If you got to travel to place in time where would you go and why?

[Alli]

I have always like the 30s and 40s style of clothing and everything so I think I would want to got back to that time but be in Europe and actually witness the war for myself.
another would to back to the 16th century-18th century and be a female pirate - idk about other people I think that'd be uber cool...
not to mention I would actually like to see the werewolf trial they held in the 1700s


~Alli

[Michaela]

Ok Alli -- First Berlin in the 1920's - as long as I get to keep my time machine so I could get the hell out in 1933 when Hitler came to power, unlike you, I would not wish to hang around for the war. Not that I would have made it of course, as a transsexual I'd have been arrested and executed by the Nazi's long before the war got going lol.

But Berlin in the 1920's was probably the most decadent city since Sodom & Gomorrah. On the city stages, Anita Berber flaunted her body, bisexuality and drug addictions, and at nightclubs such as the Residenz-Casino, you could send attractive patrons bottles of cocaine through pneumatic tubes.

Anita Berber

By michaela_images at 2008-07-05

But it also was a thriving centre of music and art. It was here that Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill collaborated on The Threepenny Opera, from which comes the song Mack the Knife

Nick Cave - Mack The Knife


and where Marelene Deitrich's legs stole the show in Germany's first talking picture, The Blue Angel.

And with most of the rest of the world still firmly locked in the closet, homosexuality shouted itself out all across Berlin. Well any sexuality actually. There were approximately 160 completely different lesbian and gay male nightclubs and lounges in Berlin.

The home of some of the most famous transvestites in the city was the Eldorado. Everybody, the hat check girls, the waitresses, the barmaids, were all men. The top female impersonators performed there. After Hitler came to power and took control of Berlin the Eldorado would become the Headquarters of the Nazi Party - Sick :(

William S Burroughs reciting words of Bertolt Brecht


Homosexual artists such as W.H Auden and Christopher Isherwood flocked to this centre of sexual liberation. Isherwood later turned his experiences in Berlin into a novel, which became the stage play and movie Cabaret.

PJ Harvey - Ballad of the Soldier's Wife - by Kurt Weill


So there you go, for my first time trip Berlin - just don't leave me there !!! lol. I might do another one later, I enjoyed that :) Thanks Alli.

Clips from : "September Songs: the Music of Kurt Weill"

[Agonies Creep]

A VERY interesting question, perhaps I'd go back to the 1800's & capture "John Wilkes Booth" in the act but, just in time to save President Lincoln. That might possibly alleviate much of the racism that has hurt so many (includeing me) people & continues too, today.

[Michaela]

Whishful thinking my friend, wishful thinking.... I don't think even if he had survived he'd have been able to affect how long it's taken to deal with racism in your country. Lets face it you still haven't got there yet... By the way Australia is no better, we almost completed a cultural genocide of our indigenous people and very nearly a human one as well. And the way the average Australian today still thinks about the aboriginal people makes me want to vomit.

[fern]

damn i think america in the 70s cuz i like fast cars and i like to party.

[Michaela]

Well If you like to party fern ... I think you should join me in 20's Berlin because they could really party! And the 70's? I don't have to go back, I lived it! lol. Don't remember much of it *grin* but I'm sure I was having a good time.... Pass me that joint someone,will you?

[fern]

hahaha cant say i know to much about berlin culture. but i dont know about the 20's i couldnt live without snowboards, or really heavly distorted guitar....or hendrix

[Birdd]

Back to the stone age with a zippo!!! Those fuckers would worship me!!! lol No but seriously I would have to say that my period of choice would be the 60's I live my life repressed by society and government so the whole peace, love, freedom movement would really appeal to me.

[Alli]

yea I'd like to see that stuff out for myself too

[& i burn.]

the 80's haha. it just seems like such a jumpy and colorful point in time. i've always loved it, even though i've never lived through it. and hell, pop music was even good back then.

[AJATARRA]

hi!!!
this is a very interresting question...
I think I go back ten years before, for avoiding every mistake of my past life... For have a chance to change my life in the future...
Yeah, I think I'll do that...

[Michaela]

But then you wouldn't be you, the person you are now, is the sum of all your experiences in life, good and bad, good decisions & bad decisions. One experience leading to another and influencing the path you choose at any particular moment.

Go back and start changing decisions [theoretically you only need to change one] and the whole of your subsequent life experiences will change - who you meet, what you'll do - everything. Consequently you will be a totally different person with none of the memories or experiences that have made you who you are now.

Ergo the Ajatarra that exists to day will cease to exist - being replaced by someone completely different.

[AJATARRA]

Yes, it's true... Perhaps I wouldn't here, right now, talking on this forum, if that kind of travel would be possible.... I don't know... I have done much mistakes during my life, and there are several I can't forgotten. I have to live with my Demons everyday of my fuckin' life, and believe me sometimes it's so fuckin' hard!!!
But your lines have enough meaning for doubt me...
and, basically, this travel is not possible, isn't it???
So, I could care less... My fuckin' life is my fuckin' life, and i'm proud!!!!
Thanks, Michaela