the dreaming tree

it’s time once again for 100 things…of pure and utter randomness…here we go…

1. i use chap stick everyday.
2. i wish i could invent something awesome.
3. i got my first cell phone last august.
4. it’s still kinda weird, but i’m getting used to it.
5. this list is gratuitous.
6. andrew osenga is one of the coolest musicians you will ever meet.
7. i hope you do get to meet him one day and take in one of his stellar shows.
8. i need to be a better bass player.
9. i’m bi-polar.
10. i wish i was/had been a better student.
11. my mother is right…i don’t eat healthily.
12. (sshh…don’t tell her.)
13. i wrote a song called wander for voice and piano.
14. yes, it’s an “art song.”
15. i have a recording of it, if you’re interested…but you’re probably not.
16. at one point i was going to be a music and physics double major.
17. yeah…i didn’t go through with that.
18. i like to think up band names.
19. ten cent soda, sunrise in the evening (that’s the emo one), the gloaming, history says smile
20. those are pretty lame, i know.
21. eddie izzard is brilliant.
22. there was a british king named ethelred the unready (978-1013 and 1014-1016).
23. i wish i would work really hard on something for once in my life.
24. i like to talk about myself.
25. i hate it when people tell me aaron copland is their favorite american composer.
26. he’s good, yeah, but it always seems like they’re just saying that because they don’t know anyone else.
27. my favorite american composers include: john corigliano, samuel barber, eric whitacre and ned rorem.
28. puns can be cool, but also annoying.
29. i’m not a very good storyteller.
30. one time…nah, i’m not even gonna bother.
31. i think till we have faces is c.s. lewis’ best book.
32. i was doing my honors program thesis on that book…but like most things, i didn’t finish.
33. i love when i discover a band/artist no one has heard of and then they become huge.
34. like i did with john mayer.
35. i also totally called the emo craze.
36. i have been in a phase of not really caring about girls at all.
37. i think that phase is over, for better or worse.
38. i’m lazy.
39. i don’t really want to finish the rest of this list.
40. but i will.
41. i don’t have a crush on any celebrities.
42. bass can make or break a good song.
43. that’s a lot of pressure.
44. if i was a professional athlete, i would change my number every year.
45. my favorite numbers i have worn are: 23, 17, 11 (all in baseball).
46. i wish i was still playing baseball.
47. i always wanted to wear 47.
48. i’m going to play baseball again.
49. softball is ok, but just not the same.
50. it might be cool to be in a movie someday.
51. yeah…right.
52. even though tom cruise is a moron, i still like his movies.
53. scooby-doo.
54. i’ve never seen any of the godfather movies.
55. your mom.
56. i love learning about ancient egypt.
57. my science fair project one year was about how they built the pyramids.
58. i won first place.
59. i love crossword puzzles.
60. i really want to go to outer space.
61. i’ve been trying to finish the brothers karamazov for like three years.
62. it’s a really dense book.
63. marriage seems so far off i wonder if it’ll ever get here.
64. …when i’m 64?
65. handwriting is fascinating to me.
66. lots of things are.
67. like numbers.
68. i love listening to live recordings of the dave matthews band.
69. they make me so very happy.
70. that’s what i’m doing now (bartender).
72. usually when i play guitar i’m playing some dave matthews song.
73. i’ve garnered a lot of great relationships because of the internet.
74. mainly from rocksmyfaceoff.net, but also some from xanga.
75. but that’s a whole ‘nother post.
76. i write poetry.
77. this list is getting really lame.
78. sorry.
79. i’m actually amazed if more than two people read all the way through this.
80. 479-409-0305
81. simon cowell said the thing he wants most in the world is money.
82. at $90 million, he still doesn’t have enough.
83. i hate money.
84. i just finished this list and xanga lost it.
85. fortunately i had copied it up to here.
86. but i had some good ones in the last 15.
87. your loss.
88. i wore this number when i played football.
89. i don’t know everything.
90. but i pretend i know a lot.
91. sergei federov.
92. i like to feign that i’m a graphic designer.
93. although i did make the design on our t-shirts.
94. which i think is pretty cool.
95. soon i will be asleep.
96. i like to laugh.
97. and to make other people laugh.
98. i wish i was better at that.
99. the year i graduated high school.
100. i need a new pair of birkenstocks.
101. this is a lame ending, i know…but it’s late…so…the end.