Kurt Lockwood's Heroes are, according to Kurt:
(ongoing list in stream of conscious order)
His Grandfather- WWII vet, survived the sinking of U.S.S. Duncan, worked all his life to provide for a wife and five children R.I.P.
Dee Dee Ramone - Invented punk rock, took me on tour with him, was a father figure to me.
Kurt Cobain - opened my eyes to feminist points of view, cool bands, rockstar mythos.
Axl Rose - living embodiment of the Rock Star mythos
Caligula - Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Julius Caesar - Conquered the known world.
Bono - World statesman, philanthropic world changer, voice of spun gold.
Thom Yorke - proved that world sized passion can exist in a physically small man.
Chinggis Khaan - Brought the known world to it's knees.
Alexander the Great - Conquered the known world and expanded it by the age of 33.
Canute the Great - Another known world conquerer, doesn't get nearly the press he deserves.
Achilles -mightiest warrior of legend
Ulysses - epic warrior for the ages
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Poetic martyr of equality
Johnny Rotten - influenced millions across the World
Perry Farrel- was the last great poet of Rock n Roll.
Martin Gore - Taught me sexual perversity could be spiritual through music
David Bowie - the epitmome of creativity and living the artist dreamstate
Elvis - originator of the rock n roll mythos, changed the world like a supernova
Spartacus - showed that one man could give the finger to the mightiest country in the world
Einstein - greatest mind ever. He revolutionized science. Yet, still argued w/ his wife, lol.
Leonardo - the complete genius. Everything he did in every medium was generations before his time.
Carravagio - the master of chiaroscuro
Heironymous Bosch beautiful dementia in his paintings
Monet - caught the world in a dreamlike state on canvas
Picasso- saw the world as through a broken mirror and captured it on canvas
Dali - showed that the mind could see beyond the canvas of reality and was able to paint it
Francisco Goya - dared to go to the darkest places of his mind to give them breath on canvas
Coltrane - translated his soul as music, effortless entwined
Don Juan - legendary lothario
Marquis De Sade - twisted legendary sadist of the flesh
Lewis Carrol - fantastic mind of sexual dysfunction married to unmatched wondrous imagery
Tolkien - featured the epic imagination of a true wordsmith whose eye for detail scanned the most minute syllable to creating entire worlds
Bill Clinton - updated the President as rockstar, gave America back it's hope.
George Washington - Was offered to be King and refused and in doing so gave birth to the greatest experiment of democracy the world has ever known.
Barack Obama - the American dream personified, straight from the boiling melting pot itself.
Ramses II - fathered an entire generation of children, took the greatest nation in the world for it's time and made it one of the greatest nations in the world for all time.
Akhenaten - Dared to take thousands of years of polytheism religious tradition and throw it all away to convert the most powerful nation of it's time to the first monotheists.
Jesus - the greatest of all, one man's life became the standard for the entire world for every generation after him.
Dionysus - Life is nothing without pleasure.
Apoll, - Life is nothing without reason.
Plato Taught me the vast deep universese of innerspace.
Edward R. Murrow - fearless trumpeteer of truth in face of oceans of political corruption.
FDR - Saved the world from the greatest evil it has ever known.
Jim Morrison - another embodiment of the rock star mythos, found poetic sexuality in darkness and music
Iggy Pop - Humanaut who showed us just to what extremes music and fleshy pleasures could be taken to
Lewis and Clark - last great, bold, adventurists, the embodiment of the human need to discover despite all odds
Hunter S. Thompson - the harlequin of the modern disease
Rimbaud - The deepest diver in the darkest pool of words
Artaud The darkest diver in the deepest pool of words
Bill Gates - the American Spirit personified
Blackbeard - The beauty of complete and utter anarchy
Sir Henry Morgan - A boy's adventure tale as a life
Stephen Decatur - Epically Powerful daring heroism.
Mutinous Mutunus - Purity of Lust
Lord Admiral Nelson - Duty and honor shaped as a man.
Rasputin - Legendary lustful manipulative mystic
Nikola Tesla - inventive unparalleled genius of his time
El Cid - Brilliant Tactician and leader of men who brought together the greatest nation of it's time.
myself (haha) - remains to be seen....
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Kurt lockwood
