Serious Business

2/4/10

I’m not sure whether this is a huge accomplishment or a ridiculous embarrassment, but it’s definitely worth sharing. Hallie and I have had some down time (mainly at night after our teaching day is over), which has allowed for some serious TV/movie watching. This is the extensive log we kept up with during our near 6-month stint in China.

MOVIES:

-The Holiday

-Cold Mountain

-The Blind Side

-An Education

-Virgin Suicides

-Fight Club

-Gosford Park

-Sin City

-Rounders

-Shakespeare in Love

-500 Days of Summer

-The Secret Life of Bees

-Zoolander

-The Prestige

-Sliding Doors

-Sleeping Beauty

-Adventureland

-Pride and Prejudice the BBC Mini-series

-Pride and Prejudice

-Sunshine Cleaning

-Love Actually

-Elf

-The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

-The Hangover

-Home for the Holidays

-Meet Me in St. Louis

-Into the Wild

-Christmas with the Kranks

-Deck the Halls

-The September Issue

-District 9

-Post Grad

-Serendipity

-Four Weddings and a Funeral

-Edge of Love

-Ever After

-Stardust

-Observe and Report

-French Kiss

-Tristan + Isolde

-The Young Victoria

-Away We Go

-New Moon

-The Thomas Crown Affair

-State of Play

-Inglorious Basterds

-Avatar

-Up in the Air

-Time Traveler’s Wife

-Fantastic Mr. Fox

-It’s Complicated

-Brothers

-Seven Years in Tibet

-The Proposal (Hallie)

-Penelope (Hallie)

-Bright Star (Hallie)

-Lords of Dogtown (Buff)

TV SHOWS:

-Weeds: Seasons 1-5

-30 Rock: Seasons 1-3

-Dexter: Seasons 1-4

-Mad Men: Seasons 1-3

-Felicity: Seasons 1-3

TV SHOWS maintained:

-Gossip Girl

-Grey’s Anatomy

-The Office

-30 Rock

-SNL (the ones we can get on You Ku)

-Glee (Buff)

(Hallie and Buff: Movies/TV we watched when sick)

Books I’ve Read:

-Time Traveler’s Wife

-The Kindness of Strangers

-Confederacy of Dunces

-Freakonomics

-The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

-Longitude

Movie: Dianying TV: Dianshi Book: Shu