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[shadowkat]

Learned the hard way that the video game The SIMS is dangerous for one's pocketbook. Note to self, do not plant pumpkins and do not give in to prompts. They want you to spend money. It's like Echo Bizarre in that way. Sneaky. If you don't spend money, you can't move forward. The other dangerous item is the kindle where you can purchase books instantly for no more than 3-6 bucks. If I'm not careful the combo of the kindle and the iPad could become wickedly expensive. Wish I could figure out how to borrow books from the library on the thing.

With all the best of the year lists going around...I've realized I can't do one for movies, books or music...because haven't really read anything published in 2011, and most of the movies I saw I can't remember. Music? Everything was created prior to 2011 as far as I know. Or I just can't remember.

So...have a sort of meme?

* What was your favorite song or album of 2011? Or what song or album or singer would you rec for 2011?
* What was your favorite movie? What film would you recommend?
* What was your favorite book? What book?

Mine are:
1. Mumford and sons
2. Crazy,stupid, love
3. Graceling by Kristin Cashore - a YA fantasy novel about a young woman born with the ability to fight, not what you think and oddly the most vivid of the books I read last year, even if I read it last Jan.

Comments

[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

Is the public library lending for the kindle complicated?

I hate it that the legal ways to get digital media are so clumsy and complicated so often.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Well, I can't figure it out...which doesn't necessarily mean it is, just that I don't understand how it works. I know I can't do it on my Amazon Kindle because that is 3G Wireless and not Wifi. I can do it on ipad Kindle app, since that is Wifi...but I don't know how.

[liliaeth]

uhm actually, the key to playing sims social without spending money on it, which I refuse to do, is to friend other people who play the game.

If you play daily, you can get some golden coins every few days. (you just have to remember to actually renew the page every once and a while)

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

It's not sims social...it's sims free play, so a bit different - there's really no friending and I've no clue who plays it. But I refuse to pay any more money on it now. Even if it ties my hands and means I'll lose interest eventually.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

1. Common Rotation's 'Keep an Open Gallery'
(although I haven't actually bought it yet)

2. 'Hugo' which I recommend in 3D, but it would still be beautiful in 2D...
it deserves to be seen on a big screen (not DVD rental)

3. I seriously loved Terry Pratchett's new book 'Snuff', but I may have loved Sue Grafton's 'V is for Vengeance' more (and I did love 'Ghost Stories' a lot too).... This was a good year for my genre favorites!

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the Common Rotation reference, didn't know they had a new album. I love them.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

Yeah I love them too! They have a facebook page:
http://commonrotation.livejournal.com/
Their new album is available on iTunes:
or you can buy the actual CD at their website for just $10:
http://prostores2.carrierzone.com/servlet/commonrotationcom/StoreFront
(I like getting the actual CD but I'm waiting until I'm back home again since I'll be in Texas in January and in Florida in February).