We all have dreams, hopes, plans, wishes that we hope to fulfill before we die, but what exactly are they?
Post as many as you'd like & don't worry about personal boundaries (funds, means, etc.)
I'll start with a few:

1. Visit Transylvania/Dracula's Castle
2. Go on a paranormal hunt with an experienced team
3. Have my own magazine
4. Travel around Europe
5. Swim in the ocean under the moonlight
6. Create lots of art
7. Climb a pyramid in Egypt
8. Have a successful career
9. Get more tattoos/piercings
10. Experience complete & total nirvana
11. Visit China

Skinny dip (must be a wild swim style) preferable at dusk

Be suspended (from meat hooks)

Go Interrailing

Go to a festival

Do proper fasting and meditation

Create a painting which I am happy with

Perform on stage again!

Be happy in a job.

Spend a year just making art!

Creepy, I was talking about this at work two days ago, because my 10 Things To Do Before I Die list...became a list of 54 63 things due to the input of friends and family. The list grows every now and again, by the way. I'll highlight the ones I've completed.




1. Take Over The World
2. Paint a Self-Portrait
3. Visit the Seven Wonders of the Modern World
4. Visit the remaining Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
5. Perform on Stage for a crowd of 100(+)
6. Perform on Stage for a crowd of 1000(+)
7. Perform on Stage for a Crowd of 10000(+)
8. Have My Portrait Painted
9. Drive the Autobahn
10. Stop to watch the Sunrise and the Sunset of the same day
11. Go To The Olympics
12. Tip a waiter/server with something other then Money
13. Hotwire a car
14. Design and Build my own Home
15. Climb a Mountain of significance
16. Drive across America, Coast to Coast.
17. Run and Finish a Marathon
18. Arrive to an event by Helicopter (medical air-evac does not count)
19. Be inside of a Wrestling Ring
20. See the Aurora Borealis
21. Have sex with a Celebrity
22. Have a fight with a Celebrity
23. Experience Weightlessness
24. Use a fire-extinguisher without need
25. Say something obscene on live television
26. Get lost in a Foreign Country (which you don't speak the language)
27. Build a bomb
28. Visit more then 30 different Countries
29. Take part in a Demolition Derby
30. Be someone that another person hopes to meet before they die
31. Recite the entire Tale Of The U.S.S Indianapolis by Quint from JAWS.
32. Be in a B-Film
33. Go to Rio De Janeiro during Carnival
34. Aid someone in Child-Birth
35. Be in a Music Video
36. Purchase a Prostitute, take her out Pretty Woman style (but no sex)
37. Learn to speak four languages fluently
38. Be in a Major Motion Picture
39. Go to New Orleans for Mardigras &/or Halloween Week
40. Provide the voice of a Cartoon Character
41. Be on a Television show in any capacity
42. Kiss a Complete Stranger (ala WW2 'They're Home' picture)
43. Perform Suspension
44. Swim with Dolphins
45. Write and Publish a Novel
46. Write and Publish a book of Poetry
47. Throw a Tarantino Party (all attendees dress as characters from Quentin Tarantino films, must be more then 100 there)
48. Stand in the Oval Office
49. Go Sky-Diving
50. Visit Stone Henge.
51. Visit Xi'an, China; and see the Terra Cotta Warriors
52. Attends the Cannes Film Festival
53. Be a contestant on Jeopardy
54. Walk the length of the Great Wall of China
55. Visit the ruins of Pompeii
56. View Paris from the Eiffel Tower
58. Ride The Trans-Siberian Express across all of Asia
59. Go To the Grand Ole Opry
60. Cause Musical-like Outbreak of song & dance with total strangers
61. Have a either a drug, drink, sexual-position, meal, street or building named after you. (memorials of course do not count)
62. Witness the Comet Halley's return (2061)
63. Convince Family & Friends to allow you to have a Viking Funeral

Wow guys. So nice.
Well lets see...

1. Visit England.
2. Visit Ireland.
3. Visit Japan.
4. Create a popular manga.
5. have one child
6. Own a house with my bf not rent an apartment.
7. Actually get all the tattoos that I have planned to get.
8. Perhaps end up a true Vegetarian (since I still eat fish now...I guess I'm semi )
9. Spend a week in Montreal with my beloved (maybe next year)
10. Learn Japanese.
11. Go to a renaissance festival/faire
12. Visit France..ok lets just say Europe.

Let's see.....


Go on a dig in Egypt
Get a 5ft statue of Anubis
Find my dream guy
Become a P.I.
Create my own magazine (in the process)
Go to France
Meet Dan Rather (won't happen at this rate)
Treat all my closest frineds to a vacation
Become wealthy
Become fluent in ancient Egyptian
Contribute a vast amount to a charity
Have an everlasting impact on the world
Interview a serial killer
Own a skunk
Become a pretty good Goth Model
Own an opal (considered bad luck to buy one if you're an October baby)
Buy an original Van Gogh painting
Visit NYC
Go to a club in toronto
Get my lip pierced
Make it back down to 113 pounds
Do undercover work
Meet Oprah
Become a best selling author
Go on a romantic getaway

Hey, I've got at least 21% of my list completed, sadly, there are some which cannot happen, like play chess with Bobby Fischer.

Take a homeless person out for a meal and give them a sleeping bag, swap stories

Go raw for a month.

Get all the peircings and tattoos I want

Shave my head (have I said this)

Get dreads

Sleep under the stars, no sleeping bag (done, kinda)

spend a night watching the stars.

wash in a waterfall

walk to Brighton or London.

Visit Italy.

Put on my own burlesque act.

Be a known horror journalist.

Be known in the horror industry.

Write-direct my own super-gory film.

Start-Finish Mortuary School.

Open up my own Funeral Home.

ect. ect.

See The Sisters of Mercy

Go to Italy

Qualify fully and start my own business in a better place than hideous Colwyn Bay

See MUSE

Finish decorating my hall and staircase

Dye my hair bright red

See my daughters do well in life and be happy and fulfilled

I'm still contemplating my own list.. but kind of in the same vein, I thought this was pertinent (and ironic) to this discussion....

Author of '100 Things to Do Before You Die' is killed in fall - and he only managed to achieve half his list

Great lists everyone!
Mine continually grows as well as I am reminded of many fantastic things that I want to do.
Here's my complete list that I started last night.
1. Create lots of art

2. Write to my heart's content

3. Have a successful career

4. Visit Europe

5. Have a family

6. Get many more tattoos & piercings

7. Experience complete & total nirvana

8. Visit China

9. Go parasailing

10. Go jetskiing

11. Go mountain climbing

12. Go to a broadway musical

13. Visit world-famous museums

14. Swim in the ocean under the moonlight

15. Take many, many photographs

16. Learn bellydancing

17. Be in the Ren Faire

18. Go skydiving

19. Go scubadiving

20. Pet a dolphin/whale

21. Climb a pyramid in Egypt

22. Go backstage at a concert

23. Take a carriage ride

24. Have my own magazine

25. Publish my poetry

26. Sell more of my photography

27. Have a drink with a celebrity

28. Go on a paranormal hunt with an experienced team

29. Visit Transylvania/Dracula's castle

30. Build my own house

31. Have a pagan/wiccan wedding

32. Open our own tattoo/piercing shop

I actually don't have a long term to do list. I guess I'm that boring.

^^ You're not boring. you're just spontaneous.

Oh I just thought of some more.

~ learn to play piano
~ See the pyramids
~ meet my favourite authors
~ meet Johnny Depp
~ meet Orlando Bloom
~ meet my fav bands and singers

In this same realm, TheWineKone (one of my favorite channels on Youtube) just posted a new video.... coincidentally, "100 Things To Do Before I Die"... it's slightly inappropriate (most of his vids are! ), but funny as heck...

100 Things To Do Before I Die

My bf pushed his little brother (not so little now) down a hill in England while his brother was in the stroller hahah