Media Delved in the Year 2012

Updated: May 25, 2012

How ’bout a few more updates this year? Yeah, that should be an attainable goal. I expect to see much more reading this year. Maybe I’ll manage to beat Dragon Quest VIII this year.

Since the beginning of the year 2012 I have read/am reading/continued to read the following books (in the listed order)

• The Student Bible (NIV) (ongoing from 2010)
• The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories edited by Jane Urquhart (ongoing from 2011)
• Bacchantes by Euripides (Complete from 2011)
• The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal (Complete from 2011)
• 20th Century Views – Stendhal: A Collection of Critical Essays edited by Victor Brombert (ongoing from 2011)
• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (Complete from 2011)
• The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 by Samuel Beckett (ongoing)
• Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides (Complete)
• Rhesus by Euripides (Complete)
• Cyclops by Euripides (Complete)
• The Acharnians by Aristophanes (Complete)
• The Knights by Aristophanes (Complete)
• Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje (Complete)
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (Complete)
• The Clouds by Aristophanes (Complete)
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (Complete)
• The Wasps by Aristophanes (Complete)
• Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon (Complete)
• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (Complete)
• Peace by Aristophanes (Complete)
• Perfume by Patrick Suskind (Complete)
• The Birds by Aristophanes (Complete)
• Lysistrata by Aristophanes (Complete)
• Thesmophoriazusae by Aristophanes(Complete)
• Ecclesiazusae by Aristophanes (Complete)
• The Frogs by Aristophanes (Complete)
• Plutus by Aristophanes (Complete)
• Myths from Mesopotamia translated by Stephanie Daley (Complete)
• The Satanic Verses by Salman Rusdie (ongoing)
• The Iliad by Homer, verse translation by Richard Lattimore (ongoing)

Since the beginning of 2012 I have played/am playing the following video games (in no particular order):

• Dragon Quest VIII for PS2 (ongoing from 2010)
• Dungeons of Dredmor for PC (ongoing, reached level 11)
• System Shock 2 for PC (Complete)

Since the beginning of 2012 I have watched/am watching the following series (again, in no particular order):

• The Wire: Season 2 (Complete x2 from 2011)
• Doctor Who: The First Doctor – Season 1 (ongoing)
• The Beiderbecke Connection (Complete)
• Sherlock: Series 1 (Complete)
• Sherlock: Series 2 (Complete)
• The Wire: Season 3 (Complete x2)
• The Wire: Season 4 (Complete x2)
• The Wire: Season 5 (Complete x2)
• Deadwood: Season 1 (Complete)
• Community: Season 1 (Complete)
• Father Ted: Season 1 (Complete)
• Father Ted: Season 2 (Complete)
• Community: Season 2 (Complete)
• Father Ted Christmas Special (Complete)
• Father Ted: Season 3 (Complete)
• Spaced: Series 1 (Complete)
• Spaced: Series 2 (Complete)
• Community: Season 3 (Complete)
• The Wire: Season 1 (Complete)
• Jeeves and Wooster: Season 1 (Complete)
• Jeeves and Wooster: Season 2 (Complete)
• Jeeves and Wooster: Season 3 (Complete)
• Jeeves and Wooster: Season 4 (Complete)
• Homicide: Life on the Streets – Season 1 (Complete)

Since the beginning of 2012 I have watched the following movies (wherever and however I may):

• Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus
• Mega Python vs. Gatoroid
• The Caine Mutiny
• Back to the Future
• Back to the Future Part II
• Back to the Future Part III
• Captain America: The First Avenger
• Manhattan Murder Mystery
• The Bridge Over the River Kwai
• North by Northwest
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
• Citizen Kane
• RKO 281
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Since the beginning of 2012 I have read the following comics: