5. MOVIES
2003: 23 2004: 34 2005: 23 2006: 27 2007: 10 2008: 12 2009:13 2010: 11 2011: 19 2012: 23
2003-02-02: The Hours 2011-12-03: The Closet and Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead
2003-02-07: Chicago 2011-12-21: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2003-02-14: Chocolate 2011-12-27: Inherit the Wind
2003-04-14: Trembling Before G-d 2012-01-02: My Week with Marilyn
2003-06-28: L'Auberge Espagnole 2012-01-08: Gen Silent
2003-06-30: Spellbound 2012-01-13: Joyful Noise
2003-07-01: Lawless Heart 2012-01-23: The Usual Suspects
2003-08-06: Life on Christopher St., The Gift 2012-02-04: J. Edgar
2003-08-07: My Own Best Friend & Tranny Brigade (Shorts) 2012-02-05: Shame
2003-08-08: Gender Euphoria & No Dumb Questions 2012-02-11: Jane Eyre
2003-08-09: The Trip, Eden's Curve, & Alma Mater 2012-04-08: Sabrina, The Iron Lady
2003-08-10: Summer Thunder, Eli Parker's Getting Married, Foxhole 2012-04-15: Blue Like Jazz
2003-08-22: Strictly Ballroom 2012-05-16: The Eyes of Tammy Faye
2003-08-31: Dirty Pretty Thing 2012-06-04: Hollywood to Dollywood and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2003-09-01: Amelie 2012-07-17: What's Up Doc?
2003-09-04: Family Fundamentals 2012-08-12: The Owl and the Pussycat and Yentl
2003-09-25: Chuck & Buck 2012-08-19: The Hunger Games & Dark Shadows
2003-10-10: Intolerable Cruelty 2012-08-27: Gosford Park
2003-10-29: Meeting the Parents 2012-09-15: Sleepwalk With Me
2004-01-24: Cold Mountain 2012-11-08: Funny Girl
2004-01-27: (Half of) Big Fish 2012-11-10: Hope Springs
2004-02-27: Monster 2012-11-10: Real Women Have Curves and The Dry Land
2004-03-12: Capturing the Friedman's... 2012-11-19: Hello Dolly
2004-03-20: The House of Sand and Fog 2012-12-02: Anna Karenina
2004-04-02: Foxhole & The Opposite Sex: Rene's Story 2012-12-27: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
2004-04-03: Texas Hospitality & A Certain Kind of Death 2012-12-30: The Guilt Trip
2004-04-16: The United States of Leland 2013-01-11: The Artist
2004-04-30: Girls Will Be Girls 2013-02-08: Picnic
6. THEATER
2003: 7 2004: 5 2005: 10 2006: 4 2007: 6 2008: 6 2009:12 2010: 9 2011: 4 2012: 8
2005-02-20: Miss Saigon 2009-08-06: The Turn of the Screw
2005-04-01: The Merry Widow 2009-09-17: The Italian Actress
2005-06-03: Appointment With Death 2009-09-25: Drift
2005-06-10: Tosca 2009-10-23: Blue
2005-06-19: Dial "M" for Murder 2009-11-13: Caleb Calypso and the Midnight Marauders
2005-10-04: The Producers 2009-12-17: A Trailer Park Christmas...
2005-10-05: Lion King & Wicked 2010-02-27: Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom
2005-10-06: Hairspray 2010-03-09: Wonderboy
2005-10-07: Mamma Mia! 2010-04-15: Oldest Living Confederate Widow: Her Confession
2005-12-02: Hairspray 2010-05-08: Wicked
2006-04-23: Mamma Mia! 2010-05-22: God's Ear
2006-05-12: Three Sisters 2010-06-17: Blackbird
2006-06-04: The Barber of Seville. 2010-09-25: Nearly Lear
2006-10-04: The Lion King 2010-10-07: Breadcrumbs
2007-03-23: an oak tree 2010-12-10: Oh, the Humanity!
2007-04-25: Phantom of the Opera on Broadway 2011-02-03: Nightwork
2007-04-26: The Lion King on Broadway 2011-06-23: Buddy Cop 2
2007-04-27: Deuce on Broadway 2011-10-08: Middletown
2007-04-28: Chicago on Broadway 2011-12-09: Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them
2007-05-02: Legends 2012-01-24: Memphis
2008-03-21: Josh Lozoff 2012-01-26: Dead Man's Cell Phone
2008-05-10: @ liberty 2012-05-08: “8"
2008-05-21: Monkey: Journey to the West 2012-06-17: Lettice & Lovage
2008-07-25: Cornucopia of ME 2012-07-13: 10 x 10 in the Triangle
2008-10-17: Deer Hunting with Jesus 2012-08-04: Chicago
2008-12-18: Act a Lady 2012-10-12: If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet
2009-01-15: Hungry Ghost 2012-11-30: Seventy Scenes of Halloween
2009-02-13: The Receptionist 2013-02-02: American Utopias
2013-02-21: The New Electric Ballroom
What I did: Published a blog entry for every day of my life since January 12, 2004. (9+ years now, and still running)How I did it: On LiveJournal and with perseverance.
What I learned: The things I’ve focused on in my life over the last nine years.
What I learned: The things I’ve focused on in my life over the last nine years (Highlighted)
I’ve seen 195 movies over these years. In my blog’s “Memories” section, where these movies are listed, each item links to the blog entry of the day I saw the movie, which includes a synopsis of the movie, sometimes its trailer, and my thoughts/observations/impressions about the movie.
I’ve attended the theater 71 times over these years. In my blog’s “Memories” section, where these theater entries are listed, each item links to the blog entry of the day I saw the work, which often includes a synopsis of the work, often an associated “mindmap” of it if it’s an opera, and often my thoughts/observations/impressions about the work.
Other things that I learned or that happened over the course of these nine years of blogging:Started with the intention of capturing affirmations. Eventually observed implicit affirmations along with the explicit ones. Was approached on the street by someone who followed the “buscapades” in my blog.Got a comment on a blog entry about a jury I served on 10.5 years ago from one of the victims in the crime that the trial was about.Sometimes I get behind in my entries and have to “reconstruct them.” I did a presentation about how I go about doing that at a SIGDOC Communications Conference in November 2012.