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The folks over at Edge.org, a small corner of the interwebs filled with some of the most surprisingly literary smarty-pants science types, asked their Question of 2007: What are you optimistic about?
Not that we were asked, but Seattlest is optimistic that someone will figure out that whole time-travel business, so we can go back and see James Brown in 1964. We did not see him the two times he performed in Seattle since we moved here (2000 at the EMP opening and again in 2003) and each time we neglected to buy tickets, we thought that despite the fact that it would never compare to JB in '64, we'd regret our inaction someday. And so we do.
Video of either Seattle show is nowhere to be found online, so instead we present to you what we will see in person someday, even if it means we have to scrounge up a battered old DeLorean:
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i was at that 2003 show. he didn't do the splits, but short of that he was just as exciting as he is in all of those old video clips. i bought my tickets because i wanted to "see him before he died." mission accomplished, with the justin hampton poster as souvenir of seeing a legend at work. too bad you missed it.
I was oddly superstitious about going to the 2003 show. I bought tix to see the Who in the Gorge the year prior, saying the exact same thing--I wanted to see them "before John Entwhistle died." And then two days before the concert, that's exactly what he did. I didn't want to be the girl who killed James Brown. OK, that's a lame reason and I'll now forever regret it.