There is only really one rule, brothers: You are to watch (or at least try to watch) a spaghetti western every day in November. 30 days, 30 spags. That’s it! You can work to a theme or criteria of your own choosing if you wish (for instance, a couple of years ago I watched my personal top 30 favourite spags in ascending order; last year my 30 films were comprised purely of movies I’d either not seen yet or had only maybe seen once and felt were due another look), but that’s not compulsory. You may select any 30 spags you like, for any reason or for no reason. Pick 'em at random if you want. Or watch the same film thirty times on the trot if that’s what snaps your radish. It doesn’t matter. All that DOES matter is 1 spag per day, every day, throughout November (as far as you’re able).
If you miss a couple, you miss a couple. Doesn’t matter. If you miss a dozen, you miss a dozen. Still doesn’t matter. But it’s quite fun to at least try. I have taken a spag and a portable DVD player out with me to friends’ houses in order to keep my run going (as I’ve also done with horror movies during similar Halloween challenges throughout October). I appreciate that that sounds quite rude on the face of it but, in my defence, most of my friends are slack-jawed seatsniffers.
As to a theme this year, I’m not sticking to any. Exclusively watching films with which I wasn’t at all familiar last year was f*cking brutal but the “top 30” idea from the year previous was a pleasure since it was all of my favourite movies. So this year it’s just a bunch of spags I want to see, most of which will inevitably be plucked from my favourites but with no real structure. I know the thirty I’ll be watching but, as yet, I still haven’t decided on the order (and again, even though I will be deciding an order in advance, that’s not a hard and fast rule either; you gentlemen can decide your movie order in advance if you like, or you can wing it day-to-day if you’d rather).