| Attend a burlesque show |
| Attend a drag show |
| Attend yoga or pilates |
| Back, sack and crack wax |
| Bake a vegan cake |
| Barber shave |
| Barter in a department store |
| Be blind for a day |
| Be in a parade. |
| Be left handed for a day |
| Be naked for a day |
| Be someone’s slave for a day. |
| Benchpress my own weight |
| Bet £20 on red at roulette |
| Bet on an obscure sport |
| Bid at an auction |
| Blow something up |
| Break a mirror |
| Break a window with a baseball bat. |
| Brush my teeth and drink a bottle of OJ. |
| Build a stool |
| Build a wall |
| Burn a book. |
| Buy 1000 penny chews |
| Buy a vibrator |
| Buy shares in something. |
| Chop down a tree |
| Climb a mountain |
| Collect someone at a bus stop. |
| Colonic irrigation |
| Count to 2,000 |
| Crush a can with my head. |
| Cut someone else’s toenails |
| Cycle a tandem bike |
| Cycle through a drive thru |
| Deliver a pizza |
| DJ in a department store |
| Do a mensa test |
| Do that thing with the coke and the mentos. |
| Do the skateboard “olly” |
| Don’t speak for one day |
| Donate blood |
| Dress in drag |
| Drink a pint of Guinness |
| Drive or sail a boat |
| Eat fruit only for a day |
| Eat only red food all day |
| Eat sushi |
| Enter “rate my poo” website |
| Fight in a boxing match |
| Find another Mike Dean and go for a pint with them |
| Finish the "chef's challenge" at Akbar's |
| Flip a pancake |
| Get a cake/pie in the face |
| Get a manicure |
| Get a tattoo from someone I went to school with |
| Get an action bed-jumping photo. |
| Get colour matched for foundation at a makeup counter |
| Get my fortune told |
| Get my shoes shined |
| Get one of my own t-shirts made |
| Get onto a bus to an unknown destination |
| Go a day without electricity |
| Go Christmas carolling |
| Go grape-crushing |
| Go horse racing |
| Go to a sci-fi/comic book convention |
| Go to Ireland |
| Go to the Isle of Wight |
| Have a car boot sale. |
| Have a red mohawk for a day |
| Have a spin in a chopper |
| Have my fingerprints taken |
| Hire a bouncing castle |
| Hot Air Balloon |
| Invent my own cocktail |
| Invent my own country with a flag and anthem |
| Invite a stranger to dinner |
| Juggle |
| Jump from one tree to another |
| Jump out of a moving car |
| Kiss a monkey |
| Knit a scarf |
| Learn and identify 10 constellations |
| Learn another alphabet |
| Learn to moonwalk |
| Lie in a coffin |
| Limo ride with the sunroof open |
| Make a balloon animal |
| Make a bath of jelly. |
| Make a coconut bra |
| Make a human pyramid |
| Make a lemonade stand |
| Make a lemon-battery |
| Make a pact with the devil |
| Make a sauce from scratch |
| Make a three figure bet |
| Make an origami rose |
| Make and play my own boardgame |
| Make pottery |
| Make sock puppets |
| Make some jewellery |
| Meet a pornstar |
| Milk a cow |
| Paint a picture on canvas. |
| Paint my nails |
| Perform with an established band on stage |
| Picnic on a roundabout |
| Play a song on a guitar |
| Pretend to be a mannequin |
| Put something on YouTube |
| Queue overnight for something. |
| Read a book on my Kindle |
| Read the entire Bible |
| Rent a sports car… |
| Rollerblade down a hill |
| Run 10k |
| Say yes for a day |
| Scuba dive |
| Send a message in a bottle |
| Sew a hole in something |
| Sing a Nickleback song at a Karaoke night |
| Skateboard holding a moving car |
| Smash a computer monitor |
| Smash a guitar |
| Smash a walnut with a sledgehammer. |
| Speak when spoken to |
| Spend a day with an imaginary friend |
| Spend a night in a treehouse |
| Spend an entire car journey tied up in the boot |
| Start a fire from scratch |
| Stick a message on a banknote |
| Take a dance lesson |
| Take a pregnancy test |
| Take out a personal ad |
| Tee off into the ocean |
| Trace the family tree |
| Try to read a book backwards |
| Try to understand Hitler |
| Visit a sensory deprivation tank |
| Visit an old folks home |
| Wakeboard |
| Walk a mile in someone else’s shoes |
| Watch all Jurrasic Park films in one day |
| Watch all six Star Wars films in one day. |
| Watch all three Lord Of The Rings films in one day |
| Watch an entire box series of a dreadful TV show |
| Wax my legs |
| Wear a free hugs sign- give hugs |
| Wear a kilt |
| Wear all clothes inside out |
| Wear leather pants |
| Wear odd shoes for a day |
| Wear pyjamas going grocery shopping. |
| Wear women’s underwear for a day |
| Weld something |
| Wheelchair for a day. |
| Work with a homeless shelter |
| Write a fan mail |
| Write a letter to the Times. |
| Write a song |
| Write my name using my toes. |
| Write my own obituary |
| Write the opening sentence of my first novel/movie script |
| Drink beer from the tap |
| Drink a pint consisting of half lager, half bitter |
| Celebrate a national holiday from another country |
Monday, 31 December 2012
Project 365 Redux: The list so far...
Do bear in mind that this is in no particular order - just how things are laid out so far...
2013: Project 365 Redux
I'm an idiot.
This will come as no great surprise to the vast majority of you but there are some of you who are perhaps new to the game that may not be aware of this fact. Maybe I've just been exceptionally good at hiding my idiotic light under the common sense bushel. Maybe you just don't give a shit. Either way, it's good for the truth to be out there.
Those of you who pay attention to my Facebook page (the hub of all things exciting and interesting in the world) will have seen me do a little thing called Project 366, with the idea being that I would post a different song, every day, for a year. This went relatively well - some songs were well received, others not so. There were days where it was tricky to pick anything because I wasn't in the mood and other days where I was flooded with inspiration. Some made me laugh, others made my cry. In any case, it was fun. A welcome distraction from the daily grind.
Of course, this has now ended and I feel a little bit of a void where it once was. So what to fill it with...? Well, gentle reader, this is where you come in...
Never one to rest on my ample laurels (and for laurels, read buttocks), I have decided to have a stab at something new. In fact, many things new. 365 things as it happens. Inspired by both a blog I came across when looking for songs on YouTube (http://www.theproject366things.blogspot.co.uk/) and the fact that when it comes to doing stupid things, I'm generally in favour of it, I am going to attempt to do 365 things that I have never done before in 2013.
At time of writing, I have compiled/stolen a list of 167 things that I can potentially do that I have never done before. Some of which are fairly bog standard, some of which won't mean anything to you but will give me some satisfaction and some will no doubt cause you to wet your pants with laughter. Let's face it, if you weren't going to gain some amusement at my expense, it wouldn't be anywhere near as much fun. It'd just be some dude doing stuff.
The rules are:
* It needs to be legal
* It needs to be achievable
* It needs to be something I've never done before
* It needs to be done within 24 hours
So, let's see if we can't a) give you something to talk about/laugh at (or with) and b) get involved in. All and any help/suggestions are welcome people!
The idiocy begins again tomorrow...
This will come as no great surprise to the vast majority of you but there are some of you who are perhaps new to the game that may not be aware of this fact. Maybe I've just been exceptionally good at hiding my idiotic light under the common sense bushel. Maybe you just don't give a shit. Either way, it's good for the truth to be out there.
Those of you who pay attention to my Facebook page (the hub of all things exciting and interesting in the world) will have seen me do a little thing called Project 366, with the idea being that I would post a different song, every day, for a year. This went relatively well - some songs were well received, others not so. There were days where it was tricky to pick anything because I wasn't in the mood and other days where I was flooded with inspiration. Some made me laugh, others made my cry. In any case, it was fun. A welcome distraction from the daily grind.
Of course, this has now ended and I feel a little bit of a void where it once was. So what to fill it with...? Well, gentle reader, this is where you come in...
Never one to rest on my ample laurels (and for laurels, read buttocks), I have decided to have a stab at something new. In fact, many things new. 365 things as it happens. Inspired by both a blog I came across when looking for songs on YouTube (http://www.theproject366things.blogspot.co.uk/) and the fact that when it comes to doing stupid things, I'm generally in favour of it, I am going to attempt to do 365 things that I have never done before in 2013.
At time of writing, I have compiled/stolen a list of 167 things that I can potentially do that I have never done before. Some of which are fairly bog standard, some of which won't mean anything to you but will give me some satisfaction and some will no doubt cause you to wet your pants with laughter. Let's face it, if you weren't going to gain some amusement at my expense, it wouldn't be anywhere near as much fun. It'd just be some dude doing stuff.
The rules are:
* It needs to be legal
* It needs to be achievable
* It needs to be something I've never done before
* It needs to be done within 24 hours
So, let's see if we can't a) give you something to talk about/laugh at (or with) and b) get involved in. All and any help/suggestions are welcome people!
The idiocy begins again tomorrow...
Sunday, 11 November 2012
"I saw the sign..."
I've been thinking a lot about signs recently.
I don't mean in terms of traffic signs or anything (although in retrospect, had I been thinking more about that then I wouldn't still be digging out chunks of pony from the engine block of my car...). More in terms of how we interpret occurences in our lives and whether or not we can derive any deeper meaning from them or whether or not these things are just random flashpoints that converge on our location at any given point and then pass us by without any more significance that the act itself.
A lot of this thinking has been down to reflecting on a few key decisions that I've made recently that have made a fairly big impact on my life and some of the weird things that have led me to making certain choices and instances that have occured after making said choices that have reinforced my belief that I have ultimately done what I think is best for me and my general state of well-being.
Funny that I should mention belief: I'm not overly religious, mainly on account of not seeing a whole lot of good come from it in terms of wars, etc. That being said, I can also see that for those people that do believe in "God" (whatever form he/she/it may come in), just having that belief can provide comfort and a feeling of belonging in what is increasingly becoming a more uncertain world, so who am I to take that away from anyone if it's not doing me any harm?
So then the question is what do I believe? I believe that something is out there, something that may or may not have my best interests at heart, something that is prepared to let me know when I'm doing something wrong but also prepared to offer me a little hope that I'm getting something right.
Whether it be some kind of bizzare flash-forward to a future that statistically could almost never happen and yet knowing that if that event ever took place then everything would come together, or whether it's reading what is ostensibly nothing more than a drunken Facebook post and instantly becoming clearer about the path you should take because regardless of where that came from, it makes perfect sense. It could even just be how you interpret being stuck behind a horse box on a journey home.
Ultimately, there could be nothing in any of these things and I'm looking for meaning in places there aren't any - however, given the recent run of weirdness that I have been experiencing, it would be foolish to discount the possibility that maybe there is something in the ether that favours a positive outcome and is working hard to that effect.
If nothing else, the fact that I got to reference Ace Of Base in the title of this latest piece of nonsense has made it all worthwhile...
I don't mean in terms of traffic signs or anything (although in retrospect, had I been thinking more about that then I wouldn't still be digging out chunks of pony from the engine block of my car...). More in terms of how we interpret occurences in our lives and whether or not we can derive any deeper meaning from them or whether or not these things are just random flashpoints that converge on our location at any given point and then pass us by without any more significance that the act itself.
A lot of this thinking has been down to reflecting on a few key decisions that I've made recently that have made a fairly big impact on my life and some of the weird things that have led me to making certain choices and instances that have occured after making said choices that have reinforced my belief that I have ultimately done what I think is best for me and my general state of well-being.
Funny that I should mention belief: I'm not overly religious, mainly on account of not seeing a whole lot of good come from it in terms of wars, etc. That being said, I can also see that for those people that do believe in "God" (whatever form he/she/it may come in), just having that belief can provide comfort and a feeling of belonging in what is increasingly becoming a more uncertain world, so who am I to take that away from anyone if it's not doing me any harm?
So then the question is what do I believe? I believe that something is out there, something that may or may not have my best interests at heart, something that is prepared to let me know when I'm doing something wrong but also prepared to offer me a little hope that I'm getting something right.
Whether it be some kind of bizzare flash-forward to a future that statistically could almost never happen and yet knowing that if that event ever took place then everything would come together, or whether it's reading what is ostensibly nothing more than a drunken Facebook post and instantly becoming clearer about the path you should take because regardless of where that came from, it makes perfect sense. It could even just be how you interpret being stuck behind a horse box on a journey home.
Ultimately, there could be nothing in any of these things and I'm looking for meaning in places there aren't any - however, given the recent run of weirdness that I have been experiencing, it would be foolish to discount the possibility that maybe there is something in the ether that favours a positive outcome and is working hard to that effect.
If nothing else, the fact that I got to reference Ace Of Base in the title of this latest piece of nonsense has made it all worthwhile...
Monday, 27 August 2012
Milestones and memories...
S'up people... greetings from the blogosphere.
Before anyone starts, I know I've not updated this in a while. I'm not a professional blogger so dry your eyes. I doubt the two followers have missed my input that much. They may have missed my sweet, sweet loving but to be honest, they aren't made of wood...
Anyway, enough of the homoeroticism (for at least 10 mins)... those of you who read my last post will know that I had good intentions of doing the Nottingham leg of the Men's Health 'Survival of the Fittest' this year in aid of the The Wayne Foundation. This isn't happening folks... my life has been nothing short of chaotic the past few months and I've lacked motivation for pretty much everything.
However, I WILL be doing the Manchester leg of aforementioned race on Sat Nov 3rd, this time for a charity a little closer to home (if you read this Jamie, The Wayne Foundation will get the next sponsored gig I do, promise!). The charity in question is the Willow Wood Hospice in Ashton. The reasons why will be immediately obvious to some, not so to others, so I guess some kind of explanation is in order.
There are two main motivations here. One is a burning desire to, with my 35th birthday looming, actually acheive something that is going to make a difference to someone's life. Admittedly, this will be a drop in the ocean but screw it - it's a step in the right direction. The other motivation is for a friend who benefitted greatly from the help and support that the Willow Wood Hospice gave them and while they sadly passed away last year, I've been planning for a while to put something into action and give a little something back and that opportunity has presented itself here.
Practically, this is a really dumb idea - I have essentially just under 10 weeks to get myself into some kind of shape to get this done and I'm already painfully aware that this is going to be damn hard work. Then again, when was anything worth while doing not hard work?
Your part, gentle readers, is twofold. I need your support and I need your money. Make no mistake, the second one is by far and away the main reason for this so don't be tight - chuck a few quid their way and stuff gets changed. I will however probably be suffering a fair bit over the next few weeks as I embark on this venture, so any encouragement, however small, will be much appreciated. I've set a target of £500 but I want more. I want to smash that target to pieces. Let's make it happen.
Sponsor me here: http://www.justgiving.com/Mikeediablo
I'm doing the hard part. Your part is easy. Get on it people.
Take it easy.
Peace.
Before anyone starts, I know I've not updated this in a while. I'm not a professional blogger so dry your eyes. I doubt the two followers have missed my input that much. They may have missed my sweet, sweet loving but to be honest, they aren't made of wood...
Anyway, enough of the homoeroticism (for at least 10 mins)... those of you who read my last post will know that I had good intentions of doing the Nottingham leg of the Men's Health 'Survival of the Fittest' this year in aid of the The Wayne Foundation. This isn't happening folks... my life has been nothing short of chaotic the past few months and I've lacked motivation for pretty much everything.
However, I WILL be doing the Manchester leg of aforementioned race on Sat Nov 3rd, this time for a charity a little closer to home (if you read this Jamie, The Wayne Foundation will get the next sponsored gig I do, promise!). The charity in question is the Willow Wood Hospice in Ashton. The reasons why will be immediately obvious to some, not so to others, so I guess some kind of explanation is in order.
There are two main motivations here. One is a burning desire to, with my 35th birthday looming, actually acheive something that is going to make a difference to someone's life. Admittedly, this will be a drop in the ocean but screw it - it's a step in the right direction. The other motivation is for a friend who benefitted greatly from the help and support that the Willow Wood Hospice gave them and while they sadly passed away last year, I've been planning for a while to put something into action and give a little something back and that opportunity has presented itself here.
Practically, this is a really dumb idea - I have essentially just under 10 weeks to get myself into some kind of shape to get this done and I'm already painfully aware that this is going to be damn hard work. Then again, when was anything worth while doing not hard work?
Your part, gentle readers, is twofold. I need your support and I need your money. Make no mistake, the second one is by far and away the main reason for this so don't be tight - chuck a few quid their way and stuff gets changed. I will however probably be suffering a fair bit over the next few weeks as I embark on this venture, so any encouragement, however small, will be much appreciated. I've set a target of £500 but I want more. I want to smash that target to pieces. Let's make it happen.
Sponsor me here: http://www.justgiving.com/Mikeediablo
I'm doing the hard part. Your part is easy. Get on it people.
Take it easy.
Peace.
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