What era would you liked to be 21 in? What I'm trying to say is-at the peak of your youth.
For me-1968. Yeah-I know-I may end up in Vietnam. But the underground art scene was so rich with amazing s**t. I could have done art for album covers! Went to crazy MC5 concerts. I was around in '68,but I was 6 years old! that time is fascinating to me.
Yeah, the late Sixties. Gimme some of that free love!
Me, not by that big of a margin...
Always felt like I was either born four years too early or four years too late, but then looking back on it all, I'd still be me, and my life would still be my life...
I'm a big fan of punk and new wave. Would've been great to be in late 70s/early 80s New York. Places like Max's Kansas City and CB's what with that crop of bands like Ramones, Misfits, Blondie, Talking Heads, etc.
Probably wouldn't have made it to here though. :cheers:
Quote from: HappyGilmore on March 11, 2017, 07:19:59 PM
I'm a big fan of punk and new wave. Would've been great to be in late 70s/early 80s New York. Places like Max's Kansas City and CB's what with that crop of bands like Ramones, Misfits, Blondie, Talking Heads, etc.
Probably wouldn't have made it to here though. :cheers:
I was there! Wasnt all that great.
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 11, 2017, 07:48:37 PM
Quote from: HappyGilmore on March 11, 2017, 07:19:59 PM
I'm a big fan of punk and new wave. Would've been great to be in late 70s/early 80s New York. Places like Max's Kansas City and CB's what with that crop of bands like Ramones, Misfits, Blondie, Talking Heads, etc.
Probably wouldn't have made it to here though. :cheers:
I was there! Wasnt all that great.
No? Bummer. I still dig the music. I don't fit in in this era so having some like-minded folks around..
Rome, circa 55 BC. I would love to have served under Julius Caesar during the Gallic Wars.
Quote from: HappyGilmore on March 11, 2017, 07:50:28 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 11, 2017, 07:48:37 PM
Quote from: HappyGilmore on March 11, 2017, 07:19:59 PM
I'm a big fan of punk and new wave. Would've been great to be in late 70s/early 80s New York. Places like Max's Kansas City and CB's what with that crop of bands like Ramones, Misfits, Blondie, Talking Heads, etc.
Probably wouldn't have made it to here though. :cheers:
I was there! Wasnt all that great.
No? Bummer. I still dig the music. I don't fit in in this era so having some like-minded folks around..
Lotta nit pickin "Im cooler than you" s**t the Ramones were always great-they didnt by into the "scene". I loved them-still do-I tried to get a job with Heavy Metal Magazine-I talked to Mattie Simmons-thats as far as I got. f**k the NY scene. It was very elitist.
Anytime, provided I have the knowledge I have now, really use that sports almanac style knowledge to your advantage! That said nutrition, hygeine and medicine are such that I've got it pretty good here and now. Don't think I'd like to go back too far if it means I have to give up good coffee :twirl:
I wish I was 21 now so I could better understand Millennials :question:
I know they love posting reaction gifs but that's the extent of my millennial knowledge.
If I could choose I would definitely go back to the 60' - it was a magical time.
Quote from: claws on March 12, 2017, 12:57:20 PM
I wish I was 21 now so I could better understand Millennials :question:
I know they love posting reaction gifs but that's the extent of my millennial knowledge.
I believe I'm classified as a Millennial. I don't know if I'm proud of that or not.
Quote from: HappyGilmore on March 12, 2017, 06:17:40 PM
Quote from: claws on March 12, 2017, 12:57:20 PM
I wish I was 21 now so I could better understand Millennials :question:
I know they love posting reaction gifs but that's the extent of my millennial knowledge.
I believe I'm classified as a Millennial. I don't know if I'm proud of that or not.
Having spent ten years at a leftist radio station, I think I can safely say this has very little to do with one's age, and more to do with things that sound like they should work, but really don't...
Quote from: LilCerberus on March 12, 2017, 09:23:11 PM
Quote from: HappyGilmore on March 12, 2017, 06:17:40 PM
Quote from: claws on March 12, 2017, 12:57:20 PM
I wish I was 21 now so I could better understand Millennials :question:
I know they love posting reaction gifs but that's the extent of my millennial knowledge.
I believe I'm classified as a Millennial. I don't know if I'm proud of that or not.
Having spent ten years at a leftist radio station, I think I can safely say this has very little to do with one's age, and more to do with things that sound like they should work, but really don't...
I mean, certain "ideals" that are associated with millenials I agree with. Like religion. Most don't go to church except for weddings and funerals. I'm in agreement there.
Sometime during the early '80s
When Cable & UHF were just getting started, and they were trying to be competitive, not just catering to niche audiences.
Get a sweet deal on a descent muscle car or motorcycle that predated the Carter administration.
Maybe see what it was like to live in a time when the legal drinking age was 18.
A time when smog alerts, acid rain & ICBMs made for a bleak future for all the commie clowns out in Hollywood, and their fears made for some truly entertaining movies for the rest of us.
My generation, all we had was the Branch Davidian burning down, Kurt Cobain offing himself, Rolling Stone Magazine announcing they were going to stop talking about the music & start talking about boring politics stuff, and some portly right winger with a microphone & an attitude catching our attention.
I was 21 in 1988: a time of great change in South Africa, the world but not in my underpants :wink:
The 20s in any big city like Berlin, Paris, Praque. Would need some cash, though...
I have always been a fan of history, so I'd like to go back some 460 years to England, when Lord Guildford Dudley was alive, as I'd like to see what it was like to be him.
1st. Extremely good looking and skilled in all sports. (Which I am not. Not.)
2nd. Son of the most powerful man in the country.
3rd. Married by my mid teens.
4th Joint ruler with my wife of the country. Though, our rule would last less than 2 weeks.
Of course, I'd never would see my 21st birthday. I'd be dead by the time I was 16. Maybe not even that old. Maybe 15? Of course, knowing what the penalty was for someone convicted of treason, having my head chopped off, was merciful on the part of the person who signed the warrant for execution.
Of course, I'd want to be him, because I have so many questions.
1st. How did my wife and I really get along?
2nd. What was my last speech? I gave one, but unlike my wife's, no one thought to write it down?
3rd. Why was I even executed? I was no threat to the ruling monarch.
4th. And why did my reputation go south so fast, especially as I was still a child by today's standards, and children normally come off better than that?
Of course, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
I think one of the more interesting times to live through is the waning of one century and the beginning of another, so I am happy enough to have turned twenty-one in the last week of what people marked as the twentieth-century. (That tiresome "does it start in 2000 or 2001" debate sidestepped by how I worded that, ha.)
In hindsight, knowing 9-11 loomed, as did the late Third Turning climate of this polarizing struggle of a century so far, it's easy to forget how bubbly and optimistic those turn of the century times were, with the dot.com boom still chugging along and the economy mostly good, and peace looking like it just might hang around indefinitely, and well, surely crossing that threshold into a new century just had to promise something awesome, right? So I'm glad I was there to feel that, however fleeting it was and however innocent it seems seventeen years removed.
All that said, I never seem to have much luck with those supposedly significant personal milestone years since both sixteen and twenty-one contained some especially hard times, and twenty-five was a manic free fall. Well, at least thirteen wasn't bad, and thirty was sweet. I refuse to think ahead to forty. :-)
Good topic!
I'm making the wild assumption that we'd know what we know now, but in a different time.
If that is the case, I would like to be 21 in the early 70s. Why? Independent films. I would find a way to get to L.A., find some independent filmmakers, and start doing whatever dirty work they needed so I could learn the ropes. I think working in independent films back then would be taxing but fun. Plus, if I had my current memory, I'd have a much better idea who to work for and do some name-dropping to get hired.
And I'd also find a way to keep Harry Novak from hoarding so many great drive-in flicks. There's no telling how many of those films are lost now because they were basically left to rot while tied up in legal hassles.
The 1950s - the cars, the music, the drive-in movies, the styles, etc.
I'd like to be 21 in two or three hundred years time, so I could look back and see what people in the future think of our world.