Sunday, September 16, 2007

No Heroes.

All of my heroes are dead. in a box. all these brains under dirt.
  1. Elvis Presley is dead.
  2. James Dean is dead.
  3. Ed Wood is dead.
  4. Andy Warhol is dead.
  5. Don Knotts is dead.
  6. Diane Arbus is dead.
  7. Charles Bronson is dead.
  8. Stanley Kubrick is dead.
  9. Marilyn Monroe is dead.
  10. Hunter S. Thompson is dead.
  11. Stiv Bators is dead.
  12. The Exploding Hearts are dead.
  13. Marc Bolan is dead.
  14. Edith Piaf is dead.
  15. Fyodor Dostoyevsky is dead.
  16. Alfred Hitchcock is dead.
  17. Jimi Hendrix is dead.
  18. Jim Morrison is dead.
  19. Joe Strummer is dead.
  20. Charles Bukowski is dead.
  21. Allen Ginsberg is dead.
  22. William S. Burroughs is dead.
  23. Franz Kafka is dead.
  24. Henry Miller is dead.
  25. My grandmother is dead.
  26. Darby Crash is dead.
  27. Nick Drake is dead.
  28. Tupac is dead.
  29. Biggie Smalls is dead.
  30. Daniel Johnston might as well be dead.
  31. Elliott Smith is dead.
  32. Divine is dead.
  33. Kurt Vonnegut is dead.
  34. Ian Curtis is dead.
  35. The Ramones are basically dead.
  36. Claude Bessy is dead.
  37. Steinbeck is dead.
  38. Philip Larkin is dead.
  39. Epic Soundtracks is dead.
  40. Oscar Wilde is dead.

We are alive. Funny how shit works out.

2 comments:

RIAN said...

Someday our brains will be under dirt too, and the world will continue on. There are so many dead people. It's hard to think about. I wonder how many people have inhabited the earth since humans came into existence. I'd like to see someone come up with that figure.

Matt said...

My Top 5 D/early Dead:

1. Joe Strummer
2. Shane Plank Sullivan
3. Kenneth Koch
4. Cesar Vallejo
5. Guillaume Apollinaire

Also, The Dead Kennedys