Feel My Love
In recent days, two idiots nice individuals have cited my hatefulness as a moral flaw in my nature (not to mention my blog.) I will point out yet again that the title of this blog is “Godammit, ‘m Mad! and I’m Getting Madder,” not “Look What I Love.”
However, just to remind anyone who doesn’t know what a fucking cornucopia of love I am, here is a list of fifty people I love, in the order they popped into my brain:
Patti Smith, William Borroughs, Van Morrison, Vermeer, William Bouguereau, Aretha Franklin, Thomas Hardy, Elvis Costello, Edith Wharton, Flaubert, Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, Kingsley Amis, Mervin Peake, Johnny Depp, Ingrid Bergman, Chris Rock, Richard Feinman, Arthur Lee, Bob Dylan, George Eliot, Amy Winehouse, Denton Welch, Balzac, Vivienne Leigh, Brigitte Bardot, Prince, Amanda Palmer, Donna Summer, Paul Erdos, Frida Kahlo, Bert Jansch, Fred Neil, Iris Murdoch, Joan Armatrading, Tolstoy, Otis Redding, Ravi Shankar, Oscar Wilde, Karen Horney, Derek & Clive, Neil Young, Tim Buckley, Leonard Cohen. Robert DiNiro, Alice Miller, Yukio Mishima, Ricky Gervais, Larry David, Tony Duquette.
See?
Now, who do you love that I should love too?
March 3rd, 2010 at 12:46 am
I love Stephen Fry and people who make documentaries exposing the cunitiness of Religious Organisations and other Greedy Individuals.
I’m sure there are others but my brain is not functioning well today.
March 3rd, 2010 at 12:57 am
Me!
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:55 am
A Few Entities Whom You Should Love:
Eddie Izzard
Ingmar Bergman
Iron Maiden
Arctic Monkeys
Zora Neale Hurston
kd lang —see: http://frenchshelter.blogspot.com/2010/03/pregnancy-orgasms-continuation-of.html
Jane Austin
Helene Cixous
Joseph Cornell
Selah Saterstrom
ee cummings
Gena Rowlands
Paul Celan
Kate Winslett
David Bowie
Mark Rothko
AND, Most Importantly Today::
The Christian Side Hug –see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoxmlrbJZh4
XuXu
http://www.frenchshelter.blogspot.com
March 3rd, 2010 at 2:32 am
I’m feeling the love Sister Wolf (and I second adding Stephen Fry to the list).
March 3rd, 2010 at 2:45 am
I’m just so happy you love Edith Wharton she’s in my top 10. I love it when you spread the love (but maybe not as much as when you get the goddam stupid people where it hurts).
March 3rd, 2010 at 3:52 am
I love Sister Wolf and Birdeater!
You surprised me with some of your love choices, but I get it, some people are just brilliant cunts.
March 3rd, 2010 at 4:09 am
fiona apple(i’ve only heard her first album many years ago, and i base this on that), isabelle fuhrman(she played esther in the movie “orphan”), keller williams, chuck palahniuk, christopher moore, kurt vonnegut jr., lamb of god, protest the hero, bruce campbell, jello biafra, the singer of iwrestledabearonce, victor wooten….there are a lot, and these are in no kind of order. i’m done listing, lists are horrible.
March 3rd, 2010 at 5:22 am
i love you sister wolf and i love Vivienne Leigh.
March 3rd, 2010 at 5:22 am
I was going to add Leonard Cohen, but he’s already there. Leonard, baby, you can come visit me in the blue raincoat any day…. I’m even half Zen, so we can have tea and talk about non-dualism if that works better for you.
So relieved.
If you love Kahlo, you might like Remedios Varo.
I also love, or loved, Paul Muldoon back in his earlier punning phase.
March 3rd, 2010 at 5:54 am
You listed Neil Young.
You’re dead to me.
Also, this happy, giving everyone a pat on the back at all times because they’re “doin’ a great job and are unique and special flowers”
Yeah. That mentality? That mentality can go fuck itself with the hells of one of Sea of Shoes’ most hideous pumps.
You’re not negative. Just a realist. You’re toughening those girls up. Because when the Zombie Apocalypse comes, in their present states they will be the first to go. Wondering “why hose fugly mooks with bad skin aren’t worshipping me like my blog fans do” as they’re getting their brains chewed out.
March 3rd, 2010 at 6:22 am
You’re on my list Sister!
March 3rd, 2010 at 7:39 am
I love you, Sister. The forum you have created gives me an outlet for my disatisfaction, anger, and frustration. For those who think it is too hateful, go http://www.iamalwayssof‘nhappy.com.
March 3rd, 2010 at 7:49 am
Vermeer, Amy Winehouse, Vivienne Leigh, Prince, Frida Kahlo, Leonard Cohen, Tony Duquette…we share the love.
Also, Eartha Kitt, KD Lang, Leonor Fini, Luisa Casati, Nina Flowers, Sinead O’Connor, Javier Bardem, Remedios Varos (already listed), family, friends, fellow bloggers, puppies, kittens, unicorns and rainbows.
March 3rd, 2010 at 7:54 am
Nancy and Jessica Mitford (I think you’ll find the former particularly appealing, even though she is British and I seem to recall your objecting to Daphne Guinness’s accent- the Mitford sisters are her great-aunts and grandmother).
Also, Bardot? I hope it’s her looks you love, and not her racist cuntish views..
March 3rd, 2010 at 7:56 am
I must also add: J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter! You might not concur, though)
March 3rd, 2010 at 8:28 am
Dewayne – mad props on the mention of Victor Wooten, who is without peer on the bass. But I do know that Sister Wolf hates Chuck P and the horse he rode in on.
Most everyone I love is dead. Rob Sheffield is one exception that immediately comes to mind.
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:03 am
I’m stealing your artwork. I LOVE it!!!
To Love – Anais Nin, Jorge Luis Borges, CS Lewis
Also perfection is not perfect kindness, it is being yourself.
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:24 am
I’m going to add Hunter S. Thompson, Henry Darger, Sean Penn (who could fail to love someone who enjoys beating up the paparazzi?), and Ida Lupino.
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:28 am
i love kahlo, too.
and kinski.
tom ford.
and sexist dirty old bukowski. hunter s. thompson.
anais nin, of course.
the marchesa casati. weimar berlin seductress extraordinaire anita berber.
anita pallenberg and marianne faithfull.
carine roitfeld.
you. who couldn’t?
March 3rd, 2010 at 11:31 am
Mark Twain, the best that America has ever produced.. and perhaps the first modern human being.
“Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.”
“Life after death? I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.”
“Masturbation? There’s no money in it.”
(..but he never saw a Madonna concert..)
March 3rd, 2010 at 11:39 am
I love YOU SW along with all those you love and those that Dru ,Jill,erika,Aimee,OMGGMAB,and any of those that I missed love. I am so fucking full of love I make myself sick.
March 3rd, 2010 at 11:44 am
I love your artwork……… I want it!!!!!!
March 3rd, 2010 at 11:49 am
Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne.
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:04 pm
I love lady gaga
and I hate bitches who quote eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (the quote about nice people) as though they came up with it and then try to fuck your boyfriend (later telling you that you can’t blame them because they warned you.)
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:28 pm
I love your blog, SW. Other than that I’m too lazy to make a list soooo…I hate everything that’s not on my love/like list. But I especially hate idiots that think not being “nice” = morally impaired. WTF is entailed in being “nice” anyway??!! It’s different for each of us. I think I’ll add those types of f*ckwits to my “I will shoot you in the face if I ever meet you” list.
March 3rd, 2010 at 6:29 pm
Wow, Sister Wolf – Karen Horney, yes! Strong reinforcement to previously mentioned Stephen Fry, Mark Rothko & Mark Twain. I’ll throw in Mitchell & Webb.
March 3rd, 2010 at 8:01 pm
Tina Fey
March 3rd, 2010 at 8:55 pm
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY
March 3rd, 2010 at 9:30 pm
Getting back to hatred for a minute, i coincidentally just compiled my own list of classic rock bands I hate. Before making this list, I thought of myself as a classic rock lover (Beatles, Stones, Dylan, Love, Doors, Velvets, Beach Boys, David Bowie, Neil Young, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, etc.) But now I am not so sure. I wouldn’t mind if the work of these “artists” was erased from existence:
grateful dead
the who
the eagles / don henley
steeley dan
santana
jethro tull
king crimson
billy joel
sting
U2
Rush
Chicago
America
Kansas
Journey
Aerosmith
bob segar
steve miller
tom petty
alice cooper
frank zappa
supertramp
styx
eric clapton
ELO
earth wind and fire
blood sweat and tears
bad company
iron butterfly
robert palmer
deep purple
doobie brothers
crosby stills & nash
grand funk railroad
the guess who
mountain
thin lizzy (except “whiskey in the jar”)
allman brothers
lynard skynard
peter frampton
the cult
steppenwolf
heart
Emerson Lake & Palmer
zz top
ted nugent
bon jovi
humble pie
hot tuna
ten years after
j geils band
little feat
robin trower
badfinger
genesis / phil collins / peter gabriel
yes
tower of power
nrbq
three dog night
john cougar mellencamp
spirit
brian adams
acdc
sweet
carole king
leon russell
carly simon
sugarloaf
meatloaf
jimmy buffett
wings
March 3rd, 2010 at 9:51 pm
Cheraya – Stephen Fry, me too!
David Duff – Of coursre I love you, I’m just trying to throw Mrs. Duff off the trail…
XuXu – Oh, David Bowie, k.d. Lang, Jane Austin, Kate Winslet, Eddie Izzard, LOVE them.
Cybill – Yay for Stephen Frye!
Make Do – Edith Wharton is a fucking genius.
dust – Hahaha! Of course you get it.
dewayne – Kurt Vonnegut, check! My husband hates lists, too. Are you two in cahoots??
Denise – I love you too, xo
MJ – You know, I didn’t love Frida until I saw her work in person last year (and until I broke my pelvis.) I’m a late convert.
Aimee – Well, you’re dead to me, then! Explain what’s wrong with Neil Young?!? He has maintained his anti-corporate integrity longer than anyone else in rock music. Got to love him.
Iheartfashion – Ditto, xoxoxoxoxo
OMGGMAB – My pleasure to provide the outlet.
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:06 pm
Jill – Sinead O’Connor, yes! Kittens, no.
Dru – Nancy and Jessica, YES! Diana Mitford, nope. I love BB only re her beauty. It still stuns me. Her personal life =nuts.
Ann – Oh Ann, please love some more alive people! Or I will be too sad!
erika – The artwork is the logo of the band, Love. Please feel free to use it!
AUdi – Yep, I’m with you, although Hunter Thompson seems over rated to me. I could be wrong there.
Stella Mayfair – I would have sex with Tom Ford!
Dex- Hahahaha! I love the Wagner quote!
PeaceBWithYou – You’re like a love pinata!
talisa – Please copy and use!!!
Iron CHic – Hahahahaha! How can we share them?
theresa – bitches who try to fuck your boyfriend need to be taught not to mess with you. See me after class for details.
HelOnWheels – I like your style.
Bevitron – I don’t know who is Mitchell and Webb but I will google…
Miranda – YES, Tina Fey, a goddess.
Kate – Really??
Max- Your taste is impeccable. That list gives me endorphins when I read it.
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:06 pm
The Eagles and Bob Seger–they need to be erased.
I love Marcel Breuer, Suggs from Madness, and Thom Browne. And Colin Firth.
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:08 pm
What about meeeeeeee?
March 4th, 2010 at 1:58 am
OH OH OH OH OH!!!
NINA SIMONE!!!
DON’T FORGET THE NINA!!!
OH!!
March 4th, 2010 at 2:42 am
Mark – Mmmm, Colin Firth, love him too.
Suebob – I LOVE YOU SO MUCH, SUEBOB.
XuXu – We won’t forget the Nina, don’t worry! Jill loves her, too. Nina, we love you!
March 4th, 2010 at 2:56 am
I love the 95yr old woman who was on TodayFM this morning because she just passed her driving test
March 4th, 2010 at 4:40 am
“Come on people now smile on your brother everybody get together an’ try an’ love one another right now……….”
March 4th, 2010 at 7:01 am
MAX! MAX! MAX! Love the list!
March 4th, 2010 at 11:46 am
Lisa Lampanelli. She’s funny.
March 4th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
I love Junya Watanabe, and Max for making the list.
March 4th, 2010 at 7:39 pm
Odetta
Carl Sandburg
Roald Dahl
Nick Cave
Lorca
Stevie Nicks
March 4th, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Dickens! I’m on a love Dickens kick. Then there’s my old poet standby, William Carlos Williams. Love.
March 5th, 2010 at 4:49 am
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (or ok, if your list only includes real-life people, then maybe Joss Whedon, for creating her?)
March 5th, 2010 at 5:43 am
And Dorothy Parker, R.K. Laxman, R.K. Narayan, Hayao Miyazaki, the Tank Man of Tianenmen Square 1989, Rei Kawakubo (don’t let Sea’s fangirlism sully her for you!), Yayoi Kusama, Terry Pratchett, Tim Berners-Lee, and CLAMP.
March 5th, 2010 at 5:45 am
Oh, and Roald Dahl.
March 5th, 2010 at 8:01 am
Steven Fry, Maggie Alderson, Alexander McCall Smith, Mma Ramotswe (fictional but highly aspirational/inspirational for me) Nick Hornby, Billy Connelly, Ernie and Bert.
xx
March 5th, 2010 at 9:48 am
I forgot George Bernard Shaw:
“Do not do unto others as you would have them do unto you. They may not have the same taste.”
“If the Pope knows anything about sex.. he shouldn’t!”
And Robin Williams on Dr. Ruth:
“What does the woman know about oral sex..? She won’t even eat pork!”
March 7th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
i love ricky gervais more.
you should love anthony bourdain, nick cave, akira and kirstie allsopp
March 7th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
i was so happy to see flaubert!
March 8th, 2010 at 7:39 am
Colette! Most definitely Colette, too.