POX: People you'd really like to have a pint with

1) David Lynch, because I'd probably start out trying to get him to talk about Twin Peaks and then he'd derail the thread a million different ways;

2) Mark Frost (co-creator of Twin Peaks with Lynch), to counter #1 with straight answers;

3) David Bowie, cause shit, give me a few drinks and I'd be all, "So yeah! Hey! I wrote a novel about you. And a short story, too! You don't mind that I ripped off a lot of your stuff, right? Anyway, that shirt you wore on the Outside tour, can I have it?";

4) Peter O'Toole, because Jesus hell shit cock damn, he's Peter O'Toole, and how many people can say that?;

5) Bill Clinton, cause I'll bet he's just plain fun;

6) Haruki Murakami, just because;

7) Jonathan Carroll, who is one of the few living writers coming to mind who I'd actually want to talk about writing with -- with me talking as a writer, I mean, not a reader (and no, I don't write anything like Carroll, I just think it would be a good conversation);

8) Ann-Margret -- see Peter O'Toole;

9) Douglas Hofstadter, and I think I'd just toss a word out now and then and let him ramble;

10) John Dominic Crossan, to talk about theology and early Christianity, and in particular parabolic interpretation.

and then he'd derail the thread a million different ways;

heheh

2: My brother - I dig drinking with him;

3: Stephen King - I really want access to that brain for a little while;

4: Tim Burton - cause hey, Tim Burton;

5: Maya Angelou - she fascinates me, and I want her to tell me all her stories;

6: Tommy Lee Jones. My reasons are my own;

7: I'd have picked Katherine Hepburn until recently, cause hey, Katherine Hepburn! But now, I guess I'll switch to Liz Taylor. I'd get her drunk and then I'd make off with her diamonds;

8: Angelyne - I want to see how old she really is;

9: Nelson Mandela - just to say hey dude, you rock; and

10: Johnny Depp - if you think I'm not slipping roofies into his beer and having my way with him for the next two weeks straight, y'all don't know me very well.

2. Eddie Izzard -- Just `cos I think he'd be hilarious.

3. Sean Connery -- because I'd invariably be in complete stitches the entire time, and he is pretty indisputably the coolest gent on the planet.

4. Martin Scorcese -- Another cool cat with lots to talk about, and I'm sure I could drunkenly convince him to finally release "After Hours" on DVD.

5. Jim Jarmusch -- Another contender for coolest guy on the planet. I'm sure he'd be enlightening and entertaining.

6. Lemmy Kilmister -- Why do I need a reason?

7. Dr.Ayman Al Zawahiri -- Get him ploughed, then get him to `fess up the whereabouts of where he and OBL have been hidin'.

8. Andy Merrill -- the voice and mind behind "Brak" on Cartoon Network. Nothing brightens my day more.

9. Jim Caroll -- NYC legend/poet/proto-punk/all around cool cat.

10. Daljit Dahliwahl -- Gorgeous former ITN News presenter, just because she's quite striking, intelligent and of the highly unlikely possibility of convincing her to ___________________.

scientist moved from jamaica to sf about 5 years ago, he plays at a club called "dub mission" at the elbo room once a month (i think). i've seen him a few times, he's great but i'm not so keen on the toasters he's played with. i'm sure if you go to the club early you could catch a pint with him (it's a pretty small club).

he's got a pretty weird set up. it's usually a DJ (not him), a toaster, and he's behind this big keyboard/device which looks like it has been "prepared" electronically (lots of homemade cicuit modeling, patches, switches, knobs) all wired into a laptop.

the DJ mix goes into the keyboard/computer then out to the PA. he can adjust the bass/treble and throw ridiculous waves of reverb drenching isolated sounds pretty quickly. i would assume that his software has a pretty neat EQ thing because he's basically doing live dub versions on the fly, without the benefit of a studio.

i haven't heard any of his rock band collaborations, that's too bad if that's true.

Eddie Izzard - duh...the problem is i could list about 100 other funny fuckers (Peter Kay, Bob Mortimer, Mark & Lard, Dave Gorman etc.) so really this is just 'insert UK comedian bloke here'

Tony Wilson - cos he's a twat

Johnny Depp - morose Anglophiliac, i would impress him just by sitting there clearly

Jarvis Cocker - just to hear his voice

Chris Waddle - so we could do 'Diamond Lights' karaoke together

Trish Keenan - so i can grill her on ridiculously ambitious tours of the States, how cool Mir was and whether she likes being tickled

Bob Carolgees - i love that people like him exist - i want to know how he got into puppetry, could he not hack it as a ventriloquist?

Mike Skinner - so we could write lyrics together that would eventually just infringe on the copyright of one of his older songs

Keira Knightley - any nude scenes coming up in your next films?

Geoff Senior - my favourite comic artist/illustrator in my youth, owe him a drink or 2000 for inspiration and could badger him for hours about his career and output

Bill Hicks (ok, so he's not alive and he was a teetotaller when he died but, umm..fuckoff.),mike myers and 100 other comedians

John Birmingham.
all just so I can listen to their stories

mark e smith
eamonn dunphy
a a gill (he hardly drinks pints though)
janeane garofalo
mike skinner
shane mcgowan
ronnie drew
john aldridge
chris rock

matt groening
peter hook - to tell stories and teach me bass tricks
alan mcgee/tony wilson (for the UK indie owner slot)
ben burtt (sound design/editor for Lucasfilm)
steve purcell(game designer/artist for lucasarts, also created Sam & Max)
my brother as well, becuase the two of us are funnier when drunk. i can prove this, too.
milo aukerman (front dude for the descendents)
neko case (just cuz.)

oh wait, we _can't_ mention ILX people? but i wanna get drunk with so many of them... a new thread on this, anyone?

All at once.

Actually, scratch Margaret Thatcher. I have no idea what I was thinking.

(But he's buying, he teaches at MIT!)

Kafka

Da Vinci

with tape recorder

William Gibson sited Trogdor on his blog, oh my God!

Fergus Henderson - for talk of squirrel

Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall - someone needs to sing Who songs badly

My Dad

My mate Dan S from school

Nigel Blackwood - Lyrical genius

Darren Clark - looks like a laugh

Chloe Sevigny - Just because

Danny Baker - the man has wit

Tom Pickering - Fishing genius

Sid Waddell - no explanation needed

1. R2D2 - he is real to me
2. J Mascis
3. Racheal Leigh Cook
4. Patrick Moore
5. Sister Wendy
6. Meatloaf
7. Shania Twain
8. Brett Michaels
9. Huraki Murakami
10. James Kochalka

b-but ppl outside ILX aren't that interesting!!!

1.Kelly Osbourne (duh.)
2.Brian DePalma (in interviews he seems like he really enjoys conversation)
3.Robert Christgau (critic I respect)
4.Rob Sheffield (Critic I respect)
5.Stephanie Zacharek (critic I respect, knew Pauline Kael)
6.David Lee Roth (ancedote factory)
7.Penn Jilette (also an anecdote factory)
8.Joel Madden (he's the nice one of the Good Charlotte twins, should be told that SOMEBODY over 18 gets it)
9.Denver Dalley (he's the guy in Desaparecidos who isn't Conor Oberst but supposedly had a lot to do with the songs)
10.John Lydon (I can't imagine it not being one of the most memorable pints of my life)

And I salute you, Miccio...even though you stole one of mine choices.

But others are:

Christiane Armanpour: CNN anchorperson: somehow she manages to make the news interesting and watchable, despite the usual blah-blah war details.

Michael Palin: Cause i could fulfil my Python geekdom, and get the real deal about that Full Circle series.

JK Rowling: Not a huge Potter fan, but I'd love to know how she enthralled millions of kids and gangstas into caring about Quidditch and Muggles

Siouxsie Sioux: cause I'm still somewhat of a Goth underneath

Peter Jackson: I could hug him for expanding the fantasy genre, and making movies again fun to watch.

Bjork: For making music creative again, causing many to say, "WTF?"

Tony Blair: So, afterwards I could give him a swift kick for morphing into a robot politician.

Are you SERIOUS??? I hate that guy so fuckin' much I can't even begin to put it into words.

2.  Dolores Huerta, because I admire her and I would love to discuss how things were back in the revolutionary '60s, considering Mom can't/won't tell me anything. *laugh*

3.  Andy Warhol, because I think he would've been an amazing person to get to know and talk things over, and I would've loved to have read his summary of the events in his diary.

4.  Joan Osborne, because she rocks my musical world seven ways to Sunday each and every single time I listen to one of her songs, and I would love for her to know that.

5.  David Sylvian, because I think he would be tremendously interesting to talk to and because I've idolized him for a LONG time. If he brought along Ingrid Chavez, that would rock!!

6.  Dame Judi Dench, because she is so amazingly cool and wonderful and a great talent, and I will watch something I cannot stand (cue Shakespeare in Love!) just to see her.

7.  Nick Rhodes and John Taylor, for obvious reasons (*laughs*), but to also just get inside their heads and get to know them better and beyond just the whole "idols"/"fangirl" thing.

8.  Local news personality Debora Daniels, because I have adored her for a long time and think she is the only female local news personality I have not for one millisecond wanted to slap.

9.  My paternal grandfather, because I never got the chance to know him and I'd really like to talk about why he didn't treat my father better while he (the grandfather) was still alive.

10.  My old teacher Mrs. K******, because she was the only one in my whole grade school (read: non-family) life who really cared about me and who treated me as the little girl I was, instead of some idea[l].

So.

John Cage. Louise Fitzhugh. Ted Berrigan. Oscar Wilde, maybe. I dunno. Maybe some assorted people from my childhood.

actually i'd like to talk to lord lucan and amelia earhart too. (not glenn miller tho)

I'd imagine you'd have a really good time if you got those two really drunk.

1. Shaun Ryder & Bez – Now that would be a good night, if they didn’t flake immediately.
2. Bjork – For reasons already stated by everybody else.
3. Walken – Because I actually love him and it would be the perfect opportunity to lock down a peerless impression of the guy.
4. Bob Dylan – Well, because he is a genius.
5. David Lynch – Another vote for the man, but I’d ply him with booze in the hope that I could finally get a straight answer out of him regarding his infamous theory of the ‘Eye of the Duck’ scene, that apparently occurs in each of his features.
6. Perry Farrell – I know he has a reputation as a bit of a twat but still, I like his music and some of his ever-changing philosophies. He has an interesting take on life I think.
7. Levon Helm – Because I think he is probably one of the most down to earth dudes with a shit load of great stories and after beers we’d call up Garth and head back to his place and jam until the dawn.
8. Don Van Vliet – Because he is the Captain.
9. Naomi Klein – Because she would have a lot of things to say which we could have a good ole argument about and a hell of a load more which would make me feel ill.
10. K. – Cos I miss her.

And 10 dead:

1. Robert E. Lee – an officer, a gentleman and an inspired general, he saw it all on the battlefield as a good deal off it, and probably has a few good tales to tell.
2. Piero Manzoni – a joker, prankster, satirist and a truly brilliant artist.
3. Arthur Craven – Britain’s roaming dada don, he was about as far out as they come, a night on the tiles with Craven would undoubtedly have lead to the sort of stories you tell your grandchildren.
4. Marcel Duchamp – I’d have liked to have ripped Marcel apart on the chess board over a few Amarettos (nb. This would never have happened – he was a grand master of the game. Still, maybe I’d have beaten him at Connect 4).
5. Oscar Wilde – an aesthete surrounded by a posse of ultra hip, artistic and intelligent cool cats; hanging with him, Beardsley et al in London and Dieppe hitting the ‘sinth, smoking opium and laughing as darling Oscar rips everyone in the room to pieces circa 1890 sounds alright with me.
6. The Earl of Warwick – the man known as ‘Kingmaker’ during the Wars of the Roses was, as one might expect, quite a powerful player. I’d like to have been in on some of the plots and intruiges that dude was caught up in, well, not that in on, otherwise I’d have likely had my head lopped off or been stabbed to death by Warwick’s own agents.
7. Richard Brautigan – I get the impression that if one was in the mood for a maudlin, melancholic muse over a pint, there would be few better to keep you company than this man.
8. William Topaz Mcgonagall – The worst poet ever to have lived, an evening accompanying him to an open mic night and witnessing him earnestly recite his tragic couplets would certainly result in much hilarity.
9. John Lennon – circa the Lost Weekend era, just because, well, it’s gotta be done hasn’t it. I was jamming Cold Turkey last night and it made me remember jut what a fucking genius that man was, the way he’s scraping at that guitar… he’s all over it man.
10. Merlin the Magician – I have quite a few questions for this chap, namely, where the fuck is Excaliber, what happened to the grail, when is Arthur returning from sleep? If I got him ripped enough on strong mead he might just spill the beans.

Dostoevsky – His reprieve from the death penalty, his epilepsy, the time he lived in, I could go on.

Jim Henson – I wanna be able to create things like he did

Bjork – coz she’s mental and would be handy in a fight innit?

Brain Molko – he absolutely fascinates me, I’m not sure if it’s a sexual thing but I could just look at him for hours….

Johnny Depp – I’ve liked him since 21 Jump Street, I want first shot with those ruffies!!!

Aldous Huxley – I wanna get inside his head, how did he know?!

Sandra Gregory – I just read that book and I so wanna meet her now

My fiancé’s ex – I’ve got residual anger, there’s things I need to say that are inappropriate and not my place but I’d so love to get it off my chest!!!!

Robbie Williams – I’m sorry but I swear it’s just coz I wanna know if he’s a larf or if he’s really full of himself or if he’s the tortured soul he makes out.

My Granda coz he was a great bloke and I didn’t really appreciate it enough when he was around, plus I’d love to know what he thinks of what’s

Ewwwwwwwwwwww.

My Granda coz he was a great bloke and I didn’t really appreciate it enough when he was around, plus I’d love to know what he thinks of what’s been going on in my life over the past year or so.

Lorraine Kelly, because she's a national treasure and always seems so nice but a bit naughty with it.
June Whitfield, ditto, she is also the doyenne of amusing anecdotes.
Terry Wogan and the Radio 2 breakfast team because they make me laugh
Christopher Brookmyre because his books make me laugh, he's from round these parts and he supports my local team so I can laugh at him for how badly they are doing.
Rich Hall because he makes me laugh just looking at him, and then when he starts talking he makes me laugh even more
Stephen Fry, just because
Martin O'Neill, because I like the concept of an educated and intelligent football manager, especially when he manages my team
Pat Nevin, also intelligent footballer. He also has an excellent taste in music, which is rarer than hen's teeth in the world of football (can only think of him and Graeme le Saux off the top of my head who have ever claimed to have decent tastes in music)
Jon Tickle and Fed Martone off Big Brother, because they made BB4 and RI:SE worth watching.
Nicky Wire because he doesn't drink, thereby making the rounds cheaper. Also because he's hugely entertaining and an all round decent chap.

Hm. Drop the Dolores Huerta and my paternal grandfather (I don't really need to know that badly) and add the aforementioned two!

I was going to mention Paul Merton, btw, but then decided I'd probably be too speechless to do anything but stare and that would just not be nice.

Maya Rudolph
Sandy Koufax
Paulina Rubio
Edward Albee
Caetano Veloso
Curtis Mayfield
Tracey Ullman
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Bertolt Brecht
[that girlfriend from high school so I can ask WTF?]

1. Umberto Eco
2. Monica Lewinsky
3. Exene Cervenka
4. Debbie Harry
5. Noam Chomsky
6. Heidi Fleiss
7. Cindy Lee Berryhill (she doesn't drink actually, but I miss her, it's been a long time)
8. Bill Clinton
9. Gore Vidal
10. Gary Stewart (me and Betsy are after ya, babe!)

1. Christopher Hitchens.
2. Mick Jagger.
3. Burce Graham
4. Richard D. James.
5. Brian Azzarello
6. Aesop Rock.
7. Grant Morrison.
8. Elvis Costello.
9. Thurston Moore.
10. hstencil.

Yeah, I guess. We didn't have anything like a conversation, though.

1: Eddie Izzard
2: My sister
3: Steven Tyler
4: Greg Cremer
5: Pablo Neruda (but for that pesky dead thing)
6: Will Smith
7: Chuck Yeager
8: Brett Butler
9: *wildcard* (I change my mind a lot)
10: Johnny Depp