I'm trying to be more regular about posting to this thing, as it is a nice way to keep in touch, and to share things on my mind, whether it be with no one or some one.
I was thinking while paging through a SCAD catalogue that I got in the mail today about all the things I want to do in life, and it struck me as unfortunate that most people have a lot of dreams but end up settling on just a few and then believe the rest of them are unattainable or that they don't have time for them.
Then you have a different problem with people like me who spend so much time deciding and changing their mind about the goals and milestones they hope to achieve that they are going 1000 different directions at a time. But I think I prefer the latter. I may not be achieving my goals and dreams and aspiration quickly, but I am slowly building each one of them up. Here are some things I plan on accomplishing:
Building my own house from the blueprints on up
Finally finishing these albums I'm working on
Getting my BFA and MFA
Eating something delicious everyday
Apprenticing at a tattoo shop
Illustrating
Making more movies
Living in at least 5 more cities
Building better relationships with all of my friends
Learn how to play the trumpet
Learn how to play all of my instruments better
Move back east
Eat some Around the Clock breakfast lunch and dinner
Write as much as I used to write in high school
Becoming a regular at a bar/restaurant so I don't have to order
Do a lot of interesting jobs that don't take place indoors
There are a few things on this list I have not started quite yet. But the majority of these things are in the works. Oh, I also forgot to put a ton of stuff because I actually dozed off between the typing of "living in at least 5 more cities," and "building better relationships with friends." Obviously what I should have typed instead was "Go to sleep when you're tired instead of using the Internet."
I watched a netflix movie tonight, "Who Killed the Electric Car?" It grabbed my attention because I had a conversation with someone about 3 years ago where I swore the technology for electric cars already existed and that I had seen a car that you plugged in, and they denied it completely. Then I watched this movie tonight and there was the exact image I remember seeing of the electric car that Saturn had produced (and subsequently taken off the market). It made me sad just because it reinforced the idea in me that although the technology exists, people are getting to rich off of the status-quo to actually invest in the future. I sound like a hippy...
Speaking of which, here is my paraphrased quote from 30 Rock to end my post:
Liz Lemon: Do you know the post master general?
Jack: Yes, but we had a bit of a falling out.
Liz:?
Jack: It was over the Jerry Garcia stamp... If I wanted to lick a hippy I would just return Joan Baez's phone calls.
December 12, 2008
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all real talk, especially the 2nd paragraph. i need to write up my list, it will all probably seem so unattainable, but i really don't see why we put these fictional constraints on ourselves. as if our dreams are impossible simply because we're lacking time or money, yet we're watching others pop up all over the place doing their thing.. 2009, we gotta make some moves.
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