If I could hop in a time machine and visit any year, I'd probably go back to 1922.

Seriously, I think it would be a blast. Warren Harding was in the White House. Gangsters and moonshiners were standing up to government overreach. 1922 was the year that James Joyce first published Ulysses and Fitzgerald published The Beautiful and the Damned. In Hollywood, filmmakers were just starting to truly understand what they could do with moving images. 1922 was the year of movies like Nosferatu, Cocaine, and Foolish Wives. 1922 was a year of artistic revolution and experimentation. While the Irish fought for their freedom, Salvador Dali painted Cabaret Scene. In 1922, the economy was strong, excess was celebrated, artists were challenging the status quo, and a country stunned by the horrors of both World War I and the Spanish flu pandemic dealt with their trauma by dancing through their day. 1922 was the year that the world danced as fast as it could and refused to worry about the future.

1922. I just hope I get to visit it someday.