resolution

I was thinking about goals this morning and how we make resolutions at the beginning of each year. For most, it's an excuse to say "I want to lose -insert random number here- pounds" or "I want to quit -insert awful addiction here-".

Seeing as how I need to NOT lose weight and the only current addiction I have (other than ED) is caffeine...my resolution for this past year has been to broaden my already pretty vast horizons by viewing 100 new films and reading 50 new novels. And here, my friends, is the progress so far:

Novels: January
1) "Coyote Blue" by Christopher Moore
2) "A Series of Unfortunate Events 13: The End" by Lemony Snicket
3) "Grave Sight" by Charlaine Harris
4) "The Ladies of Grace Adieu" by Susanna Clarke
5) "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson
6) "Fate and Ms. Fortune" by Saralee Rosenberg
7) "A Crack in the Line" by Michael Laurence
8) "The Shroud of the Thwacker" by Chris Elliot
9) "Candide" by Voltaire
10) "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing" by M.T. Anderson
11) "You Suck" by Christopher Moore

Films: January
1) Mission Impossible
2) The Newton Boys
3) A Sound of Thunder
4) Lucky Number Slevin
5) The Descent
6) John Tucker Must Die
7) Meet the Parents
8) Analyze This
9) Heat
10) Shanghai Noon
11) Head of State
12) Training Day
13) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3
14) Shanghai Knights
15) True Lies
16) Analyze That
17) Silver Streak
18) Idiocracy
19) Ice Age 2
20) American Dreamz
21) Snakes on a Plane
22) You, Me, and Dupree

Novels: February
12) "A Study in Scarlet" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
13) "The Sign of Four" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
14) "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
15) "The Beautiful and the Damned" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
16) "The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear" by Walter Moers

Films: February
23) Suspicion
24) Employee of the Month
25) Marie Antoinette
26) Die Hard
27) High Fidelity
28) Idlewild
29) Thank You For Smoking
30) Swingers
31) Fletch
32) Grosee Pointe Blank

Novels: March
17) "People Who Died During Sex" by Karl Shaw
18) "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
19) "The Hound of Baskervilles" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
20) "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys
21) "Lamb" by Christopher Moore
22) "The Boy Detective Fails" by Joe Meno
23) "The Spellman FIles" by Lisa Lutz

Films: March
33) Mission Impossible 2
34) Man of the Year
35) Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny
36) The Wicker Man
37) Over the Hedge
38) French Kiss
39) Showgirls
40) The Departed
41) Zodiac
42) Cars
43) Casino Royale
44) The Prestige
45) Let's Go To Jail
46) Glory Road
47) TMNT

Novels: April
24) "The Case of the Missing Books" by Ian Sansom
25) "Homeward Bound" by Elaine May
26) "The Stand" by Stephen King
27) "The Tommyknockers" by Stephen King

Films: April
48) Splash
49) Planet Terror
50) Deathproof
51) Flags of our Fathers
52) Fantastic Four
53) Stranger than Fiction
54) Aqua Teen Hunger Force
55) Click
56) Oklahoma!
57) Smokin' Aces

Novels: May
28) "The Dark Half" by Stephen King
29) "Drama: The Four Dorothys" by Paul Ruditis
30) "Evil Genius" by Catherine Jinks
31) "The Kingdom Keepers" by Ridley Pearson

Films: May
58) Urban Legends
59) Spiderman 3
60) Confetti
61) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
62) The Boondock Saints
63) Disturbia
64) Deja Vu
65) Casino
66) Dreamgirls
67) Pan's Labyrinth
68) Pirates 3

Novels: June
32) "Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War" by Clive Barker
33) "Interview With A Vampire" by Anne Rice
34) "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
35) "Brave New Wrold" by Aldous Huxley

Films: June
69) Rocky Balboa
70) Shrek 3
71) Bobby
72) Flyboys
73) Die Hard 3
74) Harsh Times
75) Ocean's Thriteen
76) The Good German
77) Music & Lyrics
78) Knocked Up
79) Rocky
80) 1408
81) Live Free or Die Hard

Novels: July
36) "Something Wicked This Way Comes" by Ray Bradbury
37) "Salem's Lot" by Stephen King
38) "On What Grounds" by Cleo Coyle
39) "Mr. Dixon DIsappears" by Ian Sansom
40) "The Cure" by Sonia Levitin
41) "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

Films: July
82) Game 6
83) License to Wed
84) Harry Potter 5
85) Pearl Harbor
86) We Were Soliders
87) Poseidon
88) The Simpsons Movie
89) Hairspray
90) Hot Fuzz

Novels: August
42) "Freaks" by Annette Curtis Klause
43) "How Right You Are, Jeeves" by P.G. Wodehouse
44) "Through the Grinder" by Cleo Coyle
45) "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
46) "Wasted" by Marya Hornbacher

Films: August
91) The Number 23
92) The Stand
93) I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
94) Reign of Fire
95) I Think I Love My Wife
96) Must Love Dogs

So as you can see so far I am quite on top of my goal and I am surely going to venture to accomplish the same next year. Through this resolution, I've learned a lot and I feel more culturally refined (even though some of my enjoyments have certaintly left something to be desired regarding taste) and at least I know that I didn't give up the goat one month into my new year like most weight loss and stop smoking resolutionists often do.