10 Simple Things I've Always Wanted To Do But Never Have: 2009 Resolutions
1. Sleep in a pile of hay
2. Get an article published in GQ
3. Drink the amount of water I'm supposed to in a day
4. Remember this year's trip to New Orleans
5. Run 1000 miles (2.7 miles a day, 19 miles a week)
6. Catch a fish
7. Save at least 5k
8. Finally get the tattoo I've been staring at on my fridge for four years.
9. Learn to surf
10. Make like Prometheus (this one requires a bit of an explanation)
You know you made some too, so spill!
"...you want to be truly unselfish? Love someone or die for someone. Those are the only good deeds you can perform without any hope of personal gain."
7. Learn more about blues musicians
Will help you with this one! Blues In Orbit...Duke Ellington's finest.
"...you want to be truly unselfish? Love someone or die for someone. Those are the only good deeds you can perform without any hope of personal gain."
But blues isn't about being pissed off. It's melancholy, sad, soulful...
"...you want to be truly unselfish? Love someone or die for someone. Those are the only good deeds you can perform without any hope of personal gain."
says who?!
Looks like Spunck's life is dull and pointless.
meant for hard candy!
Looks like Spunck's life is dull and pointless.
Then may I promptly suggest Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
"...you want to be truly unselfish? Love someone or die for someone. Those are the only good deeds you can perform without any hope of personal gain."
I think making a resolution to kill one of uz people would be a worthwhile resolution for the year. Something I didn't do before in the previous years and have been lazy about. This year is gonna be different. I can FEEL it.
YEAH!
first thing on my list.
Get Rich by being a celebrity
second
Talk to the Juice
third
Kill one of uz people
Finally
Hire lawyers.
Cause I won't have enough time getting rich and famous to plot a full proof plan for killings uz and i'll just pay off my amassed fortune in the process for my freedom.
America I love you.
Americans on the other hand...I hate you.
Where the rest of your resolutions!?
blah blah blah i'll just kill some morez of uz to fill in the numbers.
1. Stop being a shitty son
2. Stop being a shitty brother
3. Stop being a shitty cousin
4. Stop being a shitty friend
5. Stop being a shitty grandson
6. Quit smoking, again.
7. Read 'A Treatise of Human Nature' by David Hume
8. Get a girlfriend, for fuck sakes.
9. Fix this house up.
10. Get a job.
As far as men go, John Lee Hooker is a classic. Also, Chris Thomas King is good, but his modern stuff sounds more poppy than bluesy. He's the black guy from O Brother Where Art Thou.
My two favorite female blues musicians are Nina Simone (who does a ridiculously awesome rendition of House of the Rising Sun) and Susan Tedeschi - tiny white lady with the biggest voice who is a demon on the guitar. Seriously. Youtube "Just Won't Burn." Great great great song.
Also, if you want a blues-ey band, The Black Keys are perfect.
In random order:
10. Lose weight the RIGHT way and get healthy - not necessarily skinny
9. Be more patient
8. Graduate... for the love of God...
7. Get something published
6. Find the nerve to play a set of my songs
5. Go to as many music festivals as possible (was already planning to do this)
4. Save money (the festivals aren't going to help with this one)
3. Not hit a cowbeardog and fuck up my vehicle
2. Become open to the idea of having a relationship
1. Actually live instead of just survive
Some of these will happen, some may happen, some won't happen.
1. Get passport
2. Go to Europe
3. Drink German beer at a wedding
4. Fiend on some chron in Amsterdam with Nightrious
5. Rendezvous with Phil, go to Scotland and just show up at Alisdair Gray's house.
6. Write something that won't be appreciated in my lifetime.
7. Convince a girl to shave an exclamation point into her nether-regions. (Bonus if she lets ME do the shaving.)
8. Lose twenty pounds, then gain nine of them back.
9. Draw more.
10. See Saw VI
1. go to spain
2. quit my manager job, once more
3. grow superlong hair ( on the head )
4. earn more money with photography
5. get fluent in french
6. dance with nate at my wedding
7. go to cuba
8. get pregnant
9. see my friends more often
10. find a baby name that ludwig is willing to tolerate
5. Rendezvous with Phil, go to Scotland and just show up at Alisdair Gray's house.
This better happen.
thanks for sharing.blackhawk tactical pants.
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"I could have done worse!" exultantly cried the murderer Lebret, sentenced at Rouen to hard labor for life. — Félix Fénéon
1. Have a kid (coming this May)
2. Get my Doctorate (probably start that next year Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or Physics)
3. Travel the world
4. Live in other countries
5. Hike across Africa
6. Hike through the Amazon and the Congo
7. Go Skiing/Snowboarding
8. Learn nuclear/particle physics (possibly related to #2)
9. Go Spelunking
10. Know everything
Think for yourself. Question Authority.
5. Rendezvous with Phil, go to Scotland and just show up at Alisdair Gray's house.
This better happen.
if he won't let us in or even talk to us, then we throw eggs at his house.
Scerpica! Thanks for the reminder!
11. Grow out hair.
"...you want to be truly unselfish? Love someone or die for someone. Those are the only good deeds you can perform without any hope of personal gain."
no (on the head) specification?
!
Um, obviously on my head. Hair anywhere else is grossly unsanitary and thoroughly unladylike.
"...you want to be truly unselfish? Love someone or die for someone. Those are the only good deeds you can perform without any hope of personal gain."
11. work on my subliminal manipulation.
15. Learn to count.
Huh-huh-huh...
While we're talking about incredibly profane Blues musicians, meet Lucille Bogan.
Hm, if I'd resolved to almost get scammed by a publisher, almost get in a bad car accident, almost get a new tattoo, almost get carpal tunnel, almost get in another bad accident and almost lose all my photos from the last eight years; I'd have hit the mark dead on.
I wonder what I can I be mediocre at next year? 
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Umm, I think I did about half of mine, none of which were the important ones.
Slept in some hay, ran my miles, caught a fish, learned to surf (tried), and I did get a blurb published in esquire so I'm counting that.
"...you want to be truly unselfish? Love someone or die for someone. Those are the only good deeds you can perform without any hope of personal gain."
2. Stop being a shitty brother
3. Stop being a shitty cousin
4. Stop being a shitty friend
5. Stop being a shitty grandson
6. Quit smoking, again.
7. Read 'A Treatise of Human Nature' by David Hume
8. Get a girlfriend, for fuck sakes.
9. Fix this house up.
10. Get a job.
That David Hume really fucked my head for awhile there. I'm glad I wrote and read all year.
1. Use the pottery wheel my boyfriend got given for free (it's collecting dust in our lounge)
2. Start getting paid for my writing
3. Move back to London for good (fuck the North)
4. Lower drug/alcohol intake
5. Write more music and play more gigs
6. Use my bike more and my car less
7. GO ON THAT FUCKING US. HOLIDAY OF A LIFETIME YOU HAVE BEEN PLANNING FOR 4YEARS.
8. Be more appreciative of my boyfriend and family
9. Cut drinking sugar in my tea
10. 'Toughen up' - this was my latest criticism whilst at work.
You drink tea with sugar? The concept flabbergasts me a little. Tea is so tasty without sugar. 
- Learn ways to manage my stress.
- Read more varied material to expand my horizons and become more interesting to others. (Still reading the same stuff, and I'm still boring as fuck to others. 
)
- Meditate at least twice a week. (I think I meditated a whole 4-7 times this year. Faiiiill.)
- Begin consistently studying Chinese. (Gave up 2 months into it.)
- Take the GED when I turn 16. (Can't. Texas requires you to be 17.)
- Take a drivers test when I turn 16. (I discovered I hate cars and want to stick with bikes.)
- Get down to insertweirdnumberhere by August. (Lol I gained weight.)
- Make my bed everyday.
- Go outside at least 4 times a week. (I'll go out whenever I feel like it and the weather is nice.. Which sometimes isn't often.. hurray texas weather)
- Stop complaining.
- Learn ways to manage my stress.
I'd say learning to be flabbergasted, but only a little, counts as one way of managing stress. I can only manage full-blown flabbergastedness.
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10. Lose weight the RIGHT way and get healthy - not necessarily skinny
9. Be more patient
8. Graduate... for the love of God...
7. Get something published
6. Find the nerve to play a set of my songs
5. Go to as many music festivals as possible (was already planning to do this)
4. Save money (the festivals aren't going to help with this one)
3. Not hit a cowbeardog and fuck up my vehicle
2. Become open to the idea of having a relationship
1. Actually live instead of just survive
10. - No. It's laughable at this point.
9. No
8. FUCKING SHIT NO
7. No
6. NONONONO
5. Tried, but didn't work out, so NO.
4. NO
3. YES! WIN!
2. I'm in a relationship although sometimes I miss the old days.
1. Ha. Fuck no.
But I DID buy a house this year, and I didn't even think it would be possible, which is why it's not on the list. So... I got 2 out of 10. For fuck's sake.
I achieved all my goals except buy mom a house.
This year sucked. No way next year can be worse than this year.
(That is me tempting fate)
2. Get my Doctorate (probably start that next year Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or Physics)
3. Travel the world
4. Live in other countries
5. Hike across Africa
6. Hike through the Amazon and the Congo
7. Go Skiing/Snowboarding
8. Learn nuclear/particle physics (possibly related to #2)
9. Go Spelunking
10. Know everything
Accomplished #1, the rest were/are more life goals.
2,4,5,6 probably wont ever happen 
I did learn a little about particle physics.
Think for yourself. Question Authority.
You're a guy, aren't you? You didn't have a kid, stop taking credit!
He did the SIMPLE part.
I made one, but it really started before New years and that was to have a better year than I had the year before and to always progress in whatever I do.