Who Are Your Biggest Influences?

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Who Are Your Biggest Influences?

Posted: 5/31/07 at 9:59pm

Mine are:

DAVID LYNCH

INGMAR BERGMAN

STAN BRAKHAGE

THROBBING GRISTLE (band)

FRANK ZAPPA

RALPH BAKSHI

JOHN KRICFALUSI

and

GABOR CSUPO

Who are yours?

re: Who Are Your Biggest Influences?

Posted: 5/31/07 at 10:04pm

Jesus Christ and His mother.

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

re: Who Are Your Biggest Influences?

Posted: 5/31/07 at 10:07pm

various members of my family, but not all of them.

Less is more
Ugly is beautiful
"My brother plays a drag queen... and I'm surprised he looks as good as he does in drag." - Adam Rapp

"thanks, abba. now i'll forever have an image of you as a tattoed hardcore straightedge grrl savaging people in the mosh pit." - papalovesmambo

"Yeah Abba. All the filthy crap you spew out there on those boards. I for one, am equally shocked. :-P" - AnnaK

re: Who Are Your Biggest Influences?

Posted: 5/31/07 at 10:11pm

Beverly Sills
My dance teachers
My best friend

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

re: Who Are Your Biggest Influences?

Posted: 5/31/07 at 10:16pm

Alice Paul
Mo Udall
Sojourner Truth
Richard Kimball
Rick Ufford-Chase
my kids

"I'm a one-eyed Mormon Democrat from conservative Arizona, and you can't have a higher handicap than that." ~The ever-great and fabulous Morris K. Udall.

re: Who Are Your Biggest Influences?

Posted: 5/31/07 at 10:27pm

Jesus.

re: Who Are Your Biggest Influences?

Posted: 5/31/07 at 10:36pm

Mom and Dad
My sixth grade teacher Maggie Carttar
My partner
Andrea King (actress and close friend, no longer with us)

Artistic influences (in no particular order):

Aaron Copeland
Stephen Sondheim
Pablo Picasso
Camille Pissarro
Ella Fitzgerald
Frank Sinatra
Manhattan Transfer
Earth, Wind & Fire
Mama Cass
Sid & Marty Krofft
Bernard Hermann
Franz Waxman
August Renoir
Jean Cocteau
Ansel Adams
George Gershwin
Georges Meleis
Judy Collins
Harry Nilsson
Walt Disney
Meryl Streep
Frank Capra
Alfred Hitchcock
Robert Crumb
Edith Beale & Edie Beale
The Beatles
Matthew Brady
Stephen Spielberg
Francois Truffaut
Federico Felini
Hanna & Barbera
Tex Avery
Burt Bacharach
Oscar Wilde
Gene Kelly
Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers
Doris Day
Rodgers & Hammerstein
Judy Garland
Mickey Rooney
Abraham Lincoln
Ted Turner
Sarah Vaughan
Mel Torme
Simon & Garfunkel
Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman
Toulouse Lautrec
Plato
Socrates
Erik Satie
Claude Monet
Chicago
Glenn Miller
FDR
Edith Head
Auguste & Louse Lumiere

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

blocked: logan2, Diamonds3, Hamilton22

re: Who Are Your Biggest Influences?

Posted: 5/31/07 at 11:17pm

Besty...

NAME DROPPER!!!!

"Be on your guard! Jerks on the loose!"

http://www.roches.com/television/ss83kod.html

**********

"If any relationship involves a flow chart, get out of it...FAST!"

~ Best12Bars

re: Who Are Your Biggest Influences?

Posted: 5/31/07 at 11:25pm

In Life:
My Older Brother
My Mother
My Grandmother

In Art:
Judy Garland
Harry Connick, Jr
Frank Sinatra
Dezi Arnez
Nat King Cole

I have NEVER met Cheyenne Jackson. I have never hung out with him in his dressing room, he did not tweet me, he never bought me a beverage, and he mostly certainly didn't tickle me. . .that is all.

#10

re: Who Are Your Biggest Influences?

Posted: 5/31/07 at 11:32pm

My biggest influences have been people close to me, like certain friends I have and have had.

I'm influenced by my family mainly by genetics-I can't help but be like them, lol!

<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES

#11

re: Who Are Your Biggest Influences?

Posted: 5/31/07 at 11:57pm

But seriously, folks, my biggest influences have been--

My Parents
My Daughter
My Uncle Paul
My 7th Grade English Teacher
My High School French Teacher
Dr. Colette Lindroth
Marion Rothbart
Chantal LaRoche
My husband
William Styron
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Dalai Lama
Thich Nhat Hanh
Fr. Mychal Judge
Buddha
Rainer Marie Rilke
Germaine Greer
Edith Wharton
M. Scott Peck
Bill Shaub
Marlene Dietrich
Judy Garland
Bette Davis
Bill Gay and Yoshi Watanabe
Too many friends and teachers to list.
I learn from everybody in one way or another.

Oh, and Dom Perignon.

"Be on your guard! Jerks on the loose!"

http://www.roches.com/television/ss83kod.html

**********

"If any relationship involves a flow chart, get out of it...FAST!"

~ Best12Bars

#12

re: Who Are Your Biggest Influences?

Posted: 6/1/07 at 2:12am

Partner.
Maternal grandfather.
Best friend (a former Kansas farmgirl, who is basically the older sister I never had.)
Dalai Lama.
Martin Luther King.
Martina Navratilova.
Ian McKellen.
Emperor Penguins (LONG before that movie!)

#13

re: Who Are Your Biggest Influences?

Posted: 6/1/07 at 2:38am

Tony Kushner
Jason (drama teacher)
Meryl Streep
Libba Bray

"The art of Illusion is the art of love; and the art of love is the blood-red heart of the world." - Tony Kushner, "The Illusion"

#14

re: Who Are Your Biggest Influences?

Posted: 6/1/07 at 3:42am

Personally, I'm ABOVE the influence.

"Why, I make more money than... than... than Calvin Coolidge! PUT TOGETHER!"
~Lina Lamont

My name wasn't, isn't, and will never be Scott.

#15

re: Who Are Your Biggest Influences?

Posted: 6/1/07 at 4:03am

What movie, DG?

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

#16

re: Who Are Your Biggest Influences?

Posted: 6/1/07 at 4:12am

God
My parents and family
My maternal grandfather
Bob Fosse

Celebrate Life

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch

Updated On: 6/1/07 at 04:12 AM

#17

re: Who Are Your Biggest Influences?

Posted: 6/1/07 at 6:51am

Charles Schulz
Los Bros Hernandez
Björk
Robert Anton Wilson
Konishi Yasuharu
Momus
Siouxsie Sioux
Maurice Sendak
Lynda Barry
Kate Bush
Laurie Anderson
Yoko Ono
Ken Russell
John Waters
Robert Altman
David Lynch
Frank L Baum
Alphonse Mucha
Peggy Lee
Dolly Parton

#18

re: Who Are Your Biggest Influences?

Posted: 6/1/07 at 10:49am

My husband
My mom
My high school English teacher
My high school music teacher
My friend Laura from college
Richard Branson
Audrey Hepburn
Gene Kelly
Mikhail Baryshnikov
James Taylor
John Lennon
G-d

Updated On: 6/1/07 at 10:49 AM

#19

re: Who Are Your Biggest Influences?

Posted: 6/1/07 at 11:02am

My mom
My best best friend, Jack
Johnny Depp
Leslie Birnbaum
Stella Adler
Etel Billig
HS history teacher Mr. Rocco Rado
HS history teacher Mr. Will Dwyer
HS English teacher Ms. Kara Bickhem
Ms. Katie Stadt, in so many capacities
Ms. Martha Brennan, in so many capacities
Heather Godbout
Kate Winslet
Will and Grace

Measure your life in love, RENTheads, and keep it always in your heart.

Avatar: Me with Al Larson, Jonathan Larson's father.

#20

re: Who Are Your Biggest Influences?

Posted: 6/1/07 at 3:25pm

Harry Potter. No just kidding.

#21

re: Who Are Your Biggest Influences?

Posted: 6/1/07 at 3:53pm

SM2 - MARCH OF THE PENGUINS.

#22

re: Who Are Your Biggest Influences?

Posted: 6/1/07 at 4:11pm

Woody Allen
Larry David
Blanche Devereaux
Little Edie Bouvier
Adrian
Bette & Joan
Martha Stewart
Sara Moulton
David Mamet

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