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89.3 The Current's Dream Thanksgiving

Posted at 2:05 PM on November 16, 2011 by The Current (8 Comments)

Happy Thanksgiving from 89.3 The Current!

With Turkey Day fast approaching, the staff over here at 89.3 The Current started to wonder: what would the guest list for our ideal Thanksgiving dinner look like? We polled our staff, and here's what we came up with...

Who would you invite to Thanksgiving?

Mary Lucia, Host

I'd ask Robert Pollard from Guided By Voices, as I know he'd bring the beer. Also, Nick Cave—just because I think it would be cool to pass the cranberry sauce to the king of goth.

Mark Wheat, Host

My dinner guest would be Brian Eno, as I'm only now appreciating his ambient stuff, and I love every interview with I've seen or heard and that for such a musichead hero, he's infiltrating the mainstream.. vis a vis his recent Colbert appearance!

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Steve Seel, Host

I am imagining a dinner made up of the rattiest, most ragged-out dirt-rockers out there—Lemmy, Slash, Iggy Pop—all sitting around smoking and swearing and scratching their unshaven chins over their plates of giblet gravy and cranberry sauce. It's the least Norman Rockwell-like scene I can possibly conceive, and thus, it seems like the most emotionally healthy.

Jill Riley, Host

Dave Grohl, Alex Lifeson, Jack White. They seem like they'd be fun to play cards with.

Barb Abney, Host

I would surround myself with some of my favorite authors. I would love to see what kind of covered dish each would bring to the table. Chuck Klosterman and Stephen King could talk as much about rock 'n roll as horror, whether campy or scary...
Poppy Z. Brite and Anne Rice could talk about Vampires and New Orleans...
Dean Koontz and Neil Gaiman could talk horror and dogs...
And I'd just sit back and listen to the conversations!

Jade, Host

For my ultimate Thanksgiving dinner I'd have: Anthony Bourdain (he can cook and mock), Jack White (for some reason I feel like he'd really get into Thanksgiving), and Jon Stewart (to keep some interesting conversation flowing).

Bill DeVille, Host

I would love to have Johnny Cash over for Thanksgiving.

Jacquie Fuller, Host

The best Thanksgiving dinner would include my extended family, plus the surrogate family of my good friends. They're so spread out all over the country—Texas, Minnesota, Illinois, California, Alaska, Washington—that it would be quite a feat to even get them all in the same city. There would also need to be a good amount of wine on hand. (I think there's actually a name for this gathering, and it's called "my funeral.")

Mac Wilson, Host

I would invite Jens Lekman to our house. In addition to being impeccably charming & polite, I'm sure he would turn the situation into a brilliant song that would explore previously-unforeseen subtexts in our family dynamic.

Jim McGuinn, Program Director

Busta Rhymes, Ira Glass, and Keith Richards. For some reason I think the conversations would be quite interesting between those three and my parents.

Bethany Barberg, Local Music Assistant

To Thanksgiving dinner, I would like to invite Jeff Tweedy... He has long been a musical icon of mine, and I would love to share turkey, stuffing and cranberries with the purveyor of some of my favorite songs of all time. Plus he is really funny and he would add a nice witty edge to Thanksgiving, as evidenced in this video:

Ali Lozoff, Marketing Manager

I don't know who I would invite to my house—well actually we have an open door policy for the holidays so pretty much anyone is invited—but I have often fantasized about joining other people for the holidays. Like, I would give my pinkie toe to have Thanksgiving at the Sedaris household. Or the Wainwright extended family dinner table. Especially if their friends the Cohens stopped over. I'm very drawn to what the dynamics of a famous, musical, quirky family meal would be like... though I am also positive the real thing would not live up to any of my hopes and dreams.

Matt Perkins, Marketing Specialist

Miles Davis, Kevin Spacey, Barack Obama, Frank Zappa, Conan O'Brien.

Well, that's about it for our picks, so now it's time for you to tell us.. if you could invite anyone, who would you have over for Thanksgiving dinner? Let us know in the comments!

Comments (8)

how about Weird Al, Bono, Alice Cooper, Dave Mustane of MegaDeath, Brad Paisley, Tim McGraw & Faith Hill, JayZ & Beyonce, Kanye West, KRS-One, Chuck D, SaltnPeppa & Spindarella, unfortunately CANNOT invite as of this very moment Ashton & Demi-another dream couple crashlanding

Posted by M.J. Goldman | November 17, 2011 4:17 PM

I think Jade has the perfect idea...but Jim's suggestion of Busta Rhymes would be awesome, although I just couldn't see him eating a turkey on Thanksgiving.

Posted by B. | November 18, 2011 8:22 AM

i want the meatloaf from 'the cook, the thief, his wife and her lover" (movie)

Posted by wainiac | November 18, 2011 11:07 AM

taylor swift and kanya west. across from each other.

Posted by wainiac | November 18, 2011 11:11 AM

i would invite mark "return of the mac" morrison, biz markie, mark e. smith, g.e. smith, the smiths, the slits, sleater-kinney, slaughter & the dogs, snoop, camp lo, rilo kiley, teddy riley, ted bundy, al bundy, al stewart, mark stewart and french stewart

Posted by christhamrin | November 18, 2011 1:08 PM

No question, Tom Waits right?
We can sample the turkey fat popping in the oven and listen to Atmosphere.

Hopefully he would want to come back everyday... oh
I mean every Thanksgiving

Posted by maggie | November 19, 2011 2:43 PM

I'd like to think I'd invite Johnny Cash and Bruce Springsteen but I imagine I'd be afraid to speak in front of them.

Posted by Arjun | November 20, 2011 5:50 PM

Re: Steve Seel's invite.... Slash quit smoking! True story. I met him last year when he played at the Medina. I realize a non-smoking version of Slash isn't the ICONIC Slash as we know him, but it brings me hope. If SLASH can quit smoking, then ANYTHING is possible!--world peace....and end to the deficit....a Superbowl win for the Vikes....Mick Jaggar monogamous....

Posted by Erin | November 21, 2011 11:13 AM

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