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A while ago I had hands down the worst tattoo idea ever. I wanted a Mt. Rushmore with the heads replaced with people I found influantial to me personally. Fortunately that stupid ass tattoo didn't make the cut, but it provided some interesting discussion after everyone stopped capping on me for such a lame tattoo idea.

So there is the discussion, who would be on your Mt. Rushmore?

Let me get it out of the way:
"Your mom."

there, that's taken care of.

So have at it.

Hmmm.......here's my list of possibilities....I would have to think of it some more to get a definite list:

-Richard Feynman (physicist, died in 1988 I believe, has published many books which are excellent layman's reading, and extremely funny too.
-Bill and Hillary Clinton
-my former Pastor (even though I'm not religious, I just always had a ton of respect for him and think he's a really great guy)
-Gandhi
-Eric Clapton

Maybe I can think of more later

A while ago I had hands down the worst tattoo idea ever. I wanted a Mt. Rushmore with the heads replaced with people I found influantial to me personally. Fortunately that stupid ass tattoo didn't make the cut, but it provided some interesting discussion after everyone stopped capping on me for such a lame tattoo idea.

So there is the discussion, who would be on your Mt. Rushmore?

Let me get it out of the way:
"Your mom."

there, that's taken care of.

So have at it.Your sister
Your Grandmama on your mother's side
Your Grandmama on your daddy's side
Your other sister.






You know I'm only doing this because you're my buddy, right?

Your sister
Your Grandmama on your mother's side
Your Grandmama on your daddy's side
Your other sister.






You know I'm only doing this because you're my buddy, right?
:) ;)
I don't know how to use the other smileys, so I can't express how much this made me laugh!

Nikola Tesla (genuis), Ghandi (revolutionary), John Adams (revolutionary), and K.J.N. Hwang Kee (founder of the martial art I study. you'd have to take it to see why)

To give a real answer to the question--and to bump it back to the top in the forlorn hope that someone else will answer--here are the four faces that would appear on my Mount Rushmore.

e. e. cummings--because I'm a poet because of his writing. I actually have no freaking idea what he looks like, but I am where I am because of him and I can't deny that.

Fritz Maytag--he's the owner of the brewery where I work and he's perhaps singlehandedly responsible for the fact that not all American beer tastes like Budweiser or Busch. He was the original microbrewer.

Willie Nelson--I think he's the greatest songwriter of the last century, and that's not just because my uncle has played bass for him for 35 years. Anyone who could write "Crazy", "Hello Walls" and "Night Life" in one week is worth having his face on a tattoo.

My daughter--because I'm a sap like that.

I actually started collecting spoken word recordings in an effort to find an e.e. cummings recording (I never did, but I got a ton of other ones, mostly beats.)

I realized that I didn't actually give an answer:

William S. Burroughs-literally turned my world on its ear.

Eric Dolphy-when you play in both John Coltrane and Charles Mingus' bands at thier peak and they both go "Shit, we can learn a lot from this kid," you know you're a badass.

Filmmakers are a hard pull, because it wasn't one person that drew me in, but the medium itself. I guess then it should probably be Edison, or just the Black Maria...

Dr. Ferdinand Porsche will take up the rotating fourth spot. I love cars and above all love Porsches. But the fourth spot rotates to fit my mood at the time.

Speaking of carmakers, I remember this ad for Pirelli tires that I saw when I was a teen that always stuck with me. There was a Ferrari ripping up this coursem with a voiceover saying something like "Every Ferrari comes with Pirelli tires as standard equipment. Why?" The Ferrari comes screeching to a halt and an old man gets out ofthe car and walks away chuckling. The voiceover says "Because Mr. Ferrari wants it that way."

Damn.

Speaking of carmakers, I remember this ad for Pirelli tires that I saw when I was a teen that always stuck with me. There was a Ferrari ripping up this coursem with a voiceover saying something like "Every Ferrari comes with Pirelli tires as standard equipment. Why?" The Ferrari comes screeching to a halt and an old man gets out ofthe car and walks away chuckling. The voiceover says "Because Mr. Ferrari wants it that way."

Damn.
I remember that. Enzo was an imposing dude. One of my favorite bits of lore about that guy was the reason Ferraris didn't have mirrors. Enzo had said, "What ever is behind you is unimportant."

I have this thing for car makers that are more obsessed with their asthetic or design philosophy than anything else. Thats what made the Cheyenne a shot in the heart.

There's something to be said for the artist's mentality that says "functionality be damned--it just looks better this way."

And on that note, I'm off to bed because the bar downstairs just started playing Bob fucking Seger and I can't handle that. See y'all.

Hmmmmm...

My Grandfather - he has a story too long for here
Robert E. Lee - We do our duty, and we may have a skill for destruction, but that doesn't mean we give into the temptation.
Kahlil Gibran - my favorite philosopher
My love - to always remind me.

My love - to always remind me.Just a brief suggestion--don't ever get someone's name tattooed on you unless they're related to you, and maybe not even then. It almost always looks fucked up when you eventually have to get it colored over. :D

Stalin, Hitler, Saddam and Bush

Frederick Copleston would have to be there as he's my fav philosopher by far.

Marlon Brando if only for his roles in A Streetcar Named Desire and Sayonara.

Other than those two there are only a few of my fav fictional characters I'd put up there alongside them.

- Long John Silver from Treasure Island :) Damn! Did I want to be exactly like him when I was a kid! In fact I still do! :D

- Lyra from His Dark Materials. A cool chick if ever there was one!

- Randall McMurphy from One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest with the face of Jack Nickolson. Mmmmh, I guess that would make it my third non-fictional.

Hrmmm ....

1] TS Eliot. Never before and never since has poetry moved me as much as this man's work. (though, props to the person who selected e.e. cummings ... good choice!)

2] Edgar Poe. Reminds me of myself. I'm even told I look like him. No, I am not a goth punk in constant malaise ... neither was Poe.

3] Ernest Hemmingway. Greatest American story teller .... ever.

4] William J. Clinton. The once and future King.

1) Franklin D. Roosevelt - The best of all American presidents.
2) Konrad Adenauer - The first Chancellor of modern Germany (stronly anti-Communist and a truly great man)
3) Ludwig Erhard - The second best Chancellor Germany's ever had
4) Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg - Made an attempt to assassinate Hitler, head of the resistance

and I'd drill a place for a fifth head to add a person I cannot think of right now in the future :cool:

Oscar O W Wilde
Churchill
Robin Williams
J R R Tolkien
Homer Simpson

Can I have five? I was thinking the other four could be faces on homers T shirt!

If not drop Tolkien off, he's was never the best looking bloke in the world.