qatesiurade in 2008

2008, so far, is 98% worth living.

In 2005, qatesiurade did 9 things, went 0 places, met 0 people, and consumed 252 products.

Years: 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug

January

Read:
  1. Complete Novels: Red Harvest / The Dain Curse / The Maltese Falcon / The Glass Key / The Thin Man (Library of America) — Worth consuming!
  2. The City of Dreaming Books — Worth consuming!

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February

Read:
  1. Manifold: Time — Worth consuming!
  2. Evolution — Worth consuming!
  3. Chasm City — Worth consuming!
  4. Radio Free Albemuth — Worth consuming!
  5. The Stone Canal: A Novel (Fall Revolution) — Worth consuming!
  6. Absolution Gap — Worth consuming!
  7. The Final Solution: A Story Of Detection — Worth consuming!
  8. The Siege of Eternity (Eschaton) — Worth consuming!
  9. Schismatrix — Worth consuming!
  10. The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad — Worth consuming!
  11. Far Shore of Time — Worth consuming!
  12. Vathek (Nonsuch Classics Series) — Worth consuming!
  13. Apocalypse Now Redux — Worth consuming!
  14. Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s: The Man in the High Castle / The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Ubik — Worth consuming!
  15. Revelation Space — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Birth of the Cool — Worth consuming!
  2. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / James, Lewis, Baker, Herincx — Worth consuming!
  3. Tom Waits — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Bottle Rocket — Worth consuming!
  2. Stage Beauty — Worth consuming!
  3. F for Fake - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  4. The American Friend — Worth consuming!
  5. Hammett — Worth consuming!
  6. La Jetee/Sans Soleil — Worth consuming!
  7. Pitfall - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  8. Woman in the Dunes - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  9. There Will be Blood
  10. Sunshine — Worth consuming!
  11. Becoming Jane
  12. The Darjeeling Limited — Worth consuming!
  13. No Country for Old Men — Worth consuming!

→ See more from February

March

Read:
  1. We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy--And the World's Getting Worse — Worth consuming!
  2. Life of Pi — Worth consuming!
  3. The Cassini Division — Worth consuming!
  4. Manifold: Space (Manifold (Paperback)) — Worth consuming!
  5. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time — Not worth consuming
  6. Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color — Worth consuming!
  7. Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron — Worth consuming!
  8. Learning the World: a Scientific Romance — Worth consuming!
  9. The Power of Art — Worth consuming!
  10. Villa Incognito — Worth consuming!
  11. Anansi Boys — Worth consuming!
  12. In Defense of Food — Worth consuming!
  13. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court — Worth consuming!
  14. Darkmans — Worth consuming!
  15. Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Silent Running — Worth consuming!
  2. Oldboy — Worth consuming!
  3. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room — Worth consuming!
  4. The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993 — Worth consuming!
  5. The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer — Worth consuming!
  6. Attack the Gas Station — Worth consuming!
  7. The Complete Mr. Arkadin (aka Confidential Report) - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  8. Helvetica — Worth consuming!
  9. The Face Of Another - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  10. Simon Schama's Power of Art — Worth consuming!
  11. Paprika — Worth consuming!
  12. Eastern Promises (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  13. Be Kind, Rewind — Worth consuming!
  14. Origin: Spirits of the Past - Special Edition — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Serial Experiments Lain — Worth consuming!

→ See more from March

April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Play the indie game Shab-al-Hiri Roach
  2. write a novel that doesn't suck
  3. Learn enough Russian to be useful
  4. Speak better Mandarin Chinese
  5. Travel on a freighter
  6. Buy a cool bicycle — completed about 1 month later
  7. rearrange my living room — completed about 1 month later
  8. Find a house to rent
  9. Go to a Ween concert
  10. Attend a taping of Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me! — completed about 1 month later
  11. Become a kickass GM
  12. Run a successful Deadlands campaign
  13. Make a movie
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Organize my kitchen — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. Cryptonomicon — Worth consuming!
  2. Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) — Worth consuming!
  3. What's Bred in the Bone (Cornish Trilogy) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Salterton Trilogy — Worth consuming!
  5. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition — Worth consuming!
  6. Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  7. Baudolino — Worth consuming!
  8. Vurt — Worth consuming!
  9. Declare — Worth consuming!
  10. The Anubis Gates — Worth consuming!
  11. Neuromancer — Worth consuming!
  12. Neuromancer — Worth consuming!
  13. Pollen — Worth consuming!
  14. Pollen — Worth consuming!
  15. Automated Alice — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Ear Candy — Worth consuming!
  2. King's X — Worth consuming!
  3. Manic Moonlight — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Network — Worth consuming!
  2. Dead Man — Worth consuming!
  3. The Draughtsman's Contract — Worth consuming!
  4. Chungking Express — Worth consuming!
  5. Last Life in the Universe — Worth consuming!
  6. The Pillow Book — Worth consuming!
  7. My Brilliant Career — Worth consuming!
  8. A History of Violence (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
  9. A Zed & Two Noughts — Worth consuming!
  10. Drowning by Numbers — Worth consuming!
  11. The Vanishing — Worth consuming!
  12. Tampopo — Worth consuming!
  13. The Prestige — Not worth consuming
  14. Vertical Features Remake — Worth consuming!
  15. The Tudors - Season 1 — Worth consuming!

→ See more from April

May

Read:
  1. Time Out of Joint (Vintage) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer — Worth consuming!
  3. The Divine Invasion — Worth consuming!
  4. Valis — Worth consuming!
  5. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch — Worth consuming!
  6. The Man in the High Castle — Worth consuming!
  7. Missile Gap — Worth consuming!
  8. Castleview — Worth consuming!
  9. I Am Alive And You Are Dead. A Journey Into The Mind Of Philip K. Dick — Worth consuming!
  10. MISSILE GAP — Worth consuming!
  11. The War Nerd — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. OK Computer — Worth consuming!
  2. Kid A — Worth consuming!
  3. Amnesiac — Worth consuming!
  4. Hot Rats — Worth consuming!
  5. The Mollusk — Worth consuming!
  6. Tear the Roof Off 1974-1980 — Worth consuming!
  7. Weasels Ripped My Flesh
  8. Lumpy Gravy — Worth consuming!
  9. Essential Purcell — Worth consuming!
  10. Stampede — Worth consuming!
  11. Smackmelon — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Waking Life — Worth consuming!
  2. Connie And Carla (Widescreen Edition)
  3. Notebook on Cities and Clothes — Worth consuming!
  4. Blue Seed - Descent Into Terror (Vol. 2) — Worth consuming!
  5. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
  6. A Scanner Darkly — Worth consuming!
  7. Iron Man — Worth consuming!
  8. Battlestar Galactica - Season Three — Worth consuming!

→ See more from May

June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Generate a great session for the next Chicago Game Day
  2. Start a Paranoia (RPG) campaign
  3. Win a Friday Night Magic tournament
  4. make a game
  5. ride my bike to work
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Buy a cool bicycle — Worth doing!
  2. rearrange my living room — Worth doing!
  3. Attend a taping of Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me! — Worth doing!
  4. spend an entire day watching the extended version of all three Lord of the Rings movies back-to-back-to-back — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Learn enough Russian to be useful
Read:
  1. On the Road (Penguin Classics)
  2. Foucault's Pendulum — Worth consuming!
  3. Finder: Sin-Eater, vol. 1 (Finder) (Finder) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Wild Wood — Worth consuming!
  5. Galactic Patrol (The Lensman Series, Book 3) — Worth consuming!
  6. The Knight: Book One of The Wizard Knight — Worth consuming!
  7. Comrades!: A History of World Communism
  8. The Wizard: Book Two of The Wizard Knight — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Nightmoves — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Cold Equations — Worth consuming!
  2. Gamerz (Ws Col Sub Dol) — Worth consuming!
  3. Death Note - Vol. 1 — Worth consuming!
  4. Youth Without Youth — Worth consuming!
  5. The Lathe of Heaven — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Arkham Horror — Worth consuming!

→ See more from June

July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. publish a short story
  2. meet a single gamer guy my own age
  3. lose 80 pounds
  4. Read something by every Nobel laureate for literature
  5. list 25 literary characters I'd want in my corner Just In Case..."
  6. learn the constellations
  7. write an hour a day
  8. win nanowrimo (again)
  9. Go spielunking
  10. Go skydiving
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. learn Latin
  2. give up television for a month
  3. ride in a hot air balloon — Worth doing!
  4. learn how to play mahjong — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' (New Sun) — Worth consuming!
  2. Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' (New Sun) — Worth consuming!
  3. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid — Worth consuming!
  4. Fables Vol. 1: Legends in Exile — Worth consuming!
  5. The Urth of the New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun' (New Sun) — Worth consuming!
  6. Ex Machina Vol. 1: The First Hundred Days — Worth consuming!
  7. Ex Machina
  8. McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld — Worth consuming!
  9. Spook Country — Worth consuming!
  10. The Happiest Man Alive — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Commercial Album: 25th Anniversary Special Edition — Worth consuming!
  2. Real Gone — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Equilibrium — Worth consuming!
  2. Russian Ark: The Masterworks Edition — Worth consuming!
  3. The Machinist — Worth consuming!
  4. Marathon Man — Worth consuming!
  5. Gorky Park
  6. The Early Films of Peter Greenaway: The Falls — Worth consuming!
  7. Uzumaki — Worth consuming!
  8. The Falls — Worth consuming!
  9. Slipstream (2007) — Worth consuming!
  10. The Dark Knight — Worth consuming!
  11. Hellboy II: The Golden Army [Theatrical Release] — Worth consuming!

→ See more from July

August

Read:
  1. The Trial — Worth consuming!
  2. The Man Who Folded Himself — Worth consuming!
  3. I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick — Worth consuming!
  4. Life of Pi — Worth consuming!
  5. Martian Time-slip (Millennium SF Masterworks S) — Worth consuming!
  6. The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur (Myths, The)
  7. The Yiddish Policemen's Union
  8. The Dying Earth — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. eXistenZ — Worth consuming!
  2. The 4400 - The Complete First Season — Worth consuming!
  3. Tristram Shandy - A Cock and Bull Story — Worth consuming!
  4. The 4400 - The Complete Second Season — Worth consuming!
  5. Perceval le Gallois
  6. The 4400 - The Complete Third Season — Worth consuming!
  7. Tropic Thunder — Worth consuming!
  8. 4400: Complete Fourth Season (4pc) (Ws Ac3 Dol)
  9. Mamma Mia! — Worth consuming!
  10. Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog — Worth consuming!
  11. The X Files: I Want to Believe

→ See more from August


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