Music
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December
Charlie Winston, Elizabeth Fraser, Pet Shop Boys…
November
Archive, Peter Broderick, Moderat, Ohbijou, Fedaden…
October
Soap & Skin, Little Boots, BuffetLibre DJs, Foy Vance, Portishead, Muse, Röyksopp…
September
Soulsavers, Wolfgang Haffner, One eskimO…
August
The Low Anthem, Scott Matthew, …
July
Zwicker, Pony Pony Run Run, Grafton Primary, Robin Foster…
June
Fink, Mike Oldfield, Moby, Patrick Wolf…
Mayo
Fischerspooner, Telefon Tel Aviv, Amon Tobin, DM Stith…
April
Lamb, Pet Shop Boys, Anneke van Giersbergen, Flairs, IAMX…
March
Anna Ternheim, Nina Kinert, Wagner’s “Lohengrin“…
February
Peter Adams, Erasure, Vetusta Morla…
January
Antony and the Johnsons, Travis, Elton John, Jeff Beal, Ane Brun, La Prohibida, Ashley Slater…
Books
Millennium I: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
Lo Que Son Las Cosas, Germán Jiménez (II Premio Martín Recuerda de Teatro)
El Huevo de los Mártires, Alejandro V. García (I Premio Martín Recuerda de Teatro)
Arrepentimiento y otros cuentos, Guy de Maupassant
Héroes: primera temporada, Aron Eli Colette y otros
Atrapa el pez dorado: meditación, conciencia y creatividad, David Lynch
Scene and Structure, Jack Bickham
Xenophobe’s Guide to the Germans, Stefan Zeidenitz & Ben Barlow
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 1910 Century, Alan Moore
Dubliners, James Joyce
La Voz A Ti Debida, Pedro Salinas
Plot, Ansen Dibell
Voice of the Fire, Alan Moore
Gus & Waldo’s Book of Sex, Massimo Fenati
Arabian Nights (a selection)
Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, John Boyne
Il Libro dell’Amore di Gus & Waldo, Massimo Fenati
Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll 
nice, but less
Lost: Endangered Species, Cathy Hapka worst one this year so far
Let The Right One In, John Ajvide Lindqvist weak
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll amusing!
I Am Legend, Richard Matheson powerful
The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger interesting but not gripping
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol.2, Alan Moore delightful
Character and Viewpoint, Orson Scott Card useful
The English Roses 2, Goodbye Grace?, Madonna bad, bad, worse
Diary, Chuck Palahniuk
Persepolis, Marjane Satriani bravo to the cuteness
Mañana en la Batalla Piensa en Mí, Javier Marías when I grow up I’ll write half as well
The Runaway Jury, John Grisham engaging pace, then loses strength
Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee well written, Mr. Nobel prize, but gosh, was it depressive…
How to write science fiction and fantasy, Orson Scott Card good “how to write…”, lame “…sci-fi and fantasy”
The Complete Calvin & Hobbes volume 2, Bill Waterson shows signs of exhaustion near the end, but still delicious
A Spot of Bother, Mark Haddon quick to read, excessive bad mojo, gets slightly better towards the end
Momo, Michael Ende a morale to carry around everywhere
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame quite uneventful
Dropped along the way
The Holy Bible: Genesis
The Stories of David Leavitt, David Leavitt
Liebesgedichte (Love Poems), Anne Sexton
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
Los Hermosos Vencidos, Leonard Cohen
Movies
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Chicago
All About Eve
A Straight Story
3 Dias
Knocked Up
Volver
Let The Right One In
Blindness impressive
2012
Starship Troopers
New In Town
Patrick Age 1,5
The Big Gay Musical
Ghosted (Mei Li)
Tú Eliges
Ander
Up movie of the year
Monsters Inc. still good Pixar
The Incredibles yet another achievement
Slumdog Millionaire pretentious bore
Moon delivers
District 9 good premise, bad logic
Ratatouille delicatessen as fresh as just made
The Fall unique
Cars far too American for Europe
Star Trek (2009) fun
Los Cronocrímenes just enough
Children of Men best of the decade
Women on he Verge of a Nervous Breakdown still just as fresh, such fun!
Wallace & Gromit, Curse of the Were-Rabbit just genius, but only in OV
Watchmen visually compelling
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog cute simple fun
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button run, Forrest, run!
Kung Fu Panda silly plot with stunning everything-else
Valkyrie docummentary?
Futurama: Bender’s Game way lame
Shortbus would not recommend it to my nieces – for everyone else, unmissable – unique!
Keeping Mum delicious British humour
Resident Evil: Regeneration little to tell
Stardust yet lovelier!
Encantada lovely!
24 – Redemption merely functional
TV Series
Ongoing
The Simpsons 10×03
Plutón BRB Nero episode 17
Desperate Housewives 6×06
The Golden Girls 3×03
Fringe 2×07
The Big Bang Theory 3×08
Tales of the Abyss episodio 10
History
The IT Crowd, season 2
Little Britain, season 1 memorable but irregular
Firefly (reviewing) not as charming as I remembered
Fringe, season 1 keeps getting better
The Golden Girls, season 1 never gets old, surprisingly
Pushing Daisies, season 2 even better than the first one, pity the rushed ending
24, season 7 nicely updated
The Big Bang Theory season 2 Sheldon wears out, Penny grows on
Desperate Housewives, season 5 it began better than it ended
Lost, season 5 :-Oh!
The Big Bang Theory, season 1 fun!
Damages, season 1 some bad editing choices, but pretty well plotted
Battlestar Galactica, season 4 bittersweet ending (I suddenly miss Carnivàle’s ambiguity)
Pushing Daisies lovely routine (let’s see when they release the 3 kidnapped episodes…)
Chuck 1×06 left it there: copy-paste scripts, simple, silly
The IT Crowd, season 3 fun, but nothing comparable to 2×01
Dropped along the way
Flashforward 1×04
The Golden Girls 2×02
House 5×07
Will & Grace, season 2
Videogames
Playing
Pikimin 2 (Wii)
Carcassonne (DS & board)
Wii Sports Resorts (Wii)
History
New Super Mario Bros. (Wii) 5 stars!
Scribblenauts (DS) pointless
Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box (DS) just as good
Zack & Wiki (Wii) finally finished it!
Boom Blox: Bash Party (Wii) unnecesarily complicated
Boom Blox (Wii) nicely uncomplicated
World of Goo (Wii) a 10!
Okami (Wii) sorry, fox, you’re not my type
NinjaTown (DS) simple but it hooks you!
Disaster: Day of Crisis like a good season of “24″
Shows
La Prohibida (January 2nd, Tic-Tac, Granada)
Hair (January 14th, English Theatre, Frankfurt)
Travis (February 9th, Mousonturm, Frankfurt)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (February 13th, K52 Theater, Frankfurt)
Caligula, Detlev Glanert (March 6th, Oper Frankfurt)
Angels in America, Mari Mezei y Tony Kushner (March 25th, Bockenheimer Depot, Frankfurt)
La Reforma Incompleta, Álex Hernández (March 21st, Auditorio de Salobreña, Granada)
The Rocky Horror Show (April 15th, Alte Oper, Frankfurt)
Elektra, Richard Strauss (April 24th, Alte Oper, Frankfurt)
Ane Brun (May 3rd, Brotfabrik, Frankfurt)
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett (May 5th, English Theatre, Frankfurt)
Lohengrin, Richard Wagner (May 17th, Oper Frankfurt)
Stomp (August 27th, Alte Oper, Frankfurt)
Madame Butterfly (September 26th, Teatro Massimo, Palermo)
The Deer Tracks + Patrick Wolf (September 30th, Mousonturm, Frankfurt)
Tori Amos (October 5th, Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt)
IAMX (October 24th, Das Bett, Frankfurt)
Pet Shop Boys (December 14th, Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt)