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Jan. 11th, 2007 @ 03:47 pm The Things that Ensorceled Me in 2006

Mood:

buried in snow
Sound: David Bowie - "Life on Mars?"

I’ve been meaning to post a “Best of 2006” list, but I’ve been lazy. As far as LiveJournal goes, I’m at extreme low ebb. Posting is no longer a compulsion or obligation … it’s just there. And it can wait.

Maybe I’ll get my ass in gear in a month or two. Until then, you get these intermittent bursts of words.

Anyway, here are the things that kept me happy in 2006. I tried to limit my list to things released during the calendar year, but the line gets a little blurry; some were available in limited release before January first – in foreign markets, at festivals – but they didn’t really become accessible until later on. I’ve noted these with an asterisk. I still haven’t had a chance to see Pan’s Labrinth and any number of other likely contenders, so I might need to come back and revise this list once everything’s been seen and done.

Favorite Movies:
Children of Men
The Departed
The Prestige
An Inconvenient Truth
Brick (*)
The Devil Wears Prada
The Descent (*)
Little Miss Sunshine
Nochnoy Dozor (aka. Nightwatch) (*)
Ice Age: The Meltdown

Honorable Mentions (good films that should have been better):
Underworld: Evolution
The Fountain
A Scanner Darkly

Favorite Television:
“House, MD”
“Deadwood”
“Dexter”
“Veronica Mars”
“The Lost Room”
“Dr. Who”
“Life on Mars”

Favorite Books:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
Alabaster by Caitlin R. Kiernan
Already Dead (*) by Charlie Huston
Soul Kitchen by Poppy Z. Brite
The Dead Letters by Tom Piccirilli

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