Apologies

This year has been crazy. I dropped out of University, got married, and started going to a school for Music Production/Engineering. I have 18hour days most weekdays which has left me with too few hours to keep this blog up. (I hear a New Years Resolution somewhere....)

I also for the first time had NO (zero, 0.000 , zilch) expendable income. This caused a regular dearth in record purchases, and I will shamefully admit that after 23 years of holding out against downloading...it started. As I had decided to only review albums I bought....this caused another road block for this blog.

I have in three short months come to appreciate just how much time/effort/tears/hair loss, music really does take to make and am resolving (second one this blog) to drastically reduce my internet music consumption.

Now for a brief recap of the year followed by my year end list. Hopefully.

Movies I saw this year:

NOTES:

(re) = seen before

Bold = ****+

Die Hard **** (re)

Once Upon a Time in the West **** (re)

Rambo 2 + 3 ** *

Zombieland **** (re)

Rambo 4 ***

Space Balls **

The importance of being ernest **

wall street **

The Social Network (re) ****

The New World ****

Toy Story 3 ****

sleuth (re) - ****

jonah hex *

thor **

steel magnolias ****

how to lose a guy in 10 days **

devil wears prada ***

gullivers travels *

going the distance *

tangled ***

super troopers (re) ***

Beerfest **

club dread *

harry potter 1 ** (re)

sahara *

i am legend ***

mission impossible 2 **

Mission impossible 3 **

clue **

runaway jury ***

Charlie's Angels **

the other guys **

Paul **

the slammin salmon **

wizards **

jane eyre ****

happy feet ***

gymkata ***

dr no ***

from russia with love ***

say anything ***

charade **** (re)

a serious man ***** (re)

goldfinger ***

rocky horror **

inframan ****

you only live twice **

high society ***

200 hotels **

a man for all seasons **** (re)

swing time ***

sabrina ***

all about eve ***** (re)

the revenge of the pink panther ** (re)

pirates 4 **

a room with a view ****

rudolph christmas **

Albums I Actually Purchased/Acquired by fully legal means:

NOTES:

(I know I rate out of 10, but I was lazy in my documentation so it's out of 5 less accurate than my movie scores above)

Also, all vinyl unless otherwise listed.

Michael Jackson - Thriller ***

CCR - Cosmo's Factory ****

John Coltrane & Eric Dolphy - Live ****

James Blake - James Blake **** (2011) (Digital)

The Black Keys - Brothers ** (CD)

CCR - Bayou Country ****

Outloud - Out Loud *

Aretha Franklin - Who's Zoomin' Who? *

Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom *****

Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Safe as Milk*****

Frank Zappa (The Mothers of Invention) - Freak out*****

The Doors - Totally Live****

Billy Joel - Stranger/Piano Man***/***

Residents - Not Available****

The Grateful Dead - Live Dead ***

Little Richard - Here's Little Richard ****

Mandrill - Is ***

Blindside - With Shivering Hearts We Wait ** (2011)

Colin Stetson - Those Who Didn't Run EP **** (2011)

Tom Waits - Bad As Me (2011) ***

That's a really short list...I bought that many albums in OCTOBER last year.

I must also mention that my friend Viktor's mom Larissa sent me two or three BOXES of records so I got a bunch more...but I didn't write them all down (included Neil Young, Bob Dylan, and lots of 80s stuff - Saturday Night Fever S/T?) I also got a box of old (reallllly old) Jazz LPs from my dad's godfather who's in his eighties. Pretty sweet.

next stop...Year end list.