Bucket List's (Inspired by DarkRose's thread)

Could be a little bit of fun.

I wanted to credit DarkRose with the idea for the thread as it's a spin off of his 'hopes' thread. The difference being this is a list specific things we wish to do or achieve before we die.

Come back and cross the goals off your list as you accomplish them and or add new goals as you think of them.

Currently working on mine

- Save £6000 in the next year (52 weeks) so I can back to full time education for 2011

- Use the blissful student life and subsequent downtime and freedom to build a portfolio to stand by

- Graduate with a worthless degree and continued desires to work in an industry that doesn't accept paper qualifications.

- Have the freedom to choose more exciting projects and work I have a desire to complete. Never have to edit another wedding video in my life, something I hate doing with all my heart (the money is usually to good to refuse). This is a biggie as it includes my desire to continue working on larger and larger projects until one day I stop and think, "wait, I'm film making for a living"

- Test drive and Aston Martin DBS at Silverstone

- Move to, live and work in the U.S.A

1. Finish High School
2. Attend Stanford University
3. Graduate from Stanford
4. Have a Successful career in acting or modeling
5. Win an Academy Award

Ah bucket lists....mine is always growing

-Go Skinny Dipping
-Publish a Book of Poetry
-Sky Dive
-Ride a Rollercoaster High
-Write a Play
-Produce Play
-Ride a Double Bike
-Write a Screenplay
-Direct Screenplay
-Act in Film
-Perform music live
-Make love in the forest
-Shoot tactful nude photography
-Meet Alan Ball

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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet, Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W.B. Yeats

1. Finish (and publish) my novel.
2. Finish (and publish) my novel.
3. Finish (and publish) my novel.
4. Buy a house
5. Visit Rome

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I think you get the idea.

It's been done.

That first link is about The Bucket List, as in the movie.

Crap, so it is. *fixes*

I don't like lists. Too much paperwork. Plus it seems to me if you have to make a list of things you want to do, you must not want to do them very badly, or else you'd be out there doing them instead of making lists.

Maybe I've never really felt I just hadda do any one thing or see any one place before I die. Maybe I just like things to be more spontaneous. Like one night I'm standing by the dance floor in the San Antone Rose, and this red-haired blue-eyed lady dances by. She's smiling and tilts her head back and our eyes meet. So I smile back, and she keeps smiling and looking at me until her partner turns her in another direction. I watch as they leave the dance floor, looking for clues as to whether they're married or dating. They're with a bunch of other couples. She joins the women all standing at one table, he joins the guys at another, and I figure, "Yeah, they're married." But I head toward her and when the music begins to play I ask her to dance. First dance, I make small talk and a couple of jokes. But when the music ends, I just keep dancing with her until another tune starts up. She tells me she has to leave after this dance, cause she came with a friend. I ask if it's the guy she was dancing with. She explains the group is a dance class and her friend is one of the women. I offer to drive her home instead, but she sticks with the friend, although she says maybe next time. So I find they meet there each Wednesday after their dance class. So I make a date to see her there next Wednesday. That was back in 1989, and we've been together practically ever since. Celebrated our 15th wedding aniversary last week. Had no idea back when we met we would ever go to the theater in London, honeymoon in Hawaii, or tag along with a Gay Pride parade in Calgary. Never put her or those events on some to-do list. In fact, when we met I was determined never to get married again. But look what I would have missed had I wrote that down on some fool list.

I agree. Spontaneity is always better. I've never planned to ask out a girl and done it. I just get too nervous when it's "scheduled". It's only when you're there and she's there and nothing's on your mind and it just happens.

Never the less.

1. Visit Japan and stand on the actual location of NGE's geofront
2. Get published
3. Learn Mandarin
4. ???
5. Profit

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"Loves them? They need them, like they need the air."

It seems like everything you post catches my attention, I find myself reading your sentences with excitement and enthusiasm. I love history and story telling. When I was younger I had very fond memories of Christmas as my family would stay over, specifically my Gran, she was a great story teller like yourself. anyway.......

I respect your decision to stay away from such lists, but I think what you just explained is the strange and wonderful beauty of your life shaping, twisting an turning in ways you could not have imagined, not any particular reason not to construct a bucket list. I'm assuming 'never get married again', doesn't appear on too many peoples bucket list's, besides, thats an intention not a goal and would not have prevented you from falling in love with your wife.

This exists for all of us, regardless of what we've jotted down on a piece of paper for fun. I think its human nature to plan and aspire (you do to regardless of weather you put it on a piece of paper), thats doesn't mean we're going to curb our primary desires at any given point because of a list.

Its just a bit of fun.

I have to admit, I found it very difficult to do, mine's isn't really a bucket list so much as its a short term plan of things I hope to do with acceptation of the last two which are perfectly good bucket list items.

meh, to each their own.

Wow!!! Thanks! Always good to hear from a satisfied reader!

Get my book(s) published

Inspired by Peter Griffin, find Michael Bay and tell him "No! No! Stop it! Stop it!

Understand what a 'Hollaback Girl' actually is.

Go to Japan

Simultaneously punch Shia Lebouf, Justin Bieber and James Corden in the face (though Bieber being the anti christ I'm worried a punch might not do)

Find out if Chuck Norris actually does have an extra fist under his beard

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If at his council I should turn aside, Into that ominous tract which all agree, Hides the Dark Tower. Yet aquiescingly I did turn as he pointed, neither pride nor hope at the end descried, so much as gladness that some end might be.

Robert Browning 'Childe Roland to The Dark Tower Came'

I want to go to Ireland for a week or so - thats about it.

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“The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton

-Finish my useless art degrees
-BASE jump on all 7 continents
-Skydive enough to buy a wing suit
-Build a Toyota Supra from the ground up to 500hp at the flywheel
-Buy a house with two acres so the dogs have room to play
-Finish my half sleeve
-Backpack around America for a month with no destinations in mind
-Start a screen printing company
-Gallery Opening somewhere
-7 year dungeon beard!!!!
-Find the right Ms. Filthy Hands
-Die in my sleep...

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The totally awesome and soul consuming TFH One a Day Reviews.

1. Live in Japan for at least a year.
2. Visit Firestation No.23, 225 East Fifth Street, downtown Los Angeles.
3. Take my mum to Egypt (she's so weird).
4. Work on a horror movie (i don't care if it's not good, i will love it)
5. Finish my college.

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