Personal Post: Bucket List 2014

Happy B-Day to me. To celebrate, a post about all the things I want to do!

I started writing this back in November, but I got stuck in the 70's. I added roughly 30 more to make an even hundred. So now a new tradition I want to do every year is post this up and then try and keep track of all the things I've done from a year to year basis. 

Some things are required to be done and redone yearly, so I'll find a way to mark those somehow. But, otherwise, I hope to be removing items from the list every year at this time so that I can look back at all the great memories of the insanely stupid or great things I've done over the years. And so... 

This here is what’s called a Bucket List. For those who have no idea what that is (for some reason) it’s a list of things that I (or whoever is writing) would like to do before they die. Think of it as a list of assorted goals to complete before it’s game over for you. I put one together because I thought it might be interesting to see what I can come up with. The list is in no particular order and I can’t guarantee everything will be worthwhile. But it is something to check out and I’m interested to see if any of you reading make a list of your own. If you do, please tag me or send me a link and I’ll be certain to check it out. If not, well… fuck off?

1.       Make a successful film/video project that has an audience or view count of at least 1 million

2.       Write a successful book (or other form of media) where it gets published all over the country/world

3.       Write a successful book (or whatever) series. Minimal is a trilogy, maximum depends on popularity

4.       Beat Sonic the Hedgehog 1, 2, and 3 & Knuckles

5.       Have 1 – 2 kids and help them grow up to be decent human beings

6.       Have a happy marriage and never get divorced or remarried

7.       Have at least three dogs (large breeds) with the names Growlithe, Entei and Absol. If more than three, then I’ll add more Pokemon names.

8.       Keep my weight under 200 pounds, and try harder to keep it closer to between 160 and 180.

9.       Revisit Japan

10.   Visit the UK

11.   Visit Germany

12.   Visit Italy

13.   Visit Russia

14.   Visit China

15.   Visit Thailand

16.   Visit Australia/New Zealand

17.   Beat 100 videogames before I turn 30

18.   Sky diving

19.   Visit every state at least once (must stop and do something in said state… even using a restroom counts)

20.   Meet Jackie Chan

21.   Get to hang out with the people at RoosterTeeth

22.   Get to work at RoosterTeeth

23.   Own a Sega Dreamcast

24.   Learn to sing (decently)

25.   Learn how to play guitar

26.   Re-learn playing the piano… and also to have a piano again

27.   Fix burnt bridges with Dave, Ria, and Kat

28.   Get back into Tae Kwon Do and re-earn my black belt, and then take it farther.

29.   Get a kiss from Olivia Wilde, Emma Stone, and/or Scarlett Johanson. If more, then so be it

30.   Spend a day with Robert Downey Jr. Preferably onset of a movie, but wherever’s good.

31.   Spend a day with Bryan Cranston… again, preferably onset of a shoot, but wherever’s good.

32.   Program a video game (or assist with programming a game I’m in leading on)

33.   Drink authentic sake once

34.   To find four

35.   See a meteor shower

36.   Ride the Jurassic Park ride at Universal Studios

37.   Eat an authentic Philly Cheese Steak

38.   Eat an authentic Chicago style pizza

39.   Finish one D&D campaign to completion (or another table-top RPG)

40.   Have my own personal arcade with at least one arcade cabinet or pinball machine

41.   Never go into financial debt or file for bankruptcy

42.   Never go to jail, prison, or similar situations

43.   Take part in at least one game competition (it’d probably be Pokemon)

44.   To get a decent kitchen that has a flatiron grill

45.   To ride in a blimp or hot air balloon

46.   To beat a co-op game with someone I love

47.   To beat several co-op games with someone I love

48.   To win something in a lottery

49.   To play Texas Holdem in a casino and win something notable

50.   To one day not be sick of looking at fried chicken and eat it

51.   Cowgirl/reverse-cowgirl, 69, and another position I haven’t tried. What? Like you don’t have one sex-related thing on your list.

52.   Finish an entire serving of ice cream without the ice cream melting first

53.   Make an attempt to like fish (outside of shrimp)

54.   Do a front flip for style

55.   Cosplay as Tuxedo Mask, Dr. Robotnik, and Tony Stark… obviously, not all at once.

56.   Get a job that actually uses my degree or is relevant to my creative interests

57.   Learn to dance

58.   Go to RTX or another convention every year

59.   Perform a magic trick… or actually learn magic. That’d be cool too

60.   See a wild grizzly bear, polar bear, and panda bear in person

61.   To blow up something… with explosives… literally, not metaphorically

62.   Own a jeep wrangler with Jurassic Park decals

63.   Leave Earth’s atmosphere, reaching orbit at the very least

64.   Visit a jungle of some kind

65.   Own the entire series of The Simpsons on DVD

66.   Go through an entire year with no sinus problems of any kind

67.   Live long enough to see my kids get married and have their own families (each kid with one family, not each kid with multiple families. No polygamy here).

68.   Meet an alien… preferably a peaceful one… and extraterrestrial

69.   Ride in a fully functioning mech suit… is doesn’t need weapons, but having them would be a bonus

70.   Ride or own a fully functioning jet pack

71.   Learn to juggle

72.   Successfully rockclimb a rockclimbing wall again… a medium difficulty or higher one

73.   Learn to swordfight

74.   Be part of a successful video game project, even the smallest part would still be interesting

75.   Live long enough to see a good Flash movie

76.   Successfully make a good paper airplane

77.   Visit five authentic castles in different countries (not necessarily five in each, but just not all in one country).

78.   Own five unique suits

79.   Learn to use a bow and/or crossbow

80.   Own a grill (flat iron or outdoor BBQ set up)

81.   Learn to be a better swimmer

82.   Learn to surf or teach one of my pets to surf like in Pokemon

83.   Have sex in at least five unique places (as in different from each other, not necessarily unique that so few people would do it. Not aiming for mile high club or anything).

84.   Learn to fly a helicopter

85.   Watch one absolutely shit movie or TV show a year to remind me that for all my complaining in even the average, boilerplate show, it could always be worse.

86.   Help someone in need who I can trust not only deserves the help, but will use it to their full benefit to make something of themselves.

87.   Be able to trust my brother again

88.   Give to at least one animal charity, but would like to aim for 3-5. Depends on how much money I have down the road

89.   Get away with a crime of some kind. Speeding is lame. I mean like stealing or murder. Not that I plan on doing these, but it’d be interesting to pull one off like, say, a heist or a murder.

90.   One every game console ever made (make a collection of them)

91.   Save the girl and/or save the day

92.   Fight a dragon

93.   Remind you of the babe

94.   Go hang gliding

95.   Successfully read 3 books a year. I know that’s a low number, but I have things to do and I’ll be lucky to get even one.

96.   See a live dinosaur… no, not birds, but what we traditionally accept to be a dinosaur

97.   Get lost on the road of life

98.   Make peace with past mistakes and move forward in life with my head held high

99.   Beat 10 classic retro games (outside of anything previously mentioned on this list)

100.          Never give up. Never back down. And never go back on my word. Believe it.