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so if you had a time machine....
if you had a time machine and you could go anywhere at any time in the history of the world where would you go? i'd probably go and see the creation of the world first so i could find out what really happened....then i'd spend some time in ancient egypt and greece so i could marvel at their genius and hang out with philosophers....maybe i'd be around to see the first coming of christ....but would i'd most like to go to 1960's swinging london and see all the greatest artistsplaying..the beatles, bob dylan the who, rolling stones, love, jimi hendrix, jefferson airplane, pink floyd...and also to enjoy the cultural change that was going on at the time, peace, free love, experimentation and expression...then i'd probably just live there. anyone else?
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as much as religion turns me off i'd like to see the islamic golden age.
also the enlightenment . . . maybe it's cliche but i'd like to see the adoption of the declaration of independence. |
a week last thursday. no thats a fib actually. i think i would like to have seen ancient greece and perhaps 12th century britain. also what it really was like in the 60's.
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I'd kick it off to 1991, and experience 91-94 and go to a few Sonic Youth/ Nirvana concerts, and that creation of the world thing's a good idea as well! I'd also warp to the start of time, and get some cool ass pictures of dinosaurs to bring back and make this message board more exciting
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emm it's ok just a week ago to do a good bet!
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I'd go and make friends with thurston moore during his school years, then introduce him to kurt about a decade later...
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Continental Europe, 1920s.
Dada, Surrealism, Futurism. Awesome. Great silent film work from then too. I would also travel to the 50s and 60s, purchase certain select LPs for very cheap, come back to this time and retire on the wallets of well-heeled collectors. |
I'd go back to maybe the Cambrian period so that I could see some real live trilobites. This one's quite nice:
 Awww... Then it'd be the 17th century, to have a look round and meet The Man ie Oliver Cromwell:  There's a whole list of other things, too, but I'd be pretty happy with that. |
no one apreciates him.
trilobites remind me of cockraoches. ugh! |
Trilobites werean piece of evolutionary genius! Good trilobite website here!
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I'd go 1000 years into the future, and trade my teisco for a lot of money, and use that money to buy a bunch of guitar pedals, amps, and guitars and stuff. Then'd I'd cram it all in my time machine and come back.
Either that or I would go back in time and be a great warrior. Or I would go on a tour of the bible. I'd chill with David, John the Baptist, nad Jesus. That would be pretty cool. |
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You make it seem like you'd go back and "yo homies, wanna do some dope" John the baptist "sure motherfucker get that shit burning, HEY JESUS THE BITCH IS DEAD STOP BEATING HER...stupid motherfucker" |
No, it would be more like:
Me: Hey David, seeing as you have 100's of women, can I have Bathsheba when you are done with her? You already knocked her up, you know so I can't knock her up. John the Baptist: Repent!!!!! Me: Yeah, listen to the man! Me: Hey Jesus, can you turn my water into wine again? |
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I'd go to ancient Greece, 464 B.C., and travel with Herodotus. |
no-one said anything about so-crates, beeth-oven or mr the kid yet?
Just make sure no evil neighbourhood bully grabs your gray's almanac |
But my way I'm not taking anything away from anyone. If I got the winning lotto numbers, that would mean I'd be taking a large ammount of money away from someone.
Actually, now that I think about it, here is a better solution. I'd go back in time and save 2 59 Les Pauls from imminent destruction. I'd sell one and keep the other one. I'd then put them in cases that they could not possibly become damaged in, and I would hide them in my house. Then I'd buy: a chamberlin a moog all the moogerfooger effects a 72 telecaster a plain old telecaster a jazzmaster a jaguar an SG a 335 a Casino a Rickenbacker bass a Rickenbacker 330 a Rickenbacker 360 a marshall stack a fender vibrolux a fender blackface vibrolux Vox AC30 Vox Starstream Vox Ultrasonic a ZVEX Fuzz Probe EHX POG EHX 2880 Some luthier custom guitars a bunch of other stuff |
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I'd like to meet Dostoevsky, Socrates, Descartes, and some other important thinkers. I think Dostoevsky would be really interesting to talk to. |
Dostoevsky would be really interesting to talk to, but I don't believe I could keep up, and I can't speak Russian.
Maybe hang out in the 50's with the Beats. Maybe sometime B.C. To many choices actually. |
Sometime B.C. Good choice.
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i'd go back and try to turn adolf hitler in a good guy,at least i'd try to develop his interest in thing different from genocide and world domination....
and maybe try to avoid the first WW giving franz ferdinand a laxative so he would not have been killed.and maybe tell nobel that dynamite is not such a good thing.then i'd like to have some fun,but this post would be too long... |
go back 35 years and locate bukowski..
have a couple of beers with him.. do a party at warhol's factory in the 80s.. a stroll in ancient rome.. see the sex pistols in 1976.. then see joy division in 1978.. catch pixies and nirvana in 1989... then to the future for sports results and winning lottery numbers.. |
I'm going to 60s new york. Andy Warhol and the Factory. :D
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good one yeah London & NYC in the '60s, St. Petersburg late 1800s... hang with Socrates, Jesus, & Kierkegaard |
^Phish-head^
if you could go back, then maybe this could happen: Bob Nastanovich::Pavement as AssBlaster::Phish Fish Heads ********** Fish heads, Fish heads Rolly polly Fish heads Fish heads, Fish heads Eat them up, Yummm Fish heads, Fish heads Rolly polly Fish heads Fish heads, Fish heads Eat them up, Yummm In the morning Laughing, happy Fish Heads In the evening Floating in the soup Fish heads, Fish heads Rolly polly Fish heads Fish heads, Fish heads Eat them up, Yummm Ask a Fish head Anything you want to They won't answer They can't talk Fish heads, Fish heads Rolly polly Fish heads Fish heads, Fish heads Eat them up, Yummm I took a Fish head Out to see a movie Didn't have to pay To get it in Fish heads, Fish heads Rolly polly Fish heads Fish heads, Fish heads Eat them up, Yummm They can't play baseball They don't wear sweaters They're not good dancers They don't play drums Fish heads, Fish heads Rolly polly Fish heads Fish heads, Fish heads Eat them up, Yummm Rolly polly Fish heads Are never seen drinking Cappacino in Italian restaurants With Oriental women...Yeah Fish heads, Fish heads Rolly polly Fish heads Fish heads, Fish heads Eat them up, Yummm Fish heads, Fish heads Rolly polly Fish heads Fish heads, Fish heads Eat them up, Yummm... (Yummm) Fish heads, Fish heads Rolly polly Fish heads Fish heads, Fish heads Eat them up, Yummm Fish heads, Fish heads Rolly polly Fish heads Fish heads, Fish heads Eat them up, Yummm YEAH!!!!!!!!! by Barnes and Barnes From the album: Voohbaha! |
I'd go back in time and fuck myself.
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definitely the early 60s so i could see the john coltrane quartet with eric dolphy. oh yeah and id be sure to make a quality recording of wes montgomery playing w/ coltrane and dolphy. id also take some music lessons with dolphy and then lunch on swordfish and beans w/ him while i touch the bump on his forehead.
the premeir of stravinskys rite of spring so i could throw a chair at some parisian. |
oh wait i would tell eric dolphy hes got diabetes and give him some insulin so some fucking european doctors wouldnt mistake his insulin shock for a heroin overdose.
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 Homer: Aah! OK, don't panic -- remember the advice your father gave you on your wedding day. [remembers Abe with hair and a tuxedo] Abe: If you ever travel back in time, don't step on anything because even the tiniest change can alter the future in ways you can't imagine. Homer: Fine. As long as I stand perfectly still and don't touch anything, I won't destroy the future. [a mosquito flies in] Stupid bug! You go squish now! [swats it]  |
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