Well, I do look like Della Street at her typewriter. So, this is the profile song of the year.
More like, would have liked to have met - Jack Kerouac, Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, Bill Burroughs (we'd have been casual friends, that I could call him.."Bill"), Buddha, Paramahansa Yogananda, Hendrix, Oscar Wilde, Miles Davis(so I could see if he was ticklish...just kidding), John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Monk (not the TV guy, seriously, not the TV guy) ...ah, but I was too late, to meet any of them.
However, over the years I did meet some of my music heroes from back in the day, and well, sometimes there's something to say for NOT meeting your heroes. I would advise it though, as it would burst the bubble of Celebrity Culture if you saw "behind the curtain" - warts and all.
Right now on my list among the living - Derek Trucks. If only for a few guitar lessons.
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"Henry and June" - Henry Miller and Anais Nin... fitting that Nin ended up living her final days in Silverlake. But before my time in this neighborhood.
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What do Alice (Brady Bunch maid), Uncle Fester and Larry Tate have in common? They were all guests on the same episode of...Perry Mason!
You got to love that show. It opens with a person/or persons into something suspicious and one of them in the first scene always... ends up dead. Then one of two detectives comes out to investigate. 'Looks like an open and shut case!' And then someone involved somehow with the situation goes to see Perry Mason, because he was the top lawyer in town. Then he talks to the detective, the detective reaffirms that the accused is guilty. Perry's on the trail, they go to trial, and somewhere during the trial the accused is not really the guilty one, and Perry gets someone nobody else thought of to admit on the stand - 'ALL RIGHT I DID IT!! I couldn't help it!!' The detective looks foiled once again and... in the last scene in Perry Mason's office with ace secretary by his side, Della Street, Perry and pals stand around his desk and take turns telling how they figured it out. Every show, every time. Classic.
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"On The Road" - Jack Kerouac (and all of its offshoots)"The charging restless mute unvoiced road keening in a seizure of tarpaulin power."
-Jack Kerouac's favorite line from On The Road
I met a few of them... well what can I tell ya?