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18 years ago
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Written in response to Gothic Paladins' journal and thought my comment might as well go up as a journal as well
GP - "Who're your heroes? Both real and fake. I've been pondering the meaning of the word hero and realize that it is highly subjective word- Hero."
[my comment]
Heroes eh? Not sure if I would classify my picks as heroes but people I certainly respect and or admire
Thomas Paine (intellectual radical deist.. Contributed with a fair amount of influence to the French Revolution. Wrote the Rights of Man)
Peter Metcalfe
Cesar Chavez
Bill Hicks [comedian] > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnti.....ed&search=
Paul Gilbert - Way cool sick ass guit player > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPGA.....ed&search=
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC60.....ed&search=
Neil Young (sort of..)
Joe Strummer
Tom Morrello/RATM check out the nightwatchman Toms solo stuff > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEU1.....ed&search=
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGivnzTNyY0
Okay so I don't expect you to watch all those links but if you do watch the Bill Hicks ones.. Funny stuff...
GP - "Who're your heroes? Both real and fake. I've been pondering the meaning of the word hero and realize that it is highly subjective word- Hero."
[my comment]
Heroes eh? Not sure if I would classify my picks as heroes but people I certainly respect and or admire
Thomas Paine (intellectual radical deist.. Contributed with a fair amount of influence to the French Revolution. Wrote the Rights of Man)
Peter Metcalfe
Cesar Chavez
Bill Hicks [comedian] > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnti.....ed&search=
Paul Gilbert - Way cool sick ass guit player > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPGA.....ed&search=
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC60.....ed&search=
Neil Young (sort of..)
Joe Strummer
Tom Morrello/RATM check out the nightwatchman Toms solo stuff > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEU1.....ed&search=
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGivnzTNyY0
Okay so I don't expect you to watch all those links but if you do watch the Bill Hicks ones.. Funny stuff...
Here are mine, again, for positirity.
Josey Wales
Jonah Hex
Knights
The Punisher
Abraham Lincoln
Alvin York
Rodger Young
Alan Moore.
La Rochefoucauld
Immanuel Kant
Leonhard Euler
Leonardo da Vinci
Galileo Galilei
Karl Popper
Richard Feynman
...just to name a few.
For Music: Phillip Glass, John Cale, Ian Curtis, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Thelonious Monk.
For Art: Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Crumb, Egon Schiele, Claude Monet, T0kka.
For Prose: James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Jorge Luis Borges, Albert Camus.
For Verse: TS Eliot, John Wilmot, Lord Byron, Jim Morrisson, Allen Ginsberg, Dylan Thomas.
For Philosophy: Ayn Rand, Friedrich Neitszche, Jean-Paul Sartre, Voltaire, Lao Tzu.
For Film: Federico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Charlie Kaufman.
For Drama: Kanami and Zeami, Peter Shaffer, Jonathon Larson, Edward Albee.
For Other: Bill Hicks, Barry Humphries, Norton I, Atomicat, Lenny Bruce, Klaus Nomi, Carl Johnson.
--Yeah, more or less that... XP