2012 Year End Recap
2012 Year End Recap
My annual list of the things I've done in the past year - 2012 - music I've listened to, books I’ve read, movies and TV shows I’ve seen, places I've gone to, things I've experienced, web sites I've frequented, etc.
Music
• Aerosmith - Music From Another Dimension!
• Eric Clapton - Complete Clapton
• Dokken - Under Lock and Key
• James Durbin - Memories of a Beautiful Disaster
• Lita Ford - Living Like A Runaway
• Bruno Mars - Unorthodox Jukebox
• Maroon 5 - Overexposed [deluxe edition, includes 3 bonus tracks]
• Orianthi - Believe
• Orianthi - Believe (II)
• Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra- Theater Is Evil
• Pink - Truth About Love, The
• Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
• Queensryche - Dedicated To Chaos
• Ratt - Out of the Cellar
• Ratt - Invasion of Privacy
• Raphael Saadiq - Stone Rollin’
• Phil Spector - The Essential Phil Spector (2 CD set)
• Phil Spector - Phil Spector: Designing the Wall of Sound (2 CD set)
• Trixter - New Audio Machine
• Van Halen - 1984
• Van Halen - 5150
• Van Halen - Diver Down
• Van Halen - Fair Warning
• Van Halen - Van Halen
• Van Halen - Van Halen II
• Van Halen - Women and Children First
• Warrant - Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich
• Warrant - Cherry Pie
Books
• 50 Years of James Bond: On the Run with 007, From Dr. No to Skyfall - Life Books
• The Avengers: A Celebration: 50 Years of a Television Classic - Marcus Hearn
• Batmobile, The Complete History: Engineering, Aesthetics & Function Through the Decades - Mark Cotta Vaz
• I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution - Craig Marks & Rob Tannenbaum
• Naked Lunch: the restored text - William S. Burroughs; edited by James Grauerholz and Barry Miles
• Reamde - Neil Stephenson
• Rule 34 - Charles Stross
• Wall and Piece - Banksy
• Zero History - William Gibson
Magazines
• Time
• Wired
DVDs
• Chasing Amy - Criterion Collection
• I Spy, Season 1
• I Spy, Season 2
• I Spy, Season 3
• Lethal Weapon
• Mallrats - High School Reunion Collection
• Married With Children: The Complete Series (11 seasons)
• MI-5, Season 10 [FINAL SEASON]
• Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Movies - Seen in theaters, on cable, or rented
• 13
• 13 Going on 30
• 21 Jump Street
• A Single Man
• American, The
• American Wedding
• American Reunion (unedited version)
• Anger Management
• Avengers, The
• Battleship
• Big Lebowski, The
• Big Stan
• Change Up, The
• Cold Creek Manor
• Columbiana
• Contagion
• Core, The
• Dark Knight Rises, The
• Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid
• Dr. No (one time showing on the “big screen” for James Bond’s 50th anniversary)
• Due Date
• Duplex
• Five-Year Engagement, The
• Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The
• Green Lantern
• Help, The
• Hobbit, The: An Unexpected Journey, Part I. (High-Frame Rate 3D)
• Hunger Games, The
• In Time
• Just Go With It
• Machete
• Men In Black 3
• Outsourced
• Paul
• Paycheck
• Pitch Perfect
• Poltergeist
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
• River Wild, The
• Safe House
• Sideways
• Spiderman (2012 reboot)
• Straw Dogs (2011 remake)
• Ted
• Terminal, The
• Terri
• This Means War
• Tower Heist
• Trouble with the Curve
• Wanderlust
• We Bought A Zoo
• What’s Your Number?
• Young Adult
Documentary Films
• Comic-Con: Episode IV - A Fan’s Hope (Q&A with Director Morgan Spurlock afterward)
• Exporting Raymond
• God Is The Bigger Elvis
• Hard Times: Lost On Long Island
• His Way (A documentary about legendary movie producer Jerry Weintraub)
• Hollywood Complex
• That Guy… Who Was in That Thing
Independent Films
• Saint John of Las Vegas
What I’m Watching On TV This Season: (season, syndicated reruns)
(Network shows)
• 30 Rock
• 666 Park Avenue
• Breaking In
• Chuck [Final Season]
• Community
• Family Guy
• Grimm
• Hawaii Five-0
• Modern Family
• New Girl
• Nikita
• Office, The
• Once Upon A Time
• Pan Am
• Simpsons, The
• Stevie TV
• Vegas
• Whitney
Cable Shows, original series
• Archer
• Burn Notice
• Covert Affairs
• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• House of Lies
• Hunted
• Mad Men
• Soup, The
• South Park
• Strike Back
• True Blood
• Warehouse 13
• Watch What Happens Live
Select Episodes of TV shows
• Angel, S4, EP3: “The House Always Wins”
Reality Shows
• Caught Red Handed
• Celebrity Apprentice
• Collection Intervention
• Comic Book Men
• Doomsday Preppers
• Extreme Couponing
• Face Off
• Fast Foods Gone Global
• Flipping Out
• Hardcore Pawn
• Hell’s Kitchen
• Hollywood Treasure
• Hot Set
• Hotel Impossible
• Interior Therapy with Jeff Lewis
• Jerseylicious
• Kitchen Nightmares
• Las Vegas Jailhouse
• Las Vegas Stripped
• Master Chef
• Millionaire Matchmaker
• Million Dollar Decorators
• Million Dollar Listing L.A.
• Monster Man
• Mystery Diners
• Pawn Stars
• Pitch, The
• Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
• Real Housewives of New Jersey
• Real Housewives of New York
• Restaurant Stakeout
• Shark Tank
• Shipping Wars
• Sin City Rules
• Storage Hunters
• Storage Wars
• Tabatha Takes Over
• Top Chef
• Top Chef All-Stars
• Top Chef Just Desserts
• Top Chef Masters: Las Vegas
• Toy Hunter
• Why Am I Still Single?
TV & Cable Documentary & Informational Shows
• 20/20: Corporate Secret
• 20/20: Just Plane Crazy
• 20/20 Special Edition: One Moment in Time: The Life of Whitney Houston
• America’s Book of Secrets
• American Greed
• Behind the Music Remastered: Blondie
• Best Sandwich in America
• Best Thing I Ever Ate
• Bizarre American Foods: Las Vegas
• Clash of the Gods: Beowulf, Thor, Tolkien’s Monsters,
• Crave
• (CNBC) Customer (Dis)Service
• (CNBC) Love @ First Byte: The Secret Science of Online Dating
• Epic History of Everyday Things
• Esquire’s Ultimate Bachelor Pad for 2012
• Fast Food Mania
• HBO First Look: Making of Safe House
• Hollywood Science: Spy Gadgets
• Love | Lust
• Making of: Paul
• Metal Evolution (series that started running at end of 2011 and into 2012)
• Ninja: Shadow Warriors
• Party Like:
• Steve Jobs: One Last Thing
Syndicated Re-Runs (Cable)
• Everybody Loves Raymond
One-Offs
• 15 Sin City Secrets
• Fox 25th Anniversary Special
• Vegas After Hours
Shows on network & cable that I stopped watching
• Chuck [Series Ended]
TV Show #FAIL - Shows too painful to get through
• Around the World in 80 Plates (watched 5 episodes, but didn’t like it)
• Inside Comedy
• Million Dollar Listing: New York (totally unlikable cast)
Podcasts
(NPR Content)
• KCRW’s Le’ Show (Harry Shearer)
• On The Media
• Nerdist, The (select episodes)
• NPR Columns: Sunday Puzzle Podcast
• NPR Programs: Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me
• NPR Culturetopia Podcast: Pop Culture Happy Hour
Restaurants
• Angry Ham’s Garage
• Bickford’s Grille
• Blue Ribbon BBQ
• Café Tosca
• Casey’s Diner
• Charleys
• Chateau
• Cheeseboy
• Dairy Queen
• Dunkin Donuts
• El Oriental de Cuba
• Firefly’s
• Fireplace Restaurant, The
• Fuji Steak House
• Gianni’s Deli (Needham, MA)
• Henrietta’s Table
• IHOP
• Jasper White’s Summer Shack (Mohegan Sun Casino, Uncasville, CT)
• John Harvard’s Brewery & Ale House
• Jonathan’s Bar and Grille
• Kowloon
• Legal Seafood
• Long John Silvers
• LongHorn Steakhouse
• McDonalds
• Mel’s Commonwealth Cafe
• Michael Jordan’s Steakhouse (Mohegan Sun Casino, Uncasville, CT)
• Not Your Average Joes
• Olive Garden
• Otto Pizza
• Outback Steakhouse
• Pino’s Pizza
• Rami’s
• S&S Restaurant
• Sabrina Wong III
• Schooner’s
• Shawarma King
• Starbucks
• U Burger
• Uncle Cheung’s
• Villa, The
My annual list of the things I've done in the past year - 2012 - music I've listened to, books I’ve read, movies and TV shows I’ve seen, places I've gone to, things I've experienced, web sites I've frequented, etc.
Music
• Aerosmith - Music From Another Dimension!
• Eric Clapton - Complete Clapton
• Dokken - Under Lock and Key
• James Durbin - Memories of a Beautiful Disaster
• Lita Ford - Living Like A Runaway
• Bruno Mars - Unorthodox Jukebox
• Maroon 5 - Overexposed [deluxe edition, includes 3 bonus tracks]
• Orianthi - Believe
• Orianthi - Believe (II)
• Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra- Theater Is Evil
• Pink - Truth About Love, The
• Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
• Queensryche - Dedicated To Chaos
• Ratt - Out of the Cellar
• Ratt - Invasion of Privacy
• Raphael Saadiq - Stone Rollin’
• Phil Spector - The Essential Phil Spector (2 CD set)
• Phil Spector - Phil Spector: Designing the Wall of Sound (2 CD set)
• Trixter - New Audio Machine
• Van Halen - 1984
• Van Halen - 5150
• Van Halen - Diver Down
• Van Halen - Fair Warning
• Van Halen - Van Halen
• Van Halen - Van Halen II
• Van Halen - Women and Children First
• Warrant - Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich
• Warrant - Cherry Pie
Books
• 50 Years of James Bond: On the Run with 007, From Dr. No to Skyfall - Life Books
• The Avengers: A Celebration: 50 Years of a Television Classic - Marcus Hearn
• Batmobile, The Complete History: Engineering, Aesthetics & Function Through the Decades - Mark Cotta Vaz
• I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution - Craig Marks & Rob Tannenbaum
• Naked Lunch: the restored text - William S. Burroughs; edited by James Grauerholz and Barry Miles
• Reamde - Neil Stephenson
• Rule 34 - Charles Stross
• Wall and Piece - Banksy
• Zero History - William Gibson
Magazines
• Time
• Wired
DVDs
• Chasing Amy - Criterion Collection
• I Spy, Season 1
• I Spy, Season 2
• I Spy, Season 3
• Lethal Weapon
• Mallrats - High School Reunion Collection
• Married With Children: The Complete Series (11 seasons)
• MI-5, Season 10 [FINAL SEASON]
• Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Movies - Seen in theaters, on cable, or rented
• 13
• 13 Going on 30
• 21 Jump Street
• A Single Man
• American, The
• American Wedding
• American Reunion (unedited version)
• Anger Management
• Avengers, The
• Battleship
• Big Lebowski, The
• Big Stan
• Change Up, The
• Cold Creek Manor
• Columbiana
• Contagion
• Core, The
• Dark Knight Rises, The
• Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid
• Dr. No (one time showing on the “big screen” for James Bond’s 50th anniversary)
• Due Date
• Duplex
• Five-Year Engagement, The
• Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The
• Green Lantern
• Help, The
• Hobbit, The: An Unexpected Journey, Part I. (High-Frame Rate 3D)
• Hunger Games, The
• In Time
• Just Go With It
• Machete
• Men In Black 3
• Outsourced
• Paul
• Paycheck
• Pitch Perfect
• Poltergeist
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
• River Wild, The
• Safe House
• Sideways
• Spiderman (2012 reboot)
• Straw Dogs (2011 remake)
• Ted
• Terminal, The
• Terri
• This Means War
• Tower Heist
• Trouble with the Curve
• Wanderlust
• We Bought A Zoo
• What’s Your Number?
• Young Adult
Documentary Films
• Comic-Con: Episode IV - A Fan’s Hope (Q&A with Director Morgan Spurlock afterward)
• Exporting Raymond
• God Is The Bigger Elvis
• Hard Times: Lost On Long Island
• His Way (A documentary about legendary movie producer Jerry Weintraub)
• Hollywood Complex
• That Guy… Who Was in That Thing
Independent Films
• Saint John of Las Vegas
What I’m Watching On TV This Season: (season, syndicated reruns)
(Network shows)
• 30 Rock
• 666 Park Avenue
• Breaking In
• Chuck [Final Season]
• Community
• Family Guy
• Grimm
• Hawaii Five-0
• Modern Family
• New Girl
• Nikita
• Office, The
• Once Upon A Time
• Pan Am
• Simpsons, The
• Stevie TV
• Vegas
• Whitney
Cable Shows, original series
• Archer
• Burn Notice
• Covert Affairs
• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• House of Lies
• Hunted
• Mad Men
• Soup, The
• South Park
• Strike Back
• True Blood
• Warehouse 13
• Watch What Happens Live
Select Episodes of TV shows
• Angel, S4, EP3: “The House Always Wins”
Reality Shows
• Caught Red Handed
• Celebrity Apprentice
• Collection Intervention
• Comic Book Men
• Doomsday Preppers
• Extreme Couponing
• Face Off
• Fast Foods Gone Global
• Flipping Out
• Hardcore Pawn
• Hell’s Kitchen
• Hollywood Treasure
• Hot Set
• Hotel Impossible
• Interior Therapy with Jeff Lewis
• Jerseylicious
• Kitchen Nightmares
• Las Vegas Jailhouse
• Las Vegas Stripped
• Master Chef
• Millionaire Matchmaker
• Million Dollar Decorators
• Million Dollar Listing L.A.
• Monster Man
• Mystery Diners
• Pawn Stars
• Pitch, The
• Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
• Real Housewives of New Jersey
• Real Housewives of New York
• Restaurant Stakeout
• Shark Tank
• Shipping Wars
• Sin City Rules
• Storage Hunters
• Storage Wars
• Tabatha Takes Over
• Top Chef
• Top Chef All-Stars
• Top Chef Just Desserts
• Top Chef Masters: Las Vegas
• Toy Hunter
• Why Am I Still Single?
TV & Cable Documentary & Informational Shows
• 20/20: Corporate Secret
• 20/20: Just Plane Crazy
• 20/20 Special Edition: One Moment in Time: The Life of Whitney Houston
• America’s Book of Secrets
• American Greed
• Behind the Music Remastered: Blondie
• Best Sandwich in America
• Best Thing I Ever Ate
• Bizarre American Foods: Las Vegas
• Clash of the Gods: Beowulf, Thor, Tolkien’s Monsters,
• Crave
• (CNBC) Customer (Dis)Service
• (CNBC) Love @ First Byte: The Secret Science of Online Dating
• Epic History of Everyday Things
• Esquire’s Ultimate Bachelor Pad for 2012
• Fast Food Mania
• HBO First Look: Making of Safe House
• Hollywood Science: Spy Gadgets
• Love | Lust
• Making of: Paul
• Metal Evolution (series that started running at end of 2011 and into 2012)
• Ninja: Shadow Warriors
• Party Like:
• Steve Jobs: One Last Thing
Syndicated Re-Runs (Cable)
• Everybody Loves Raymond
One-Offs
• 15 Sin City Secrets
• Fox 25th Anniversary Special
• Vegas After Hours
Shows on network & cable that I stopped watching
• Chuck [Series Ended]
TV Show #FAIL - Shows too painful to get through
• Around the World in 80 Plates (watched 5 episodes, but didn’t like it)
• Inside Comedy
• Million Dollar Listing: New York (totally unlikable cast)
Podcasts
(NPR Content)
• KCRW’s Le’ Show (Harry Shearer)
• On The Media
• Nerdist, The (select episodes)
• NPR Columns: Sunday Puzzle Podcast
• NPR Programs: Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me
• NPR Culturetopia Podcast: Pop Culture Happy Hour
Restaurants
• Angry Ham’s Garage
• Bickford’s Grille
• Blue Ribbon BBQ
• Café Tosca
• Casey’s Diner
• Charleys
• Chateau
• Cheeseboy
• Dairy Queen
• Dunkin Donuts
• El Oriental de Cuba
• Firefly’s
• Fireplace Restaurant, The
• Fuji Steak House
• Gianni’s Deli (Needham, MA)
• Henrietta’s Table
• IHOP
• Jasper White’s Summer Shack (Mohegan Sun Casino, Uncasville, CT)
• John Harvard’s Brewery & Ale House
• Jonathan’s Bar and Grille
• Kowloon
• Legal Seafood
• Long John Silvers
• LongHorn Steakhouse
• McDonalds
• Mel’s Commonwealth Cafe
• Michael Jordan’s Steakhouse (Mohegan Sun Casino, Uncasville, CT)
• Not Your Average Joes
• Olive Garden
• Otto Pizza
• Outback Steakhouse
• Pino’s Pizza
• Rami’s
• S&S Restaurant
• Sabrina Wong III
• Schooner’s
• Shawarma King
• Starbucks
• U Burger
• Uncle Cheung’s
• Villa, The