Ian Soper in 2006

2006 was 95% worth living.

In 2005, Ian Soper did 6 things, went 25 places, met 1 person, and consumed 561 products.

Years: 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov

January

Added to 43 Places:
  1. Grand Canyon National Park
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. jsmit6ke
Listened to:
  1. Try! John Mayer Trio Live in Concert
Watched:
  1. Napoleon Dynamite — Worth consuming!

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February

Read:
  1. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth — Worth consuming!
  2. The Man Called CASH : The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend — Worth consuming!
  3. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Live in Tokyo — Worth consuming!
  2. Frances the Mute — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Name of the Rose — Worth consuming!
  2. Maria Full of Grace — Not worth consuming
  3. Spanglish — Worth consuming!
  4. Cool Hand Luke — Worth consuming!

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Build a PVR using Mac Mini and EyeToy 200
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Start an incarnate Church community — Worth doing!
  2. Get a Mac — Worth doing!
  3. get a laptop — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Wireframe a website design
  2. Get a Tablet PC
Added to 43 Places:
  1. California — visited 4 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Illinois
  2. Indiana
  3. Kansas
  4. Kentucky
  5. Michigan
  6. Missouri
  7. New York State
  8. Ohio
  9. Oregon
  10. Pennsylvania
  11. West Virginia
  12. Florida
  13. Maryland
  14. Europe
  15. North America
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. lostandsearching
Read:
  1. The Catcher in the Rye
  2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  3. A Wrinkle in Time
  4. To Kill a Mockingbird
  5. Animal Farm
Listened to:
  1. Achtung Baby — Worth consuming!
  2. Zooropa
  3. The Joshua Tree — Worth consuming!
  4. Ten
  5. Kind of Blue
  6. Automatic for the People
  7. The Bends
  8. Nevermind
  9. August and Everything After
  10. Weezer (Blue Album)
  11. XO
  12. Bitches Brew
  13. The Soft Bulletin
  14. London Calling — Worth consuming!
  15. Pet Sounds — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)
  2. Psycho (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. Army of Darkness — Worth consuming!
  4. Fletch
  5. The Royal Tenenbaums (The Criterion Collection)
  6. Batman
  7. The Manchurian Candidate
  8. Annie Hall — Worth consuming!
  9. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  10. Duck Soup — Worth consuming!
  11. A Fish Called Wanda
  12. His Girl Friday
  13. Rushmore
  14. Raising Arizona — Worth consuming!
  15. Office Space (Widescreen Edition)
Consumed:
  1. Cheesecake
  2. Pasta
  3. Steak
  4. Grilled cheese sandwich
  5. Thai Cuisine
  6. Ice cream
  7. Chicago Style Pizza
  8. Crab
  9. Barbecues
  10. A Pancake

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April

Read:
  1. The Great Gatsby
Listened to:
  1. Drunkard's Prayer — Worth consuming!
  2. The Diary of Alicia Keys — Worth consuming!
  3. Winter Pays for Summer — Worth consuming!
  4. Late Registration — Worth consuming!
  5. Explorations — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Standing In The Shadows of Motown — Worth consuming!
  2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Widescreen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  3. The Weather Man (Full Screen Edition)
  4. The Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Widescreen Edition)

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May

Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Build a PVR using Mac Mini and EyeToy 200
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Denver — visited 2 months later
  2. Colorado Springs — visited 2 months later
Read:
  1. Walking on Water — Worth consuming!
  2. A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey — Worth consuming!
  3. Intruding upon the Timeless: Meditations on Art, Faith, and Mystery — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Illinoise — Worth consuming!
  2. New Favorite
  3. Mind Is Not Brain — Worth consuming!
  4. Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lake State — Worth consuming!
  5. Relayer — Worth consuming!
  6. Our Endless Numbered Days
  7. Riot on an Empty Street — Worth consuming!
  8. Capote — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Crimes and Misdemeanors — Worth consuming!
  2. The Sting — Worth consuming!
  3. Sleeper — Not worth consuming
  4. The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. The Adventures of Indiana Jones - The Complete DVD Movie Collection (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. Chariots of Fire (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. Crash (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. Rocky — Worth consuming!
  9. Proof
  10. Good Night, and Good Luck (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  11. Bee Season
  12. Fun With Dick & Jane (2005) (UMD Mini for PSP)
  13. Invisible Children: Rough Cut

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June

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. take a hot air balloon ride — Worth doing!

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July

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. make better use of basecamp — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. open a cafe/bookstore/gallery
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Colorado — Worth visiting!
  2. California — Worth visiting!
  3. District of Columbia — Worth visiting!
  4. New Jersey
Read:
  1. Fear and Trembling (Penguin Classics)
  2. The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library)
  3. The Book of Job
Watched:
  1. L.A. Confidential
  2. Run Lola Run — Worth consuming!
  3. The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (Widescreen Edition)
  4. Chasing Amy - Criterion Collection
  5. Lawrence of Arabia (Limited Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. Say Anything — Worth consuming!
  7. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  8. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  9. Garden State — Worth consuming!
  10. Strictly Ballroom
  11. Bowling for Columbine
  12. X2 - X-Men United (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
  13. Ed Wood (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  14. Spellbound — Worth consuming!
  15. Mystic River (Widescreen Edition)

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August

Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Denver — Worth visiting!
  2. Colorado Springs — Not worth visiting
Listened to:
  1. Grace — Worth consuming!
  2. Dulcinea — Worth consuming!
  3. Tigerlily
  4. OK Computer — Worth consuming!
  5. MTV Unplugged in New York (Nirvana) — Worth consuming!
  6. Figure 8 — Worth consuming!
  7. Parachutes — Worth consuming!
  8. Rockin' the Suburbs — Worth consuming!
  9. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot — Worth consuming!
  10. Garden State
  11. From a Basement on the Hill
  12. X&Y
  13. In Between Dreams
  14. Guero — Worth consuming!
  15. De-Loused in the Comatorium
Watched:
  1. Blade Runner (The Director's Cut) — Worth consuming!
  2. Bridget Jones's Diary
  3. Solaris - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  4. A Streetcar Named Desire (Original Director's Version) — Worth consuming!
  5. Big Kahuna — Worth consuming!
  6. Sleepless in Seattle
  7. The Apostle — Worth consuming!
  8. Broken Flowers
  9. Reality Bites
  10. The Empire Strikes Back — Worth consuming!
  11. The Squid and the Whale (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  12. Platoon — Worth consuming!
  13. Tristram Shandy - A Cock and Bull Story

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September

Watched:
  1. Bottle Rocket — Worth consuming!
  2. Big
  3. Murderball
  4. Yesterday
  5. Transamerica (Widescreen Edition)

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October

Added to 43 Things:
  1. start a non-profit media arts school for disadvantaged youth — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Get new business cards — Worth doing!
Listened to:
  1. Either/Or — Worth consuming!
  2. Chutes Too Narrow — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection
  2. Monty Python's Life of Brian - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  3. American History X — Worth consuming!
  4. Amadeus - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. Signs (Vista Series) — Worth consuming!
  6. Stevie — Worth consuming!
  7. The Ten Commandments (Special Collector's Edition)
  8. Joseph - King of Dreams
  9. Life Is Beautiful — Worth consuming!
  10. The Benny Goodman Story
  11. Escape from Sobibor — Worth consuming!
  12. An American Tail
  13. Paper Clips — Worth consuming!
  14. Lord of War [Blu-ray] — Worth consuming!
  15. Napoleon Dynamite — Worth consuming!

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November

Watched:
  1. Raging Bull (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Capote
  3. Disney's The Rescuers
  4. Thumbsucker
  5. Paper Clips
  6. The Sword in the Stone
  7. V for Vendetta (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!

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