I have a new project that I've been thinking about for years and I am really excited to have finally started it! As most of you know, I have voice problems caused by my cancer treatments fourteen years ago. Since then, I have been very interested in the science and culture of voice. I feel like voice is overused as a metaphor, but rarely considered as part of our physical body. How does our voice work? What happens when it fails? How does our voice influence our interactions with each other? These are some of the questions I will be exploring on a new blog called "Notes on Voice." I hope you will check it out.
Right now, there is only one posting about a woman who just had a successful voice box transplant. I plan to have more postings soon.
Ok, it's a little late to be making a 2010 end-of-year list, but lisa b. asked and how can I refuse? So, here is the list of tv shows I watched in 2010. I will tell you that for some of these (perhaps many) there was more than one season involved. I will also remind your that for the first three months of 2010, I was very pregnant and not really in the mood to do much besides sit around--and eat french fries. Don't judge me, people. Just consider how truly awesome tv is. I should also add that Will and I don't actually have a tv; it's amazing how much tv a person can watch without a tv.
Mad Men
Community (if you haven't seen this, you must! best tv out there)
30 Rock
Caprica (I just want this to be better than it is. I miss BSG. tears)
True Blood
Walking Dead
Being Human (which is so, so good. and now there is going to be a lame U.S. version because it is apparently difficult to understand those British accents)
Luther (kind of ridiculous in its psycho-drama ways, but pretty entertaining)
Top Chef
Top Chef Just Desserts
Top Chef All-Stars
Iron Chef America
The Next Iron Chef
The Closer
Big Love
Circus (if you didn't see this, go to PBS right now and watch. It is fantastic!)
Sherlock. meh
The Daily Show
Colbert
South Park
The Sarah Silverman Show
Ugly Americans
Important Things
America's Next Top Model. I know, forgive me.
Project Runway
V
The Vampire Diaries
The Tudors
The Border (the best Canadian tv show, which got cancelled. whatever)
Dragon's Den. Canadian entrepreneurs pitch ideas to Canadian millionaires. love it.
So You Think You Can Dance. Thanks guy on Facebook who posts these episodes. You are doing an important public service.
Flash Forward. This was so lame. I can't believe I watched this. But I am sure I will watch if they make Season 2.
There were also a smattering of episodes from: House, the Good Wife, the Office, Gray's Anatomy, the Practice, and Family Guy.
My favorites from this list are Circus, Community, Being Human, and True Blood. The rest I probably could have lived without. But that won't stop me from watching.
Leaving 2010 makes me feel old. When I was a kid, 2010 was like the end of time, the ultimate future. Predictions about future events never speculated beyond 2010. I would think about 2010 and be like woah, I'll be 37 in 2010 and that's old. And now 2010 is gone.
I decided to add a second end of 2010 list (because I see how much everyone loved and felt compelled to comment on my book list! :). I was going to do a music, movies, and tv list because the music list is short but then I decided to add videos (awesome, I know) and that made the post long. It's January 2nd people and these lists can only go on so long, so maybe you will not get my movies and tv lists and that's probably ok because a) lisa b. has the definitive movie list and b) recording my tv-watching, as I've said before, may be too embarrassing.
Music I didn't purchase or listen to much new music in 2010. Much of what I did purchase was not new in 2010, so you'll have to go elsewhere for your definitive view of the year in music (I know, it's disappointing).
Richard Hawley, Truelove's Gutter. This came out at the end of 2009, but I am counting it here because I love Richard Hawley and I think you should too.
The Swell Season, Strict Joy. Also a late 2009 entry. While my sister saw the Swell Season perform multiple times in 2010, I was stuck listening to the album, but I'm not complaining.
Josh Rouse, The Besk of the Rykodisc Years. I bought this because there is this song of his, "Dressed Up Like Nebraska," that I bought randomly when Will and I were making a state-by-state playlist for our long drive to the cold, cold north. I love that song. I didn't love this album as much. But that's ok.
Purple Rain. After three years of watching Purple Rain (the movie) on Christmas Eve with Will, I decided I needed the actual album. Everything about it is awesome, which sort of goes without saying.
A couple of other purchases in the nostalgia category: Aztec Camera, Stray and the Very Best of the Human League. I bought the Human League album because of something my sister posted on Facebook. Damn that Facebook.
Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros, Up From Below and Arcade Fire, The Suburbs. (These were technically Will purchases). I love Edward Sharpe--hippy, dippy but I don't care. Neither Will nor I cared for the Suburbs. pretentious much?
Some music for Miss Imogen: Woody Guthrie's Songs to Grow on For Mother and Child and Dan Zane's Catch That Train. Dan Zanes does "family music" that kids like and parents won't want to kill themselves listening to. American-roots' inspired. Imogen is dancing to it right now and that's pretty adorable.
Finally, a couple of end of the year Christmas music purchases: A Colbert Christmas and A Xmas Postcard from Willie (that's Willie Nelson).
