2003 year-end lists

[magid]

I have a love of lists. Usually I keep them to myself, all those to do lists, menus (I don't put them all here, really :-), projects, ingredients, supplies, you name it. So I decided to make some 2003 lists. Of course, This is only a small part of what the year has been, leaving out so many interesting experiences, but it's an easily quantifiable part. So, just in case this is of interest to anyone not-me, here are some 2003 lists.

This year I have seen eighteen movies, which I think is far more than last year (helped along rather substantially by seeing five in the last week).

• Rivers and Tides
  
• Bend It Like Beckham
  
• Monsters, Inc.
  
• Passionada
  
• Shakespeare in Love
  
• The Dark Crystal
  
• Good Morning, Vietnam
  
• Monsoon Wedding
  
• Mystic River
  
• The Hebrew Hammer
  
• The Thomas Crown Affair
  
• It's a Wonderful Life
  
• Crush
  
• Lost in Translation
  
• The Hulk
  
• Return of the King
  
• Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights
  
• XXX

I have seen thirty-two plays.

• QED (about Richard Feynman, a staged reading)
  
• Animal Farm (the musical)
  
• 7x7 (new short works)
  
• Mummenschanz (not exactly a play, I suppose; more puppetry performance art)
  
• Lysistrata (a staged reading as part of an antiwar movement)
  
• Fafrotskies (a new one-act by Jesse Kellerman)
  
• What I Did on My Summer Vacation (another new one-act, by another playwriting grad student
  
• Sweet Inverted Princess (a senior thesis project)
  
• The Nostalgicks (six spoken word pieces about different turning points)
  
• Agamemnon and His Daughters (a variant on the classic Greek tale of his house's destruction after the fall of Troy)
  
• Chess (the musical)
  
• The Dybbuk (a retelling, as a distraction from being shipped to the camps)
  
• Veronika Vavoom, Vulcanologist (a new play, directed by a friend)
  
• Freezing Mrs. Frankenheimer (a staged reading, with feedback for the playwright)
  
• HouseBreakHeart (an intense reworking of Heartbreak House)
  
• The Death of Monsieur Lambert (a puppet opera, with subtitles)
  
• The Flames of Louvain (a first reading, with feedback for the playwright)
  
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (an outside production)
  
• Twelfth Night (another outside production)
  
• Blood Wedding (a production progressively moving through a park)
  
• Macbeth (on the Common)
  
• Othello (in Arlington)
  
• Twilight, LA, 1992 (about the riots)
  
• Antony and Cleopatra (in the round; directed by a friend)
  
• How I Learned to Drive (a comedy about disturbing topics)
  
• Blue Window (a multi-stranded one-act)
  
• Dinner With Friends (in a new theater space in Chelsea)
  
• Faust 1 (indescribable, really)
  
• don Quixote (a musical with amazing acrobatics)
  
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch (another impressive Loeb Ex production)
  
• My Life With the Kringle Kult (an anti-holiday play)
  
• Urban Nutcracker (well, a dance performance, really, but...)

I learned eleven, er, twelve new games, though I suspect I couldn't play a number of these without a bit of a refresher.

• Mu
  
• Palabra
  
• Martian Chess
  
• Aquarcassone
  
• canasta
  
• Cube Farm
  
• Nexus
  
• Steam Tunnels
  
• US Patent No. 1
  
• the Builders and Traders expansion of Carcassone
  
• Evo
  
• Killer Bunnies

I went to eight concerts.

• The Bobs (professional a cappella)
  
• Harvard Callbacks and Soundstage 7 (a cappella)
  
• MIT Techiya and Honorable Menschen (a cappella)
  
• some Malian drummers (in an Arlington park)
  
• Jim's Big Ego (local band)
  
• The Boss (local band)
  
• MIT/Wellesley Toons, Tufts Jackson Jills, and BU Terpsichore (a cappella)
  
• Rambax MIT (Senegalese drumming)

I went to five talks, in addition to a number of Writers With Drinks and story readings.

• Judith Tarr
  
• Bill Lyons
  
• Molly Ivins
  
• Sairah Shah
  
• Jeffrey Steingarten

Comments

Movies

[queue.livejournal.com]

Didn't you see Next Stop Wonderland the same night you saw The Thomas Crown Affair? Or are you only counting movies you saw for the first time?

Re: Movies

[magid.livejournal.com]

Yes, I saw both of those movies that night, but you're right, I'm only counting movies seen for the first time.