Just let me go back to 21

Anxiety said:

After marinating on things for a bit, I definitely say this point in time would be on the menu along with London England. Of course, its no guess, I would be of legal age.
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MsLegs said:

there were so many fascinating, legendary artists coming up in that time and place, and they were still young and hungry and on the edge. punk culture and dance culture were mingling in interesting ways. it was still dangerous and cool to be a new yorker, and you could be a poor artist and still actually survive in the east village.

Anxiety said:

So true. It was a pivotal time in music and visual art.
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I would have most difinitively go back to the eitghties and have been much more conscientious about my schoolwork.


I probably woulda married that optometrist i still think aobut, and had my own degee in criminal justice or sumthin.....

it might not be the most fun per se, but I think Berlin, spring of '45 would be incredibly interesting. Provided I didn't get killed in an air raid

Wow, I can't choose:

1.WW2, any country occupied by Germany. To help jews and resist the nazis.

2.North America, "the wild west". To help the native americans.

Both of those would likely end up with me dead but I don't give a shit, I can't take it. Even knowing what happened fills me with anguish, for real.

I don't know how many of you believe in past lives/reincarnation but I feel very strongly I've been a native american at one point, or maybe a white woman fighting for them. It's the strongest connection I feel with any point/situation in history, there are others but none as strong as these.

One last though:

3. Back to my school days so I could do it better, all over again knowing what I do now. Then I'd be a doctor, in Darfur right now.

Ocean said:

As long as we could go back knowing what we know now, eh?

I would go back to Hispaniola in 1492 with one of theeeeese;



...and give the Niña, Pinta and Santa Maria a most righteous welcome!

I would go back to right before rap was invented and kill whoever it was that was going to invent rap.

JustErin said:

This Saturday I am playing Austin Powers in a big skit. Man, if I was single I could pick up so much trim using my Austin Powers smack.

I would want to see The Soul Stirrers perform with Sam Cooke.

I would want to see Mahalia Jackson perform.

I would want to see Maria Callas perform.

I would wanna go back to medieval times, to see lands unravaged by humanity. To see, and experience, nature. Untouched.
And maybe see a knight's tournament. That would be kewl. And see some castles.

I also would love to go back to the sale of Vermeer paintings, just after he died penniless and his widow had to sell the lot. There are some paintings in the descriptions of the sale that since then were lost.

And I would love to see the library of Alexandria before it was burned down.

Oooh! And the pyramids, before they were stripped down.

1920. Trianon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...of_Trianon

Cheek said:

Why?

Well, the 40's and 50's because the women were too fine (the movie stars)

60's for the women (Bridgette Bardoe, Sophie Loren), and the music scene was blowing up

and 90's because of all the cool shit I remember from when I was a kid.

Y'all are a shallow bunch, except for Supa and Huey. Makes me think less of at least some of you, and not at all about others.
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Org burp.
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Wow, I would love to go back to the early 70s I had so much fun and back to 75 when i started dj'ing..

jess555ja said:

I remember going to see the Fania all stars

IAintTheOne said:

You see.... that's what I'm talkin' about! My father has tons of stories about Johnny Pacheco and Hector Lavoe and Cheo Feliciano and Ray Barretto and the list goes on and on. Lawd, I was born too late!

jess555ja said:

well its good to know you're keeping Our Music and culture goin'

IAintTheOne said:

That's the stuff that I grew up on. The quality of the music back then was ridiculous. I'd much rather listen to that stuff than the crap that's being put out today

jess555ja said:

exactly whats funny here in AZ there's a small PR community if we had a Puerto Rican day parade.. all 6 of us would be there shit thats all we need to have a serious Spicnic'

If I could go back in time, I would love to go back to the 80's. I loved that decade, life was so much easier back then, I had the time of my life during those years, and the music was a heck of a lot better too.

HamsterHuey said:

marry me, herman

Teacher said:

isn't it awfully arrogant to assume that your personal intervention would make a difference for the better, though?

evenstar said:

I never said it would. I only said I'd try. Y'all only said you'd dance.

Teacher said:

and who are you to judge that? for all you know, intervening in past affairs would make things worse! i think you're taking it way too seriously judging people for what they'd do, that's all.

Teacher said:

Forget playing make believe - what great revolutionary things are you doing now?

evenstar said:

I didn't judge, I said I thought people presented shallow reasons. Judging is saying I'm better, I didn't do that. Surely you have to agree that dancing vs. trying to support people who are victims of genecide is comparable as far as shallowness. I still think so, and I again never said my "intervention" would make things better...only that I'd try.