post a picture of someone who influenced you

[datasuspect]

my stepfather:

[johnnie]

1. Your step father was Jimmy Ellis?

[LaraMN]

2. O.k.

From about the age of 5-7, I really, really, really wanted to be Daphne from Scooby Doo.

[Pierre.Suave]

6. Somehow...

that makes perfect sense.

:P

[DarkTirade]

3. I've got a few.

In chronological order

[Pierre.Suave]

4. OK, so I got...

Beethoven, John Lennon and Kurt Cobain.

Who is the guy in the glasses seated at the piano?

[DarkTirade]

7. Dmitri Shostakovic.

If you hear one of his pieces and it's boring and derivative, then it's one that he was forced to write. If you hear one and it's fantastic or it really makes you feel something, then it's one of his "Fuck you" pieces to the people in the russian government who were making his life hell.

[Pierre.Suave]

8. Ah, I had no idea what he looked like

But I like what I have heard of his music.

I might even have some here, I have well over 300 CDs, almost half are classical.

[DarkTirade]

10. I haven't played that much of his work before,

but all the ones I've played have been the 'fuck you' ones. I.E., the good ones. :)

If you can find a copy of his 8th string quarter, I recommend listening to it. It's not pleasant, but it's powerful as hell.

[Pierre.Suave]

14. I will try to track that down

and give it a listen.

Thanks.

[DarkTirade]

15. If you can't find it, I can upload some mp3s to my site and give you a link.

Just don't tell anybody, don't wanna get in trouble for file-sharing. :P

[Pierre.Suave]

19. I am going to check my CD collection first

then if I cant find it, I will let you know.

It isnt file sharing, it is a preview cuz I am going to go buy it afterwards, right?

:P

[Fox Mulder]

11. I love this by him:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX1fiE0U1qA

As done by Andre Rieu, of course.

[DarkTirade]

17. Even the most modern of composers can have fun with an old formula. :)

That's something I discovered recently. At first my stuff all sounded stuffy and a bit baroque because I didn't know how to break the rules really. Then once I started learning how, I went back and wrote something in a renaissance style, and more recently in a baroque style and had a lot of fun with it. :)

And a truly great composer like Shostakovic can take a simple formula and turn it into something with beauty and complexity. :)

[Fox Mulder]

5. Okay.

[Heidi]

9. Okie dokie.

[Bennyboy]

12. My favorite person EVER!

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. A true humanitarian

"What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000."

:thumbsup:

[Bennyboy]

21. No left turn Unstoned!

I love the guy. Being a bay area kind of guy, I have gotten to know him. He is the most intellegent person I have ever been around.

He founded the SEVA Foundation and they have given millions of people eyesight around the world. He has Camp Winnarainbow and they are a performing arts camp in Mendo county. For evry paid tuition, one scholarship is offered to someone less fortunate. When I was starting my not for profit,(inspired mostly by Wavy and Julia Butterfly) the Make A Fish Foundation, I asked him to be on our board and if he could make a fish item. he agreed to both once I gave him the rundown on what it was about. no business plan, no policy paper, none of the rigamaroll ,just "I think it's cool so I'll do it". Unfortunately, my parent situation has put the foundation in hiatus, but when it comes back Wavy will be part of it.

A life well lived.

[blockhead]

13. Frederick Miller

[Forkboy]

18. Here's three.

[Heidi]

20. I'll love you forever, knowing this. (nt)

[Forkboy]

24. ....

:)

All three have influenced me in a major way. Sad that only Jello Biafra is still alive out of the three. I would love to hear Thompson's take on our current situation, and Sagan's compassion is needed more than ever.

[datasuspect]

23. good choice on the sagan and the jello

i take hunter with a grain of salt. at times his schtick seems like hucksterism.

but hunter thompson did fight a good fight for a long time.

[Forkboy]

25. I can understand that.

I think even he felt that way at the end. Hence his suicide. But damn, when he clicked he was unbeatable. Funny, and some of the smartest insights into human nature I've ever come across.

[Deja Q]

22. k

[hellbound-liberal]

26. I was immediately inspired when I heard about this person on DemocracyNow

and she has had a big influence on my life. She devoted 738 days of her life engaged in a tree sit to protest the clearcutting of old-growth forests. She endured heavy-duty harrassment for standing up for what she believed and I had the honor to have her visit and speak to my classes. She is a humble and deeply spiritual person and she has had a major influence on my life.



Julia Butterfly Hill
her website: http://www.circleoflife.org/

[mitchum]

27. This guy

[Guava Jelly]

28. k

[Chan790]

29. Words are loaded pistols.

I'll be back later with more.

[Chan790]

59. More of mine.

The doofy looking dude above is Jean-Paul Sartre, the quote is his as well.


Bertrand Russell



Peter Singer



David Hume



Roland Barthes



Denis Diderot


I can't find a picture but any discussion in photos of important influences would be incomplete without a mention of my college Philosophy 201/202 lecturer at CUA, Dan Dwyer. Dan's the teacher who introduced me to the works of David Hume and suggested that if I liked Voltaire, I'd love Diderot; a far way down the line that influence caused me to change my concentration from International Relations to Political Theory (which is the study of politics as a humanity rooted in philosophy and communications.) The loss to the diplomatic community may never be known...but I am smarter for it, blessed with a life-long love of the pursuit of empirical truth and knowledge for its' own sake.

[Call Me Wesley]

30. Here are a few: (dial-up warning)

[otherlander]

31. Her

and him:



:loveya:

Edit: If you actually know who he is you get a cookie.

[Call Me Wesley]

33. Toss me the cookie. ;)

But I ain't howling it ...

[otherlander]

35. ...

[grasswire]

32. ..

and

[SoxFan]

34. For reminding me that integrity never goes out of fashion

[jberryhill]

36. My two...

[DarkTirade]

40. Is it the mustaches or the wit that inspired you?

:)

[sakabatou]

37. K

[DarkTirade]

41. Is that the guy who directed Akira?

[sakabatou]

46. Hai, sore wa Otomo-san

[DFW]

52. Ah so desu-ka

[Ikonoklast]

38. Some of my favorites.....

Richard P. Feynman. One of the most brilliant, thoughtful, eclectic geniuses that ever lived.



Thomas Hobbes. Author of 'Leviathan', upon whose philosophy modern western political structures are based.



Thomas Paine. Patriot, Author of 'Common Sense', 'Rights Of Man', and 'The Age Of Reason'.

[Blarch]

39. mine..

Sagan


Bernie...for being such a straight shooter, no BS from this man.


and Bender, if you watch the show...you know why.

[swag]

42. My spiritual advisor.

[datasuspect]

43. dude, i saw him in greensboro NC once

i got backstage and it was blow and groupies all over everything.

[swag]

44. There's more than one way to make Satan bite the dust.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SswiYEXZrIg

[datasuspect]

45. a warrant from the body of christ

[BlueJazz]

47. My wonderful VERY close adviser.....

[Xipe Totec]

48. Okay

[Skittles]

49. Maya Angelou

In high school I was given a list of autobiographies, had to pick one to read - I complained to the teacher that they were all written by white men.....he said OK - my task was to read a book written by a black woman. I chose "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." It truly opened my eyes. :)

[SeattleGirl]

50. Caged Bird is one of the best books I've read.

I love Maya Angelou.

[Skittles]

51. I spent much of my childhood in England

I wasn't really in tune with the civil rights struggles until I read her book

[Wetzelbill]

53. Several

Martin Scorsese


James Welch


Bobby Kennedy


Dan Gable


Gabriel Garcia Marquez


Molly Ivins

[DFW]

54. In no particular order (except for the first two)

[khashka]

55. Here you go

Khash.

[Coyote_Bandit]

56. okay

[DarkTirade]

61. I'll raise a glass to the man in black.

His style may not have been one that I was a particular fan of, but his work still managed to touch me anyway. And that is what art of any kind is all about.

[Coyote_Bandit]

62. .

:toast:

[Angel]

57. Mine

My Parents..a bad photo but the only one I have. By their actions alone towards other people,they taught me that there are good people in the world, you have to find them by being one yourself.




These 2 people influenced me the most in my life. From day 1 they have taught me to never give up,keep your promises, and that with their support I can do anything. Funny what children teach their parents.

[DarkTirade]

60. Just like a good teacher will learn from the students, a good parent learns from their children. :)

[pokerfan]

58. ...