{"id":252,"date":"2015-01-04T17:28:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T00:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2015-05-27T11:50:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T17:50:02","slug":"stuff-not-from-my-2014-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/2015\/01\/04\/stuff-not-from-my-2014-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuff not from my 2014 goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it feels like I did more stuff outside of <a title=\"Goals for 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/2014\/02\/01\/goals-for-2014\/\">my goals list<\/a> than inside.\u00a0 It also feels like I might copy and paste text from other blog entries as a introduction, almost verbatim, again, so as not to have to come up with something new, fresh, hip, vapid, incredible.\u00a0 Here is a reckoning of part of that, with some commentary as I deem deemable.\u00a0 This list does not include movies from my <a title=\"My favorite (and not) movies of 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/2014\/12\/29\/my-favorite-and-not-movies-of-2014\/\">2014 favorites list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Hadn&#8217;t seen before:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DuckTales (volume 1)<\/li>\n<li>Go On (season 1\/the complete series)<\/li>\n<li>The Guild (season 6)<\/li>\n<li>Toy Story of Terror!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve liked Matthew Perry since he was on <em>Friends<\/em> (I think he and Matt LeBlanc could have had their own show without the other cast members).\u00a0 He sure has had bad luck with his subsequent TV series, though.\u00a0 <em>Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip<\/em>, <em>Mr. Sunshine<\/em>, and <em>Go On<\/em> only lasted one season each, and I thought each were great.\u00a0 I found <em>Go On<\/em> to be really funny and touching at times.\u00a0 Also, it&#8217;s great that <em>Friends<\/em> is now on Netflix streaming.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Guild<\/em> is a fantastically fun web series and I was glad to finally be able to watch season 6 on Netflix, along with rewatching the earlier seasons.<\/p>\n<p><em>Had seen before:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving<\/li>\n<li>Dexter (seasons 1-7)<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown<\/li>\n<li>The Guild (seasons 1-5)<\/li>\n<li>The Spectacular Spider-Man (seasons 1-2)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I had seen all of <em>Dexter<\/em> before, but my wife hadn&#8217;t, so we watched it together.\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s a pretty great show, though it gets weaker for me somewhere in season 6 or 7, and I&#8217;m not really a fan of the ending.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Movies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Hadn&#8217;t seen before:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clerks<\/li>\n<li>Dinosaur<\/li>\n<li>Fun and Fancy Free<\/li>\n<li>The Little Memaid II: Return to the Sea<\/li>\n<li>The Monuments Men<\/li>\n<li>Neighbors<\/li>\n<li>Night Watch<\/li>\n<li>Princess Mononoke<\/li>\n<li>21 Jump Street<\/li>\n<li>Your Highness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Had seen before:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad<\/li>\n<li>Aladdin<\/li>\n<li>Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues<\/li>\n<li>Animaniacs: Wakko&#8217;s Wish<\/li>\n<li>The Batman vs. Dracula<\/li>\n<li>Crazy, Stupid, Love.<\/li>\n<li>Easy A<\/li>\n<li>Frozen<\/li>\n<li>Hercules<\/li>\n<li>Home Alone<\/li>\n<li>How the Grinch Stole Christmas<\/li>\n<li>The Incredible Hulk<\/li>\n<li>The Incredibles<\/li>\n<li>Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie<\/li>\n<li>The Jungle Book<\/li>\n<li>Kiki&#8217;s Delivery Service<\/li>\n<li>Love Actually<\/li>\n<li>Mary Poppins<\/li>\n<li>Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension<\/li>\n<li>Salt<\/li>\n<li>Superman vs. The Elite<\/li>\n<li>Tarzan<\/li>\n<li>Thor<\/li>\n<li>Thor: The Dark World<\/li>\n<li>The Transformers: The Movie<\/li>\n<li>The Truman Show<\/li>\n<li>Zoolander<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Video Games<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>First-time plays:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DuckTales: Remastered<\/li>\n<li>Mario Kart 8<\/li>\n<li>Pikmin 2<\/li>\n<li>Pikmin 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Replays:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I got <em>Pikmin 3<\/em> for free as a promotion when I bought <em>Mario Kart 8<\/em>.\u00a0 I had never played a <em>Pikmin<\/em> title before, and I didn&#8217;t know what to expect at all.\u00a0 It was amazingly fun, especially after I figured out that there is not actually a time limit for completing the story mode (except if one runs out of supplies).\u00a0 It has fun supplementary modes too: mission (single or co-op play) and battle.\u00a0 My children loved it also, so much so that I ended up buying <em>Pikmin 2<\/em> on eBay and buying <em>Pikmin<\/em> plushes for them as birthday and Christmas gifts.<\/p>\n<p>I played the original <em>DuckTales<\/em> game on my NES as a kid, and got the remastered version as part of a Wii U eShop sale at the very end of 2013.\u00a0 It was pretty fun, and neat that they got most of the original TV show cast to do new voice work.<\/p>\n<p><em>Twilight Princess<\/em> remains one of my favorite <em>Zelda<\/em> titles, and I think I&#8217;ll probably end up replaying at least <em>Ocarina of Time<\/em> and <em>Skyward Sword<\/em> in the not-too-distant future.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s hoping also that the new Wii U <em>Zelda<\/em> game is released in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it feels like I did more stuff outside of my goals list than inside.\u00a0 It also feels like I might copy and paste text from other blog entries as a introduction, almost verbatim, again, so as not to have to come up with something new, fresh, hip, vapid, incredible.\u00a0 Here is a reckoning of 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