Atomboy in 2008

2008, so far, is 80% worth living.

In 2005, Atomboy did 23 things, went 0 places, met 0 people, and consumed 351 products.

Years: 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. commit myself once a week to the local yoga class
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. start yoga classes
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. get a grade C or above at Maths GCSE so I can apply to train as an adult literacy teacher.
Read:
  1. The Long Hard Road Out of Hell — Worth consuming!
  2. Coercion : Why We Listen to What "They" Say — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. I, Robot (Widescreen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  2. The Punisher — Not worth consuming
  3. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls — Worth consuming!
  4. A Dirty Shame (R Rated Version) — Worth consuming!
  5. Ararat — Worth consuming!
  6. Director's Series, Vol. 2 - The Work of Director Chris Cunningham — Worth consuming!
  7. Blood Diamond (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. This Filthy World — Worth consuming!
  9. Electroma — Worth consuming!
  10. Disturbia (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  11. Electroma — Worth consuming!
  12. Sicko (Special Edition)
  13. The Bourne Ultimatum — Worth consuming!
  14. No Country for Old Men — Worth consuming!

→ See more from January

February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. understand how to use rss feeds — completed 26 days later
  2. go to Aldermaston for the CND 50th Anniversary demo
  3. use my "Diary of Doom" to make some of these 43 Things actually happen.
  4. identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money)
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. go bowling — Worth doing!
  2. try and get a scholarship for an MRes in Politics
  3. rebuild my life after a nervous breakdown — Worth doing!
Listened to:
  1. Young Prayer
Watched:
  1. The Day After Tomorrow (Widescreen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  2. Pee Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special — Worth consuming!
  3. The US versus John Lennon — Worth consuming!
  4. Control — Worth consuming!
  5. Eagle Vs. Shark — Worth consuming!
  6. Transformers — Not worth consuming
  7. Sweeney Todd — Worth consuming!
  8. A Mighty Heart — Worth consuming!
  9. The War on Democracy — Worth consuming!
  10. Superbad (Unrated Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  11. Rocket Science — Worth consuming!
  12. Chromophobia (2005) — Not worth consuming
  13. yella — Worth consuming!

→ See more from February

March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Climb Glastonbury Tor — completed about 12 hours later
  2. buy some swimming goggles — completed about 1 month later
  3. get a tattoo to mark the end of this difficult past year, and to remind me never to return to the place I was in last year
  4. go for a midnight picnic on Saunton Sands when the weather gets warmer.
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. see Belle & Sebastian in concert — Worth doing!
  2. enjoy the first quarter of 2008 by having one new and fulfilling experience in January, February, and March — Worth doing!
  3. understand how to use rss feeds — Worth doing!
  4. get a bigger composting bin — Worth doing!
  5. Go to a roller disco — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. go to Aldermaston for the CND 50th Anniversary demo
Read:
  1. Mao II: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  2. Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics) — Not worth consuming
  3. The Republic (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  4. Junky: The Definitive Text of Junk (50th Anniversary Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. Franny and Zooey — Worth consuming!
  6. The Brothers Karamazov — Worth consuming!
  7. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) — Worth consuming!
  8. Alice in Wonderland — Worth consuming!
  9. Beloved — Worth consuming!
  10. No Logo. — Worth consuming!
  11. Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (Collected Papers of Sigmund Freud) — Worth consuming!
  12. Charlotte's Web — Worth consuming!
  13. Dracula (Enriched Classics) — Worth consuming!
  14. One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) — Not worth consuming
  15. Nineteen Eighty-four — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Aerial #2 — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. House of Sand and Fog
  2. Dogtown and Z-Boys (Deluxe Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. Heaven (2002) — Worth consuming!
  4. La Jetee/Sans Soleil — Worth consuming!
  5. Wild Tigers I Have Known
  6. Opera Jawa — Worth consuming!
  7. Year Of the Dog
  8. Bug (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  9. La Vie en Rose (Extended Version) — Not worth consuming
  10. Stardust (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  11. Into the Wild — Worth consuming!
  12. American Gangster (2-Disc Unrated Extended Edition) — Not worth consuming
  13. There Will Be Blood — Worth consuming!

→ See more from March

April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. start that pee wee herman collection I've always promised myself I would do someday
  2. Have money left over from my last paycheck when I get a new one
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Climb Glastonbury Tor — Worth doing!
  2. sit Zen in Exeter this week — Worth doing!
  3. get a back up hard disc for the music files — Worth doing!
  4. buy some swimming goggles — Worth doing!
  5. do a 10 cheer cheer-bomb to Ms Walking on Sunshine for creating the 5 Daily Gratitude goal — Worth doing!
  6. Make an osteopath appointment for next week — Worth doing!
  7. Get off antidepressants. — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. Days of War, Nights of Love : Crimethink For Beginners — Worth consuming!
  2. The Yoga Cookbook: Vegetarian Food for Body and Mind — Worth consuming!
  3. Vice Cream: Over 70 Sinfully Delicious Dairy-Free Delights — Worth consuming!
  4. Society of the Spectacle — Worth consuming!
  5. Relief is in the Stretch: End Back Pain Through Yoga — Not worth consuming
  6. Expect Resistance: A Crimethink Field Manual — Worth consuming!
  7. Field Guide to the Dragonflies and Damselflies of Great Britain and Ireland — Worth consuming!
  8. Vinegar - 1001 Practical Uses — Not worth consuming
  9. American Macrobiotic Cuisine: A Macrobiotic Celebration of American Ethnic Cooking — Not worth consuming
Listened to:
  1. Either/Or — Worth consuming!
  2. Sweetheart of the Rodeo — Worth consuming!
  3. Lest We Forget: The Best of Marilyn Manson — Worth consuming!
  4. Aerial #3 — Worth consuming!
  5. Person Pitch — Worth consuming!
  6. Walls — Not worth consuming
  7. Tippett: Concerto for Double String Orchestra, Ritual Dances, etc. — Worth consuming!
  8. In Rainbows — Worth consuming!
  9. Seventh Tree — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Bourne Supremacy (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. Skins — Worth consuming!
  4. The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl — Worth consuming!
  5. The Bourne Identity (Full Screen Extended Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. Nathan Barley — Worth consuming!
  7. John Adams - A Portrait and a Concert of American Music — Worth consuming!
  8. Southland Tales — Not worth consuming
  9. South Park - The Complete Eighth Season — Worth consuming!
  10. Zizek! — Worth consuming!
  11. Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford — Worth consuming!
  12. Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End (Widescreen Edition)
  13. star trek original series — Worth consuming!
  14. The Ice Storm - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  15. Jumper (Single-Disc Edition) — Not worth consuming
Consumed:
  1. Miso soup — Worth consuming!
  2. vegan pizza — Worth consuming!
  3. Vegan Sausage Rolls — Worth consuming!
  4. granovita organic cremovita — Worth consuming!
  5. sushi set — Worth consuming!
  6. RYE FLOUR — Worth consuming!
  7. vegan samosas — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Myst III: Exile — Not worth consuming
  2. Pokemon Red — Worth consuming!
  3. Pokemon Sapphire — Worth consuming!
  4. Pokemon Emerald — Worth consuming!
  5. vegan walking boots — Worth consuming!

→ See more from April

May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Buy some running shoes and take up running again
Read:
  1. Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic (BK Currents) — Worth consuming!
  2. Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. A River Runs Through It — Worth consuming!
  2. Wag the Dog (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
  3. Unforgiven — Worth consuming!
  4. Contact — Worth consuming!
  5. The Talented Mr. Ripley — Worth consuming!
  6. Sense and Sensibility — Worth consuming!
  7. Il Postino — Not worth consuming
  8. Bullets Over Broadway — Worth consuming!
  9. Rushmore — Worth consuming!
  10. The Nightmare Before Christmas (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  11. Dead Man Walking — Not worth consuming
  12. 10 Things I Hate About You — Worth consuming!
  13. Shakespeare in Love (Miramax Collector's Series) — Not worth consuming
  14. Malcolm X — Worth consuming!
  15. The Shawshank Redemption — Not worth consuming

→ See more from May

June

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. buy a digital camera — Worth doing!
  2. read Ulysses — Worth doing!
  3. get my act together — Worth doing!
  4. become more autonomous — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. read all the Discworld novels
  2. Read Middlemarch
Read:
  1. When Things Fall Apart — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Sermon on Exposition Blvd. — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Stranger Than Paradise — Worth consuming!
  2. Easy Rider — Worth consuming!
  3. Dead Man's Shoes — Worth consuming!
  4. Jesus Camp — Worth consuming!
  5. I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
  6. My Blueberry Nights — Not worth consuming
  7. Dexter - Complete First Season
  8. The Nines — Worth consuming!
  9. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly — Worth consuming!
  10. In the Valley of Elah — Worth consuming!
  11. Cloverfield — Worth consuming!
  12. Persepolis — Worth consuming!
  13. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Australia ] — Worth consuming!
  14. Heartbeat Detector
  15. In the Valley of Elah — Worth consuming!

→ See more from June

July

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. enjoy the second quarter of 2008 by having one new and fulfilling experience in April, May, and June. Woo Hoo! — Worth doing!
  2. keep having fun despite the fucked up state of the world — Worth doing!
  3. be more joyful and start smiling again — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. go on holiday by mistake
Read:
  1. Sourcery — Not worth consuming
  2. The Tassajara Bread Book — Worth consuming!
  3. The Do-in Way: Gentle Exercises to Liberate the Body,mind, And Spirit — Worth consuming!
  4. Relationship Rescue : Don't Make Excuses! Start Repairing Your Relationship Today — Worth consuming!
  5. Meditation in Action (Shambhala Library) — Worth consuming!
  6. Middlemarch (Penguin Popular Classics) — Not worth consuming
  7. Hotel California: The True-life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends — Worth consuming!
  8. Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism. — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Highway 61 Revisited — Worth consuming!
  2. The Complete Reprise Sessions
  3. The Dream — Not worth consuming
Watched:
  1. Head-On [Gegen die Wand] — Worth consuming!
  2. Show Me Love — Worth consuming!
  3. Star Trek Enterprise - The Complete Second Season
  4. Ali - Fear Eats the Soul - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  5. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill — Worth consuming!
  6. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant — Worth consuming!
  7. The Marriage of Maria Braun — Worth consuming!
  8. Alice in the Cities — Worth consuming!
  9. Spaced: The Complete Second Series [Region 2 Import - UK] — Worth consuming!
  10. Spaced: The Complete First Series [Region 2 Import - UK] — Worth consuming!
  11. Juno — Worth consuming!
  12. My Winnipeg (2007) — Worth consuming!
  13. Margot at the Wedding — Worth consuming!
  14. Beowulf
  15. Battle for Haditha — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Mansinthe - absinthe — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. face paints

→ See more from July

August

Read:
  1. Empire — Worth consuming!
  2. Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings — Worth consuming!
  3. HOW TO GET PHD - SEE 2ED — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Bridge — Worth consuming!
  2. The Dark Knight — Not worth consuming
  3. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters — Worth consuming!
  4. London — Worth consuming!
  5. Robinson in Space — Worth consuming!
  6. Wall-E — Worth consuming!
  7. London to Brighton [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Great Britain ] — Worth consuming!

→ See more from August


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