IYG in 2008

2008, so far, is 93% worth living.

In 2005, IYG did 84 things, went 23 places, met 157 people, and consumed 2766 products.

Years: 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul

January

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. brush teeth — Not worth doing
  2. shower — Not worth doing
  3. get my own car — Not worth doing
  4. win a contest — Not worth doing
  5. go on a college spring break trip — Not worth doing
  6. go to a kegger/wild college party — Not worth doing
  7. french kiss — Not worth doing
  8. be in a swordfight — Not worth doing
  9. go to New York — Not worth doing
  10. Learn stuff from other culutres — Not worth doing
  11. Be able to pass minesweepers on expert — Not worth doing
  12. go to tokyo — Not worth doing
  13. move to a new city — Not worth doing
  14. do karoke — Not worth doing
  15. tell someone i don't like that i don't like them — Not worth doing
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Orlando — Not worth visiting
  2. Toronto — Not worth visiting
  3. The Chocolate Bar — Not worth visiting
  4. Pablo Picasso, Guernica — Not worth visiting
  5. Leonardo da Vinci - The Adoration of the Magi — Not worth visiting
  6. Raphael - The School of Athens — Not worth visiting
  7. Rembrandt van Rijn - Aristotle with a Bust of Homer — Not worth visiting
  8. Francisco Goya - The Third of May 1808 — Not worth visiting
  9. Edouard Manet - The Dead Torero — Not worth visiting
  10. Jan van Eyck The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin — Not worth visiting
  11. Hieronymous Bosch - The Garden of Earthly Delights — Not worth visiting
  12. Sandro Botticelli - La Primavera — Not worth visiting
  13. Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night — Not worth visiting
  14. Walt Disney World — Not worth visiting
  15. The Mall — Not worth visiting
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Andrzej Wajda
  2. Norman Taurog
  3. Anatole Litvak
Read:
  1. Dawn of the Dead
  2. Saving Private Ryan
  3. The Mystery of the Talking Skull (Three Investigators Classics)
  4. Harry Potter series
  5. Sleepless in Seattle
  6. The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot
  7. ALFRED HITCHCHCOCK AND THE MYSTERY OF THE SHRINKING HOUSE
  8. The mystery of the Screaming Clock
  9. The Secret of Terror Castle
  10. The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy
  11. The Mystery of the Green Ghost
  12. The Mystery of the Vanishing Treasure
  13. The Mystery of the Silver Spider
  14. Alfred Hitchcock And The Three Investigators: The Mystery Of The Invisible Dog
  15. amiable
Listened to:
  1. Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers At RKO: Motion Picture Soundtrack Anthology
Watched:
  1. Death Wish V: The Face of Death
  2. Targets
  3. The Warriors
  4. War Games
  5. Lois & Clark - The New Adventures of Superman - The Complete First Season
  6. Undercover Blues
  7. The Warriors - The Ultimate Director's Cut
  8. Red Planet
  9. The War Room
  10. Blackmail
  11. Mademoiselle Julie
  12. Darkman
  13. Killer of Sheep
  14. That's Entertainment III
  15. Species
Consumed:
  1. Egg Nog
  2. Grapes
  3. Gimlet
  4. Planter's Punch
  5. Blue Hawaiian
  6. Hurricane
  7. Bananas
  8. Peaches
Consumed:
  1. supercilious
  2. Attack of the Crab Monsters
  3. Earth vs the Spider
  4. empathy
  5. Gluttony
  6. Maxim
  7. Maverick
  8. 12 Angry Men
  9. Carrie
  10. allegory
  11. apocryphal
  12. binary
  13. bi-polar
  14. Carpe diem
  15. collegial

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February

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. make an origami crane — Not worth doing
  2. finish a sudoku puzzle — Not worth doing
  3. do a strip tease/lap dance — Not worth doing
  4. track down/look up an old friend — Not worth doing
  5. dance a hora — Not worth doing
  6. put your MP3 player on and sing along while you are in public — Not worth doing
  7. ride a double-decker bus. — Not worth doing
  8. Push all the buttons in the elevator — Not worth doing
  9. win at poker — Not worth doing
  10. send a text that makes absolutely no sense to someone — Not worth doing
  11. Find Waldo — Not worth doing
  12. Play the Nintendo Wii — Not worth doing
  13. Eat Squid — Not worth doing
  14. In another state — Not worth doing
  15. In a bed! — Not worth doing
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. The Alamo — Not worth visiting
  2. Walt Disney World Resorts — Not worth visiting
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Rhett Butler
  2. Dory the Angelfish
  3. Mira Nair
  4. Indiana Jones
  5. Jack Sparrow
  6. Darren Aronofsky
  7. Darth Vader
  8. James Stewart
  9. Amy Heckerling
  10. Rocky Balboa
  11. Katharine Hepburn
  12. Ellen Ripley, Lieutenant
  13. Han Solo
  14. Anakin Skywalker
  15. Henry Fonda
Read:
  1. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Norton Critical Editions)
  2. Forest Gump
  3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  4. Treasure Island (Signet Classics)
  5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3)
  6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Deluxe Bloomsbury UK Special Collector's Edition (Harry Potter UK Deluxe First Editions, Volume 7)
  8. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Listened to:
  1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  2. The Passion of the Christ (Score)
  3. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  4. Alexander
  5. Angels in America
  6. The Hours (Score)
  7. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  8. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
  9. The Terminal (Score)
  10. A.I. - Artificial Intelligence: Original Motion Picture Score
  11. Far from Heaven (Score)
  12. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
  13. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
  14. This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race - Fall Out Boy (song)
  15. Who Knew
Watched:
  1. Love in the Afternoon
  2. Beverly Hills, 90210 - The Complete First Season
  3. Pierrot Le Fou
  4. Park Row (1952)
  5. Steel Magnolias - Special Edition
  6. Darling Lili
  7. Mauvaise Graine (B&W Sub)
  8. Flawless
  9. King Ralph
  10. Barbary Coast
  11. 100 Girls
  12. Teacher's Pet
  13. Annie (Special Anniversary Edition)
  14. Chicken Run
  15. Princess Mononoke
Consumed:
  1. Black Eyed Peas - My Humps (single)
  2. Star Trek The Next Generation: The TV Series
  3. How To Save A Life (single) - The Fray
  4. Idaho
  5. Whose Line Is It Anyway?
  6. Twin Peaks
  7. U2 - Beautiful Day (single)
  8. Nickelback - If Everyone Cared (song)
  9. dilettante
  10. perfunctory
  11. Fergalicious - Fergie (song)
  12. WarGames
  13. West Side Story
  14. Jaws - 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition
  15. Vanya on 42nd Street

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March

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. On a strangers bed — Not worth doing
  2. With simultaneous orgasm — Not worth doing
  3. Strip naked — Not worth doing
  4. First thing in the morning — Not worth doing
  5. In reverse cowgirl — Not worth doing
  6. Over an hour long — Not worth doing
  7. In the shower — Not worth doing
  8. In total darkness — Not worth doing
  9. own a t-shirt with a bandname on it — Not worth doing
  10. share a plate of spaghetti with a loved one like the lady and the tramp — Not worth doing
  11. kiss someone under a waterfall — Not worth doing
  12. raid someone's fridge — Not worth doing
  13. have a pirate party — Not worth doing
  14. go to Italy — Not worth doing
  15. learn how to play chess — Not worth doing
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Luc Besson
  2. Lasse Hallstrom
  3. Cameron Crowe
  4. emir kusturica
  5. Spike Lee
  6. Atom Egoyan
  7. Bryan Singer
  8. Robert Redford
  9. John Cassavetes
  10. Bob Fosse
  11. Gordon Parks
  12. William Friedkin
  13. Ken Loach
  14. Sydney Pollack
  15. John Hughes
Read:
  1. Pulp Fiction
  2. The Soulforge (Dragonlance: The Raistlin Chronicles, Book 1)
  3. Test of the Twins (Dragonlance: Dragonlance Legends)
  4. aberration
  5. alacrity
  6. cajole
  7. chide
  8. connive
  9. fractious
  10. Enfranchise
  11. Dragons of Spring Dawning (Dragonlance Chronicles, Vol. 3)
Listened to:
  1. The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album
  2. Dirty Dancing: Original Soundtrack From The Vestron Motion Picture
Watched:
  1. Coming to America
  2. Drunken Master
  3. Author! Author!
  4. What About Bob?
  5. Captain Kidd
  6. Maverick
  7. Nosferatu / Phantom of the Opera
  8. Seance on a Wet Afternoon (B&W)
  9. Doctor Dolittle
  10. Force of Evil
  11. M. Night Shyamalan Vista Series Collection (The Sixth Sense/Signs/Unbreakable)
  12. Take the Money and Run - Uncut (Widescreen Edition)
  13. Lilith
  14. The Turning Point
  15. The Woody Allen Collection - 8 pack
Consumed:
  1. Fried Chicken
  2. Mini Doughnuts
  3. Taco Bell
Consumed:
  1. Half-Life
  2. Civilization
  3. Doom
  4. Super Mario World
  5. Diablo I
  6. Baldur's Gate
  7. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  8. Supernatural
  9. That 70's Show
  10. abrogate
  11. Max Payne
  12. The Sims
  13. Halo 3
  14. Tetris
  15. Street Fighter II (super nes)

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April

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. In a school — Not worth doing
  2. In a bathroom — Not worth doing
  3. During school — Not worth doing
  4. Against a wall — Not worth doing
  5. in a shower — Not worth doing
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Robert De Niro
  2. Edward Norton
  3. Toshirô Mifune 三船 敏郎
  4. Joaquin Phoenix
  5. Morgan Freeman
  6. Christopher Walken
  7. Cary Grant
  8. Yul Brynner
  9. Vincent Price
  10. Humphrey DeForest Bogart
  11. Peter Seamus O'Toole
  12. Robert Mitchum
  13. James Cagney
  14. Sidney Poitier
  15. Frank Sinatra
Watched:
  1. Seven Faces of Dr. Lao
  2. Xena: Warrior Princess: Season One
  3. Xena Warrior Princess - Season Two
  4. Roswell - The Complete Third Season (The Final Chapter)
  5. Gregory's Girl
  6. Grass: A Nation's Battle For Life
  7. Michael
  8. Three Bad Men in a Hidden Fortress (Kakushi toride no san akunin) Japanese with English Subtitles
  9. Five came back
  10. Strangers When We Meet
  11. Broken Blossoms Silent Classic
  12. Fear Strikes Out
  13. Behold a Pale Horse
  14. The Enemy Below
  15. Casey's Shadow
Consumed:
  1. The West Wing
  2. Arrested Development
  3. South Park
  4. Seinfeld
  5. Frasier
  6. abjure - To recant solemnly; renounce or repudiate.
  7. abrogate
  8. belie
  9. bowdlerize
  10. chicanery
  11. churlish
  12. interpolate
  13. loquacious
  14. The Cosby Show
  15. Quatermass Xperiment

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May

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. gone to a poetry slam — Not worth doing
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Jean Negulesco
  2. Gordon Douglas
Read:
  1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Deluxe Edition)
  2. After the Thin Man (1936)
  3. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter Ser., Year 2)
Watched:
  1. Psycho (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Duck Soup — Worth consuming!
  3. Dead Man Walking
  4. Goldeneye (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. The Matrix — Worth consuming!
  6. The Lion King (Disney Special Platinum Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. Nosferatu - Special Edition — Worth consuming!
  8. Pulp Fiction (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  9. Cold Mountain (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
  10. The Godfather (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  11. Donnie Darko - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  12. Star Wars, Episode V- The Empire Strikes Back (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  13. Star Wars, Episode IV- A New Hope (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  14. Citizen Kane — Worth consuming!
  15. Monster's Ball
Consumed:
  1. Big Love
  2. From Russia with Love
  3. Birdcage
  4. You Only Live Twice
  5. Lone Star

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June

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Very rough — Not worth doing
  2. kiss a girl — Not worth doing
  3. live in a different country — Not worth doing
  4. become fluent in another language — Not worth doing
  5. facebook — Not worth doing
  6. work on my lists of bests lists — Not worth doing
  7. go to las vegas — Not worth doing
  8. i would like to stay in touch with some friends from highschool — Not worth doing
  9. Stay in touch with my friends from college — Not worth doing
  10. kiss in an elevator — Not worth doing
  11. See the Aztec ruins in Mexico — Not worth doing
  12. Visit the Great Wall of China — Not worth doing
  13. go on a road trip with friends — Not worth doing
  14. write a short love story — Not worth doing
  15. learn how to operate computer — Not worth doing
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Great Wall — Not worth visiting
  2. Backstreet Cafe — Not worth visiting
  3. Star Pizza - Norfolk — Not worth visiting
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Takashi Miike
  2. Anthony Minghella
  3. Abel Gance
  4. Seijun Suzuki
  5. Bruce Beresford
  6. Robert Z. Leonard
  7. William Keighley
Watched:
  1. Field of Dreams (Widescreen Two-Disc Anniversary Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Annie Hall — Worth consuming!
  3. Il Postino
  4. His Girl Friday — Worth consuming!
  5. Raising Arizona — Worth consuming!
  6. Life Is Beautiful — Worth consuming!
  7. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon — Worth consuming!
  8. The Incredibles (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  9. Garden State — Worth consuming!
  10. The Ruling Class - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  11. Our Town
  12. Shaun of the Dead — Worth consuming!
  13. Star Wars, Episode VI- Return of the Jedi (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  14. The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  15. Secrets and Lies
Consumed:
  1. Prison Break
  2. Bones
  3. 24
  4. quotidian
  5. Alliteration is the repetition of a consonant sound, not a vowel sound; thus, the phrase "avoid alliteration, always" is not funny. "Avoid assonance, always" is funny.
  6. Prodigious
  7. Diablo (PC)
  8. The World of Apu
  9. Bionic Woman
  10. Proclivity
  11. vitiate
  12. Neologism
  13. Perchance
  14. protean
  15. derision

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July

Watched:
  1. Death Race 2000
  2. In the Bedroom
  3. The Omen
  4. Big Fish
  5. The Blob - Criterion Collection
  6. All About My Mother [Region 4 Import - English Subtitles]
  7. Bulworth
  8. total recall
  9. Baseketball
  10. Alphaville
  11. officer and a gentlemen
  12. The Seventh Seal
  13. Dr. Dolittle
  14. Zodiac (dir. David Fincher)
  15. Solomon and Sheba [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Great Britain ]

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