My Media Diet

In 2013, inspired by a sidebar in Alexandra Duncan's blog, I started keeping track of my own media consumption here. I've never been 100% sure of my exact purpose in doing so, but I've found it interesting and occasionally useful to have a list of the books I've read, movies I've watched, and games I've played over the past year. I strongly suspect that, in art, you are what you eat, and I can at least grasp the possibility that someone else might care too.

Anyway, here's what I've been up to:

What I'm Reading in 2015

1. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
2. Information Doesn't Want to be Free: Laws for the Internet Age, Cory Doctorow
3. 1491, Charles C. Mann
4. True Grit, Charles Portis
5. The Life of Merlin, Geoffrey of Monmouth, tr. Basil Clarke
6. I See By My Outfit, Peter S. Beagle
7. The Last Ringbearer, Kirill Yeskov, tr. Yisroel Markov
8. The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro
9. The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
10. 1493, Charles C. Mann
11. Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama, Sam Leith
12. Trigger Warning, Neil Gaiman
13. Four Queens, Nancy Goldstone

What I'm Watching in 2015

1. Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, season 1
2. Snowpiercer
3. The X-Files, season 7
4. Get Shorty
5. X-Men: Days of Future Past
6. The Grand Budapest Hotel
7. Edge of Tomorrow
8. True Grit (2010)
9. Haven, season 4
10. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
11. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
12. A Young Doctor's Notebook, season 1
13. The Walking Dead, Season 5
14. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
15. The Bletchley Circle, season 1
16. The Inside Man
17. Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
18. Fight Club
19. Star Trek: Voyager, season 1
20. Marvel's Daredevil, season 1
21. Marvel's Avengers
22. Coriolanus (2011)
23. The Babadook
24. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
25. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Folger Theatre
26. Cast Away
27. Ex Machina
28. Red Beard
29. Maggie
30. The Imitation Game
31. Mad Max: Fury Road
32. The Stand
33. Jurassic World
34. The Secret World of Arietty
35. The Lady Vanishes
36. Mr. Holmes
37. Lawrence of Arabia
38. Citizen Kane
39. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
40. Star Wars: A New Hope
41. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
42. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
43. Star Wars: The Force Awakens

What I Read in 2014

1. The Stand, Stephen King
2. A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick
3. When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead
4. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
5. Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman

What I Watched in 2014

1. Seven Samurai
2. Haven, Seasons 1 through 3
3. The King's Speech
4. Captain America: The First Avenger
5. Sense and Sensibility
6. There Will Be Blood
7. Face/Off
8. Forrest Gump
9. Reservoir Dogs
10. Sherlock, Season 3
11. House of Cards (US), Seasons 1 and 2
12. Richard III (Folger Theater)
13. The Walking Dead, Seasons 1, 2, and 4
14. The Lego Movie
15. Lincoln
16. Moon
17. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
18. Hellboy
19. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1996)
20. Godzilla (1954)
21. The Name of the Rose
22. The Secret of Kells
23. The Wind Rises
24. Howl's Moving Castle
25. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
26. In a World
27. Warm Bodies
28. Proof
29. Safety Not Guaranteed
30. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
31. Iron Man 3
32. Léon: The Professional

What I Read in 2013

1. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
2. The Wise Man's Fear, Patrick Rothfuss
3. The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear, Ralph Keyes
4. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
5. Robin Hood, J.C. Holt
6. Judo Inside Out: A Cultural Reconciliation, Geof Gleeson
7. Passage, Connie Willis
8. Sonnets From The Portuguese, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
9. Bushido: The Spirit of the Samurai, Inazo Nitobe
10. A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
11. Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs
12. The New Space Opera, Ed. Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan
13. The Thorough-Bred Poor Gentleman's Book; or, How to Live in London on £100 a Year, William Marsh
14. Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett
15. This Is How You Die, ed. Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, and David Malki !
16. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King
17. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson

What I Watched in 2013

1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Seasons 5 through 7
2. Les Misérables (2012)
3. Romeo and Juliet (1968)
4. Stand By Me
5. Downton Abbey, Seasons 1 and 2
6. The Booth at the End, Season 2
7. The Crucible (1996)
8. The Untouchables
9. Fargo
10. The Usual Suspects
11. The Great Train Robbery
12. Contagion
13. Romeo + Juliet (1996)
14. Rashomon
15. Henry V, Folger Shakespeare Theatre
16. Memento
17. Psycho
18. West Side Story
19. Sanshiro Sugata
20. Throne of Blood
21. The Men Who Stare at Goats
22. Jurassic Park
23. The Hunger Games
24. Daybreakers
25. The Great Gatsby
26. The Cabin in the Woods
27. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Seasons 2 through 4
28. The Walking Dead, Seasons 1 through 4
29. Star Trek Into Darkness
30. Man on the Moon
31. The Hobbit (1977)
32. Much Ado About Nothing (2013)
33. The Raven (2012)
34. Serenity
35. A Beautiful Mind
36. Eagles are Turning People into Horses
37. The Hidden Fortress
38. Gran Torino
39. JourneyQuest, Season 2
40. Looking for Richard
41. The Gamers: Hands of Fate
42. Willow
43. Dollhouse, Seasons 1 and 2
44. The World's End
45. Looper
46. Angel, Seasons 1 through 3
47. Ip Man
48. Beasts of the Southern Wild
49. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
50. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
51. Rebecca
52. Gravity
53. Ender's Game
54. Skyfall
55. Richard II (Royal Shakespeare Company 2013)
56. Thor
57. The Blair Witch Project
58. The Lost World: Jurassic Park
59. Haven, Season 1
60. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

What I Played in 2013

1. Mass Effect
2. Gratuitous Space Battles
3. Mass Effect 2
4. Pandemic 2
5. Dwarf Fortress
6. Gods Will Be Watching
7. Papers, Please
8. Rogue Legacy
9. FTL: Faster Than Light