HEROES and VILLAINS...

SO what is your list of characters or famous people who've inspired and repulsed you in equal measures?

Seeing as we're so list-obsessed of late, I thought I'd add yet another one for people to chew over and have endless disputes about . Mine are (roughly - as the list seems to change with the tides and seasons) in no particular order.

Those who have inspired: (list incomplete)

Siouxsie Sioux / Sarah Cracknell / The Pink Panther Cartoon Character / Norman Bates / Roy Lichtenstein / Ronald Searle / Bagpuss / Emma Peel (Diana Rigg) from The Avengers / Patrick McGoohan as Number Six (The Prisoner) / Hartley Hare / Suggs from Madness / Noddy Holder / The Goodies / Kim Deal / Marty Hopkirk / Cozy Powell (he turned me onto playing drums at the age of 5) / Alfred Hitchcock / Clive Barker / Alexei Sayle / Tom And Jerry / Stan,Kyle,Cartman and Kenny / Adam & Joe / Trent Reznor / Martin Atkins (Pigface) / Louis Armstrong / Henry Mancini / David Hockney / Jerry Sadowitz / Billy Bragg / Terry Gilliam (if only for his fucking brilliant cartoons in Monty Python) / Jayne Middlemiss (that saucy pout! oh yes!)......

Those who have repulsed: (list incomplete)

The Real IRA / Jimmy Tarbuck / Osama Bin Laden / Tony Blair / John Major / Baroness Thatcher / John Prescott / The House of Lords / Peter Tatchell / Robbie Williams / Elton John / Reg Holdsworth (Ken Morley) / Jonathan King / Jimmy Corkhill (character) / Trevor Jordache (character) / Paul Gascoigne / Jimmy Hill / Benny Hill / Ronnie Corbett / Bob Monkhouse / Mary Whitehouse (thank fuck she's dead then) / Prince Phillip (utter utter useless wanker) / Gerald Corbett (ex-Railtrack fat cat) / Jonathan Ross / Mark Goodier / Phoebe from "Friends" / Cher / Pariah Harey / Whitney Houston / Michael Jackson / Damien Hurst / Liam Gallagher / Robert Thompson & John Venables / Peter Sutcliffe / Michael Bolton / Phil Collins / Peter Stringfellow......

let's hear yours......

Bloody hell ! At this time of night ?

Heroes definitely include Bagpuss Villains definitely include Professor Yaffel, the carved wooden bell-end

I only got back from fucking work two hours ago!! That was the kind of bastard day I had!! 15 hours hard graft for some fucking great dictator of a publicity agency boss. Bollocks eh? So this is the only chance I get to post in before I go to bed before the likes of Huntsman, Shug, Patrick, Derek and Manynicknamedperson sieze the opportunity to bombard the site yet again with two hundred more postings each about Kylie, football and other vacuous nonsense about nothing in particular like they always seem to do every day around lunchtime!!!!!

Anyway - three cheers for voting Bagpuss too!

Any more you could care to nominate at some stage??? :)

Hey everyone - how about giving Marty some support?

Coo - eee!!!!........ anyone home???

Stop being such ignoramuses - get some contributions posted here please, let's hear what you have to say. Don't pretend you haven't got any (H's and V's that is) coz you have.

Okay, be a bunch of uncultured miserable old bores then .

Right then .......Go on! Sod off back to your favourite threads by Taboo, Huntsman, Allen, Seb, Keeper, Patrick, Muffy, Zomboid Hellsphincter and every bugger else like you do every day then. See if I care.....

well ALRIGHT, CALM DOWN FOR GODSSAKE! Mmmm lets see,goddammit, this is hard........ INSPIRED: Johan Cruijff,Dolf Brouwers,Wim T. Schippers,Neil Young,John Wayne,Mickey Mouse,Isabelle Adjani,Isabelle Adjani,Isabelle Adjani,Isabelle Adjani,Isabelle Adjani(oh my god she's everything i ever wanted),Jan Wolkers,Nescio,Marco van Basten,Kevin Keegan!,haircuts from 70ties(made me go to the barber),Catherine Deneuve,Gerard Depardieu

REPULSED: the Pope;religion in general,Bin Lad,Presidents of the USA,plastic people:those who always smile with their teeth,my nextdoor neighbours cause they always leave their garbagecontainer on the pavement in front of me house the whole bloody week;i am gonna blow it up with new years!!,a neighbour about 6 houses down the road for having 5 cocks(?),i mean male chickens,and they wake me up from 04.00 until 08.00!!!Xmas dinner thou shall be!My boss for being an asshole,his right hand for being a bigger asshole,people working for the housing company:fascist pigs!!

Is this in any way perhaps a wee bit satisfying oh Martian???? I did not sleep last night and i am fightingk with my eyelids at the moment.....can't think no more...........................inspiringpeoplerepulsingpeoplesjhinyfuckyouREMis also there.Well a big repulse...Michael bloody Stipe.

Lets carry on while we are still fresh! Apparently the whole world is dead or inm the pub since there is absolutely no action whatsoever on this here forum.dead beat descendants. Heroes:Bavid Dowie,New Order of course!!our Queens sister(the one that talks to trees,she's pretty as well,Danish royalty cause they marry drugaddicts all the time,again Isabelle Adjani,the guy who invented dropjes,a typical dutch candy,my dentist cause after getting herself up from the floor after checking my teeth, she now is doing a wonderful job enabling me to smile in public again.

Antiheroes:Hitler,footballhooligans,Jerry the nazihunter,Pointdexter creep!BOYBANDS and girlbands,Jerry Springer,Oprah Winnipig,asperges,JEWS AND PALESTINES ,the whole fucking lot of you can fuck off,and i am NOT being antisemetic!!

Likes: Beatles, JD/NO, Who, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, bagels, pizza with everything on it, attractive females, punk rock, Pepsi, Kubrick films, the Graduate, JD Salinger, Monty Python, Kids In the Hall, Johnny Rotten (John Lydon), Jon savage, cats, hot dogs, cheeseburgers, Talking Heads, Lou Reed, MTV2, too many to list...

Dislikes: ELO, Aerosmith, Nstync, Greil Marcus, Fox News, Oasis post 1997, Rolling Stones after the Sixties, family programming, Christian Coalition, Bin Laden, Hitler, Stalin, Max Pearlman, Carson Daly, MTV, Judge Judy, Confederate flag lovers, chick flicks, big dogs, and Enya

Hates: GW Bush, Melissa Etheridge, Babs Striesand, Hitler (again), Reader's Digest, Rolling stone magazine, and The White Devil

heroes - my father for working harder than I ever will for 25years to support a family that wasn't his from the start. other people who stand up for what the believe is right.

villians - Billy Corgan and the rest of the world who likes Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Soundgarden and the rest of the fucking copycat bands clogging airwaves. (i will make exceptions for those of you who listed the double disc Greatest Hits as one of your top albums of 2001--buster, However, get with the fucking program and realize that you are listening to a load of shit. do not jeopardize your credibility by listening to horrible music) GWBUSH, People who push for more military spending, Sharon and Arafat (fucking childish asshole leaders---why fight over religion? what does your religion preach if you shamelessly kill people?) Paul Oakenfold for not being able to beat match records even though he is considered one of the top dj's. tops for selecting records you heard other people play? tops for being so predictable, i named half your set at Area:one before we stepped foot inside the tent you boring wanker. People who come into a restaraunt after shopping for christmas presents, order loads of food and wine and then decide you've spent too much so you take it out of the tip for your server. FUCKERS. Mick Jagger, the republican party (shape up jeff!)

Remind me to never piss you off....

Agree with GW, Jagger, SP (for the most part), but I forgot to add Harry Potter, Rob Reiner flicks after spinal Tap (they all suck after that masterpiece) and Bono to my dislikes pile

Pros(in rough chronological order): Johnny Cash, John Fogerty, "Night of the Hunter(original)", Steve Prefontaine, Tom McCall, Ronnie Lee, Monty Python, SNL, The Ramones, Kraftwerk,Blixa Bargeld, Cabaret Voltaire, "Rules of the Game", Nick Cave, David McComb and the Triffids, Matt Groening, King Tubby, Mark Stewart, Adrian Sherwood, "Northern Exposure", David Lynch, Sonic Youth, Meat Puppets, Steve Kilbey, R.E.M., "Seinfeld", Massive Attack, MST3K, John Irving(except for his last book), Roddy Frame, and as always, JD/NO. That's all right off of the top of my head,but that about covers it.

Cons: most politicians, dial-up modems, AOL, irresponsible interpretations of religious text( Moral Majority, Osama, etc,), the attitudes of most professional sports players, Paul Weller(post-82), The Eagles, Christina Aguilera, all "boy" bands, TRL, most American TV (I was channel surfing last night, and they showed, I swear to God, on American Movie Classics, the Village People's movie "Can't Stop The Music". Oh well, it could have been worse, they could have shown that "Sgt. Pepper" movie with the Bee Gees).

Originally posted by Taboo # 7 Likes: Beatles, JD/NO, Who, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, bagels, pizza with everything on it, attractive females, punk rock, Pepsi, Kubrick films, the Graduate, JD Salinger, Monty Python, Kids In the Hall, Johnny Rotten (John Lydon), Jon savage, cats, hot dogs, cheeseburgers, Talking Heads, Lou Reed, MTV2, too many to list...Dislikes: ELO, Aerosmith, Nstync, Greil Marcus, Fox News, Oasis post 1997, Rolling Stones after the Sixties, family programming, Christian Coalition, Bin Laden, Hitler, Stalin, Max Pearlman, Carson Daly, MTV, Judge Judy, Confederate flag lovers, chick flicks, big dogs, and Enya

What the fuck has Enya ever done to you Tabsy????? I kinda don't mind her music - it soothes me.
Seriously.

"who can say ...", I fucking hate that song :headoff:

Some more likes: Paul Weller pre-82, Joey Ramone, Rushmore, Ian Curtis (of course), Dukes of Hazard (grew up in the south, where it's against the law to miss an episode. Has a certain camp appeal lacking in the trash on TV now), Baywatch with Yasmine Bleeth, et etc.....

Heroes : Go-getters

Villains : Cry babies, especially the ones who bleat on and on and on and on and on about how bad their life is and nothing else!!

Well Muffy, let me tell you about how bad my life is.....

Heroes: masturbating

Villains: having to clean up afterwards

Happy now, Muffy Wuffy?

Heroes and Villains...that's a Beach Boys song, isn't it?

Heroes: people who post into this thread

Villains: the other lazy apathetic bastards who don't bother.

There. Said it. :evil:

Green: nice picks with King Tubby and Andrien Sherwood...dub never gets mentioned here but it's played in my house almost every day. music that has been influenced by dub gets played everyday. blood and fire selected cuts 2 is currently pushing the speakers...step it up right now!!!

Originally posted by Geaux Hagen Green: nice picks with King Tubby and Andrien Sherwood...dub never gets mentioned here but it's played in my house almost every day. music that has been influenced by dub gets played everyday. blood and fire selected cuts 2 is currently pushing the speakers...step it up right now!!!

Thanks, Brian. The records move pretty quickly down here, especially the ON-Usound stuff,but I gotta drive an hour one way to get ahold of them(PDX or Eugene). Picked up a B&F 10" by Scientist of Step It Up the other day; one side has the Black Star Liner Remix, the other has the Dan Donovan for Don Letts Dub Cartel Remix). Both sides are mighty fine.

I saw that Adrian was scheduled to be at EMP w/ Lee 'Scratch' Perry and the Mad Professor a couple of weeks ago. Did you make it to that show? Found out the day of the show, so plans couldn't be changed.

Heroes: Hook/Sumner/Morris/Gilbert/Curtis/Gretton, Bob Mould/Grant Hart/Greg Norton, Ian Botham, Bagpuss, George Rooney, Barry Williams, one or two others over the years who know who they are.

Villains: They know who they are as well.

Here's a few more heroes/heroines: John Paul George and Ringo, Rin Tin Tin, Buster Keaton, WC Fields, Christopher Lee, Harold Lloyd, Scooby Doo, John Barry, Augustus Pablo, The Clangers, Muttley, Spiffy and Fleabag, Margi Clarke, Francoise Hardy, Nancy Sinatra, Pippi Longstocking, PufnStuf the Dragon, Susan Stranks (of "Magpie" fame), Ayshea (of "Lift Off" fame), Jennifer Beales ("what a feeling!!..." What a smile!! Shite film though!).

Villains: Tories, Public School boys, baldies (who aren't really bald, natch), footie hooligans and other sad tedious thugs up and down the land, Chris Evans, Danny Baker, Eric Hall, Hugh Grant, Ben Johnson, Hurricane Higgins, OJ Simpson, Loaded readers, Sun readers, Garry Bushell, Rick Sky, Zoe Ball, Peter Mandelson, Michael Portillo, ALL my neighbours - especially the cunts on either side, more to come.....

In case I haven't mentioned them: Heroes-Lennon/McCartney, Harrison, Starr, Andy Kaufman, Dustin Hoffman, Gretton, Belushi (John, not Jim), Wes Anderson, Bill Murray, Hawkeye Pierce

Villians: Javert, Frank Burns

Anyone noticed I've not mentioned New Order or Factory records-involved personnel anywhere in my posts?

That isn't accidental by the way. :D

Originally posted by Martian Gray Anyone noticed I've not mentioned New Order or Factory records-involved personnel anywhere in my posts?That isn't accidental by the way. :D

So what's the reason? Too much time hanging out with the wrong crowd? Maybe Manchester's really getting to you.

don't fancy either heros or villans

the only person I would care to mention is my friend Kevin who turned me on the New Order many years ago...if it wasn't for him, who knows where i'd be, musically that is ;)

Difficult one but

heroes (past and present): Ian Botham, Glenn Hoddle, the 'Order, The Jam, De La Soul, David Gower, Darren Gough, Sasha, Tony Adams, My dog and me mum.

Villains: Manics, Any Grunge musician, Anyone who forces religious beliefs on others, Whoever is responsible for the current war/fear of terrorism - and theres so much shit in the media its hard to know exactly who this is.

Yo Martin, Good to see you like Pippi Langkous!aBSOLUTELY ONE OF MY CHILDHOOD HEROES,and nowadays i am a big boy and my kiddies really dig her too, i've got all the videos, an absolute must for everyone's videocollection! Brings to mind another one of Astrid Lidgren's fantastic caracters:Emil or Michiel in some countries. So thats already 3 more heroes , let's carry on, i might add a few non-people if thats allowed if not jammer dan! Heroes:Astrid Lidgren and all her caracters like Pippi,Emil,Carlsson(!) Again the goddess of French cinema : ISABELLE ADJANI ( i'd like to hear your opinion on her Martin, films like Subway,Camille Claudel and so on. goatscheese,spinato romano blond girls with brains(not that i know any, but if so she'd be my hero) John Peel,Al Bundy,Zero Mostel,pikes,Beaujolais primeur,Belgian Beer Breweries,Havana Blacks(a mexican dark brown cigarette unfortunately no longer available).

Hates:the cunt in the recordshop i just visited. They had 4 stereolab cd's in store of wich two i wanted to buy with the 40 guilder giftcertificate that i have, but because the slip wasnt attached, he would not accept it(i had the slip with it) What a complete and utter idiot). Well i told him to stick his bloody cd's up his tight ass!!