mizoguchi in 2008

2008, so far, is 81% worth living.

In 2005, mizoguchi did 0 things, went 99 places, met 376 people, and consumed 3145 products.

Years: 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug

March

Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Greater Manchester — Not worth visiting
  2. Essex — Not worth visiting
  3. Dorset — Worth visiting!
  4. Staffordshire — Not worth visiting
  5. West Midlands — Not worth visiting
  6. Lincolnshire — Not worth visiting
  7. Paris — Worth visiting!
  8. Bilbao — Not worth visiting
Read:
  1. Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Travelling Players
  2. Orphans of the Storm
  3. The Travelling Players/O Thiassos
  4. Floating Clouds (Ukigumo) (1955) — Worth consuming!
  5. Cameraman's Revenge & Other Fantastic Tales
  6. The Woman of Rumour/Uwasa no Onna (by Mizoguchi) — Worth consuming!
  7. The Mother and the Law (1914, D.W. Griffith)
  8. The Sheik
  9. The Power of Nightmares by Adam Curtis — Worth consuming!
  10. Persepolis
  11. L' Arrivée d'un train à la Ciotat
  12. La Sortie des Usines Lumière à Lyon
  13. L' Homme à la tête en caoutchouc
  14. Le Melomane
  15. Le Voyage a travers l'impossible

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April

Read:
  1. Collected Poems: Yeats (Picador Books)
  2. Pride and Prejudice (Enriched Classics)
  3. Collected Poems of Ted Hughes
  4. The Odes of John Keats (Belknap Press)
  5. William Wordsworth's the Prelude (Modern Critical Interpretations)
  6. The Waste Land and Other Poems (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper)
  7. Songs of Innocence and of Experience
  8. Shakespear's Sonnets
Watched:
  1. One Hour Photo (Widescreen Edition)
  2. The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter - Criterion Collection
  3. Candyman
  4. Beauty and the Beast - The Enchanted Christmas (Special Edition)
  5. Broken Blossoms Silent Classic
  6. Portrait of Jennie
  7. Luna [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Finland ]
  8. The Sweet Hereafter
  9. Prisoner of the Mountains
  10. Bombay
  11. The Last Samurai [HD DVD]
  12. Syriana (Widescreen Edition)
  13. Two Rode Together [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Great Britain ]
  14. The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
  15. The Cook Thief, His Wife And Her Lover [PAL, Region 2, Import]

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May

Added to 43 Places:
  1. Bodnant Garden — visited about 1 month later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Snowdonia National Park — Worth visiting!
  2. Pembrokeshire Coast National Park — Worth visiting!
  3. Brecon Beacons National Park — Worth visiting!
  4. Millennium Centre — Worth visiting!
  5. Elan Valley — Worth visiting!
  6. Beddgelert — Worth visiting!
  7. St. David's Cathedral — Worth visiting!
  8. Dylan Thomas's Boathouse — Worth visiting!
  9. Devil's Bridge — Worth visiting!
  10. Conwy — Worth visiting!
  11. Worm's Head, Gower — Worth visiting!
  12. International Musical Eisteddfod — Worth visiting!
  13. Bosherston Pools, Pembrokeshire/Sir Benfro — Worth visiting!
  14. Tenby — Worth visiting!
  15. Carreg Cennen Castle — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Michelangelo Di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
  2. Rubens
  3. Elton John
  4. Jackson Pollock
  5. Joan Miro
  6. Henri Matisse
  7. Gustav Klimt
  8. Wassily Kandinsky
  9. Paul Klee
  10. Albrecht Durer
  11. Pablo Picasso
  12. Francis Bacon
  13. Cezanne
  14. Edouard Manet
  15. Hokusai
Read:
  1. The Screwtape Letters
  2. Brave New World
  3. The Moonstone (Penguin Classics)
  4. The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue (Penguin Classics)
  5. The Crucible (Penguin Plays) — Worth consuming!
  6. My Family and Other Animals
  7. If on a winter's night a traveler
  8. The Karamazov Brothers (Oxford World's Classics)
  9. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
  10. A Spell for Chameleon (Xanth Novels (Paperback)) — Worth consuming!
  11. Birthday Letters: Poems
  12. Of the Imitation of Christ (Vintage Spiritual Classics)
  13. Norwegian Wood
  14. Three Plays of Euripides: Alcestis, Medea : The Bachae
  15. A Streetcar Named Desire
Listened to:
  1. Demon Days
  2. Achtung Baby
  3. The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle — Worth consuming!
  4. The River — Worth consuming!
  5. Ten
  6. Scott 4 — Worth consuming!
  7. London Calling — Worth consuming!
  8. De Stijl
  9. A Rush of Blood to the Head
  10. Hysteria
  11. Heroes
  12. Careless Love — Worth consuming!
  13. Remain in Light
  14. Vitalogy
  15. Getz/Gilberto
Watched:
  1. Sahara
  2. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
  3. Porco Rosso
  4. Days of Thunder — Not worth consuming
  5. Catch Me If You Can (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
  6. And Now For Something Completely Different
  7. What's New Pussycat
  8. Singles
  9. Tin Cup
  10. Hum Aapke Hain Koun...!
  11. Joe Versus the Volcano — Not worth consuming
  12. The Bride With White Hair
  13. Scaramouche
  14. The Experiment
  15. The Bad News Bears
Consumed:
  1. Chocolate
  2. Pancakes
  3. Pizza
  4. Chinese food
Consumed:
  1. Happiness is a Warm Gun (song)
  2. Rain (song)
  3. Paperback Writer (single)
  4. Drive my Car (single)
  5. Taxman (song) — Not worth consuming
  6. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (song)
  7. Birthday (song)
  8. WarGames
  9. The Vampire Lovers
  10. From Russia with Love
  11. Carrie
  12. The Silence of the Lambs
  13. You Only Live Twice
  14. Breathless (1983)
  15. Long Day Closes

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June

Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Salzburg
  2. Lugano
  3. Grenada — Worth visiting!
  4. Toronto
  5. Picos De Europa — Worth visiting!
  6. Matterhorn
  7. Madeira — Worth visiting!
  8. Douro — Worth visiting!
  9. Alto Douro Wine Region — Worth visiting!
  10. Llanfair
  11. Bodnant Garden — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Wes Anderson
  2. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
  3. Gabriel García Márquez
  4. Alejandro Amenábar
  5. Michel Gondry
  6. Peter Jackson
  7. Hal Hartley
  8. Luc Besson
  9. Pablo Neruda
  10. Lasse Hallstrom
  11. Cameron Crowe
  12. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  13. Michael Moore
  14. Mel Gibson
  15. M. Night Shyamalan
Read:
  1. The Snow Leopard (Classic, Nature, Penguin) — Worth consuming!
  2. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 — Worth consuming!
  3. The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics)
  4. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  5. To the Lighthouse
  6. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
  7. Candide, Zadig, and Selected Stories (Signet Classics)
  8. Siddhartha — Worth consuming!
  9. Confessions of Zeno
  10. The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated
  11. Tender Is the Night
  12. The Gormenghast Novels
  13. The Hungry Tide — Worth consuming!
  14. The Works of William Wordsworth (Wordsworth Collection) (Wordsworth Collection)
  15. Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Sticky Fingers
  2. My Way: The Best of Frank Sinatra — Worth consuming!
  3. Chutes Too Narrow
  4. Hopes and Fears
  5. Ágætis Byrjun
  6. ( )
  7. Yanqui U.X.O.
  8. Amelie: Original Soundtrack Recording
  9. Hunky Dory
  10. Like a Prayer
  11. Music for the Jilted Generation
  12. One Love: The Very Best of Bob Marley & the Wailers
  13. Marquee Moon
  14. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
  15. Push It — Not worth consuming
Watched:
  1. Badlands — Worth consuming!
  2. Shaun of the Dead — Not worth consuming
  3. Venus in Furs — Not worth consuming
  4. Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
  5. Monty Python's Life of Brian - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  6. Onibaba - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  7. Neon Genesis Evangelion - The End of Evangelion
  8. Le Placard (Orignal French Version - NO English Options)
  9. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Criterion Collection
  10. Girlfight
  11. La Notte — Worth consuming!
  12. The Eye
  13. The Complete Monterey Pop Festival - Criterion Collection
  14. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
  15. Tea With Mussolini
Consumed:
  1. Apple Crumble
  2. Escargot
  3. Cornish Pasty — Worth consuming!
  4. marmite — Worth consuming!
  5. shepherd's pie — Worth consuming!
  6. Garlic — Worth consuming!
  7. Quail
  8. Rabbit
  9. Frog Legs
  10. Ostrich meat
  11. Black Pudding
  12. Spam — Not worth consuming
  13. Tripe — Not worth consuming
  14. Chicken Tikka Masala — Worth consuming!
  15. Summer Pudding — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. The Ascent of Man
  2. The Simpsons
  3. Pennies From Heaven
  4. The Prisoner
  5. Who Wants to be a Millionare — Not worth consuming
  6. Only Fools and Horses — Worth consuming!
  7. Yes, Minister — Not worth consuming
  8. Father Ted
  9. Fawlty Towers — Worth consuming!
  10. Monty Python's Flying Circus — Worth consuming!
  11. Horse Thief
  12. Cracker
  13. Get It On- T Rex — Worth consuming!
  14. Mastermind
  15. Paint It Black - The Rolling Stones (single)

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July

Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Spain — Worth visiting!
  2. Saint Lucia — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Mark Twain
  2. Umberto Eco
  3. C. S. Lewis
  4. William Shakespeare
  5. Jerome David Salinger
  6. Aldous Huxley
  7. Margaret Atwood
  8. Fyodor Dostoevsky
  9. Edgar Allen Poe
  10. Jane Austen
  11. Jonathan Swift
  12. Vladimir Nabokov
  13. George Marshall
  14. Jorge Luis Borges
  15. Virginia Woolf
Read:
  1. The Analects (Penguin Classics)
  2. All Creatures Great and Small
  3. Brideshead Revisited — Not worth consuming
  4. Zeno's Conscience: A Novel
  5. The Big Sleep — Worth consuming!
  6. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  7. The Cherry Orchard (Dover Thrift Editions)
  8. Lady Chatterley's Lover
  9. The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories
  10. Dead Souls: A Novel
  11. Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
  12. The Caretaker and the Dumb Waiter
  13. The Gardens of Light (Interlink World Fiction)
  14. Idiot (Wordsworth Collection)
  15. Macbeth (Arden Shakespeare: Second Series) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. (What's The Story) Morning Glory? — Not worth consuming
  2. The Beatles 1
  3. The Shape of Jazz to Come
  4. Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Vol. 1-2
  5. Talk On Corners [Special Edition]
  6. Slanted & Enchanted
  7. Surfer Rosa
  8. Suede
  9. Eagles - Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975
  10. Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
  11. Court and Spark
  12. Berlin — Not worth consuming
  13. Dog Man Star
  14. Performance and Cocktails
  15. Say Hello Wave Goodbye
Watched:
  1. Goldeneye (Special Edition) — Not worth consuming
  2. High Fidelity
  3. Snatch (Special Edition) — Not worth consuming
  4. Ballad of a Soldier - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  5. Super Size Me
  6. Donnie Darko - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Not worth consuming
  7. Kinsey
  8. Black Hawk Down — Not worth consuming
  9. Team America - World Police (Special Collector's Widescreen Edition)
  10. Blast From the Past — Not worth consuming
  11. Guys and Dolls — Not worth consuming
  12. Die Hard - The Ultimate Collection — Not worth consuming
  13. Dante's Peak
  14. Meet the Fockers/Meet the Parents
  15. The Field
Consumed:
  1. Japanese Cuisine
  2. Turkish Cuisine
  3. Indian Cuisine
  4. Italian Cuisine
  5. Vietnamese Cuisine
  6. Spanish Cuisine
  7. German Cuisine
  8. French Cuisine
  9. Moroccan Cuisine — Worth consuming!
  10. English food
  11. Scottish food
  12. Austrian Cuisine
  13. Canadian Cuisine
  14. Portugese Food — Worth consuming!
  15. Swedish Cuisine — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Man, I Feel Like A Woman - Shania Twain (song)
  2. heroin - the velvet underground (song)
  3. The Golden Girls
  4. I Can't Help Myself [Sugar Pie Honey Bunch] (single)
  5. Are You Being Served?
  6. The Eagles - Hotel California (song)
  7. Police - Roxanne
  8. When the Levee Breaks (song) — Worth consuming!
  9. Michelle - The Beatles (album cut) — Not worth consuming
  10. My Sharona - The Knack (single) — Not worth consuming
  11. Another One Bites the Dust (single)
  12. In the Heat of the Night
  13. Red River
  14. Bond: View to a Kill — Not worth consuming
  15. The Gambler - Kenny Rogers (single) — Not worth consuming

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August

Read:
  1. A House for Mr. Biswas
  2. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle — Worth consuming!
  3. South of the Border, West of the Sun
  4. Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)
  5. The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World — Worth consuming!
  6. The Iliad and The Odyssey (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)
  7. Aeneid
  8. Kokoro (Dover Books on Literature & Drama)
  9. Les Liasons Dangereuses — Worth consuming!
  10. Don Quixote: History and Adventures
  11. Confessions of Zeno (Penguin Modern Classics)
  12. Odes (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)
  13. Five Great Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) — Worth consuming!
  14. The Prophet (Wordsworth Classics)
  15. A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (Contemporary Fiction, Plume) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. King Kong
  2. Five Leaves Left
  3. Kingdom of Heaven
Watched:
  1. Foolish Wives — Worth consuming!
  2. Lonesome (1928) — Worth consuming!
  3. Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
  4. All the Real Girls
  5. Sisters - Criterion Collection
  6. The Sword of Doom - Criterion Collection
  7. Lord Love a Duck
  8. The Best of Youth
  9. Baisers Voles (Original French Version with English Subtitles)
  10. Foolish Wives — Worth consuming!
  11. Kurosawa
  12. The Seventh Seal
  13. The Sword of Doom
  14. Buena Vista Social Club
  15. Lady for a Day
Consumed:
  1. Lady for a Day

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