• Don Draper - Mad Men
• Marlon Brando - Stanley Kowalski
• James Dean - Rebel Without a Cause / East of Eden
• Gene Kelly - Singin in the Rain
• Old Spice man
• Brad Pitt - Troy
• Christian Bale - American Psycho
• Robert de Niro - Taxi Driver
• Justin Bieber
• big bang?
• Zayn

• I do not want to be your weeping woman - Alison Boordson
• If You Forget Me - Pablo Neruda
• Don't Go Far Off - Pablo Neruda
• I Loved You - Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
• I Cry - Tupac Shakur

• inform bank I will be using my card abroad
• get travel adaptor (or 2)
• get laptop
• get camera
• decide whether smartphone / getting mobile phone when in Japan
• make Heisig anki deck of kanji learnt
• make anki deck of vocab from lessons + N4/N3
• receive Fukuoka welcome pack
• get Certificate of Eligibility from Leeds University and go to Japanese Embassy in London to get student visa
• look into prepaid cards / using debit card abroad, see which is cheaper option
• complete checklist of what to bring with me
• complete compilation of Japanese recipes / ingredients list
• start blog

• recalcitrance = the trait of being unmanageable
• vacillation = hesitation, indecision in speech or action
• heteroglossia = the coexistence of distinct varieties within a single "linguistic code". In Greek hetero = different + glōssa = tongue, language
• eschatology = The part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind.
• protean = Tending or able to change frequently or easily.
• alexithymia = absence of words to describe emotional states

• watch at least 10,000 films
• compose a symphony
• write and compose a popular song
• save someone's life
• participate in a flash mob/dance
• dye hair a colour other than black
• let someone be my hero
• muster the courage to let someone go
• be able to use varied film quotes in everyday conversation
• star in a film
• direct a film
• win an oscar
• watch a re-released version of an old classic in the theatre to RELIVE THE MOMENT
• write a book
• build something practical to everyday life
• complete a marathon
• be able to do 100 consecutive push ups
• visit Japan

• John Williams
• Hans Zimmer
• John Williams
• Mozart
• John Williams

• Eagle vs Shark
  • "She's a lizbian she went to a lizbian party." "Typical."
  • "She's an orphan, like Oliver Twist."
  • "Do you wanna have six?"
• Marlon Brando
  • "You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contenda. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it."
  • "WE HAVE TO LAASH IT TO SOMETHING!"
  • "Can't you see me with the cows?"
  • "Horror has a face, and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and mortal terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies"
  • "Nobody tells me what to do."
  • "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't ref...

• My Ma
• My uncle
• My aunt
• My other fat German uncle
• My other disabled aunt
• My first welsh music teacher
• My second Irish music teacher
• My violin teacher
• My piano accompanist
• My other welsh piano accompanist
• My crazy Frankfurter German teacher
• My other less crazy Frankfurter French teacher
• That man who sells fruit and vegetables
• Mr Fabulous
• Meryl Streep
• Robert de Niro
• Dustin Hoffman
• Christoph Waltz
• Jack Nicholson
• Liam Neeson (everyone's father)

• Marlon Brando
• Stanley Kubrick
• Elia Kazan
• Jeff Buckley
• Dmitri Shostakovich
• Johannes Brahms
• Sylvia Plath
• Huguenots
• Prince Albert
• Bruce Lee
• Vivienne Leigh
• James Dean
• Charles I
• Ulrich Muehe
• Hitler
• Prince Shotoku
• Steve Irwin
• Leonard Bernstein

• Summer 2012 Dashboard Confessional - Alter the Ending (summer before leaving for Japan waiting for L's reply)
• Spring 2013 Kate Nash - Girl Talk (returning to Japan after 6 weeks in the UK)
• Spring 2014 Twin Forks / Jenny Lewis - The Voyager (term abroad in Mainz, travel and meeting Marie)
• 2015 ??? FINALS AND I CANNOT REMEMBER
• Spring 2016 Beyonce - Lemonade (watching with the friends I left behind in Hong Kong)
• November 2016 - 2017 Jolie Holland - Pint of Blood (in Amsterdam getting over J) / Drake - Views (on train home after my job interview)

• Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
• Chi-raq
• Things to Come
• Certain Women
• Moonlight
• Elle
• American Honey
• I, Daniel Blake
• Julieta
• La La Land
• Victoria
• Everybody Wants Some!

Desserts

• Chelsea buns
• Franzbrötchen
• Käsekuchen
• Linzer Torte
• Dampfnudeln
• Shortcake biscuits
• Victoria sponge
• Muffins
• Cupcakes
• Dundee cake
• Christmas cake
• Waffles
• Lemon Meringue Pie
• Banana Loaf
• Flapjacks
• Minnie's Chocolate Pie
• Pumpkin Pie
• Apple Pie
• Jam Tart
• Giant Choc Chip Cookie cake

• Kelly Vitz, actress, Chinese, German
• Denise Keller, model, Chinese, German
• Sandra Tsing Loh, actress, author, Chinese, German
• Bruce Lee, martial artist/actor/philosopher, Chinese, German
• Myleene Klass
• Michelle Yeoh
• T. V. Carpio
• Johnny Depp
• Megan Fox
• Zelda Williams~ daughter of Robin Williams
• Steven R. McQueen~son of Steve McQueen
• Shannyn Sossamon, actress/dj, Filipina, Hawaiian, German
• Brandon Baker
• Hailee Steinfeld
• Malese Jow
• Taylor Lautner
• Michael Copon, actor, Filipino, German

• Vertigo
  • Dusk and Summer - Dashboard Confessional
  • Only in Dreams - Weezer
• A Place in the Sun
  • Water and Bridges - Dashboard Confessional
• Rebel Without a Cause
  • My Best Friend - Weezer
  • Everybody Learns from Disaster - Dashboard Confessional
• Shutter Island
  • I Don't Want to Let You Go - Weezer
  • Don't Let Go - Weezer
• Inception
  • I Don't Want to Let You Go - Weezer
  • Don't Let Go - Weezer

• cigarette vending machines still common in both countries
• war guilt issues
• accused of attempts at world domination(but they aren't the only ones)
• Stereotyped as having no sense of humour and being hard working
• POWERFUL COUNTRIES.

• Revise periodic table
• Know every country and its place in the world
  • Learn regions in larger countries
  • Learn rivers of countries
  • Learn famous landmarks
• Listen to 20th century music from every decade
• Watch 20th century films from every decade
• Watch films that won an Oscar/Bafta
• Watch films that won a Baer/Cesar/any other European equivalent ti an Oscar
• Revise some goddamn Greek mythology because I used to read about it but I've forgotten a lot
• Read classical literature
• Read, if not know the plot and characters to, every Shakespeare play

• Having thinner hair (!!!)
• Hair changing a different colour from black (!!!)
• Getting creases of wisdom
• Gaining increasing immunity to common colds, hence not dying
• Getting a walking stick simply for the sake of it doubling as an awesome dueling sabre

• Brahms (everything)
• Ennio Morricone (Burn!, The Mission)
• Ryuchi Sakamoto (Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence)
• Leonard Bernstein (On the Waterfront, West Side Story)
• Joe Hisashi (Miyasaki films, Kitano films)
• Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy)
• Nino Rota (The Godfather, Romeo & Juliet)
• Shosty
• J.S Bach
• Mozart
• Puccini (Madame Butterfly, Tosca)
• Thomas Newman (American Beauty, Revolutionary Road)
• John Barry (Out of Africa)
• Gato Barbieri (Last Tango in Paris)
• Duke Ellington
• George Gershwin

• Marlon Brando
• Robert de Niro
• Meryl Streep
• Amy Adams
• Audrey Tautou
• Mélanie Laurent
• Vivien Leigh
• Natalie Portman
• James Caan
• Zhang Ziyi
• David Bowie (actually a pretty good actor)
• Jackie Chan
• Toshiro Mifune
• Hilary Swank
• Julia Roberts
• Ian McKellen
• John Malkovich
• Takeshi Kitano
• Anne Bancroft
• Holly Hunter

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• Apply for Provisional Driving License (https://www.gov.uk/apply-first-provision...) - £34
• Complete Compulsory Basic Training (CBT) from http://www.lsmleeds.co.uk/beginners-moto... - ~£110
• Take Theory Test (https://www.gov.uk/book-theory-test), to book you need a provisional driving license - £25
• Take off-road riding test (module 1) (https://www.gov.uk/motorcycle-test/modul...) -~£90
• Take on-road riding test (module 2) (https://www.gov.uk/motorcycle-test/modul...) -~£90
• Find a scooter
• Sort out insurance/mot/service

• Die Klavierspielerin / Elfriede Jelinek
• Auch brave Mädchen tun's : Mordgeschichten / Sabine Deitmer
• Bye-bye, Bruno wie Frauen morden ; Geschichten Sabine Deitmer
• Female chauvinist pigs : women and the rise of raunch culture / Ariel Levy
• In a queer time and place : transgender bodies, subcultural lives / Judith Halberstam
• Female masculinity / Judith Halberstam.
• The Second Sex / Simone de Beauvoir
• Being and Nothingness / Jean-Paul Sartre
• The Interpretation of Dreams / Sigmund Freud
• Three essays on the theory of sexuality / Sigmund Freud
• Thus spoke Zarathustra : a book for everyone and no one / Nietzsche
• A Life / Elia Kazan
• The Art of Acting / Stella Adler

• 家 = home, family, household
• 映 = glory, to reflect, film(映画)
• 気 = spirit, mind, heart
• 帰 = return, to come home (帰る)
• 茶 = tea (お茶)

• Stanley Kubrick
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Woody Allen
• Takeshi Kitano
• Elia Kazan
• Lars von Trier
• Yasujiro Ozu
• Sam Mendes
• Ozu Yasujiro
• Zhang Yimou
• Milos Forman
• Bernardo Bertolucci
• Wim Wenders
• Richard Linklater
• Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Clint Eastwood
• Martin Scorsese
• Hirokazu Koreeda
• Thomas Vinterberg
• Fatih Akin

• finished school
• seen the Pyramids
• went sailing
• camped in a tent
• been to a music festival
• been to Disneyland
• played on a sports team
• played in an orchestra
• reached grade 7 on violin
• sung in a choir
• broken into my own house
• walked epic 3 to 4 mile journey home in snow blizzard
• swam in a pool half clothed
• taken steroids
• been to the circus
• saw Leonardo's Mona Lisa in person
• went up the Eiffel Tower
• eaten escargot
• learnt three other languages to fairly fluent level

• sushi
• watermelon
• lychees
• Doner kebab
• Aromatic duck with pancakes and hoisin
• Pizza
• Schwarzbrot
• candyfloss
• Mississippi Mud Pie Muller corner yoghurt
• fudge
• dango
• German Quark Cheesecake
• Anko manjuu
• Zenzai
• Mochi

• SEAN PENN
• David Tennant
• Jim Carrey
• Miley Cyrus
• Matthias Schweighöfer
• Jeremy Irons
• Tilda Swinton
• James McAvoy
• Emile Hirsch
• Melanie Griffith

• (everybody's good at cooking something, I'm good at cooking)crumble
• German cheesecake
• Bread and butter pudding
• Pancakes
• Bread
• Pizza
• Pastries
• Shepherd's Pie
• Quiche
• Apple cake
• Banana cake
• Brownies
• Eccles cakes
• Pineapple upside down cake
• Kaiserschmarrn
• Frikadellen
• Melonpan

• Emperor
• King
• Weaver
• Warrior
• Long bather
• Chinese pirates