I am pleased to be the first to inform you that it is now 2014. In fact, it’s been 2014 for 32 days now. I have leftover goals from last year and new ones for this year.
I’ve even already done some of the things listed below, but I’m going by my list as of January 1 for the sake of completeness/obsessiveness.
Books to Read
- The rest of The Hobbit
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
- The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- The “Speaker” Trilogy (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind)
- Elantris
TV Seasons to Watch
This is the year when I am determined to finally watch (most of) the DVDs and Blu-rays that have sat on my shelf unwatched for years. Some, like The Flintstones, I’ve had for about four years. In the case of Rescue Rangers, I bought volume 1 eight years ago and still haven’t watched it.
Haven’t seen before:
- The Adventures of the Gummi Bears (volume 1)
- Chip ‘n’ Dale Rescue Rangers (volumes 1 – 2)
- The Flintstones (seasons 1 – 6)
- Iron Man: Armored Adventures (seasons 1 – 2)
- The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (season 1)
- The Superhero Squad Show (seasons 1 – 2)
- TaleSpin (volumes 2 – 3)
- The Transformers (seasons 1 – 4)
Have seen before, but haven’t yet watched my BDs/DVDs:
- The Closer (season 7)
- Justice League (season 1)
Have seen before:
- Animaniacs (volumes 2 – 3)
- Batman Beyond (seasons 1 – 3, plus Return of the Joker)
- The Closer (seasons 1 – 6)
- Dollhouse (seasons 1 – 2)
- Heroes (season 1)
- Justice League (season 2)
- Justice League: Unlimited (seasons 1 – 2)
- Pinky and the Brain (volumes 1 – 3)
- Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (season 1)
- Star Trek: The Next Generation (seasons 1 – 7)
- Star Wars: Clone Wars (seasons 1 – 2)
- TaleSpin (volume 1)
Currently airing/will air this year:
- The Big Bang Theory (the rest of season 7)
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine (the rest of season 1)
- Castle (the rest of season 6)
- Homeland (season 4)
- Major Crimes (season 3)
- Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (the rest of season 1)
- The Mentalist (the rest of season 6)
Movies to Watch
From last year:
- Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2
- Elysium
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
- RED 2
From previous years, already seen or not:
- Captain America
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
- The Muppets
- X-Men: First Class
New this year:
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
- Dumb and Dumber To
- Edge of Tomorrow
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- The Hobbit: There and Back Again
- How to Train Your Dragon 2
- Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
- Justice League: War
- Muppets Most Wanted
- Son of Batman
- X-Men: Days of Future Past
BDs/DVDs I [try to] watch at least once a year:
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- The Avengers
- Batman Begins
- The Dark Knight
- The Dark Knight Rises
- The Bourne Identity
- The Bourne Supremacy
- The Bourne Ultimatum
- Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
- Firefly
- Serenity
- (500) Days of Summer
- Iron Man
- Iron Man 2
- Iron Man 3
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- The Matrix
- The Matrix Reloaded
- The Matrix Revolutions
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
- Spider-Man
- Spider-Man 2
- Spider-Man 3
- Star Trek
- Star Trek Into Darkness
- Superman Returns
Unwatched BDs/DVDs:
- Les Miserables
- The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
BDs/DVDs I haven’t watched since 2010 or before*:
- Bandits
- Beauty and the Beast
- 007: The Living Daylights
- 007: License to Kill
- 007: Goldeneye
- 007: Tomorrow Never Dies
- 007: The World Is Not Enough
- 007: Die Another Day
- Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
- DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
- Elektra
- 50 First Dates
- Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
- Flight of the Navigator
- Follow That Bird
- Get Smart
- Hook
- Horton Hears a Who!
- How to Train Your Dragon
- I Am Legend
- The Italian Job
- Kermit’s Swamp Years
- Knight and Day
- The Majestic
- National Treasure
- National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets
- Piglet’s Big Movie
- Ponyo
- Pooh’s Grand Adventure
- Pooh’s Heffalump Movie
- The Princess Bride
- The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
- Speed Racer
- Spirited Away
- Star Trek: Generations
- Star Trek: First Contact
- Star Trek: Insurrection
- Star Trek: Nemesis
- Stranger Than Fiction
- Super Mario Bros.
- TMNT
- Toy Story
- Toy Story 2
- Toy Story 3
* It seems that in my past years’ goal lists I was using the phrase “since year x or before” when what I meant was “since before year x.” I’ll stick with “since year x or before” but this time actually mean it.
Video Games to Play
- The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD
- LEGO Marvel
- New Super Luigi U
- New Super Mario Bros. U
- Super Mario 3D World
Other
- Learn more about git and get my web site and other code into git repositories
- Poetism commentaries
- Resist the Facebook