100 people who are heroes to nerdy, middle-class, english teenage boys

3. Walter Benjamin

4. Bill Hicks

5. Charlie Brooker

6. Grant Morrison?

7. Monty Python

8. Terry Pratchett

9. judd apatow

10. Richard Feynman - you can be a physics nerd, but still play bongos and learn to draw in a topless bar.

11. Neil Gaiman

12. girls

Hmmmmm...

13. mark hollis

http://www.stuff.co.nz/images/695431.jpg

Is that the australian party fella?

Nah, they hate people like that. We're talking SERIOUS bods here, talking in put-on deep voices about things like marxism or the Alien films.

15. That runt from Radiohead
16. Ludwig Wittgenstein

12. girls

-- remy bean, Wednesday, 13 February 2008

Only if they like Mogwai, then they are "wife material".

17. Everett True

15. That runt from Radiohead

They're all runts, even the drummer! You're going to have to be more specific...

I love that Australian party guy, even though I would never want to meet him or see him anywhere other than youtube.

18. Richard Wagner

19. Boris Johnson
20. Jeremy Clarkson

21. Snakes

22. Planes

23. simon reynolds

24. Motherfuckers

what teenage boys have heard of Mark Hollis?

25. Motherfucking snakes on a motherfucking plane

too bad about dom's shitty new meme, this thread is obv right in his wheelhouse

26. Jordan Sargent

27. Svelte hip-hop recording artiste Lil Wayne

28. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull

29. Milton Friedman

30. Kinky Friedman

31. Lenny Bruce

32. Lester Bangs

33. Personal Info
Activities:
Balancing on tube trains using an umbrella

Straightening bent umbrellas on tube trains
Interests:
The only 6 things of any use in this goddamn world: art, sport, science, reflection, conversation and food.

Everything is a permutation of the above.
Favorite Music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpEe0ztq2ck

Mansun, Mogwai, Blur, The Beta Band, Yes, XTC, GY!BE, The Boredoms, The Fiery Furnaces, The Cure, Oceansize, The Cooper Temple Clause, Pulp, Roxy Music, Slint, Talk Talk, The The, Soundgarden, Pink Floyd, Spiritualized, Orbital, The Electric Soft Parade, Wilco, Mercury Rev, Beck, Explosions In The Sky, Primal Scream, Radiohead, Soft Machine, Earth, Isis, The Blood Brothers, The Beatles, Blue Jam, Duran Duran, Ride, Slowdive, Elbow, Crash Test Dummies, Steve Harley, The Chemical Brothers, Vivian Stanshall, Squeeze, Underworld, Foetus, Mr. Bungle, The Mars Volta, Suede, Secret Machines, Aereogramme, The Teardrop Explodes, Pink Grease, Super Furry Animals, Hood, Bark Psychosis, Six By Seven, Engineers, Jesu, The Boo Radleys, Ultrasound, Lusk, Hum, Red Sparowes, Porcupine Tree, The Wildhearts, Quickspace, Catherine Wheel, Chapterhouse, Dark Star, Gomez, Cardiacs, The Monsoon Bassoon, Levitation, Working For A Nuclear Free City, Youthmovies, Air Formation, Barry Adamson, Koenjihyakkei, My Computer, Mew, Ulver, 65DaysOfStatic, Battles, Ulrich Schnauss, Caribou, Chrome Hoof, Thighpaulsandra, Barry Adamson, William Orbit, Half Man Half Biscuit, Porn Sword Tobacco, Earl Brutus, Caina, Deathspell Omega, Mclusky, Cardiacs again, everyone who likes Cardiacs, everyone who tries to approximate the genius of Cardiacs
Favorite TV Shows:
Arrested Development, nothing else is worthy of mention here*. When we students (260+ Facebook appreciation societies, and rising) grow up and gain influence, this programme will be regarded in the same light as, well...nope, it'll be regarded as the greatest thing the small screen has ever produced. Ever. Everever.

*OK, I guess that Monkey Dust is also worthy. Just about. Possibly Father Ted as well. And Peep Show. And Fawlty Towers. And Look Around You. And South Park. And The Thick Of It.

And anything by Chris Morris, although his finest hour (and quite possibly finest programme ever made) was his radio show, Blue Jam
Favorite Movies:
Oldboy, Braindead, The Big Lebowski, Brazil, Fight Club, Being John Malkovitch, Spirited Away, The Bourne Supremacy+Ultimatum, The Fallen Idol, Stapler Fahrer Klaus, Superbad, Night Of The Hunter, A Scanner Darkly, Bringing Up Baby, Croupier, Irreversible
Favorite Books:
Tristram Shandy, Melmoth The Wanderer, A La Recherche Du Cricket Perdu, Three Men In A Boat, Pnin, Atonement

lots of Objectivist poetry (coincidentally my dissertation topic)
Favorite Quotes:
"I've had this nail varnish on for two straight weeks now." - Me

"Two STRAIGHT weeks?" - Jamie Cartwright

"Totus tuus siminimus canus costacurta baggio..." - Dougal Maguire's inimitable Last Rites
About Me:
"an unwanted noise but which is the sign that all is about to rock, a battery which is interfered, which is acclaimed, the step of race, the escape ahead, the insane race, éperdue, the heart which is beating wildly not to break completely, a pouring rain which falls us above, as much outside than inside, one would like to shout, one cannot, so much the tears, the anguish and a despair dense and whirling involves us towards the depths, to go in simple tee-shirt, stupefied under the hot rains of one storm at mid-July, in the middle of the flashes, `to regret everything, everything, everything, everything, I regret everything, everything, everything, everything, everything,?'"

I find truth in poorly-translated music reviews.

34. sway

I was gonna say Mark Hollis was otm! Any serious nerdy guys Ive known have all been into talk talk.

I may have time on my side there though, in which case Crutis has a point.

35. John Julius Norwich

36. The starting lineup of the 1997 San Antonio Chomskies

37. Eddie Waring

38. national treasure Stephen Fry

39. Included in the present classification

41. A-rab
42. Mr Collipark

Not Soulja Boy, though. Too commercial.

43. Viktor Yushchenko

44. http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/4107/cowboyvaguesj5.jpg

45. P.G. Wodehouse

what teenage boys have heard of Mark Hollis?

Many, but only if "teen"—like in porn—is taken as a genre rather than the actual age of the participants.

46. Chris Langham

47. Alan Moore

48. George Best

49. Tolkien pre-2001

51. i never really got the bill hicks thing. he's funny, but eh.

50. when they remember/ed their childhood, before they went mockney, Anthony Buckeridge (more historically than now though)

40. (we missed that one out as well) Mos Def, if they lean that way (that was me, in the late 90s)

52. Sean O'Hagan (the High Llama not the hack) if they lean that way (again, I'm turning autobiographical here)

53. Morrissey, sometimes (he's got that Hot Northern Action while at the same time satisfying their essential conservatism: nobody else does both)

54. Dave Brubeck, once upon a time

55. Emma Thompson (viz. the theme to her 1988 BBC series)

(fir the record I don't think I was ever particularly nerdy. and my middle-class status was, at best, dubious. but when I listen to 1Xtra I obviously seem so.)

(fuck me I was a wanker 10 years ago - if you thought you'd seen me at my worst on this forum, you really didn't, hard though that is for even me to believe)

Genuinely cool people were never wankers, even once in their life.

That is biologically impossible.

Jeremy Clarkson

56) Rich "lowtax" Kyanka

57) david "low tax" cameron

58. Max Gogarty

59. Sean Penn and his shit-is-deep movies.

60. Stewart Lee

61. Chris Cunningham

62. Ricardo Reis

63. Brian Glanville

64. Jöns Jacob Berzelius

65. Einar Wegener

66. The horse you rode into town on

67. the guy from the muller rice ad with his fucking backpack

If we're gonna get all personal like February Callendar, then:

68. Jeff Mills

69. Dave Clarke

70. William Gibson

how many teenagers in 2008 know who jeff mills is??

unless he's become mega-famous in the decade since i was a teenager who had heard of him!

Because February was listing his personal faves as a teenager, I thought I'd shoehorn a couple of mine in. ;)

71. Russell Watson
72. Simon Amstell
73. that guy who's doing the Tropic of Capricorn documentary, I can't remember his name
74. Russell T Davies
75. Paul Morley

^^^Britain's five favourite homosexuals

^^^number six HAW

okay maybe not Simon Amstell

72. Clive Anderson

73. george orwell

Good call, should have thought of that. See, this is what I'm talkin' about.

They would hate Simon Amstell for his flippant, carefree demanour.

74. Some beat generation guy like Kerouac or Ginsberg or summat.

and poor jokes xp

The Police (yes, still)

75. Richard Dawkins
76. Ian Curtis
77. Joss Whedon

78. Matt Groening
79. J Michael Straczynski

80. and shit, Gary Gygax!

81. Some fucking poker player or other

82. Seth Macfarlane then

83. Len Ganley

I like Clive Anderson. Oh.

Is that pasted from LJ's Facebook, Dom?

84. Paul Rose/Mr Biffo

85. Wes Anderson
86. That Indian guy in all the Wes Anderson films
87. Owen Wilson

88. Owen Hargreaves

89. every female host of Blue Peter

90. Peter Jackson
91. Jack Sparrow
92. Genial Harry Grout

I'm a huge Hicks fan, I didn't know he had a name in England. He did some hilarious riffing on the English a few times though.

Heh, yeah, one of the worst English accents I've ever heard though. I guess he was OTM re Australia "I'm Jack the Ripper".

93. Marcus "fucking" Brigstocke

94. Noam Chomsky

Huge hero to English teenage boys, that guy.

Already had:

36. The starting lineup of the 1997 San Antonio Chomskies

-- Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 23:56

But yeah, very true. We're talking about serious bodricked dudes who would look at you if you said you weren't into Radiohead like you'd just suggested legalising rape.

95. Naomi Klein

96. art spiegelman

97. JG Ballard

98. steve jobs

^^^they're more likely to hate apple and ipods

ahh, nerdy, didn't spot that, tho the rest of this list reads like hip, middle class, english teenage boys to me.

they pick up girls with their zunes

people can't stick to the plan xpost

zunes?

http://www.zunesphere.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/zune-tattoo-guy.jpg

99. Prince Harry

100. Vic Reeves

teenage boys in 1991

He still does the old game show and has a reputation for esoteric lols

old odd

I was 10 in '91 and thought "Vic Reeves' Big Night Out" was the funniest thing I'd ever seen. My nan wouldn't let me watch it because they she thought they were "on drugs".

100 O YEA

101. Louis Theroux
102. Mark Kermode
103. Chuck Bukowski

104. Chuck Pahalunium

http://images-9.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/imgs/artists/davies_peter/peter_davies_hot_hundred.jpg

105 Banksy

106 Quentin Tarantino

in the 90s

107 chuckle brothers

108 Douglas Adams

oh, 109 Terry Pratchett

Banksy OTM

110. Tony Benn
111. Jonny Wilkinson
112. Nelson Mandela

113. AdBusters

114. Jenny Agutter

115. Thurston Moore

116. Little fat, baldy bloke from Mogwai

117. Karl Marx

118. Kendo Nagasaki

list lack ian mcewan is he too old
?

or is he gay like late lethem

hardhead dense what about che

hoffman et al

wheres the envy not to be british part of the fourth reich subverted by who

114. Jenny Agutter

-- Jarlrmai, Saturday, February 16, 2008 11:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

haha. do they still show 'walkabout' in schools i wonder.

More like "Wankabout" lol amirite?

119. Mr Biffo

120. Adorno

121. Stockhausen

116. Little fat, baldy bloke from Mogwai

this is 2008

They are a nerd evergreen.