Don't leave these dudes behind!

[dykadudarella]

No order on these. Alright, you know these guys most of em, and if you don't? Friggin Google, k?

1. Tom Waits-
incredibly talented, multi-talented, incurably good humored, 40 year career with 20 albums, a multitude of styles, and never sold out. Basic aesthetic throughout body of work of enduring grace, enjoyment and happiness despite any and all life's circumstances, while never being afraid to make poignant social commentary or simply engaging life's guilty, bastardly pleasures, all in good fun and madly expressive, rule-breaking compositions and other artforms.
2. The Three Stooges-
physical humor extraordinaires that never resist the urge to thrust an idiotic thumb in thier own eyes. The joke's on them, the joke's on us, the joke's on everyone, and we all laugh. Hands down dudes.
3. The Marx Brothers
a fast talking fast walking quick changing huckster with the unoffensive ethnic charm of a natural clown. a wiseacrey wise cracking crumudgeon that can twist any sentence on a dime and turn into pure, gut cracking word smithing. A harp playing, horn honking fusion of the Holy fool and  a genius adult child. Think they'd be a hootby themsleves? Try them working together, and you get high brow hijinks  wrapped in high energy physical comedy, never failing to make a very palpable, true commentaryabout the absolute madness of  modern society, all with a smile.
4. Frank Zappa-
ever wonder how one man can make near 100 albums ,work with innumerable people in the business, champion nearly every cause imaginable, master a number of styles, and still never ever get a swelled head or lose an irreverent sense of humor? I dunno how he did it either.
5. Allen Ginsberg
a poet of incredibly honestly, intelligence and brilliance, this mensch coulda become anything froma rabbi to an accountant, but instead chose to become one of America's most prolific and accomplished poets.Known for his controversial "Howl" and his gut wrenching "Kaddish," he also went on to write honest, bold, lyrical poems nearly every day for more than 40 years, publish innumerable other artists including his many dear friends, championing numerous causes, and dedicated mentor and teacher  that influenced generations of young writers and artists.
6. The Fugs (Tuli Kupferberg, Ed Sanders, whoever the fuck else)
these peace loving potheads love sex, poetry, art, and all things beautiful, and gues what? they love to have fun, too!SImple, irreverant, and yet totally profound for thier era, this tiny band form the Lower East Side was not only relevant, but also an integral part of the beat/freak movement that took the country by storm in the mid sixties.
7. The Butthole Surfers-
Are there no bounds to regular old protocol in hte so called 'punk' scene? Is there even a boundary to any scene? Not to theses psychotechnic mad scientists. Whether you're offended or just  amused, music like this just hits hte cortex with a blunt edge and offers no apologies. There is no reason for any of tis deliciously mind bending methlab alchemy of sounds to really exist, but it does.
8. Abbie Hoffman-founder of the yippie movement, a madcap operation that suggeted the easiest way to protest violence and war was to make  fun of it. Author of "THe Anarchist Handbook", which among other things, tells you how you yourself can fuck with the systems of medi, control, commerce, consumption and just frigging live an easier, happier, more fulfilling existences, doing it all on a thin dime while haiving the divine pleasures of throwing yoru own personal wrench into the the works.
9. Ken Kesey
Wanna run around the country in a big mulitcolored bus, picking up strangers and and makinga living art communityon wheels all the while conducting LSD experiments with anyone whose game? Even if you wanna, you're not as dudeical as this pharmocological renegade.
11. Lord Byron
its wine, women, men, freewheeling travel, decadent spending, and a razor sharp wit for this  unlikely patron of the arts who, among other things, wrote some of the funniest perfectly metered verse you can read all to the shock and awe of stuffy victorian readers. He died young, but who cares? His strangly English sensibilities and eloquent work stand on thier own.
12. Lawrence Ferrlingetti
like playing with line break, sound, and form in infectious, profound, imaginitive imagery? HOw about helping launch the California small  press and publish some ofthe keystone works of  of numerous new poets? How about the most famous bookstore on the West Coast? Whether its publishing new talent or maintaing one of the hotspots of alternative culture, Ferrlingetti's genius is not so much in what he had to give, but who he supported.
16. Alfred from "Batman"
So you've got a grown man with loads of cash, tons of power who can't get over his past, can't get  over his guilt, gladly puts himself and everything he owns in trouble, can't get a mature social life, can't find a woman, spends money hand over first on gadgets, you are his only friend, and you've been looking after this brat for HOW long? Whatcha gonna do? Keep your witty English cool and roll with the punches, man, but not before you throw your verbal barbs where they're gonna stick the deepest but not really wound. Deep down, you're a believer...but you'll never let him know that.
Jonas Salk
Wait! You found a cure for polio, saved thousands if not tens of thousands of lives, and instead of selling the patent to it, you spent the rest of your life teaching and travelinground the world educating doctors and hospitals about how to stop this epedemic? Dude...

That's it...I just can't frigging think of too many more right now. Over the line, am I? Bark back at me

[dykadudarella]

JESUS! Can't believe it....Not "THE ANARCHIST HANDBOOK!" Its STEAL THIS BOOK for Abbie...Christ, fuckin damn...

aww, I need a beer...

Pax
dykadudarella

[brandt]

JESUS! Can't believe it....Not "THE ANARCHIST HANDBOOK!" Its STEAL THIS BOOK for Abbie...Christ, fuckin damn...

aww, I need a beer...

Pax
dykadudarella

I believe it's titled THE ANARCHIST COOKBOOK. Am I wrong? Okay then.
Dude, you got a lot of energy. Just take it easy, man. You'll be fine once the swelling goes down.

[Matt the Walrus]

Tom Waits sure does put me in a Dude mood. Mmm, Chocolate Jesus, Shore Leave... damn I need to go put in a cd.

[meekon5]

JESUS! Can't believe it....Not "THE ANARCHIST HANDBOOK!" Its STEAL THIS BOOK for Abbie...Christ, fuckin damn...

aww, I need a beer...

Pax
dykadudarella

I believe it's titled THE ANARCHIST COOKBOOK. Am I wrong? Okay then.
Dude, you got a lot of energy. Just take it easy, man. You'll be fine once the swelling goes down.

The Antichrists Cookbook?

Actually I've had a copy of the Anarchists Cookbook for years now, bath tub nitro anyone?

[not_exactly_a_lightweight]

No order on these. Alright, you know these guys most of em, and if you don't? Friggin Google, k?

1. Tom Waits-
<snip>
That's it...I just can't frigging think of too many more right now. Over the line, am I? Bark back at me

Thats an amazing post! I wish I had the attention span to do it justice. You should write for a living, or maybe you do. Do you have a job, sir? ( or ms., since you have a non-specified gender, in the parlance of our day)
awaiting your next post.
Rev. Neal

[meekon5]

thing.
No order on these. Alright, you know these guys most of em, and if you don't? Friggin Google, k?

1. Tom Waits-
<snip>
That's it...I just can't frigging think of too many more right now. Over the line, am I? Bark back at me

I really must get round to cataloging these because Mr Waits has returned yet again.  

BTW we keep proposing these for the list but never actually vote or do anything with them. Perhaps a hall of fame or something.

I know the mormons babtise people posthumously into their faith perhaps we could ordain people into ours without telling them?