Apart from...
...failing to meet Nik Kershaw

I have a problem finding answers to this weeks question.

Largely because the vast, vast majority of my heroes are...well...dead.

And suicide seems like a slightly extreme length to go to on the off chance that there is an after life that I might get to meet them in.

But here's a role call anyway.

Johnny Cash, Warren Zevon, George Carlin, Eric Morecombe, Douglas Adams, Richard Harris, Mitch Hedberg, Gram Parsons, Nick Drake, Richard Pryor, Sam Kinnison, Waylon Jennings, Woodie Guthrie, Ronnie Barker, Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers, Brian Clough, Bill Hicks, Bobby Moore, Uncle Chris (I met him, but he died while I was very young, but I remember loving him), Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Tommy Cooper, Bob Monkhouse, Townes Van Zandt, George Best, Paul Gascoigne (OK, but it's only a matter of time folks), Stanley Kubrick, Del Close, Buddy Holly, Presley and Lennon and Sinatra (yes, all three are allowed in the same breath), And Granddad, who gets in despite dying before I was born because he fathered my Dad, the most stabilising influence in my life...


Fuck, that list makes me look like a sexist pig. Not a woman in sight.

I can save that slightly by naming the only two living people that I can think of that I would go to any lengths to meet:

Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris.

(Carl Hiassen would have been the third person on that list, but I was lucky enough to be on holiday in Miami while he was doing a book signing. He is an utter utter....c...charming man. I wanted to have a sex change and have his babies)
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sat 18 Apr 2009, 13:30, 2 replies)

I was quite lucky to meet Douglas Adams.
Nice chap.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Sat 18 Apr 2009, 14:17, closed)

a fellow alt.country fan
Met Steve Earle after a gig in melbourne on his hard way tour. He signed my denim jacket and i've never worn it since. A truly magic moment in my life.
(Snapper-head loves a twinky anytime but especially when it's, Sun 19 Apr 2009, 9:37, closed)