Tully Mars

I turned on the talking box this afternoon and found out MJ is still dead. People are lining up outside his old ranch, Neverland, hoping for a public viewing of his body. Seems odd to me, I don't think I'd have walked across the street to meet him when he was alive. But to each their own.


Got me wondering is there anyone you'd like to meet? Sticking with people who are currently living.

Myself I'd like to meet-

The Obama's, Jimmy Buffett, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Rush Limbaugh.

The Obama's just seem interesting to me.

I'd like to talk flying, fishing and traveling with Jimmy.

As for Pitt, no, no man crush or anything. Seems like a deeper guy then most Hollywood types. I'd like to hear his thoughts on rebuilding New Orleans, fighting poverty etc... And of course "So, Angelina huh? That's gotta be good, right?"

Cruise? I'd like to ask him "WTF is wrong with you?"

Rush I just want to punch in the face, not so much meet.

so anyone you'd like to meet?

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Glory's Sun

Pete fucking Townshend.

ShaniFaye

Alan Rickman

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Psycho Dad

At one time, I'd have liked to party with Hank Williams Junior.

These days I'd like to meet the Queen of England or some other nonimportant important person for no very good reason at all.

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Tully Mars

Ok, why do you want to meet these people? What kinds of questions would you ask?

BTW- guccilvr, do you mange to get the word "fuck" in every post? Or just the ones I fucking end up reading?

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ngdawg

My needs are small. I'll take Michael Waltrip or Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

I mean, really....I'd take them...

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Daniel_

You.

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CinnamonGirl

Jimmy Buffett, because honestly, that's the kind of life I want to live. I don't know what I'd ask him... I'd be content to just hang out with him.

Charles de Lint. One of my favorite authors, and from what I know of his personal life, he seems like a pretty cool guy.

Michael Ian Black. Doesn't matter what we talk about, he'll probably have me laughing the whole time.

Joan Jett, because she's one kick ass chick.


I don't know what I'd talk about with these people. I don't have any burning questions to ask them. I just think we'd (well, I'd) have a good time hanging out.

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Shauk

Sean Connery, so i could learn to talk like him.

Glory's Sun

Of fucking course I say fuck in every fucking post. It makes fucking sense right?

I'd ask Pete fucking Townshend what he really wanted "Tommy" to mean. Then I'd ask him if he could play with moon man again but it would cost all his CSI grammys, would he do it. Fuck. That would be fucking golden

Martian

It's the result of a bet he lost in the early days of TFP. It's actually an obscure forum rule.

I could see the Obamas. Or more specifically, Barack Obama himself. He's the first US President in my lifetime who strikes me as a genuinely interesting human being.

John Cusack. Honestly just seems like the sort of person I'd get along with, and seems as though he'd have a lot of stories that aren't widely known. Magpie watches Inside the Actor's Studio, and I remember watching Cusack playing with an unlit cigarette the whole time and wondering about all the things he was choosing not to say.

I'm sure there's a famous guitarist or six (hundred) I could list, for all the things I could learn. BB King and Hubert Sumlin top the list, because I don't think they'll be around for much longer. Elvis Costello is also on the list, although I'm not sure he'd have as much to teach me on the guitar side. Songwriting in general maybe, and I bet he has a ton of good stories.

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Baraka_Guru

The Dalai Lama. A conversation about life, the world's problems, and death...over a light lunch and tea.


It'sh nawt ash hawd ash it shoundsh.

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Tully Mars

I thought about listing him or some other heavy hitter human rights type. Figure they'd just make my tiny brain hurt or make me realize how little I do for others.

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noodle

I would like to meet Eric Johnson, so we could chat over a beer and then I could lay in the middle of the floor in a dark room and listen to him play me the 12 minute version of "Cliffs of Dover" a few times.

Kevin Smith over sandwiches at Katz' Deli because I'm sure that the atmosphere would trigger some great storytelling.
Jeff Lindsay because I'd like to get into Dexter's mind a bit.
Toni Colette, to discuss the research she did to play Tara.
I'm sure there are more I'll think of. Most of mine are dead already.

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cdwonderful

currently living? (you suck tully) but is your monopoly set so........

1) Osama Bin Laden --- and before anyone starts throwing crockery at me..... Mostly because he has avoided the biggest manhunt on the planet and must have stories that are off the hook.
2) Harlan Ellison --- I heard him speak at a sci fi convention in Anaheim and since that day have thought that a couple of hours of conversation with him would be a prime experience.
3) Penn Jillette --- because Sam Kinnison is dead and Penn is the next best thing.

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LordEden

I'll throw my vote in for Jimmy Buffett too. I want to hear stories about the ocean, ships, beaches, good drinks in bad bars, fishing, makin' music for money and pretty much everything else.

Alyson Hannigan, cause you know... I'm obsessed... *BUT* she has to be red-headed.

Joss Whedon, cause I'm a fucking geek. I'll probably just squeal like a Japanese school girl in a bad hentai flick then pass out. Then I'll beg him to tell me plot line endings that never came to be. Like who the fuck was Shepard Book?

Bill O 'Riley cause I want to beat that man to death with his own microphone.

I want to hear Chuck Palahniuk read from his own books. I've heard that is the best way to experience his books.

I want to talk about food and kitchens with Anthony Bourdain.

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Tully Mars

Rules are meant to be broken. I get up every morning and try find one to at least bend a bit.

Soooo... what dead person(s) would you like to meet and why.

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noodle

Jack London because of The Iron Heel.
George Carlin and Mitch Hedberg, to glimpse a twinkle of the men behind the comic fronts.
Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein to discuss what went on in those brains of theirs.


And I still have no idea how I forgot Bourdain. THAT would be a blast.

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CinnamonGirl

Would love to meet Anthony Bourdain-- but he has a thing against vegetarians, so I don't think he'd like me very much.

Joss Whedon almost gets to idol status with me. If I met him, I'd probably just go all girly and squeak something out about being a fan, and giggle annoyingly.

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Glory's Sun

dead people?

Bob Fucking Marley--ask him if he'd like a hit.

Janis Joplin.. sing to me baby..

Keith Moon.. ask if he'd like to go to the bar

Marilyn Monroe.. provided she was still hot after being dead for so long..well.. I'd ask her out.

James Dean.. ask him if it was ok if I could drive.

..there's others.. have to process all of them

genuinegirly

I'm right there with you on this one.

I'd also like to have tea with the queen of England. Why?
Incredible woman: dignified, influential, and fascinating. I'm pretty sure that I'd have a lot of fun with that one.

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Punk.of.Ages

Living

Jello Biafra- I'd let him school me in politics all day.

Pat Smear or Lorna Doom- I'd love to hear about revolutionizing American hardcore punk from their point of view.

Kevin Smith- He'd be fun to sit around and drink a few beers with, I bet.

Fat Mike and Eric Melvin at the same time- I just want to party...

Dead

Darby Crash- I'd just listen to him talk...

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mixedmedia

This, of course, is assuming any of these people would have even the slightest interest in talking to me, lol.

Bob Dylan - I don't think he talks much, but I'd love to talk to him about music and I think it would be really awesome to sit in on a taping of Theme Time Radio Hour

Chuck D - I think it would be interesting to talk with him about politics and other mental conditions

Oliver Sacks - oh, the stories; simply fabulous, fascinating stories

David Sedaris - we could talk about anything; I'd be thrilled just to sit and listen to his voice...and laugh...laugh, laugh, laugh

Chris Rock - again with the mental conditions and the laughing

Alice Munro - I would like to know how she captures both the mundanities and peculiarities of being female so effortlessly and gracefully

Sean Penn - I am fascinated by his ability as an actor...although, I don't think he's much of a talker, either...and that's okay

Tim Gunn - my gay crush; I watched all the seasons of Project Runway on Netflix and by the end was convinced that he is the only perfect human being currently residing on the planet, heh...but maybe I'm gushing

that's all I can think of right now, but I know there are more...

oh, jesus! and Jon Stewart - who the fuck doesn't want to talk to Jon Stewart?

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Halanna

Clint Eastwood. Samuel L. Jackson. Morgan Freeman. Denzel Washington. Angelina Jolie, Kevin Spacey, David Morse, Robin Williams, Helen Hunt, Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Elizabeth Taylor, Jon Bon Jovi, Bryan Adams, Michael Rappaport, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Robert Deniro, Al Pachino, James Caan, Will Smith, gonna stop now.

Tully Mars

Dead people-

Gonna have throw another vote to Bob Fucking Marley.

Would have liked to have spent a few hours with Johnny Cash and Freddie Mercury, tho not at the same time. Don't think they'd have gotten along very well.

But if I had my choice of dead people from history several Presidents such as JFK (his brother RFK too), Ike, Truman, Lincoln, Jefferson come to mind. A long list of inventors Edison, Franklin etc... A couple of explorers would be on my list- Amelia Earhart, Ernest Shackleton and Lewis and Clark.

I think the list of dead people I'd like to meet from history would be literally endless.

Edit:

Yeah, I'd go for lunch or coffee with Jon Stewart too.

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mixedmedia

oh, and the dead...

Louis Armstrong
Mark Twain
Marilyn Monroe

...and all at the same time would be awesome (and I don't mean that sexually even though it sounds that way)

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Bill O'Rights

Tully Mars, you couldn't have chosen a better title for this thread? I almost dismissed it as just another Michael Jackson thread.

Absolutely. I'm not even going to try.

Hey, Hey, Hey!!
I'm the resident Alyson Hannigan nut job around here.
Good call on the red headed part, though.

Meet, Shani...meet. Not tie up and keep in your basement.

Enough of my sillyness. I'd pick Neil Armstrong. He's been a personal hero of mine since July 21, 1969.

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FuglyStick

Has anyone poked Michael Jackson with a stick? Because as every 8 year old knows, that's the only way to be sure that something is really dead.

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CinnamonGirl

Oh, please. I'm a bigger Alyson fan than both of you combined

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DaniGirl

no hes not I seen him tonight at Wal-Mart.

I would like to meet Steven King and Ellen Degeneres.

LordEden

That's it, the glove has been thrown down. It needs to be decided who here is the biggest Alyson Hannigan fan around here, this town ain't big enough for the three of us.

Sorcerer duel? Knife fight at midnight? Swords at dawn? Pistols at high noon? Cage Match on Pay-Per-View?

"THREE FANS ENTER! ONE FAN LEAVES!"
"THREE FANS ENTER! ONE FAN LEAVES!"

Back to the OP: Johnny Cash is high on my list of dead people. Also, the entire cast of Monty Python.

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loquitur

Benjamin Franklin. From eveyrthing I have read, he was one of the most fascinating people of the past thousand years. I don't mean just that he was accomplished, though he was. I mean that he was charming, charismatic, friendly, thoughtful, articulate - almost irresistible.

For pure character and intellect, combined in a practical way, Abraham Lincoln.

It's easier with dead people. Those who are still alive seem more contemptible. But of course it's human nature to feel that way.

squeeeb

I'd like to meet Thomas Keller, cause he is a genius with preternatural skills in the kitchen.

i'd like to meet Tom Stoppard, cause he is all smart and funny and shit.

i'd like to meet Tom Robbins, for the same reason.

I'd like to meet Steve Martin, thus ruining the Tom motif i had, but for the same reasons

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biznatch

Stevie Ray Vaughan. Fuck, not just meet him, jam a couple sets with him.
I'd like to talk to Tom Cruise for a while. Just so I could evaluate the crazy.
Bob Marley. Salvador Dali. Mos Def, Black thought, ?uestlove. Curtis Mayfield seemed like a groovy dude too.
I'll think of more later.

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Iliftrocks

Beer on the porch with Mark Twain, Stephen King, Isaac Asimov, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Kineson, and Bill Hicks. Lots of beer. Hell invite Stephen Hawking too.

I would just like to see em all drunk and cussing.

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Reese

I don't get your rationality. How is Obama any different than MJ? You say MJ isn't even worth crossing the street to meet and imply that anyone that does has some kind of problem. I could say the same about Obama. All I see are a lot of empty promises when I see him. He's just another politician to me.

On to your question, Who would I like to meet?

I don't know really. I'd like to meet Christopher Hitchens...or Megan Fox.. heh

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Xerxys

Angelina Jolie, simply because I want to ask her how it feels like to have the highest number of human beings who want to have sex with her.

Baraka_Guru

Felicia Day, because she is a queen of geeks.

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Daniel_

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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
And everthing is Green and Submarine
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Xerxys

^^ That's only cause he can't annoy you anymore.