Bucket List:
If you have access to HBO on demand you have a jem literal a couple push buttons away. I took the time to watch the Bucket List again this weekend and its one of those that gets me every time (much like Rudy, Remember the Titans, etc). If you haven't seen it I recommend you do you and your heart a favor. If you have and you are unsure about the film you are very cold on the inside and you need to take the following steps:
1. Drive to Reds house in DC
2. Go to a bar (preferably Bob's when he's working) and drink brown water for atleast three hours
3.Wake up and watch 'The Bucket List' with Red
To give you an idea of some of the witty banter that makes this film so appealing and down right hysterical I offer you an excert from the film:
Edward Cole (Jack):The sequel was like that. She never backed me on anything.
Carter Chambers (Morgan): The sequel????
Edward Cole: The second Mrs Edward Cole
Carter Chambers roles his eyes
Edward Cole: Hell, that woman hated me.
Carter Chambers: Maybe because you called her the sequel.
I guess I can turn this into a neat tip in two ways. The first is obvious...see the film and enjoy. Your welcome. The second is to urge you to make a bucket List. I know we are all young and down right good looking but this doesn't have to be something you do when you are forced to share a hospital room with Morgan Freeman because your ill as a mug ("Two beds to a room, no exceptions"). In fact, I think I have had sort of a mental bucket list in my head for some time. Ive crossed some off as of late (own a tux, run a road race, etc) but theres obviously bigger things I would like to tackle. To get you started and to give you an example I took ten minutes and wrote one of my own. I am not afraid to share.
1. Attend a Final Four (Huskies)
2. play a round of golf with my pops
3. a trip to Europe (anywhere at this point, I have no idea how that continent alludes me)
3. read Infinite Jest
4.watch the Hokies when a NCAA football title (I have little power in making this happen but if hope was a blunt then we would all be high)
5.publish something
6. teach something
7. Attend a Yankee playoff game (preferably the WS)
8. Learn the piano or guitar just a touch more
9.Learn to cook a mean something
10. In an effort of full disclosure....I have seen large sections of the Bucket List many many times. I have not, however, seen the entire film front to back. So numero ten on my bucket list is, cleverly enough, to see the Bucket List the way it was suppossed to be watched...from the beginning to the end.
So, check check check it. And if you don't feel inspired by the film, or find the premise contrived, or whatever makes you not "get it' you still get to see a much put out Jack tell a full courtroom with a straight face..."I gave up LUNCH with MICHELLE PFIEFER to be here." Worth the price of admission alone. Mug.
6 comments:
my former list included watching movies with red while borrowing his fubu sweats, but that was prior to the camel hair blazer incident. now, only two tears remain in my bucket...
Enrique stole my FUBU sweats in the great heist of 1999 which included leather coats, primitive digital cameras, checkbooks, and heady trees.
My bucket list includes, but not limited to the following:
1) Spend a year of my life (while young) not working.
2) europe, africa, south america, china, nepal, etc
3) Hit a homerun in a major league ball park
4) Learn to fly and own my own prop
5) Live in a penthouse in an extremely tall building for atleast 6 months
6) Drive a Bugatti Veyron on a closed track
7) Go to outerspace
8) Go to the Masters
9) Attend our 4th superbowl victory
10) Ride a motercycle across the county with my brother.
A work in progress....
I would like to add to my buck buck list.....
-Spend as much time with JMill, Prince, Red, Bob, Gut, Ted, Ty, Ed, AA, B, Nick, Treeeeeech, Reed, etc etc and their significant others (where applicable) as possible.
And get in on that motorcycle ride across the country!
1. Lose 20lbs
2. Have people stop liking me for my brains and start liking me for my body.
3. Make my own music video starring only cats.
4. Win that god forsaken Mega Millions, and not with a small pot either, a biggie...alone.
5. Meet the infamous Enrique.
6. Invent Doritos that are good for you and taste as delicious as the original.
7. Find a way to never use the NYC public transit system again. ever.
8. Have a plant that doesn't die.
9. Write the next great American novel.
10. Buy a vineyard in France.
1. heli-board in alaska
2. compete in nba all star weekend (3 point shootout)
3. NYUPBL winter league title
4. record long awaited acupulco gold greatest hits album, the avingion papacy.
5. ireland
6. poland
7. own bar
8. publish book of short stories
9. coach RYBL
10. hole in one
1. get this baby boy miller out of me with minimum pain and a healthy and happy mommy and baby.
2. that's about all I can think of at this moment...to be continued...
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