• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 8) Volume 8: Last Gleaming - Joss Whedon
• I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith

• St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves - Karen Russell
• I Live Here - Mia Kirshner, J.B. Mackinnon, Paul Shoebridge, and Michael Simons
• Food Rules: An Eater's Manual - Michael Pollan
• The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling - Maryrose Wood
• Zombie Spaceship Wasteland - Patton Oswalt
• No One Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July
• Swamplandia - Karen Russell
• Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire
• An Object of Beauty - Steve Martin
• The Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris - Alicia Drake
• The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place...

• Confessions of a Teen Sleuth - Chelsea Cain
• Goodbye Tsugumi - Banana Yoshimoto
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 8) Volume 4: Time of Your Life - Joss Whedon
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 8) Volume 5: Predators and Prey - Joss Whedon
• Stitches - David Small
• Born Standing Up - Steve Martin
• Tamara Drewe - Posy Simmonds
• Fray - Joss Whedon
• Tin House #44: Summer Reading
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 8) Volume 6: Retreat - Joss Whedon
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 8) Volume 7: Twilight - Joss Whedon

• the yellow dress w/ fancy dan band @ dog-eared books [3/4]
• primal scream @ the fillmore [3/17]
• the vaselines @ bimbos [5/11]
• a camp @ the independent [6/14]
• jarvis cocker @ the fillmore [7/28]
• sonic youth @ the independent [8/3]
• the yellow dress w/ foxtails brigade @ ATA [8/28]
• an evening with fran healy and andy dunlop of travis @ swedish american hall [10/8]
• echo and the bunnymen @ the fox theatre oakland [10/22]
• rose melberg @ needles and pens [10/29]
• the yellow dress @ thee parkside [11/8]
• pixies @ the fox theatre oakland [11/9]

new releases seen: 69

• WALL-E
• Timecrimes
• Reprise
• Let The Right One In
• Paranoid Park
• The Wrestler
• Towelhead
• Happy-Go-Lucky
• Milk
• Tropic Thunder

Honorable Mention:

The Dark Knight, Changeling

Best Movie Seen With No US Release:

The Christmas Tale (Spain, 2005)

Best Teen Movie:

Twilight

Best Performance:

Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

• The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
• The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
• American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
• Apartment Therapy: The Eight-Step Home Cure - Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan
• A Gift of Magic - Lois Duncan
• They Never Came Home - Lois Duncan
• Don't Look Behind You - Lois Duncan
• Gallow's Hill - Lois Duncan
• I know What You Did Last Summer - Lois Duncan
• My Happy Life - Lydia Millet
• Hardboiled and Hard Luck - Banana Yoshimoto
• The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
• The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories - Tim Burton
• New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
• Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer

• jarvis cocker @ the fillmore [4/28]
• the good the bad & the queen @ the grand ballroom [4/29]
• fields @ cafe du nord [4/30]
• cocorosie @ bimbos [5/1]
• travis @ the fillmore [5/2]
• bjork @ shoreline amphitheatre [5/17]
• the arcade fire @ greek theatre berkeley [6/1]
• the pipettes @ Troubadour LA [6/11]
• the long blondes @ the echo LA [6/15]
• sonic youth (daydream nation!) @ berkeley community theatre berkeley [7/19]
• 1990s @ cafe du nord [8/6]
• cat power @ the fillmore [9/19]
• air @ bimbos [9/20]
• morrissey @ the fillmore [9/24]
• travis @ the fillmore [11/20]
• spice girls @ staples center LA [12/5]
• dewey cox and the hard walkers @ great american music hall [12/10]

• Tig and Friends @ Cobbs Comedy Club/SF Sketchfest
• The Arbor w/ director Clio Barnard @ SFIFF 54 [5/4]
• The Little Mermaid Ballet w/ Yuan Yuan @ San Francisco Ballet [5/7]
• The Paul F. Tompkins Show @ The Largo [5/21]
• Re-Animator - The Musical @ The Steve Allen Theatre [5/22]

• the pains of being pure at heart @ great american music hall [4/19]
• vivian girls @ the rickshaw stop [5/4]
• rhett miller @ swedish american hall [5/7]
• dum dum girls w/ crocodiles and colleen green @ troubadour [10/3]

• the yummy fur @ the echo LA [1/17]
• girls with guns & skeleton television @ the stork club oakland [1/30]
• girls @ great american music hall [2/14]
• el perro del mar @ cafe du nord [3/2]
• metric @ the fox theatre oakland [3/24]
• bear in heaven @ bottom of the hill [3/25]
• air @ the fox theatre oakland [3/26]
• go sailor w/ lots @ the rickshaw stop [3/27]
• charlotte gainsbourg @ the palace of fine arts [4/17]
• camera obscura w/ best coast @ great american music hall [4/21]
• grass widow @ bottom of the hill [6/27]
• dum dum girls @ bottom of the hill [6/30]-
• the charlatans @ bimbos 365 [9/20]
• vaselines w/ dum dum girls @ great american music hall [10/20]

new releases seen: 100

• Drag Me to Hell
• Inglourious Basterds
• Moon
• Whip It
• Confessions of a Shopaholic
• Adventureland
• Observe and Report
• Jennifer's Body
• Star Trek
• Zombieland

Honorable Mention:

A Single Man, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, The Fantastic Mr. Fox

Best Movie Seen With No U.S. Release:

Troubled Water (Norway, 2008)

Best Teen Movie

Bring It On

: Fight to the Finish

• Fun Home - Alison Bechdel
• Summer of Fear - Lois Duncan
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Cameron Crowe
• Flowers in the Attic - VC Andrews
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 8) Volume 2: No Future For You - Brian K Vaughan
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 8) Volume 3: Wolves at the Gate - Drew Goddard
• Angel: After The Fall - Brian Lynch
• Zelda: A Biography - Nancy Milford
• Dance Dance Dance - Haruki Murakami
• The Shadow in the North (Sally Lockhart Trilogy, Book 2) - Philip Pullman
• Life of Pi: Deluxe Illustrated Edition - Yann Martel

• goldfrapp @ the warfield [4/26]
• sigur ros @ greek theatre berkeley [10/3]

• The Lord of the Rings Part One: The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
• Pure Drivel - Steve Martin
• The Dead Fathers Club - Matt Haig
• I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence - Amy Sedaris
• The Listeners - Christopher Pike
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
• Tiger Eyes - Judy Blume
• American Gods - Neil Gaiman
• The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 8) The Long Way Home - Joss Whedon
• The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1) - Lemony Snicket
• The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 2) - Lemony Snicket
• The Complete Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi...