2013 Scrapbook

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.Films.
(first viewing only)
1. Pitch Perfect ★★★★
2. Argo ★★★★½
3. Zero Dark Thirty ★★★★★
4. Seeking A Friend For the End of the World ★
5. Silver Linings Playbook ★★★★
6. Celeste and Jesse Forever ★★★
7. Men In Black 3 ★★
8. You Instead ★★★
9. Blade Runner ★★★★½
10. Bully ★★★
11. The Bourne Legacy ★★ ½
12. Nobody Walks ★
13. Skyfall ★★★★
14. The Sessions ★★★★
15. Wrath of the Titans ★★
16. Flight ★★★
17. Django Unchained ★★★
18. The Impossible ★★★★
19. Star Trek: Into Darkness ★★★
20. Chasing Mavericks ★★★
21. Rise of the Guardians ★★
22. Man of Steel ★★★★
23. Dredd ★★★
24. Warm Bodies ★★ ½
25. The Perks of Being a Wallflower ★★★
25. Lincoln ★★★★★
26. Gattaca ★★★
27. The First Time ★★
28. Anna Karenina ★★
28. Pacific Rim ★★★★★
29. Olympus Has Fallen ★★
30. Lola Versus ★★★½
31. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ★★★
32. Citadel ★★
33. World War Z ★★
34. Smash His Camera ★★★
35. Miss Representation ★★★½
36. Promised Land ★★★ ½
37. The Sapphires ★★★
38. Mud ★★★★
39. Admission ★★
40. Thor 2: The Dark World ★★★½
41. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire ★★★★
42. The Lifeguard ★★
43. What Maisie Knew ★★★★
44. Frances Ha ★★★
45. Blackfish ★★★★
46. An Unlikely Weapon: The Eddie Adams Story ★★★
47. American Teacher ★★★







.Television.
*re-watch
1. The West Wing Season 1*
2. Miranda Series 3
3. Lost Girl Season 1
4. My Mad Fat Diary Series 1
5. The Lying Game Season 1
6. Skins Series 6
7. Darker Than Black Season 1
8. Lost Girl Season 2
9. The Walking Dead Season 3
10. Supernatural Season 8
11. The Mindy Project Season 1
12. Doctor Who Series 7
13. The Fall Series 1
14. Game of Thrones Season 3
15. Orphan Black Season 1
16. Hannibal Season 1
17. Merlin Series 5
18. How I Met Your Mother Season 8
19. The Newsroom Season 2
20. Arrow Season 1
21. The West Wing Season 2*
22. Downton Abbey Season 4







.Books Read.
*reread
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi
Lovely, Dark And Deep by Amy McNamara
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Pacific Rim Movie Novelization by Alexander Irvine
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Requiem by Lauren Oliver
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Allegiant by Veronica Roth








.Books Bought.
The Beautiful and the Damned (70th Anniversary Edition by Coralie Bickford-Smith) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel
Lovely, Dark and Deep by Amy McNamara
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
The Diviners by Libba Bray
Puffin Box Set of Children's Classics
Insistence of Beauty by Stephen Dunn
Everything Else in the World by Stephen Dunn
Landscape at the end of the Century by Stephen Dunn
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
Tales of the Jazz Age (70th Anniversary Edition by Coralie Bickford-Smith) by F. Scott Fitzgerlad
This Side of Paradise (70th Anniversary Edition by Coralie Bickford-Smith) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
Contact by Carl Sagan
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
The Brief Wondorous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Shadow of the Wild by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Empire State: A Love Story (or Not) by Jason Shiga
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Dear Life by Alice Munro
A Hologram for the King David Eggers
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Sandman Papers edited by Joe Sanders
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Pacific Rim Movie Novelization by Alexander Irvine
Pacific Rim: Tales From Year Zero by Travis Beacham & Sean Chen
Requiem by Lauren Oliver
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
Here and Now: Poems by Stephan Dunn
Allegiant by Veronica Roth
Begin with the End in Mind by Emma Healey
American Gods by Neil Gaiman








♪ Heavy Rotation ♪
"Terracur" by Social Studies
"This Life" by Josef Salvat
"April in Paris" by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
"Still" by Daughter
"Smother" by Daughter
"Teardrop" by Massive Attack
"I Was A Fool" by Tegan and Sara
"Bleeding Out" by The Lone Bellow
"How Come You Don't Want Me" by Tegan and Sara
"Retrograde" by James Blake
"Please Don't Say You Love Me" by Gabrielle Aplin
"If I Had A Heart" by Fever Ray
"Square Circles" by Moon Taxi f. Matisyahu
"Can't Pretend" by Tom Odell
"Bloodflood" by Alt-J
"Sacrilege" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
"Untitled No. 3" by Sayde Price
"Call Your Girlfriend" (Robin cover) by Barcelona
"How to Fight" by Reuben and the Dark
"Perth" (Bon Iver) vs "Ready for the Floor" (Hot Chip) mash-up by Daughter
"Evening Ceremony" by Active Child
"Somebody to Die For" by Hurts
"Madness" by Muse
"The Burren" by Ben Howard
"Wicked Games" by The Weeknd
"Gospel" by Matt Corby
"Digital Rot" by Tan Vampires
"Skin" by Zola Jesus
"Resolution" by Matt Corby
"Deep in the Woods" by Tennis
"Tesselate" (Alt-J cover) by Emma Louise
"I Wish I Knew" by Year and Years
"I Lived" by OneRepublic
"Apparitions" by The Raveonettes
"Another Love" by Tom Odell
"Start of Time" by Gabrielle Aplin
"Dust to Dust" by The Civil Wars
"I Hope You Suffer" by AFI
"Dream Team" Aidan Knight
"Jealousy" by Marina and the Diamonds
"Kids" by Mikky Ekko
"Black Diamond" by Jordie Lane
"Nearly Summer" by Sanders Bohlke
"Lost Track of Time" by MTNS
"Royals (The Weeknd Remix) by Lorde
"Bad Karma" by Ida Maria
"Biting Down" by Lorde
"Hey Now" by London Grammar
"Bloodflood" (acoustic) by Alt-J
"I See Fire" by Ed Sheeran
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" (Tears for Fears cover) by Lorde
"Say Something" by A Great Big World f. Christina Aguilera
"Skulls" by Bastille
"She Wants to Know" by Half Moon Run
"Metal & Dust" by London Grammar







♪ Albums ♪
Friends and Friends of Friends Vol. 5
Alialujah Choir by Alialujah Choir
Leaving Through the Window (limited edition vinyl) by Something Corporate
Yellow Red Sparks by Yellow Red Sparks
Myths (EP) by Pickwick
Can't Talk Medicine by Pickwick
Mutual Friends by BOY
Man Made Lakes by Reuben and the Dark
Birthdays by Keaton Henson
No Singles (vinyl) by Japandroids
Community (split 7" vinyl) by Aaron Embry and Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
Electric Ahab by The Dead Ships
Hunter Hunted (EP) by Hunter Hunted
The Pop Underground (EP vinyl) by Andrew McMahon
If You Leave by Daughter
Infra by Max Richter
For Now I Am Winter (vinyl) by Ólafur Arnalds
Sleeping Patterns by Jordie Lane
Joride Lane Live At The Wheaty by Jordie Lane
Amethyst by The Happy Hollows
Bad Blood by Bastille
Mystic Braves (vinyl) by Mystic Braves
Agape (EP) by Bear's Den
North (10th Anniversary vinyl repressing) by Something Corporate







.Gigs & Travel & Other.
1. Andrew McMahon @ The Viper Room - January 10
2. Portland, Oregon - January 18 through January 20
3. Songs From A Room: Portland #1 - January 19
4. Songs From A Room: Los Angeles #15 - January 29
5. The Portland Cello Project w/ Alialujah Choir @ The First Unitarian Church - February 9
6. Family of the Year @ Jimmy Kimmel - February 11
7. Songs From A Room: Los Angeles #16 - February 16
8. Among Savages @ The Hotel Cafe - February 19
9. Afternoon tea and shooting range - February 23
10. Big Tree @ Central SAPC - February 23
11. Songs From A Room: Los Angeles #17 - March 7
12. Pickwick w/ Radiation City @ The Echo - March 9
13. Trails and Ways @ Bootleg Theater - March 9
14. NO @ Satellite - March 9
15. Songs From A Room: Los Angeles #18 - March 11
16. Cinespia screening of Blade Runner @ The Million Dollar Theatre - March 23
17. NO @ The Troubadour - April 4
18. Keaton Henson @ The Hollywood Forever Cemetery Masonic Lodge - April 11
19. The Postal Service @ Comerica Theatre - April 18
20. Phoenix, Arizona - April 18 through April 21
21. Songs From A Room: Los Angeles #19 - April 26
22. UK Trade & Investment Music Mission 2013 Reception (hosted by Dame Barbara Hay) - May 1
23. Songs From A Room: Los Angeles #20 - May 7
24. Hunter Hunted @ The Library at The Redbury - May 15
25. Andrew McMahon @ The Troubadour - May 15
26. New York City - May 25 through June 1
27. Songs From A Room: Los Angeles #21 - June 23
28. Ólafur Arnalds @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery Masonic Lodge - July 12
29. Pickwick @ The Getty's Saturdays Off the 405 - July 13
30. Songs From A Room: Los Angeles #22 - July 17
31. The Postal Service @ The Greek Theatre - July 24
32. Fiesta @ Santa Barbara - August 3 through 4
33. The National w/ Daughter @ The Greek Theatre - August 10
34. Songs From A Room: Los Angeles #23 - August 17
35. Echo Park Rising - August 17
36. Songs From A Room: Los Angeles #24 - August 18
37. Traci's Birthday Party @ No Vacancy - August 30
38. Bastille w/ Nightmare and the Cat and Little Daylight @ The El Rey - September 18
39. Songs From A Room: Los Angeles #25 - September 21
40. Seattle, Washington & Vancouver, British Columbia - October 3 through 7
41. Daughter w/ Bear's Den @ The Wiltern - October 8
42. Jordie Lane and Reuben and The Dark @ The Hotel Cafe - October 16
43. Songs From A Room: Los Angeles #26 - October 20
44. Songs From A Room: Los Angeles #27 - November 13
45. Songs From A Room: Los Angeles #28 - December 17







.QuoteUnquote.
"I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time." — Charles Bukowski, Screams From the Balcony

“There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven’t had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away." — Robert Goolrick

"I’ve spent so much time in my head and in my heart that I forgot to live in my body." — Tara Hardy, Bone Marrow

“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid." — Frederick Buechner

"What you are is a complicated girl with simple needs. You need your books and time to read, and you need a few friends and you need someone-not to take care of you, but to care for you. If you have all those things, you’ll always be alright." - Brian Morton, Breakable You

"No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn’t experience it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That’s how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice." - Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

"How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?" — Leonard Cohen

"I feel scribbled-in. Something inattentive has barely written me in."— Jorie Graham, “High Tide”

“You don’t ever have to feel guilty about removing toxic people from your life. It doesn’t matter whether someone is a relative, romantic interest, employer, childhood friend, or a new acquaintance — you don’t have to make room for people who cause you pain or make you feel small. It’s one thing if a person owns up to their behavior and makes an effort to change. But if a person disregards your feelings, ignores your boundaries, and continues to treat you in a harmful way, they need to go." — Daniell Koepke

"I see a lot of people in unstimulating relationships. And not just boyfriend-girlfriend relationships. They find themselves in stagnant friendships. If people were a little less scared [of ending things] they'd get more out of life… You meet the right person at the right time and they fulfil a certain something in your life. You fulfil something in theirs. But there's a time limit to that. Unless you choose to be bloody good company for the rest of your life, do you know what I mean?" - Laura Marling

"I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things." — Tom Waits

"I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world." - Mindy Kaling

"Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes just sitting thinking, ‘Oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,’ but it’s really not like that. We just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. It means having to perform. I get so tired of communicating." - Anneli Rufus

"But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in." - Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

"Some people are uncomfortable with silences. Not me. I’ve never cared much for call and response. Sometimes I will think of something to say and then I ask myself: is it worth it? And it just isn’t." - Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

"I’m sick to death of this particular self. I want another." - Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"When I was younger, I saw 20-somethings sitting at coffee shops and thought they must be so happy now that they’re older and have their lives together. Now I’m the 20-something and I see that life doesn’t slow down and fall into place just because you’re old enough. Being older just means that you have to make time to stop and enjoy that coffee." - Unknown

"Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed." - Alice Walker

"We live in an age where we feel guilt whenever we have to cut someone off but the reality is that some relationships do need to die, some people do need to be un-followed and de-friended. We aren’t meant to be this tethered to the people in our past. The Internet mandates that we don’t burn bridges and keep everyone around like relics but those expectations are unrealistic and unhealthy. Simply put, we don’t need to know what everyone else is up to. We’re allowed to be choosy about who we surround ourselves with online and in real life, even if it might hurt people’s feelings." - Thought Catalog

"I just want to be me—I just want to be useful and… content. I want to stop wondering if I’ll ever feel whole and just be whole. I want to have a purpose, one that I can look at without feeling like I’m less than I was." - Eilis O'Neal, The False Princess

"Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it’s not. It’s all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate." - Carolyn Crane

"I think that one of these days you’re going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you’ve got to start going there." - J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

"I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to." - Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Nice Quiet Place

"The axe forgets; the tree remembers." - African proverb

"No, I'm not ok. But I haven't been ok since I was 11, maybe 12. I am still here though. I'm still breathing. For me, sometimes, that will have to be enough." - Clementine Von Radics

"What I really mean to say is that I hope you aren't held back because of a number. And that you don't rush into things because it feels like time is slipping by. I hope you do what's right for you. Hold on. Slow down. And breathe in. Your age is your age. But more importantly, your life is your life. Don't change your journey so that it matches someone else's. We need to walk different paths so the whole world can be explored. Revel in the differences. And enjoy where you are." ...because I'm a twenty-something, todaywasmeaningful.wordpress.com

"Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me a little pang or something - not unhappiness, exactly, but some kind of quiet, deep regret.... I keep wanting to apologize to the little guy: 'I'm sorry, I've let you down. I was the person who was supposed to look after you, but I blew it: I made wrong decisions at bad times, and I turned you into me." - Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

"I act and react, and suddenly I wonder, 'Where is the girl that I was last year? Two years ago? What would she think of me now?" - Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

"Almost. It's a big word for me. i feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe." - Joan Bauer

"It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind." - Nagulb Mahfouz

"When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say." - Unknown