My Name Is Brody, I'm From Melbourne
Hi.
Our Three Years! is 13 days away!
We celebrated by heading to Toronto for three days and
Doing touristy things.
I did realize a few things while taking my second ever trip to the
Wonderful city of Toronto. Coming home and seeing the sky
For long stretches was surprising to me. When walking in T.O.
It seems like the sky is only meters above you as the skyscrapers
Literally brush the clouds. I can't imagine a plane flying over
That city, it's too close to the ground.
Also, the subway system is the greatest thing I've experienced
In terms of travel. Why drive a car? However, I've been told that
Compared to Chicago and Montreal the TTC is terribly flawed. I
Can only imagine how well those other cities have their systems set up.
Anyway, I love Toronto now and would totally live there if I won the lottery.
On my first train ride, which I loved, I filled out 101 things to do
Within 1001 days. I think it will be fun and I plan to get all of it finished.
Stolen!
The Mission: Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.
The Criteria: Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).
Start Date: August 13th, 2008
End Date: May 11th, 2011
- Play a set
- Record a record with Asleep In Syracuse
- Do well in University as to appease my mother
- Go to Flo-Rida
- Go to New York City
- See Conor Oberst in concert(Bright Eyes or solo)
- Read Wuthering Heights
- Get a half sleeve
- Shoot craps in Vegas
- Write a short story that I love
- Swim in the nude =)
- Go on a motor boat
- Row a boat
- Own a vehicle
- Get my G
- Have my portfolio get me into Creative Writing
- Record a sleep accompaniment record
- Be semi-regular at Phog
- Hang out at Cjam
- Drive a Dodge Avenger
- Take a train
- Fly in a plane
- Plan a Europe trip
- Give up pop
- See friends at least twice a week (tough)
- Read Nietzsche
- Write good poetry
- Play tennis
- Drink a Rob Roy with Rob Roy
- Picnic at Navy Yard Park
- Buy a glockenspiel
- Tour!Tour!TOUR!
- See The Age of Rockets live
- Make a journal documenting University
- Sleep in Residence
- Meet Dr. Pepper
- Baby sit with JDG
- Take photobooth pictures
- Volunteer at the film festival
- Go to Owen Sound
- Go to Ottawa
- Give up: McDonalds, Burger King, and Taco Bell
- Learn Existentialism on Prom Night on piano
- Read "The Notebook"
- Learn to play the drums
- Go to a Red Wings game
- Fly a kite
- Get a printer
- Re-Read all Harry Potter books before the 7th movie
- Win three football games
- Celebrate our 5th Anniversary
- Complete Grand Theft Auto-100%
- Attempt a screenplay
- Drink absinthe
- Donate blood
- Find The Wacky World of Tex Avery
- Learn to tumble
- Try to improve at dancing
- Do the typical panoramic photo of my room
- Get a bike
- Reduce my ecological imprint
- Watch the BBC Robin Hood series
- Buy In The Aeroplane Over The Sea on vinyl
- Play a house show
- Go rock climbing
- Ride the subway
- Read on the beach all day
- Play guitar on the beach
- Hang three paintings by local artists(Including-Nicole's Art)
- Own a synthesizer
- Explore MacGregor
- Shoot a short film
- Take promotional pictures
- See a Broadway play
- See a Tennessee Williams play
- Bike to the city limits
- Play guitar or piano in a band(Another band)
- Sing karaoke
- Swing from a branch into a lake
- Dominate beer pong
- See the Syracuse Skyline
- Sleep under stars
- Make a Polaroid collage
- Go to a wedding
- Record morse code
- Pet sheep
- Grow to six feet(a boy can dream of an even height!)
- Smell the ocean air
- Drive 170kmh
- Milk a cow
- Watch "Talespin"
- Build an igloo
- Spin a vehicle 180 degrees
- Jump from two bridges into a body of water
- Write a 17 minute song
- Sit in on a class at Western
- Para sail/Skim board
- Ascend the heights of the CN tower
- Camp each summer
- Buy my baby a promise ring
- Go into a recording studio
Also, Antholas has returned. Good news there.
Free drinks at a certain "Awesome eats" super awesome.
Tequila Rose, while a little girly, majorly awesome. We finished
Off the supply at Bubi's.
Anyway, This was long. I am really excited for school to start and
More excited to buy a sweet car sometime soon.
(Once I can convince my step-dad to give me $3000. It will happen!
Have a good day, maybe I won't be a stranger to this journal anymore.
Post script- While I am linking to a million things: Amour Amour Have sweet new songs up.
Take care
...Also I watched The Savages today and thought it was
Brilliant. The scene where she talks about receiving the
Grant from FEMA, funniest dialogue I've seen in awhile.
But it made me sad, as it achieved it's goal. And then I thought sometimes things don’t come to a climax. My problem is a love for stories and fiction which generally follow a pattern. But life is terribly slow and peaks and drops and is always so unexpected. And this terrifies me because death is often on my mind and also comes so swift, no final monologue to sum up relationships or flashing lights or screaming sirens and that has me shaking.
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You know when you have déjà vu and try to predict what is going to happen next and you start thinking of super absurd things? I used to have those feelings and I would always think “Ohh man, here’s where the tornado comes… shit shit shit” and I’d freak out about. Needless to say, tornados never came but I might have missed some moments by freaking myself out. My new thing is thinking that I’ll have a heart attack. Like, I’ll be ringing someone up at work and a few things happen that are exact, familiar, and I freak out “…My heart is going to stop, I’ll have a heart attack and die” and I just really hope that with my new train of thought I won’t cause natural disaster within my chest, but my pulse always starts racing even if I try to remember that my house was never swept up in the wind… I might cause my own heart to fail when I forget to breathe.
..What the fuck am I talking about?
♥♥♥
xox
Jay