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Amazingly enough, after enduring an incredibly ridiculous day yesterday, my day today is ENTIRELY free. So, taking this into account, here's a post inspired by Meris's last entry. Hopefully you might find it enlightening.
1. Graduate from college without dying
2. Travel to Japan
3. Write a Broadway musical
4. Be in a Broadway musical
5. Spend some serious chill time with Jim Bonney
6. Ditto Eric Whitacre
7. Learn to play the guitar
8. Learn to play the piano (more so than I do now)
9. Found a prog-metal band
10. Compose a Symphony
11. Arrange music for the MRDs that we actually play
12. Specifically, write up a bitchin' arrangement of "Malaguena" for the MRDs with a big trumpet solo section where Bender and I can go nuts
13. Do voice-acting for a cartoon
14. Buy a big house with a pool in the backyard
15. Lay on the beach of a tropical island while drinking a Pina Colada
16. Take more voice lessons
17. Climb a relatively sizeable mountain
18. Take a long road trip with friends out to the American West, with no particular destination in mind
19. Learn to cook (like REALLY cook)
20. Host "Saturday Night Live"
21. Write a #1 single
22. Hang out with J.J. Abrams
23. Compose something sitting outside in a park
24. Be the guest on either Letterman, Conan, or the Daily Show
25. Sled down the ISAT hill at JMU
26. Complete the "Blazin' Wings Challenge" at B-Dubs
27. Meet/hang-out-with/collaborate-with Nobuo Uematsu
28. Create a dumb video and post it on YouTube
29. Eat a ridiculous amount of food in a single day, then spend the entire next day sleeping
30. Master the trumpet
31. Meet Tourettes Guy
32. Be the musical guest on "Saturday Night Live"
33. Play Wembley Stadium
34. Be one of the buddies in a "buddy comedy" movie
35. Travel to India
36. Heckle a celebrity I'm not particularly fond of
37. Shoot an old computer with a shotgun
38. Have that prog-metal band I founded (mentioned in item 9) come to JMU to play a concert at Bridgeforth Stadium
39. Arrange a show for a professional drum corps, preferably the Blue Devils
40. Compose the soundtrack for a kick-ass RPG
41. Do a voice-over part for said RPG
42. Learn to dance moderately well
43. Write a "textbook" of sorts on the emotional impact of music
44. Open for Iron Maiden (with that prog-metal band I founded, remember?)
45. Meet Paul McCartney
46. Win an Oscar for either "Best Song" or "Best Musical Score"
47. Win a Tony Award for "Best Music"
48. Become proficient at making YTMND sites
49. On that note, create the greatest YTMND site EVER (I already have ideas)
50. Spank Josh Holloway (aka "Sawyer" on LOST)
51. Go bungee-jumping
52. Work out a deal with the manufacturers of Starburst candies so that every month a crate will be delivered to my house filled with nothing but red Starbursts
53. Get better at snowboarding
54. Stand on both the North and South poles (for at least a minute or two)
55. Arrange a show for the JF Marching Band about 10 years from now
56. Be able to pull off a decent Christopher Walken impression
57. Write a piece of music for concert band and commission it's premiere performance to one of my Music Education major friends who will be band directors by that point
58. Come up with a recipe for the world's greatest chili
59. Obligatory item about finding the "perfect love" and having the "perfect marraige" and having "wild crazy kinky boot-knockin' good times"... because really, who wouldn't want that?
60. Find the time to really, REALLY relax (most likely when I'm dead)
I suppose I better get started...
1. Graduate from college without dying
2. Travel to Japan
3. Write a Broadway musical
4. Be in a Broadway musical
5. Spend some serious chill time with Jim Bonney
6. Ditto Eric Whitacre
7. Learn to play the guitar
8. Learn to play the piano (more so than I do now)
9. Found a prog-metal band
10. Compose a Symphony
11. Arrange music for the MRDs that we actually play
12. Specifically, write up a bitchin' arrangement of "Malaguena" for the MRDs with a big trumpet solo section where Bender and I can go nuts
13. Do voice-acting for a cartoon
14. Buy a big house with a pool in the backyard
15. Lay on the beach of a tropical island while drinking a Pina Colada
16. Take more voice lessons
17. Climb a relatively sizeable mountain
18. Take a long road trip with friends out to the American West, with no particular destination in mind
19. Learn to cook (like REALLY cook)
20. Host "Saturday Night Live"
21. Write a #1 single
22. Hang out with J.J. Abrams
23. Compose something sitting outside in a park
24. Be the guest on either Letterman, Conan, or the Daily Show
25. Sled down the ISAT hill at JMU
26. Complete the "Blazin' Wings Challenge" at B-Dubs
27. Meet/hang-out-with/collaborate-with Nobuo Uematsu
28. Create a dumb video and post it on YouTube
29. Eat a ridiculous amount of food in a single day, then spend the entire next day sleeping
30. Master the trumpet
31. Meet Tourettes Guy
32. Be the musical guest on "Saturday Night Live"
33. Play Wembley Stadium
34. Be one of the buddies in a "buddy comedy" movie
35. Travel to India
36. Heckle a celebrity I'm not particularly fond of
37. Shoot an old computer with a shotgun
38. Have that prog-metal band I founded (mentioned in item 9) come to JMU to play a concert at Bridgeforth Stadium
39. Arrange a show for a professional drum corps, preferably the Blue Devils
40. Compose the soundtrack for a kick-ass RPG
41. Do a voice-over part for said RPG
42. Learn to dance moderately well
43. Write a "textbook" of sorts on the emotional impact of music
44. Open for Iron Maiden (with that prog-metal band I founded, remember?)
45. Meet Paul McCartney
46. Win an Oscar for either "Best Song" or "Best Musical Score"
47. Win a Tony Award for "Best Music"
48. Become proficient at making YTMND sites
49. On that note, create the greatest YTMND site EVER (I already have ideas)
50. Spank Josh Holloway (aka "Sawyer" on LOST)
51. Go bungee-jumping
52. Work out a deal with the manufacturers of Starburst candies so that every month a crate will be delivered to my house filled with nothing but red Starbursts
53. Get better at snowboarding
54. Stand on both the North and South poles (for at least a minute or two)
55. Arrange a show for the JF Marching Band about 10 years from now
56. Be able to pull off a decent Christopher Walken impression
57. Write a piece of music for concert band and commission it's premiere performance to one of my Music Education major friends who will be band directors by that point
58. Come up with a recipe for the world's greatest chili
59. Obligatory item about finding the "perfect love" and having the "perfect marraige" and having "wild crazy kinky boot-knockin' good times"... because really, who wouldn't want that?
60. Find the time to really, REALLY relax (most likely when I'm dead)
I suppose I better get started...