lifestyle: July 2008 Archives

For years, I've kept a mental list of celebrities, pseudo-celebrities and sort-of-famous people with whom I'd like to have a beer (read: get knackered) and some interesting conversation.

It's not about hotness or star-fucking. It's just about people I see onscreen or online or in the news that make make me go, 'hmm, I think I'd get along with him/her in real life, at least for a little while.' You know what I'm talking about; you just think they get it, or you get them, and that you could probably find a bunch of crap to talk about that has nothing to do with how much you liked their book or movie.

So here is the Top Ten from my Beer List, in some sort of order that's subject to change depending on the next thing any one of them says into a microphone. There are definitely a few more, but not many - famous people are generally wealthy, and wealthy people are generally vapid and irritating beyond reason - and most of the ones not on this list are already dead, making it really tough to bond over a shot of chilled Patron with an icy Modelo back.

Two more things, quickly: One, David Cross and John Swartzwelder are locked in a perennial tie for eleventh place on my Beer List, not because I wouldn't like to hang out with them, but because Cross probably has tons of idiots clamoring to buy him a drink and would just rather be left alone for a while, and Swartzwelder seems like he really doesn't want to hang out with anyone. And two, I know I'm lucky in the drinking partners life has already afforded me - I'd rather have a few off the wood with my fiance, friends, brother-in-law and the guys and girls of the Tampa/St. Petersburg music scene than anyone else in the world.

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