Top 10 Things To Do If You Win The Lottery

[kenny weir]

1. Get a credit card.
2. Order entire Mosaic catalogue.
3. Get 4 spare pairs each of my normal glasses and sunnies made.
4. Go to dentist.
5. Give several million each to Melbourne International Jazz Festival and Melbourne's PBS-FM.
6. Buy new sound system.
7. Buy ice cream maker.
8. Trade in junker car for new wheels (modest still, until Bennie is older & less messy).
9. Resume regular visits to New Orleans.
10. Quit job.

(Hell, 10 is just a start! )

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[ScreaminJayHawkins]

I'm one of those rare instance that wouldn't know what to do with more then 1 million. I'd probably buy a couple of appartment buildings and live off the rents till the end of my life.

But for the sake of speaking, I'd probably get a boat, a house (I'm 23, I don't have that yet), a better audio system, a giant TV, a gigantic library of music, movies and books, some fine furniture, complete filming and editing equipment to produce my own shorts, a top notch laptop... and if it's a really big jackpot, probably a bunch of rare first editions/prints (books and albums).

[xricci]

If I won the jackpot, I'd...

* move AAJ HQ
* hire help
* overhaul my current computer system
* open up a jazz venue (who cares if it loses money!)
* buy a winery
* buy a digital video camera
* spend more time traveling abroad
* get a haircut

[3pointdeli]

buy:

bass guitar and amp
guitar amp (maybe another electric guitar, too)
new drum heads
the best ride and high hat cymbals i can find
pick-up truck
furniture
kegerator and keg of good quality imported beer
new roof for the house
year's supply of firewood
pay off mortgage

not necessarily in that order

[clifton]

What would I do with all that money?
1. Buy a new house and leave my little row home at last.
2. Buy a new car.
3. Buy a new stereo system.
4. Buy lots of CD's.
5. Buy even more CD's.
6. Buy at least one new computer.
7. Buy some DVD's and new clothes for my entire family.
8. Buy a bunch of other stuff.
9. Make a big donation to MoveOn.org.
10. Spend more and invest some.

[Grub]

1. Lure Charlize Theron into my love nest
2. Bank roll an Italian anarchist group
3. Bribe J-Lo, Westlife, Cher and several others to retire
4. Pay a hitman to take out Jim Davidson (to non UK folk - this man is an obnoxious, right-wing , flag-waving so-called comedian)
5. Buy a secret island from where I can launch my bid for world domination
6. Build a sanctuary for meerkats - the grooviest species on the planet
7. Buy all my favourite guitars
8. Put a ludicrous amount down on Best Mate to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup this Thursday
9. Pay for Cherie Blair's face lift and dental work
10. Buy the formula for Coke.

I'm assuming I'd scoop the roll over jackpot.

[marvin g]

Pay off my creditors
Travel
Buy a new car (s)
Buy a big house with a music room

That's about it for me.
Now if I didn't win, I'd hire a lawyer and claim you stole my ticket!

[Katzman]

*Aquire Hugh Hefner's address book
*Buy large country estate (for purpose of converting into my love mansion)
*get Bireli Lagrene to be my private guitar coach
*pay for my friends wierd younger brother to have the sex change he wants then pay for him to go and live in Australia
*Buy Jean Cocteau's drawing of Django Reinhardt
*Take up kung fu
*Get an old 1980's Mercadies with worn red leather interior
*Open a jazz club (good idea xricci)
*Fly into space with NASA as paying passanger
*Start a jazz record lable

Pretty much in that order

[PsychedelicFuzz]

1. buy a new horn
2. buy another new horn
3. buy every obscure historical or ethnic instrument I've ever wanted.
4. buy my parents a house and cars
5. build a walk-in humidor
6. build a wine cellar next to my humidor
7. build my own personal recording studio
8. pay off my student loans
9. exponentially increase the size of my record collection
10. set some back for charity and worthy causes in general

[jazzguyfromnc]

If I made a zillion bucks..

1. QUIT MY JOB.

2. Buy a Hemi Ram and a fully restored '68 Dodge Coronet R/T and drop a spec-built 440 in it.

3. Buy a really cool old house that's been redone and hire someone to clean it every week.

4. Train in Goju-ryu privately from 10am till around 4pm, then play video games until it's time for a gig.

5. I'd get some new gear. Of course the axe would be custom made to my specs.

6. Hire someone to give me a makeover and then I'd buy tons of clothes.

7. I'd have a walk-in humidor installed in my cool new house stocked with lots, and lots, and lots of cigars.

8. I'd have to have a monstrously nice home entertainment system.

9. I'd buy a robot. Because I'd have my OWN ROBOT.

10. I WOULD THROW A PARTY.

[Fran]

Originally posted by xricci
If I won the jackpot, I'd...

* move AAJ HQ
* hire help
* overhaul my current computer system
* open up a jazz venue (who cares if it loses money!)
* buy a winery
* buy a digital video camera
* spend more time traveling abroad
* get a haircut

And #9 and 10 ?

[jazzguyfromnc]

Originally posted by Katzman

*Take up kung fu

I could teach you! At only $200 per half hour!

[Katzman]

Yeh, and maby I could pay for you to fly over to the UK for each lesson. By the way what is Goju-ryu?

[xricci]

And #9 and 10 ?

Fran, you counted!!

#9: Spend a year in Italy and learn the language



#10: Host an annual AAJ Gong Show party and fly in panelists FitzGenius, Shawn-M, and Phil Meloy.

[GA Russell]

1. change my phone number (to something unlisted)
2. pay off all creditors
3. buy reliable transportation
4. buy a home in the country