while watching rock 'n roll high school last weekend (why didn't anybody tell me it was on hulu?!) i started thinking for the millionth time about how it would have been so cool to see the ramones live in their heyday. and then i started thinking about the other things/events/places i would have loved to go back in time and experience, midnight in paris-style. here's my short list:
bands/artists i'd see:
- dead boys—specifically, this performance of my favorite punk song of all time at CBGB in 1977, in which stiv bators blows his nose in a piece of bologna and eats it:
- nirvana
- alice in chains (the o.g. lineup, obviously, with layne)
- blind melon
- MC5:
- the stooges
- the beatles
- elvis
- new york dolls
- the kinks
- prince
- jimi hendrix
- led zeppelin (watching this at least once a month on my apple tv in the dark is as close as i'm going to get.):
- oasis
- queen
historical stuff:
- basically everything in the bible to see what REALLY happened
- the first olympics in greece
- the first thanksgiving
- an original shakespearean play
- the boston tea party/boston in colonial times
- the signing of the declaration of independence
- one of marie antoinette's parties
- a speakeasy in the '20s
- this place that my mom used to go to as a teenager in syracuse in the '60s that i think about ALL THE TIME, called the "dingaling lounge." every table was numbered and had a phone, and the whole idea was that if you spied a cute guy/gal at table 6, you could ring them up and start chatting. brilliant! genius! obsessed!
- the original woodstock
- haight-ashbury, san francisco during the summer of love in 1967
- studio 54
- the isabella stewart gardner museum heist
- the sunset strip in the '80s
if you had a time machine, where would you go and what would you do?
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