1. More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can't wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that's not only better, but also more directly involves me.

2. Nothings worse than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.

3. Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you're going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you're crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.

4. Is it just me, or are 80% of the people in the "people you may know" feature on facebook people that I do know, but I deliberately choose not to be friends with?

5. Do you remember when you were a kid; playing Nintendo and it wouldn't work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in the world did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or faq's. We just figured it out. Today's kids are soft.

6. There is a great need for a sarcasm font.

7. Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what was going on when I first saw it.

8. I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I'll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone's laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I'm still the only one who really, really gets it.

9. I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.

10. Lol has gone from meaning, "laugh out loud" to "I have nothing else to say"

11. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.

12. Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".

13. How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear what they said?

14. Everytime I have to spell a word over the phone using 'as in' examples, I will undoubtedly draw a blank and sound like a complete idiot. Today I had to spell my boss's last name to an attorney and said "Yes that's G as in...(10 second lapse)..ummm...Goonies"

15. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

16. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.

17. Bad decisions make good stories.

18. Whenever I'm Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got the Red Ryder BB-gun that I always wanted.
546 pictures? Don't mind if I do!

19. why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I'm from, this shouldn't be a problem....

20. you never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you've made up your mind that you just aren't doing anything productive for the rest of the day.

21. There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.

22. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.

23. "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this ever.

24. I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching TV. There's so much pressure. 'I love this

You really shouldn’t fret about your financial future. According to the movies, you’ll be so busy fighting cyborgs, repelling viruses, reducing populations and reconstructing post-apocalyptic society that you’ll have no time for such frivolities as money.

NEXT WEEK, the fourth film in The Terminator series clangs onto screens. Set, somewhat worryingly, just nine years in the future, it suggests that, in that short space of time, the world’s computers will have come together to wage war on puny, naïve mankind. Only sweary Christian Bale, with his worried scowl and weirdly bass-heavy voice, can save the planet.

Just last month, Star Trek offered a somewhat less pessimistic take on the way ahead for humanity. Sure, the Federation may be under attack from Romulans, but a degree of stability does exist in the cosmos and we seem to be getting on quite well with our machines. What are the movies trying to tell us about the future? Are we on the way to the stars or headed to viral-infected, post-apocalyptic hell in a flying handcart?

WILL IT BE PERFECT?

It may be because such places always seem boring in literature or simply that history tells us that there are too many losers in any social revolution, but perfect societies are rare in science fiction. A kind of Utopia is reached in the latter stages of William Cameron Menzies’s timeless Things to Come (1936), an adaptation H G Wells’s great speculative novel, but it is brought into question by a dispute between Luddites and those who favour progress. Despite the Star Trek films’ optimism, the men, women and things of Starfleet are constantly being dragged into some miserable conflict or other.

Of course, you could argue that, for the blissfully unaware, the world of Logan’s Run is a kind of paradise. Life for the thinkers in Metropolis is also fairly pleasant. Yet both societies must live with the constant awareness of different kinds of miseries just beneath or beyond them.

WHAT WILL WE WEAR?

Collarless pyjamas and monochrome jumpsuits will be enormously popular in years to come. You see such unlovely garments in Star Trek, Alien, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Silent Running, Outland and Logan’s Run . Of course, most of these films were set in space, where a class of utility wear may be the norm. On earth we will, it seems, be donning variations on the fashions prevalent when the relevant films were made.

Aliens suggest we will still wear suits, but with the back of the collar turned up. Back to the Future Part II argues the case for two ties worn over the same busy shirt. In Blade Runner the characters appear to be adopting a kind of retro-retro look that acknowledges the 1980s urge to ape the 1940s. But the most spectacular example of an era projecting its fashion mores into the next century is, surely, A Clockwork Orange. Crazy flares, orange Spandex, dizzying maxi-dresses: in the future it will be 1971 forever.

TOO MANY PEOPLE?

Science fiction flicks of the 1960s and 1970s suggest that overpopulation, rather than climate change, could turn out to be our greatest challenge. If Soylent Green is to be believed, humans, deprived of adequate food resources, may turn to industrial cannibalism. Logan’s Run argues that an overpopulated society will simply kill off its middle-aged. Perhaps some sort of viral pandemic — man-made or naturally occurring — will prove Sky News right and annihilate all decent people. That is the contention of T he Andromeda Strain, Twelve Monkeys and versions of Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend such as The Omega Man , The Last Man on Earth and, yes, I Am Legend.

In recent years the changing climate has loomed over The Day After Tomorrow, Waterworld and John Hillcoat’s upcoming adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. But the boss of all environmental disaster movies must be the divinely miserable Silent Running (surely a major influence on Wall-E ), in which Bruce Dern tends a few remaining plants in out

As the sun starts to shine with something resembling regularity, thoughts inevitably turn to holidays, barbeques, sunny evenings and – for me anyway – summer music festivals. I’ve always wondered where festivals originated from though. Well after further research I’ve found out that like the bikini, we have those forward-thinking ancient Greeks to credit for the musical festival. The Pythian Games in Delphi in the 6th Century BC included open-air music competitions but the warm beer mudfests we’ve come to love only date back to the 1960s when the rock festival proper was born with the Monterey Pop Festival. Imagine a bill that included Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Simon & Garfunkel, The Byrds and Janis Joplin. Two years later, came Woodstock, where Hendrix set his guitar on fire and mud became the ultimate accessory. The UK joined in with The Isle of Wight Festival in 1970, followed by the legendary Glastonbury Festival, which began as Glastonbury Fayre in 1971. Other festivals of note include Sonare in Barcelona, Roskilde in Denmark and the South by Southwest Festival in the US.