'I know that I'm forgiven
But I don't know how I know
I don't trust my inner feelings
Inner feelings come and go'
- Leonard Cohen, 'That don't make it junk'
A long time, I know, a long, long time...
I was going to post my end-of-year lists, it seems kind of late now, but anyway...
The ten best films of 2004
1. Collateral (Michael Mann)
2. Dogville (Lars von Trier) (this was also my second favourite film of 2003, so a bit of a cheat here, maybe)
3. Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette)
4. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
5. Les Invasions barbares (Denys Arcand)
6. The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
7. Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring (Kim Ki-Duk)
8. Kill Bill, Vol 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
9. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
10. The Terminal (Steven Spielberg)
Two of my favourite discoveries of 2004 (these are things I thought I didn't like and discovered I did):
1. Mussels
2. The Red Hot Chili Peppers
'I'm working so I won't have to try so hard
Tables they turn sometimes'
- The Strokes, 'Someday'
I was also going to list my absurdly long and pedantic and multi-tiered several-sub-heading New Year's Resolutions, but
a) I'd come across as a deranged obsessive compulsive freak (which I am)
b) I've already broken most of them anyway, and
c) they're actually probably just the same as everyone else's in the world...
In brief:
- eat more fresh fruit and vegetables
- stop smoking
- drink less alcohol
- take more exercise
- spend less on CDs, books and movies
- have more sex
actually, let me rephrase that last one: have some sex (yeah, I'm glad you think this is funny...)
My objectives, en gros, were:
- not to be hungover
- to eat five portions of fresh fruit and veg per day
- to take thirty minutes of vigorous exercise every day
- to communicate my desire daily...
In 2005, I may be visiting some or all of the following places, in roughly this order:
North and South Carolina, Paris, Whitby, Cirencester, Paris, Bath, Trondheim, Galway, Paris, Kent, Warwick, Edinburgh, Paris...
I am also supposed to be writing one quarter of a book and giving five conference presentations.
Plus, my brother is getting married and I may think about buying an apartment.
Oh, and I was also hoping to develop a new wardrobe, rebuild my body and invent myself a sex life...
I feel tired just looking at 2005...
'So come, my friends, be not afraid
We are so lightly here
It is in love that we are made
In love we disappear'
- Leonard Cohen, 'Boogie Street'
(PS - I have loads of photos from the wacky month of December that are just waiting to go up on this page, but I can't figure out how to do it. If anyone has a handle on this operation and is very patient with stupid people, I'd be very grateful for a tutorial... 'fraid the SG helpnotes didn't.)
But I don't know how I know
I don't trust my inner feelings
Inner feelings come and go'
- Leonard Cohen, 'That don't make it junk'
A long time, I know, a long, long time...
I was going to post my end-of-year lists, it seems kind of late now, but anyway...
The ten best films of 2004
1. Collateral (Michael Mann)
2. Dogville (Lars von Trier) (this was also my second favourite film of 2003, so a bit of a cheat here, maybe)
3. Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette)
4. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
5. Les Invasions barbares (Denys Arcand)
6. The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
7. Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring (Kim Ki-Duk)
8. Kill Bill, Vol 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
9. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
10. The Terminal (Steven Spielberg)
Two of my favourite discoveries of 2004 (these are things I thought I didn't like and discovered I did):
1. Mussels
2. The Red Hot Chili Peppers
'I'm working so I won't have to try so hard
Tables they turn sometimes'
- The Strokes, 'Someday'
I was also going to list my absurdly long and pedantic and multi-tiered several-sub-heading New Year's Resolutions, but
a) I'd come across as a deranged obsessive compulsive freak (which I am)
b) I've already broken most of them anyway, and
c) they're actually probably just the same as everyone else's in the world...
In brief:
- eat more fresh fruit and vegetables
- stop smoking
- drink less alcohol
- take more exercise
- spend less on CDs, books and movies
- have more sex
actually, let me rephrase that last one: have some sex (yeah, I'm glad you think this is funny...)
My objectives, en gros, were:
- not to be hungover
- to eat five portions of fresh fruit and veg per day
- to take thirty minutes of vigorous exercise every day
- to communicate my desire daily...
In 2005, I may be visiting some or all of the following places, in roughly this order:
North and South Carolina, Paris, Whitby, Cirencester, Paris, Bath, Trondheim, Galway, Paris, Kent, Warwick, Edinburgh, Paris...
I am also supposed to be writing one quarter of a book and giving five conference presentations.
Plus, my brother is getting married and I may think about buying an apartment.
Oh, and I was also hoping to develop a new wardrobe, rebuild my body and invent myself a sex life...
I feel tired just looking at 2005...
'So come, my friends, be not afraid
We are so lightly here
It is in love that we are made
In love we disappear'
- Leonard Cohen, 'Boogie Street'
(PS - I have loads of photos from the wacky month of December that are just waiting to go up on this page, but I can't figure out how to do it. If anyone has a handle on this operation and is very patient with stupid people, I'd be very grateful for a tutorial... 'fraid the SG helpnotes didn't.)
VIEW 13 of 13 COMMENTS
Before Sunset... ! I mean, what can you say? Was that, like, everything you hoped it would be? (LIKE totally!
From old Britannnia to the heart of France? I didn't think about it before, but you didn't join the Illuminati, did you?
Take care, guv. More later.
> Oh yeah, the Chili Peppers fucking rock now, dude! Glad you're on board!
[Edited on Jan 16, 2005 9:22PM]