After a day of filling out applications for government jobs (8 hours to do 4 of them) this idea is running through my head. I'd say let's try to keep it within the realm of feasibility, but hey go nuts; be the dental dam tester if you want to.

My short term one would be what I'm referring to as "war blogger." I would go over and hang out with soldiers and write about the average joe a la Ernie Pyle, but it would be more web news than traditional newspaper. Like Savage Love, people could send me their questions and I could go out and get the perspective on it from the poor SOB that has to burn barrels of shit at 3am in Kandahar.

doing whatever the fuck i feel like on any given day without worry of money.

Late night talk show host.

If I didn't have to worry about any business margins or finance aspects. Say I was somehow completely solvent for the rest of my life and I didn't need to make a profit ever.

I'd be a baker. No really.

Theoretical Mathematician. Number theory specifically.

Honestly. I wish I had the time to do this.

tommydski wrote:I'd be a baker. No really.

This also. I make so much fucking bread at my house that it's ridiculous. The goldfish in my koi pond, friends, neighbors, my family are all tired of the volume of breadstuff that comes out of my kitchen.

In the little town of Bishop, GA there's a little house on a good sized piece of land. On that land is a barn that is one good wind storm from being a pile.

I live in that house and I'd like to have a recording studio in that barn.

The barn needs to be torn down and rebuilt, of course, but I'd like for the studio to retain some of its barn-ness. I'd like to have 15 to 20 foot ceilings in the drum room and two isolation rooms, a vocal booth and a control room. There would be a place for bands to sleep, shower and make coffee as well.

I would sleep until ten or so, get a little exercise or work in the garden, then begin my day of recording. I would record until nine or ten at night, maybe later, then come into my house and go to sleep. The next day I would start over.

Occasionally, I would go on tour with a band like The Low Lows, or something along those lines.

I am one barn restoration away from this job. Well, one barn restoration and a good analog console, some A/D/D/A converters, a hand full of expensive microphones and a whole lot of acoustic treatment away.

But it's still close enough that I can say it's less than five years away.

Astronomer. I don't nearly have the brains, but that stuff fascinates me.

I saw the Low Lows play in Aberdeen. Good band. Very friendly too. Not the biggest turn out but they talked to everyone in the venue and were incredibly polite and decent to the other bands playing. For some reason I thought they were Texan though, I didn't know there was an Athens connection.

tommydski wrote:I saw the Low Lows play in Aberdeen. Good band. Very friendly too. Not the biggest turn out but they talked to everyone in the venue and were incredibly polite and decent to the other bands playing. For some reason I thought they were Texan though, I didn't know there was an Athens connection.

The UK/Europe tour before you saw them I played drums for them. We didn't get to Aberdeen (but we did listen to Ivor Cutler in the van) on that tour.

They now live in Austin, but before that it was Athens.

It was my favorite tour ever and I miss those guys.