New Years Reso-whaaaa?

To begin with, I kinda suck. In my last post I said that I would have a "Best Films of 09" list after New Years aaaaand I don't. There are two reasons for this: 1) I am doing a Philosophy Thesis about drugs in film (yeah....) and instead of going on an '09 binge, I have been watching LOTS of junkie movies-- so much fun! 2) It was unrealistic. I thought I had time but I have actually been busy hanging with family, friends, studying like a maniac for the GRE, etc etc etc. The excuses are endless...

But that introduces my next topic. The subject of New Years resolutions. And the fact that they are NOT realistic. Ultimately, what's the point? It's just our way of trying to get something done that should be done without the label. In the end though, it does NOT get done! (I just said done three times. Made sense in my head...). Anyways, just check out the statistics:

"Among the top new years resolutions are ones about weight loss, exercise, and quitting smoking. Other popular ones deal with better money management / debt reduction."

The following shows how many of these resolutions are maintained as time goes on:
- past the first week: 75%
- past 2 weeks: 71%
- after one month: 64%
- after 6 months: 46%

.... Yeah. Ultimately, I think that New Years resolutions are useful because they force us to realize the good things we actually want to do with our lives. But come on, if you are fat, don't take twenty spinning classes for three days. Or starve yourself for five. Make a resolution that is REALISTIC. Start small -- you will get there eventually!

Making little charts are helpful. I started one.

Things I want to do before graduation:
- Run a half marathon
- Keep up this blog
- Work really hard on finding a job (cross your fingers...)

There's more, but I don't want to bore you. I suggest making a list of things you really want to do but keep in mind that actually doing them will take time. It takes two weeks to cut a bad habit, but it takes longer than that to keep this habit from coming back.

Alrighty then.

Fun Nashville to look forward to:

Oscar Night at the Belcourt Theater 3/7
Rogue Wave 3/9
Muse 3/15
Japandroids 3/26
(...March will be a good month)
Vampire Weekend 4/5 (At the Ryman! Oh baby!)


Yay for good music! Hopefully more will pop up as the year goes on...As we say in Mee-ah-mee: Ah-pee Neee-u Jeears to Joo!!

(Oh and although I didn't make a list of the "Best Films of '09," I did give it a try! I don't think that I would be giving the films I didn't get to see any justice if I were to make such a list though. Anywho, here are some that I was VERY impressed with:

- The Hurt Locker
- Inglorious Basterds
- Precious
- Up in the Air
- A Serious Man
- Avatar
- 500 days of summer (I know, I know. I am such a sucker.)
- Transformers 2 (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. JK. OMG. FML. ROFL. LMAO))