101 in 1,001
You have totally been waiting! All crazed with excitement! Well here it is! The list of 101 things for me to do in 1,001 days, which is to say, before July 29, 2009!

It was hard to keep this to goals and not wishes - sometimes I got to feeling that I could accomplish any preposterous combination of things as long as I wrote them down, and I had to have a lot of cross-outs in the sections having to do with foreign languages, travel, musical prowess and other people. I think I still came up with a pretty good list.

1. play a show with the metal band
2. before which we should have a name
   I'm pretty sure we're officially Thoraxx. (Unfortunately for item 1, I think we're also officially broken up.)
3. record some non-band music
4. play with someone where I'm actually singing singing
5. solo art show somewhere
6. two residencies
   #1: Rapperswil, Switzerland, July-December 2007
7. live in Berlin for at least a bit
8. no more debt except student loans
9. finish a story
10. get something published on actual paper
11. learn to do a trackstand
12. and a proper skid
13. and a barspin (or something else equally rad and useless if I keep my current barspin-impossible setup)
14. be able to commute regularly on the fixie
    done, spring 2007
15. do an alleycat race
    library bike race, May 19, 2007 - placed 2nd timewise and won a green cycling cap for Best Book
16. 50 segments in secrets video project
17. get it shown somewhere
18. get functionally fluent in German
19. and brush up the French
20. and some basic Spanish
21. go to at least one continent which is new to me (South America, Africa, Asia, Antarctica)
22. go scuba diving some more
23. have a container garden
    started 5/12/07, basil and mint
24. finish some type of zine project
25. read War and Peace
26. get rid of half the stuff in my room
27. re-establish contact with at least three long-lost friends
28. go to Turkey
29. and Sweden
30. live in a place what gets snow but is still sunny in winter
31. some type of epic touring bike trip (Poland? Liechtenstein?)
32. drive across the USA
33. California-related tattoo
34. and another one (fork and spoon?)
35. visit at least three of these people at home: Peter & Sally, Alexis, Claire & Emily, Sarah, Bene & Lisa
    visited Bene and Lisa, end of September 2007
36. make website for artwork
37. 50 mash notes:
    current count: 4
38. 50 loaves of homemade bread:
    current count: 7
39. learn one new song per month
    November 2006: "La Vie En Rose"
    December 2006: "The River Driver"
    January 2007: "I'm Going to Leave Old Texas Now"
    April 2007: "Go Down, You Blood Red Roses"
40. write ten songs
41. learn to make decent salads
42. live with a dog
43. lots more dancing
44. get a new phone
    done, late February 2007
45. live in a place where I could have a real garden
46. learn to cook more seasonally
47. learn to sew my own underwears
48. ten careful mix tapes for friends
49. 50 random mix tapes for strangers
    current count: 1
50. learn to make seitan
51. invent chocolate-anise-pear dessert
52. learn the official steps for a dance
53. form-based input for Blood Sisters
54. go to the Tate Modern
55. go to the Tactile Dome
56. camping in the desert
57. California/Nevada ghost town road trip
58. go to that place in Spain where they still have Sergio Leone sets up
59. get set up to record music on my computer done (almost entirely by Mike), May-June 2007
60. start volunteering somewhere
61. start wearing sunscreen regularly
62. figure out something to do with those binoculars photos
63. learn basic Romansh
64. more shape to the genre fiction project
65. read up on (island) biogeography
66. hang out in the Mechanics Institute library
67. watch/re-watch every Clint Eastwood western
68. go on a BART-assisted bike ride somewhere in the east bay
69. play in an oi or garage punk band
70. knit mittens
71. build a hurdy-gurdy
72. and play this hurdy-gurdy
73. take one free erhu lesson at that place on 6th avenue
74. go on a boat
    one three-masted schooner and two canoes, all the first weekend in May 2007
75. play some pinochle or cribbage
76. read one book in German
77. improve doily-crocheting skills
78. make bullet doily
79. learn to drive stick
80. make truffles
    done, for Sherri's welcome-home party, February 5, 2007
81. and pickled beans
82. and preserved lemons
    done, spring/summer 2007 (hopefully they will still be preserved when I get back to San Francisco, because I forgot to give them to anyone but Timmy)
83. read five books from the Western Canon (one is going to be Don Quixote; suggestions for the others welcome)
84. record one more Sweet Sweet Ham song with Megan and Erin and/or Sherri
85. some form of large-scale collaborative project
86. get rid of my old computer
87. transfer old four-track tapes to digital
88. for heaven's sake ditch the floppy disks
89. make a fresh gooseberry pie
90. invent a yeast bread recipe
    yeasted sweet potato/bourbon stickybuns, April 2007
91. homemade. maraschino. cherries.
92. visit Minnesota
93. take a whole class somewhere like City College
94. finish organizing my Australia trip photos
    finished 11/28/06
95. come home from downtown via the McAllister hill, regularly
    started doing it, spring 2007
96. make a map for the blank place on our living room wall
97. sew a party dress
98. be in the postcard show at the LAB again
99. finish a poem

I realize my list is a little short, but some goals are secret. Maybe I will say something when it's all done, maybe.

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