incomplete and in no particular order...               

               remember, a wish granted is still a wish


Learn To
Juggle

12/89
(during finals)
What Do You Want From Life?
By the Tubes
(Spooner/Evans) Irving Music, Inc./Pseudo Songs/Bern Doubt Music (BMI)
1975 A&M Records, Inc.


What Do You Want From Life?
To kidnap an Heiress or threaten her with a knife?
What Do You Want From Life?
To get Cable TV and watch it every night?

There you sit, a lump in your chair
Where do you sleep and what do you wear when you're sleeping?
Collect the
complete
series of
Beautiful Stories For Ugly Children
or at least #6 & #12.

12/96 - found Vols. 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
by 2/04 - found 1-9. have duplicates of 1, 2, 10. (Yay! Jess rocks.)
Still need 13, and any issue after 18.
be an extra
on

STAR TREK
(Or how about SG-1?)

Visit the Hagia Sofia
7/90
(and before Josh did)
A live reading of the Decameron,
done over the ten nights (although not necessarily consecutive), with the ten different voices, with all in attendance wearing period clothing and consuming period food and wine.
Obtain

a copy

of

Mark

Mothersbaugh's

Music
for
Insomniacs


Playing Cards

experience
v i r t u a l
r e a l i t y
2/95
(At EPCOT)

climb
Ayer's Rock
and watch the sunset.
To spend a Thanksgiving and a Christmas alone (by choice)
2001, I spent my first christmas not at my ancestral home

To have pet fishes
(Basic Gold) 1/00

To be featured
on a music video
and thanked
on a record

9/98,
Check out Jim's Big Ego
for more details... of a later version of the video that doesn't feature me, sigh.

A live reading of the Decameron, etc.
in Itali an.
Although I suppose I'd have to go learn Italian first...
see
the southern cross
for
the first time...

and that's why
A black tie affair
in the presence of
penguins,
preferably on Antarctica.
To exhibit and sell at least one painting.
(Of my pet goldfish, even. Exhibited at Soundbites 9/00. Sold 2/01)
a hot air balloon ride
        7/87
        Mardi Gras
                    in
                      New Orleans
2/96,
although, I left before the actual Tuesday
the special assortment of 22 different colors of M&M from FAO Schweetz

5/97
now I have to figure out what to do with 'em

For America to see there's a better way to deal with crop surplusses. Instead of subsidizing some farms to not grow anything, have twice as many grow organic. Either subsidize those to be as profitable as non-organic, or be willing to pay at least at cost for your food. Design and Publish
my own Tarot deck
 

What Do You Want From Life?
An Indian guru to show you the inner light?
What Do You Want From Life?
A meaningless love affair with the girl that you met tonight?

How can you tell when you're doing alright?
Does your bank account swell while you're sleeping at night?
How do you know when you're really in love?
Do violins play when you're touching the one that you're loving?
Aaaaaah...

 

skinnydip
6/96
in a mountain stream,
brrrr it was c-c-c-cold,
glad I'm not a boy...
Eat at an
Iron Chef's restaurant

Nobu, Las Vegas, 11/01

RUN THE
BO ILERMAK ER

7/97
unofficial starting time 0:05:30
official finish time 2:01:11
7/98
unofficial starting time 0:04:30
official finish time: 1:58:54
7/99 - official finish time: 01:58:43
7/00 - official: 01:57:38
7/01 - official: 1:59:00
7/02 - official: slower, but I finished
7/03 - I finished. The results are online somewhere.

own
less
stuff

which means I have to give away much to make room for the uncommon books and decks of cards I wish for

Have My Art
and Myself
in a Parade

First Night Boston, 12/01

snorkel/scubadive
around
a coral reef

11/95
Have a celebrity
write back
9/83 (Pete Townshend)
What Do You Want From Life?
Someone to Love and Somebody you can Trust
What Do You Want From Life?
To try to be happy
    while you do the nasty things you must.
Succeed in driving past the Angola Rest Area on the New York State Thruway (I-90) without stopping
12/95
a live reading of Italo Calvino's Castle of Crossed Destinies, including, if possible, different individuals portraying all the various characters who tell their tales by laying down specific tarot cards. See
The Tubes
live (and they even performed "What Do You Want From Life?")

8/00
Actually
STOP
in St. Louis
and
Go To The
Top
of

The Arch
8/87

Kiss
the
Blarney
Stone

6/91
See
Cirque Du Soleil,
live

11/00, "O" and "Mystere" in Las Vegas
8/01, "Dralion" in Boston
8/02, "Quidam" in Boston
(with added heartbreak that wasn't on my wish list!)
 

Rediscover
the Atlantic Islands
&
North African Coast
"discovered"
by
Henry the Navigator

 

 

Curate
a formal art exhibit
of SCA Award Scrolls

(or art of board and ccg games)

Have my own Monolith by 2001 Visit
Wolf Park
10/95
Grow my own food...
See a shooting star
The Leonids, 11/01
Attend Burning Man
9/98, 9/99, 9/00, 9/01, 9/03


Help preserve the earth's dwindling wild lands
(I've supported a dozen appropriate organizations at any given time since... 1987? I don't support PETA).


Obtain my own
reprint of
Pine Grove
by Hasegawa Tohaku
view it here

6/00
Play
Cripple Mr. Onion
(with Sarah Demb)

See
Shakespeare
in the Park

Twelth Night, Boston Common, 8/01
Henry V, Boston Common, 8/02
Tempest, Taunton, MA, 8/02
Macbeth, Boston Common, 8/03
A Winter's Tale, Taunton, MA, 8/03
What Do You Want From Life?

Meet Rob Breszny

8/01, 8/03

What Do You Want From Life?

Obtain a copy of the
Vertigo
t a r o t
Chartres Cathedral
on a sunny day

6/91
Visit the
Moscow Metro
4/85
4/87
Visit the
Moscow Metro

again

and get good photos of it this time

What Do You Want From Life?

Actually get my act together and write that book
suggesting centers of mass transit in our era have
replaced medieval/renaissance churches in terms
of dissemination of art/propaganda/advertising/promotion
- using the Moscow Metro as a major example.
Meet

Michael
Whelan

in his studio

5/99
Not in studio,
but at the
Words & Pictures Museum
(RIP)
A lavish sojourn on the
Canadian Railroad
to spend a weekend
in the Edmonton Mall.
I came up with this in 1986,
when it still the world's biggest.
It seemed like a perfectly
David Letterman
sort of amusement.

(Mall of America 1/94)
Drive
along
Skyline Drive/Blue Ridge Parkway

I hear the best time is when the leaves turn
What Do You Want From Life?

See
Hong
Kong

before it's gone
Be properly attired for admission into
The Sistine Chapel
when it's actually open
(go early - before noon, dress devout - no shorts)
Visit the
San Diego Zoo
See
Negativland
live

5/00
What Do You Want From Life?

What      Do      You      Want      From      Life?

See
The Flying Karamazov Brothers
live

2/01
See Nicole Blackman
live
6/01
See
Cheap Trick
live

8/00 (As a matter of fact, I AM going through my 2000 datebook
and seeing what I did that what was worth mentioning here, so there)
Taste
Absinthe
(blecch!)
7/01
A Pilgrimmage to Lego land
(in Denmark)
(Mini-Legoland
at Mall of America 1/94)
Be featured with other
Artists Named Julia
in an exhibit
On Julia Street.
(The Julia Street in New Orleans has many galleries).
Praise for my Artistry and HTML Ingenuity.

The Open Transfer Both
(The first, now defunct, page appeared in
March 1, 1997)

Well you can't have that BUT
If you're an American Citizen you ARE entitled to:

A heated kidney shaped pool
A microwave oven - don't watch the food cook
A dynagym - I'll personally demonstrate it in the privacy of your own home
A kingsize Titanic Unsinkable Molly Brown Waterbed - with polyvendum
A foolproof plan AND an airtight alibi
Real simulated Indian Jewelry
A Gucci Shoe Tree
A year's supply of antibiotics
A personally autographed picture of Randy Mantooth
And Bob Dylan's new unlisted phone number
A beautifully restored third reich swizzle stick
Rosemary's Baby
A dreamdate - in knee pads - with Paul Williams
A new Matador, a new Mastodon, a Maverick, a Mustang, a Mercury Montclair,
A Mark IV, a Meteor, a Mercedes, a MG or a Malibu,
A Morton-Moriarty, a Mazzerati, a Mac Truck,
A Mazda, a New Munza
A Moped, A Winnebago,
Hell a herd of Winnebagos, we're givin' 'em away
Or how about a McCollough Chain Saw?
A Las Vegas Wedding,
A Mexican Divorce,
A Solid Gold Kama Sutra Coffeepot,
OR
A Baby's Arm holding an Apple.

(Spooner/Evans) Irving Music, Inc./Pseudo Songs/Bern Doubt Music (BMI)
1975 A&M Records, Inc.

The Rainbow Neon & Mirrored United Tunnel at O'Hare

6/97 AND 11/01

Know contentment
in this lifetime

even though
some of
these wishes
may never
be granted


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