I'm doing 26 things
So Far...
4 months ago
Met
Mikael Akerfeldt
Steven Wilson
Devin Townsend
John Petrucci
Joey Eppard
Haven’t Met Yet
Tomas Kalnoky
Daniel Gildenlow
Oceansize
Shawn Z's Life List
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1. Live forever
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2. fall in love
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3. get married
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4. have kids
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5. eat healthier
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6. figure out what i want to do with my life
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7. see the world
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8. travel across canada
124 people -
9. backpack through Europe
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10. go to the UK
59 people -
11. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
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12. make a movie
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13. write a screenplay
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14. Become Financially Independent
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15. Get a job I like
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16. Graduate
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17. meet all of my musical heroes
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18. watch the IMDB.com Top 100 movies
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19. get a cat
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20. gain weight
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21. grow a beard
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22. be fluent in a language besides English
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23. watch the AFI 100 years... 100 laughs list of movies
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24. see Oceansize in concert
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25. meet my doppleganger
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26. buy more CDs
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How I did it
It made me
happy 
How I did it: About a year ago, a friend of mine introduced me to a band by the name of Saigon Hookers. They play a brand of rock'n'roll, not unlike AC/DC, and they're all very awesome musicians and people. My friend invited me out to see them in concert one night, and it was quite an awesome experience. They put on a great show, and I started to listen to their music a lot more.Roughly three months after this concert, they were playing again and I was… Read how I did it…
It made me
laugh
How I did it: I started playing guitar when I was 15-ish, picking up my sister's acoustic guitar and teaching myself from tabs on the internet and whatever lessons her teacher had transcribed for her. I eventually bought my own guitar, followed by my own amp, another guitar, and I'm finally now the proud owner of my own acoustic guitar. With it, I practiced some very silly (and profane) songs, and played them at an open mic night at a local pub. I was … Read how I did it…
It made me
Awesome
How I did it: I went to a university where I didn't know a single person. I've always found that I perform best in situations where I have no alternative than to make an effort. Two weeks before I started classes, I went to a leadership conference put on by the school for people entering their first year at the school. I wasn't really looking to become a better leader, but I did want to get out and meet some people. And I'm pretty happy that I did, bec… Read how I did it…
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Recent entries
CDs
9 months ago
Here are the ones on my shelf beside me.
Alexisonfire – Watch Out!
Alien Ant Farm – ANThology
All That Remains – The Fall of Ideals
Avenged Sevenfold – City of Evil
The Beastie Boys – Hello Nasty
Between the Buried and Me – The Silent Circus
Between the Buried and Me – Alaska
Between the Buried and Me – Colors
Between the Buried and Me – Colors Live
Biffy Clyro – Puzzle
Black Sabbath – We Sold Our Soul for Rock ‘n’ Roll
Blink 182 – Cheshire Cat
Blink 182 – Dude Ranch
Blink 182 – Enema of the State
Blink 182 – Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
Blink 182 – Untitled
Children of Bodom – Hate Crew Deathroll
Coheed and Cambria – In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Coheed and Cambria – Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV: Vol. 1
Coheed and Cambria – No World for Tomorrow
Darkest Hour – Undoing Ruin
Darkest Hour – Deliver Us
The Devin Townsend Band – Synchestra
Devin Townsend – Ziltoid the Omniscient
Dio – The Very Beast of Dio
Dream Theater – When Dream and Day Unite
Dream Theater – Images and Words
Dream Theater – Awake
Dream Theater – Falling Into Infinity
Dream Theater – Metropolis, Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
Dream Theater – Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Dream Theater – Train of Thought
Dream Theater – Octavarium
Dream Theater – Systematic Chaos
Dream Theater – Greatest Hit: And 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs, Too
Explosions in the Sky – All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone
The Fall of Troy – The Fall of Troy
The Fall of Troy – Doppleganger
The Fall of Troy – Manipulator
Fatboy Slim – You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
The Flower Kings – Back in the World of Adventures
The Flower Kings – Retropolis
Freak Kitchen – Appetizer
Gojira – The Link
Gojira – From Mars to Sirius
Green Day – Dookie
Green Day – Nimrod
Green Day – Warning
The Haunted – rEVOLVEr
Hot Water Music – Caution
The Human Abstract – Nocturne
Iron Maiden – Edward the Great
Iron Maiden – Live After Death
Iron Maiden – Live at Donnington
Into Eternity – Buried in Oblivion
Into Eternity – The Scattering of Ashes
Job for a Cowboy – Genesis
Johnny Truant – No Tears for the Creatures
Judas Priest – British Steel
Lamb of God – Ashes of the Wake
Limp Bizkit – Significant Other
Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park – Meteora
Linkin Park – Live in Texas
The Mad Caddies – Rock the Plank
Mastodon – Leviathan
Mastodon – Blood Mountain
Matthew Good Band – Beautiful Midnight
John Mayer – Continuum
Megadeth – Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying?
Megadeth – Rust in Peace
Meshuggah – Chaosphere
Metallica – Kill ‘Em All
Misery Signals – Mirrors
Misery Signals – Controller
Mitch Hedberg – Do You Believe in Gosh?
Muse – Origin of Symmetry
Muse – Absolution
Muse – Black Holes and Revelations
Muse – H.A.A.R.P.
Necrophagist – Onset of Putrefaction
Necrophagist – Epitaph
Nevermore – Enemies of Reality
Nevermore – This Godless Endeavour
Neuraxis – The Thin Line Between
Nile – Annihilation of the Wicked
Oceansize – Effloresce
Oceansize – Music for Nurses EP
Oceansize – Everyone Into Position
The Offspring – Americana
The Offspring – Conspiracy of One
Opeth – Orchid
Opeth – My Arms, Your Hearse
Opeth – Still Life
Opeth – Blackwater Park
Opeth – Damnation
Opeth – Deliverance
Opeth – Ghost Reveries
Opeth – The Roundhouse Tapes
Opeth – Watershed
Pain of Salvation – The Perfect Element, I
Pain of Salvation – Remedy Lane
Pain of Salvation – 12:5
Pain of Salvation – Scarsick
Pelican – City of Echoes
Pink Floyd – Animals
Porcupine Tree – Lightbulb Sun
Porcupine Tree – In Absentia
Porcupine Tree – Deadwing
Porcupine Tree – Fear of a Blank Planet
Protest the Hero – Kezia
Protest the Hero – Fortress
Radiohead – In Rainbows
Rage Against the Machine – Renegades
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication
Rise Against – Siren Song of the Counter Culture
Rush – R30
The Saint Alvia Cartel – The Saint Alvia Cartel
Saint Alvia – Between the Lines
Scar Symmetry – Symmetric in Design
Scar Symmetry – Pitch Black Progress
Scar Symmetry – Holographic Universe
Sigur Rós – Ágætis byrjun
Sigur Rós – ( )
Sigur Rós – Takk…
Sigur Rós – Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Sonata Arctica – Silence
Sonata Arctica – For the Sake of Revenge
Staylefish – Audible Addiction
Strapping Young Lad – City
Strapping Young Lad – Alien
Strapping Young Lad – The New Black
Streetlight Manifesto – Somewhere in the Between
System of a Down – Mezmerize
Tenacious D – Tenacious D
Textures – Silhouettes
Thrice – The Alchemy Index, Vols. 1 and 2: Fire and Water
Thrice – The Alchemy Index, Vols. 3 and 4: Earth and Air
Tool – Lateralus
Tool – 10,000 Days
Trivium – Ascendancy
Van Halen – The Best of Both Worlds
Weezer – Weezer (Green Album)
Will Smith – Big Willie Style
Will Smith – Willennium
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