Who's your current favorite artist? Who else has topped your list?

[Giggity]

I went on a road trip last weekend, and finally got around to listening to Louis CK's podcast with Marc Maron. (Side note: It's awesome.) I realized I've reached the point with Louis CK where I've pretty much consumed everything of Louis CK's there is to consume, and I will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

I forking love Louis CK. If Louis CK announced a nine-part HBO mini-series on the history of onions, I would keep paying for HBO when Game of Thrones' season ended.

Is it weird that I've always tended to have one person like that? I've thought about it and, for the most part, tried to distill it down to one living, breathing person whose work I couldn't get enough of at various points in my life.

Here, in approximately chronological order, is an incomplete, somewhat embarrassing list of people who's onion documentary I would've watched at that time in my life. I left out a ton of people whose work I love - Larry David, David Hyde Pierce (weird choice but awesome, right?), the Wu-Tang Clan - but never fell in love with.

Good luck finding a common denominator with mine; what are yours?

Jesus *
Beverly Cleary
Franklin W. Dixon
Mr. T
Steve Largent
Lucille Ball
Sam Malone
Hulk Hogan
Ken Griffey Jr.
Sir Mix-a-Lot **
Dana Carvey
Garth Brooks ***
Pink Floyd
Matt Groening
Tupac
Quentin Tarantino
Eminem
The Coen brothers
Atmosphere
Chris Rock
David James Duncan ****
David Chase
Stephen Colbert
David Simon *****
John Steinbeck
Michael Schur
Amy Poehler ******
Louis CK

* Damn it, mom.
** I grew up in the Northwest and Nirvana's fans were super annoying. Trust me, it was way more fun to blast "Posse on Broadway" if you lived in Tacoma in 1992.
*** Blame it all on my roots.
**** Go ahead and read The Brothers K right now.
***** Enough about The Wire (not really!) - read the books.
****** Quick acknowledgment that it's weird both Schur and Poehler are on here, and not good that Poehler's only the second woman.

 

[Starman]

Well, that's just your opinion, man.

 

[Riptide]

Damn, I had the same list. So never mind.

 

[bigpern23]

Mine right now would be photographers Peter Lik and John Knopf. Both guys are incredibly talented and I enjoy following them on social media. Lik recently set the world record for selling the most expensive photo print, an image called "Phantom", for $6.5 million.

At various other times my list has probably included:
Martin Scorsese
David Fincher
Steven Spielberg
Jimi Hendrix
Kurt Cobain
Eddie Vedder
Eddie Murphy
Dave Chappelle
Chris Rock

 

[Buck]

I'd qualify most of the people on my list as entertainers rather than artists but:

When I was old enough to take an interest in music, I was obsessed with Billy Joel.
From there I went through:
Rolling Stones
Pink Floyd
The Doors
The Grateful Dead
Bob Dylan

By about 19 I had kicked that habit of obsessively absorbing someone's entire catalog.

I still fall into long lags with certain writers, most recently it was Abraham Merritt. I'm not sure I can put the writers in chronological order:
Tom Wolfe
John Norman
Hunter Thompson
James Joyce
Thomas Hardy
David Sedaris
Robert Anton Wilson
Raymond Chandler
Joseph Campbell
Fritz Lieber

 

[TyWebb]

Jerry Seinfeld.

Anything he does, I will watch. I've seen every episode of Seinfeld multiple times. I've seen him live twice and he kills. I forking love his web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. (The one with Louis CK is great, by the way.) Any interview with him, I'm watching. He is just the kind of guy that hits me in exactly the right spot.

 

[YankeeFan]

Mine right now would be photographers Peter Lik and John Knopf. Both guys are incredibly talented and I enjoy following them on social media. Lik recently set the world record for selling the most expensive photo print, an image called "Phantom", for $6.5 million.

Stumbled into one of his galleries in Mandalay Bay. His stuff is incredible. He had a show on the Weather Channel that was very cool as well.

 

[YankeeFan]

There were several artists who had studio space in my old building.

This one is incredible:

Nicole Gordon — Linda Warren Projects: Fine Art Gallery

Nicole Gordon

 

[swingline]

The Brothers K is a(n) hilarious book.

 

[swingline]

In no particular order:
John Steinbeck
Wilco (seeing them for the ninth (10th?) time this summer at Crossroads in K.C.)
Alice in Chains' "Dirt"
Nirvana
David Foster Wallace
Pink Floyd
Boxing on ESPN
Louis L'Amour
Derrick Thomas
Kurt Warner and the Rams' three-year run
Mizzou basketball in the 1980s
Mizzou football recently
St. Louis Cardinals always (taking my 6-year-old to her first game in a few weeks)
Women, always and forever, amen

 

[heyabbott]

Monet
Matisse
Rembrandt

 

[Riptide]

Steve Kerr.