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Post by Lemon Bloody Cola on Dec 12, 2009 7:41:36 GMT
While the lure of Jack Kerouac would be strong, I'd probably plump for Carl Gustav Jung  Mainly because I'd tap that and HARD. No.. actually because, he reminds me of a real life version of how the Marvel supervillian Doctor Doom became a powerful dictator and all around master of evil via the revolutionary idea of fusing magic and science/technology. Jung's equally open minded (but less evil) approach to scientific rationalism and religious/mystic elements, fusing them together. Just really inspiring to me. I don't think the rational and imaginative or spiritual are enemies like some people do.. they're like the two wings that support the BIRD OF HUMANITY as crytome would put it. I think I'd pick him over Kerouac (along with Brian Wilson my core hero.. BW is living so I wouldn't pick him) is I'd love to be his patient, I think he'd sort me out, where as hangin' with Jackie boy would probably radge me up more, haha. I really want to know what he'd make of certain synchronistic incidents and reoccurring symbolics archetypes in my life. |
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Post by katrick on Dec 12, 2009 15:45:10 GMT
ARRRRGGGGGGHHHHH all I can see is the woeful typing error in the thread title.... oh god oh god oh god
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Post by helwin tins on Dec 12, 2009 23:27:04 GMT
get over it.
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Post by idreamofcherrypies on Dec 12, 2009 23:33:24 GMT
Quentin Crisp. Although I'd probably be too intimidated to speak. Does he count as 'history' anyway?
Shakespeare. It's like Woolf says in A Room Of One's Own (have I been pretentious enough yet?) he's one of those writers that never comes through in his characters, 'everyone and no one'. So famous and nobody really knows what he's like or how he spoke or even what he looked like or anything. I'd love to meet him and see how he sounds in normal conversation and what he thinks of everything. Or maybe Woolf herself, although again I'd probably be too intimidated.
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Post by katrick on Dec 13, 2009 10:54:43 GMT
OSCAR WILDE! I would steal him. btw my thing about typing errors is ocpd related  |
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Post by helwin tins on Dec 13, 2009 13:07:52 GMT
early smiths-era morrissey. is there really any other answer?
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Post by idreamofcherrypies on Dec 13, 2009 13:14:15 GMT
Haha my mum was moaning about him yesterday. Apparently he does nothing but complain and she'd love to give him a big slap.
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Post by husbandwifeheroin on Dec 13, 2009 13:21:22 GMT
Me and my sister sing The Smiths but just saying 'I ME MINE MY' etc.
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Post by idreamofcherrypies on Dec 13, 2009 13:22:16 GMT
^ As in the Polysics song?
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Post by katrick on Dec 13, 2009 13:23:56 GMT
Woooooow I forgot about Polysics. I think I saw them about 3 years ago...  |
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Post by husbandwifeheroin on Dec 13, 2009 13:23:57 GMT
What Polysics song?
We just miss every word that isn't a first-person pronoun aha.
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Post by idreamofcherrypies on Dec 13, 2009 13:30:20 GMT
Woooooow I forgot about Polysics. I think I saw them about 3 years ago... NO WAY! I'm so jealoussssss  I mentioned a baaaaand, and then someone said they saw the baaaaand, and heaven knows I'm miserable na-howw There's this band called Polysics and they have a song called I MY ME MINE so I wasn't sure if you sung it to a Smiths tune, which would be hilarious. This is they edit: better link |
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Post by wanderer on Dec 13, 2009 13:56:03 GMT
I would want to meet Arthur Rimbaud. Being a famous poet at seventeen appeals to me, even if he ‘gave it up’ insisting ‘there was nothing left to write’ and went to sell guns in Africa.
I’m just worried about language barriers, as far as I know he only spoke French and I mostly English. I’d have to enlist a babel fish or a tardis or something…
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Post by husbandwifeheroin on Dec 13, 2009 14:02:24 GMT
Wanderer has inspired me. I'd want to meet Douglas Adams.
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Post by mynameisHughGrant on Dec 13, 2009 17:27:03 GMT
I'd meet most of the above, especially Morrissey and Oscar Wilde, and Virginia Woolf except that this would probably inspire spectacular misery, plus Angela Carter. And Klaus Nomi, and togetehr we'd create Latitude Festival's BEST EVER LINEUP
also, nobody wants to meet Jesus and see what all the fuss was about
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Post by husbandwifeheroin on Dec 13, 2009 17:48:56 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2009 18:40:06 GMT
Socrates, so we can have a conversation about happiness and then I'll try to stop him from being killed but that's bad because you can't change the course of history but I'd do it anyway because this is all hypothetical and I'd grab a toga along the way.
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Post by katrick on Dec 13, 2009 21:10:38 GMT
You could bring him back to now with you and disguise him as a normal man and keep him in your house to talk about deep stuff I've clearly put way too much thought into this. Also, I have no idea whether a toga would suit you but who cares DO IT DO IT DO IT! My school's history department had a Roman day and all the teachers wore togas ;D Twas hilarity in middle-aged human form... |
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Post by bughunter on Dec 14, 2009 6:22:43 GMT
edie sedgwick, edward gorey and... umm... hmm... bruce haack.  |
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Post by Alicia Marie on Dec 14, 2009 16:47:21 GMT
haha, annabel, i love you.
erm, i'd like to meet shakespeare as well. thomas mallory. anne frank. jane austen. lillian gish. clara bow.
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