Your favorite people.
 

I haven't see a thread like this yet. I know there are going to be a lot of music related people but I'd also like to know who the people in the world are that you really admire and look up too. They can be celebrities, people in your community, or family. I'm going to keep my main focus on people throughout our culture but I will say that my father is my inspiration in my life.

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Pretty much my favorite musician ever. The man personified coolness. He was an innovator in jazz and the man just leaked his gift onto others that played with him. He inspired and personally gifted a lot of amazing musicians. My dreams are played out to Miles. He's amazing.

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An obviously one. I have three favorite directors. The two follow but David Lynch owns a special place with me. I find myself to be a stable person but when I'm feeling unstable I love to watch Lynch's films. The man just knows how to create feeling in a film. He's a kind of director that a projectionist loves because of the amount of detail that the man puts into how his films are to be shown. Please come back to feature films David. I miss you.

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Genius. Stanley Kubrick is just a flat out genius. Nearly every one of his films is a masterpiece and I also admire him because he always did his own thing. Working with him was sometimes a chore but that goes the same for anybody else with the intelligence that the man had. The dude was a freakin chess master! It's a shame that he died even though he wasn't that young because than man just oozed out cinematic masterpieces like it was nothing.

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My favorite young director. I haven't seen Hard Eight yet but his four films after that are incredible, two being my in my top five favorite films ever (TWBB ad Magnolia). Paul Thomas Anderson is incredible behind the camera but the best part I love about him is that fact that he is a great writer. I'm very lucky to be getting older with the films of this man.

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Some people might not know who Shane Smith is. He's a founder of Vice magazine and one of my favorite journalists. I want to eventually when I'm done being a projectionist go out and become the kind of journalist that Shane Smith is. The guy is funny and he knows what is important in life. I'd love to work with the guy one day.

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It's Bill ****ing Murray. There is no reason to describe why he is amazing. He's Bill ****ing Murray.

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My favorite author. Kurt Vonnegut had such an amazing mind and really saw the world in a special way. He was hilarious and heartbreaking in his writing and his stories were unique and enticing.

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Neil Degrasse Tyson is probably the smartest man on the planet right now. I can listen to him talk forever and he is what the world needs ever since Carl Sagan died. The man is just that smart.

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This guy!

All great choices.

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Hunter is an outright badass, period. He writes beautiful and intriguing pieces and the fact that--although it is not that unique in the art world--he did this from the blathering depths of hefty levels of intoxication makes him all the more interesting. I feel like I could talk--or even just listen, if he's on a good kick--to this man for hours on end. Truly a shame that he is gone.

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John Zorn is one of the only musicians that I can trust to be consistently good with his output, or most of the output that he produces. He's given way to many great artists in the experimental music world, and plays some kick ass saxophone to boot.

That's all for now, I'll post some more later.

Hell fucking yeah! I love Neil deGrasse Tyson. So smart and just so infectiously enthusiastic about science and about life, he's probably the famous person I would most like to meet.

I honestly can't really think of anyone. It's probably because I'm trying to. I'll try and force to think of some, even if they aren't favorites.

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For some reason lately I've been watching a lot of Milton Friedman videos. I genuinely don't know why. I don't know if I even agree with him. I know that I don't have any real interest in economics, and yet I've watched almost every video I found of his on YouTube. That is... definitely saying something.

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It's Marcel Duchamp. I don't know that I need to say anything more. Luckily I've gotten to visit the Philly Art Museum, which houses quite a hefty amount of his work. I've almost gotten in a few little arguments with people when I mention his name. Needless to say that when I do, it quickly becomes a, "That's not art!" debate. Instead of posting multiple people, I'll also add Barnett Newman, Francisco Goya, Caravaggio, and Kazimir Malevich to the list of artists I enjoy. I'm also extremely fond of Seurat's drawings, which I just found out about recently.

I'll definitely add more later, once my mind stops being the way it is.

Duchamp is a joke of an artist.
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I like your avatar... :D

Oh, and Wiktor Sadowski. So dark, so dramatic, so wonderfully bizarre. I got my avatar from one of his posters in fact.

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Stewart Lee is probably my favourite comedian because his punch lines can be as simple as the word "now..." and a pause, or a tongue twisted as "Ah, the Popes just died. But what better way... ...to commemorate his life than by licking a sugar effigy of his face? Eat that, swallow it, digest it, pass out some kind of enchanted papal residue.".

All round great human being, Fall fan, PC apologist and liberal assassin.