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People you would love to meet but never will

All Acting Regiment

11:43 / 31.10.06

Okay, I'm not sure if I approve of this website and some of the adverts seem NSFW, but the girl in these photos is called Nakagawa Shoko and she's quite a famous celebrity in Japan, having a blog here. I will probably never meet her and this bothers me slightly. I feel as though I would have many wild and wacky things to say, like perhaps how I can make toast float.

I would also like to talk to Lawrence Sterene, author of jolly good book Tristram Shandy. I would like to talk about ways of deconstructing the novel but alas, mister Sterne lives in the 18th century. Here none the less is a picture:

Also Virginia Woolf, for similar reasons...perhaps if she could come to 2006 and I could show her around, I think she'd be quite amused. Or horrified. I don't know.

pointless & uncalled for

11:58 / 31.10.06

I met Bob Hunter once but it was a busy occasion and there really wasn't an opportunity to talk to him. A shake of the hand isn't enough from one so great so I'd to meet him, properly.

I'd like to meet the the chinese student who stood in front of the tanks heading for Tiannemen Square, if only to say thanks for the inspiration when I've really needed it.

I'd like to meet the Celts who met the first Roman landing party in Britain and scared them off to get their side of the story.

I'd like to meet more people from Barbelith because you're often very fascinating people.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

12:16 / 31.10.06

Spalding Gray.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

13:04 / 31.10.06

Mark Sandman from Morphine. One of the first regrets of my life and the best example of my procrastination. I kept saying, "Well, I'll see them the next time they roll through town...." Did that three times before he died and I kick myself for it.

Ganesh

13:07 / 31.10.06

Is he a Neil Gaiman creation?

Evil Scientist

13:16 / 31.10.06

Without wanting to sound too much like the walking cliche of a post-modern pseudo-intellectual I would have liked to have met Bill Hicks at some point. But it's probably best I didn't. One can be a little disapointed by celebrity when it turns out they're just regular people.

It would have been fun to get Charles Darwin and Richard Dawkins together and go for a walk round the Natural History Museum with them. Although there's always the risk that'd descend into a punch-up (my money'd be on Darwin though).

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

13:23 / 31.10.06

I was always determined to meet William Burroughs, and I have to admit a lot of my extreme sadness when he died was, in retrospect, fairly selfish for this very reason.

Going further back, who could have been cooler than William Dampier?

Pirate, naturalist, navigator, explorer, and did I mention PIRATE???

One of Darwin's heroes, and a member of the crew which marooned Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

14:25 / 31.10.06

Oh, I've already met Gaiman.

And he was swell.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

10:51 / 01.11.06

That's very cool. I hate meeting people you think are amazing and finding out that they are tedious, nasty, or plain old evil.

It's very dispiriting.

Of course, so few people are as splendid as I am that the comparison may be unfair.

I always want to meet Sax, actually, and it's sort of pathetic that I haven't. On the other hand, I haven't seen most of my real life friends for, like, a year.

I'd love to meet several global leaders in situations where I could punch them in the nose. Just once, in a sort of Laurel and Hardy way.

If you could absolutely promise me that he was a nice man, I'd want to meet Neal Stephenson.

I always want to hug Desmond Tutu.

I did meet Baryshnikov, briefly. He was polite, and veeeery small.

I'd like to meet Christopher Guest; Kinky Friedman; and Takeshi Kitano. Maybe also Tsutomu Shimomura.

And Kali, obviously, because, you know. Total babe.

GogMickGog

11:18 / 01.11.06

Vivian Stanshall.

I will say no more.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

12:58 / 01.11.06

I want to meet all of you.

And Nick: you silver-tongued devil. I mean that literally; I hear Nick's tongue is actually made of silver.

Evil Scientist

12:59 / 01.11.06

With a heart of steel and a body that will never age.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

13:00 / 01.11.06

Rumour has it there are leather pants involved as well.

pureflook

17:30 / 01.11.06

I have always facied a night out with Charles Bukowski, or a sing-song round the piano with Tom Waits.

Fist Fun

18:15 / 01.11.06

I would also love to meet Charles Bukowski. Also Eric Cantona.

Feverfew

19:27 / 01.11.06

Nick - I'd like to meet Kinky Friedman as well. But as he's running for Governor of Texas and I'm not, well, even in the same country, it's sadly unlikely.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

19:30 / 01.11.06

Here's hoping he wins, eh?

Feverfew

19:31 / 01.11.06

Maybe. Maybe. Although, much as I like his writing and his music (occasionally) I don't agree, mostly, with his politics as I understand them, which is more likely to be a little limited.

He can be very, very funny, though, and I've considered then shunned starting joined threads in music and books on him before.

Bastard Tweed

03:08 / 02.11.06

An Icelander.

And the grumpy Welsh bowman who shot the French dauphin and started the Battle of Agincourt.

Gendudehashadenough

05:51 / 02.11.06

The 3 $%^&*#$k's that just mugged me in front of my house.

Gendudehashadenough

06:05 / 02.11.06

AND Mark TWain.

Quantum

09:22 / 02.11.06

Oh, sympathy to you Assyd that sucks.

I'd like to meet the Greenpeace volunteers protesting at Didcot coal power station who've chained themselves to conveyor belts and climbed the chimney today.

"Didcot is the second most polluting power station in Britain behind Drax in Yorkshire. Like most of Britain's power stations, two-thirds of the energy it generates is wasted, making a massive contribution to climate change."

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