I'd like to meet:
Jesus, Ghandi, The Budda, Martin Luther and Satan... I think we could work something out... I don't think anyone would listen.... But I would like to meet them anyway...
Music:
Dave's Musical Time Capsule (AKA some stuff I havelikes) Now- It is with a mixed heart that I see Green Day become the punk U2 but American Idiot is a great album. The White Stripes are amazing. Ihave a hard time stomaching most of what I hear on the radio any more and this can't just be a function of growing old. I am in my thirties and I have heard many inspiring local bands play and wonder why the Brittany, Christina cookie cutter stuff has taken over.1990's- Music wasn't dead yet but, it had some near fatal blows. I know that my unpopular opinion that Nirvana did not save music has gotten me permanantly banned in Seattle. I loved the Corrosion of Conformity album Deliverance as well as the Monster Magnet album Spine of God. Being an avid music collector who finally had an income,this was the decade that I bought most of my music and my collection has a lot of music from this decade.1980's- New Wave-The Cars, Adam and the Ants, Depeche Mode, The Violent Femmes, The Pretenders, on and on and on and on... Classic rock-This was the Decade of The Wall, Back in Black. and on and on and on Punk-The Clash. Get it... Period... In short, in the eighties you could listen or bejust about whatever you wanted to be musically with the advent of MTV. You would have loved the early day of MTV since you had no idea as to what was coming on next (atmittedly in the beginiing there were too many Loverboy videos).1970's In the seventies, the music you liked was dictated by how you got high Cocaine-Disco-Bee Gee's, K.C and the Sunshine BandHeroin-Punk-Sex Pistols, the Damned, The ExploitedWeed-Our brothers and sisters who didn't let go of the flower generation branched out a little bit Stevie Wonder-Songs in the Key of Life or Led Zeppelin 3 (Skip the Immigrant Song to avoid harshing your buzz). Curtis Mayfield-Superfly CSNY Deja Vu are also excellent choicesLSD-Pink Floyd-for me the best Floyd album was Wish You Were Here but Animals or Dark Side are excellent choices. Those tripping in the 70's didn't need more than on 8 track though. They just put one in and the Acid changed the tracks for themBeer-For most of us who have retired to a legal buzz-Bad Company and all the other Led Zeppelin albums would do the trick but don't miss our on Grand Funk Railroad, AC/DC Highway to Hell, nor Judas Priest's Sad Wings of Destiny.1960's This decade although being the one of my birth, did not leave me many memories of music. The first songs I remember are All right Now and Let It Be. So, I suggest you further research this decade by getting the Woodstock movie. After that maybe Gimmie Shelter and the Beatles Anthology. Elvis, the 68 comeback special is recommended, too.My point is that popular music for the last fifty years has been great. It just seems in the last few years that thing have gone astray.
Movies:
Indie film...
Television:
I will watch the Shield and the Family Guy... IFC and VH1 classic.. (I do like to see how the rappers live on Cribs though. I am going to use them as a template to spend my money if I ever get rich- I want a closet full of Nikes)
Books:
anything that keeps my interest for 10 pages...
Heroes:
Lennon, Ghandi, The guy who gets up every morning and makes it in to work with a hangover works 10 hours every day and buys a Ford, and Chistmas presents for his family because that is the "right" thing to do. I am sorry there are not any jobs for him anymore...