{"id":107,"date":"2007-12-30T21:07:06","date_gmt":"2007-12-30T09:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/30\/100\/"},"modified":"2012-09-23T15:59:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T03:59:25","slug":"100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/100\/","title":{"rendered":"100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gosh.<\/p>\n<p>Hundredth post.<\/p>\n<p>I may not have written as much as I wanted to since 1 January 2007 but I&#8217;ve &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>run a total of 558kms (97kms of that sans <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/13\/s-a-dogs-life\/\">mongrel<\/a>);<\/li>\n<li>picked up 170 books, comics and scripts, and read 137 right through;<\/li>\n<li>and sat down to watch 128 films, DVDs and TV series, and watched 105 right to the (<a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/26\/awful-awful-awful\/\">sometimes bitter<\/a>) end.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8216;S not bad. And because it&#8217;s that time of the year, I give you a list of notable and recommended reading and viewing experiences (in strict alphabetical order):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">comics:<\/span> Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alias_(comics)\" target=\"_blank\">Alias<\/a>, Charles Burns&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/columnist\/arnold\/article\/0,9565,1121476,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Black Hole<\/a>, Brian K Vaughan and Tony Harris&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ex_Machina_(comics)\" target=\"_blank\">Ex-Machina<\/a>, Chester Brown&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/I-Never-Liked-You-Definitive\/dp\/1896597149\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1198910146&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">I Never Liked You<\/a>, Jimbo&#8217;s <em>Pulp Sticktion<\/em> strip in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmcnz.co.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\">DMC<\/a>&#8216;s <em>New Ground<\/em> anthology, and Alex Robinson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookalex.com\/Tricked.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tricked<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">scripts:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horrorlair.com\/movies\/28-weeks-later-script.html\">28 Weeks Later<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/awards.universalpictures.com\/pdf\/bourne.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Bourne Ultimatum<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyscript.com\/scripts\/Casino-Royale.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Casino Royale<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miramaxhighlights.com\/pdfs\/Gone%20Baby%20Gone.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Gone Baby Gone<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0403407\/\" target=\"_blank\">Perfect Creature<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">books:<\/span> Carl Hiaasen&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basket_Case_(novel)\" target=\"_blank\">Basket Case<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001214\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Figgis<\/a>&#8216; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Digital-Filmmaking-Mike-Figgis\/dp\/0571226256\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1198909973&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Filmmaking<\/a>, Thomas Harris&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hannibal_Rising\" target=\"_blank\">Hannibal Rising<\/a>, Patrick Suskind&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Perfume_(novel)\" target=\"_blank\">Perfume<\/a>, and Patricia Grace&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tu-Patricia-Grace\/dp\/0824829271\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1198909478&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Tu<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">features:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0206634\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Children of Men<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0407887\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Departed<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0404030\/\" target=\"_blank\">Everything is Illuminated<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0379786\/\" target=\"_blank\">Serenity<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0420223\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stranger than Fiction<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">television:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Burn_Notice_(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\">Burn Notice<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Green_Wing\" target=\"_blank\">Green Wing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homicide:_Life_on_the_Street\" target=\"_blank\">Homicide: Life on the Street<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0420415\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Insiders Guide to Happiness<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Shield\" target=\"_blank\">The Shield<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Wire_(television)\" target=\"_blank\">The Wire<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As for the running, I do it only so that I fit my clothes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy new year.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gosh. Hundredth post. I may not have written as much as I wanted to since 1 January 2007 but I&#8217;ve &#8211; run a total of 558kms (97kms of that sans mongrel); picked up 170 books, comics and scripts, and read 137 right through; and sat down to watch 128 films, DVDs and TV series, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/100\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;100&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,9,5,4,6],"tags":[672,673,677,678,675,674,239,425,384,29,30,676],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-film","category-point-click","category-scriptwriting","category-television","tag-alias","tag-black-hole","tag-children-of-men","tag-everything-is-illuminated","tag-hannibal-rising","tag-perfect-creature","tag-running","tag-the-bourne-ultimatum","tag-the-insiders-guide-to-happiness","tag-the-shield","tag-the-wire","tag-tu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3078,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/3078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}