Aren't lists fun? (or more recently acquired goods)

Books

The Odyssey" and "The Iliad" (verse translations by Robert Fagles)

Music

"Pray for Mojo" (MU330)
"No Self Control" (the Planet Smashers)
"The Guest" (Phantom Planet)
"Phantom Planet is Missing" (Phantom Planet)

Videos

"Memento"
"Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back"
"Rashomon"
"The Hidden Fortress"
"Six-String Samurai"
"Mallrats"
"Girl on the Bridge"

Witnessed

Jonathan Richman live
ballet in both Salt Lake and Denver

Add to that list (updated)

Recently purchased

"Beowulf" (translated by Seamus Heaney)
"Public Domain: A Channel Zero Designbook" (written and drawn by Brian Wood)
"The Process of Belief" (Bad Religion)
"Summerteeth" (Wilco)
"Keep It Like a Secret" (Built to Spill)

Recently received

"The Prisoner", episode set 5
"Monty Python and the Holy Grail"
"Princess Mononoke"
"Holidays on Ice" (David Sedaris)
"Mass Romantic" (the New Pornographers)
"Against the Grain" (Bad Religion)
"Being There" (Wilco)
"Perfect From Now On" (Built to Spill)
"The Giving Tree", 35th anniversary edition (Shel Silverstein)

Recently saw

"The Mothman Prophecies"

Recently watched

"Made"

More recent milestones

Recently saw

"The Royal Tenenbaums"
"Gosford Park"

Recently viewed

"Blue"
"The Closet"

Recently purchased

"AM" (Wilco)
"Navy Blues" (Sloan)
"Mission Control" (Burning Airlines)
"Rival Schools United by One Line Drawing" (self-titled)
"The Shape of Punk to Come" (Refused)
"(What's the Story) Morning Glory?" (Oasis)

Recently accomplished

Became single again. Again.

Another useless list

Recently saw

"Fellowship of the Ring"
"Croupier"
"The Devil's Backbone"

Currently reading

"White Teeth"
"The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay"

Listening to

Guided by Voices, Built to Spill, Sebadoh, Pavement

Yet another list of recent events

Watched

"In the Mood for Love"
"Airplane"
"Young Frankenstein"

Purchased

"White Teeth"
"Live" (Built to Spill)
"Ill Communcation" (the Beastie Boys)
"Check Your Head" (the Beastie Boys)

More "recent" stuff

Purchased

"You Can Count on Me"
"Best in Show"
some comic books

Saw

"Innocence"
"The Man Who Wasn't There"
"Amelie"
"Focus"
"The Dreamlife of Angels"
"City of Lost Children"
"Love and Death"
"Rudolph's Shiny New Year"

Ate

Poore Brothers' jalapeno potato chips

Recently seen

"The Girl on the Bridge"
"The Widow of St. Pierre"
"Time and Tide"

Addicted to

Coffee
"The Simpsons"
"ER" repeats (and damn her for that)

Recently completed

Saw

"Happy Accidents"
"The Mexican"

Read

"Box Office Poison"

Started, but not finished

homework
"If Chins Could Kill"
"The Girl on the Bridge"
sleep

Recently purchased

Books

"The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" (Michael Chabon, author)
"Glue" (Irvine Welsh, author)
"Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha" (Roddy Doyle, author)
"Strangehaven, Book 2: The Brotherhood" (Gary Spencer Millidge, writer and illustrator)

Music

"Ancient Melodies for the Future" (Built to Spill)
"Each Sold Separately" (Punch the Clown)
"The 13th Round" (Thug Murder)
"Tiger Army II: The Power of Moonlight" (Tiger Army)

Movies

"The Unbelievable Truth"

Recently seen

"Ghost World"
"Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back"

Favorite comics

"Acme Novelty Library" (Chris Ware)
"Amazing Spider-Man" (J. Michael Straczynski and John Romita, Jr.)
"Berlin (Jason Lutes)
"Bone" (Jeff Smith)
"Box Office Poison" (Alex Robinson)
"Dork" (Evan Dorkin)
"Jetcat Clubhouse" (Jay Stephens)
"Kane" (Paul Grist)
"King-Cat Comics" (John Porcellino)
"New X-Men" (Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely)
"Planetary" (Warren Ellis and John Cassaday)
"Strangehaven" (Gary Spencer Millidge)

Essential graphic novels

"The Ballad of Dr. Richardson" (Paul Pope)
"Cages" (Dave McKean)
"Cerebus: Church and State" (Dave Sim)
"The Essential Fantastic Four" (Volume 3) (Stan Lee and Jack Kirby)
"The Essential Spider-Man" (Volume 1) (Stan Lee and Steve Ditko)
"From Hell" (Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell)
"Goodbye, Chunky Rice" (Craig Thompson)
"Hicksville" (Dylan Horrocks)
"Jar of Fools" (Jason Lutes)
"Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth" (Chris Ware)
"The Land of Nod Treasury" (Jay Stephens)
"Perfect Example" (John Porcellino)
"Preacher: Alamo" (Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon)
"Safe Area Gorazde" (Joe Sacco)

Top dining experiences

Alexander's (Mexican; Denver, Colorado)
The Blue Nile (Ethiopian; Denver, Colorado)
Gordito's (Mexican; Seattle, Washington)
The King and I (Thai; Las Vegas, Nevada)
Lenito's (Mexican; Provo, Utah)
Shanghai Garden (Chinese; Seattle, Washington)
Star of India (Indian; Salt Lake City, Utah)
Sushi Den (Sushi; Denver, Colorado)

This is me

This picture was taken in July.
I promise I'm not always this somber.

What I've been up to:

Running
Working on a neuropsych assessment report
Reading
Worrying
Updating

The scoop

Things I'm looking forward to:

MOVIES

“Ghost World”
"The Musketeer"
"Fellowship of the Ring"
“Apocalypse Now, Redux”
"Spider-Man"
“The Royal Tenenbaums”

TV

"Enterprise"

BOOKS

“All Families Are Psychotic”, by Douglas Coupland
“Don’t Call Me Stupid”, by Steven "Ribs" Weissman

Seen/Done/Been there/Read it

Finished reading

"How to Be Good" by Nick Hornby
"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers

Now reading

"American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

Seen at the theater or on video

"O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
"Made"
"Planet of the Apes" (the new one)
"A.I."

Visited

Salt Lake City, Utah

More lists

Recently viewed

"The Omega Man"
"Amateur"
"Metropolitan"
"Shrek"
"Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me"
"Dogma" (the director's cut DVD with all the extra goodies)
"Office Space"

Recently purchased cds

BRMC- "Black Rebel Motorcycle Club"
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes- "Blow in the Wind"
The Lawrence Arms/The Chinkees - (split cd)
Citizen Fish- "Life Size"

On the list of stuff to be read

David Foster Wallace- "Infinite Jest"
John Horgan- "The End of Science"
Nikos Kazantzakis- "Zorba the Greek"
Michael Shermer- "Why People Believe Weird Things"

Some o' my favorite things

Movie: "The Seven Samurai" (although this is a really tough call)
Director: Hal Hartley
Actor: Martin Donovan
TV Series (old): "The Prisoner"
TV Series (new): "The Simpsons"
Cartoon: "Speed Racer" (the original, of course)
Book: Life After God, by Douglas Coupland
Comic Book: King-Cat Comics, by John Porcellino
Musical Artist: Elvis Costello
Dish: Smothered spinach and bean burritos, from Alexander's
Drink of choice: Pete's Wicked Ale (not the varieties, though)
Heroes (no particular order): Noam Chomsky, Dr. Oliver Sacks, Sigmund Freud, Michael Moore

Listomania

What I'm reading:

A whole passel of research articles on "theory of mind", high-functioning autism/Asperger Syndrome, gullibility, and victimization of people with developmental disabilities (don't ask)

Machiavellian Intelligence: Social Expertise and the Evolution of Intellect in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans (Richard Byrne and Andrew Whiten, editors)

King-Cat Collection (John Porcellino, writer/illustrator)

Soundtrack: Short Stories 1989-1996 (Jessica Abel, writer/illustrator)

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggers, writer)

What's spinning on the cd player:

just about every cd by the Posies
Chixdiggit
Citizen Fish
Sloan
Weezer
The (International) Noise Conspiracy

What's been seen lately:

"The Wild Bunch"
"Soylent Green"
"Cool Hand Luke"
"Hard-Boiled"
"HardCore Logo"

Things you might want to know about me

(1) I'm liberal, and while I try to be open-minded about, it, I can be argumentative and dogmatic at times.
(2) That said, I'm still politically incorrect at times, because everyone needs a sense of humor, right?
(3) I adore "The Simpsons", even if I don't think it's been as funny for a few years now
(4) I'm useless without my morning coffee
(5) I'm a vegetarian, although I recently discovered a taste for sushi (took me long enough)
(6) Yes, I do read comics
(7) I'm a grad student, hence the grouchiness
(8) I love my mountain bike. LOVE it.
(9) I have a twin brother
(10) If I could eat Mexican food every day, I probably would
(11) I'm a toy junkie
(12) I'm secretly a computer illiterate (shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh)
(13) I'm a film snob, but I have some peculiar tastes
(14) Pretty much the only music I really can't stand is country (although Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline challenge that)
(15) I live in Denver, Colorado (which is a damned sight better than my old home), despite the friends left behind
(16) I laugh out loud every time I read The Onion (and did I mention that we get a print copy of it here every Thursday?)
(17) I'm deadly allergic to sunflower seeds and kiwi
(18) I don't consider food to be spicy enough unless it makes me sweat and my nose starts to run
(19) I'm fond of lists