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samrago 04.17.2006 09:52 PM

What century would YOU live in?
 
I would most like to live in the early 17th century (the 1600's). my art history teacher described Rome at this time as being a decrepit hell-hole, rife with criminals and prostitutes and urban wildfires. sounds exciting! baroque architecture would just be taking off (bonus), and I could possibly get to hang out with Caravaggio (cross my heart).

the only downside I see here is that there is no Kate Bush or Sonic Youth in the 1600's, but at least I could jam with Claudio Monteverdi.


what sayeth youse?

marleypumpkin 04.17.2006 10:03 PM

I wouldn't want to live in Rome, in any century. Just the opinion of the rasta people, that's all.

schizophrenicroom 04.17.2006 10:08 PM

I've always wanted to live in that period of Rome, or around the Renaissance.

Anicent Greece sounds pretty cool. I'm sort of obsessed with The Iliad right now.

Maybe England or France around the 500s. The Dark Ages are fascinating.

schizophrenicroom 04.17.2006 10:14 PM

easy there, killer..

krastian 04.18.2006 12:08 AM

The 20th.

saoq 04.18.2006 02:39 AM

if I were to keep 20th knowledge, I'd go somewhere in 17th century - or 5bc- and make extraordinary achievements in every possible field of human activity from music to physics to phychology to politics, ex nihilo creating and single-handedly surpassing entire eras from chromatism to atonality to abstract art to quantum theory to socialism and equality, the solar system renamed to Solar System Saoq (SSS01), statues errected in every major city of this planet, and I will get pussy.-

noumenal 04.18.2006 03:14 AM

How about late 18th century Vienna?

noumenal 04.18.2006 03:15 AM

Or mid-19th century Scotland?

noumenal 04.18.2006 03:17 AM

Or 14th century China?

noumenal 04.18.2006 03:17 AM

21st Century America anybody?

Hip Priest 04.18.2006 04:05 AM

Reading a newspaper article about Oliver Cromwell in 1999 (400th anniversary of his birth) inspired me to read a biography of the man. Apart from turning me into a serious Cromwell student, I was drawn into the whole history of the time, it's poetry and politics etc, so I would have to choose 17th century .

jon boy 04.18.2006 04:10 AM

probably one that not many people lived in but a small amount of society was present in. if that makes any sense?

that or travel into the future a few thousand years.

SpectralJulianIsNotDead 04.18.2006 04:31 PM

I want to live in the 30th century when they have time machines.

nature scene 04.18.2006 04:36 PM

I would live in the 21st century.

samrago 04.18.2006 05:12 PM

17th.

nomadicfollower 04.18.2006 05:54 PM

We had to do this in class today. We had to pick between the Middle Ages, Baroque and Renissance. I choose Renissance, but Barouqe wouldn't be bad.
I don't know enough about each period to really make a concious choice.

Glice 04.18.2006 06:14 PM

I'm quite happy where I am, thanks for asking. Can't really be bothered with all the dysentry that other countries and times have.

Proud Marie 04.18.2006 07:39 PM

probably the sixties, i feel i missed out on a lot being born in 1990. there is not too much special about pre-twentieth century, you can get hookers just as easily now. plus back then there was an abundance of torture, sedition, and capitol punishment.

!@#$%! 04.18.2006 07:41 PM

new york in the 70's

syphillis more or less under control, hiv not here yet

oh yeah, and the fucking center of the modern art world

that, or the future.

samuel 04.18.2006 08:01 PM

31st century for me
I've heard great things about year 3018


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