STREET TALK: What music act, dead or alive, would you love to see and why?

Follow-up: What exotic animal would you love to have as a pet?

Asked at: Plumes Coffee House in Monterey

Hector Cortazar | Busboy | Marina

A: Surf Curse – they’re a small band from Reno. I like their personalities and you can relate to their songs a lot.

Prehistoric Life: A woolly mammoth, because they’re big and fluffy. Bigger than elephants.

Saul Khazal |Property manager | San Francisco

A: Beethoven. I’d like to see someone from the past and he had a lot of science behind his music.

Cool Cat: A sabertooth tiger. If that cat were around now, it’d be the alpha male.

Melissa Lewington | Elementary school principal | Salinas

A: Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings.” It’s a stirring piece of music. It has a lot of soul, it changes mood.

Wild Heart: A bobcat. I love felines, and I’ve always admired bobcats.