Media Delved in the Year 2008
Same routine as the year before, although I hope to watch less anime and read more books this year.
Since the beginning of the year 2008 I have read/am reading the following books (in the listed order)
- A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan (Complete)
- T. S. Eliot – The Complete Poems and Plays 1909-1950 (Complete)
- Peter Camenzind by Hermann Hesse (Complete)
- Rosshalde by Hermann Hesse (Complete)
- The Iliad by Homer translated by Samuel Butler (Complete)
- The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan (Complete)
- The Odyssey by Homer translated by George Herbert Palmer (Complete)
- Demian by Hermann Hesse (Complete)
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (Complete)
- Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (Complete)
- W B Yeats – Selected Poetry (Complete)
- Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (Complete)
- Chamber Music by James Joyce (Complete)
- Canadian Poetry: Volume One edited by Jack David and Robert Lecker (Complete)
- Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse (Complete)
- The Fables of Aesop translated by S. A. Handford (Complete)
- The Poems of Sappho translated by Edwin Marion Cox (Complete)
- Magister Ludi (The Glass Bead Game) by Hermann Hesse (ongoing)
- A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud translated by Louise Varèse (Complete)
- T. S. Eliot by Northrop Frye (ongoing)
- The Works of John Donne (ongoing)
- The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche translated by Francis Golffing (ongoing)
- Winter’s Heart by Robert Jordan (ongoing)
Since the beginning of 2008 I have played/am playing the following video games (in no particular order):
- Final Fantasy Tactics for PS1 (ongoing)
- Baldur’s Gate/Tales of the Sword Coast for PC (Complete)
- Samurai Warriors for PS2 (ongoing)
- Tales of the Abyss for PS2 (Complete)
- Marvel Ultimate Alliance for PS2 (Complete)
- Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn/Throne of Bhaal for PC (ongoing)
- Emerald Dragon for SNES (Complete)
Since the beginning of 2008 I have watched/am watching the following series (again, in no particular order):
- Doctor Who 1964-1966 (ongoing)
- Mobile Suit Gundam OO (ongoing)
- Torchwood Season 2 (ongoing)
- Law and Order Season 1 (Complete)
- Cromartie High School dubbed (Complete)
- Excel Saga dubbed (ongoing)
- Cowboy Bebop dubbed (Complete)
- Law and Order Season 18 (ongoing)
- Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 dubbed (ongoing)
Since the beginning of 2008 I have watched the following movies (wherever and however I may):
- The Barefoot Contessa
- Jacob’s Ladder
- Some Like It Hot
- A Night to Remember
- Kung Fu Hustle
- Witness to Murder
- Kiss Me Deadly
- The House of Usher
- Friday the 13th
- Friday the 13th Part II
- Friday the 13th III
- The Toxic Avenger
- Thrillkill
- The Killing
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- The Asphalt Jungle
- Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
- Orgazmo
- L’Atalante
- Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
- Fantastic Four
- Drunken Master
- Avanti
- Two Women
Since the beginning of 2008 I have read the following comics:
- Batman: Year One
- The Dark Knight Returns
- Watchmen
- From Hell
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volumes I and II
- Supreme #41-56
- Supreme: The Return
- V for Vendetta
- Y: The Last Man