2009 Recap

Yet again I kept track of all the books I read and all the movies I saw.
I did not track Theatre or TV, perhaps this year I will add those things...
Please note: I started teaching a class on Disney in 2009.

Books 2009
Picasso: Creator and Destroyer by arianna huffington
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Vol. I & II by Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill
Horse Heaven* by Jane Smiley
When You are Engulfed By Flames by David Sedaris
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
Moby Dick* by Herman Melville
Watchmen* by Alan Moore
Team Rodent by Carl Hiassin
Foucault's Pendulum* by Umberto Eco
Disney Version by Richard Schickel
The Illusion of Life by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston
Before the Animation Begins by John Canemaker
Disney Discourse by Eric Smoodin
The Magic Kingdom by Steven Watts
The Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Snow* by Orhan Pamuk
Negotiating with the Dead* by Margaret Atwood
The Disneyization of Society by Alan Bryman
Good girls and wicked witches by Amy Davis
From Mouse to Mermaid Edited by Elizabeth Bell
The Mouse that Roared by Henry A. Giroux
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
An Actor Prepares by Constantin Stanislavski
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz* by L. Frank Baum
The Iliad* by Homer Robert Fagles translation
Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl by Stacey O'Brien
Three steps on the Ladder of Writing* by Helen Cixous
The Four Quartets by TS Eliot
Little Women* by Louisa May Alcott
When Nietzsche Wept* by Irvin Yalom
Laying Ghosts to Rest: Dilemmas of the Transformation in South Africa by Mamphela Ramphele
And Then, You Act* by Anne Bogart
No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Aave the Planet and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process by Colin Beavan
Walden* by Henry David Thoreau
The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Movies 2009 (lists films I saw for the first time this year)
Rosemary's Baby* (HBO)
Cyrano* (great performances PBS)
Broadback Mountain (DVD)
27 dresses (HBO)
Love in the time of Cholera* (DVD)
The Dark Knight Rerurns (DVD)
Pinocchio* (DVD)
Enchanted (DVD)
Hercules (Disney version VHS)
Little Mermaid II: Return to the sea (DVD)
High School Musical (DVD)
Bottle Shock (DVD)
The Elephant Man (Cable)
Appaloosa (blueray)
Star Trek* (theatre - the new one)
Religilois (DVD)
Milk* (Blueray)
Taking Chance (HBO)
The Reader* (blueray)
Spirited away* (DVD)
Up* (theatre)
Underworld II (DVD)
GhostTown (DVD)
Underworld: rise of the lycans (blueray)
Synecdoche New York* (DVD)
Lion King 1 1/2 (DVD)
Onmioji (DVD)
Revolutionary Road (blueray)
The Visitor (DVD)
Mamma Mia (HBO)
Perfume, the Story of a Murderer* (DVD)
Watchman (Blueray) --- I did read the graphic novel prior to seeing the movie
Princess Mononoke * (DVD)
Coraline *(Blueray)
Angles and Demons (DVD)
Tropic Thunder (HBO)
The Wrestler* (Blueray)
Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure (DVD)
In My Country (DVD)
Amandla! A revolution in four part harmony (DVD)
Slum dog Milionaire* (HBO)
21up South Africa (DVD)
The Kite Runner (HBO)
Repo! The Genetic Opera (Blueray)
The Princess and the Frog (theatre)
Little Mermaid III: Ariel's beginning (TV - Disney Channel of course)
Cinderella II (DVD)
Wild strawberries* (DVD)
Avatar* (in the theatre! In 3D)