I’ve made lists before, but this one is celebrating my inner geekness. Many involve great science fiction, others are just for fun, while some would be a wonderful way to learn a little about someone and their view of the world.
Some are a personal wishes, perhaps a little esoteric, others refer to movies that might be a little off the mainstream, but here we go.
- Have George put Star Wars back to the way it was. We all saw Han shoot first.
- Walk away while an explosion goes off in the background in slow motion
- Have a glass of rum with Captain Jack Sparrow
- Fight zombies with a yell of “Yeah-boy”
- Tell Captain Picard to “Make it so…”
- Have Jar Jar Binks meet with a very messy end so we can have no doubt he’s gone
- Drive the cool Batmobile from Batman Begins
- Understand Vogon poetry
- Get a real cone of silence
- Take the Tardis out for a spin
- Dinner with Terry Pratchett
- Find that the Serenity 2 movie is going to happen
- Walk into a casino wearing a tux and order a Martini “shaken, not stirred”
- Enjoy slow barbequed Ewok, St Louis style.
- Have a sonic screwdriver in the tool box
- Sit and listen to Isaac Asimov and Philip K Dick discuss robotics, replicants and the four laws.
- Re-read the entire Foundation series in order
- Look good in an Indiana Jones fedora and learn to crack a whip
- Complete all levels of Angry Birds with three-stars
- Visit the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley
- Shoot an original (Buster Crabb) Flash Gordon blaster
- Burning man
- Have a “Law” named after me
- SXSW Interactive
- Have the Swedish chef cook dinner
- Car chase through the hills of San Francisco Bullit style
- Leia, gold bikini and…
- Listen to the history of the universe as told by R. Daneel Olivaw
- Work out what the hell was going on in Lost
- Don powered armour and into the drop-capsule
- Learn to wield a lightsaber from Yoda
- The ultimate dinner party: Josh Whedon, Hunter S. Thompson, Stephen Fry, Stan Lee and finally Gene Roddenberry
- Visit Westworld and take on Yul Brynner, after all the bugs have been worked out
- Beat the Kobayashi Maru
- Partner Logan 7 for a day
- Tour the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough with Nevil Shute
- Number-5 in the red dress
- Sit in a cool chair, wearing a collarless shirt and monocle, while stroking a white cat and utter the classic line “No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die”
- An afternoon on the Holodeck
- “Beam me up Scotty”
- Have a Monolith in the front garden
- Fly through the air firing two guns Hot Fuzz style
- Watch a live game of Rollerball (“Jonathan, Jonathan, Jonathan…”)
- Road trip with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost
- Have HAL ask me “What are you doing Dave”
- Hear an Avro Vulcan take off on full reheat one more
- Watch the Killer rabbit take on the Black knight
- Go hiking with Bill Bryson
- Get shot out of a launch tube from Galactica
- Fit a shock collar to George Lucas that goes off everytime he tries to re-edit one of his movies
