A Viewing Life

Screenings

199520012007201320202026
6.1 20.5 1.9 screenings per quarter
screenings, cumulative659
screenings logged660one hand-kept diary, July 1995 to May 2015
distinct titles580517 of them seen exactly oncebest year2001110 screenings, one every 3.3 daystitles seen 3+ times1037 screenings between themthe 1995 Clueless run
  • 20 Jul✓
  • 23 Jul✓
  • 24 Jul✓
  • 25 Jul✓
  • 26 Jul✓
  • 27 Jul✓
6 screenings in eight days, July 1995

Company

199520012007201320202026
0.4 11.6 1.7 screenings with company, per quarter
people met, cumulative136
screenings naming someone35854% of the diary; the most present companion accounts for 110
people named136after the review sitting merged the spellingsmost present companion110a name kept in the private recordsaid he went alone6silence is unrecorded, not solitudemost present, by rank
  • 1st110
  • 2nd60
  • 3rd33
  • 4th28
  • 5th28
five people; the names stay private

Places

199520012007201320202026
9.5 1.2 screenings at a named venue, per quarter
venues, cumulative122
named venues122multiplexes, theatres, ballparks and one ship
city clusters4New York, Colorado, Boston, Nashvillecountries2the United States, and one port callscreenings at sea8aboard the S.S. Universe Explorer, Fall 2000most visited
  • Loew's Lincoln Square27
  • Highlands Ranch 2416
  • a friend’s house14
  • home, New York14

The logged era

199520012007201320202026
diary ends log begins logged events per quarter
events, cumulative812
events since the diary ended812Trakt, January 2017 to September 2026
the gap between them20months, May 2015 to January 2017films logged307and 505 television episodes across 71 showscarrying a companion0and no venue: 6 fields the log cannot holdsources
  • Diaryimported
  • Traktimported
  • Netflixnot yet
Netflix would fill the gap; it is not imported

All four strips share one axis of 125 quarters, from the third quarter of 1995 to the third quarter of 2026. Amber lines are era averages over 1995–1998, 1999–2004 and 2005–2015, annotated with their value. The fourth strip is a different corpus on the same axis: two rose markers show where the diary stops and where the log begins, and the 20 months between them are covered by nothing. Company and place figures cover the 464 annotated rows; the heroes and the figures beneath them cover all 660. The strips and steps for the first three columns run over the 659 rows that carry a year and a month, which is why the cumulative line stops one short of the hero: one screening in the diary has no date at all. In the public shape, people are counted but not named, and two venues that are homes are described rather than named. Every other figure is verbatim from the private cover.