New Years Resolutions

(that doesn't mean i'm not going to make some concerted attempts at self-improvment this year.)

of course this is all a huge steaming pile of hippy nonsense and the next time i am out on the road i will start ranting and raving. really some of the people out there shouldn't be ALLOWED to have cars, etc etc.

but anyway, resolutions are to lose two stone, carry on giving up smoking (not had one now for a week and a half), read more, write more and learn more.

"Nick Dastoor must pay for what he has done. This year I will hunt down and destroy him".

1) write things i like, esp. songs
2) lose 10 pounds
3) find a place to wear slut clothes and not look out of place (i.e. not school)

Two resolutions -- finally join the Sparks fan club (hell, I've been running the mailing list all these years!) and do more writing, based on the ease of my novel experiment and the nice reactions I got from it.

Go out 3 nights a week again.

Do my assignments any other time but the day they are due.

Ensure I don't spend next summer in Dublin.

And others that are private.

menelaus wants to pick your brain on some disturbing gossip she heard yesterday, BTW.

maria, you should get a band together. then you can write songs and perform them in slutty clothes.

2) Get job

3) lose a stone

4) discover that somewhere inside of me there's a creative centre just waiting to unleash itself on humpaint (that was supposed to read "humanity", but I think I've just created a rather decent new word)

5) Hose down Nick Dastoor and employ him. I think that's what it was.

2) to get more publicity than that fucking foetus did last year....thanks bill!

3) Get a job before getting an iPod

2) Get a haircut

1) Have a love life of some kind

People, we are running out of time here for 2010. Better get down in it.

Same resolution every year--improve health, get shit together.

"get shit together" is pretty much my life goal.

positivity, mostly, also not reacting when goaded

finish first novel

attempt to visit the usa

erm

record some music

never give up trying to find work

move out

Find job

Learn to build things

Build them

Find better ways to make money cuz working at grocery stores and stuff kinda sucks

Write music

Start new band

Make friends who aren't my gf's friends

Not necessarily in this order

Read books about science to dazzle budding scientist girlfriend and also because the universe rules

This will definitely be the year I fish that errant grape out from under the microwave oven. Gonna do it!

Did it turn to stone or...???? How does a grape not decompose.

finish Infinite Jest

read more fiction in general

more yogay in the interest of helping ailing body

be nicer wifey

i think policing your hubby's internet habits shd be #1 priority - he has a tendency to lead impressionable young folks astray

"Read books about science to dazzle budding scientist girlfriend and also because the universe rules" is probably my favorite, I have no budding scientist girlfriend but still want to do this. (Been meaning to read books about science forever though. Any recs?)

finish my record

1) stay on my motherfuckin grizzly
2) write more
3) exercise more
4) fight being grouchy
5) do good things for good people

Earn some money.
Pay off debts.
Complete 'You Got It (The Right Touch)' on DDR Expert level.

(Been meaning to read books about science forever though. Any recs?)

Well, the reason this is a New Years resolution is because I'm totally lazy and haven't read that much and there are probably better people to ask around here, BUT, _A Candle In The Dark_ by Carl Sagan is a good starter if you want to get really pumped about how great and wonderful science is. I'm told his book _Cosmos_ is a really good read, too. I've got a few by Stephen Jay Gould and Daniel Dennett laying around I mean to finish. Umm. QED by Richard Feynman is good for quantum physics junk w/o all the dippy eastern mystical conjecture (which is neat and all but gets a bit y'know...)

Umm...yeah other people probably have more/better recommendations but hey

My gf has a subscription to a magazine called Nature which is a weekly science publication and seems pretty awesome. She's more into bio-chem / neural chemistry stuff and I just like to think about how big the universe is and stare dumbly into the distance, but it's cool to have some modicum of common ground.

Also make some legit paintings, exhibit them

Nature is a hard core peer reviewed journal and I would not necessarily recommend non-scientists spending mad cash on it. Even scientist usually spend grant dollars on it and not personal mad cash.

Richard Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb is one of my all time science+history favorites (one of my favorite books in general iirc).

Yes, should probably be pointed out that Nature's a pretty $expensive$ subscription but cool if you have access to it. Making note of this Richard Rhodes book, I've been wanting to find something good on the Manhattan Project and alla that, thanks.

New Scientist is a pretty good read (weekly magazine) and covers a wide range of stuff. I read The Stuff Of Thought a while back and it's pretty good - linguistics might not seem the most interesting subject but it makes you think about how we think.

1. eat 5 servings of fruit and/or vegetables every day
2. be more romantic with my lady (2010 is our 10 year anniversary aka 'year of romance')

Last year's resolution was to party more and I have to say it worked out really well.

I've never been able to come up with a New Year's Resolution.

1. Run 2000 miles
2. Move into a new, nicer apartment
3. Get multiple promotions at work

3. cycle x000 miles
2. move south nearer bristol/london
1. get back into law

1. don't give anyone a gadget of any kind that will lead to them angrily/gormlessly/dimly ringing up for assistance on how to use it when you already showed them/gave them the manual or url but you gloomily noted their eyes glaze over during the instruction period and then brighten up when they boasted about how hopeless they are.

1. finish the book

2. avoid selfish persons.

1. Meditate (develop a meditation practice?)
2. Make use of health insurance by scheduling various appointments

1. trail running
2. better lifting form / intensity, diet
3. listen to new music (lol)
4. make internship count
5. reading (information, sociology, history, archives)
6. job (sigh)
7. other stuff

1. find full-time job
2. learn to love driving, or alternatively find a way to move someplace with better public transport
3. learn to like people more
4. quit over-sleeping
5. watch less tv (will miss u, ilx tv threads.)

1. I will break a jumbo-sized glass bottle over my ass
2. I will leave the christmas tree up all year
3. I will never remove and recycle the subscription card(s) from a magazine before I read it
4. I will casually refer to David Karesh as "David Douche" and pretend like nothing happened
5. I will maintain an erection for at least 4 consecutive hours and not call a doctor
6. I will never post to ILX again, starting now
7. I will get drunk every single day
8. I will fake a nose bleed at work during a meeting
9. I will renew contact with the the host of Car Talk
10. I will keep my toenail and pube clippings in a jar labeled "my secret castle 2010"

slightly more seriously, I hope to complete a few short comics and get them published somewhere this year.

survive

slightly more seriously, I hope to complete a few short comics and get them published somewhere this year.

― Quiet, I'm making my Youtube Star Wars Review (Z S)

we are interested in maybe publishing comics! email us @:
chance(dot)press(dot)books(dot) @ gmail

so i guess i should post

1. publish more books this year, esp more art-centred stuff
2. move out of this shithole neighbourhood

• stop poor living habits
• save $
• finish pile of books, watch unwatched DVDs
• race bicycle
• try and get it together with the girl with the red hair

These: ASK TEHRESA

Also matt p trail running otm!

1. find a full time job.
2. be out of both overdrafts by the end of the year. (grandfathers will pretty much guarantees this, give or take a few hundred.)
3. lose 3 stone as a budding nn + exercise.
4. write more.
5. read more.
6. organisation.

7. learn how to play the guitar that has been sat in my room for years looking lonely.

8. find my other glove

1. pushups!!!
2. keep house clean
3. running
4. get another job, leave the warehouse
5. less internet, more reading
6. bring lunch to work 2-3 times a week
7. digitize 78s
8. learn to play guitar
9. learn to speak french
0. go to flea markets and yard sales and buy a bunch of records

1. Sort my head out and figure out life. Starting with the small ones you see.
2. Relearn Spanish to a degree that I can communicate fluently with some of the kids on my caseload but mainly so I know what shit they're talking when they speak Spanish in front of me.
3. Read at least two books a month
4. Get fitter than ever have been through newly hired personal trainer.
5. Be a kinder person in general.
6. Be a good puppy owner to my soon to be acquired puppy.

(I don't really make resolutions but if I did I think those would be them)

My goal in 2009 was to lose 50 pounds. I ultimately lost 13.

My goal in 2010 is to loose 37 pounds. :/

1. Get a job that doesn't make me want to die.
2. Stop grunting when I bend over.

http://www.abominable.cc/2009/12/30/resolutions/

I think I'll make a diet goal also. That means I'll be back on Atkins soon (I only diet hardcore but I am also a yoyo dieter).
I quit smoking (cold turkey) about 6 weeks ago. I had one drag of a cigar last night and I was very drunk.

1. not acknowledge the existence of Geir Hongro in any way, unless it's necessary for mod purposes
2. more gardening
3. keep a cleaner household
4. eat less meat, but not cut it out altogether
5. travel when possible
6. less vegetating in front of the internet
7. read more
8. watch more films
9. less fast food

4. eat less meat, but not cut it out altogether

I've been thinking about this for a while! Three or four meat meals a week, when I move out, is what I'm thinking. The others are all sound too.

I think my goal this year is to not tell myself to do anything unless I absolutely need to. All the 'you should be doing x' buzz at the back of my mind for the past few months has been stressing me way more than it needs to.

digitize 78s OTM. have a big box of arabis 78s just waiting to be digitized. lazy me.

also:
1. stay positive (this has been going great at the end of 09 so let's keep it up)
2. write more (not fiction or criticism, just keep a notebook and/or journal.)
3. start dating someone my own age (or within a few years imo.)

arabiC 78s too.

1. make more music
2. practice guitar for one hour every day
3. stop buying plastic garbage from undemocratic regimes

I actually made a plan of what I want to achieve this year musically! Not sure if this counts as a resolution as such though.

JAN-MARCH
finish solo MiniMoog album
finish MiniMoog collab with Swiss guys
"write" + record Takemitsu cover album
write new material for the band I'm in with the guys
finish writing the next Film Music album

APRIL-JULY
record the next Film Music album
write more material for the band I'm in with the guys, play some gigs. Also think of a name for the band.
record Kenny covers 7"
finish 2nd solo MiniMoog album

AUGUST-DECEMBER
write + record zeuhl album
maybe play live solo

Also try and get some of this shit actually released.
I get the feeling I'll achieve less than 25% of this but I may as well hope.
Plus my annual NY resolution : learn to drive.

You're hoping to record 7 albums this year? dang, dude.

I recorded 22 last year. As to whether they're any good however...

I can barely get my ass out of bed most days and you recorded 22 albums? Regardless of the quality the sheer number makes that a fucking feat in my opinion.

If you chose the best song on each of the 22 albums, you'd have a double CD best of for 2008. Dang.

(xpost) Thanks. Everyone has a quota of terrible songs in them, I'm just trying to get through them as quickly as possible so that I can get onto the better stuff.
Those sound like cool music projects Matt #2.

learn to drive.

I never get around to this...

Well the Moog stuff is mostly done (bar tedious editing), so really it's "only" 4 albums. I'd settle for finishing 1 or 2 of them in reality.

we are interested in maybe publishing comics! email us @:
chance(dot)press(dot)books(dot) @ gmail

Jeez Just1n3, thanks for providing me a major impetus to actually try to fulfill a new year's resolution! I sent you an email saying that I'd be back in touch with you whenever I actually had a comic I was really proud of. I've been emailing a friend of mine who is a fantastic artist to see if he's interested in collaborating with me on something this year. Hopefully by the end of the year we'll be an unstoppable duo.

Oh hey Maria! The Sagan book I recommended upthread is actually called The Demon-Haunted World and I'm a fool.

My resolution: date and relate smarter, no matter how much I am afraid of the short-term consequences (angering people, precipitating fights or blow-ups, disharmony). Keeping the peace is not worth keeping myself down and I must stop doing it. Applies to some friendships as well.

I actually made a resolution the other day too. I need to put on a more confident face and stop expressing my insecurities about myself, my personality, and my social and academic abilities if I can, because I think they're more a combination of self-doubt and self-fulfilling-prophecy than actual justified fears.

^totally

I seem to have made a lot of small resolutions this year.

1. Lose some more weight, keep the gym routine going etc: (6st 4lbs so far!)
2. Keep a notebook
3. Play more gigs
4. Get rid of pack-rat clutter that I don't need (ie. big box of singles up teh loft that I never, ever look at or listen to)
5. Be less short-tempered wrt stupid small things
6. Finish watching all the HBO type things that I seem to be precisely one third of the way through (also watch more good movies/docs in general)
7. Stop thinking in terms of 'catching up' with something, either do it or don't do it
8. Work on the low level ocd
9. Work on week nightly monging in front of Sky/Internet

1. to always use the correct spelling of 'probably'
2. to use the word 'awesome' less & 'amazing' more
3. to complete basic EMS program with good grade
4. ...finish a novel, maybe? maybe even two?

some of the ppl in this thread are AMAZING!

stay off of the damn facebook. as if ilx isn't bad enough.

keep eating better.

spend as much time with my kids as humanly possible without like stunting their growth or anything. i just dig hanging with them and they are gonna get old and i want every minute i can get of these ages they are at. do more with them too. make more art, music, etc.

My 2015 resolution was to quit smoking, and so far so good - I'm very grateful this is working out.

For 2016 I want to try something a bit more 'abstract', maybe less realistic.

I want to become better at disagreeing with the world - I want to spend less time arguing with friends and family, I want to be better at accepting that I can't make everyone feel the way I feel and that the attempt is often pointless. I don't want to lose my ideological/aesthetic passions, but I want to become better at accepting that the world often disagrees with me.

How can I practice this and how can I set some kind of resolution goal to help me know if I improve?