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How much culture can you fit in one year? A TSR Experiment Returns.

Following the thread made by Phalanges back in 2012 I think it could be interesting to do his experiment again for 2015.

Original Thread

I would like to read more books and watch more films during 2015. Remembering this old thread I thought I would try it again. I will also try and keep track of other things like TV and music. My aim in particular is to read 52+ books although with some of them being pretty large and heavy going it will be interesting to see if I can do that. Similarly I want to try and watch at least 52+ films. Ideally in all cases these would be films/books etc that I have not engaged with before.

The recommended sites remain:

• Books: http://www.goodreads.com/
• Music: http://www.last.fm/
• Movies: http://www.icheckmovies.com/
• TV Shows: http://followmy.tv/

• Videogames: http://darkadia.com/ (I will not personally be tracking my videogames as I tend to play very few overall)

To make things more interesting you can add anything you want that you feel is relevant. This could be things like trying new recipes, going out to new and exciting restaurants, travelling to new places, learning a new language, attending concerts/theatre productions. Anything you want! :h:

Apart from for the TV shows (which was getting tedious to manually delete all my 2012 TV shows), I have cleared my previous data from these sites so that they will just show my details for this year. I am currently seeking out a new site to track my TV shows. Making a new account for followmy is just not going through.

People do not have to join these sites to take part. You can equally just post regularly on this thread with updates on what you have done in the last week/month/*insert time period here*.

So would anyone like to join my quest this year?

My Accounts
• Books: http://www.goodreads.com/SirMasterKey
• Music: http://www.last.fm/SirMasterKey
• Movies: http://www.icheckmovies.com/SirMasterKey

Participants
SirMasterKey
Evening
Puddles the Monkey- and her blog
mobbsy91 and his blog
Aria Enoshima
Arkasia
CatnipGlows
NikolaT
Gofre and his blog
CongressTart
Welsh_insomniac- Possibly joying
Jammy Duel
lou 22
Smash Bandicoot
EllieC130
Baby Milo and his blog
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On my own then :sad:
Original post by SirMasterKey
On my own then :sad:


This is a brilliant idea :beard: But I feel confused/intimidated by all those different sites! Maybe everyone could have a post where they track their goals to make it simpler...?
Original post by Puddles the Monkey
This is a brilliant idea :beard: But I feel confused/intimidated by all those different sites! Maybe everyone could have a post where they track their goals to make it simpler...?


People can do it however they want to really. I find it easier to track on those websites as I've used them before.

People could just say what they've watched/read/played etc in the last week/month. I'll try and do regular updates on where I am on here as well as keeping track on those websites.

If you do use followmy.tv for tracking TV it can tell you just how much TV you have actually watched.
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Sounds like a good idea. I might give it a bash.
Original post by SirMasterKey
People can do it however they want to really. I find it easier to track on those websites as I've used them before.

People could just say what they've watched/read/played etc in the last week/month. I'll try and do regular updates on where I am on here as well as keeping track on those websites.

If you do use followmy.tv for tracking TV it can tell you just how much TV you have actually watched.


Okay, I am in then! I will set myself up a blog/thread and link through to there if that's okay. :h: I'll do books, movies, video games and food/recipes (am I allowed to add another category?!) :biggrin: :biggrin:

Original post by Evening
Sounds like a good idea. I might give it a bash.


Awesome! :woo: What categories will you be doing?
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Original post by Puddles the Monkey
Okay, I am in then! I will set myself up a blog/thread and link through to there if that's okay. :h: I'll do books, movies, video games and food/recipes (am I allowed to add another category?!) :biggrin: :biggrin:



Awesome! :woo: What categories will you be doing?


Books and film I imagine.
SirMasterKey
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My thread is up. :h:
Original post by Puddles the Monkey
Okay, I am in then! I will set myself up a blog/thread and link through to there if that's okay. :h: I'll do books, movies, video games and food/recipes (am I allowed to add another category?!) :biggrin: :biggrin:



Awesome! :woo: What categories will you be doing?


Sure! and I'll link your blog onto the OP. :h:
Original post by SirMasterKey
Sure! and I'll link your blog onto the OP. :h:


Yay thank you! :h: :smile: :woo:
Original post by Evening
Books and film I imagine.


Awesome :biggrin: What books are on your list? :redface:
Original post by SirMasterKey
On my own then :sad:


Nope - this sounds awesome!

Will be aiming for a book a week on average!
TV Shows I manage to watch a lot of, so will keep progress there...
And movies - need to watch more!

Here my links:

http://followmy.tv/u/mobbsy91
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/mobbsy91/
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/38919846-mobbsy91
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SirMasterKey's First Update of the Year

Books

I am currently re-reading the Song of Ice and Fire series as my first books for this new year. I am currently 72% of the way through A Game of Thrones and will hopefully get it finished tomorrow when I have another day off.

TV

I have watched several different programmes on TV, as might be expected really. I won't include those that have been on in the background whilst I was doing something else and my family was watching them. However I have been watching the following:

CSI
Legends
BDO and PDC Darts Championships
Several football games
Family Guy
American Dad
Caught Red Handed
Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers
Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave

Games
Whilst I said that I wouldn't really include games I felt that I could state that I have played one new flash game.

City Siege 3

Film

My big aim for the year is to watch at least 52 movies I have never seen before. So whilst I have currently watched 6 films already:

Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)
Megamind (2010)
Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Bambi (1942)
Monsters vs Aliens (2009)

The only new film I have seen is Exodus: Gods and Kings which I found fairly enjoyable really.

Music
I have listened to 67 tracks since I reset my last.fm account on the 3rd Jan. This has been over 5 artists:

John Powell (23)
Ludovico Einaudi (21)
Billy Joel (12)
Blondie (10)
Jonsi (1)
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Original post by Puddles the Monkey
Awesome :biggrin: What books are on your list? :redface:


That I haven't read for this year?

The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien
Orlando - Virginia Woolf
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Psychedelic Experience - Timothy Leary
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
Voss - Patrick White
Remembering Babylon - David Malouf
For Wholm The Bells Toll - Ernest Hemingway
Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
Burmese Days - George Orwell
Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Beautiful and the Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
The Outsider - Albert Camus
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Frankenstein - Mary Shelly
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Metamorphosis - Frank Kavka
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Mrs Dalloway - Orlando Bloom
Ulysses - James Joyce
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Pride and the Prejudice - Jane Austen
To Have and to Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
Junky - William Boroughs
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Original post by Evening
That I haven't read for this year?

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Ooh, this is a good list. :biggrin: I'm planning to read Catch 22 this year too. :yy: I tried to read Ulysses but I just couldn't get through it. :eek3:
Original post by Puddles the Monkey
Ooh, this is a good list. :biggrin: I'm planning to read Catch 22 this year too. :yy: I tried to read Ulysses but I just couldn't get through it. :eek3:


Me and a friend both said we would finish it before each other back when we were doing A-levels. He at least started it whereas I haven't yet. However he didn't finish it. I can still win 5 years later :lol:
Original post by Puddles the Monkey
Ooh, this is a good list. :biggrin: I'm planning to read Catch 22 this year too. :yy: I tried to read Ulysses but I just couldn't get through it. :eek3:


Catch 22 has always been on my 'to read' list actually!
Original post by mobbsy91
Catch 22 has always been on my 'to read' list actually!


Me too, I just never seem to get round to it :s-smilie: If there are a few people wanting to read it, we could all read it at the same time. :h:
Original post by Puddles the Monkey
Me too, I just never seem to get round to it :s-smilie: If there are a few people wanting to read it, we could all read it at the same time. :h:


Sounds good!

About to make my culture blog! I really like this!!!
Original post by SirMasterKey
Me and a friend both said we would finish it before each other back when we were doing A-levels. He at least started it whereas I haven't yet. However he didn't finish it. I can still win 5 years later :lol:


Heya - stole your style of blog! http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3067321&p=52758341#post52758341

Thanks buddy!

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