Summer Bucket List

My to-do list for summer. I'll add to this as I think of more things.

Primary Goals (in no particular order):

• GRADUATE UCLA IN FOUR YEARS
• Become less depressed, get a better grasp on emotions.
• Find a video internship.
• Write a novella.
• Make a short film. (Completed August 2, 2013)
• Learn a programming language (Java)
• Learn how to write an SEO article.
• Learn basic/intermediate Japanese.
• Become less socially awkward.
• Figure out my common dream signs.
• Successfully induce a lucid dream.
• Send something to space.

Secondary Goals:

• Learn how to write good essays under time pressure. (Completed May 6, 2015, Thanks Mrs. DJ!)
• Prepare for SATs. (Completed November 2, 2013
• Restart my Minecraft server. (Completed June 12, 2013)
• Get better at origami.
• Learn how to freestyle rap.
• Learn how to ride a unicycle.
• Beat Assassin's Creed III.
• Make a flipbook. (Kinda completed at Read Across America, February 28, 2014)
• Beat Pokemon White/Pokemon White II.
• Learn how to solve a Rubik's Cube.
• Make an Ezio costume.
• Relearn cursive.
• Write neater.
• Run an entire roll of aluminum foil through a paper shredder in one beautiful continuous shred.
• Buy nicer clothes to wear. (Completed August 25, 2013)
• Shrink my backpack size. (Completed August 11, 2013)

Movies to Watch:

• Les Miserables
• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Completed January 11, 2014)
• Schindler's List
• Citizen Kane
• Microcosmos
• Vertigo
• Once
• Blackfish (Completed December 28, 2013)
• Cloud Atlas (Completed August 10, 2013)
• Psycho
• 11:14 (Completed May 25, 2014)
• Come and See
• Threads
• Pulp Fiction (Completed June 26, 2014)
• My Name is Khan
• Watership Down
• The Amazing Spider Man 2 (Completed August 3, 2014)
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Completed August 3, 2014)
• Kung Fu Hustle
• Divergent
• The Notebook
• Across the Universe (Completed May 26, 2015)
• (500) Days of Summer (Completed May 15, 2014)
• Her (Completed April 16, 2014)
• Every single Hayao Miyazaki film (except for Spirited Away, which I saw a long time ago)
• Howl's Moving Castle
• Princess Mononoke
• My Neighbor Totoro
• The Wind Rises
• Castle in the Sky
• Ponyo
• Kiki's Delivery Service
• Porco Rosso
• The Castle of Cagliostro
• Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
• Juno
• Tangled
• The Poughkeepsie Tapes (Regretfully completed March 29, 2014)
• The Pirate Bay: Away From Keyboard
• Akira
• Colorful
• Wasting Away [A.K.A. "Aaah! Zombies!!"]
• The Realms of the Unreal
• The Curse
• The Hidden Face (Completed May 23, 2014)
• Colorful
• Stoker
• The God Delusion
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• Frozen (Completed March 2, 2014)
• Suspiria
• The Exorcist
• It
• Lord of Tears
• A Town Called Panic
• Death of a Superhero (Completed August 13, 2013)
• Star Trek Into Darkness (Completed June 16, 2013)
• Kick Ass
• Pacific Rim (Completed August 14, 2013)
• The Wolverine (Completed December 27, 2013)
• Contact
• That's Cunning! Shijo Saidai no Sakusen?
• American Zombie
• Perks of Being a Wallflower (Completed September 5, 2014)
• Celeste and Jesse Forever
• The Star Wars Trilogy
• Blue Valentine (Deleted because Samantha says it sucks)
• Never Let Me Go
• The Thin Blue Line
• Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Completed March 14, 2014)
• Shaun of the Dead (Completed November 28, 2013)
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Life of Pi (Completed January 15, 2014)
• Safety Not Guaranteed
• Mama
• Dark Skies (Completed June 7, 2014)
• Man of Steel (Completed November 10, 2013)
• The Great Gatsby
• Crawlspace
• Trainspotting
• Black Dynamite
• Death of a Shadow
• 50/50
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Completed May 17, 2014)
• Idiocracy (Completed March 22, 2015)

Books to Read:

• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Finished March 13, 2015)
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
• Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
• Tricks of the Mind by Derren Brown
• No Safety in Numbers by Dayna Lorentz
• The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
• This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz (Canceled because I read half of it and figured out it wasn't a great book)
• High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
• Anathem by Neal Stephenson
• World War Z by Max Brooks (reread)
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
• Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff
• The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Dark Tales by H. P. Lovecraft
• The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
• Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (reread)
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller