Mayol in 2008

2008, so far, is 86% worth living.

In 2005, Mayol did 392 things, went 68 places, met 257 people, and consumed 1439 products.

Years: 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul

January

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. run a 10 minute mile
  2. do the laundry
  3. load a dishwasher
  4. take a good photograph
  5. make a bed
  6. cook fluffy rice
  7. Pack a suitcase
  8. Push all the buttons in the elevator
  9. Play the Nintendo Wii
  10. borrow some money
  11. get my passport
  12. play soccer again on a team
  13. learn a whole new language
  14. finish school
  15. write letters
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Kiruna — visited 4 months later
  2. León — visited 5 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Colmar
  2. Cannes
  3. Elche
  4. Zamora
  5. Malaga
  6. A Coruña
  7. Como
  8. Rimini
  9. Sion
  10. Stresa
  11. Augsburg
  12. Passau
  13. Freiburg Im Breisgau
  14. Koblenz
  15. Potsdam
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Jean-Pierre Melville
Read:
  1. Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)
  2. Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Penguin Classics)
  3. Les Miserables (Penguin Classics)
  4. The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
  5. The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Modern Classics)
  6. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: And Other Tales of Terror (Penguin Classics)
  7. To the Lighthouse
  8. At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
  9. The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library Classics)
  10. Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
  11. The Divine Comedy
  12. The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh
  13. Canterbury Tales (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
  14. The Complete Stories (Everyman's Library)
  15. The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library)
Listened to:
  1. Simon & Garfunkel - Greatest Hits
Watched:
  1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Fiddler on the Roof
  3. It Happened One Night
  4. Ringu
  5. Cheaper by the Dozen
  6. Now and Then
  7. Without a Trace - The Complete First Season
  8. Gungrave - The Complete Boxed Set
  9. Earth Girls Are Easy
  10. Holes (Widescreen Edition)
  11. Wings of Desire
  12. The Sure Thing
  13. Billy Madison
  14. The Basketball Diaries
  15. Witch Hunter Robin: Complete Collection
Consumed:
  1. chocolate chip cookies
  2. scrambled eggs
  3. French Toast
  4. Coffee
  5. Vegetables
  6. Pilsner Urquell
  7. guacamole
  8. Hot Chocolate
  9. Cereal
  10. Spring rolls
  11. boiled eggs on toast
  12. fried rice
  13. Avocado
  14. Juice
  15. porridge
Consumed:
  1. Super Mario World
  2. Super Mario Bros.
  3. What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong (single)
  4. chromosome
  5. epiphany
  6. equinox
  7. euro
  8. hegemony
  9. hypotenuse
  10. incognito
  11. infrastructure
  12. laissez faire
  13. metamorphosis
  14. mitosis
  15. nonsectarian

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February

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Dance around the living room naked
  2. Inconvience yourself to do something nice for someone
  3. Dress in something silly and laugh at yourself
  4. Listen to a type of music that you don't normally listen to
  5. Make a list of the fun things already completed, then admire how long the list is
  6. Make a long list of things to do for people to read. Oh snap
  7. Plan a journey
  8. Sing
  9. play card games
  10. make calls
  11. People Watch
  12. crepe du jour
  13. buy a useless electrical appliance
  14. have oreos and milk together
  15. sneak out the house at night and go for a walk
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Bruges
  2. The Glacier Express
  3. Festung Ehrenbreitstein
  4. Wales
  5. Swiss Alps
  6. St. Peter's Square
  7. Casa Buonarroti
  8. Venus
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Tim Burton
  2. mel brooks
  3. Martin Scorcese
  4. David Fincher
  5. Leo McCarey
  6. Robert Flaherty
  7. Michael Mann
  8. John Schlessinger
Read:
  1. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
  2. The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Gulag Archipelago)
  3. The Illiad
  4. The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings
  5. Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman (Modern Library Classics)
  6. Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions)
  7. Pride and Prejudice (Barnes & Noble Classics)
  8. The Turn of the Screw & In the Cage (Modern Library Classics)
  9. The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics)
  10. A Christmas Carol and Other Stories (Modern Library Classics)
  11. The Stand
  12. Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told
  13. A Tale of Two Cities (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)
  14. Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave DVD
  15. Collected Poems 1920-1954: Revised Bilingual Edition
Listened to:
  1. ATLiens
  2. Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue/Cuban Overture/Porgy and Bess Suite/An American in Paris
  3. Johann Christian Bach: Quintets, Op. 11
  4. Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7
  5. Johann Strauss I Edition, Vol. 1
  6. Mozart: The Violin Concertos; Sinfonia Concertante
  7. Don't Look Away
  8. Verdi: La Traviata
  9. Pocket Full of Sunshine
  10. Don't Look Away
  11. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (complete) / Symphony No. 4 (complete)
Watched:
  1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  2. Duck Soup
  3. Meet The Fockers (Widescreen Edition)
  4. Death in Venice
  5. Starsky & Hutch (Widescreen Edition)
  6. Good Bye, Lenin!
  7. The Transporter
  8. All That Heaven Allows - Criterion Collection
  9. Grand Illusion - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  10. Dreamscape
  11. Red (Three Colors Trilogy)
  12. The Dukes of Hazzard (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
  13. Days of Heaven
  14. Ginger Snaps
  15. Robert Rodriguez Mexico Trilogy (El Mariachi / Desperado / Once Upon A Time In Mexico)
Consumed:
  1. Gin and Tonic
  2. Oatmeal
  3. Sangria
  4. Angel Hair Pasta Butter and Herbs
  5. Pizza
  6. Taquitos
  7. Barley
  8. Cumin
  9. Rue
  10. Sycamore Fruit
  11. Millet
  12. Green Apples
  13. Darjeeling
  14. gravenstein apples
Consumed:
  1. Dior
  2. Georgio Armani
  3. Versace
  4. Bally
  5. Gianni Versace
  6. Tetris
  7. Street Fighter Anniversary Edition for Xbox
  8. Pac-Man Vs
  9. Lone Star
  10. Super Mario Galaxy
  11. Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl

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March

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Remember other people's birthdays
  2. Always accept an outstretched hand
  3. Admit your mistakes
  4. Look people in the eye
  5. Say "thank you" a lot
  6. Say ¨please¨a lot
  7. Be the first to say ¨Hello¨
  8. Be a student in some kind of class
  9. Treat everyone you meet like you want to be treated
  10. make new friends but cherish the old ones
  11. keep secrets
  12. Show respect for police officers and firefighters
  13. Show respect for teachers
  14. paddle a canoe
  15. drink 8 glasses of water in one day to help with my goal of drinking more water
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. München — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Wes Anderson
  2. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
  3. Alejandro Amenábar
  4. John Waters
  5. Michel Gondry
  6. Peter Jackson
  7. Lars Von Trier
  8. Terry Gilliam
  9. Pedro Almodóvar
  10. Luc Besson
  11. Richard Linklater
  12. Lasse Hallstrom
  13. Cameron Crowe
  14. Michael Moore
  15. Jim Jarmusch
Read:
  1. The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
  2. David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
  3. The Republic (Penguin Classics)
  4. Animal Farm (Penguin Modern Classics)
  5. Siddhartha (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
  6. The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin Classics)
  7. Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
  8. Fathers and Sons (Oxford World's Classics)
  9. Faust: Part One (Oxford World's Classic)
  10. The Mahabharata
  11. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics) — Worth consuming!
  12. The Sound and the Fury (Norton Critical Editions)
  13. Growth of the Soil
  14. Animal Farm
  15. Beowulf (Signet Classics)
Listened to:
  1. Breathe — Worth consuming!
  2. The Reason — Worth consuming!
  3. A Thousand Miles — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Open Your Eyes
  2. 8 1/2 - Criterion Collection
  3. Smoke
  4. Porco Rosso
  5. Sideways (Widescreen Edition)
  6. This Is Spinal Tap (Special Edition)
  7. Audition (Unrated) (Ws Dir Sub)
  8. The Bicycle Thief
  9. Three Colors Trilogy (Blue / White / Red)
  10. Slaughterhouse Five
  11. This Is Spinal Tap - Criterion Collection
  12. Wallace & Gromit in Three Amazing Adventures
  13. The Incredible Adventures of Wallace and Gromit
  14. The Passion of Joan of Arc - Criterion Collection
  15. The Cat Returns
Consumed:
  1. Wasabi
  2. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
  3. fried plantains — Not worth consuming
  4. Curve Ball Kolsch Beer
  5. Turkish Delight (Turkish Lokum)
  6. Amstel (Netherlands)
  7. Mahou (Spain)
  8. coffee milk
  9. Fruit Chips
  10. nachos
  11. Diet Pepsi
  12. malt balls
  13. butter tarts
  14. Lemon Martini
Consumed:
  1. bmw
  2. Yes, Minister
  3. Fawlty Towers
  4. Mercedes-Benz
  5. Absolutely Fabulous
  6. cabrio
  7. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
  8. Blackadder
  9. Fiat
  10. Jaguar
  11. Volkswagen
  12. Renault
  13. Citroen
  14. Opel
  15. Manta

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April

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Temperance: Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
  2. Frugality: Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
  3. Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
  4. Moderation: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
  5. Humility: Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
  6. TO281:- Royal Observatory
  7. Own a Pointless Collection
  8. In Various Languages, Learn to say...
  9. go on a demonstration
  10. to finish school
  11. meet someone famous before they are famous
  12. travel all over the world
  13. fall in love and fall out of love.
  14. have a bad haircut
  15. eat a tub of ice cream
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Lindau
  2. St. Paul's Cathedral
  3. Campo Santa Margherita
  4. Gamla Stan
  5. La Rambla
  6. Viktualienmarkt
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. King Vidor
  2. Alexander Dovzhenko
Read:
  1. Iliad and Odyssey boxed set
  2. The Scarlet Letter (Enriched Classics)
  3. Daredevil Legends Vol. II: Born Again
  4. Hellboy Volume 2: Wake the Devil - NEW EDITION! (Hellboy (Graphic Novels))
  5. Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan
  6. The Book of Job
  7. Giacomo Leopardi: Poems Translated With an Introduction by Arturo Vivante
  8. The Song of Rama: Visions of the Ramayana
  9. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Dover Thrift Editions)
  10. Chekhov: Selected Stories
  11. Fantastic Four, Vol. 2
  12. Pride and Prejudice (Enriched Classics)
  13. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Literary Touchstone
  14. Castle, The : A new translation based on the restored text
  15. Greek Gods and Heroes
Listened to:
  1. Like a Prayer
  2. All the Things She Said
  3. Push It
  4. Believe
  5. Beautiful
  6. Cry Me a River
  7. Stacy's Mom
  8. Regulate...G Funk Era
  9. One
  10. Independent Women, Pt. 1
  11. Come as You Are — Worth consuming!
  12. Stan
  13. Fallin'
  14. Everybody Hurts, Part 1 — Worth consuming!
  15. Smells Like Teen Spirit
Watched:
  1. The Fly /The Fly 2
  2. Quadrophenia (Special Edition)
  3. Kind Hearts and Coronets
  4. Splash
  5. Pauline at the Beach
  6. Mildred Pierce (Snap case)
  7. White (Three Colors Trilogy)
  8. Shadow of a Doubt
  9. Dial M for Murder
  10. Scrooged
  11. Ball of Fire
  12. How Green Was My Valley
  13. Walkabout - Criterion Collection
  14. Police Academy
  15. Topsy-Turvy
Consumed:
  1. Merlot
  2. Tomato Gravy
  3. Pistachio Ice Cream
Consumed:
  1. I Wanna Dance With Somebody - Whitney Houston (single)
  2. Stan - Eminem
  3. Tender Trap (1955)
  4. Dancing On The Ceiling - Lionel Ritchie (single)
  5. Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U (single)
  6. Kelly Clarkson - Because of you (single)
  7. A Thousand Miles Away (single)
  8. Is This Love - Bob Marley — Worth consuming!
  9. I'm Still Standing - Elton John (single)
  10. High and Dry - Radiohead (song)
  11. Europe - The Final Countdown (single)
  12. Faith No More - Stripsearch
  13. Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye (single)
  14. Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits (song)
  15. One - Metallica (single)

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May

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. learn Germany
  2. fall in love with a girl
  3. Read a book in one day.
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Kiruna
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  2. Andy Warhol
  3. Nanni Moretti
  4. Andrzej Wajda
  5. Mike Leigh
Read:
  1. One Hundred Years of Solitude
  2. Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All
  3. 1984 (Signet Classics)
  4. Slaughterhouse-five;: Or, The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death
  5. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
  6. The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran Pocket Library Series)
  7. The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
  8. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
  9. Frankenstein (Signet Classics (Paperback))
  10. Dracula (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Hardcover)
  11. Sons and Lovers (Signet Classics)
  12. The Sorrows of Young Werther
  13. Dubliners
  14. Memoirs of a Geisha
  15. Pride and Prejudice (Vintage Classics)
Watched:
  1. Cowboy Bebop - The Movie
  2. The Battle of Algiers
  3. The General
  4. The Best Years of Our Lives
  5. Laura
  6. Dawn of the Dead - The Original Director's Cut (Collector's Edition)
  7. Sid & Nancy
  8. Wild Things
  9. Clerks (Collector's Series)
  10. Yankee Doodle Dandy (Two-Disc Special Edition)
  11. Gilda
  12. Carlito's Way
  13. Spiderman
  14. Airport 1975
  15. Gunga Din

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June

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. fluently speak another language
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. León
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Theo Angelopoulos
Read:
  1. Angels & Demons
Watched:
  1. Underworld (Unrated Extended Cut)
  2. The Nightmare on Elm Street Collection
  3. Marty
  4. Pierrot Le Fou
  5. Ulysses' Gaze
  6. Friday the 13th - From Crystal Lake to Manhattan (8 Movies)
  7. Menace II Society
  8. Mimic
  9. Kind Hearts and Coronets - Criterion Collection
  10. Joy Ride
  11. Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel
  12. Demon Seed
  13. The Ladykillers
  14. Blade Runner - The Definitive Cut
  15. Jeepers Creepers (2001)

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July

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. travel by plane
  2. see atleast one thing that is "the world's largest"
  3. take a risk
  4. travel to a foreign country
  5. Eat something that looks weird
  6. Register to vote & actually vote
  7. Learn to be independent
  8. Sneak into a club
  9. graduate from college with honors
  10. make new friends and be a better friend to those who put up with me
  11. Backpack in Europe
  12. understand what religion means to me
  13. go to church more
  14. Pay off all my debts and be able to say 'I am debt free!'
  15. overcome my fear of heights
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Hunter Stockton Thompson
  2. Fyodor Dostoevsky
  3. Rainer Maria Rilke
  4. Sylvia Plath
  5. Elias Canetti
  6. henry miller
  7. Howard Phillips Lovecraft
  8. George Orwell
  9. Aleksandr Pushkin
  10. Juan Ramón Jiménez
  11. François Mauriac
  12. John le Carré
  13. Donald Barthelme
  14. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  15. graham Greene
Read:
  1. Quo Vadis
  2. Effi Briest (Penguin Classics)
  3. At the Mountains of Madness: The Definitive Edition (Modern Library Classics)
  4. The Fall of the House of Usher
  5. Père Goriot (Oxford World's Classics Series)
  6. Dead Souls (Dover Thrift ed) — Not worth consuming
  7. The Last of the Mohicans (Barnes & Noble Classics)
  8. A Woman's Life
  9. Around the World in Eighty Days (Signet Classics)
  10. The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (New York Review Books Classics)
  11. La Bete Humaine
  12. The Hobbit
  13. LA Celestina
  14. From Russia with Love (Penguin Modern Classics)
  15. Platero y yo / Platero and I
Watched:
  1. Diabolique - Criterion Collection
  2. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
  3. Goldeneye (Special Edition)
  4. Bambi (Two-Disc Special Edition)
  5. Open Water (Widescreen Edition)
  6. Breaking the Waves
  7. What's New Pussycat
  8. Scaramouche
  9. Boiling Point
  10. Little Buddha
  11. Once Upon a Time in China Part 2
  12. New York, New York
  13. Airport (Full Screen Edition)
  14. Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express
  15. Nightwatch
Consumed:
  1. Newcastle Brown Ale
  2. Newcastle Brown Ale
  3. Löwenbräu Premium Pils
  4. Oranjeboom (Netherlands)
  5. Newcastle Brown (UK)
Consumed:
  1. eBay
  2. http://www.myspace.com
  3. http://www.listsofbests.com
  4. http://www.43things.com
  5. http://www.amazon.com
  6. http://www.youtube.com/
  7. bed
  8. http://www.thefacebook.com
  9. WarGames
  10. Breathless (1983)
  11. Vanya on 42nd Street
  12. dorm room

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