happy new year, if you're into that whole western calendar thing...

New Year's resolutions are for suckers and communists, but I do like me some year end lists. I also am a fan of the kind that are just whatever the listmaker discovered in the year, not necessarily what was produced that year. in no particular order, and off the top of my head, so surely i'm forgetting things. Now begins the listfulness.

some movies (you can see i spent the year catching up on some things i really ought to have seen by now):
IT
me and you and everyone we know
in the realms of the unreal
some errol morris: gates of heaven, thin blue line, fast cheap and out of control
capote
some wong kar wai: 2046, in the mood for love, chungking express
some hitchcock: vertigo, north by northwest
some oldies but goodies: lawrence of arabia, casablanca, sunset boulevard
grizzly man
pride & prejudice
wallace & gromit
march of the penguins
others i'm sure i'm leaving out. it was a good year for me and film, despite the general state of box office woes.

some books/authors/poets:
elizabeth bishop
theresa hak kyung cha
great gatsby (a reread)
master & margarita
calvino: invisible cities and if on a winter's night a traveler
geraldine kim (!)
sarah gridley
huck finn (a reread)
derek kirk kim
pushkin
le ton bot de marot
aimee bender
deborah meadows
the knot book
pride & prejudice (yes, yes, after the movie)
understanding comics

records/bands/"recording artists"/shows (not a good year for music for me due to tragic harddrive & financial woes. 2k6 is sure to be better.):
magnetic fields (getting more into their old stuff)
sufjan stevens (that song about john waybe gacey is perhaps my song of the year)
joanna newsome
decemberists
final fantasy
fucking ocean (!)
the mall
mountain goats
village green preservation society
shostakovich
dolly parton
fiery furnaces
the lovemakers

some theater (theatre if you wanna play it that way):
the goat
the overcoat
donning cheadle (!)

some magazines/journals:
fourteen hills (duh)
jubilat
five fingers review
new issues of found
knitknit
fiber arts
interweave
new yorker (my own subsciption now!)

some websites i like looking at a lot:
boingboing
spamusement
homestar runner
memepool
fark
slate
salon
onion
straight dope
found magazine online

some addictions:
knitting
crocheting
new york times crossword puzzles
thinking about the most efficient route (it's how i know i'm a new yorker at heart)