Item 12: See a new film every week for a year

I am not going to explain what I need to do for this task because it is obvious.

If you have some problem understanding this then ask someone you know what it would mean for someone to see a new film every week for one year. If you still don't get it then write down what they said, and at the bottom write "Someone I know explained your fifth task and I found it difficult to understand!", sign and print your name and then hide it under your mattress. I will be around to collect them next week.

This week: Borat

I'll kick off this task with a brutal tour de-force of docu-hilarity courtesy of Saschkchshkchccha Baron Cohen.

Verdict: It was awesome.

Fuck Johnathan Ross - Reviews like this are all you need. Perhaps in future I will apply a little more patience into my critiques but until then you will have to be happy with one word reviews - or look elsewhere

Warning: this post may contain strong language.

The List

This is Draft 3. 40 things to do before I am 40. The previous version can be seen in it's last state here:

http://richlbaker.blogspot.com/2012/02/5-year-anniversary.html

COMPLETED

1. Go to Edinburgh fringe festival
2. Donate to charity
3. Learn to Ski
4. Grow my hair
5. Learn to Write my Name in Japanese
6. Do some good
7.  Host my own website with a domain for more than a year
8.  Learn how many days are in each Month
9. Write a letter to the government
10. Bet £50 on black
11. Shoot a gun
12. Get a new nickname 
13. Give up smoking for ever (I'm sneaking this in & I dont care. It's my list)

TODO:

1. Run any Marathon
2. Drive coast to coast in America
3. Try to get a book published 
4. Brew my own beer
5. Be an extra in a movie
6. Read ten novels that have won the booker prize 
7. Go travelling = backpack for more than a month
8. Earn over £500 on ebay 
9. go on 10 bike rides that last for more than an hour, and take a picture
10. ride the transsiberian express
11. visit the great wall
12. visit the taj mahal
13. lift 80kg on a bar
14. learn Russian
15. save £10000
16. learn to play 10 songs on a guitar
17. Go to oktoberfest
18. Get married
19. Go to the top of the empire state building
20. Go scuba diving
21. Write and perform a song
22. Buy my whole family a meal
23. Travel to another country by bike
24. Befriend a complete stranger
25. Do a handstand push up
26. Go to a gym in a foreign country
27. Do a stand up set

About the List

I now have a new list, and I will post it here momentarily. I have also decided to back it up elsewhere a bunch of times and make a hard copy and... carve it onto my leg I guess. That way I will have no excuse but to keep trying to complete the tasks.

This list is not the same as the June 06 list for two main reasons. The first is that I have forgotten a few entries. The other is that awesome as that list was, a few of the tasks were... not... shit but... well... slightly rubbishy. So I have endeavoured to upgrade the brilliance of the tasks. i am sure you'll agree the tasks are now brilliant.

Don't agree? ***k you then.

I ought to point out that a couple of them have been done already. That is because I have the still have the cool images from before, Just like the my-name-is-rick telly (above).

So without further ado....