How my 2008 Resolutions panned out

I pledge to post 250 entries this year, or roughly 5 times a week.

I came up slightly short of that goal... I got 248 posts this year, which isn't bad considering some of the circumstances.


I plan to bring back Culture Kills Comics.

They were back, and then gone again, and maybe they will return once again.


I want to get something once again published in the legitimate press.

I got some clips for my file, but nothing major. It is my foot in the door again though.


I want to create a piece of electronic music. I made an attempt a few years ago, but I think I can do better now.

Nope. Didn't even get to this one. On some level, I forgot I put it on my list, so that may be part of the reason I didn't take another crack at it.

I want to play/own the following games:
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan Wars
Resident Evil 4
Destroy All Humans
Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories
Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories
God of War 2
Freedom Fighters
Psychonauts
Time Splitters
Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition
Beyond Good and Evil
Star Wars: Battlefront II
Darkwatch
Gun Griffon Blaze

I own them all now and so many more. I played to completion Darkwatch, SW: Battlefront II, Beyond Good and Evil, GTA: LCS, Resident Evil 4 and Ace Combat Zero.


I want to see the following movies:
No Country for Old Men
Chinatown
The Sting
Once Upon a Time in America
Harold and Maude
El Topo
The Seven Samurai
Akira

I watched No Country for Old Men, Chinatown, Once Upon a Time in America and tried to watch Akira, but didn't make it through.


I want to read these books:
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland
Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy
The Plot to Save Socrates by Paul Levinson

I read other titles from both Coupland and Palahniuk this year, Blood's a Rover didn't come out this year and I couldn't find Paul Levinson's book at the bookstore.


I want to run at least 3 interviews.

Nothing. Nada. Zip. Didn't ask, didn't receive. And I had the opportunity to try to get some interesting interview requests (like I could have tried to get Val Emmerich, the musician who also plays the guy that lives across the hall from Betty Suarez on Ugly Betty)


So all in all, I think I did decently on my resolutions. And as a kicker, I ended up losing 30 pounds this year, which I didn't really set out to do.

And tomorrow, I will have my resolutions for 2009 up.

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