New Year's Resolutions?

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 8:51 pm

j$ wrote:I can see no reply from Puce in this thread whatsoever ... but I have been drinking ....

that's alright.. i mean you'd have to go *all the way back* to the first page in the thread. and it's *three whole pages* long now.

anyway: here's puce which you can then contrast with an even EARLIER post by leaf. just don't go expecting the ultimate in songfight forum comedy or anything, as you might be led to expect from the hype that has built up more recently in the thread.

j$ · Post by j$ » Sat Dec 18, 2004 8:59 pm

Damn - you can read previous pages? this PHBB thing is so modern

j$ · Post by j$ » Sat Dec 18, 2004 9:00 pm

HeuristicsInc wrote:1. Get married.
-bill

Oh, it's a fix!

Dan-O from Five-O · Post by **Dan-O from Five-O** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 9:14 pm

HeuristicsInc wrote:1. Get married.
-bill

Stay married might be a good second resolution which speaking from experience means your list is WAY to short.

Phil. Redmon. · Post by **Phil. Redmon.** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 12:16 am

I'm a do more comics.

That's a resolution.

Poor June · Post by **Poor June** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 2:45 am

1. move back out
2. get a real job
3. spend money on equipment and shit that i need
4. try to get less fucked up
5. try not to run off to another state with under 50 in my pocket, without good reasoning
6. figure out all this production stuff somehow... someway... cause i really suck at it...
7. form an actual relationship... the one night stand stuff fun and all... kinda gets old...
8. watch a bit more porn... (i've been slacking)
9. fuck it... nix out 4... i wanna get a little more fucked up then last year... just less puking...
10. write better quality songs... with odd subjects... and still convey them in a real feel...
11. stop smoking... as many cigarettes
12. win atleast one songfight...
13. give more reviews...
14. write a song thanking fried for the microphones
15. re-do Nothing to Lose... and see if it becomes the crutch it once was...
16. put out a CD...
17. get back into a band of somesort... or do something...
18. 2 actually accomplish one thing on this list

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 1:58 pm

dre wrote: 1 - Spent more time outdoors playing sports (soccer, basketball) and hiking/traveling
2 - Spent more time indoors being creative ( painting, playing music)

Ultimately these two will contradict each other,

Nah, you just also have to add:
3. Stop sleeping
and the whole thing will work out ok.

I do need to add another one to my list, as some have pointed out:
2. Stay married
-bill

nicegeoff · Post by **nicegeoff** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 10:42 pm

1. grow a moustache, and document via livejournal.

Justincombustion · Post by **Justincombustion** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 9:33 am

nicegeoff wrote:1. grow a moustache, and document via livejournal.

Oh dude, you should either go with the Allman brothers/Zappa style 'stache or if you wanna be super punk, go with the Rollie Fingers Handlebar. You can wax that shit out and there's even Handlebar Moustache Clubs! I've wanted to do this, but I look so stupid with a 'stache.
Plus when you're plotting diabolical plans, you cackle and twist your moustache. You know, evil things like tying people to the railroad tracks or outsmarting Sherlock Holmes, holmes.

Fried · Post by **Fried** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 10:36 am

My resolutions,
1) Continue working on my character defects.
2) Get back to my original writing/recording style. (Floyd, Beatles and Bowie all smushed into one)
3) Write a follow-up CD to the last one.
4) Do more for others.
5) Continue working out for another year.

p.s.
I don't drink, smoke, do drugs or cheat on my wife. Kinda takes all the fun resolutions out of it. Well, there is always pr0n. Nope, keeping it!

bz£ · Post by **bz£** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 11:10 am

It's time for the "charcoal" annual checkup! No turning of heads, no coughing, just resolutions!

bzl wrote:posted 01 January, 2004 09:30 PM

Fewer songs about my cat.
Fewer songs that scare my female friends.

Learn to sing more than zero notes.

Two out of three ain't bad!

erik · Post by **erik** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 5:47 pm

Generic wrote:Also, to pre-empt tviyh: by the time 2004 ends, I shouldn't have any need to resolve to complete current projects. :wink:

yay, where can I hear your song for coverfight!

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 7:47 pm

well now that 2004 has ended, the coverfight is no longer a "current project" ... generic just needs a new year's resolution to complete "way overdue past projects" now.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 5:39 am

Caravan Ray wrote:1. Get a decent microphone and pre-amp
2. Read the manual for my recording software
3. Repeat to myself 'Good production is not a crime'
4. Play more Country music
5. And Western

Well, here we are a year later.

I did 1.
I really can't be bothered doing 2.
I don't understand 3.
4. and 5. seem to make sense - I'll carry them over for 2006

I think the only thing to add to this for next years resolutions would be:

Start drinking wine out of bottles rather than wine casks. (not that there is anything wrong with chateaux cardboard - but hell, I can afford it, and I'm not getting any younger - so let's enjoy life!)

How did everybody else's resolutions go?

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 9:42 am

I didn't make any resolutions, but I did get some interesting music stuff done in 2005.

1. Learned how to play guitar properly. No more C D and G songs for me! Sevenths and minors to the max!

2. Did 12 songs by myself for Songfight.

3. Did an AAD, and probably will do another one in the next few days.

4. Was in 4 different collabs (IRC All Stars, Cutie Pies, RSC, Zombie Love Militia)

5. Played live music infront of people.

6. Acquired a sparkly black acoustic guitar.

So, I guess it was a pretty good year for me musically. Next year I want to get a sparkly black electric guitar. And my aim is to do 30 original songs. I doubt that will happen, but oh well.

Post by **Lunkhead** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 3:20 pm

Lunkhead wrote:1. Move to my own apartment, preferably a cottage or in-law if possible (ie a free standing little building in somebody's back yard).

2. Get to work before 10am every day.

3. Make more, better music.

4. Travel somewhere exciting for a week or two.

Thanks for resurrecting this thread, Ray. I've never written down resolutions then checked my performance against them before.

1. Done, moved into a 1 bedroom, though not a cottage/in-law.
2. Oops...
3. Hmmm... that's pretty subjective. I think I did alright this year, with a few winning Loyalty Day songs, some fun songs with Erin as Merisan, and a victory for Tiny Robots's first entry.
4. Sadly this didn't happen. Still, SF Live in Boston was exciting. I saw some old friends and made a bunch of new ones and performed my own songs solo for the first time.

For 2006:

1. Get to work on time, for real.
2. Travel abroad, for real.
3. Get a new job.
4. Come up with a "Web 2.0" startup idea that will make me rich...
5. Enter at least 6 more SongFight!s as Lunkhead.

the Jazz · Post by **the Jazz** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 5:13 pm

I resolve to finish the SF Live video when I said I would.
I resolve to stop skipping kung fu practices.
I resolve to bake a new cake every Monday night until I run out of money, or until I run out of new cakes, whichever comes first.
I resolve to learn how to use Reason to make electronic music that I would listen to.
I resolve to use Bittorrent less.

Now, to get a head start on that first one...

GlennCase · Post by **GlennCase** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 6:27 pm

<a href="http://songfight.net/forums/viewtopic.p ... #12232">My Same New Years Resolution shall be renewed yet again.</a>

ROCK!

Glenn (DR FUNK)
http://glenncase.songhole.org

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 8:23 am

HeuristicsInc wrote: 1. Get married.
2. Stay married

Ok, success! Did 1. and am still doing 2.
Rock.
-bill

j$ · Post by j$ » Wed Dec 28, 2005 8:46 am

Less of most, more of some

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 10:48 am

NEW RESOLUTIONS:THE BIG PHAT UPDATE CAUSE I'M INTERNET LAZY

1) Have studio space built to my liking and set up by June.BIG PHAT NO ON THAT ONE. Who knew buying a house included WORKING TO PAY FOR IT?
2) Play a gig on guitar with a maximum of 3 mistakes. (I've only done two gigs so far, and man, did I suck on a personal level. People say it rocked, but people also snort coke and drink rye so... Wow. Guitar is hard to play without making mistakes. In 2006 I played a total of only six gigs as the lead player. It's gonna take a while...
3) Go to songfight santa cruz. NOpe.
4) do a collab with: molsen twins, gert, boon liver, bloody hams, caravan leaf, LEABLIT, (man I love that tune) , still waiting on a chance for an octothorpe drum session(course, gotta have drums set up and studio, but hey) and the beef animals track was pretty fun...but 8lo has seemed to have disappeared, and actually do a few leaf62 songs again... stop being a chicken bitch!!
Man. Not only did I not do ONE of these... I think I did... two songfights last year? not including Nur Ein...which literally killed my recording for a while... in a good way, but I was spent after that. I'm no Glenn...

5) Get Dana (wife) to sing on a SF tune (we've been building up to this..she's sang a few tunes with the band at our last couple gigs, super fun having her right there singing away... oh yeah). Nopers.
6) Learn how to properly dispense propane. Ok... jokes on you. I already knew how to do that.
7) Go to a leafs game.
8) play live with Gert. ACCOMPLISHED.

Well well well. Not so fuckin special are we their leafy?

This year's resolutions:

1. Enter every single songfight. (start big people).
2. See how much longer I can put up with an eye patch on my baby. DON'T YOU SNEER AT MY BABY.
3. Get REALLY hammered with gert online and sit in the IRC room and pretend know one knows its really us.
4. Get Jack to sign on to skype, quit acting like he doesn't know what it is, and hang out one evening via webcam and some dried vegetative matter.
5. Convince Bjam I am her long lost cousin. This may be difficult, don't tell her or you'll ruin it.
6. Forget about being in my mid thirties. We all get there...hopefully.
7. Gert Tour.
8. Make more money than I ever have before.
9. Write a musical work I'm proud of.
10. Enter more songfights than I ever have before in one year. Now.. that's attainable!

Dan-O from Five-O · Post by **Dan-O from Five-O** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 11:21 am

Leaf wrote: 17) Free some small animals from a research facility. well, If I consider my body a research facility, I did do this one, rather frequently.

Please tell me that didn't involve Gerbils.