Leon Sumbitches Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 At any given time I've got a sort of mental roster of people whose attitude and work I'm interested in and who I really admire, and who've shaped my own personal/political/creative opinions to some degree. I'm kind of interested in who y'all admire and feel you've been influenced by. My own list seems to mainly seems to be writers (I've deliberately left out people I admire musically). At the moment, people I admire: Bertrand Russell (see in particular 'A Liberal Decalogue') Hunter S. Thompson Bill Hicks and the Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle (some of his written stuff makes incredibly spot-on points about how vacuous and fucked-up our culture can be) China Mieville (love his fiction) Carl Sagan Grant Morrison and Alan Moore, for being creative as fuck C. Wright Mills (his work on the role of the social sciences is inspiring if you're involved in any of those disciplines) Who do you admire, WATMM? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadameChaos Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 Julie Delphy, she is so smart and talented and a fantastic director. if i ever end up making anything half as brilliant i'll be happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoggy Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 "creative as fuck" hehehe Buzz Osbourne Katie Jane Garside Aaron Funk Chris Morris Maria Bamford Wesley Willis Neil Hamburger (Greg Turkington) Several friends, colleagues and people I've met (usually when they are kind, funny, expressive, independent). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xox Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 i admire ppl only based on their morality and empathy and all that i can think right now would be my parents, my fiancee and my best friend...out of living i don't give a fak if someone's intelligent and creative, i'm too so what, that doesn't make me better human being. i could admire more someone like forrest gump than thomas edison or richard dawkins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambermonk Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Katsuhiro OtomoNeil BlomkampJosé MujicaVince GilliganJohn C. GarandBarkhad AbdiRobert MoogCesar MillanAbraham LincolnJackie ChanLeon ThereminEugene StonerSaigo TakamoriDavid ElsewhereYingluck ShinawatraStanley KubrickMikhail KalashnikovTadao KikumotoGerald SimpsonThe Dalai Lama ...and Wesley Willis "INSURE ONE - IT'S THE INSURANCE SUPER STORE" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leon Sumbitches Posted November 11, 2013 Author Share Posted November 11, 2013 Wesley Willis "INSURE ONE - IT'S THE INSURANCE SUPER STORE" I had not heard of this guy but... holy shit. This is an incredible find! Thread delivers already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DorkingtonPugsly Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuatxuk Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Wesley Willis "INSURE ONE - IT'S THE INSURANCE SUPER STORE" I had not heard of this guy but... holy shit. This is an incredible find! Thread delivers already ROCK OVER LONDON, ROCK ON CHICAGO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoodie Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 The Brothers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Mostly writers as well: Don Delillo Thomas Pynchon Orwell Alan Moore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuatxuk Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Off the top of my head: Louis CK Fenriz Jello Biafra Brian Eno George Harrison Ernest Greene (Washed Out) Chris Ott (Shallow Rewards) Justin Broadrick Kevin Martin Madlib Christopher Hitchens Conan O'Brien Werner Herzog Bill Murray Grimes Cohen Brothers Amelia Earhart Sam Houston Thomas Paine Teddy Roosevelt David Crockett Chuck Yeager Steve Albini Delia Derbyshire Frank Zappa John Williams Stanley Kubrick All of the WATMM featured artists Although way more conservative than I am, I've always liked Ron Paul, John McCain, and Barry Goldwater for various and random reasons. Eisenhower is my favorite 20th century president. I find very few politicians of the modern age even remotely likable. Statesmen just don't exist anymore:/ Many of "senior" WATMMers Also the new pope seems pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
logakght Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Nikola Tesla and Joyrex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cult fiction Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 This really chill waiter from yesterday. Dude was the chillest person I have ever met. He emanated calm waves of friendly energy. I shall seek each day to be more like him. I gave him a 100% tip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmanyo Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Wesley Willis "INSURE ONE - IT'S THE INSURANCE SUPER STORE" I had not heard of this guy but... holy shit. This is an incredible find! Thread delivers already ROCK OVER LONDON, ROCK ON CHICAGO! Wheaties, breakfast of champions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuatxuk Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Wesley Willis "INSURE ONE - IT'S THE INSURANCE SUPER STORE" I had not heard of this guy but... holy shit. This is an incredible find! Thread delivers already ROCK OVER LONDON, ROCK ON CHICAGO! Wheaties, breakfast of champions. THAT COMMENT GOT DOWN LIKE A MAGIKIST Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambermonk Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Damn look at all 'dis WW luv up in here. Y'all make me PROUD[youtubehd]roxMH07qHmc[/youtubehd] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YEK Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 brian froud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SR4 Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 4chan Reddit VICE magazine Pitchfork magazine some Japanese postmodern author: I read a chapter of one of their books Slavoj Zizek (as mentioned above) Foucault (as mentioned above...i don't know their full name) Hannah Arendt (I saw her namedropped in a Rolling Stone article when I was a kid) Japanese Telecom (Autechre sideproject...you probably haven't heard of it) inventor of Che Guevara t-shirts the guy that did photography for The Smiths albums the inventor of Parliament Lights Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 People who can make others laugh, love, and dream through storytelling. People who can inspire through intellect. and Fred McGriff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 rocco siffredistephen labergejohn mcafeehenry kissingerpaul wolfowitzdick cheneycharles manson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud capture Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Bob Ross Tom Jenkinson Jim Henson Anne Geddes Billy Cobham Auguste Escoffier Amos Larkins Howard Stern Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chunky Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 socrates (died for speaking the truth) jesus (died for speaking the truth) moshe dayan (honest) king david (5 smooth stones!) martin van creveld (potentially accurate futurist) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goDel Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 i'm a secret admirer of everyone. and i'm NOT working for the NSA, btw. and i'd love to kill chunky for speaking "the truth" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J3FF3R00 Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Mostly musicians... Lou Reed David Bowie Iggy Pop Brian Eno Black Sabbath Jimi Hendrix John Lennon Elliott Smith RDJ JS Bach Yoko Ono Technical Itch also Edgar Allan Poe Werner Herzog David Lynch Shakespeare Dylan Thomas Sylvia Plath Rosa Parks Martin Luther King Jr So many more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Al Hounos Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Zinn Hitchens Sagan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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