list of life goals

This is my list of life goals that will be updated at random...

• Learn as many extreme sports as possible (including really wierd ones like poweriser and powered paragliding)
• Travel Europe
• Learn Thriller dance
• Write/publish a novel
• Open a video store and/or bar
• Get a tatoo
• Win an Oscar
• Chase a tornado
• Hold a baby penguen
• Stay in the best suite of a five-star hotel
• Get a hole in one in golf
• Spend the night in an igloo that I made
• Milk a cow
• Experience weightlessness
• See the Northern lights
• Ride a motercylce
• Give a homeless person a hundred dollars
• Ride the biggest and/or fastest roller coaster in the world
• Ride a camel
• Make out on a beach at night
• Plant a garden but the flowers make a picture or spell my name
• Plan a surprise trip and/or throw a dart in a map and travel to where it lands
• Fly a hang glider
• Make a fire without matches
• Learn the hula
• Bike down whistler Mountain
• Set a world record
• Sleep in a treehouse
• Touch a platipuss
• Ride a hot air balloon
• Spend a month at sea on a sail boat
• Go to the hot springs (again! lol...doesn't count that I went when I was 10 or 11)
• Swim in a shark cage
• Save someone's life
• Join in the tomato fight in tomatina, spain
  

What is Gonzo Journalism?

Gonzo journalism is a journalstic style, most famously used by Hunter S. Thompson. The term Gonzo was first applied to Thomson's writing in 1970 by Bill Cardoso, who claimed that the word had originated from the Irish to describe the last man standing at the end of an all-night drinking marathon. What makes this type of journlaism interesting is that the reporter gives a novelistic twist to his reportage and using exssesive detail so as to catch the mood of the event.
In literary terms, "gonzo" has been described as requiring virtually no re-writing, using scribbled notes, transcribed views and telephone conversations.

Dr. Hunter S. Thomson

July 18th 1937-February 20th 2005

*This was inspired by a conversation that Kayla and I had at Tim Horton's over the 1000th issue of the Rolling Stone magazine.

"Jingle-Jingle!"

Tom Jones. No, not the "What's new PussyCat" Tom Jones. I'm talking about Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. Due to what seems to be a lack of idea for plays, the John Abbott Theatre Department has decided that we should put this play on as the final production of the year. This just happens to be a parody that no one really gets. Now, perhaps it's because I've seen the show almost ten times at this point (and I am almost certain to see it at least another three times before closing night) or maybe I just don't like the way the play is written, or maybe I don't like these kind of plays, or maybe I just like to complain. Whatever the reason I've found myself not being the biggest fan of the play. However, besides myself and the actors, everyone else seems to love it. I could also just be bitter becuase I spent about 2 weeks working on a movable jail cell, that I'm accually proud of, and then it turns out that it's only on stage for a total of 30 seconds in the 2 hour play. I know this is part of the job, but geez!