a few life ambitions, before i go to sleep

i've been meaning to compile one of these for a while. these are secondary but largely all-consuming goals of my life, aside from major boring ones about careers, life partners, and offspring.. i'd also be interested to hear any of your similarly awesome secondary but all-consuming life goals. (i say all-consuming, because i spend way more time thinking about these ones than the supposed major ones...)
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-live by the ocean
-have a tower room
-play in an acoustic duo with a boy named 'jonas' (janie and jonas=brilliant project name)
-live in africa
-have a typewriter
-see the eiffel tower
-have a flat in paris
-drive a vespa on a cobblestone street
- see bound stems, showbread live
-drink guinness in ireland
-own a cubistliterature shirt
-live in a houseboat
-slam some poetry
-be a vagrant. preferably not alone, though. accepting applicants there.
-participate in or cause a temporary autonomous zone
-see the redwoods, drive all along the pacific coast highway
-see the northern lights
-find a friend who will take me out on the back of his motorcycle
-forge (create, not fake...) a band good enough to open for bound stems
-re-enact the 'o captain my captain' desk scene from dead poet's society at my university
-journey with/like the psalters

8 comments:

  1. why, those are very similar to my life ambitions. let's please please take a road trip in a couple summers along some coast.

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  2. Bound Stems, Toronto!

    Something like July 19th. We'll know more soon.

    -janie

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  3. well, I think you all should know that this is the most exciting thing ever-- because NOT ONLY is Bound Stems coming to Toronto(!!!!) BUT--- Janie Porche just commented on my blog.
    **dies, repeatedly, like how I will do if circumstances prevent me from going to this show**

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  4. -VAGRANCY YEAH!
    -never heard of bound stems; showbread would be fun
    -pull off acceptable street art
    -write music
    -use my $75 in bookstore gift cards
    -write a screenplay
    -road trip to the east coast
    -get anonymous packages
    -send anonymous packages
    -find a way to go to college out of state

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  5. -I will take the $75 giftcard if you can't figure out how.
    -VAGRANCY IS LOVE.
    -Hear of Bound Stems, please. www.virb.com/boundstems.
    -Hannah, I am already buying the journey-foods.
    -culture jam; forgot about that.

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  6. I tried, but it ended up being typical things like "get married to a friend, have a baby, write, write, write, take photos, love, know shalom, sleep well, and eat dark chocolate."

    I am so not imaginative when it comes to these types of things.

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  7. all those except slam poetry. I do not slam poetry.
    -spend a night on the street
    -paint a Tolkien mural in my house
    -dedicate my house to pagan mythology and.. maybe not so much
    -fall in love with a middle eastern boy
    -expand rhythms with a rubber band
    -get knocked over by extreme silence in the middle of nowhere, no birds, cars, electric cables if possible, anything, just dead deafening silence!
    -create electronic music
    -play celtic harp
    -road trip to the west coast, actually..
    -Stand on a mountain, or beneath the foot of a mountain
    -hear an uillean pipe in the hills and go back to pre-AD druidic paganism in Ireland. (less likely)
    -Remember book/movie quotes for a change
    - DEFINITELY live with the Psalters (deserves extra emphasis).
    - Burn down the Royal Conservatory building. Alas, the institution would remain..
    I'm definitely finding my desires would be most satisfied 1800 years ago.

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  8. oh and uh .. *lamely* go to a Ninja Records DJ party in Montreal...

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