series)
Star Trek: “Who Mourns for Adonais?”
Storm (movie)
Pirate Radio (movie)
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo (24-episode anime)
Shaguna no Shana (episodic anime)
Life on Mars (UK version, 2-season TV series)
Bach & Friends (movie-length documentary)
Black Jack (short anime series)
Flyboys (movie)
Samurai Champloo (anime series)
Terminator: Salvation (movie)
Ken Burns's Jazz (multi-episode documentary)
Being Julia (movie)
The Departed (movie)
Playing Shakespeare (multi-episode acting workshop)
Keeping Mum (movie)
Ofelas (Pathfinder) (movie)
The Virgin Suicides (movie)
Blues Brothers (movie)
How to Train Your Dragon (animated movie)
The Wire, season 1 (TV series)
Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman (movie)
Two Fat Ladies (multi-season TV cooking show)
Happy Feet (animated movie)
Fafner in the Azure (multi-episode anime)
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish movie)
Ponyo (animated movie)
Sarah Connor Chronicles (TV series; we haven't finished watching it yet)
Stranger Than Fiction (movie)
Columbo (original TV movie series)
Mississippi Masala (movie)
African Queen (Hepburn/Bogart movie)
Sita Sings the Blues (animated movie)
Notes on a Scandal (movie)
Dreamgirls (movie)
Metropia (animated movie)
Les Triplettes de Belleville (animated movie)
La Femme Nikita (original movie)
Megamind (animated movie)
Lost (we got through the first 4 episodes and gave up)
Hugo (movie)
Chopped (Food Network show)
Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives (Food Network show)
The A-Team (original TV series)
Pan's Labyrinth (movie)
The Prisoner (origina 1960s tv series)
Music purchasedSongs/Collections"The Cat Food Song," Robin Radus (on Youtube)
Cat food, without any warning
Cat food, at three in the morning
Cat food, the neverending story
Cat food, the power and the glory
"I'm Shipping Up to Boston," Dropkick Murphys, from The Departed (Music from the Motion Picture)
Chart Sweep, Parts 1-2, compiled by Hugo Keesing
"Two Against One," Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi
"Blue On Black," Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Trouble Is...
"Paris (Ooh La La)," Grace Potter & The Nocturnals (self-titled album)
"Hallelujah," K.D. Lang (several versions of Leonard Cohen's song)
"E.T.," Katy Perry, Teenage Dream
"(What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue?", Louis Armstrong, Louis Armstrong: Hot Fives & Sevens
"Summertime" (From "Porgy and Bess"), Artie Shaw and His Orchestra, The Centennial Collection (Remastered)
AlbumsPeace Love Ukulele, Jake Shimabukuro
Live at Les Joulins Jazz Bistro, Jazz Nostalgia featuring Bill "DOC" Webster
Ukulele Method Book 1
Metasexual, Joydrop
Born This Way, Lady Gaga
Deggial, Therion
Happy Feet soundtrack
Happy Birthday, Duke! (5-disc set), Duke Ellington
Piano Starts Here, Art Tatum & Zenph Studios
Especially Interesting Mash-UpsIn The Mood For Some Killing [Glenn Miller & His Orchestra vs. Rage Against The Machine]
Alice In Boogie Wonderland [Earth, Wind & Fire vs. Alice Cooper]
Ain't No Stairway High Enough to Hip Hop Heaven [Led Zeppelin vs. Gramatik vs. Marvin Gaye]
Magnatune albums downloadedDaniel Bautista, Weirdos and Classics; 15
Davide Viterbo, Distant City
Colin Booth, Buxtehude: Suites and Variations; Dark Harpischord Music
Maneli Jamal, The Ziur Movement
Where's Moo, Dear Friend Dopamine (instrumental version)
The Young Werewolves, Sins of the Past
Osamu Kitajima and Chris Mancinelli, Beyond the Circle
Ernesto Schnack, A Work in Progress
Sweet Teen Killing Machine (self-titled)
Werner Durand, Vibrating Air Columns
Alan Marchand, Mojo Trippin'; Romantic Piano: R&R
CrimsonFaced, Captain Freak (instrumental)
La Reverie, Ancient Mosaid with Guitar
Toni Iñiguez, Rain Trip
Collection Get, Save As
Psycliq, The Mathemagician's Riddle
Anonymph, Terrarium
Vito Paternoster, Inzaffirio
Sound of Seventy Three, The Way We Feel
Eleanor Hodgkinson, Scenes of Travel
Angelight, Tantrabeats 1: The Space of the Body
Joey Fehrenbach, Mellowdrama
Burning Babylon, Knives to the Treble
Beat Under Control, Cosmic Repackage
Lydia McCauley, Sabbath Day's Journey
Ambient Teknology, Electro Retro
David Gilden, Jato the Lion
Anton Cosmo, A Beautiful Chaos
Gopal, Mystic Journey: Ancient Sounds of the Diruba
Tatiana Kochkareva, Moments
John Holowach, Elements
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