Who do you admire?

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?

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.

"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).

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

Katsuhiro Otomo
Neil Blomkamp
José Mujica
Vince Gilligan
John C. Garand
Barkhad Abdi
Robert Moog
Cesar Millan
Abraham Lincoln
Jackie Chan
Leon Theremin
Eugene Stoner
Saigo Takamori
David Elsewhere
Yingluck Shinawatra
Stanley Kubrick
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Tadao Kikumoto
Gerald Simpson
The Dalai Lama

...and

  On 11/11/2013 at 12:09 AM, hoggy said:

Wesley Willis

"INSURE ONE - IT'S THE INSURANCE SUPER STORE"

  On 11/11/2013 at 1:48 AM, ambermonk said:

  On 11/11/2013 at 12:09 AM, hoggy said:

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

Me

  On 11/11/2013 at 2:54 AM, Leon Sumbitches said:

 

  On 11/11/2013 at 1:48 AM, ambermonk said:

  On 11/11/2013 at 12:09 AM, hoggy said:

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!

The Brothers

Mostly writers as well:

Don Delillo

Thomas Pynchon

Orwell

Alan Moore

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.

Nikola Tesla and Joyrex

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.

  On 11/11/2013 at 3:06 AM, joshuatx said:

 

  On 11/11/2013 at 2:54 AM, Leon Sumbitches said:

 

  On 11/11/2013 at 1:48 AM, ambermonk said:

  On 11/11/2013 at 12:09 AM, hoggy said:

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.

  On 11/11/2013 at 3:52 AM, gmanyo said:

 

  On 11/11/2013 at 3:06 AM, joshuatx said:

 

  On 11/11/2013 at 2:54 AM, Leon Sumbitches said:

 

  On 11/11/2013 at 1:48 AM, ambermonk said:

  On 11/11/2013 at 12:09 AM, hoggy said:

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

Damn look at all 'dis WW luv up in here. Y'all make me PROUD
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brian froud

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

People who can make others laugh, love, and dream through storytelling.

People who can inspire through intellect.

and Fred McGriff.

rocco siffredi
stephen laberge
john mcafee
henry kissinger
paul wolfowitz
dick cheney
charles manson

Bob Ross

Tom Jenkinson

Jim Henson

Anne Geddes

Billy Cobham

Auguste Escoffier

Amos Larkins

Howard Stern

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)

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"

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

Zinn

Hitchens

Sagan