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Saturday, March 19, 2005

Time Travel

RahX inspired this with a post requesting random stuff... I answered and ended up thinking about...

Time Travel: wouldn't it be great? To actually travel back in time and see things as they really happened?

Wouldn't it be great to...
  • Punch a few Yuppies in the 1980s
  • Go see all the cars in the 1970s
  • Party with all the hippies in the 1960s
  • Experience the buzz of Rock 'n' Roll in the 1950s
  • Appreciate the sacrifices of the 1940s
  • Find out something about the 1930s...
  • See America in the 1920s
The list could go on, much abbreviated as it is, to include stuff like...
  • watching the rise and fall of the Roman Empire
  • seeing what Dinosaurs did in their spare time
  • discovering the real facts of JFK's assassination
  • growing up in 60s San Fransisco
  • finding out the true origins of all the religious figures
  • seeing just how many beans cowboys really ate
  • understandinng that the Fire of London was caused by a discarded cigarette/spliff butt and not burnt bread...
There's only one potential issue... wouldn't it be a bummer if you could only go back in time and still be in exactly the same place? You'd have to get to the location of the interesting events somehow... Imagine the journey...

What would you do if you could travel back in time? Where would you go? What would you want to see? Who would you visit? What would you like to understand the origins of? Would you just kick back and enjoy the view?

Answers on a postcard to...

Blue Skies thinking @ 3/19/2005 05:20:00 AM  

21 Comments:

  • At Sat Mar 19, 07:20:00 AM, Blogger [-o-] said…

    Good God, there are so many places and things I'd love to see ... where to start?

    I suppose just to go with music - seeing The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Jeff Buckley and so many others live in their heyday would be sexcellent.

     

  • At Sat Mar 19, 10:47:00 AM, Blogger superfan said…

    I'd probably go back and befriend all the people (the ones on my blog's list) so I didnt have to like bother getting to know them - LOL! ok that wasnt that funny but what the hell :P

     

  • At Sat Mar 19, 03:15:00 PM, Blogger RahX said…

    I'd be all over the 60's with a quick stop in the 70's to prevent disco.

    If I could only go to one place, I think I'd go to san francisco. The Gold Rush, lots of good bands. Just a cool scene. Hang with the hippies until the 60's ended then I'd go back and screw things up real bad. Like, invent the wheel earlier, electricity all that stuff. Just to see what would happen.

     

  • At Sat Mar 19, 07:01:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    [-0-]: Know just what you mean :)- The Doors for definite, The Mothers of Invention, Captain Beefheart, Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, The Moody Blues... wow that would be such an ace time...

    Free love with all the groovy chicks :D

    Seffy: LOL, you mad wench - that was funny 'cos it was crazy!

    RahX: Haha, preventing disco - cracks me up. I only ever liked Donna Summer's "I feel Love" - what a totally mindblowing track that was... but then the dance beat flowed into the Rave Scene and that was truly astonishing... that was almost like the '60s revisited, or so I can guess... No more free festivals for hipppy types anymore... it all has to be controlled...

    Changng the course of history would be... interesting. I'd say frightening but then that would spoil the fun before it had even started :D

     

  • At Sat Mar 19, 07:28:00 PM, Blogger superfan said…

    Well think about it if you already knew the said people, then you wouldnt have to bother getting to know them!

    heh. smeggy but true.

     

  • At Sat Mar 19, 09:18:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    Seffy: LOL, your are mental :\

    And careful with the use of the word smeggy, I may have to explain it to people. Not fun.

    LOL, OK, so I am thinking about it, Seffy. And it's making my brain hurt... you gotta meet 'em at some stage in order to know 'em, so you can't just go back in time and automatically know them, can you?

    This is one of those paradoxes from a Bob Calvert era Hawkwind LP or Star Trek... that is illogical, Captain...

    I tell you what I'd do - go back in time, buy shares in all the future BIG companies and wait for them to get multinational, then when they get too big for their boots and start ripping up the environment, being greedy and stuff, I'd pull a fast one with my shareholding, and redistribute the wealth to deserving causes - that'd teach 'em a lesson.

     

  • At Sun Mar 20, 12:03:00 AM, Blogger tescosuicide said…

    I think I would just keep going back to '79 so I could experience the Punk rock movement over and over again...

     

  • At Sun Mar 20, 10:02:00 AM, Blogger superfan said…

    Imagine a life without the word Smeggy!!

    I wouldnt be able to live!!

    anyway, nooooo, what I mean is if I knew them as a kid then it would just be...easier. SEEEEE?

    ps. see my blog! it has your name on it.

     

  • At Sun Mar 20, 04:04:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    Tescosuicide: Now that's a good point dude. You'd have to check the scene in the US and the UK - that'd be neat. '70s America seems like it would've been more vibrant than the UK - we had Thatcher, Miners Strikes, massive unemployment etc... that was the backdrop to our punk scene - civil unrest... what was the background to the US scene?

    I'd have to go back and see just what sorta damage a friend's superglued mohican used to do...

    Yep, to keep the points of his mo nice and sharp he put superglue in 'em. Mental :)

    Seffy: LOL, and I laugh when I see those cookers by SMEG... nice :p

    Oh, so not quite so paradoxical... right, so you'd get to know little Lever, little Brom-man, little Rebekah... LOL, that would be quite funny, might just have to come along for the trip :D

     

  • At Sun Mar 20, 06:55:00 PM, Blogger superfan said…

    Crashin your blog: I've done the links :P

     

  • At Mon Mar 21, 05:40:00 AM, Blogger rebekah said…

    yes to all of the above and dude, i'd totally go back in time to the 80s and make robert smith marry me ...

     

  • At Mon Mar 21, 12:07:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    Seffy: OK, that's OK< I'll let you off ;)

    Rebekah: Haha, nice one :D We'd all get wedding invites, yes?

    I'd have to go back to the late '70s and chat-up Debbie Harry or Carrie Fisher... never did dig Olivia Neutron Bomb's curly hair in that film, Grease; I must have developed anti-populist tendancies from an early age... but she's aged well, so I'd have to marry her too :)

     

  • At Mon Mar 21, 04:29:00 PM, Blogger superfan said…

    Lever's stars dance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     

  • At Mon Mar 21, 05:45:00 PM, Blogger BM, The Necessary Movement said…

    Great Shirt!!! Great Band!!!! Great CD!!! You are simply GREAT!!!

     

  • At Mon Mar 21, 06:48:00 PM, Blogger superfan said…

    Oh hey BM *grins*

     

  • At Mon Mar 21, 07:39:00 PM, Blogger RahX said…

    Damn, the almighty lever links to my blog and its one of those weeks where I totally freak out! :P

    Well its 40 here today and the snow is melting like mad, a nice walk outside should do me well.

     

  • At Mon Mar 21, 09:09:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    Seffy: Where you been girl? They been dancing since at least December... :D

    BM: What, "Unknown Pleasures"? Yeah... awesome BM... I love Joy Division. Lots :D

    And careful, you'll make me blush :D

    RahX: Haha, dude, just giving credit where credit's due... everyone good blogger deserves link :D

    Enjoy the sunshine, and blue skies I hope :)

     

  • At Mon Mar 21, 09:41:00 PM, Blogger Brom said…

    If I could travel back in time I'd first choose a point where Blogger comments used to work whenever you wanted them to... ;-)

    Then I'd go to the town I was brought up in, in the early 60's and just sit and lap up the atmosphere of the railways that ran through the town. When I was old enough to go exploring all the interesting bits had gone, OK what they left behind had a kind of magic, but it would be great to live it all.

    Lever..."Little Brom-man" .. I loved that bit!!!

    Seffy... you are getting to know us.. but I like the idea!!

     

  • At Mon Mar 21, 09:43:00 PM, Blogger Brom said…

    If you get a chance, read the book "Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls" by Robert Rankin, a guy goes back in time and stops all the old rockers getting killed, Lennon, Hendrix, Moon etc.. and they carry on gigging.. fantastic idea

     

  • At Mon Mar 21, 10:43:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    Brom-man: Wow, that's a cool move - the 60s railways would be about the time of the 'Beeching Axe' I suppose... that's a fascinating notion. Reminds me of that most excellent film "The Titfield Thunderbolt" OK it was '53 I think, but what a time...

    ...which reminds me... in Fleet, Hampshire, when I first moved there; the high street (now all charity shops, takeaways and unreal pubs) used to have a factory and a set of ramps in it for County Tractors, distinctive for their 4x4 BIG wheels, whereas all tractors had 2x big wheels, 2x small wheels...

    Anyway, I just ordered a copy of Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls... I'll let you know how I get on. Cheers for the tip-off, Brom-man :)

     

  • At Tue Mar 22, 08:34:00 AM, Blogger superfan said…

    Speaking of sex and drugs, I'm going to Greece soon!

    what. sorry. that failed really badly.

    Ahem. So yeah. Raah. The delightful Ricky W's face is on my website now yay yay (no whippet though lever I apologise)

     

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