Here is my year end for 2005

Movies

I saw 14 movies in the theater this year, 13 fewer than last year.

My favorites (in the order I saw them):

The Aristocrats (I agree with all the critics for a change, this is a great movie)
Land of the Dead
March of the Penguins
Good Night and Good Luck
Capote
Jesus is Magic

(those are all good movies, but not as great as some years. At least I didn't make the mistake of seeing King Kong)

I put video, broadcast, DVD, and TiVo, together.

I saw 81 video things (9 more than last and whole season of 24, CSI, and Law & Order only counted as one each, and the TiVo TV shows dont count at all - it has to be a movie if its on TV. ) heres the

Here's what I liked, in the order I saw them:

CSI - the First Season
Manhunter
Dial M for Murder
To Catch a Thief
I Shot Andy Warhol
Charms for the Easy Life
CSI - Second Season
Silence of the Lambs (Directors Commentary)
Kinky Friedman: Proud to be an Asshole from El Paso
The Usual Suspects
To Live and Die in LA - Directors Commentary
Team America
The Life of David Gale
Charles Mingus: Live at Montreux 1975
Conversing with Carlin (Aristocrats extra)
In Like Flint
Bad Influence
Fabuleux Destin dAmelie Poulain
Patriot Games
MI-5 - First Season
Final Destination 2
MI-5 Season Two
Primer
Law and Order - First Season
Law and Order - Fourteenth Season
Prime Suspect, Season 1
The Aristocrats
Wait Until Dark
Land of the Dead
The Big Kahuna
Ramones: End of the Century
E.R., Second Season
No Direction Home
House M.D., First Season
The Aristocrats (with Creators Commentary)
Penn & Teller: Off the Deep End (rough cut) (Star is Amazing)
Murder One (First Season)
24
Goldstein, The Trials of the Sultan of Smut
Im Not Gay
Down From the Mountain
The Bass Lesson
The Universal Mind of Bill Evans
Space in the Place
Murder One, Season 2
Police Squad

Yeah, looking at this list, its clear I don't watch movies for anything heavy anymore, thats for books and music. Oh well, things change. Or maybe movies just arent heavy any more.

I saw 3 bands (14 fewer than last year - a show every night, dont you know) in 2004 and my favorites were:

Travis Shred and the Good Ol Homeboys.
Barry Manilow (hey, he loves the Crats)
Sweeney Todd, (I way dont like the show, but this was a weird staging that really pushed the music and I liked Patty LaPone).

I saw 4 comedy shows in 2005 (6 fewer than last year) and my favorites:

Stan and Hunter Freberg
Billy, the Mime

I saw 2 magic performers in 2005 (14 fewer than last year) and my favorites were:

Lance Burton (Goudeau)

I saw 5 plays (7 fewer than last year). Heres the ones I liked in the order I saw them.

Love Tapes
Sweeney Todd (Patti LaPone - stark)
Billy, the Mime

I saw 11 Vegas shows in 2005 (19 fewer than each of the last 3 years), my favorites were:

Monet (art gallery)
Porno show (AVN Adult Expo)
TAM3, Christopher Hitchens
TAM3 - Richard Dawkins
Travis Shredd and the Good Old Homeboys
Barry Manilow, Music and Passion
Lance Burton (Goudeau)
Sumo Wrestling
Stan and Hunter Freberg
State Fair Convention

My book list is less complete, I read about 18 books this year and liked most of them. Thats one more than last year, but man, its still not enough. Its only a bit more than one book a month. Of course that doesnt include Moby Dick, which Im always reading and listening to in the car and magic books, that I look at specific stuff in.

Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
Mutants, On Genetic Variety and the Human Body - Armand Marie Leroi
From Bush to Bush, The Lazlo Toth Letters - Don Novello
Fugitives and Refugees - A walk in Portland, Oregon - Chuck Palahniuk
Hiding the Elephant, How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear - Jim Steinmeyer
Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
Baby Shark - Robert Bealmear
God Wants You to Roll - John Phillips III
Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk
Meanwhile Back at the Ranch - Kinky Friedman
Diary - Chuck Palahniuk
Scuse Me While I Whip This Out : Reflections on Country Singers, Presidents, and Other Troublemakers - Kinky Friedman
Shakey, Neil Youngs Biography - Jimmy McDonough
Space is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra - John F. Szwed
Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
The Biggest Game in Town - A. Alvarez
The Bob Dylan Scrapbook, 1956-1966 - Bob Dylan
The Crimson Petal and the White - Michel Faber

Penn

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