A Year In Consumption
This year, as an experiment I started living in public. By this, I don’t mean I jumped into the online exhibitionist extreme that seems to be required for MySpace users, but I have started tracking my media consumption of books/movies/music online. So, as a short post to tide everyone over until I gird myself to continue the never-ending newspapers series, here’s a review of my year in media.
In the last year, I read approximately 63 books, of which the most notable were:
- The Ghost Map, by Steven Johnson
- The Echo Maker, by Richard Powers
- La Perdida, by Jessica Abel
- Maps of the Imagination, by Peter Turchi
- Rip It Up And Start Again, by Simon Reynolds
This last year I also saw approximately 67 movies and TV shows (new and rentals), of which the following 5 were the best, in no ranked order:
- The New World
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Aguirre, The Wrath of God
- Grizzly Man
- Veronica Mars, seasons 1&2
Finally, here were the top 10 bands I listened to last year, courtesy of last.fm
- Boards of Canada
- Xela
- Sigur Rós
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Ms. John Soda
- Thom Yorke
- The American Analog Set
- Ulrich Schnauss
- Aphex Twin
- Ladytron
Anyhow, there you have it; my life as a consumer for one year (but am I going to go see movies this weekend? Yes!) Anyhow, happy new year and see you all next year! If you’ll excuse me, I’ve got some more books to read.
OK, how in the world do you have time for all of those books. That’s more than a book a week. I thought I read a lot, geez.
I was privy to a pre-release screening of Little Miss Sunshine and subsequently have taken 6 people to see it in the theatres and purchased the DVD on the day of it’s release.
Dig the Boards of Canada, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Ladytron, I will check out some of the others, any suggestions as to who I should look at first?
Wow… 63 books in one year! You read really a lot!
Happy new year by Sandro.
Well, I suppose I cheated in some sense in that some of those books were graphic novels or technical books I had to read for work. Still, I think this shows you can’t count out the 5 hours a week I spend commuting on the subway!