Challenge undertaken

I haven't usually been too good at making New Year's resolutions. Fascinatingly, keeping them has been even more challenging. So maybe, in order to make my track record with these seasonally made promises look at least a bit better, it's time to make a promise that I could actually enjoy keeping.

Quite frankly, this year's resolution consists of two separate promises. I'm just going to combine those two things with each other and let it all become one project. Like every project that has the chance of causing a bit of an obsession, this one of course needs a name:

The Daily Stray with TOP250

Now, if the name doesn't give the idea away, here's what I'm about to do this year.

During 2011, I will watch every film on the Top250-list on IMDb.com. Of course, I have seen almost 160 of the listed films before. Some of them quite a few times... Still, I'm going to watch all of those again this year and keep going until I've watched each film on the list at least once.
There's no set schedule, just a deadline - 31 December 2011. Maybe for once I'll actually be ready before we reach the last night...

The second part of the resolution is that this year, I will write this blog every day.
Of course, here I'll have to set some more rules. I can't assume I'll be able to be online every day of the year. So posting each day might not be possible. However, I will still write something and post my ramblings as soon as I'll have the chance to get online. Fair? I hope so, since it's the best I can come up with for now.
All of the posts don't have to be strictly related to the 250-project and not even all that long. Just something, every day, for a year.

I suppose it's going to be an interesting year. And the project has already started. Tonight I watched Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - 49 on the list.
I'd like to write more about it. But to be honest, right now I'm not really in the right state of mind to actually process the film. I guess I'll try tomorrow.

For now, good night and Happy New Year 2011.