New Year’s pop-culture resolutions

- Catch up with Mad Men
- Read Vollmann's Imperial
- Watch at least 20 Criterion releases (with an emphasis on French New Wave films, still need to bone up on those)
- The rest TBD

The Shield. The Shield. The Shield. I'll figure out the rest as I go along.

I want to have one of those completely retarded questions printed in Parade Magazine. One of those questions that the ability to Google should have rendered obsolete. Like "I just saw Nine and loved it. What is Russel Crowe up to these days?"

'the Wire'. I just received season 1 as a gift from MrMushnik, and I hope to dive into it around the first of the year. I'll probably do BSG this year as well.

Wow. This will be quite the year for you.

I envy you Judas. I wish I could go back and watch The Wire for the first time again.

For me, Deadwood and Mad Men are my catch-ups for new year.

I also plan on watching a LOT of 60s and 70s b-movies. So any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Star Trek: TNG. Every episode's going in my eyes.

I plan on starting the Sopranos tonight.

-Watching the first season of "Deadwood" with my Leone/Corbucci/Nero raised Dad.
-Finally watch those "Spaced" and "Blackadder" sets I bought last year.
-Making the jump to Blue-ray.
-Watch all 6 Star wars films, two a week, in under a month and in chronological order.
-Read the "young fiction" series of Discworld books.
-Sort out my comic and animation collection.
-Get rid/sell the stuff I dont want to own/dont care much for anymore.

* Complete THE WIRE. (I've watched the first two seasons.) Also watch BREAKING BAD and S3 of MAD MEN.
* Watch the Criterions I've owned for years and not even unwrapped - THE LEOPARD, UMBERTO D and ACE IN THE HOLE among them.
* Restart and complete Joseph Conrad's NOSTROMO, start and (hopefully) finish INFINITE JEST.
* Read some cool comics - I'm thinking the work of Ed Brubaker might be up my alley.
* Expand my musical horizons a little - currently I've got the Buddha Bar compliations on high rotation. The best thing about the end of the decade is that I've got a lot of cool end-of-the-'00s lists to use as a starting point.

-Catch up on Mad Men
-Dexter
-Start correcting the grossly embarrassing fact that I haven't yet seen one Kurosawa film
-Explore the Leone/Spaghetti Westerns
-Catch up on Criterion films thanks to my new home theater set up/Netflix
-Fill in as many of my classic film gaps as possible

Making a marathon session out of the Yojimbo and "Man With No Name" series sounds like it might be rewarding for you.

I will finally watch at least one season of "The Wire." That's the big one.

- Fill in the empty spots on favorite director filmographies (Scorsese's The Color of Money, Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, pretty much all early and late Hitchcock, etc.)

- Rewatch old favorites in my new home theater, since I can now do them some justice (A New World, 2001, Andrei Rublev, etc.)

- Read a lot more non-school or work related books (classic sc-fi, horror, some David Foster Wallace, maybe finally read something by Vonnegut)

- Whittle the number of movies I own but haven't seen down by a considerable amount

-Read more. WAY more.

-TV: Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, Spaced, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, Deadwood, Breaking Bad, 30 Rock, Friday Night Lights, Homicide: Life on the Street

-Film: Watch more from Robert Altman, John Cassavetes, Hal Ashby, Wong Kar Wai, Marx Brothers, Todd Solodnz, Frederico Fellini, Werner Herzog, Pedro Almodovar, Dario Argento, Mario Bava, Brian De Palma, Lucio Fulci, Terry Gilliam, Jim Jarmusch, Sidney Lumet, Lars Von Trier, Francois Truffaut, Billy Wilder

I'll maybe get half of this list done, but oh well.

TV: Like many others, I want to finish the remaining three seasons of The Wire.

Movies: Watch more foreign films, esp now that Criterion is all over Netflix.

Books: Continue picking up those Preacher hardcover sets. I also want to take a crack at War and Peace. Start the Erickson Malazan series.

Videogames: Finish Fallout 3, maybe attempt Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age: Origins.

TV: Battlestar. Fucking. Galactica. And yeah, I suck, and haven't seen The Wire or The Shield. But, one show at a time.

Movies: It is my solemn vow to clear out my Netflix queue by June. 378 films, minus TV shows, which I'm willing to grant myself leniency with. Bring it on.

Video Games: Lost Odyssey, Fallout 3, and Jade Empire all sit on my shelf, all unbeaten. This will not stand 2010.

Got The Wire and From Earth to the Moon (the 2nd one courtesy of Jason P. Thompson) for XMas, so I plan to watch them very soon. Never seen The Wire and saw From Earth to the Moon when it originally aired and loved it.

- Finally going to sign up for Netflix
- Should get into Glee
- Write write write write write

This and watching all of Battlestar Galactica.

Thanks to Phil I want to see more Italian crime films.

I also want to see more foreign films - specifically asian period epics (The Warlords is next).

I also think I'm going to end up not seeing Avatar - and all big budget extravaganzas I suspect will shit me off.

I want to become a more discerning filmgoer in my old age.

I'd like to see the fifth season of the wire. It;s not out in australia yet.

Regarding cinema, I have bought 7 tickets at our local art house cinema so I've got a good bunch of entertainment there.

Honestley, I'd like to catch up on a bunch of computer games. They are more time intensive than movies and more expensive too, yet I'd still like to try out things like Assasains Creed II and Modern Warfare II.

I am so envious of people who haven't seen The Wire, Shield, BSG or Breaking Bad.

I've never been a huge video gamer, but I want to get more into it this year. I also want to catch up on my old-school noir movies.

Go ahead and get my student BFI membership, and use it, even though I may not be in the UK past September. It begins in February with Edward Scissorhands in 70mm...

Finally go through my DVD collection and watch everything that I haven't seen (just 21 films, though). Tropic Thunder, I'm sorry I've neglected you for a year.

Books: I'm going to continue my goal of reading every classic piece of literature, so far I'm up to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

Films: I'm going to subscribe the local equivalent of Netflix and continue my goal of seeing every classic piece of cinema, I've graduated from the silents to the talkies.

Music: Continue my exploration into the beginning's of Jazz.

-Books: Go through Pynchon's 'Against The Day' with the PynchonWiki in hand (the reference guide that gives all the references page by page).
On a lighter note, I got a whole stack of Jack Vance and Michael Moorcock pockets for virtually 1euro a piece. I want to finish 'em all.
-Film: This year was light on the freakout and weird movies for me. Gonna correct that. Got 'Poultrygeist', 'Samurai Princess' and 'Hausu' lined up for starters. Still looking for the rare freak who wants to sit down with me & watch 'em.
I'm also on a 'seventies action' streak, both British (Get Carter) and American (just saw The Getaway). I love the tone of many of these, so I'll continue that trend. Yesterday was 'Thunderbolt & Lightfoot', but I got 'The Mechanic', 'Telefon' and 'The Driver' lined up for next week (year).
Finally, a bunch of westerns that I really need to see urgently: Keoma, The White Buffalo, Django Kill.
-TV: Count me in with the 'not seen Wire, must correct that' crowd. Also hope to catch Freaks & Geeks.
-Games: I got started in Fallout 3 earlier this fall, then got Dead Space & the Orange Box- I'm not an RPG player normally so that duo made me abandon the effort of digging in. But I know there's a fabulous game in there waiting for me.
Also, finish up a couple more of my PS2 collection, which I have neglected somewhat after getting a PS3 in september. I still have too much quality games that got no more than a couple of hours of play.

I resolve to know less about irrelevant faux-celebrities. I'm still pissed at myself for taking the time to figure out who those Jon and Kate assholes were.

1: Watch more movies. I started keeping a journal January 1st.

2: Take advantage of $1 rentals, and stop buying so many used DVDs.

3: Don't buy a Blu-ray unless it's a movie I'm gonna watch alot.

4. Give a large part of my DVD collection to the Library.