A Year In Consumption
Posted by Jacob Harris Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:43:32 GMT
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.
