What's your personal pop culture resolution for 2019?
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As we stand on the precipice of yet another year, staring into its tractor-beam-like embrace, we are once more prompted, as every year, to ask the following question:
What’s your personal pop culture resolution for 2019?
Clayton Purdom
My pop culture resolution is inspired largely by our excellent year-end comics coverage: I’m going to work some graphic novels into my reading rotation. I read comics voraciously throughout childhood, and have dabbled with a few heavy-hitter graphic novels in the years since (Maus, Watchmen—obvious stuff), and would say I’m generally fond of the medium, but have never really found an enduring habit with it. I do most of my reading on the train, but comics are too unwieldy for that, so I figured: Why not just keep them at home? The stack of unread graphic novels is already building by my bed. I’ve got 40 years of catching up to do, but hopefully by the time we get to next year’s best-of list, I won’t be so in the dark.
Laura Adamczyk
For a year, I worked at a small experimental publishing press. It mostly published fiction, some nonfiction and poetry, much of it in translation. Reading and being surrounded by that work energized me, both as a reader and a writer. Those books, whether because they were written elsewhere or because they were unabashedly experimental, felt outside of the trends of contemporary American letters. They often skipped over basic elements of traditional fiction—like plot or character—or at the least used them in ways that felt unexpected. One of my favorite books from this year was originally published in Spanish, and it served as a good reminder that I could stand to read more books in translation. I’m sure to find another favorite soon.
Alex McLevy
I ended up slightly cheating on last year’s resolution (to try every local pizza place that would deliver to my address), for the simple reason that after six months or so I found a pizzeria that so far outstripped everyone else, I just stopped experimenting and stuck with it. (Thank you, Longacre pizza.) But also, that was a smidge too ambitious, so for 2019 I’m going to set my sights a little lower and attempt to achieve something that I used to pull off without blinking: Attend a live music show every month of the year. Sure, there are times when I’ll see three bands within a week, which is great and as it should be. But then there’s also October and November of this past year, where I blinked and suddenly realized I hadn’t been to see a single concert in more than 60 days. That seems stupid, and a gross waste of living in one of America’s biggest cities, teeming with artists blowing the doors off of places nightly. So I’m going to try and hold myself to getting the hell off the couch each lunar cycle, and crossing off a show every 30 days from January through December—even if it means rearranging certain voracious moviegoing habits, my love for nighttime nachos be damned.
Erik Adams
Drafting off of Laura’s answer, I’d like to watch more films and TV that aren’t in English. It’s never been easier to do so: Netflix’s global reach brings a new batch of imports into my queue on an almost daily basis; our pick for 2018’s top movie is in Korean. Granted, we’re living in a time when it’s impossible to watch everything that’s a) being produced in my chosen area of coverage and b) my native language, but it’s not like I’m talking about spending all of 2019 in subtitles. I’m just saying that I could stand to watch a little Terrace House now and again. Or, you know, one of zillions of world-cinema masterpieces I’ve never seen. Look, I’ve got all of 2019 ahead of me, so there’s room for the Herzog Blu-rays that have been gathering dust on my bookshelf and some Japanese strangers picked to live in a house and have their lives taped.
Danette Chavez
My 2019 pop culture resolution is incredibly straightforward: commit to using my AMC Stubs A-List subscription. When I first signed up for it, I reasoned that if I watched two-three movies a month, it would justify the expense. But I could be watching so many more movies that range from average to Film Club-approved. I’ve stepped it up to six-to-eight movies over the last two months, which I think has gone a long way to helping me grapple with my seasonal depression (which is its own flavor). I also work within walking distance of multiple AMC theaters, so 2019 will be the year of multiple weekly viewings, starting with Spider-Man: Into The SpiderVerse.
Caitlin PenzeyMoog
My resolution is to expand the sorts of material I read. My bookshelves are 80 percent novels and 20 percent socialist texts—I’d like to conscientiously consume more non-fiction, especially history, science, and biographies. I have, over the last few years, cautiously dipped a toe into random books about geography, the McCarthy era, cults, alchemy—and the water is fine. I should really dive in. I used to like reading Aristophanes. What happened? Why do I only read novels interspersed with whatever radical publisher Haymarket put out this year? So I’m branching out. Stephen Hawking, here I come.
William Hughes
My resolution for 2019 is simple, and less about what I consume than what I produce: I want to make more shit next year. Writing for a living is an incredible privilege that I dearly love, but it also makes it feel a little harder to find energy for stuff that’s just for me. I want to try to overcome that weekend lethargy this year and create more stuff, specifically in the field of games, where the joys of troubleshooting and tinkering help exercise a different part of my brain than the parts I use on Newswires and reviews. I’ve already set a loose goal for myself—entry into next year’s installment of IFComp, the annual throw-down between modern fans of text-based old-school adventure games—and I’m hoping I can stick to that commitment to intentional digital anachronism (and my own creative growth) as the year moves on.
Katie Rife
I’ve always enjoyed world cinema as a whole, and try to keep up with major international releases, but in 2019 I’d like to make a point of watching more films from Africa. African cinema is often an afterthought for critics and film festivals here in the U.S., which is a shame given the breathtaking diversity of perspectives available on that vast continent. I took an African cinema course back in college, but that was more than 10 years ago now, which means it’s time to revisit classics like Black Girl and Touki Bouki—which I remember liking, but as I said, that was a long time ago. I’m particularly interested in exploring more African genre movies after seeing Five Fingers For Marseilles, which I wrote up for our best films we didn’t review feature, earlier this year. But first on my list are Rafiki, Wanuri Kahiu’s film about forbidden love between two young women in Kenya, and Beauty And The Dogs, a Tunisian drama exploring the country’s rape culture through the story of a woman who’s attacked by several police officers at a club. Not light stuff, admittedly, but neither are a lot of the English-language movies I see.
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I’ll try and start a Youtube career in video essaying.I have a lot of opinions in my head about a lot of films, from Une femme est une femme to Suicide Squad and Ready Player One.I even made a video essay back in late 2017 about Blade Runer 2049:I wanted to make another one but I never got the time due to my return to studies but I hope I can make one sometime this year.
I really enjoyed your 2049 video essay and share your love of the film. You should definitely make more.
Thanks. Your comment made me finish the script for my next video essay
Good luck man! It can be tough but rewarding. I’ve been working on The Video Nasty Project for just about a year and a half now and while it’s a ton of work, it’s been a blast.
I just watched 2049 this week! Bookmarking your vid to watch later.
Mine is to slow down. I’m always trying to hit goals, consume more etc. This often involves avoiding long films or books because they take up too much time. So it’s all about quality this year – if it takes time, then so be it.
Get out to see more movies. Several years ago my wife gave me a Christmas present: every other Friday I could go out to see a movie by myself while she took care of the kids. Best present I ever got. (She repeated it the following year.) Now the kids are old enough that it’s not a big deal if one (or both) of us goes out.In revenge for the three-week Antarctic cruise I’ve been dragged onto (I am currently sitting in my cabin on a ship in King Haakon Bay at South Georgia Island) I will be going out to a movie every Friday for the next year, once we get back.
Wait – you don’t want to be at the south pole? Madness! That would be AWESOME, man!
Awesome in the traditional sense of inspiring awe, but I’ve experienced plenty of awe in my life and don’t need the logistical nightmares of flying to Tierra del Fuego and spending three weeks on a boat. Natural splendor is not my thing.
Probably to stop worrying about a never-ending watchlist and just stick on whatever I feel like watching at any time. Sure I haven’t seen The Godfather or whatever, but if I want to watch Robocop for the 20th time, I should just go ahead and do it.
I think Godfather 1 and 2 are both on Netflix last I checked.
Pretty sure I own the first one. It’s just that whenever I think about watching it I’m like, can I be bothered to sit through over 3 hours of this?
I am sick of justifying the same behavior to everyone. I find rewatches very comforting. Sure, I may have seen the same episode of Quantum Leap dozens of times, but it brings me joy to watch it again, so leave me to it.
I know what you mean. I subscribed to Hulu when it was $0.99/mo for the first year, so I opened up a whole new library of shows and movies I’ve never seen. I immediately used it to rewatch all of Archer, because Archer makes me happy.
I love watching new stuff, but there’s definitely a lot of value in rewatching. In fact I think a fairly solid argument could be made that the current lionisation of pop culture was, at least partially, born out of the “forced” rewatching that late boomers and gen Xers were subject to pre-100 channels, cheap dvds, streaming, etc. If you have to watch the same eps of Star Trek, WKRP, Mighty Mouse, or whatever, over and over again because there’s nothing else on, it becomes pretty easy to convince yourself how important they are.
As God as my witness I thought turkeys could fly.
I mean, there’s a reason why digital subchannels are growing in popularity despite only a handful of them getting shows that were made in the last decade. People like rewatching stuff they like.
In times like these, momentary comfort is a necessity for maintaining sanity. Luckily Netflix still has all of Frasier.
I watched the first Godfather for the first time on New Years Day, so don’t feel too bad.
Kind of agree but also don’t. My favorite films from my youth were ones we watched over and over. I miss that. Yet, there’s also a lazy aspect – for me – of just wanting some comfort in the familiar.
The comfort factor is definitely part of it. Certain films and shows just make you feel good when you need it
It isn’t only the familiarity of those old movies we’ve watched that we love. Time gives you a different perspective on old things, and it’s fun to rewatch things you know and see new things in them. I just rewatched Heathers, which was my favorite movie for many years but I hadn’t watched it in at least ten. It’s the same movie I know, yet it was still surprising.
I need to finish the video games I have in my collection. Like, I have AC Origins 3/4 completed, Pokémon Ultra Sun halfway completed, and I still have AC Odyssey, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Prey which I haven’t even started.
Luckily with a lot of those games, you get to define your own “finish”. Unless you’re a completionist. Then god help your soul.
I’m one of those completionists and I had to quit Red Dead Redemption shortly after I got access to the open world. I knew that if I kept going even another hour I’d be too far in to quit and the end result would likely be my marriage falling apart lol
I’m trying to complete every question mark point in AC: Origins and I should be able to pull it off. But I tried that in The Witcher 3 and had to give it up. I’m not that much of a completionist.
I would be happy to finish Red Dead 2 at this point. I enjoy it when I am actually playing it but l seem to have a hard time motivating myself to play.
I actually finished RDR2 and I went back and started from a previous save. I love the world so much. Nothing like blowing up a bunch of klan members.
I’m working through Origins right now. It’s pretty great. Going to tackle RDR 2 when I finish, but I want to work in a short game in between them. Stacking two huge open world games back to back is overwhelming even though I love that style of game.
Try to make a more sizeable dent in my Steam games backlog, and to do more streaming of games in general.
-More music outside my comfort zone (note: this is my resolution every year.)-Watch more movies I haven’t seen, especially if they’re directed by Robert Altman.-Don’t stop reading nonfiction, but finish the nonfiction on my list and start reading novels again.-Less beer, more cocktails, cider, and mead.
Snakebites! Lager and cider together so you can still have your beer and get cider at the same time!
Also, instead of lager, try out a porter or stout. Guinness, because of its actual lightness, works well.
I’ve got a list of acclaimed directors that I made and I’m trying to see all of their movies. Made it through Kubrick and The Coens and a few guys with shorter filmographies. Just two Scorsese movies to go. And three Jarmusch. Spielberg is going to take a while though.
To stop commenting on websites that use the kinja system. I find that the system rewards the people who are loudest, not necessarily the people who are most informed.
GO Eagles!
Well, my 2019 personal pop culture resolution really should be to just stop commenting on AV Club! I could probably have mastered a whole new language in the time I’ve spent and commenting on here.Thought I’d leave during the mass exodus of the kinjapocalypse, but no. Thought I would have found that easier to do after this happened, but no.I complain there are not enough hours in the day to do all I need to do and yet somehow I still manage to magically find the time to read all 400+ comments on The Good Place comment section every week, and add maybe a dozen of my own! Also, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is almost over, so of course I’m going to keep on enjoying the reviews and commentariat for that show while I can, dammit! I could quit right now – but I won’t – but I could if I wanted to, yeah!
… in the time I’ve spent reading and commenting on here.
Yup, I remember that abomination of an article (‘Spike Jonze just released one of the best music videos’). That moment was just pure pay-to-play trash, it was nothing but an advertisement, but at least the AVClub made it clear that their journalistic integrity was now available for sale, and I’m guessing the price was pretty cheap.On a related topic, it reminded me of when I was working in a marketing department and trying to pitch stories to some women’s magazines around the health and wellness topics (I was in the medical device field). I was flat-out told on multiple occasions that they wouldn’t run any article even peripherally mentioning my company… until we started advertising in the magazine in question.
Few of my resolutions, I hope to finally finish Fringe, I’ve been watching it for about 6 years, am currently mid S4 so the end is in sight. Would be nice to get it off my playlist, then I want to start on Xfiles which I’ve never seen. My other recurring resolution of getting through the Walking Dead is pretty much done. Screw that f-ing show
Also, I still collect blurays but given the slow drift to digital, I may just stick to catalog titles and the occasional Criterion and only tentpoles like whenever Endgame and Ep 9 come out.
Ha, my watch of X-Files was a lot like your watch of Fringe. I fell off somewhere near the end of Season 5 for whatever reason and only finished 3-4 years later.
I mean, I like Fringe but I don’t get why people LOVE it, my wife thought it was fantastic and thought the characters especially Walter were great. I find they’re trying way too hard with him and I actually prefer Walternate at this point. Anna Torv is a little too cold for me, and Pacey is ….well, Pacey.
It wasn’t until Season 2 that I really started to love it. At first I found Anna Torv too cold because I wasn’t familiar with her and so I thought she as an actress was sorta wooden. Once she started to put on all the different personas I found her to be really talented and realized it was more the Dunham character and all the trauma she had been through. The show has a lot of ups and downs but I consistently loved Walter and all of his various relationships and I really admired how daring the writers were in being willing to take huge risks by introducing new worlds and at times even rebooting the world we the audience knew. I found it really lofty and ambitious even if it didn’t always work out. I thought Seasons 2, 3 and 5 were really great seasons of TV.
Ooh, you’re in for a treat with X-Files. In my opinion however, just avoid the last couple of seasons – they’re not really worth your time. The rest of the series up to that point in a must-watch though.I also never finished Fringe – I really liked it, I just got lazy and stopped keeping up with it.
I’m going to practice music every day. Last year, I started playing again after a period of several years, I’ve already got back into the basics, but I want to get far better than I ever was.
OOC, which instrument(s) are you practicing exactly?
The instrument that I took up after quitting for several years was the viola (clearly the sexiest of all instruments). I’m also teaching myself how to play piano.
To be more discriminate where I pop my culture, and to adopt a much less high-brow sense of humour.
My main one is to see more live stand up, I normally make it to one gig a month but given that I live in London and there’s so much brilliant stuff on I want to at least double that.
Secondly is to stop watching shows out of habit if I’m not enjoying them any more. I’ve managed to quit a few of late but still waste time watching nonsense like Family Guy and The Orville.
And lastly, to finish off watching all of Sion Sono’s films. I’ve seen 11 so far and loved each and every one of them, so plan to view the other 26 (discounting films he’s contributed a segment to, which I’ll catch at some later point) within the next twelve months.
To try and get at least somewhat excited for Episode IX.
Just reserved a copy of Comemadre by Roque Larraquy using the Free Library of Philadelphia interweb catalogue. Book should arrive at the local neighborhood branch sometime next week. They have three copies in their inventory stockpile, two in Spanish & one English translation. FLP is a great civic resource.
I’ve commented on this previously, but 2019 will be my Year of Queer, where I primarily consume media by or about queer topics (20+ years of heteronormative media consumption could use some balancing out). So far, I’ve watched Some Like It Hot (as queer as you could conceivably show in a movie in those Code days) and started reading Whipping Girl (one of the touchstones of transgender theory and activism and transmisogyny) and Orlando (discovered I really enjoyed Virginia Woolf last year), and I’ve been listening to queercore artists like Pansy Division. Others on the (unfinished) list: Almadovar, more Baldwin, Audre Lorde, a couple queer histories. Always up for more suggestions.
Also: play the board games I own before buying new ones. I still haven’t played Antiquity, but Wingspan now has preorders and it looks really pretty.
I’ll recommend a couple of books: Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, Lydia Yuknavitch’s Dora: A Headcase.
Ooh, never heard of either. Adding to my list to check out! Thanks!
I like this resolution and am going to adopt it as well. I probably won’t go full “primarily” but “significantly more” queer media should be doable. I’ve been binging both Buffering the Vampire Slayer and Queery with Cameron Esposito in 2018 and I feel like I’m realizing how out of touch with my queerness I am despite having been out of the closet for more than a decade. I’m also thinking I’d like to volunteer with queer organizations though that isn’t pop culture related.
Similarly (though independent of your comment), I have a board game resolution to start going to board game nights at local game shops or find a group to play with. My current group of board-game-friendly friends aren’t willing to go deeper than Catan or Ticket to Ride. I miss playing Arkham Horror and I want to finally use the copy of Betrayal at House on the Hill I got years ago.
Yeah, I’m still going to watch other mainstreams movies that come out that I’m interested in, but making a conscious effort to improve the diversity of my consumption has been useful in the past (last year was more women authors; next year I think I might do non-Western authors).
If you want to combine your queerness and your gaming geekiness, there’s Tabletop Gaymers. They’re still a small organization (and pretty niche) and go to some conventions, but when I went to GenCon last year, they had rainbow ribbons with Gaymer or Ally on them you could attach to your pass to show solidarity and community. This year I volunteered a bit at their booth, handing out ribbons and bracelets and pins, taking donations, explaining the organization, showing the different queer and inclusive panels available (queering your RPG, for example). They’re also trying to branch out to LGBT community centers to set up gaming nights and such. I should really volunteer with them more, especially since the Chicago LGBT center is massive and would be a great spot to host.
Thanks for the Gaymer recommendation; seems like a great way to combine multiple resolutions. I see there is one in SF though the discord only has 53 members haha.
Try Richard K. Morgan’s ‘A Land Fit for Heroes’ trilogy. First book is The Steel Remains.https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001NLKS66/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i5
I’ll check it out! I also heard good things about NK Jemison, though that’s more sci-fi than fantasy.
natureslayer -You may already have seen it, and it’s kinda oldish (1995) but The Celluloid Closet is a fascinating documentary about Hollywood’s depiction of queer culture. Most fascinating were the pre-Hayes Code clips, where pretty much everything was okay. And then there are the villains, comic and otherwise, in movies – portrayed either as outright flamboyantly gay or creepily “weird”… And the coded stuff, like the /gun comparison scene (“ever had a good Swiss watch?”) from Red River with Montgomery Clift and John Ireland. Anyway, good documentary and now I have made myself want to see it again.
I haven’t seen it yet, but that’s one that’s on the list! Thanks for moving it closer to the top. Probably should soon too so it gives me some ideas of other things to watch, especially silent era (like Pandora’s Box).
I’m reading The Great Believers right now and it’s very wow. A Little Life has gay characters but what makes it queer for me is the way she depicts male friendships. Enigma Variations was a fun read and I can’t put into words what CMBYN (the book) meant to me so I’ll let my book inspired tattoo appointment speak for itself. The Animators was my favorite read of 2017, Tangerine was kind of noir and cool. If you like light YA reads, Simon vs the Homosapien Agenda, Will Grayson/ Will Grayson, What If It’s Us, When Katie Met Cassidy (not technically YA) are all extremely fun.
In historical non fiction I liked Between Women by Sharon Marcus or anything by Lillian Faderman.
I don’t read much contemporary fiction (another problem of mine), so The Great Believers would hit a couple of my blindspots. Some YA might be useful as like an easy palate cleanser (as well as being good books in their own right), so I’ll check out some of those.
What really helped me stay on top of contemporary fiction was starting a small book club with three friends. Not only am I reading our picks but learning what they’ve read/are reading provides a great jumping off point for choosing new fiction
I’m going to watch all of the Madea movies with an open mind.
I’m going to watch all of the Madea movies with an open mind a fuckton of weed.Fixed that for you.
Having a baby totally wrecked my cultural consumption. At this point, I just want to make it to the theater for US when it comes. I’ve got a DVR full of stuff, but now that the little one is turning his head towards brightly lit screens, I’m skittish about keeping the TV on for any length of time.
I’m going to slightly tweak my main two from 2018:-Watch more movies from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s-If I’m going to rewatch a TV show as comfort food, then it has to accompany watching a new TV show I’ve never seen. No more just watching 30 Rock for the 30th time.
More graphic novels. I just re-read Watchmen and turning now to From Hell, which I have not read. Recommendations would be nice!
Most of these are older (haven’t read comics in ages). But, tried to go outside the “big hitters”Ed Brubaker, “Sleeper”Nocturnals Vol. 1: Black Planet by Dan Breton. Also, The Psycho (really good)Top 10 by Alan MooreBatman: Thrillkiller
Oooh, I loved Thrillkiller. Have you read Dark Knight Returns?
The original? Yes. That’s pretty mainstream at this point of course. The follow up DK series, yes, and it was awful.
Well you’re going to love From Hell. I’m a huge The Goon fan, love the Killing Joke. My Favorite Thing is Monsters. The Adventure Zone (Here there be Gerblins). Uh, I still love The Walking Dead. Daytripper. Y: The Last Man. Earth One (Green Lantern) was a pretty good newer one. Aliens: Dead Orbit. DC’s Young Animal: The Milk Wars. I can’t think of any others right now.
Interested in ongoing stuff or just shorter runs? Brian K Vaughn’s Y: The Last Man and Saga are both as great as they’re purported to be. Though the later is still going.
I’ve been hearing great things about Vaughn’s output for years, but I’m not sure where to start. Would you say Last Man is better than Saga? Or can I not go wrong either way?
I like Saga a bit better (particularly the art), but Y: The Last Man has the advantage of being finished, so Saga is a longer, ongoing commitment. Definitely can’t go wrong either way though.
Awesome. I really like the idea of committing to something that is still ongoing. Just ordered Vol. 1! Thank you!
I think in 2019 I have two goals. I want to read more fiction books. Last year I read almost exclusively nonfiction (true crime/history/ in depth dives of current topics). However, I think I want to spend more time reading some of these great fiction books I missed over the past few years.My second goal is start watching some new shows. I want to try some new things that I previously might not have given a chance.
Re: Rife’s resolution. Where do you find and watch these African films? Are they screening at art-house type theaters or are you buying DVDs? Who’s critiquing them so that we even know they’ve been released?
I am going to finally watch The West Wing and Veep in 2019. I would also like to make a point to not watch American Horror Story this year but this is basically like my version of deciding to go to the gym. I’m earnest about it right now but know deep down that it is not gonna stick.
About the middle of last year I made a resolution that kind of got dropped. I think I may pick it up again. I was wondering why I reread books from my childhood, but not ones I loved as an adult. I decided to do that more often, and read Brown Girl in the Ring again. Then I got bombarded by new books and dropped it. But I will try to reread one book from my collection a month, that seems reasonable.My other resolution is probably technically high culture. It struck me the other day that even though I’ve been a Shakespeare geek since I was nine, it’s always been the plays. I’ve never even read all the sonnets. So I just bought a copy and will read them all soon, as well as the longer poems.
I’ve committed to reading 250 children’s books. Should be easy, but you never know until you do it.
You could master that challenge in an hour.
I’ve thought about this for years, but I’m finally going to commit to stop watching trailers in 2019. While I’m afraid that it’s going to be a detriment to my personality and conversational skills (I’m “the guy” who knows everything about every movie coming out, and obviously trailers play a large part of that), I’m excited for the challenge and to see if this has any affect on my enjoyment of certain movies. Star Wars Episode IX’s trailer will be the litmus test to see if I really stick to this or not.
Get ungrayed on Deadspin. Seriously. WTF. Dan McQuade needs a fellow Philadelphian to defend our goofy-ass town’s honor. I can throw snowballs at Santa with the best of us!Zero clue how to get ungrayed. Damn, I miss Disqus.
I’d love to get ungrayed here 🙁
I started following you and I’m ungrayed here. I think that does it?
How about me? Is this enough to get me ungreyed ?
For the past couple of years, my reading wishlist has been filling up with books with longer page counts. For a handful of reasons, I’ve been pushing them off. This year, I’m not going to take length into account when I pick my next book.
2019 The Year of James Bond for me… all the movies (including Casino Royale) and all the books of Ian Flemings
I watched 378 movies last year, including a few shorts and comedy specials. As you can imagine, some other things fell by the wayside. I need to watch less movies this year and read some damn books instead. I also need to catch up with several TV shows and play more video games.
I want to attempt to watch one movie a week on Netflix, which should cut down my queue. It’s a challenge since my attention span’s gotten shoddy over the years and I have a hard time viewing films online. Maybe if I took a break in between the films, I can manage through this resolution.
Probably the same as it’s been the last two years: see every movie I see a trailer for (with three vetoes). Usually ends with me seeing a little over 150 movies in theaters, and it’s honestly helped to develop my taste. It’s a bit of a boon for my mental health, as well; I take Fridays off school and see them all in a row, and in the theater I can avoid stressing out and relax without completely turning my brain off. Began by seeing Escape Room earlier today. It’s not great.
This year I plan to avoid buying any new video games. I truly believe that I could live the rest of my life playing games full-time and not finish what I already own before I die. I have a good 1500 physical copies from current gen consoles going back to the PS1/GBA era and another 300+ on Steam that I’ve never touched (not to mention every game that X-Box Gold and PS+ have ever given away “free.”)There is no reason for me to ever add another thing to this pile.