remember, a wish granted is still a wish
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. |
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be an extra on STAR TREK (Or how about SG-1?) |
Visit the Hagia Sofia 7/90 (and before Josh did) |
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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 |
experience v i r t u a l r e a l i t y 2/95 (At EPCOT)
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climb Ayer's Rock and watch the sunset. |
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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 |
To be featured on a music video and thanked on a record
9/98, |
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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...
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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) |
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a hot air balloon ride 7/87 |
Mardi Gras in New Orleans although, I left before the actual Tuesday |
the special assortment of 22 different colors of M&M from FAO Schweetz
5/97 |
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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?
How can you tell when you're doing alright?
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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 |
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 |
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Have My Art and Myself in a Parade First Night Boston, 12/01 |
snorkel/scubadive around a coral reef 11/95 |
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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 |
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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 |
STOP in St. Louis and Go To The Top of
The Arch |
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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
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Curate (or art of board and ccg games) |
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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 |
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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 |
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What Do You Want From Life?
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Meet Rob Breszny 8/01, 8/03 |
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Obtain a copy of the Vertigo t a r o t |
Chartres Cathedral on a sunny day 6/91 |
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Visit the Moscow Metro 4/85 4/87 |
Visit the Moscow Metro again and get good photos of it this time |
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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
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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 |
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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) |
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Visit the San Diego Zoo |
See Negativland live 5/00 |
What Do You Want From Life? What Do You Want From Life? |
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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 |
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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 |
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Well you can't have that BUT If you're an American Citizen you ARE entitled to:
A heated kidney shaped pool
(Spooner/Evans) Irving Music, Inc./Pseudo Songs/Bern Doubt Music (BMI) |
The Rainbow Neon & Mirrored United Tunnel at O'Hare
6/97 AND 11/01 |
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Know contentment in this lifetime
even though |