deanb Posted May 15, 2011 Report Share Posted May 15, 2011 So The Bucket List was on tele last night so I watched it again. Still a good film. Was inspired to make this just at the time no access to forum so here we are now. Now if you've seen the film (if not, do. It's really good) you'll know a bucket list is a list of things to do before you die. I thought it'd be fun (or morbid, depends on your perspective) to knock a thread up for it. So yeah just a list of say 10 or so things that you'd want to do before you die. Maybe as realistic, out there, or vague as you like. (e.g film has; laugh til you cry, go skydiving, and witness something majestic) Run my own business/invest in a start up. Go into space (preferably another planet) Complete my backlog Leave a lasting mark Own a Jaguar E-type Get my vision corrected Die on my own terms in the UK (aka not in Switzerland, if you know what I mean ) I'll probably expand it some more. Especially if some of you guys have some cool ones to steal. (oh yeah, dupes are a fine, not like stuff needs to be unique) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercurial Posted May 15, 2011 Report Share Posted May 15, 2011 (edited) I'd only have one honestly that being that I die content. I mean I don't have that many desires for adventure or experiences. Edited May 15, 2011 by Hakidia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrainHurtBoy...2 Posted May 15, 2011 Report Share Posted May 15, 2011 Go into space. Become Absolute Monarch of Earth. Complete my Backlog. Drink the world's perfect Cola. Live Forever. Touch the wheel of an Airplane while moving. (I imagine this happening while the airplane is taxiing or moving slowly). Live In Pyongyang. Know Everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr W Phallus Posted May 15, 2011 Report Share Posted May 15, 2011 Write and direct a well received (by critics) film. Meet a woman I can happily grow old with and start a family with her. Read the Hobbit to my kids. Go sky diving. Go to space. Travel to every continent. Live in America (for a while). Live in France (when I'm old). Have an interesting brush in with the law. Leave a mark on the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted May 15, 2011 Report Share Posted May 15, 2011 (edited) Two chicks at the same time. Get my vision corrected Not sure about the advances since I last worked in the field (5 years ago, and it can move pretty fast) but if you're referring to corrective laser surgery, just be aware that it's not guaranteed to last your whole life. Edited May 15, 2011 by Hot Heart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangelove Posted May 15, 2011 Report Share Posted May 15, 2011 Change Wotsits to Cheetos Legally enforce that "crisps" be called "chips" Cancel Dr. Who Kill all the former and current members of Oasis and Blur Blow up the Buckingham Palace Rename Europe to the "Old Gay United States" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saturnine Tenshi Posted May 15, 2011 Report Share Posted May 15, 2011 Eliminate humanity. Hebephilic harem. Not in that order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VicariousShaner Posted May 15, 2011 Report Share Posted May 15, 2011 Stop being a teenager Get a job as a lawyer Adopt a child Get Windows Watch the entirety of Lost Get a popular gaming blog Become moderator of at least something other than a J.TV channel once Visit Japan and France Learn French, Spanish, and Japanese Complete Global Saturation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr W Phallus Posted May 15, 2011 Report Share Posted May 15, 2011 Watch the entirety of Lost Truly an admirable goal. Apart from the fact you haven;t completed it yet. What the hell are you waiting for! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirandello Posted May 16, 2011 Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 -Get ripped -Learn to parkour -Learn how to draw -Get a nice car -Shake Warren Buffett's hand -Create a 1-to-1 scale replica of Archer's 3E Eclipse armor from SC: Conviction -Learn languages and travel the world -Be the "awesome uncle" to my cousins' kids (since I probably won't get any, so this will do) -Own a kickass computer worthy of the PC gaming gods. Optional: -Get to a proficient level at Starcraft 2 and/or: -Attend a convention (AX, ComicCon, etc). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P4: Gritty Reboot Posted May 16, 2011 Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 Build my own arcade cabinet Get past disc one of FFVII Design a video game Collect every home console released in the west Beat a co-op game with my sons Attend Megadeth concert Learn to play cricket Learn the cello Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R__ Posted May 19, 2011 Report Share Posted May 19, 2011 Create a classic videogame museum. Become a more competent programmer, so I can make emulators better. Get filthy rich (getting there faster than you think... ). Plant an arboretum, with beautiful gardens surrounding/inside it. Finish my work with the healing plants in the Amazon. Be instrumental in the legalization of marijuana. Make contact with extraterrestrials (hopefully not of the deadly microbial variety!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomTervo Posted May 19, 2011 Report Share Posted May 19, 2011 (edited) For me, basically just the 'leave a lasting impact' one. I want to leave something that people will be inspired by or will be able to enjoy and think about for a long time, and in depth. To reach this, I have to either: - Write a novel/ body of short stories - Write a screenplay. - Write a comic - Write a song/ album - Learn to program, then make a good game. Preferably all of the above. Already started on all of them (most difficult one is the last, but I've got an achievable idea and made a couple of little headways) Also- fall fully, properly in love. And have a good relationship with person who I'm in love with. Edited May 19, 2011 by kenshi_ryden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted May 19, 2011 Report Share Posted May 19, 2011 Can I just copy Kenshi's? But add in 'song/album' too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomTervo Posted May 19, 2011 Report Share Posted May 19, 2011 Fuck, now I had to go and add that, too! What's with you! Also, respect Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr W Phallus Posted May 19, 2011 Report Share Posted May 19, 2011 Kenshi you stole my hopes and dreams. And made a start on them already, dammit. I wish I could say I'd made a start but apart from dicking around with my mate on Ableton a little bit I haven't done anything. I just keep telling myself I'm gonna start writing once I work out what I want to write about. Meanwhile one of my mates has a book of poetry published and has finished a novel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomTervo Posted May 20, 2011 Report Share Posted May 20, 2011 Screw your mate! You can do it, too! I've got a poem published from when I was about 13. In Gaelic. Don't work out what you need to write about- just get inspired by as much shit as you can; games, movies, books, comics- then when an interesting idea comes to you that's inspired by all or any of them, pick it up in your mind and think about it and develop it as fast as you can. 90% of the creativity comes from like, the first 20 minutes of you thinking about an idea. Don't quote me on the first 20 mins. It could be a whole night of great writing. But yeah, just get inspired by things and think! With your brain! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted May 20, 2011 Report Share Posted May 20, 2011 (edited) Haha. You just reminded me I had a poem published (just some local collection thing) when I was 10 or 11, I think. Was either year 5 or 6 in primary school. Man, it was the biggest load of crap ever, I was surprised it ever got praised. We were set a task to write a poem about the sea and so in class there was 'brainstorming', which just involved words that you could use to describe the ocean. My poem just used as many of those words as possible married to the imagery of a playful cat (the 'cat as the sea' thing I'd glimpsed in some book somewhere). It also had two parts to make use of the calm and violent sea ideas. Let's see what I can remember... The Sea Cat wakes in the navy sea Tumbling, sending violent tides ashore Roaming further and further, it pounces Sending waves spinning as it moves Towering over the sea it...moans(?) Crashing down, it rests That's not all of it and I think I may have some of the lines out of order. The second part was to do with it being playful with children on the beach but no idea how that went. And I swear there was some atrocious line like 'It shows a gloomy face as it gnaws on rocks' (WTF?!). So terrible. Edited May 20, 2011 by Hot Heart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted May 20, 2011 Report Share Posted May 20, 2011 Qualify as a Solicitor - In progress. Skydive - Possibly next year. Visit: Calabria, Northern (Turkish) Cyprus and East Asia (not all at once). Put me down for the Space thing too. Get on the executive board of a large videogame publisher (this is more likely than you might think...). Re-learn the Violin (I stopped playing when I was young and foolish). Learn Swedish. Don't die, ever. (This one is technically after I die should I fail in my previous aim) Swindle as much money out of HMRC as possible by clever inheritance tax avoidance (not evasion), my own interpretation of victory in death. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted May 21, 2011 Report Share Posted May 21, 2011 why Swedish? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Posted May 21, 2011 Report Share Posted May 21, 2011 As a swede, I second Gerbil's question. Swedish is a horribly boring and stale language. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewblaha Posted May 21, 2011 Report Share Posted May 21, 2011 Things to do? Get people who are idiots to stop having their vision clouded. IE: Shinta. Though that's really more fun for just trolling that person. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomTervo Posted May 21, 2011 Report Share Posted May 21, 2011 The Sea Cat wakes in the navy sea Tumbling, sending violent tides ashore Roaming further and further, it pounces Sending waves spinning as it moves Towering over the sea it...moans(?) Crashing down, it rests Whaaaaat That's well better than anything I wrote in school. My 13-year-old's poem was also on the theme of animals, but in a more general way. I wrote about a racing greyhound, comparing it's skeletal frame and labouring lungs to torture and that sort of thing. And how it was under frequent substance abuse. But it was really nowhere near as good as Sea Cat. I'd say it was pretty shit also. Got in a kids anthology, too. P.S.: Was this the Sea Cat you envisaged? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted May 21, 2011 Report Share Posted May 21, 2011 Whaaaaat That's well better than anything I wrote in school. P.S.: Was this the Sea Cat you envisaged? Take it away. TAKE IT AWAY! Thanks, but yours sounded way more interesting. I guess from being so close to mine it just felt like an obviously hamfisted collection of adjectives, then married to 'stolen' imagery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomTervo Posted May 21, 2011 Report Share Posted May 21, 2011 from being so close to mine it just felt like an obviously hamfisted collection of adjectives, then married to 'stolen' imagery. Exactly how I feel about mine. Good ole childhood creativity and anti-nostalgia, eh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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