Wednesday, January 6, 2016

2015 Report Card


Holy crap, that's a lot of Guinness!


INPUT
 

Movies           74
Theatre          60 (counting Wolf Hall as 2 plays)
Play Seen The Most: Hedwig & The Angry Inch (4)
Readings (attended)           25
Music          22
Dance           6
Lectures       1
Art/Gallery/Museums          9
Photo Exhibitions           7
Book Award Ceremonies          1
War Correspondent Conversations       3
Hockey Games         1
Comedy Clubs          1
 
COMIC BOOKS                           153

BOOKS I BOUGHT THAT I HAVEN’T READ YET     27 

BOOKS READ  

Autobiography           2   
Biography                   4  
Crime                          2  
Elizabethan                4
Fantasy                     16
Fiction                       19
Film Criticism             6
Graphic Novel           25
Historical Fiction        3
History                        6
Horror                         6 
Humor                         1
Jack The Ripper          2  
Literary Criticism      11
Music                           2 
Mystery                       9 
New York                    3 
Non-Fiction               11 
Occult                          1 
Philosophy                  2
Play                           37 
Poetry                       19
Politics                        5
Sci-Fi                         14
Screenplay                  6
Shakespeare               7
Teleplay                      3
Theatre                       8
Thriller                             
Western                      6
Writing                       4

 

Favorite Reads 

          The Annihilation Score (Laundry Files 6) – Charles Stross
          The Gospel of Loki – Joanne M Harris
          The Power of the Dog – Don Winslow
          The Cartel – Don Winslow
          Trouble in Paradise - Slavoj Žižek
 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border – Juan Felipe Herrera
 War Music – Christopher Logue 


DVD's Watched       46


MUSIC PURCHASES

CDs                                       12
MP3 Albums (non-Techno)   8
MP3 Albums (Techno)         15
MP3 Albums (Xmas)            14  


MAGAZINES 

          Music              4
          Film              15
          Poetry          17
          Theatre          8
          Literary        10 

Poetry Readings Given (headliner)                0
Poetry Readings Given (open mike)               

Plays I Wrote That Got Performed                 1
Plays I Wrote That Got A Reading                  2

Theatre Conferences Attended            1 (and it was fabulous!) 

Books Written                

Plays written: full-length          3
Plays written: 10 Minute           6
Plays written: one-act               0  

Stories written:         2 

Poems Written: Sonnets       225
Poems Written: Other               8
Poems Written That Still Need Work      13
 
In-Progress/Unfinished/Ideas      129 

Submissions          45
Acceptances            4
Rejections: received from 2014 Submissions     9
Rejections: received from 2015 Submissions     6
Responses Pending          39 
 

VICES: THE SOFT STUFF  

Guinness          126
Sam Adams Summer Ale    26
Budweiser              23
Bengali Tiger 18
Blue Moon           8
Brooklyn Lager         8
Sam Adams Winter Ale          7
Sam Adams Tap   7
Sam Adams Oktoberfest      6
Murphy's Stout          5
Nitro Stout             5
Abita Amber          4
Bud Lite          4
Miller Lite          4
Oatmeal Stout          4
Victoria Cerveza          4
Pilsner Urquel          3
Porter          3
Stella Artois          3
Tecate          3
West End Brew              3
Brooklyn Brown           2
Dos Equis            2
Goose Island IPA     2
Greenport Harbor Ale          2
Hexagon Black     2
McGee's Ale    2
Model Especial          2
PBR     2
Peak IPA          2
Sam Adams Cherry Wheat          2
Viceroy Irish Stout          2
Victory Donnybrook Irish Stout          2
Yngling          2
Amstel          1
Captain Lawrence IPA   1
Coors          1
Founders Porter          1
Goose Island IPA          1
Harpoon          1
Jonas Bronck Chocolate Egg Cream Stout          1
Mother's Milk Stout          1
Sahai          1
Trench IPA     1
Tsing Tao          1

 

VICES: THE HARD STUFF  

Pinot Noir Glasses          33
Patron Shots          21
Jameson Shots    19
Lucy's Behind-The-Bar Polish Vodka Shots          11
Cabernet Sauvignon glasses          10
Champagne                 10
Rosé glasses          10
Malbec glasses     10
Sake bottles          7
Vodka Tonic          6
Frozen Margarita          5
Strawberry Margarita     5
Pinot Noir Bottles          4
Sangria glasses          4
Strawberry Jello Shots            4
Captain Morgan and Coke     3
Chardonnay Glasses          3
Hemingway Daiquiri          3
Oban glasses      3
Rolls Royce          3
Talisker glasses      3
Corner Creek Bourbon          2
Hibiscus Margarita          2
Irish Coffee          2
Jello Shots          2
Margarita (no salt)          2
McGee's Ale    2
Chilled vodka shots      2
Vodka Cranberry          2
Vodka Soda           2
Bloody Mary 1
Fireball shot  1
Gin Sidecar          1
Gin Smash          1
Mojito          1
Powers shots          1
Spanish Coffee          1
Valpolicello bottle    1
Sangiovese Toscana bottles          0.5
Shiraz bottle          0.5 


VICES:  THE HERBAL STUFF  

Cannabis Sativa:   5


KIBBLES AND BITS  

Bowling       0 (I know; sad, huh?)
Neurotic Attractions    0 (I know; I'm as surprised as you are)

Pre-Teen Birthday Parties      1 
Adult Birthday Parties            3

Resolutions Made:     3
Resolutions Kept:     

All-Nighters              4
Days Lost After All-Nighters       4

Working Days of Drinking (8 hours plus)           7 
Hangovers     3 

Weddings            1
Divorces              1 (pending)
Regrets                I've had a few

Nights On The Town With A Fetish Model      2 (counting Mother's Day) 

Nights On The Town With My Australian Soul Mate And/Or Her Parents   6

Close Friends Who Up And Moved To LA, I Mean Really, WTF      2

1 comment:

lomacious said...

My favorite tradition at the end of the year (Why do I feel like you order the Rolls Royce so you don't have to add another line to the list?). Love to you Matthew, Elijah