W. in 2008
2008, so far, is 87% worth living.
In 2005, W.
did 8 things,
went 14 places,
met 0 people, and
consumed 178 products.
January
Added to 43 Things:
- be a better boyfriend
- exercise regularly
- save more money
- accomplish something — completed 5 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
- make a film — Worth doing!
Read:
- Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower, Book 6) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
Watched:
- Johnny Mnemonic — Not worth consuming
- Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price — Worth consuming!
- Thumbsucker — Worth consuming!
- Branded to Kill - Koroshi No Rakuin - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Yellow Earth (黄土地) — Worth consuming!
- The Wicker Man — Not worth consuming
- The Promise — Worth consuming!
- Marie Antoinette — Worth consuming!
- Borat - Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
- The Quiet — Worth consuming!
- Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes — Not worth consuming
- Nanking — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
- Peet's Coffee - Arabian Mocha Sanani — Worth consuming!
- Peet's Coffee - Ethiopian Super Natural — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
- Chrono Cross — Worth consuming!
- Warhawk — Worth consuming!
- Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix — Worth consuming!
→ See more from January
February
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Read:
- Art in China (Oxford History of Art) — Worth consuming!
- House Home Family: Living and Being Chinese — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
- Young Mountain — Worth consuming!
- The End Of The Beginning — Worth consuming!
- Look Directly Into the Sun: China Pop 2007 — Worth consuming!
- This Will Destroy You — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Groundhog Day — Worth consuming!
- Love Actually (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Hook — Worth consuming!
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding — Worth consuming!
- Day of the Dead (Divimax Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Holes (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Robot Monster — Worth consuming!
- Cafe Lumiere — Worth consuming!
- Still Life — Worth consuming!
- The Holiday — Worth consuming!
- The Pursuit of Happyness (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Sakuran — Worth consuming!
- The Warlords — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
- Peet's Coffee - Arabian Mocha-Java — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
- Nintendogs: Best Friends — Worth consuming!
→ See more from February
March
Read:
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel (Vintage International) — Worth consuming!
- Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings — Worth consuming!
- Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Vintage International) — Worth consuming!
- The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine — Not worth consuming
Listened to:
- Cloudy Cloud Calculator — Worth consuming!
- Athletica — Worth consuming!
- The Rescue — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Bottle Rocket — Worth consuming!
- The Last of the Mohicans (Director's Expanded Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Arrested Development - Season One — Worth consuming!
- The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Sid & Nancy - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- The Silence of the Lambs - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Evil Dead II (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Robocop - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Chocolat — Worth consuming!
- Spartacus - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- The Rock - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Armageddon -- Criterion Collection — Not worth consuming
- Dazed & Confused - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- American Psycho [Blu-ray] — Worth consuming!
- Return of the Evil Dead — Not worth consuming
Consumed:
- Peet's Coffee - New Guinea Highlands — Not worth consuming
- Go Lean Crunch! (Honey Almond Flax) — Worth consuming!
→ See more from March
April
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Listened to:
- Yanqui U.X.O. — Worth consuming!
- Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven — Worth consuming!
- The Dust of Retreat — Worth consuming!
- Inventions for the New Season — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Daft Punk - Interstella 5555 — Worth consuming!
- The Boogeyman — Not worth consuming
- Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman, Vol. 1 - The Tale of Zatoichi — Worth consuming!
- The General — Worth consuming!
- Trouble in Paradise - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Modern Times — Worth consuming!
- Mr. Hulot's Holiday - Criterion Collection — Not worth consuming
Consumed:
- Peet's Coffee - Kona — Worth consuming!
- Peet's Coffee - Anniversary Blend — Worth consuming!
- Joe's O's — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas — Worth consuming!
- Soul Calibur II — Worth consuming!
- Guitar Hero — Worth consuming!
- Viewtiful Joe — Worth consuming!
- Gun — Worth consuming!
- Grand Theft Auto III — Worth consuming!
- In The Groove — Not worth consuming
- Crazy Taxi — Worth consuming!
- Zone of the Enders — Worth consuming!
- FantaVision — Worth consuming!
- Rock Band — Worth consuming!
- SSX — Worth consuming!
- Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millenium 2001 — Worth consuming!
- DOA2: Hardcore — Not worth consuming
- Super Bust-A-Move 2 — Worth consuming!
→ See more from April
May
Completed on 43 Things:
- overcome my fear of public speaking — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Read:
- The Simple Art of Murder — Worth consuming!
- Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary (Asia-Pacific) — Worth consuming!
- Hollywood Comedians: The Film Reader (In Focus-Routledge Film Readers) — Not worth consuming
- Soon I Will be Invincible (Vintage) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
- Living in America — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Airplane! — Worth consuming!
- The Goonies — Worth consuming!
- American Movie — Worth consuming!
- All About Lily Chou-Chou — Worth consuming!
- Eyes of Laura Mars — Worth consuming!
- Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella — Worth consuming!
- Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box — Worth consuming!
- Cujo — Not worth consuming
- The Pornographers - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Richard Pryor - Live in Concert — Worth consuming!
- Seduced & Abandoned - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone — Worth consuming!
- No Country for Old Men — Worth consuming!
- CJ7 — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
- Raisin Bran — Worth consuming!
- Smart Start (Maple Brown Sugar) — Worth consuming!
→ See more from May
June
Completed on 43 Things:
- accomplish something — Worth doing!
- graduate from college — Worth doing!
- finish Wild ARMs — Worth doing!
Read:
- Monkey/Folk Novel of China — Worth consuming!
- People Studying People: The Human Element in Fieldwork — Not worth consuming
Listened to:
- Anywhere I Lay My Head — Not worth consuming
- A Good Day — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- The Princess Bride (Special Edition) — Not worth consuming
- Invader ZIM - Doom Doom Doom (Vol. 1) — Worth consuming!
- What Time Is It There? — Worth consuming!
- Suicide Club (Suicide Circle) — Not worth consuming
- Carrie — Worth consuming!
- Troll 2 — Worth consuming!
- Love on Delivery — Worth consuming!
- Full Metal Jacket — Worth consuming!
- Surf's Up (Widescreen Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
- The Forbidden Kingdom [Theatrical Release] — Not worth consuming
- The Machine Girl — Worth consuming!
- New Woman (新女性) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
- Just the Clusters (Vanilla Almond Granola) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
- Wild ARMs — Worth consuming!
→ See more from June
July
Completed on 43 Things:
- get a job — Worth doing!
- Let go of the past — Not worth doing
Visited on 43 Places:
- Santa Cruz — Worth visiting!
- West Side — Worth visiting!
- Oceanview Breakers Apartments — Worth visiting!
- Hollywood Walk Of Fame — Worth visiting!
- Mann's Chinese Theater — Worth visiting!
- Los Angeles — Worth visiting!
- El Cerrito — Worth visiting!
- Scotts Valley — Not worth visiting
- Capitola — Worth visiting!
- Watsonville — Not worth visiting
- Sunnyvale — Worth visiting!
- San Jose — Worth visiting!
- HP Pavilion — Worth visiting!
- Porter College — Worth visiting!
Read:
- Serve the People!: A Novel — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
- Who's Next — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- L.A. Confidential — Worth consuming!
- King of Comedy — Worth consuming!
- Mystery, Alaska — Worth consuming!
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: Platinum Collection — Worth consuming!
- Drunken Angel - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Come Drink With Me — Worth consuming!
- The Dark Knight — Worth consuming!
- South Park - Imaginationland — Worth consuming!
- Sixty Million Dollar Man — Worth consuming!
- A Tale of Mari and Three Puppies (マリと子犬の物語) — Worth consuming!
- God Man Dog (2007) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
- Innocent Life: A Futuristic Harvest Moon — Worth consuming!
→ See more from July
August
Completed on 43 Things:
- read 10 new books — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Read:
- Out: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- Hellboy Volume 1: Seed of Destruction - NEW EDITION! (Hellboy (Graphic Novels)) — Worth consuming!
- The Cinema of Japan and Korea (24 Frames) — Worth consuming!
- South of the Border, West of the Sun — Worth consuming!
- Coffee — Worth consuming!
- East Asian Cinema — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
- Something For All Of Us — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Neon Genesis Evangelion - The End of Evangelion — Worth consuming!
- From Beijing with Love — Not worth consuming
- Beijing Rocks — Worth consuming!
- 300 — Worth consuming!
- Resident Evil - Extinction (Widescreen Special Edition) — Not worth consuming
- Hellboy II: The Golden Army [Theatrical Release] — Worth consuming!
- Finishing the Game — Worth consuming!
- Kisses Once/Don't Change Your Husband (情海重吻) — Not worth consuming
Consumed:
- Peet's Coffee - Las Hermanas — Worth consuming!
- Bad Ass Coffee - Menehune Kreme — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
- Katamari Damacy — Worth consuming!
