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wembley can change in 28 days
03:48 / 07.05.02
Robert (not Anton) Wilson - architect and director (Einstein on the Beach amongst others).

Douglas Coupland

Laurie Anderson

Harold fucking Pinter.
 
 
Margin Walker
07:27 / 07.05.02
Here's my list. I'll try and find some contact info later on (it's 3 in the morning right now) Until then, here's my list:

David Mamet: author, playwright, screenwriter and alien abductee
Matt Dillon: actor with damn good taste in music
Mary Ellen Mark: intense photojournalist & co-director of the homeless documentary "Streetwise"
Steve Earle: musician, author, ex-con, teacher & a staunch death penalty abolitionist
Aaron McGruder: creator of the comic strip "The Boondocks", former D&D role-player
Cynthia Plaster Caster: collector of busts of rock star's cocks
David Lynch: director, cartoonist, musician & all-around weirdo
Charles Peterson: music photojournalist, creator of the photobook "Screaming Life"
Ricky Jay: magician, actor, historian of con games & holder of the Guinness record for "Fastest Thrown Playing Card"
Seth Greene: actor (Buffy, Greg The Bunny, etc.), professional smartass
Barbara Kligman ("plotz@pipeline.com"): creator of the hilarious Jewish Culture zine Plotz
Terrence Malick: director of "Badlands" & "The Thin Red Line" (remake), reclusive oddball
"Beat" Takeshi Kitano: director, writer, comedian & Japanese TV host
Sebastiao Salgado: world-renouned photojournalist who specializing in covering 3rd world countries
Tom Tomorrow: creator of the comic strip "This Modern World"
Elmore "Dutch" Leonard: author of crime & western novels
Joe Strummer: musician, champion drinker & former singer for The Clash
Harry Dean Stanton: actor/Repo Man
Shepard Fairey: the guy that created the "OBEY Andre The Giant!" meme
Jello Biafra: musician, music label owner, former mayoral candidate & spoken word artist
Adrian Tomine: illustrator, writer & cartoonist of the excellent "Optic Nerve"
Wong Kar Wai: film director (Chunking Express, In The Mood For Love, etc.)
Pagan Kennedy: author, zine creator & pop culture commentator
All of "The Lone Gunman" actors from "The X Files"
Errol Morris: documentary film director
Jessica Alba: writer & illustrator of "Artbabe", former ex-patriate
George Carlin: author of "7 things you can't say on TV", comedian & philosopher of sorts
Nora Guthrie: daughter of Woody Guthrie & curator of The Woody Guthrie Archives
John Waters: screenwriter, director & author of "Crackpot", et al.

And last but not least:

The guy who appeared on the Oscars with "Soy Bomb!" written on his chest
 
 
rizla mission
16:31 / 07.05.02
Alan Moore! Regular blasts of his booming voice would make my day.

And if this is a wholly-hypothetical-wishlist, Kurt Vonnegut too, though I doubt he ever goes near a computer.

And Jeff Noon. And any musician who's in a band I like. And anyone who's made a movie I like. And so on and so forth..
 
 
Murray Hamhandler
16:45 / 07.05.02
I'd really like to see Howard Zinn here, but I know that he doesn't ever go anywhere near a computer (he said so himself).
Arthur Sudnam, II
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
17:14 / 07.05.02
Ha ha! Just to clear up Margin Walker's error:

Jessica Alba, star of tv's Dark Angel.


Jessica Abel, creator of Artbabe, La Perdida, etc
 
 
grant
17:46 / 07.05.02
Kim Gordon would be fun, yeah. (piggybacking on Rizla's suggestion).

Vonnegut probably would too.
 
 
grant
15:58 / 08.05.02
Oh, and Michael Persinger. See the last post in the "magnetic creativity" thread in the lab for links to his stuff. He's the God Spot man, the guy who creates religious experiences in his lab using magnetic fields on a specific brain region.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
16:45 / 08.05.02
A big fuck yeah for Michael Persinger. And for Vonnegut.
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
18:04 / 08.05.02
I second Laurie Anderson, but I woudl slavishly worship her from afar.

Now, I know Rush Limbaugh used to be a net head...I think it would be a good idea to at least invite him here if we are looking for "the loyal opposition."

Comics-wise? Hell, Mark Evanier is always good for a few stories, and Rich Johnson likes mucking about on message boards.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
18:29 / 08.05.02
Bob Hunter - co-founder of Greenpeace, ex-newscaster on Toronto's City-TV, local politico from the enviroment platform, author and afficianado of the independant media.

If this on interests you for invite then let me know and I should be able to track down some contact information.
 
 
Mystery Gypt
23:03 / 08.05.02
The guy who appeared on the Oscars with "Soy Bomb!" written on his chest

this one.. i know this guy. it was the grammy's, i think, he went all the way to la from nyc to get hired as a dancer for bob dylan's set just so he could pull the stunt.

he used to go into the college bookstore and fill a backpack full of books, dump them out on the street, then walk back in and repeat. he was so bold about it he was invisible to the store owners.

i think he's medicated now. he put me in a drumstick headlock once after i punched one of his bandmates in the head. those were the days
 
 
mixmage
00:17 / 09.05.02
Nick said: Robert Anton Wilson.

Our survey said: jeez, I don't think we need him, we've got enough slavish imitators...

Pffffffffffffft.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
00:49 / 09.05.02
The bloke from 18 Frith St. The one with the stereo.
 
 
Cherry Bomb
01:49 / 09.05.02
Now, I know Rush Limbaugh used to be a net head...I think it would be a good idea to at least invite him here if we are looking for "the loyal opposition."

I understand what you're saying, but please. For the love of whatever. NOOOOOOOOOO....
 
 
Jack Fear
02:14 / 09.05.02
Buk: Paul Auster is a wonderful writer and a lovely, lovely man...

...who does not own a computer, and speaks quite frankly of his bafflement and terror of this whole "online" thing.

When he ran the National Story project, he had an assistant whose job was to print out all the stories submitted by e-mail and put them in a notebook so Pul could read them.

He bought me dinner once. We talked of this and other things. When he asked about my work, I literally could not explain it in terms he could understand.

So he's an unlikely candidate, to say the least.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
02:31 / 09.05.02
Oh yeah, the guy with the stereo. He's my hero.
 
 
Cat Chant
10:38 / 09.05.02
I second Laurie Anderson, but I would slavishly worship her from afar.

I third her, but I would follow her around and post "OMG SUPERWOMAN [or whatever her suit would be] YOU ARE SO RIGHT!!!!!!!!! I LUV U!!!!!" after everything she said, and get myself banned.

I guess she could always iggy me.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
12:15 / 09.05.02
I'd suggest Tom Waits. Using the Pirate vs Ninja thread as bait.
 
 
Disco is My Class War
02:22 / 10.05.02
You could definitely invite Naomi Klein but she's real busy and she has her own little web forum thing over at nologo.org... I have an email address, Tom, if you'd like it. (Email me for it.)

Please invite Kathleen Hanna. Also Eileen Myles, Nu Yawk poet and novelist, who is amazing. Chris Kraus, who edits the Native Agents imprint of Semiotexte. Del La Grace Volcano. (Weren't Del around a while ago, but not posting, anyhow?) Matt and Pat Califia-Rice, who I can get email addresses for. Dylan Metro who edits www.metromadness.com. Shar Rednour. Avital Ronell would be great. Daniel Sinker from Punk Planet, or possibly Joel Schalit.
 
 
The Apple-Picker
04:47 / 10.05.02
I respectfully request the admission of one Ken Smith. He fucking rocks.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
06:16 / 10.05.02
Just thought of this one while replying to Lyra's thread in Head Shop- Iain Sinclair.
 
 
The Apple-Picker
00:20 / 11.05.02
Addendum:

Sorry--I was not with it when I posted my invitation nomination last night. Ken Smith has written such soon to be classics as Ken's Guide to the Bible and Junk English and Raw Deal!

He's a smart and funny mofo.
 
 
Margin Walker
08:53 / 29.05.02
I'd also like to add Mimi Nguyen (http://www.worsethanqueer.com). From her webpage:

Mimi Nguyen is a PhD. candidate in Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, with a Designated Emphasis on Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Her dissertation work focuses on U.S. Vietnamese cultural production and the politics of diasporic citizenship. She is also working on projects examining the politics of race and sex in reproductive rights discourse, sex-positive feminisms, digital technologies, riot grrrl, drag and other spaces of performance and performativity. Several essays are forthcoming in anthologies about race and technology and topographies of race and gender. She teaches feminist and queer theory and cultural studies and can occasionally be goaded into delivering monologues on stage or performing in lo-fi queer guerilla pop music videos. She is also a columnist for Punk Planet and her writings on history, memory, and popular culture have appeared in Maximumrocknroll, Poppolitics.com, and elsewhere.

BTW, what's the status of this thread? Are we still compiling names of folks to invite or waiting for contact info or are the invites rescinded or what?
 
 
Tom Coates
11:39 / 29.05.02
Absolutely this thread is still living. I don't know who was planning to approach people, but I have just been busy moving and haven't had the time I might have hoped to participate fully in this process. The time will come however, so in the meantime, keep suggesting names!
 
 
Lionheart
04:05 / 31.05.02
Ted Rall
Grant Morrison
Lynn Samuels (www.lynnsamuels.com)
Michio Kaku
Grandpa Al Lewis
Jim from Off The Hook (the 2600 radio show)
Others from Off The Hook
Roofus T. Firefly (rtf.kracked.com)
Bob Dobbs Junior
Connie Dobbs
Ivan Stang
Beck
Colin Wilson

And a bunch of porn stars. We need a lot of porn stars.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
17:44 / 31.05.02
If this is actually a going concern, I reckon I could get Ken Campbell- bizarre playwright extraordinaire (we're practically related through dogs, y'see...) who did the wonderful "Gastromancy" thing at the Fortean Times Unconvention this year, and who once (back in the 60s, natch) did a 22-hour play "The Warp", the novels of which I've just started reading and which are WAY more fucked than "Illuminatus".
And I'll say Iain Sinclair again, just for the sake of it.
 
 
Tom Coates
14:51 / 03.06.02
Just a brief aside derived from the thread in The Laboratory in which we're discussing getting Gregory Stock over to participate in a Q&A for the board. He's willing, I'm talking to his publicist about getting a copy of his book. So we're getting somewhere...
 
 
Thjatsi
10:41 / 05.07.02
I ordered Gregory Stock's book and am reading it now. I like it.
 
 
Cat Chant
16:12 / 08.07.02
Hey, Steven Shaviro should be here. He has tons of stuff on the web and he wrote a book called Doom Patrols. Which is on the Web.

Hmmm. I'm surprised he's not here already. Maybe he is here already.
 
 
Disco is My Class War
06:52 / 09.07.02
Mimi is already around and knows about this place, but I think she's on the road at the moment and I have no idea what her fiction suit is called, or if indeed she posts.

And Steven Shaviro, baby. Yeah.
 
 
Shortfatdyke
14:47 / 12.07.02
i actually would second having julie burchill here - you never know, she might rip *us* to pieces. also jeanette winterson (check the guardian for her articles) or diane di massa (hothead paisan's creator) - all are strong female political commentators, but with radically different styles. and all of them would probably rock the barbelith boat in one way or another.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
15:42 / 12.07.02
Burchill? The last thing we need here is another reactionary troll who thinks they're being clever by opposing the "liberal consensus". I suppose she is the perfect Barbelith troll, though - homophobic, trans-phobic, xenophobic, etc...
 
 
Shortfatdyke
17:00 / 12.07.02
well, flyboy, i've been going through her archived columns and have just read some extremely ignorant stuff about MTF transfolk. however, her writing on feminism and domestic violence is powerful and passionate and hits a lot of nails right on the head.
 
 
Wrecks City-Zen
23:15 / 18.07.02
Lothar Tuppan.
 
 
Jack Fear
19:14 / 19.07.02
Just found this, which I wrote in a text-edit program some weeks ago and somehow never bothered to post...

(A) Seconded Brian Eno, Courtney Love, Ralph Nader, Jon Ronson and Gene Wolfe.

(B) You want invitees who aren't one-trick ponies, and you don't want to limit them: as entertaining as it may be to see Aronofsky talk about Batman, I'd love to hear, say, Susan Blackmore talk about what gigs she's been to, or find out which Transformer Noam Chomsky is, or see what Umberto Eco thought of last week's Buffy.

(C) More contrarian voice a definite plus.

(D) This is a community, not a speaking gig. They've got to be aware that their voices will be a few among the many, and that we are, as a group, not easily impressed. Some folks can handle that, some can't: I don't think it's a slur on Warren Ellis' character to say that he wouldn't last an hour in here.

(E) All that being said...

Many of my nominees are just me wishing I hadn't let my subscriptions to the New Yorker and the New Republic lapse:

Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point.
Andrew Sullivan.

John McWhorter, a great contrarian voice on the politics of race in America.

Walter Mosley, who has consistently taken his fiction places that black writers aren't "supposed" to go.

Carla Speed McNeil, creator of the astonishing Finder: from a long correspondence, I can vouch for her as a polymath, insanely well-read, and just a lovely person (a regular these days at the WEF).

Lore Sjöberg, the force behind both The Brunching Shuttlecocks and Slumbering Lungfish.

Thomas Pynchon.
J.D. Salinger.
Elvis.
 
  

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