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Posted by Kevin_McGee on 27 August 2011 - 11:49am.
One of my favourite quotes is from the Emperor Nero. When he had finally completed his planet-sized new palace, he flopped onto a bank of gold-threaded cushions, looked up at the revolving marble ceiling, speared another flamingo-tongue nugget on an ivory cocktail stick and said: "At last, I can begin to live like a human being!"
Given unimaginable wealth, what one absurd luxury would you splash out on?
I can barely hold down an F, but I think I'd build a recording studio with a comprehensive library of instruments to hack away at. I'd also keep a producer and some genial session people on retainers, to turn it into actual music.
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Similar to yours Kevin. A downstairs basement in my large-ish house (which must, of course, have a pointy turret with weather vane) would have soundproofed adjoining rooms. One filled with assorted Rickenbackers, Fenders, Ampegs and Ludwigs, the other - behind a big glass window - with a recording desk, pool table and sofas. Ideal for when the mood takes me and the band. I've given it all quite a bit of thought. You gotta havva dream...
Ah
I forgot the pool table. Also a beer room with a big open fire, and a chainsaw to make firewood of the felled trees outside. I think that would relax the band after that tense twelfth take.
Not that I have given this much thought you understand
But if i was Abramovich rich I would buy a house on a hill with a view you would never tire of and my own woodland and meadow.
I would buy Colwyn bay pier and either restore it or wipe it from the face of the earth as it is currently an eyesore.
And having been so kind to the earth I would fill my fantasy garage with an Aston Martin DB9, Porsche 911 Carrera2, a 1960's Mini Cooper S and a selection of classic Land Rovers.
A Diabolik limited edition chest...
for storing over 700 volumes of the escapades of Italy's foremost comic book antihero.
OMG
That is stupendous. Simply stupendous.
"What one absurd luxury would you splash out on?"
Gold-leaf Kleenex.
Literally and figuratively.
I'd also mant a decent music system. Like this.
$6m, apparently. But I wouldn't have the wooden floor. Too echo-ey.
I bet Elton John's got one of those...
But then again Elton doesn't do ones or twos* so let's make that three of those.
* Insert crude toilet-based joke here
Yeah but
is it Ipod compatible?!
By the way...
Where the hell is that photograph from?!
Lot of friggin' money...
...when it's the dog listening to the hi-fi!
I'm going to be moving into my own place soon
and I won't have to keep kosher anymore.
I like to imagine that I'm going to have one of these in my kitchen:
Ohhhhh yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh.
Fantastic
My wife and I actually investigated the price of various acorn-fed pig-legs and scalpel-like Spanish slicers before remembering that we have a kitchen the size of Douglas Bader's sock drawer.
I doubt Morrissey has one of them...
That is bizarre. I am trying to work out what it's for!
It's purely a stand for a leg of acorn-fed ham.
Delicious, delicious ham.
*sighs happily*
One of these fellers...
...ex-special forces driver on hand to take me wherever I want, whenever I want, to be my go-to guy when things get hairy, to turn a blind eye to the pecadillos I'd then be able to afford, and who instinctively knows about which fabrics make your dining room just shimmer with vitality.
Sort of like a male secretary-cum-interior designer with weapons grade ninja skills.