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Favorite Eccentric Celebrity?

Bolol
24-03-2006, 01:56
I'm not going to lie to you, there have been many "not-so-funny" nutjobs throughout history. But every so often we stumble upon someone whose madness is on the edge of genius, and whose lifestyle just makes us laugh.

Take my favorite for instance. Sigmund Freud, who, while being THE pioneer of psychology, was a sex-maniac (which is odd, because with all he talked about it, he really didn't get much) alienated all of those around him, AND was a borderline coke-head. I could write pages on this guy!

So...Who's your favorite eccentric celebrity (living or dead)?
Argesia
24-03-2006, 01:58
Yeah, we should all agree by now on what "eccentric" is... Because, of course, we're all at the center...
Breitenburg
24-03-2006, 01:59
Syd Barrett, the founder of Pink Floyd. He was an amazing guitar player, who did some drugs, but he wwas already in messed up in the head, so he went insane and now lives alone. He saved his eyebrows once like it was completely normal. But he played guitar in Pink Floyd, and wrote "Interstellar Overdrive", so he can be a psychotic as he wants.
Terrorist Cakes
24-03-2006, 01:59
Oscar Wilde.
Bolol
24-03-2006, 02:01
Yeah, we should all agree by now on what "eccentric" is... Because, of course, we're all at the center...

Hey, don't get me wrong, I'm far from "normal". In fact, I am a living contradiction, being both extremely optimistic and cynical at the same time.
Undelia
24-03-2006, 02:01
His Imperial Majesty Emperor Norton I, Emperor of America and Protector of Mexico.

wikipeida rules (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton)
Argesia
24-03-2006, 02:06
Hey, don't get me wrong, I'm far from "normal". In fact, I am a living contradiction, being both extremely optimistic and cynical at the same time.
No, I don't mean that your thread is contradoctory in that particular way. But consider that the very distinction between eccentric and mainstream doesn't exist unless we already have the same taste and logic on the issue. And, even if we do agree, how are you guaranteed that those in the middle weren't more extreme or odd than people who voluntarily placed themselves on the outskirts.
Colodia
24-03-2006, 02:06
His Imperial Majesty Emperor Norton I, Emperor of America and Protector of Mexico.

wikipeida rules (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton)
:D

Ah, stole my guy!
Ilie
24-03-2006, 02:17
Johnny Depp. He is pretty damned loopy, and nobody seems to notice.
SHAENDRA
24-03-2006, 05:26
Gary Busey'nuff said.
AB Again
24-03-2006, 05:28
It was nearly Eutrusca but the I remembered Lunatic Goofballs.
PasturePastry
24-03-2006, 05:33
Syd Barrett, the founder of Pink Floyd. He was an amazing guitar player, who did some drugs, but he wwas already in messed up in the head, so he went insane and now lives alone. He saved his eyebrows once like it was completely normal. But he played guitar in Pink Floyd, and wrote "Interstellar Overdrive", so he can be a psychotic as he wants.

Actually, Interstellar Overdrive is my favorite Pink Floyd song, if it can be called a song.

Yeah, Syd was a bit out there. Anyone that could write a song called "Effervescing Elephant" would require several years of light speed travel to return home.
Daistallia 2104
24-03-2006, 06:16
Henry Cavendish, the British scientist. He was so shy that any servant of his he actually saw, was fired.
New Granada
24-03-2006, 06:16
The Duke of Edinburgh
Freakyjsin
24-03-2006, 06:50
The Swedish Chef
http://www.ladyofthecake.com/muppets/MeatballTennis.mov
Cannot think of a name
24-03-2006, 06:52
His Imperial Majesty Emperor Norton I, Emperor of America and Protector of Mexico.

That's the one...
Bodies Without Organs
24-03-2006, 06:56
Syd Barrett ... wrote "Interstellar Overdrive", so he can be a psychotic as he wants.

'co-wrote', surely?
Kyronea
24-03-2006, 07:03
Doctor Emmette Lathrop Brown. Famous across no less than 47 universes...yet here, he's just a character in a movie. :(
Cannot think of a name
24-03-2006, 07:32
I was thinking, most of the people I dig have a bent towards the eccentric, though it's the work that I'm into and don't care as much about thier lives outside of it except in how it relates to the work.

William S. Burroughs and the Beat writers.
Jazz musicians (I started a list, but c'mon...)
Terry Gilliam, Kubrick, etc...

Now, as I said, I get into the work before I know anything about them and a lot of them turn out to be eccentric. Just puttin' that out there...
Soviet Haaregrad
24-03-2006, 07:33
Ol' Dirty Bastard.