my “What I want to be when I grow up” from 17 years ago
I recently ran across this bit from my first book “Starving in the Company of Beautiful Women“. I read it, and realized a lot of it is coming true for me these days. That rocks.
Also keep in mind I wrote this stuff about changing the world with computers, years before I ever touched my first computer. (I wrote this stuff on a typewriter in 1990 or so. Got my first computer in 1991, got online (in a web cafe) in 1995, got on line at home in 1996, had a website a few weeks later. (on dial up.)
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“I have this feeling that rock ‘n’ roll is not all I am going to do with my life. I feel that it’s just a stepping stone to something bigger, something more along the importance of the invention of the electric light bulb. I want to be the next Thomas Edison. No, fuck that. . .I wanna be the next Nikola Tesla. That’s who Edison stole a lot of his ideas from.
“I don’t know what this next thing is, but I do know a few things about it: One is that I might not invent it, maybe I’ll just pioneer it, the same way that Ford didn’t invent the car, but he put one in every carriage house and barn. I also know that it will involve bringing people together. That is my strongest suit. . .far more important than rock ‘n’ roll. I have match-made a lot of folks. . .lovers, musicians and friends. I have an intuition about it; I don’t just randomly try one person with another, and try them with someone else if the first attempt fails. Naw, I just get these feelings that person X must meet person Y, and I will try very hard to get them together in the same room. If I do and the magic don’t take, I have done my part and usually don’t try with them again. But it often works. There are couples that have been together for years because of me, bands that wouldn’t have happened without my help and lifelong friends I’ve introduced. You could say I want to be a professional catalyst……”
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