My to do list:
-Record a song in Mussel Shoals, Dublin, and in my own studio
-Play small bars and coffee shops on a country wide tour
-Bungee jump out of a hot air balloon
-Sky dive over Las Vegas
-Scuba dive in Waimea Bay, The Great Barrier Reef, and the Maldives
-Kayak a class 5 whitewater river
-Hike Half Dome
-Publish a novel, a screenplay, and a children’s book
-Write and conduct my own symphony
-Learn 20 musical instruments
-See a live show at least once a month for a year
-Drink red wine in Paris and Tuscany
-Drink whiskey in Dublin and Glasgow
-Touch the Wailing Wall and the Great Wall
-Build a sand castle next to the Great Pyramids
-Take a boat down the Amazon
-Swim in Lake Malawi and Tanganyika
-See a Blue Whale in person
-Breed Shire draft horses and Hyacinth macaws
-Learn Latin, Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese
-Do stand up on Comedy Central
-Preach a sermon on a Sunday morning
-Hunt for poison dart frogs in Columbia and drink tea in Macchu Picchu
-Develop, implement and sell a practical business plan for a NPO and learn how to invest the profits
-Sail a boat refurbished by my hands out to Catalina and back
-Restore a ’57 Chevy Bel Air
-Get a PhD in conflict resolution, group think efficacy, or health psychology
-Start a counseling retreat center for couples and a holistic treatment center for cancer patients
-Spend a few years creating diplomatic relations and providing peace negotiations between warring countries
-Never stop imagining the impossible into reality
-Start a new list once I finish all these
People of synaptic thought, a flicker of emotion, and a well of faith and imagination. Good people who like good times. Someone who freakin' wants to go to hawaii with me. Oh yeah and your mom.
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Postal Service, Tool, Disturbed, Dishwalla, Nat King Cole, Eric Clapton, Eagles, The Beatles, Aerosmith, Green Day, Chevelle, Blink, TBS, Chris Botti, Jack Johnson, G Love, Marvin Gaye, Elvis, DMB, Eve 6, Guster, Weezer, Stevie Ray Vaugn, Damien Rice, Joshua Bell, Beethoven, Miles Davis, Death Cab, Yellowcard, Elliot Smith, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, Ben Folds, Kenny Chesney, Big and Rich, Vince Gill, Garth, The Cure, DM, 2Pac, Fiddy, Dre, Common, Kanye, Thrice, Sade, 3EB, Chet Baker, Eastmountainsouth, Nickelcreek, Sugarcult, Garden State Soundtrack, Norah, Foo Fighters, Iron and Wine, Waking Ashland, Copeland, Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stones, Etta James, Toad the Wet Sprocket, David Gray, Soundgarden, Mae, Muse, and the beat goes on...
Garden State, Good Will Hunting, Sleepless in Seattle, Return to Me, Swingers, Office Space, Wedding Crashers, Matrix, Old School, Gladiator, Braveheart, Passion, 40 Year Old Virgin, Crash, Must Love Dogs (Yeah I said it), Youve Got Mail, Napolean Dynamite, oh and The Notebook for the great filmography.
It can be entertaining, it can be good, it can be bad, but unlike us its intention is never apathetic. At its best it is inspirational and motivating, at its worst it amuses us to death.
Too many to list...Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Wishful Thinking, Blue like Jazz, Einsteins Dreams, Brothers K, How the Irish Saved Civilization, Traveling Mercies, Strength to Love, Invisible Cities, Holy the Firm, It Was on Fire When I Lay on it, Telling the Truth, Calvin and Hobbes....oh yeah and that thick one with the thou's, thee's, and shant's.