Those 2006 New Year Resolutions In Full
- Exercise more. Walking to the local Pizzeria doesn't actually suffice as a fitness regime.
- Read more fiction (recommendations please), rather than studying my sitemeter. (Which is in many ways a fiction of sorts.)
- Not be so cynical when watching Oprah with Kara.
- Learn how to make Cornish Pasties. I miss them, and the Cornish Pasty Industry misses me. Profits were down 17% this last financial year as a consequence of my moving to America, and I understand that my name is mud in certain rural parts of the West Country.
- Trying not to laugh out loud when spotting hipsters in New York. Of course, leg warmers are coming back in fashion.
Get excited about important stuff in real life, rather than nearly fainting with giddiness, like I did a few months back, when encountering two Sparts outside Brooklyn College.
- Finish that Dave Eggers book: Firstly, because it is witty, insightful and life affirming. Secondly, because otherwise Kara will beat me to death with aforementioned paperback if I don't. (What could be more "life affirming"?)
- Stop using wikipedia as a quick link in blog posts, without first reading what the actual wikipedia entry says. (See previous resolution.)
- Stop saying: "That show actually originated in Britain." Firstly, because it can ge grating to the listener when they hear it for the four hundredth time; and, secondly, because the show is invariably crap - see here for more details. It doesn't put British TV in the best possible light.
- Actually submit a book review to the Socialist Standard. (That noise you can hear in the background is not a tree failing in a deserted forest, but the collective jaws of the Socialist Standard Editorial Committee falling on the floor.)
- Learn Spanish so I can properly enjoy Channel 974 on the TV. I think I'm missing out.
- Stop being so cheesy. I sound like a James Blunt record at times, and that is not a nice thing to say about oneself. This can be cured with my ongoing rediscovery of the genius that is Luke Haines. The bloke makes Cathal Coughlan sound like a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF.
- Ensure that I'm properly stocked with the essentials for the event of this coming year.
- Oh, aye, and do my bit to smash global capitalism. (I'm contractually obliged to tag that one on at the end of my resolutions list.)
5 comments:
Luke Haines - what a fucking genius that man is! I even like the Black Box Recorder stuff, which was referred to as "disco" by someone the first time I put it on. Saw him once, supporting Television - fuckin ace, bye the way.
Sorry for all the swearing.
Totally missed that, but given the Cathal Coughlan reference, Reidski's deference, and the Luke Haine's site, I will have to find out more. PS. Reidski, you saw Television, you never told me that. I'm jealous.
Likewise. I've loved Cath Coughlan's stuff since early Fatima Mansions and am just going back through the Microdisney material. Will definitely check out Haines.
Haines' career has gone from the mildly misanthropic to gloriously outright push-every-button arghness... sorry, I couldn't describe his work better. brilliant resolutions though...
Stuart,
and therein lies the fundamental difference between you and I.
Whereas it is enough for me to merely talk about Cornish Pasties, think about them and even dream about them as some beautifully delicious chimera that I may - but only if there are enough cooks available and the kitchen is properly stocked - have sometime in the distant future, you go straight ahead and conjure up a recipe that can be achieved by a minority (cornish pasties in one kitchen, no less) and which will only take one hour to cook.
You reformist bastard.
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