I have made some ambitious plans for the holidays to keep me active:
- Watch 100 movies (50 new and 50 that I’ve seen before). I suspect that 90-95% of them will be on DVD, and I’ll only go to the cinemas to see 5-10 movies. The progressing list is below, with a star rating out of five (with exceptional movies getting a sixth):
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (new) – ******
- The Wild Bunch (new) – ***1/2
- The Magnificent Seven (new) – ****
- The Music of Chance (new) – ***1/2
- Little Miss Sunshine (old) – ******
- Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (old) – ****1/2
- Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (old) – ******
- Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (old) – ****
- Iron Man (new) – ***1/2
- The Bourne Identity (old) – ****
- The Bourne Supremacy (new) – ***1/2
- The Bourne Ultimatium (new) – ****
- Midnight Cowboy (new) – ***1/2
- Napoleon Dynamite (old) – *****
- Donnie Darko (old) – ******
- Independence Day (old) – ***
- Bobby (old) – *****
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (old) – ****1/2
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (old) – ****
- Hannah Montana: The Movie (new) – **1/2
- 3:10 to Yuma (old) – ****
- Hitch (new) – **
- X2 (new) – ***
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (old) – ***1/2
- Read 20 books, with a 10/10 split between the old and the new. This in itself will eclipse my reading record of the past few years in which I have read, at most, 10 books not prescribded by uni.
- Read: The Audacity to Win, by David Plouffe
- Currently reading: Going Rogue: An American Life, by Sarah Palin
- Speechless, by Matthew Latime
- What Happened, by Scott McClellan
- Casino Royale, by Ian Fleming
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s, by Truman Capote
- The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
- The Quiet American, by Grahame Green
- American Lion, by Jon Meachal
- Blog post at a rate of 50%.
- Current post rate from week starting 25 October, 2009: 50%
All while maintaining work and a social life. The easy part is the movies I reckon. The books is the most difficult. Posting won’t be hard because I’ll probably write a fair bit about where I’m up to in this list. Similarly, I’m keen to revive the blog as Facebook is tailing off for me, and Twitter is acting more as junction which I can go to to find topics to talk about.
Thomas.
Long live the blog!
No Australian authors?
You’ve pointed something out that I hadn’t actually noticed. No, I hadn’t planned to read any Australian books. Though now I think I might go and find some. Admittedly, I have read very few Australian novels, and I haven’t enjoyed them. That might have something to do with it.