too hard to say really. life comes and goes and i think the idea of 'top events' probably changes every year if not monthly due to what i view as *important* and what it is, is really meaningless to most besides me. regardless a lot of you don't read well as the list was supposed to be things other than marriages or births.

I'm not afraid of your boyfriend :mad:

Not necessarily the top ten and not in any particular order but for me certainly high on the list:

1. When my mother got me 2nd row on the floor of Radio City Music Hall for the Grateful Dead electric/acoustic, then helped me escape from boarding school to get to the show and finally get me back before I was found gone.

2. Going to Mexico and getting over my fear of sharks and being in the ocean by swimming in a fenced pool full of sharks, some twice my size, then going in the ocean and swimming with a giant school of barracuda.

3. Winning my adult hockey league championship and making good on my promise that if we won I would re-create the final scene in Slapshot and do a strip tease on the ice... which got me a one game suspension at the start of the next season.

4. Making Porn with Carrie Fisher, Richard Dreyfuess, Tim Hutton, and Buck Henry while teaching Matt Stone and Trey Parker about porn for "Orgazmo" (before SouthPark fame). I pretended to be Trey and he pretended to be me and that was just the beginning of the pranks we unleashed that evening.

5. Going with a friend and a girl I liked but who had a crush on my pal to hike and boulder in Joshua Tree on acid and having to rescue my friend when he got stuck on a ledge and began to panic... which made such a heroic impression on the gal that a flip switched and suddenly she saw the romantic potential in me... eventually leading to a very happy ending.

6. Being at the Orgazmo screening at the Toronto film festival with my record producer pal who just wrapped making a record with the Rolling Stones and him running into Mick Jagger at a Miramax party - then all of us getting invited to be an audience of about ten people watching the Stones rehearse their show, meeting all the Stones, then going to another party and getting picked up by a blond milf movie exec who was attracted to me because I looked so frigging euphoric.

7. Watching the Dead bust out the epic "dark star" for an encore during a lunar eclipse at a show in Berkeley. Doesn't sound like much but it was a mindblowingly heart wrenchingly spiritual moment, for all the work getting there, all ragged, hard, worn down from the road, but never saw that many people so happy and so spiritually moved and then silenced with a sense of rapture. Bliss. Pure bliss. (ok, you might have to be a Deadhead to even come close to getting this one..)

8. The moped ride back home on a warm star filled Summer night full of fireflies after I lost my virginity to a girl from New Jersey who taught me my first lesson on the road to a life in porn, namely, good girls are nice but nice sluts are a good deal more fun in bed.

9. Being on Dead tour and running into a guy whom I once while tripping flipped out on and wanted to apologize to for years and almost running into him on the way to the bathroom at a diner in the middle of bumfuck nowhere and finally able to get it off my chest... best piss I ever took after that.

10. The night we threw a huge party, the original Players Ball, during the AVN show with Long Beach Dub Allstars (Sublime, post death of singer) and afterwards I had sex in front of a room of people (rescuing an otherwise dull girl-girl show from putting folks to sleep) while listening to a few "playas" discuss the inside dope on DMR falling apart - it was a Matix download straight to the brain of how online worked plus some funky sex and life felt very balanced in that way one feels when being in the right place at the right time with the right group of friends should feel.

Sounds like some wild times. I am not a big Grateful Dead fan but once had a crazy 24 hour experience that involved the Dead, a few bottles of absinthe, a bonfire and my boss telling me not to touch her vagina. It was quite a ride and a good memory. . .well what I can remember of it. :)

Not necessarily the top ten and not in any particular order but for me certainly high on the list:

1. When my mother got me 2nd row on the floor of Radio City Music Hall for the Grateful Dead electric/acoustic, then helped me escape from boarding school to get to the show and finally get me back before I was found gone.

2. Going to Mexico and getting over my fear of sharks and being in the ocean by swimming in a fenced pool full of sharks, some twice my size, then going in the ocean and swimming with a giant school of barracuda.

3. Winning my adult hockey league championship and making good on my promise that if we won I would re-create the final scene in Slapshot and do a strip tease on the ice... which got me a one game suspension at the start of the next season.

4. Making Porn with Carrie Fisher, Richard Dreyfuess, Tim Hutton, and Buck Henry while teaching Matt Stone and Trey Parker about porn for "Orgazmo" (before SouthPark fame). I pretended to be Trey and he pretended to be me and that was just the beginning of the pranks we unleashed that evening.

5. Going with a friend and a girl I liked but who had a crush on my pal to hike and boulder in Joshua Tree on acid and having to rescue my friend when he got stuck on a ledge and began to panic... which made such a heroic impression on the gal that a flip switched and suddenly she saw the romantic potential in me... eventually leading to a very happy ending.

6. Being at the Orgazmo screening at the Toronto film festival with my record producer pal who just wrapped making a record with the Rolling Stones and him running into Mick Jagger at a Miramax party - then all of us getting invited to be an audience of about ten people watching the Stones rehearse their show, meeting all the Stones, then going to another party and getting picked up by a blond milf movie exec who was attracted to me because I looked so frigging euphoric.

7. Watching the Dead bust out the epic "dark star" for an encore during a lunar eclipse at a show in Berkeley. Doesn't sound like much but it was a mindblowingly heart wrenchingly spiritual moment, for all the work getting there, all ragged, hard, worn down from the road, but never saw that many people so happy and so spiritually moved and then silenced with a sense of rapture. Bliss. Pure bliss. (ok, you might have to be a Deadhead to even come close to getting this one..)

8. The moped ride back home on a warm star filled Summer night full of fireflies after I lost my virginity to a girl from New Jersey who taught me my first lesson on the road to a life in porn, namely, good girls are nice but nice sluts are a good deal more fun in bed.

9. Being on Dead tour and running into a guy whom I once while tripping flipped out on and wanted to apologize to for years and almost running into him on the way to the bathroom at a diner in the middle of bumfuck nowhere and finally able to get it off my chest... best piss I ever took after that.

10. The night we threw a huge party, the original Players Ball, during the AVN show with Long Beach Dub Allstars (Sublime, post death of singer) and afterwards I had sex in front of a room of people (rescuing an otherwise dull girl-girl show from putting folks to sleep) while listening to a few "playas" discuss the inside dope on DMR falling apart - it was a Matrix download straight to the brain of how online worked plus some funky sex and life felt very balanced in that way one feels when being in the right place at the right time with the right group of friends should feel.

1. working in 1974 for Frank Zappa as his in-house technician (in the Vault) for recordings to "getting the band together". About 150 or more people were invited to play for a place in the band.
2. working for the Rolling Stones as sound-engineer for the live-shows in Europe, Voodo Lounge.
3. making the promo for the David Letterman Show for Dutch Televison (Veronica)
4. sound-engineer for a Dutch band, Doe Maar.
5. meeting and having a good time with Keith Richards during the making of the movie/video of Voodo Lounge.

well and a lot more, but that it is for now.

double post sorry

6. Having conversations on ICQ with Artem Guitz, the owner of TrafficHolder, when he was busy launching the program.
7. Finding out I am a real Laird, my family did have the title and now I have the title.
8. My first Internext, Januari 4-6 2001?
9. Yep seeing my boy come to this world.
10. Meeting our dog, Igor Aroha Wai, aka Belker.

My top 10 revolves around good times with my family , my friends , accomplishments, music and nature.

My daughter's birth
My son's birth
Honeymooning with the wifey in Cabo San Lucas for 2 weeks
Recently visiting with my mom and my sister.
My 1st wave @ Huntington Pier
My 1st barrel @ River Jetties Newport
10-12 foot waves and only 3 people to share them with (just south Rosarito)
Testing for 1st degree black belt (2003)
4th of July Freedom Gathering SF 1996
Grateful Dead Closing a 3 day show in Sacramento with "Bid you good night"

Holy crap. That is amazing - I am a huge Zappa fan and that is such a fertile time in his creative ouvre. I bow in your general direction and chant "the poodle bites, the poodle chews it"...

Please tell me that this character is based on you.:1orglaugh

Cool thread and absolutely amazing top 10 Joe. I'd love to have done each and every one of your hockey ones ;))

Nice to see you finally add your new site to your sig.

Just one suggestion about your amazing navigation bar. Gallery and Photos is redundant. I know you don't have a staff of however many to point these things out to you now so I wanted to do you the favor.

Dave the photographer is actually based on a real guy named Dave who is really a porn photographer. If I never introduced you to him and you met him on the street you would know it instantly though.

I was the other guy with long hair on the video crew - my big line was actually just a word...

Orbison says "I want you to start on a close up and widen out to a master shot"

I reply... "Genius".

Trey was certainly making fun of me there though.

Oh yeah... interesting footnote to that scene...

Tim Armstrong from the band Rancid was in the background talking to Evan Wright who was editor at Hustler before he became a famous writer for Rolling Stone. The girl in the shot picked up the Van Halen looking dude (who was not in porn at all previously) and we all went and shot a video, tim and evan helping me as "techs". Funny day, worth adding to the list actually.

If you have never done one of Joe's Staples scrimmages then I suggest you add it to your bucket list - especially this year at the Gala XXXmas party he is planning.

I just set the playlist of my mind to "audience roar" when I am out there... and the ice is a few degrees colder than most rinks go so the ice is faaaaaaaaaasssssssssst.

Fun times every time!

lol, most people are so CELEBRITY dependant...

crazy how the western world thinks Celebrities are Semi-Gods... they are just mortal humans with luck. Nothing else.

And their luck is that millions of brainwashed humans follow them like idiots.

PIRIOD.

Top 10:

1_Living for 3 months in Thailand, so many hot girls, miss those days...

2_Visting China, one of the best countries in this World.

3_Visting RUSSIA, third best country in this world.

4_Seeing several UFOs landing, just a few yards in front of me. (Think and write whatever you want, you will be wrong)...

5_My first internet connection in year 1995.

6_My first BBS connection in 1988.

7_Sitting side by side with Chuck Norris in a fly (Chuck is not a celebrity, he's chuck norris, FUCKER!)

8_Finding a PIRATE GOLD COIN while diving in the Venezuelan Caribe.

9_First fly as pilot of a Lear Jet 45.

10_Being part of a team that discovered part of a Dinosaur skeleton in Patagonia.

PIRIOD.

1. Buying a Porsche for my 18th birthday and a Lamborghini Murcielago the same year.
2. Making so much money, while I was still going to high school.
3. Emigrating from Germany to Switzerland when I was 20.
4. Mike's epic bachelor party in Vegas - https://youtube.com/watch?v=mfn-9X0a2FA - craziest weekend ever.
5. Doing a 6000 mile roadtrip from Switzerland to Africa - http://www.mission6000.com
6. Visiting Singapore and taking a ride in the Singapore Flyer (where I am invested in)
7. Waking up after a coma and severe brain injuries with 80% probability of a permanent damage after my Lamborghini crashed at 150 mph on a dry, straight Autobahn - with no permanent damage at all.
8. Moving in at my own newly built house in Switzerland.

Glad the irony is not totally lost on you but still you could have at least tried to cop out better on the chuck norris one by claiming he is a meme because, fact is, he is still a celeb and sitting next to him on a plane means squat unless you are actually a fan of him, whether he is a meme, a celeb, or whatever, the best toilet bowl cleaner the world has never heard of, who cares...

Still, you should take a couple whacks for including that after giving others crap about stuff that meant something to them for no better reason than it meant nothing to you... which is just sort of selfish and condescending when you get right down to it, at least, imho.

On the other hand, I completely agree about China... I could make a whole other list based on my trip there. (Even though I was there when everyone still only wore grey, green, or blue Mao uniforms for the most part).

Thanks I'm trying to get that working a little better.

This was a tough one for me. There are a ton of things, and it's not easy to sort through them, (I got it down to 12, but there are many more). I'm 49 years old and I've been lucky to have a very varied life, and lots of adventures, (not always fun by any means), but adventures nonetheless.

The first two are the first two.... The rest are more interchangable.


1. Birth of my Son, Akiva
2. Marrying my wife, Vino
3. Being one of 4 opening acts for Black Sabbath at the Colston Hall in Bristol in front of 4,000 people, January 1980.
4. Hitchiking and playing guitar all over Europe and North Africa for a year. (lots of adventures)
5. Putting up a brand new rock climbing route in Chedder Gorge. (and almost peeling off of it!)
6. Sailing a 36 foot sloop through a hurricaine off of the coast of Florida
7. The feeling of my first nice new car, (convertable BMW), and driving it around all night after getting it from the dealer.
8. The first time I got my knee down racing my motorcycle.
9. Walking barefoot and shirtless for a few miles through the Amazon rain forest as a kid.
10. Driving through LA, and suddenly hearing a small band that I recorded and produced being played on the radio.
11. Watching guys in my unit reunited with their families when we came home from the first gulf war.
12. Walking naked along the cliffs on blacks beach at night with a beautiful girl, big moon out, no lights or signs of civilization at all. Feeling like the first, or the last two people on earth.


.:2 cents:

1. Birth of daughter #1
2. Birth of daughter #2
3. Interviewing Jerry Garcia for a Banjo Magazine
4. Getting my first short story published
5. Getting my first article published
6. Getting my position with 2much.net
7. Realizing I don't have ten things to post...
8. Getting our company on a reality type TV Series
9. Getting our company on ANOTHER reality type series (coming soon)
10.Seeing my daughters excel at badmington, gymnastics, biligualism, and so much more....

:D

Going to go listen to some "Old and in the Way" in you honor.

(I got a pig at home in a pen, corn to feed him on, all I need is a pretty little girl to feed him when I'm gone...)

Those aren't events, they're just moments ...

Sounds like the kind of question one can spend a lot of time on...

If there was a number 11 it would be meeting Beth and Shap. I havent seen or heard from you in years. Hope all is well. I saw you added me on Facebook .

1. Birth of first son who is 21 now
2. Birth of second son who just turned 5
3. Graduating high school (had a rough 3 yrs)
4. Second marriage, 3 yrs ago this month
5. Teaching myself from books and getting some certifications to finally leave the restaurant managment business.
6. Starting my own business from scratch
7. All Star game in Anaheim with my oldest son
8. Playing baseball as a kid with my Dad as the manager
9. Seeing my first concert in 1983 - Prince
10. Just now realizing that I am getting old and need to travel and have more experiences!

I'm surprised that sex and women doesn't seem to play a special part in most guy's live here(apart from few marriages). Does that mean it's never been really That good experience, or it's just too common occurance for most, like eating food?

This post is either:

A: One of the finest examples of trolling in the history of the internet.

or

B: A clear sign that you should seek out the help of a mental health professional.

My sex list:

1. Losing virginity
2. First real threesome that was spontaneous and not a production
3. Sex on acid in the back of a pick up going 90 miles an hour
4. blowjob on ferris wheel on the pier in Santa Monica
5. First big sex scene on film in a John Leslie movie, "Chameleons, not the sequel"
6. First real orgy during AVN/internext show
7. my roommate and I escaping boarding school, getting picked up by two "townies" that took us for a ride, one fucked my roommate and the other gave me a handie, then dropped us back in time for dinner - and the realization that some Penthouse Forum stories might actually be true...
8. First time making out when I was 13 - I know, sort of PG, but it certainly was electrifying
9. The time Max Hardcore and I double teamed an insatiable hottie that didn't want to quit after the camera stopped rolling as she demanded pure carnality for about 16 hours straight.
10. Going nuts on hookers in Amsterdam for about 36 hours and blowing through my whole production budget on "research".

Hmmmm. Not in order.

1. Time when I realized, that I can do absolutely anything in my life. I realized that I can achieve anything just by moving forward it. When everybody else have only dreams and will never achieve anything in life, I know that hard work can give me anything I want to have.
I started learning new things, started working hard and everything is making better.

2. The best gift in my life - Commodore C64. My first 8 bit computer that uncle bought me when I was 9. Soon I found BASIC programming language book and I became programming... til today.

3. Time when computers became my passion. I remember primary school, junior high, when all kids was playing football and I was all the time in home learning new things about programming and IT. My mates were able only to run Quake on their PC, when I was coding assembler on Debian. That was one of my best memories in life, thanks to which today I am who I am.

4. Leaving the school. In the last year of the school I had great grades, especially from mathematics, physics, chemistry and Polish. I never had to cheat at exams, I was just learning very easy and with passion. The rest of dumbasses was doing nothing, just drinking beer, so they achieved nothing. I wanted to learning more and more... but things, that I may need in life. Studying the history, biology, even chemistry which I liked was for me a waste of time. I quit and started learning only software engineering stuff. People said I'm stupid and was laughing, but they stopped when I was able to pay my own life by freelancing while they was still going to school, having pocket money from parents.

5. Starting first business with my brother, who inspired me in making more and more money. He was 19 and driving shiny BMW bought for his own money. His ability to see business in almost everything motivated me greatly.

6. Finding passion in what I am doing. Programming. I can read and read and read books about it without end. When I learned object-oriented programming and design patterns, programming become a philosophy for me. It's like a new state of mind, lol.

7. Like many others mentioned - the first bankruptcy. I was in huge depression and even wanted to join army to have money for my family, but one day when I was going home I thought "What the fuck, what army. I can do anything, I will make things better". And soon the things became better :) Always when I am loosing motivation I am just thinking about that day and my power back.

There is a lot more key moments in my life. I am a person that is analyzing lot of things in own life. Sometimes even single stupid situation may give me a reflection that changes my live. Every mistake I made is a key moment in my life, because I learned new things from them. My whole life is the key.

One, you obviously have no reverence for the great sport of hockey, which already sets you back a few, but beyond that... who are you to criticize or judge what another person finds meaningful in a moment of his or her life?

Didnt you see in the instructions for this post NO IDIOTS ALLOWED

I mean do you REALLY just sit at home on your computer and type something to make you look like an idiot. Is that what your life has come down to... REALLY. Like a 1st grader who throws a piece of paper thinking it makes him look cool. What a sad state of life some of you people are in.

It's fun eavesdropping on these threads looking for interesting things people have done.
Can't compile a large list at the moment.

Some lists are conceited, others are noteworthy.

I've got some good ones but mine falls short relative to many on here. Maybe that's why I can't find time to compile a list. :upsidedow

1. meeting the girl I had seen in my mind since I was a child as an adult and spending one night with her.
2. making over 100K a year
3. my dad's heart surgery
4. birth of my nephews and niece
4. my bankruptcy, which I always somehow always knew would happen
5. world travel
6. being able to define what I really want in life for a career
7. death of Skufty - still tears me up
8. adopting Willow
9. knowing who my real friends are
10. coming to terms with letting go of people who seriously wronged me

awesome list

Not too bad for first attempt. Looks like you did HTML yourself and didn't rely on FrontPage, a mistake many newbs make. Wishing you much success!

I never listened to him until maybe a year or two ago. I don't know why, probably because "Born in the U.S.A" got played to no fucking end when I was a kid. Then I remember Adam Sandler used to parody him on SNL all the time - I just thought he was corny, but yeah, he's pretty good.

That's pretty fucking awesome. You got some good ones in here. I just read Generation Kill not too long ago, good book.

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Too many moments/events to select out only 10 from my entire life.

I've actually met a number of celebrities, politicians, and various other leaders, however the people that have impressed me most personally are people that work for social change to help improve life for all on this small blue planet, and do so humbly.

Top 10 Event-sy things of my life so far (I like the "so far" part)... :)

? growing up in hawaii (and being raised by two very different, but individually wonderful parents)

? learning to play guitar (music has always been my first passion)

? becoming an atheist / growing comfortable as a humanist (I love this wonderful journey that is life)

? meeting my wife (we're still best friends after 30+ years)

? traveling (visiting most of Asia, including seeing sunrise from the top of mt fuji three times is way up there among my life experiences - each time was special)

? being elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of the student govt in college (understanding that my ideas could motivate others; becoming a political activist and getting arrested for non-violent civil disobedience were very empowering too)

? launching my first business in 1984 (still going strong after all of these years)

? my retirement from corporate work (1999 - I was the National Sales Manager for a Fortune 100 Computer Manufacturer; it was an awards dinner at a VAR Business conference at the Del Coronado Hotel in San Diego; only after someone mentioned it, did I notice that the other 20 or so people at my table were all either National or Regional Sales Managers for various corporations, all of whom I had trained over the years)

? launching my first porn site in 2000 (I literally fell into this business - a model had an idea, I had a film camera, a scanner, and a tutorial for Adobe Go Live, and my first exclusive content adult website was running two weeks later)

? being there for my Dad when he passed away (the man who taught me so much about life, also taught me a lot about the end of life - he felt he was a lucky man for having been able to live his life his own way for most of his life, and in the end he could go out on his own terms after a life lived fully - I hope to be able to do the same, many, many years from now)

Love and Peace,

ADG