• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 8) Volume 8: Last Gleaming - Joss Whedon
  • I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
jan 4 2012 ∞
jan 15 2012 +
  • the pains of being pure at heart @ great american music hall [4/19]
  • vivian girls @ the rickshaw stop [5/4]
  • rhett miller @ swedish american hall [5/7]
  • dum dum girls w/ crocodiles and colleen green @ troubadour [10/3]
mar 30 2011 ∞
nov 26 2011 +
  • fish tank
  • life during wartime
  • hausu
  • from paris with love
  • shutter island
  • please give
  • inception
  • harry potter and the deathly hallows part I
  • all about evil
  • scott pilgrim vs. the world
nov 22 2010 ∞
nov 22 2010 +
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  • Fun Home - Alison Bechdel
  • Summer of Fear - Lois Duncan
  • Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Cameron Crowe
  • Flowers in the Attic - VC Andrews
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 8) Volume 2: No Future For You - Brian K Vaughan
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 8) Volume 3: Wolves at the Gate - Drew Goddard
  • Angel: After The Fall - Brian Lynch
  • Zelda: A Biography - Nancy Milford
  • Dance Dance Dance - Haruki Murakami
  • The Shadow in the North (Sally Lockhart Trilogy, Book 2) - Philip Pullman
  • Life of Pi: Deluxe Illustrated Edition - Yann Martel
dec 23 2009 ∞
jan 5 2010 +
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new releases seen: 69

  • WALL-E
  • Timecrimes
  • Reprise
  • Let The Right One In
  • Paranoid Park
  • The Wrestler
  • Towelhead
  • Happy-Go-Lucky
  • Milk
  • Tropic Thunder

Honorable Mention:

The Dark Knight, Changeling

Best Movie Seen With No US Release:

The Christmas Tale (Spain, 2005)

Best Teen Movie:

Twilight

Best Performance:

Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

jan 5 2010 ∞
feb 10 2010 +
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  • The Lord of the Rings Part One: The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Pure Drivel - Steve Martin
  • The Dead Fathers Club - Matt Haig
  • I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence - Amy Sedaris
  • The Listeners - Christopher Pike
  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
  • Tiger Eyes - Judy Blume
  • American Gods - Neil Gaiman
  • The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 8) The Long Way Home - Joss Whedon
  • The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1) - Lemony Snicket
  • The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 2) - Lemony Snicket
  • The Complete Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi...
dec 23 2009 ∞
jan 5 2010 +
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may 1 2012 ∞
may 1 2012 +
  • Bossypants - Tina Fey
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
  • Emma - Jane Austen
  • Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? - Mindy Kaling
  • Just Kids - Patti Smith
  • Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
  • Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
  • Persuasion - Jane Austen
  • Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  • Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
  • To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  • A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
  • Wuthering Heights - Brontë, Emily
sep 28 2011 ∞
jan 4 2012 +
  • Aimee Bender
  • Alissa Nutting
  • Angela Carter
  • Charlaine Harris
  • Chris Adrian
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • Joyelle McSweeney
  • Karen Brennan
  • Karen Joy Fowler
  • Kate Bernheimer
  • Kathryn Davis
  • Kellie Wells
  • Kelly Link
  • Kevin Brockmeier
  • Lucy Corin
  • Lydia Millet
  • Marjorie Sandor
  • Michael Mejia
  • Rabih Alameddine
  • Sabrina Orah Mark
  • Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
nov 20 2011 ∞
nov 21 2011 +
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  • St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves - Karen Russell
  • I Live Here - Mia Kirshner, J.B. Mackinnon, Paul Shoebridge, and Michael Simons
  • Food Rules: An Eater's Manual - Michael Pollan
  • The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling - Maryrose Wood
  • Zombie Spaceship Wasteland - Patton Oswalt
  • No One Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July
  • Swamplandia - Karen Russell
  • Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire
  • An Object of Beauty - Steve Martin
  • The Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris - Alicia Drake
  • The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place...
jan 6 2011 ∞
jan 4 2012 +
  • the yummy fur @ the echo LA [1/17]
  • girls with guns & skeleton television @ the stork club oakland [1/30]
  • girls @ great american music hall [2/14]
  • el perro del mar @ cafe du nord [3/2]
  • metric @ the fox theatre oakland [3/24]
  • bear in heaven @ bottom of the hill [3/25]
  • air @ the fox theatre oakland [3/26]
  • go sailor w/ lots @ the rickshaw stop [3/27]
  • charlotte gainsbourg @ the palace of fine arts [4/17]
  • camera obscura w/ best coast @ great american music hall [4/21]
  • grass widow @ bottom of the hill [6/27]
  • dum dum girls @ bottom of the hill [6/30]-
  • the charlatans @ bimbos 365 [9/20]
  • vaselines w/ dum dum girls @ great american music hall [10/20]
feb 7 2010 ∞
sep 8 2010 +
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  • Confessions of a Teen Sleuth - Chelsea Cain
  • Goodbye Tsugumi - Banana Yoshimoto
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 8) Volume 4: Time of Your Life - Joss Whedon
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 8) Volume 5: Predators and Prey - Joss Whedon
  • Stitches - David Small
  • Born Standing Up - Steve Martin
  • Tamara Drewe - Posy Simmonds
  • Fray - Joss Whedon
  • Tin House #44: Summer Reading
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 8) Volume 6: Retreat - Joss Whedon
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 8) Volume 7: Twilight - Joss Whedon
feb 7 2010 ∞
jan 6 2011 +
  • goldfrapp @ the warfield [4/26]
  • sigur ros @ greek theatre berkeley [10/3]
feb 7 2010 ∞
feb 7 2010 +
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  • The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
  • The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
  • American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
  • Apartment Therapy: The Eight-Step Home Cure - Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan
  • A Gift of Magic - Lois Duncan
  • They Never Came Home - Lois Duncan
  • Don't Look Behind You - Lois Duncan
  • Gallow's Hill - Lois Duncan
  • I know What You Did Last Summer - Lois Duncan
  • My Happy Life - Lydia Millet
  • Hardboiled and Hard Luck - Banana Yoshimoto
  • The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
  • The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories - Tim Burton
  • New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
  • Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
dec 23 2009 ∞
jan 5 2010 +
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new releases seen: approx. 50

  • Half Nelson
    • Brick
    • Clean
    • L'Enfant
    • The Descent
    • Slither
    • The Hills Have Eyes
    • Marie Antoinette
    • Children of Men
    • Snakes on a Plane

Best Performance

Laura Dern, Inland Empire

feb 10 2010 ∞
feb 10 2010 +
  • Allo Darlin' @ The Echo [5/5]
jan 4 2012 ∞
jan 4 2012 +

new releases seen: 56 (in no particular order)

  • drive
  • rise of the planet of the apes
  • attack the block
  • transformers: dark of the moon
  • fast five
  • source code
  • jane eyre
  • the future
  • project nim
  • into the abyss
nov 21 2011 ∞
jan 15 2012 +
  • Tig and Friends @ Cobbs Comedy Club/SF Sketchfest
  • The Arbor w/ director Clio Barnard @ SFIFF 54 [5/4]
  • The Little Mermaid Ballet w/ Yuan Yuan @ San Francisco Ballet [5/7]
  • The Paul F. Tompkins Show @ The Largo [5/21]
  • Re-Animator - The Musical @ The Steve Allen Theatre [5/22]
may 8 2011 ∞
may 8 2011 +
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new releases seen: 100

  • Drag Me to Hell
  • Inglourious Basterds
  • Moon
  • Whip It
  • Confessions of a Shopaholic
  • Adventureland
  • Observe and Report
  • Jennifer's Body
  • Star Trek
  • Zombieland

Honorable Mention:

A Single Man, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, The Fantastic Mr. Fox

Best Movie Seen With No U.S. Release:

Troubled Water (Norway, 2008)

Best Teen Movie

Bring It On

: Fight to the Finish

feb 7 2010 ∞
apr 5 2010 +
  • the yellow dress w/ fancy dan band @ dog-eared books [3/4]
  • primal scream @ the fillmore [3/17]
  • the vaselines @ bimbos [5/11]
  • a camp @ the independent [6/14]
  • jarvis cocker @ the fillmore [7/28]
  • sonic youth @ the independent [8/3]
  • the yellow dress w/ foxtails brigade @ ATA [8/28]
  • an evening with fran healy and andy dunlop of travis @ swedish american hall [10/8]
  • echo and the bunnymen @ the fox theatre oakland [10/22]
  • rose melberg @ needles and pens [10/29]
  • the yellow dress @ thee parkside [11/8]
  • pixies @ the fox theatre oakland [11/9]
feb 7 2010 ∞
feb 7 2010 +
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new releases seen: approx. 70

  • There Will Be Blood
    • Superbad
    • The Lookout
    • Music and Lyrics
    • Zodiac
    • Enchanted
    • Ratatouille
    • No Country For Old Men
    • The King of Kong
    • Rescue Dawn

Honorable Mention

Hot Fuzz, Knocked Up, Spiderman 3, Juno, The Mist, 1408

feb 10 2010 ∞
feb 10 2010 +
  • jarvis cocker @ the fillmore [4/28]
  • the good the bad & the queen @ the grand ballroom [4/29]
  • fields @ cafe du nord [4/30]
  • cocorosie @ bimbos [5/1]
  • travis @ the fillmore [5/2]
  • bjork @ shoreline amphitheatre [5/17]
  • the arcade fire @ greek theatre berkeley [6/1]
  • the pipettes @ Troubadour LA [6/11]
  • the long blondes @ the echo LA [6/15]
  • sonic youth (daydream nation!) @ berkeley community theatre berkeley [7/19]
  • 1990s @ cafe du nord [8/6]
  • cat power @ the fillmore [9/19]
  • air @ bimbos [9/20]
  • morrissey @ the fillmore [9/24]
  • travis @ the fillmore [11/20]
  • spice girls @ staples center LA [12/5]
  • dewey cox and the hard walkers @ great american music hall [12/10]
feb 7 2010 ∞
feb 7 2010 +