2006-09-12

The List

Welcome to Spoodles'ss List (not to be confused with Schindler's List). If you haven't heard of the 1001 Day Project, check it out over at Triplux.

This page will deal with how and when I cross the items off my list. I need to be done by June 9, 2009. Wish me luck, and I'll keep you in-the-know.

  • Friends
    1. Hang out with Chris The Great at least once every two months. (in progress 2006-12-23)
    2. Hang out with Tim at least once every two months. (in progress 2007-11-17)
    3. Finish Twin Peaks with Miles and Toni. (completed 2007-06)
    4. Retrieve my MIA Hedwig and the Angry Inch DVD from Anna
    5. Go mini-golfing with Theresa. (Completed 2007-08-15)
    6. Play board games with friends. (completed 2006-11-25)
    7. Introduce two of my friends that don't know one another. (completed 2006-10-02)
    8. Go on a destinationless road trip with at least one friend.
    9. Make a mix CD for a friend. (completed 2006 10-11)
  • Things to do
    1. Play a game of Hide N' Seek late at night at Wal Mart with at least five other people.
    2. Go on a scavenger hunt with at least five other people.
    3. Go bowling (Completed 2006-12-23)
    4. Run a seven-minute mile. (Completed 2006-12-22)
    5. Ask a girl out (Completed 2007-03-01)
    6. Find a well-paying job with benefits. (Completed 2007-07-05)
    7. Graduate college (Completed 2007-05-12)
    8. Save $2000 (Completed 2007-04-06)
    9. Buy a piece of clothing that is incredibly expensive.
    10. Stay up late enough to watch a sunrise
    11. Apply for Survivor and Amazing Race. (Survivor completed 2007-01-15)
    12. Handwrite a letter (completed)
    13. Anonymously donate $100 to a charity (Completed 2007-05-03)
    14. Run for a charity
    15. Organize and catalog my video games
    16. Travel on an airplane (Completed 2007-11-17)
    17. Sky dive (Completed 2007-11-17)
    18. Sing karaoke in front of strangers (Completed 2007-11-09)
    19. Maintain vegetarianism
    20. Send a secret to "PostSecret"
    21. Vocally and vehemently express anger to a person I'm angry at. (Completed 2007-11-12)
    22. Help a stranger. (completed 2006-09-21)
    23. Set something on fire.
    24. Have a twenty-minute conversation with somebody I just met. (Completed 2007-03-03)
    25. Write a letter to a politician on a subject important to me.
    26. Move out of my parents' house
    27. Ride on a train.
    28. Go to a midnight madness release-date sale (at a store that isn't normally open at midnight).
    29. Dress up for no reason. (Completed 2006-11-07)
    30. Dress down when it's not appropriate. (Completed 2007-05-12)
    31. Dress up on Halloween. (Completed 2007-10-31)
    32. Have the day off on Christmas.
    33. Have the day off on Easter.
    34. Distribute candy to Trick or Treaters. (Completed 2007-10-26)
    35. Write a letter to a teacher thanking them.
    36. Get a famous person's autograph.
    37. Save an entire paycheck. (Completed 2007-01)
    38. Get my picture professionally taken
    39. Buy a good digital camera (Completed 2007-08-15)
    40. Smile and say hello to a stranger. (Completed 2006-09-15)
    41. Tip 50% to a deserving waiter or waitress. (Completed 2007-05-03)
    42. Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper on a topic important to me.
  • Places to go
    1. Get lost. (Completed 2007-06-29)
    2. Leave the country
    3. Swim in the ocean.
    4. Go to Atlantic City.
    5. Spend time in a social place where nobody knows me. Pretend I am somebody else.
    6. Go to a church service alone, at some church/denomination other than my own.
    7. Visit the Pennsylvania State Museum
    8. Visit an art museum
    9. Visit another museum in Harrisburg.
    10. Visit New York City
  • Movies
    1. Watch everything I own that I have yet to watch on DVD
      1. Baghdad Bob (Viewed 2007-04-06)
      2. Belle and Sebastian: Fans Only (Viewed 2007-04-06)
      3. Belle and Sebastian: The Blues are Still Blue
      4. Belle and Sebastian: White Collar Boy
      5. The Birds
      6. Blue Velvet (viewed 2006-12-13)
      7. A Clockwork Orange
      8. The Deer Hunter
      9. Dune
      10. Family Plot
      11. Freddy vs Jason (viewed 2006-10-24)
      12. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (viewed 2006-10-22)
      13. Frenzy
      14. Friday the 13th (viewed 2006-09-27)
      15. Friday the 13th, Part 2 (viewed 2006-09-27)
      16. Friday the 13th, Part 3 (viewed 2006-09-28)
      17. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (viewed 2006-09-28)
      18. Friday the 13th, Part V: A New Beginning (viewed 2006-09-30)
      19. Friday the 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives (viewed 2006-09-30)
      20. Friday the 13th, Part VII: The New Blood (viewed 2006-10-02)
      21. Friday the 13th, Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (viewed 2006-10-04)
      22. Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (viewed 2006-10-05)
      23. Jason X (viewed 2006-10-05)
      24. License to Kill
      25. Lost Highway
      26. The Man Who Fell to Earth
      27. The Man Who Knew Too Much
      28. Marnie
      29. Morrissey: Oye Esteban (Viewed 2007-04-06
      30. Morrissey: Who Put the M in Manchester (Viewed 2007-04-06)
      31. The Muppet Show: Season 1 (Viewed 2007-04-06)
      32. A Nightmare on Elm St. (viewed 2006-10-07)
      33. A Nightmare on Elm St. 2: Freddy's Revenge (viewed 2006-10-07)
      34. A Nightmare on Elm St. 3: Dream Warriors (viewed 2006-10-17)
      35. A Nightmare on Elm St. 4: The Dream Master (viewed 2006-10-17)
      36. A Nightmare on Elm St. 5: The Dream Child (viewed 2006-10-22)
      37. Pee-Wee's Playhouse (the entire series)
      38. The Producers (viewed 2006-12-13)
      39. Psycho
      40. Ren and Stimpy: Season 3 1/2 (viewed 2006-12-12)
      41. Scrooged
      42. Seinfeld Season 5 (Viewed 2006-02-20)
      43. Seinfeld Season 6 (Viewed 2006-03-01)
      44. Silver Streak (viewed 2006-12-12)
      45. The Simpsons Season 7 (viewed 2006-09-19)
      46. The Simpsons Season 8 (viewed 2007-01-20)
      47. The Smiths: The Complete Picture (Viewed 2007-04-06)
      48. South Park Season 7 (viewed 2006-09-26)
      49. The Spy Who Loved Me
      50. Star Wars: Droids
      51. Star Wars: Ewok Adventures
      52. Star Wars: Ewoks
      53. The Stars of Star Wars
      54. The Story of Star Wars
      55. Team America: World Police (viewed 2006-09-21)
      56. Topaz
      57. Torn Curtain
      58. Uncle Saddam (Viewed 2007-04-06)
      59. Vertigo (viewed 2006-09-15)
      60. Wes Craven's New Nightmare (viewed 2006-10-24)
      61. Wild at Heart (viewed 2006-12-12)
      62. The X-Files Season 1 (viewed 2007-08)
      63. (ANY OTHERS I PICK UP)
    2. Rewatch some movies I haven't seen in too long
      1. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
      2. A Better Place (Viewed 2007-05-03)
      3. Blazing Saddles
      4. The Bourne Identity (Viewed 2007-04-06)
      5. The Bourne Supremacy (Viewed 2007-04-06)
      6. A Christmas Story
      7. Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas (viewed 12-22-06)
      8. Mulholland Drive
      9. Superman: The Movie
    3. Watch the entire Star Wars series (Episodes I-VI) in short order
    4. Watch the entire Back to the Future series in short order
    5. Watch the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy in short order
    6. Watch the Indiana Jones trilogy in short order.
    7. Watch the Jurassic Park trilogy in short order.
    8. Watch the Matrix trilogy in short order
    9. Watch the next five movies recommended to me
      1. Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (recommended by Chris the Great)
      2. Point Break (recommended by Mr. D)
      3. Hoodwinked (recommended by Mr. D) (viewed 2007-01-10)
      4. Little Miss Sunshine (recommended by Kelly) (viewed 2007-03-01)
    10. Compile a personal "Top 25 Films" list
    11. Go to a midnight showing of a movie.
    12. Buy and peruse a book reviewing all movies and highlight everything I've seen. Make a master list. Keep list up-to-date with any new movies.
    • Reading
      1. Rediscover reading-for-pleasure. (Completed 2006-12-06)
      2. Catch up on all the Jeffrey Deaver books I've never read.
      3. Catch up on all the John Grisham books I've never read.
      4. Read the next five books recommended to me
        1. Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five (Read 2007-06)
        2. Tori Amos: Tori Amos Piece By Piece (Recommended by Ashley)
      5. Organize and catalog my books (Completed 2007-06)
      6. Read a Shakespeare play without being forced to for class.
    • Writing
      1. Write a full-length screenplay.
      2. Write a one-act stageplay.
      3. Write a short story. (Completed 2006-11-21)
      4. Write a new poem every week (in progress, 2006-12-06)
      5. Collaborate on writing something with Chris the Great.
      6. Read a poem of my own in public (outside of Poetry class)
    • Music
      1. Complete my Morrissey collection
        1. Suedehead single
        2. Everyday is Like Sunday single
        3. The Last of the Famous International Playboys single
        4. Interesting Drug single
        5. Picadilly Palare single
        6. Our Frank single
        7. Pregnant for the Last Time single
        8. You're The One For Me, Fatty single
        9. Tomorrow single
        10. Certain People I Know single
        11. Hold On To Your Friends single
        12. Interlude single
        13. Dagenham Dave single
        14. The Boy Racer CD#2 single
        15. Sunny single
        16. Alma Matters single
        17. Roy's Keen single
        18. Satan Rejected My Soul single
      2. Complete my Elliott Smith collection
        1. Ballad of Big Nothing EP
        2. Baby Britain CD#1
        3. Baby Britain CD#2
        4. Waltz #2 (XO)
        5. Son of Sam (3-track single)
        6. American Beauty soundtrack
        7. 3 Titres Inedits
        8. A Slice of Lemon
      3. Complete my Beatles collection
        1. Yellow Submarine (Received 2006-11-04)
        2. Yellow Submarine (songtrack)
      4. Complete my Danny Elfman collection
        1. Fable
        2. Spider-man 2 Soundtrack
        3. Spider-man Soundtrack
        4. The Family Man soundtrack
        5. Black Beauty
        6. Psycho (full score)
      5. Complete my John Williams collection
        1. Angela's Ashes (British)
        2. Rosewood
        3. Sleepers
        4. Nixon
        5. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (OST)
        6. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (expanded)
        7. Far and Away
        8. JFK
        9. Presumed Innocent
        10. Stanley and Iris
        11. Always
        12. The Accidental Tourist
        13. The Witches of Eastwick
        14. Spacecamp
        15. The River
        16. Monsignor
        17. E.T. (OST)
        18. Yes, Giorgio
        19. Heartbeeps
        20. 1941
        21. Dracula
        22. Superman (OST)
        23. Jaws II
        24. The Fury
        25. Black Sunday
        26. Midway
        27. The Missouri Breaks
        28. Everything before Jaws, damnit
      6. Complete my David Bowie collection
        1. David Live
        2. Stage
        3. Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture
        4. Tonight
        5. Tin Machine: Oy Vey, Baby
        6. Black Tie, White Noise
        7. The Buddha of Suburbia
        8. Santa Monica '72
        9. All Saints
      7. Listen to the next five albums recommended to me
        1. The Killers: Sam's Town (recommended by Brad Keen) (Heard 2006-10-08)
        2. Damien Rice: 9 (recommended by Ashley) (Heard 2007-03-07)
    • Family
      1. Spend a day with just my grandfather.
      2. Visit the graves of my grandparents alone.
      3. Spend a day doing something with just my brother.
      4. Spend a day doing something with just my sister.
      5. Spend a day doing something with just my mom.
      6. Spend a day doing something with just my dad.
      7. Spend an entire day with my sister watching things from our childhood.
      8. Play board games with my family. (Completed 2006-11-04)
      9. Build a jigsaw puzzle with my family. (completed 2006-09-22)


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