Art 2008  #
Monday, 31 Dec 2007 07:35AM
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Dec '08

Listen
[good] Supergrass, "Supergrass is 10" (Best-of)
[average] Daft Punk, "Musique Vol. 1 1993-2005"

Read
[bad] Robert A. Heinlein,"The Day After Tomorrow"
[unexplainable] Virginia Woolf, "Orlando"

Nov '08

Listen
[average] Fall Out Boy, "Infinity On High"
[good] Hot Chip, "The Warning"
[average] Silversun Pickups, "Carnavas"

[great] Keep of Kalessin, "Armada"*
[good] Shining, "V:/Halmstad"*
[good] Grand Magus, "Iron Will"*
[good] Grand Magus, "Wolf's Return"*
[average] Pestilence, "Consuming Impulse"*
[average] Agalloch, "Ashes Against The Grain"*
Mind's Eye, "Cut Snake Poetry"*
Absu, "Tara"*
Melechesh, "Sphynx"*
Ophthalamia, "Dominion"*

Watched
[good] Spartan
[average] Repo Man
[average] Death Proof
[good] Planet Terror
[great] The Fall

Read
[great] Alan Moore, "Watchmen"

Reading
Virginia Woolf, "Orlando: A Biography"

Oct '08

Gig
[good] Dragonforce @ The Forum - 25th October 2008
[average] Universum @ The Forum - 25th October 2008

Listen
[average] Einherjer, "Blot"*
[bad] Hellsongs, "Hymns In The Key Of 666"*
[average] Akercocke, "Choronzon"*
[average] Entombed, "Wolverine Blues"*
[good] Mastodon, "Blood Mountain"*
[bad] Ben Ely's Radio 5, "Transcending Reality"
[bad] SPOD, "Superfriendz"
[good] Akercocke, "Antichrist"*
[good] Quan, "Amateur"
[great] Faith No More, "Angel Dust" (2008 MoFi Remaster)

Read
[good] Greg Egan, "Incandescence"

Sep '08

Listen
[good] Metallica, "Death Magnetic"
[average] Bob Marley, "Natural Mystic"
[bad] Foo Fighters, "Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace"*
[average] Slipknot, "All Hope Is Gone"
[average] Dragonforce, "Ultra Beatdown"
[bad] Mammal, "The Majority"
[average] Metallica, "Reload"
[average] Blind Guardian, "Nightfall in Middle-Earth"
[average] The Twelveth Man, "Wired World Of Sports"

Watch
[good] Monster House

Read
[good] David Brin, "Kil'n People"
[average] Year's Best Science Fiction (1998)

Aug '08

Read
[good] Greg Egan "Schild's Ladder"

Listen
[bad] Spankrock, "YoYoYoYo"*
[bad] Santogold, "Santogold"*
[average] Shy Child, "Noise Won't Stop"*
[average] Radiohead, "In Rainbows"*
[bad] Powderfinger, "Dream Days At The Hotel Existence"
[average] Soulfly, "Conquer"
[average] Scars On Broadway, "Scars On Broadway"
[average] Queen, "News Of The World"
[average] Commodores, "Greatest Hits (1978)"
[average] Commodores, "Greatest Hits (1982)"
[average] Commodores, "Midnight Magic"
[average] Beck, "Modern Guilt"
[good] Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters Colon the Soundtrack
[good] R.E.M., "Live in London" (iTunes EP)
[average] Benjamin Ely & Stella Mozgawa, "Studio WOW! Volume One"

Watch
[good] Keating! The Musical (ABC2 broadcast 20th August)
[average] Be Kind Rewind
[bad] Day Of The Dead (2008)
[good] Jekyll (Season 1)

Jul '08

Gig
[great] Regurgitator @ East Brunswick Club - 30th July 2008
[good] SPOD @ East Brunswick Club - 30th July 2008

Listen
[average] The Police, "Reggatta de Blanc"
[average] Deep Purple, "24 Carat Purple"
[great] Secret Chiefs 3, "Xaphan: Book of Angels Volume 9"
[average] Mammal, "Mammal" (EP)
[average] Mammal, "Vol 1: The Aural Underground"
[great] Cavalera Conspiracy, "Inflikted"
[bad] Sufjan Stevens, "Michigan"

Watch
[great] Children Of Men
[great] Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
[average] Batman Begins

Jun '08

Listen
[average] Children Of Bodom, "Blooddrunk"
[great] Weezer, "Weezer" (Red)

Watch
[good] Skins (Season 2)
[average] Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
[average] The Micallef Program (Season 2)

Read
[good] Greg Egan "Teranesia"
[good] Philip K. Dick, "Ubik"
[average] Fredric Dannen, "Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business"
[great] Bryan Lee O'Malley, "Scott Pilgrim" (Vol 2 and 3)

May '08

Watch
[great] Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
[bad] Skinwalkers

Read
[great] jamie smart, "Bohda Te" (comic)

Listen
[good] Sepultura, "Chaos A.D."
[good] Sound Of Urchin, "Rejoice"
[good] Nine Inch Nails, "The Slip"
[good] Flight Of The Conchords (CD)
[good] Sepultura, "Arise"
[good] R.E.M., "Accelerate"

Apr '08

Watch
[good] Southland Tales
[great] Fido

Listen
[average] Bob Marley, "Songs Of Freedom" (4 discs)

Mar '08

Gig
[good] Ross Noble @ Melbourne Town Hall, 22nd March 2008

Watch
[good] The Prisoner (entire series, started watching months ago)
[good] Tim Minchin, "So Live"
[good] Skins (Season 1)

Listen
[good] Mike Patton, "A Perfect Place"
[average] Midnight Oil, "Bird Noises"
[good] Smashing Pumpkins, "Gish"
[average] Between the Buried and Me, "The Silent Circus"*
[average] Between the Buried and Me, "Colors"*
[good] Between the Buried and Me, "The Anatomy Of..."*

Gig
[excellent] Ween @ The Forum, 6th March 2008

Read
[average] Dead Eyes Open (Volume 1)

Feb '08

Read
[great] "World War Z", Max Brooks

Watch
[great] Shoot 'Em Up
[average] The Chummscrubber
[average] Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Listen
[good] Deep Purple, "Machine Head"
[great] Armoured Angel, "Stigmartyr"
[good] Cat Stevens, "Teaser And The Firecat"
[average] Agalloch, "Ashes Against the Grain"
[average] "The Scorched Earth Orchestra Plays Metallica's Master Of Puppets"
[bad] The Brothers Four, The Brothers Four
[average] Burt Bacharach, "Make It Easy on Yourself"
[good] Bob Marley, "Kaya"
[good] Bob Marley, "Confrontation"

Read
[good] Chris Ware, "Acme Novelty Library #18"
[good] Zombie Tales (Graphic Novel, collection)

Jan '08

Gig
[good] Big Day Out 2008 @ Flemington Racecourse

Listen
[average] Quan+Spod, "Blox"
[bad] Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (soundtrack)
[average] Primary, "This Is The Sound"
[average] Opeth, "Ghost Reveries"
[good] Arch Enemy, "Rise of the Tyrant"
[average] "Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo" (of Weezer)

Watch
[good] Regurgitator, "Band In The Bubble" DVD
[average] Lucky Number Slevin (The Wrong Man)
[great] Dexter (Season 2)
[great] Severance

Read
[good] William Gibson, "Spook Country"
[good] Bill Bryson, "Shakespeare"