The Bucket List

No crazy intro here, let's just get to it.

1. Become a Professional Stand-Up Comedian
2. Commit
3. Make a Documentary
4. Spend a Week in a Tuscan Villa
5. Have a Daughter
6. Become a Better Editor
7. [Redacted Due to Language]
8. Own a Dope Set of Plate Armor
9. Learn Another Language
10. Learn to Bend a Note on the Harmonica
11. Get Fit
12. See My Brother Graduate
13. Go to an Okkervil River Show
14. Shake Joe Rogan's Hand
15. Buy My Own Kitten
16. Write a Critically Acclaimed Book
17. Make My Dad Laugh
18. Run a Successful Podcast
19. Go to a Death Grips Show on [Redacted Due to Drug Use]
20. Earn as Much as A Respected Long Island Dentist
21. Live Somewhere With a View
22. Apologize
23. Learn a Martial Art
24. Write Something Beautiful
25. Have Someone Famous Approach Me First
26. Learn more Than 6 Chords
27. Make a Total Stranger Smile
28. Take My Kids to Disney World
29. Embrace My Inner Artist
30. Learn to Drive
31. Become a Man of Certainty
32. Learn to Dance
33. Say "I Love You" and Mean It
34. Run a Marathon
35. Learn to Ride a Bike
36. Learn to Scuba
37. Perfect My Smile
38. Speak at a TED Talk
39. Learn to Make More Than Just Kraft Dinner
40. Learn to Sail
41. Catch a Fish Bigger Than Me
42. Sing a Song With Passion
43. Survive a Week Alone in a Forest
44. Have a Sweeping Romance
45. Buy My Parents a House
46. Do Something Worth Writing an Autobiography About
47. Write an Autobiography
48. Create a Viral Video
49. Write a TV Series
50. Make Fart Noises in Front of an Entire Class

Reading/Writing Reflection #10

Reading Reflection:

"Reading's been non-existent this week; lent Brose my Kobo, so I essentially gave him my whole library. #techblues"

"I still need something new to read though."

Writing Reflection:

"Buried Life project has been going super well though; pre-production on a shortie short type film."

Writing Reflection #9

All has been well in writing land recently; tweeting is going better than expected, and the 'Before I Die' list is surprisingly fun. I'm really enjoying the twitter integration so far; it's given me good reason to get back into tweeting. A couple years ago, back in the podcast days, my Twitter account was HEAVY. 250+ followers, constant discussion...it was a good time. I was pretty bummed when Twitter went out of style in my circle; I found it to be a totally useful and awesome thing, but it's much less awesome when you have no one to talk to. I have lots of people to talk to now, and hopefully that’ll resurrect whatever twitter energy I once had.

As for the buried life business, even that’s been enjoyable. It’s harder than I thought it’d be to come up with 50+ things I want to do before I die, way harder. I’m trying to avoid lame clichés like “Travel to Europe” and “Fall in love”, which just makes it that much harder. I’ve always dreamed about having an amazing life, but I’ve yet to set up a plan. I guess this is a good first step. Baby steps, yo.

Baby steps.

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