Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

If he's taught me two things, the second would be to keep my trap shut about royal lineages and stay away from King's Landing.  Digression...

As the years go by and I look ahead to what will no doubt be some long and pleasant years of convalescence as a lovable aged curmudgeon (Like the old guy in Up!), it has occurred to me that I could might do with a bit of planning ahead to make sure those years are as pleasant as possible and that I squeeze every ounce of enjoyment out of this sweet fig that we call "life".

It seems to me that one of the main concerns as cognitive decline inevitably sets in, is the loss of memory.  I've heard stories and seen examples of how these years can be a time of confusion and frustration as the mind fades and the early years of ones life become transparent and fleeting.

To counteract this possibility, I've decided to start a list of things that I would like to be re-introduced to should my memories fade.  I do this so that I can have the repeated pleasure of experiencing these things for the first time.

Here goes:

First things first…show me the entire television run of Firefly and don't tell me that it's been cancelled.  Just say that we're waiting on the next season.

Ditto with Deadwood.

I would like to see the entire film works of M. Night Shyamalan in REVERSE order so that I can enjoy seeing a director master his craft and start turning out better and better films.  You can leave out the Mark Wahlberg one.

You can just put the Cohen Brothers' films on a loop.  Please and thank you.

Same with Tarantino.  You can leave out Reservoir Dogs, but be sure to put in True Romance.

Game of Thrones- TV series THEN books.  Tell me they're novelizations.  I'll be so impressed.

While we're on books:

Stephen King: yes.   Dean Koontz: no.

Selected Kurt Vonnegut would be great.  No Slapstick.  I think Slaughterhouse-Five would be particularly appealing.

I'm suddenly struck by how amazing it would be to be able to go back and read Douglas Adams books for the first time.  Let's move this to position 1 in my queue.  Please and thanks for all the fish.

Let's rediscover the Beatles!  I can do without the early years with the hand-holding and whatnot  We should pickup around Help!.

Also, let's just leave out the majority of music in the eighties.  Without the nostalgia factor I feel like there's nothing much to be gained and a finite amount of time to be lost.

This will be funny:  Play me some Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen and just tell me it's the same person.  

Elvis Costello…the early years.  Limited doses because my old heart may not be able to take it.

Lastly I will take the entire run of Breaking Bad and I don't feel any need to explain that one.

So that's the short list.  Chances are that I will forget I've made this list….sooner rather than later most likely….so I need to appoint a caretaker to make sure this all happens.  I'll be interviewing for the position and references are appreciated, but not required.

Jaska out.