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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Goodbye 2014!

New Years Eve (a running narrative)


Nick Jonas on now, everyone singing along to "Jealous"

One Direction singing "Story of my Life". Everyone singing along, here and in the audience. GREAT song. GREAT GREAT song.

Playing Pokemon with Smiley. I'm confused. Very confused (the margaritas probably aren't helping)

My spur of the moment plan to take the family on a county bus ride, just because they are free on NY Eve, has been vetoed by Lisa. In part because it's 12 degrees outside, and in part because it's a dumb idea.

Smiley and I are hitting the road while LuLu dyes Lisa's hair

Note the strawberries Lisa had the kids dip in chocolate as an activity/treat for NY Eve

Just watched 1D on New York Rockin Eve! Plus, saw Donnie Wahlberg!

Done!

Happy Birthday Joe!

Happy Birthday Joey McIntyre!

A Walmart Run

I took Smiley to Wal-Mart yesterday to spend the gift cards he got for Christmas. We spent about twenty seconds in the toy aisle before moving on to the art and crafts area.

I was pleased to see him pick out a grow your own trilobite kit we considered buying for Christmas, but in the end my boy spent his $20 on Pokemon cards.

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Books Read and Movies Watched in 2014

With law school and all I fell off the pace of my recreational reading, finishing 2014 with only 42 books. I did better on my movie total, watching 131. Here's my neurotic list of both:


Date
Title
Author
Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography
Mike Tyson
Dark of the Moon
John Sandford
Doctor Sleep
Stephen King
The Pagan Lord
Bernard Cornwell
12-Mar
One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
B.J. Novak
12-Mar
Not Taco Bell Material
Adam Carolla
19-Mar
Shovel Ready
Adam Sternbergh
29-Mar
The Red Box
Rex Stout
4-Apr
Dick Francis's  Refusal
Felix Francis
12-Apr
The Troop
Nick Cutter
16-Apr
The Necromancer's House
Christopher Buehlman
18-Apr
The Setup Man
T.T. Monday
30-Apr
Let the Old Dreams Die
John Ajvide Lindqvist
9-May
Down the Lights
Edited by Richard Chizmar
11-May
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Claire North
23-Jun
Work for Hire
Joe Haldeman
7/2/2014
Third Rail
Rory Flynn
7/12/2014
The Smoke at Dawn
Jeff Shaara
7/16/2014
Dark City
F Paul Wilson
20-Jul
Rooselvelt's Beast
Louis Bayard
13-Aug
The Devil and Sonny Liston
Nick Tosches
13-Aug
Crime Beat
Michael Connelly
14-Aug
Never Go Back
Lee Child
15-Aug
From the Dead
Mark Billingham
16-Aug
Sea Lord
Bernard Cornwell
23-Aug
The Bones Beneath
Mark Billingham
27-Aug
Eisenhower the President Nobody Knew
Arthur Larson
25-Sep
Grant
Jean Edward Smith
9-Oct
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Thomas Sweterlitsch
12-Oct
Personal
Lee Child
20-Oct
The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell
25-Oct
The Battle of Midway
Craig L. Symonds
29-Oct
On Rhetoric
Aristotle
20-Nov
On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockerfeller
Richard Norton Smith
21-Nov
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat At Camp David
Lawrence Wright
21-Nov
Consumed
David Cronenberg
27-Nov
A Time to Heal
Gerald R. Ford
9-Dec
Prosser, Wade, and Schwart's Torts, 12th edition
Swartz, Kelly, Parlett
12-Dec
Ike's Bluff
Evan Thomas
19-Dec
Six Crises
Richard M. Nixon
24-Dec
The Return of George Washington 1783-1789
Edward J. Larson
31-Dec
Eisenhower 1956: The President's Year of Crisis
David A Nichols



Movies Watched


1-Jan
American Hustle
Elysium
The Underneath
Hangover
Hot Tub Time Machine
The Good Son: Boom Boom Mancini
6-Jan
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
About Time
7-Jan
Saving Mr. Banks
8-Jan
AKA Cassius Clay
12-Jan
Escape Plan
13-Jan
Dallas Buyers Club
17-Jan
The Last Airbender
18-Jan
Raze
19-Jan
You're Next
Jug Face
20-Jan
The Jefferey Dahmer Experience
21-Jan
Klitschko
TWA Flight 800
27-Jan
Ender's Game
28-Jan
The Wolf of Wall Street
Grudge Match
3-Feb
Killing Them Softly
You're Next (second viewing)
The Kennedy Detail
Easton's Article aka Black Web
The Amityville Horror (Reynold's version)
Old School
Dirty Dancing
The Exorcist
American Psycho
The Snake Pit
The Awful Truth
4-Mar
The Last Voyage
25-Mar
Contracted
Alyce Kills
31-Mar
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
4-Apr
True Detective
6-Apr
The Returned
6-Apr
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
7-Apr
Cottage Country
13-Apr
Insidious: Chapter 2
14-Apr
Haunter
22-Apr
Devil's Due
22-Apr
Plus One
28-Apr
Absentia
29-Apr
Absence
29-Apr
The Haunting of Julia
29-Apr
Oculus
12-May
Don't Stop Believing (Journey documentary)
13-May
The Guilt Trip
April?
Starving in Suburbia
27-May
Godzilla
May
The Ghost from the Machine
3-Jun
Neighbors
10-Jun
Non-Stop
10-Jun
Edge of Tommorrow
15-Jun
Adult World
17-Jun
22 Jump Street
17-Jun
A Million Ways to Die in the West
18-Jun
Afflicted
23-Jun
Wayne's World
23-Jun
A Picnic at Hanging Rock
23-Jun
Girl Most Likely
1-Jul
Her
2-Jul
The Comeback
5-Jul
Iron Man 2
5-Jul
Iron Man 3
7-Jul
Noah
8-Jul
All Is Lost
8-Jul
13 Sins
8-Jul
How I Live Now
9-Jul
The Surrogate
14-Jul
The Conspiracy
15-Jul
Entity
15-Jul
The Snowtown Murders
15-Jul
Human Lampshade: A Holocaust Mystery
15-Jul
Banshee Chapter
20-Jul
Under the Skin
27-Jul
Divergent
27-Jul
Stolen from the Womb
28-Jul
All Cheerleaders Die
Sharknado 2: The Second One
(title missing)
5-Aug
Guardians of the Galaxy
11-Aug
The Quiet Ones
25-Aug
Doctor Who: Series 8 Premiere
1-Sep
After Tiller
2-Sep
Let's Be Cops
7-Sep
The Brittany Murphy Story
9-Sep
The Enemy
Time Travellers
10-Sep
Catfish
23-Sep
7500
The Human Race
25-Sep
Crazy Love
Behaving Badly
5-Oct
Lucy
6-Oct
Horns
A Good Marriage
21-Oct
Annabelle
24-Oct
The Possession of Michael King
Don't Blink
25-Oct
Coherence
Tammy
26-Oct
Midway
28-Oct
Enough Said
5-Nov
Pirates of the Caribbean I
6-Nov
Alexander and the Horrible, Terrible, Not so Very Good Day
11-Nov
Jessabelle
16-Nov
Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B
17-Nov
Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer
18-Nov
déjà vu
25-Nov
St Vincent
26-Nov
Predestination
28-Nov
So Undercover
29-Nov
Transcendence
29-Nov
The Fantastic Four
1-Dec
After Earth
2-Dec
Gravity
3-Dec
Gangster Squad
9-Dec
Dumb and Dumber To
15-Dec
As Above, So Below
16-Dec
The Babadook
16-Dec
The Purge: Anarchy
26-Dec
The Sacrament
29-Dec
The Penguins of Madagascar
The Taking of Deborah Logan
You've Got Mail
30-Dec
The Skeleton Twins
The Interview