At last: a list

Posted & filed under End of Year Round-up, Life, Lists.

Ever since I kept a weblog, I’ve summed up my year in music, books and stuff in a list. This year, likewise. Small change though: albums and song of the year don’t necessary have to be from the last year, as long as they were new to me this year.

  • The List of my Favorite Albums of the Year:
    • Dream Theater — Systematic Chaos
    • Dusty Springfield — Dusty in Memphis
    • Bruce Springsteen — Magic
    • Jenny Owen Youngs — Batten the Hatches
    • Muse — Black Holes and Revelations
  • Most Disappointing New Album of the Year
    • Iced Earth — Framing Armageddon (Something Wicked Part 1)
  • The List of Songs I Dug a lot this Year:
    • Dream Theater — The Dark Eternal Night (and I’ve made an edited version to kick you in the butt)
    • Ellen Foley — Beat of a Broken Heart
    • Rainbow — Stargazer
  • The List of Songs I don’t Have to Hear ever again, because They were Played to Death this Year:
    • Delilah from the Plain White T’s
    • That annoying ping-pong song
  • The List of Musical (re-)Discoveries of the Year:
    • Ellen Foley
    • Jenny Owen Youngs
    • Ronnie James Dio (Rainbow, Sabbath, Heaven & Hell)
    • Marillion
  • The List of Live Performances I’ve Seen This Year:
    • 2007-12-29 — Krezip, Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam
    • 2007-12-09 — a balladeer, Paradiso (kleine zaal), Amsterdam
    • 2007-10-09 — Dream Theater + Symphony X, Ahoy’, Rotterdam
    • 2007-07-01 — “Vámpírok Bálja”, Pesti Magyar Színáz, Budapest, Hungary
    • 2007-06-27 — Meat Loaf + Marion Raven, Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam
    • 2007-06-16/17 — Fields of Rock, Biddinghuizen
      • Iron Maiden
      • Dream Theater
      • Heaven and Hell
      • After Forever
      • Delain
      • Slayer, Type O Negative, Dublin Death Patrol, Life of Agony, Motörhead, et al.
    • 2007-06-14 — Meat Loaf + Marion Raven, Kölnarena, Cologne, Germany
    • 2007-04-10 — Rocket Scientists and Lana Lane + Dial, De Kade, Zaandam
    • 2007-03-30 — Delain + NovAct, Gigant, Apeldoorn
    • 2007-03-19 — Bløf, Muziekcentrum Frits Philips, Eindhoven
    • 2007-02-10 — “Tanz der Vampire in Concert”, Raimund Theater, Vienna, Austria
    • 2007-01-30 — Bløf, De Flint, Amersfoort
  • The List of Concerts I had Tickets for but did not Attend:
    • 2007-11-20 — Meat Loaf, Ahoy’, Rotterdam (cancelled)
    • 2007-12-15 — a balladeer, J.M. Fentener van Vlissingenzaal, Utrecht (scheduling conflict)
  • The List of Other Cultural Events I’ve Attended This Year:
    • 2007-11-21 — Brigitte Kaandorp, Zo. (try out), De Lieve Vrouw, Amersfoort
    • 2007-11-10 — Dolf Jansen, Geen Oudejaarsvoorstelling, Stadsschouwburg, Utrecht
    • 2007-04-28 — Lebbis, Het Kwaad, De Flint, Amersfoort
    • 2007-02-15 — Jenny Arean, Wende Snijders ea, Het Verschil, De Flint, Amersfoort
  • The List of my Favorite Performances I’ve Attended this Year:
    1. 2007-06-17 — Dream Theater, Fields of Rock, Biddinghuizen
    2. 2007-06-16 — Heaven and Hell, Fields of Rock, Biddinghuizen
    3. 2007-07-01 — “Vámpírok Bálja”, Pesti Magyar Színáz, Budapest, Hungary
  • The List of the Most Disappointing Performances I’ve Attended this Year:
    1. 2007-06-14 — Meat Loaf + Marion Raven, Kölnarena, Cologne, Germany
    2. 2007-06-27 — Meat Loaf + Marion Raven, Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam
  • The List of Books I’ve Read This Year in Reversed Chronological Order:
    • H.P. Lovecraft — Tales of H.P. Lovecraft ( selected and edited by Joyce Carol Oates ) (still reading)
    • Susanna Clarke — The Ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories
    • Miranda July — No One Belongs Here More Than You
    • Stephen King — Rose Madder
    • Terry Pratchett — The Light Fantastic
    • Neil Gaiman — Smoke & Mirrors
    • Richard Dawkins — The God Delusion
    • Stephen King — Christine
    • Diederik van Vleuten, Erik van Muiswinkel — Verzamelde Mannen
    • JK Rowling — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    • Richard Bachman — Blaze
    • Russell Kirkpatrick — The Right Hand of God ( Fire of Heaven Book Three )
    • Stephen King — Firestarter
    • Carlos Ruiz Zafón — Gaudí in Manhattan
    • Stephen King — Cujo
    • Sir Thomas More — Utopia
    • Evert Hartman — Niemand houdt mij tegen, een avontuur in de 22ste eeuw
    • Philip Pullman — Lyra’s Oxford
    • Stephen King — The Dead Zone
    • Jan Siebelink — Knielen op een bed violen
    • Terry Pratchett — The Colour of Magic
    • Russell Kirkpatrick — In the Earth Abides the Flame ( Fire of Heaven Book Two )
    • Maria Goos — Leef!
    • Stephen King — Lisey’s Story
  • The Best Three Books I’ve Read This Year:
    1. Jan Siebelink — Knielen op een bed violen
    2. Richard Bachman — Blaze
    3. Stephen King — Rose Madder
  • The List of Books I didn’t Quite get to in 2007:
    • Rich Wilson — Lifting Shadows, The Authorized Biography of Dream Theater
  • The List of Most Disappointing Final Book in a Series of Novels:
    • JK Rowling — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  • The List of Comics I Endorse This Year:
  • The List of Things I Could Really Get Worked Up About Again:
    • He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named-Because-He-Just-Wants-The-Attention (But-Has-a-Weird-Hairdo-All-the-Same)
    • People complaining about the impending ban on smoking: it’s your dirty habbit, so suck it
  • The List of my Favorite Photo’s of the Year:
  • The list of Countries I hadn’t Visited before I Visited them this year:
    • Austria
    • Hungary
    • Andorra
  • The List of Places Where I’ve Spent the Night This Year:
  • The list of Waddeneilanden I visited this year:
    • Texel
  • The List of Things I Really Did See, Hear or Do of My “Things I Really Want To See, Hear or Do in 2007” List:
    • Did not quite port my website to PHP, but got a new one all the same
    • I have not messed with perfection.

See you on the other side.