2010 Penn

Here is my year-end for 2010

I saw 11 movies in the theater this year, 6 Fewer than last year My favorites (in the order I saw them):

Iron Man 2
Toy Story 3
Look, the TV Show - (First 4 episodes, I saw them in a theater)
Catfish

I put video, broadcast DVD, and TiVo, together. I saw 52 video things (4 fewer than last year). Here are the ones I liked in the order I saw them:

Land of the Dead
The Crazies
Saturday Night Fever
Last Summer
Six Degrees of Separation
Falling Down
To Kill a Mockingbird
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
Look! (The best movie of the past 20 years!)
My Best Fiend
Deliverance
Black Dynamite
Moon
The Informant
Vincent and Theo
Compulsion
The Square
Dead Set
The Dark Knight
Kick Ass
Lethal Weapon
American Werewolf in London
Rec
Look, the TV Series (Wow, just the greatest. Adam Rifkin, can't be beat)
Wild Things
I Love you, Phillip Morris

I saw 3 bands (4 fewer than last year) and my favorites were:

George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic
Nicolas Payton Sextet

I saw 2 comedy shows in 2010 (4 fewer than last year). My favorites:

Tim Minchin and his Orchestra
Nine lessons and Carols for Godless People

I saw 3 magic shows in 2010 (One more than last year). My favorites:

Shoot Ugawa
Lance Burton

I saw 9 plays (5 more than last year). My favorites:

Sondheim on Sondheim
Mary Poppins
Ghost Stories
Play Dead
Tim Minchin and his Orchestra
Hamlet
Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People
King Lear

I saw 6 Vegas shows in 2010 (10 fewer than last year). My favorites were:

Walking with Dinosaurs
Clark County Fair and Rodeo
George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic
Lance Burton
Circus Vargas

My book list is less complete, I mix up audio books and iPad. I guess I read about 18 which is 6 more than last year. With the IPad, I have a lot more books going at once, so there are a lot that I'm loving that aren't on the list yet.

The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editin Film (Michael Ondaatje)
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Rickles' Book: A Memoir (Don Rickles, David Ritz)
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 Billion Year History of the Human Body (Neil Shubin)
The Ways of Boys: Raising Healthy Boys in a Challenging and Complex World - (Anthony Rao, Michelle Seaton)
The Bedwetter, Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee - Sarah Silverman
Some Grils, My life in a Harem - Jillian Lauren - (Hey, I'm in it!)
Rubber Balls and Liquor - Gilbert Gottfried
Hitch 22 0 Christopher Hitchens
Human Smoke - Nicholson Baker (mind blowing - life changing)
The Yellos House; Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulen Weeks in Arles - Martin Gayford
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
Packing for Mars - Mary Roach
Room - Emma Donoghue (Wow)
Was this Man a Genius? - Julie Hecht
The Moral Landscape, How Science Can Determine Human Values - Sam Harris
First Draft (Frosty?) - Eddie Gorodetsky

Penn

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