{"id":3668,"date":"2009-12-31T18:59:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T23:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3668"},"modified":"2009-12-31T18:59:50","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T23:59:50","slug":"2009-my-year-in-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3668","title":{"rendered":"2009: My year in media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/catalog\/unrealfred&#038;tag=Read%2Bin%2B2009\">These are the books<\/a> I read in 2009 &#8212; just shy of my hoped-for 50-book minimum. Reading the twelve books of <a href=\"http:\/\/genewolfebookclub.com\/\">Gene Wolfe&#8217;s so-called Solar Cycle<\/a> slowed me down a little. Beyond the Wolfe (which I think I&#8217;m going to have to read again at some point), some of my favorite reads this year were Alison Bechdel&#8217;s <i>Fun Home<\/i>, Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert&#8217;s <i>Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?<\/i>, Guy Delisle&#8217;s <i>Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea<\/i>, Lorrie Moore&#8217;s <i>Birds of America<\/i>, Naomi Novik&#8217;s <i>His Majesty&#8217;s Dragon<\/i>, Audrey Niffenegger <i>The Time Traveler&#8217;s Wife<\/i>, and Scott Westerfeld&#8217;s <i>Midnighter<\/i> trilogy. I don&#8217;t know what, if anything, that says about my reading habits and preferences. There were a couple of small disappointments in the list, but I don&#8217;t think I read a single <i>bad<\/i> book this year. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/mymovies\/list?l=40081134\">These are the movies I saw<\/a> this year. Some of the highlights, in the order I saw them, were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3315\">WALL-E<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3392\">The Diving Bell and the Butterfly<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3392\">In the Mood for Love<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3406\">Rachel Getting Married<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3510\">The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3510\">Up<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/6617869247\">25th Hour<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/6881269159\">Julia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/6917832061\">Yojimbo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/7185482952\">8\u00c2\u00bd<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<p>Honorable mentions include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3285\">Doubt<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3510\">Speed Racer<\/a> (yes, really), <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/7021459348\">Away We Go<\/a>, <i>The Man From Earth<\/i>, and George Romero&#8217;s zombie ouevre, which I finally got around to watching all of this year. (I think it&#8217;s a toss-up between <i>Dawn<\/i> and <i>Day of the Dead<\/i> as my favorite.)<\/p>\n<p><i>Surrogates<\/i> and <i>Lady in the Water<\/i> were easily the worst movies I saw this year. (Excluding <i>The Room<\/i>, but I had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rifftrax.com\/rifftrax\/room\">Rifftrax<\/a> to get me through that painful experience.) And at least <i>Surrogates<\/i> is tied up in fond memories of <a href=\"http:\/\/vegascapfest2009.blogspot.com\/\">the Vegas Capfest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I listened to a whole lot of music in 2009. You can see the evidence of that <a href=\"http:\/\/unreality.net\/mixes\/\">in my monthly mix CDs<\/a>. That&#8217;s 223 songs altogether. Is it any wonder I had trouble putting together a &#8220;best of the year&#8221; mix?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not even going to talk about the television I watched in 2009. Well, not yet anyway.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the books I read in 2009 &#8212; just shy of my hoped-for 50-book minimum. Reading the twelve books of Gene Wolfe&#8217;s so-called Solar Cycle slowed me down a little. Beyond the Wolfe (which I think I&#8217;m going to have to read again at some point), some of my favorite reads this year were &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3668\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16,8,14,15,28],"class_list":["post-3668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-monthly-mix","tag-movies","tag-music","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}