An inevitable topic and so probably one to avoid. But, then, wouldn't that be just falling in with expectation? So you'd be running with the pack instead of doing your own thing in your own time (what movie people? what movie?), like the rugged, free-thinking, I-don't-take-no-shit-from-nobody kind of a cool smoojeroonio dude that a dude's gotta be. In which case, you'd better be discussing New Year resolutions after all, or else you're running with this other we're-too-cool-to-talk-about-it crowd. But won't that just put you back in the pack? Like you become the Eight of Diamonds or something even more creepy, the Five of Clubs. Oh no, not the Five of Clubs. Actually, I once knew someone who had a thing for the Five of the Clubs. I mean, she really fell for him; she luuuvvved him. The relationship lasted a couple of months, and then he dumped her. She was heart-broken. She was livid. What a bastard! So, it's not good to be in the same pack as the Five of Clubs and, especially, it's not good to be the Five of Clubs. But who's to say that that's the pack that you'd be part of if you did. Did what? Did the resolution-thing that would make you part of the pack. THEY are to say. And who are THEY? THEY are just plain THEY. Do we care? Who the hell are we? We are us, that's who. And us are people who, even if we do care, shouldn't. So:
New Year's Resolution 1: We're not gonna care about that, at least. We're gonna care about other stuff.
NYR 2: And I'm not gonna post at one minute before midnight, because otherwise I get to write 'pleased of the opportunity' where (in the previous post) you'll now find 'glad of the opportunity', and not notice that I've done it even after reading through several times; and I then get to receive emails of a giggling sort from certain friends of mine, but which implicitly impugn my judgement, powers as a writer and inner character, not to say integrity, not to say 'not to say', not to say bwaahhhhahhhahhhaaahhh.
NYR 3: To be nice about my dnoc, which is a paper I do so love and even I cherish it, I even cherish it, I really chhhherrrisshh it even; for the time being anyway, till next time I feel like having a go, which may be soon. Because what is a dnoc for if you can't have a bloody good moan about it?
NYR 4: (To readers who have lost their way, please check back: NY is not New York. I once spent 24 hours in Manhattan, and that's all the time I've ever spent there. I loved it and I hope to go back.) When people say about some regrettable feature of the world, and in a resigned fashion, 'That's how it is. What can you do?' - to reply to them, 'You can moan.'
NYR 5: To see more movies than I saw this year.
NYR 6: To do things.
Now, if you've managed to stay with it this far, do reward yourself by taking the 'What Should Your New Year's Resolution Be?' quiz. I went through it twice and it gave me two different results, though I think I gave the same answers both times. The two results:
> to break things
> to incite a revolution through my art
Happy New Year everyone! Thanks to readers who have supported normblog!