spiegalr in 2008

2008, so far, is 82% worth living.

In 2005, spiegalr did 60 things, went 24 places, met 0 people, and consumed 1100 products.

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

April

Listened to:
  1. Demon Days — Worth consuming!

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Read more books
  2. procrastinate less
  3. Visit Japan
  4. become a minimalist
  5. Watch 1000 movies
  6. Have my first kiss
  7. Go to an anime convention.
  8. be intelligent
  9. watch the imdb 250
  10. Read all Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
  11. graduate high school
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. go on a cruise
  2. find a four leaf clover
  3. see the northern lights
  4. Build a snowman
  5. ride a motorcycle
  6. go camping
  7. make a snow angel
  8. climb a mountain
  9. fly a kite
  10. complete a 1000 piece puzzle
  11. learn to drive
  12. Have a water balloon fight
  13. Donate old clothes to charity
  14. ride an elephant
  15. experience a white christmas
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Montana
  2. British Columbia
  3. Germany — Worth visiting!
  4. Switzerland — Worth visiting!
  5. Austria — Worth visiting!
  6. California — Worth visiting!
  7. Indiana Jones Adventure
  8. Jungle Cruise
  9. Tarzan's Treehouse
  10. Tiki Juice Bar
  11. Splash Mountain
  12. The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh
  13. Snow White's Scary Adventure
  14. Haunted Mansion
  15. Colorado
Read:
  1. Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel — Not worth consuming
  2. The Chronicles of Narnia
  3. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Full-Color Collector's Edition)
  4. Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition)
  5. The Little Prince — Worth consuming!
  6. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford World's Classics)
  7. The Hobbit — Worth consuming!
  8. Fahrenheit 451 — Worth consuming!
  9. After the Quake: Stories — Worth consuming!
  10. Sputnik Sweetheart — Not worth consuming
  11. American Gods — Not worth consuming
  12. Breakfast of Champions — Not worth consuming
  13. Lord of the Flies
  14. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) — Worth consuming!
  15. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5)
Listened to:
  1. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness — Worth consuming!
  2. Ten — Worth consuming!
  3. Led Zeppelin II — Worth consuming!
  4. Tim — Not worth consuming
  5. Jagged Little Pill
  6. OK Computer — Worth consuming!
  7. Weezer (Blue Album)
  8. London Calling
  9. A Rush of Blood to the Head
  10. Give Up
  11. Hail To The Thief
  12. Chutes Too Narrow
  13. The Moon & Antarctica
  14. Funeral
  15. American Idiot
Watched:
  1. Spirited Away — Worth consuming!
  2. Blade Runner (The Director's Cut) — Worth consuming!
  3. Beetlejuice
  4. Sense and Sensibility
  5. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  6. Mission - Impossible (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. The Wizard of Oz
  8. Grease (Widescreen Edition)
  9. The Lion King (Disney Special Platinum Edition)
  10. Star Wars Trilogy (Widescreen Edition with Bonus Disc)
  11. Toy Story
  12. Spider-Man (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
  13. Finding Nemo (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
  14. Spider-Man 2 (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
  15. The Incredibles (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Consumed:
  1. Sushi — Worth consuming!
  2. Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
  3. Chocolate — Worth consuming!
  4. Cheesecake — Worth consuming!
  5. Kebab
  6. Pasta
  7. Steak
  8. Cottage Cheese
  9. Pancakes
  10. Fresh fish
  11. Lobster
  12. Thai Cuisine — Worth consuming!
  13. Ice cream
  14. Curry
  15. Prawns
Consumed:
  1. Azumanga Daioh
  2. Bourgeois
  3. Lurid
  4. Ubiquitous
  5. angst
  6. antidote
  7. avant-garde
  8. baroque
  9. bona fide
  10. bravado
  11. brusque
  12. byzantine
  13. caustic
  14. charisma
  15. cloying

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June

Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Los Angeles
Read:
  1. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (If You Give...)
  2. The Missing Piece Meets the Big O 25th Anniversary Edition
  3. Little House on the Prairie
  4. James and the Giant Peach
  5. The BFG
  6. Matilda
  7. The Twits
  8. The Princess Diaries (The Princess Diaries, Vol. 1)
  9. Are You My Mother?
  10. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
  11. The Polar Express
  12. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2)
  13. Number the Stars (Laurel Leaf Books)
  14. Holes (Yearling Newbery)
  15. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)
Listened to:
  1. LCD Soundsystem
  2. The Bends — Worth consuming!
  3. The Beatles (The White Album) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Fragile
  5. Is This It — Worth consuming!
  6. Absolution — Worth consuming!
  7. Franz Ferdinand
  8. The Beatles 1
  9. Dark Side Of The Moon
  10. Selected Ambient Works 85-92
  11. Music for the Jilted Generation
  12. ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits
  13. Showbiz
  14. Parklife — Worth consuming!
  15. Modern Life Is Rubbish — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. James and the Giant Peach (Special Edition)
  2. The Matrix — Worth consuming!
  3. The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. Star Wars - Episode I, The Phantom Menace (Widescreen Edition)
  5. High Fidelity — Worth consuming!
  6. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Harry Potter 1)
  7. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon — Worth consuming!
  8. Shrek (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  9. Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  10. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Harry Potter 3)
  11. Anchorman - The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (Unrated Widescreen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  12. Collateral (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  13. National Treasure (Widescreen Edition)
  14. Napoleon Dynamite — Worth consuming!
  15. Sweet Home Alabama — Not worth consuming
Consumed:
  1. Apple Crumble — Worth consuming!
  2. apple
  3. potato pancakes — Worth consuming!
  4. Cherries — Worth consuming!
  5. popcorn — Worth consuming!
  6. Broccoli — Worth consuming!
  7. Ritz Crackers
  8. muesli — Worth consuming!
  9. meatless chicken nuggets
  10. cupcakes — Worth consuming!
  11. Miso soup — Worth consuming!
  12. Grilled cheese sandwich — Worth consuming!
  13. quiche — Worth consuming!
  14. Gouda — Worth consuming!
  15. Chow mein — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Good Vibrations (single)
  2. All Along the Watchtower (song) [1968]
  3. Born to Be Wild (single)
  4. Bridge Over Troubled Water (single)
  5. California Dreamin' - The Mamas and the Papas (single)
  6. Chain of Fools - Aretha Franklin (single)
  7. Crazy (single)
  8. Crying (single)
  9. Dancing in the Street (single)
  10. Eleanor Rigby (single)
  11. Great Balls of Fire (single)
  12. The Great Pretender (single)
  13. Hey Jude (single)
  14. I Fall to Pieces (single)
  15. I Heard it Through the Grapevine (single)

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July

Read:
  1. The Outsiders
  2. The Samurai's Garden: A Novel — Not worth consuming
  3. The Catcher in the Rye
  4. Epileptic
  5. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood — Worth consuming!
  6. The Martian Chronicles (The Grand Master Editions) — Worth consuming!
  7. The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1)
  8. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes — Worth consuming!
  9. The Complete Peanuts 1950-1954 Boxed Set
  10. YOTSUBA&! Volume 1 (Yotsubato (Graphic Novels))
  11. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth — Worth consuming!
  12. Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture, Volume 1
  13. Brave New World
  14. Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Vol. 1 — Worth consuming!
  15. The Illustrated Man — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Elephant — Worth consuming!
  2. In Absentia — Worth consuming!
  3. The Singles — Worth consuming!
  4. Kid A — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. 2001 - A Space Odyssey
  2. Princess Mononoke — Worth consuming!
  3. Amadeus - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Hidden Fortress - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  5. Amadeus — Worth consuming!
  6. Spice World
  7. Ace Ventura - When Nature Calls
  8. Lost in Space (New Line Platinum Series) — Not worth consuming
  9. The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
  10. Pokemon the First Movie - Mewtwo vs. Mew
  11. Jaws (30th Anniversary Edition)
  12. Horatio Hornblower Collector's Edition
  13. The Dark Knight — Worth consuming!
  14. 2001 - A Space Odyssey (Two-Disc Special Edition)
  15. The Dark Knight — Worth consuming!

→ See more from July

August

Read:
  1. Brave New World
  2. Catherine, Called Birdy (rpkg) (Trophy Newbery)
  3. Trial, The
  4. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
  5. J.R.R. Tolkien Boxed Set (The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings)
  6. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Worth consuming!
  7. Sputnik Sweetheart — Worth consuming!
  8. The Phantom Tollbooth — Worth consuming!
  9. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)
  10. Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
  11. Foundation (Foundation Novels (Paperback))
  12. The Elephant Vanishes: Stories — Worth consuming!
  13. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Omnibus): The Fellowship of the Ring, the Two Towers, The Return of the King
  14. Batman: Year One — Worth consuming!
  15. A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive
Listened to:
  1. White Blood Cells — Worth consuming!
  2. Come Away with Me — Not worth consuming
  3. Feels Like Home — Not worth consuming
  4. Guero
  5. Moulin Rouge — Worth consuming!
  6. Monkey Business — Not worth consuming
  7. Meteora — Not worth consuming
  8. The Definitive Collection
  9. My Iron Lung EP
  10. Appleseed — Worth consuming!
  11. In Rainbows
  12. One Day As A Lion — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Empire of the Sun — Worth consuming!
  2. Arrested Development - Season One — Worth consuming!
  3. Family Guy, Vol. 2 (Season 3)
  4. Mr. Bean - The Whole Bean (Complete Set) — Worth consuming!
  5. Riding in Cars with Boys (Special Edition)
  6. Arrested Development - Season Two — Worth consuming!
  7. Les Miserables
  8. Nanny McPhee
  9. The Office - Season One
  10. Ikiru - Criterion Collection
  11. Newsies (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  12. American Idol - The Search For A Superstar (includes "The Making Of An American Idol") — Not worth consuming
  13. Sabrina: The Teenage Witch
  14. Master Keaton - Excavation (Vol. 1) — Worth consuming!
  15. Cast Away (Widescreen Edition)
Consumed:
  1. The Office (US)

→ See more from August


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