{"id":146,"date":"2012-01-22T22:12:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T05:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/?p=146"},"modified":"2014-06-23T16:58:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T22:58:43","slug":"stuff-not-from-my-2011-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/22\/stuff-not-from-my-2011-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuff not from my 2011 goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it feels like I did more stuff outside of <a title=\"Goals for 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/16\/goals-for-2011\/\">my goals list<\/a> than inside.\u00a0 Here is a reckoning of part of that, with some commentary as I deem, not fit, exactly, but something.\u00a0 This list also doesn&#8217;t include movies from my <a title=\"My favorite (and not) movies of 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/15\/my-favorite-and-not-movies-of-2011\/\">2011 list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Books<\/h3>\n<p>I read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Harry Potter and the Sorcerer&#8217;s Stone<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows<\/span> to my kids.<\/p>\n<h3>TV<\/h3>\n<p><em>Hadn&#8217;t seen before:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Avengers: Earth&#8217;s Mightiest Heroes (season 1)<\/li>\n<li>Caprica (season 1\/the series)<\/li>\n<li>Dexter (season 6)<\/li>\n<li>The Guild (season 4)<\/li>\n<li>Homeland (season 1)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Bean (the series)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Sunshine (season 1\/the series)<\/li>\n<li>The Office (seasons 1-2)<\/li>\n<li>Phineas and Ferb (seasons 1-2, part of 3)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My friend Ben got us watching <em>Phineas and Ferb<\/em>.\u00a0 The whole family loves it.\u00a0 Often my 3-year-old and I will watch an episode on Netflix on my phone before he goes to bed, and when we finished the available episodes, we decided to try out <em>The Avengers<\/em>, which another friend had recommended to me a year or so ago.\u00a0 My boy loves it, and I think it&#8217;s a pretty fun show, too.\u00a0 He loves it so much that he wants to be Captain America, complete with pretending various household objects are his shield and throwing them vigorously about the house.<\/p>\n<p>My sister has been telling me for a couple of years to watch <em>The Office<\/em>, and a few weeks ago I finally started watching, after having enjoyed Steve Carell in a number of movies.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know how I wasn&#8217;t interested in the show before, because it is funny, at least up to where I am&#8211;the middle of season 3.<\/p>\n<p>I always say that I&#8217;m watching enough shows as it is and I can&#8217;t be adding more, and I always lie.\u00a0 In addition to <em>The Office<\/em>, this year I also started <em>Mr. Sunshine<\/em>, because I enjoy Matthew Perry.\u00a0 Only nine episodes aired before it was canceled, though apparently there are four more on the DVD release that I&#8217;ll have to watch sometime.<\/p>\n<p>After watching <em>Battlestar Galactica<\/em>, I got the <em>Caprica <\/em>DVDs from Netflix.\u00a0 It was a good show with some interesting elements, but ultimately not as fun as <em>BSG<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Guild<\/em> is a hilarious web series and I watch the seasons on Netflix when they come out.\u00a0 Hopefully season 5 will hit shortly.\u00a0 I love Felicia Day.<\/p>\n<p>I heard about <em>Homeland<\/em> on a TV site, I think, but had no interest until I found out it stars Damian Lewis, who I loved on <em>Life<\/em>, and also Morena Baccarin of <em>Firefly<\/em> fame (and I guess <em>V<\/em>, which I haven&#8217;t seen).\u00a0 With those two, I gave it a shot and loved it.\u00a0 Claire Danes is also good in it, and the guy from <em>The Princess Bride<\/em>, Inigo Montoya.\u00a0 The only unfortunate part is that it&#8217;s on Showtime, which means too much swearing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Had seen before:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/li>\n<li>Saturday Night Live, various &#8220;best of&#8221; compilations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Movies<\/h3>\n<p><em>Hadn&#8217;t seen before:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bad Teacher<\/li>\n<li>Conan O&#8217;Brien Can&#8217;t Stop<\/li>\n<li>Despicable Me<\/li>\n<li>Grown Ups<\/li>\n<li>most of Hackers<\/li>\n<li>Juno<\/li>\n<li>The Men Who Stare at Goats<\/li>\n<li>The New Guy<\/li>\n<li>RED<\/li>\n<li>Tron<\/li>\n<li>12 Monkeys<\/li>\n<li>Wake Up, Ron Burgundy!<\/li>\n<li>Zombieland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A co-worked recommended <em>Zombieland<\/em> to me based on my expressed like of Emma Stone.\u00a0 I did not like <em>Zombieland<\/em>, except for the part with Bill Murray, which was awesome.<\/p>\n<p>I had no desire to see <em>Grown Ups<\/em> but watched it with my sister and her husband while I was visiting them last April.\u00a0 It was not as bad as I thought it would be, but Adam Sandler has still fallen far from his &#8217;90s days.<\/p>\n<p>I watched <em>Juno<\/em> because I had heard it was good and Ellen Page is in it.\u00a0 It also has Michael Cera, who I&#8217;ve liked watching in just about everything I&#8217;ve seen him in.\u00a0 And J.K. Simmons, who is awesome all the time, always.\u00a0 The movie was okay, but not what I&#8217;d hoped for.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hackers<\/em> was one of those movies that it seemed like everyone but me had seen, so I checked it out on Netflix streaming.\u00a0 It was pretty bad.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t press through to the end and gave up with about half an hour to go.<\/p>\n<p>I had never seen <em>Tron<\/em> (the original) that I can remember, so we watched it before watching <em>Tron: Legacy<\/em>.\u00a0 Both were pretty lame, though the original was less lame.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wake Up, Ron Burgundy!<\/em> is a movie compiled from deleted and alternate scenes cut from <em>Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy<\/em>.\u00a0 It was surprisingly entertaining and coherent, for a given definition of coherent.<\/p>\n<p>I watched <em>Conan O&#8217;Brien Can&#8217;t Stop<\/em> after reading Eric D. Snider&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericdsnider.com\/movies\/conan-obrien-cant-stop\/\" target=\"_blank\">review<\/a> of it, and liking Conan when I do watch late night talk shows, which is very rarely.\u00a0 It was a pretty good documentary.<\/p>\n<p>What possessed me to watch <em>Bad Teacher<\/em>, I know not, but it was not very good and I regret it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Had seen before:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Big Trouble<\/li>\n<li>A Bug&#8217;s Life<\/li>\n<li>Dumbo<\/li>\n<li>Elf<\/li>\n<li>Ernest Goes to Camp<\/li>\n<li>Ernest Goes to Jail<\/li>\n<li>Ferris Bueller\u2019s Day Off<\/li>\n<li>Home Alone<\/li>\n<li>Home Alone 2: Lost in New York<\/li>\n<li>Hot Rod<\/li>\n<li>The Lion King<\/li>\n<li>Ratatouille<\/li>\n<li>The Santa Clause 2<\/li>\n<li>WALL-E<\/li>\n<li>Up<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Video Games<\/h3>\n<p><em>First time plays:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Donkey Kong Country Returns<\/li>\n<li>Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4<\/li>\n<li>Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7<\/li>\n<li>Metroid: Other M<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Replays:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Metroid Prime<\/li>\n<li>Metroid Prime 2: Echoes<\/li>\n<li>New Super Mario Bros. 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