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who gets a lifetime pass?
Inlander:
I'm going to change tack slightly and nominate former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating. He's an immensely divisive figure, and people generally love him or hate him - and I'm definitely in the former category. He was the last true "big ideas" politician we had. He was fearless in pursuing what he thought was best for the country. He was a driving force behind the referendum on Australian becoming a republic (which, when it eventually happened, was sabotaged by a mixture of the Australian Republican Movement's stupidity and pig-headedness and the then Prime Minister John Howard's deviousness). He was also, most famously, a brutal and uncompromising wit in Parliament. He was famous for being passionate about the music of Gustav Mahler - which years later prompted Howard, his arch-nemesis, to comment derisively (and in true phillistine fashion) that "I'm certainly not going to go off and sulk to Mahler" after something went against him. He was more supportive of the arts than most Australian politicians dare to be. He represented a side of Australia that we too rarely show to the world, less jingoistic and more intellectual. Living in Australia with him as Prime Minister was exciting in a way it almost never has been since.
KharBevNor:
Industrial and neo-folk musicians Genesis P. Orridge, David Tibet, Tony Wakeford, Douglas P. and Boyd Rice.
Which is good because they really fucking need them.
Ozymandias:
--- Quote from: jhocking on 07 Jul 2010, 04:40 ---Would you still like Alan Moore after he wrote an ICP comic?
--- End quote ---
This sounds so fucking good.
scarred:
--- Quote from: A Wet Helmet on 07 Jul 2010, 04:28 ---What happens when the person you admire unconditionally turns out to be Mel Gibson or Gary Glitter?
--- End quote ---
"Say what you want about Mel Gibson, but the son of a bitch knows story structure!"
onewheelwizzard:
I agree with Alan Moore and Lenny Bruce.
I'm going to go ahead and also say that it really doesn't matter what Lorin Ashton (aka BassNectar) does with the rest of his life, he has already made such a thorough impression on me that I'll never be able to really speak ill of him.
Also, Wayne Coyne. I'm so thoroughly enamored of the output of that man's mind that I've seen so far that I can't imagine a wrong turn he could take that would sour my view of him.
Alan Watts died a penniless and bitter alcoholic, and I really don't know what sort of nastiness he inflicted on people close to him in his life, but he gets a free pass for sure. His writing on Eastern religion and general liberation theology is among the greatest in history by any measure, and he is my immediate choice for the one writer literally everyone should read at some point.
Robert Anton Wilson's writing was at times embarrassingly misogynistic and racist, but I don't give a shit, his books are fucking awesome and Prometheus Rising is a masterpiece no matter how arrogant it is. He was almost no doubt a bastard but I'm always going to be able to get past that.
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