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.

Every single movie i've seen with Neeson has been incredible.

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You liked Phantom Menace?

I'm a huge star wars fan, I even saw it in 3D. Love it.

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Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon.
I would not hesitate in saying that I wouldn't have survived my teenage years if not for Joe Strummer. Paul Simonon was the first man I was really really attracted to, and I will forever be stuck on blue eyed men with funny teeth.

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Damon Albarn
Flawless sex god, musical genius.

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Morrissey
God/Master of the entire Universe

As am I. That in no ways means I enjoyed that movie. :p:

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Kevin Barnes. Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, performance artist, misanthrope, conceptual artist, drag queen, story-teller, feminist, philosopher.

Well, they had to start the story out somehow. Granted, I think some things could have been better. Personally, I think the 2nd movie is the worst out of them all, it's more of a romance movie than a Star Wars movie.

What?! The last half hour, and first twenty minutes, of that movie is some of the most badass shit of any Star Wars movie. There's not that much of the romance stuff really.

I found it to be more about Anakin and Padme than anything. I thought a lot of the movie was great, but there was a bit of romance in it.

Yes, there was a bit of the romance, and I agree that was the worst part of the movie, but most of the movie was great!

I really did like the end with Yoda vs Count Dooku. Shows how ****ing badass Yoda is.

I hear Liam Neeson has a huge dong

Just like David Letterman!

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James Dewitt Yancey

Very few things have touched my life as greatly as his music has. His existence on this planet gave me hope for my own existence. Truly an amazing human being.

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It's supposedly true, I didn't just pull that out of my ass. Wait... that sounds bad.

David Sedaris has an amazing way of presenting subtle, intelligent humor found in every day situations and slipping in stoic, profound statements on human nature in between jokes. He's one of my favorite writers, and one of my greatest inspirations in the writing I do.





Kind of in the same vein as David, Ira Glass is another of my favorite people. He is one of the greatest storytellers I've heard, and I think he deserves a lot of credit for keeping broadcast journalism alive in his wit and consistent innovation. If you don't know, Ira Glass is the creator of the program This American Life which broadcasts on NPR (and has been turned into a television show which is also great). If you haven't heard it or heard of it, I highly recommend you check it out.





As I mentioned in the Comedy Week thread, I love Bill Hicks for his abrasiveness, but also for his poetic tendencies and esotericism. He's the best kind of asshole.



All I can think of atm. Would surely have mentioned Kurt Vonnegut first and foremost but as he's already been claimed as a favorite I'll just have to agree with Exoskeletal. :D The rest of my favorite people are fictional. /cynicism.

Wat about yr new boyfriend R. Stevie Moore?

:laughing: I would mention him as a favorite if he wasn't so creepy.

some of my favourite people (in no particular order) -

Ron & Russell Mael

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two of the most influential loves of my life; yes, they are musicians but they're also geniuses whose brilliance and unique view of the world changed mine for the absolute best. Without them I don't exactly know what the state of my mind would be, or if I would have ever come out of my darkest days.

Jim Henson

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Jim had one of the most delightful minds this world has (and will ever have) seen. The things he created with this precious gift coloured my childhood. Learning about him as I grew older really warmed my heart. It truly saddens me that he wasn't able to live as long as possible, and that I never had a chance to meet him. Apart from his obvious contributions to entertainment and education, he was also a brilliant filmmaker and a true pioneer.

Gil Elvgren

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One thing a lot of people don't know about me is that I love pin-up girls. Gil Elvgren is my favourite pin-up artist, with Alberto Vargas at a close second. His work has a soft and classy feel to it that other artists just don't seem to have. His girls are timeless beauties (and yes, I do have an Elvgren calendar in the kitchen).

Marc Bolan

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Another musician, but one I admire greatly. Throughout his short window of fame (and, ultimately short life) he managed to bring so much pomp to the music business in the most adorable way possible. In some ways he was like a naive child, and in others he was wise beyond his years. That, and whenever I need a little ego boost, his sassy music is always there to save me.

My father

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If I was a guy, I'd be just like my father. I take after him in my appearance (though obviously he can't sit on his hair like I can) and my demure nature. My dad is so cool, though. He's the reason I'm weird, offbeat, and not easily offended by anything. Though I don't always agree with him, he's easily one of the funniest people I know (and no matter what kind of stupid **** I get myself into, he never judges me or thinks any less of me).

The love of my life

(seen here with my evil cat, just after her bath)

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You're looking at the most incredible human being I have ever met in my life. Everything he does is beautiful (especially the way he smiles, wraps his arms around me, laughs, and approaches animals) and he never fails to make me feel a whole lot better when things get really terrible. He's always there for me, and he's always sincere. He even tells me things I might not want to hear, because he knows how to make an impact and really get through to me.

I really can't say enough. Once he sees this he's probably going to flip, and it's going to be great.

are you ****ing serious

I fail to see a problem here.

umad?

No, I don't need to flaunt my relationship to prove it exists.

I felt it was relevant but thanks for making the assumption that I feed off of vanity like every other dumb bitch on the web. Posting like a champ; well done!

3/10 response imo, kewl feminism NOT

It's a damn shame, where when people show their love publicly, it's look down on.

It's not like we go around every single day saying we ****ed or something.

Let's bring back the love. Group hug in the shower, y/n?

Go back to 4chan and come back when you learn to communicate.

Awwwww hell yeah.