In December I...



...watched the following films:
Keith Richards: Under The Influence - dir. Morgan Neville
Grandma - dir. Paul Weitz
Steve Jobs - dir. Danny Boyle
Brooklyn - dir. John Crowley
blur: New World Towers - dir. Sam Wrench
Citizenfour - dir. Laura Poitras
Spy - dir. Paul Feig
Iris - dir. Albert Maysles
Inside Out - dir. Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen
The Dance of Reality ("La danza de la realidad") - dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky
The Gift - dir. Joel Edgerton
A Very Murray Christmas - dir. Sofia Coppola
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation - dir. Christopher McQuarrie
Trumbo - dir. Jay Roach
Red Army - dir. Gabe Polsky
Carol - dir. Todd Haynes
Star Wars: The Force Awakens - dir. JJ Abrams
The Wolfpack - dir. Crystal Moselle

...got the following music:
Dwight Twilley Band - Twilley Don't Mind (vinyl)
Dwight Twilley Band - Sincerely
Francoise Hardy - The Vogue Years
Bread - The Sound Of Bread - Their 20 Finest Songs (vinyl)
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Stranger In Town (vinyl)
Fine Young Cannibals - The Raw and The Cooked (vinyl)
Tom Waits - Closing Time (vinyl)
Talking Heads - Remain in Light (vinyl)
Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues (vinyl)
Talking Heads - The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads (vinyl)
REM - Reckoning (vinyl)
Madness - One Step Beyond (vinyl)
Madness - Absolutely (vinyl)

...also got:
You Only Live - David O'Doherty

...read the following books:
The Long Gaze Back: An Anthlogy of Irish Women Writers edited by Sinéad Gleeson

...saw Jimmy Carr at the Olympia
...saw EL VY at Vicar Street
...saw Ash at the Olympia

DID MY END OF YEAR LISTS:
MOVIES: My Fave 50 films of 2015  bit.ly/1Nugbhl
MUSIC: My Fave 20 albums of 2015 bit.ly/1OizrQM

Contributed my Year in Film Diary to Spooool.ie and along with a bunch of other fine folk contibruted my top ten films in the year to go with theirs.