Miscellany
1. Thanks to everyone who sent me birthday wishes. I am shocked to see 3-0 bearing down on me. 2. Congrats to my little brother Kraig for getting engaged to Laura last Saturday. He will be the first Cole to get married and nobody’s surprised. 3. Kraig & I took the GRE on Wednesday. That [...]
Tags: Arcade Fire, GRE, Kraig, Laura, Miroir Noir, Neon Bible
Films Seen in 2008
Jan 1, 2009 movies
Below is the full list of the movies I watched for the first time in 2008. There were 127 total (roughly 1 new-to-me movie every 3 days): 61 were documentaries (48%) 35 were dramas (28%) 18 were action/thrillers (14% ) 12 were comedies (9%) First movie I saw: Juno Last movie I saw: Slumdog Millionaire [...]
Tags: documentaries
Books Read in 2008
Jan 1, 2009 philosophy, politics, reading, theology
I tried to read a book/week again, which seems very reasonable, but fell short once again. I’m about halfway through a dozen other books, which I’ll probably just finish & count for ’09. Under each category, they’re listed in the order I read them. Incidentally, the first book I read in 2008 was The Audacity [...]
Tags: 2008, anarchism, Bush, Camus, capitalism, Christianity, consumerism, existentialism, hitchhiking, liberalism, Obama, Vonnegut