Art 2013  #
Wednesday, 02 Jan 2013 01:22PM
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November 2013

Watched
[bad] [2004] The Manchurian Candidate
[average] [2013] Machette Kills

Read
[good] [2013] Animal Man: Volume 3 (Rotworld - The Red Kingdom)
[great] [2012] Carla Speed McNeil, "The Finder Library" (Volume 1)

October 2013

Watched
[average] [2013] Black Mirror (Season 2)
[bad] [2007] The Dread
[good] [2013] In The Flesh (Season 1)

Magazines
Classic Rock #189 - October 2013 - ?? October 2013

Listened
[average] [2013] Metallica, "Through the Never (Music From the Motion Picture)"
[great] [2013] Nirvana, "In Utero" (2013 re-release)
[good] [2011] Pearl Jam, "Vitalogy" (2011 Remaster)
[average] [2013] Smashing Pumpkins, "The Aeroplane Flies High" (2013 Re-Release)
[good] [2010] Vince Dicola, "Rocky IV (Original Motion Picture Score)"
[good] [2013] Regurgitator, "Dirty Pop Fantasy"
[average] [1985] Various Artists, "Rocky IV: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack"
[good] [2012] Pallbearer, "Sorrow & Extinction"
[good] [2008] Murder By Death, "Red of Tooth & Claw"

Currently Absorbing
[2013] American Horror Story (Season 3)
[2013] Blacklist (Season 1)
[2013] Agent's of SHIELD (Season 1)
[2013] Dream Theater, "Dream Theater"

[2008] Various Artists, "The Wire: & All the Pieces Matter - Five Years"
[1993] Blur, "Modern Life Is Rubbish (2012 remaster)"
[1991] Blur, "Leisure (2012 remaster)"

[2012] Chris Ware, "Building Stories"

[2005] 12 Oz. Mouse
[2004] Tom Goes To The Mayor

[2012] William Gibson, "Distrust That Particular Flavor"

[2011] Supernatural Animated Series
[2007] Supernatural (Season 3)

[1977] Yes, "Going for the One"
[1978] Yes, "Tormato"
[1980] Yes, "Drama"
[1983] Yes, "90125"
[1987] Yes, "Big Generator"
[2004] Eyvind Kang, "Virginal Co-ordinates"
[!!!!] SO MANY CDs!

[1590] Journey To The West (English translation W.J.F. Jenner, 1993)

[1971] "Johnny Got His Gun" DVD
[2009] Secret Chiefs 3: Live at the Great American Music Hall DVD

September 2013

Watched
[good] [2013] Vikings (Season 1)
[average] [2013] Skins: Redux (Season 7)
[bad] [2013] Star Trek Into Darkness

Read
[good] [2004] Neal Stephenson, "The Confusion"

Magazines
Classic Rock #188 - September 2013 - 17 September 2013

August 2013

Watched
[bad][2013] Kick-Ass 2
[bad][2013] This Is The End
[bad][2008] The Craving
[average][2013] The Incredible Burt Wonderstone [plane]
[good][2013] Warm Bodies [plane]
[bad][2013] Oz the Great and Powerful [plane]
[good][2012] Humanoid Monster Bem [plane]
[average][2013] Iron Man 3 [plane]
[good][2013] Evil Dead

July 2013

Watched
[good] [2012] The Newsroom (Season 1)
[average] [2013] Pacific Rim
[average] [2013] Falling Skies (Season 2)
[average] [2012] Game Of Thrones (Season 2)
[good] [2013] Dexter (Season 7)

Listened
[average] [2007] Eicca Toppinen (Apocalyptica), "Black Ice" (Soundtrack)
[good] [1995] David Bowie, "Outside"
[good] [1996] David Bowie, "Hallo Spaceboy" (single)
[bad] [1990] Aleksandris Svencis, "Dreams of the Dreamtime"

Read
[good] [2003] Neal Stephenson, "Quicksilver"

June 2013

Watched
[average] [2011] Falling Skies (Season 1)
[average] [2013] The Following
[average] [1968] Spider Babyor, The Maddest Story Ever Told
[bad] [2000] Machine Head

Listened
[average] [2013] Black Sabbath, "13"*
[good] [2013] Megadeth, "Super Collider"*
[good] [2001] Grand Magus, "Grand Magus" (2006 re-release)
[good] [2003] Grand Magus, "Monument"
[good] [2008] Decortica, "A New Aesthetic"
[average] [2011] Decortica, "Love Hotel"
[good] [2010] Brent Kennedy, "Super Meat Boy! - Choice Piano Cuts"
[great] [2010] Year Of No Light, "Ausserwelt"

May 2013

Listened
[good] [2011] The Beach Boys, "The Smile Sessions"
[good] [2000] Presidents of the United States, "Freaked Out & Small"
[good] [2004] Presidents of the United States, "Love Everybody"
[good] [2008] Presidents of the United States, "These Are the Good Times People"
[average] [2012] Pillowfight, "Pillowfight"
[average] [2013] Mike Patton & Various, "The Place Beyond the Pines" (Soundtrack)
[average] [2012] Tiamat, "Scarred People"
[average] [2012] Nachtmystium, "Silencing Machine"
[average] [2008] Megadeth, "Anthology: Set the World Afire"
[good] [1999] Muse, "Showbiz"
[good] [2013] Chuck Mosley (VUA), demosforsale
[good] [2013] Presidents of the United States, "Get Back In The Van" (free live EP)
[average] [2013] Jason Newsted, "Metal"
[great] [2007] Black Sabbath, "The Dio Years"

Watched
[average] [2013] Doctor Who
[good] [2005] Lucy, The Daughter Of The Devil (Season 1)
[good] [2012] Supernatural (Season 8)
[average] [2012] American Horror Story Asylum
[bad] [2012] The Place Beyond The Pines
[great] [2002] Farscape (Season 4)
[good] [2004] Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars
[average] [2012] The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
[great] [2012] Walking Dead (Season 3)

Magazine
Classic Rock #185 June - 31st May
Classic Rock #184 June - approx 5th May
Metal Hammer #244 June - approx 21st May (Last one? Subscription not renewed)

April 2013

Watched
[bad] [2006] Simon Says

Listened
[average] [2007] The Book Of Knots, "Traineater"
[good] [2009] Nile, "Those Whom The Gods Detest"
[good] [2013] Clutch, "Earth Rocker"
[good] [1996] Presidents of the United States of America, "II"
[good] [1974] Kansas, "Kansas"
[good] [1975] Kansas, "Song For America"
[good] [1975] Kansas, "Masque"
[average] [1976] Kansas, "Lefoverture"
[average] [1977] Kansas, "Point Of Know Return"
[average] [2011] Living Fields, "Running Out of Daylight"
[great] [2010] Nachtmystium, "Addicts: Black Meddle Pt II"
[average] [2006] Katatonia, "The Great Cold Distance"
[average] [2012] John Zorn, "Templars - In Sacred Blood"

Magazines
Classic Rock #183 May - 10th April
Metal Hammer #243 May - 10th April

March 2013

Watched
[good] [2010] Prisoners of War (Season 1)
[bad] [2005] Minoriteam Collection (about 5 minutes of one episode, stopped)
[average] [2006] Assy McGee S1 (a few episodes, weirdly appealing, but terrible)
[unexplainable] [2007] Xavier: Renegade Angel (two episodes, WEIRD)
[good] [2009] Titan Maximum S1
[average] [2012] Parade's End (mini-series)
[average] [2013] A Good Day To Die Hard
[bad] [2009] Sherlock Holmes
[average] [1988] Poltergeist III

Listened
[good] [1981] Men At Work, "Business As Usual"
[good] [2003] Rush, "The Spirit Of Radio: Greatest Hits 1974-1987"
[average] [2006] Scorpions, "Gold"
[good] [2012] Smashing Pumpkins, "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" (2012 5CD Remaster)
[great] [2005] Alarm Will Sound, "Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin"
[good] [1980] AC/DC, "Back In Black"
[good] [1985] The Cure, "Head on the Door"
[good] [1989] The Cure, "Disintegration"
[good] [1979] Supertramp, "Breakfast In America"
* Lots of metal, to be commented on later

February 2013

Watched
[average] [2011] Grimm, Season 1
[good] [2012] Misfits, Season 4
[average] [2008] RocknRolla
[great] [2012] The Hour, Season 2

Read
[good] [2013] Animal Man: Animal vs. Man (Issues #7 to 11 trade paperback)
[great] [2011] Greg Egan, "The Clockwork Rocket: Orthogonal Book One"
[great] [2012] Greg Egan, "The Eternal Flame: Orthogonal Book Two"

Listened
[bad] [2011] A Pale Horse Named Death, "And Hell Will Follow Me"
[good] [1995] Dissection, "Storm of the Light's Bane"
[great] [2010] Agalloch, "Marrow of the Spirit"
[good] [2012] Grave Digger, "Clash of the Gods"

January 2013

Watched
[bad] [2012] Looper
[good] [2012] Django Unchained
[good] [2007] The King Of Kong
[average] [1978] The Deer Hunter
[average] [2011] The Artist
[good] [2005] Brokeback Mountain
[bad] [2010] Nightmare On Elm Street
[average] [2009] Knowing
[average] [1970] Catch-22
[average] [2011] Conan the Barbarian
[average] [1998] Les Misérables
[average] [1971] Wake In Fright
[good] [2001] Farscape (Season 3)

Read
[bad] [1984] David Brin, "The Practice Effect"

Listened
[good] [1982] Iron Maiden, "The Number Of The Beast"