It's kinda depressing to think how many people I'd love to meet are in fact gone now
But in any case, I picked the one person from each major interest category of my life that I'd love to sit down and chat with.
1. Bob Dylan - It was really, really hard to narrow this down to just one guy, but I'm hoping that 'ol Bob would have the most to tell me about music and life with music, all that good stuff.
2. Terrell Owens - Maybe it's the writer/reporter in me, but if I could have an exclusive chat with any sports star, I'd love to be the one man who would actually ask T.O the hard questions, not just buddy up to him like Michael Irvin and any other loser I've ever seen interview him. No one ever just says: T.O, what makes you so unbelievably selfish, and yada yada, and I'd love to do that. Then again, my interviewing of him would only further glorify the media circus already firmly attached to his hip, so maybe deep down this isn't who I'd want to talk to. Oh well, if I couldn't live with myself knowing I'd talked to T.O, I'll substitute Ron Wolf, the GM of the Packers during their great run during the 90s and into the first few years of this decade.
3. Doug Peacock - Long story short, he's an auther (a damn good one), a storyteller, an activist, and maybe the only other person on the planet who likes grizzly bears as much as I. I'd love to pick his brain, and maybe take a hike somewhere a couple hundred miles from anywhere up on the Continental Divide.
4. George W. Bush - For many of the reasons I gave for T.O, I'd love to let the prick journalist in me take him out back for a few good licks. Again, I might not be able to stomach the realization of being face to face with him, so I'll settle for a chat with Russ Fiengold, who I probably could talk to if I really wanted to, I just haven't felt the urge to go through that much work to do it. Maybe someday.
5. Pete Townshend - This is sort of a catch-all person to talk to, because I think he could give great insights on music, and also, like Bob Dylan, explain without the cinematic B.S, etc, what things were really like in the late 60s and early-mid 70s in America (yeah, I know he's British, but he was touring around, God, gimme a break
). I think that was about the most interesting time period in American history, and I'd love to have the perspectives of a pair of great musicians who could explain what things were like. There are probably better people who I could find to ask about all that stuff, but they're either dead or probably don't remember much of it