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Stars shine brightly and beautifully from afar. But once you get closer... It could get pretty unbearable. The same thing could be said to some of the most iconic creative geniuses that have ever lived on this planet. Some of them were really odd, some of them were quite adorable, but some of them were so tragically bizarre that you could simply be grateful that you're not neighbors with people like the French composer Erik Satie, or the great Renaissance artist Michelangelo. It's easy to say why after you get to know their peculiar character traits, that made them really unique and bizarre.
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#1
Stanley Kubrick And His Soft Side
The notoriously rigorous perfectionist Stanley Kubrick is the man behind such movies as “2001: A Space Odyssey”, “Clockwork Orange”, or “The Shining”. Yet despite being isolated and reclusive in his private life, the legendary filmmaker had a soft side. He really really loved animals. At one point in his life, there were 16 cats living at his home, a company that he enjoyed even in his working room. And that’s not all. Eventually, the animal collective expanded as he got himself 7 golden retrievers and 4 donkeys.
Lizzie the Crayon 6 years ago
HeeHaw!!! Wait...did anyone watch that show..? HeeHaw??? *Where are where, are you tonight...why did you leave me here all alone...*
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Benjamin Boysley 6 years ago
I think it is more about how surprising it is that he has this side of him, rather than it being something generally weird.
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Douglas Campbell 6 years ago
That explains this scene from "A Clockwork Orange" O9Gi-5c688...d40b53.gif 
空の夢 6 years ago
EXACTLY my thought! when i saw the movie i was like is he going to hurt any cat?????? oh god please dont touch any cat! thats the reason he didnt otherwise im sure he would :p
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HoffLensMetalHedLovesAnimalsUK 6 years ago
Kubrick, like me, loved animals and wasn't a fan of humans.
Tor Rolf Strøm 6 years ago
That's the best quality a person can have! (I bet he still ate meat tho)
Daniel Shea 6 years ago
Once, when filming Barry Lyndon, he left a 15-page document, "Care Instructions: How To Look After The Animals."
glowworm2 6 years ago
If I'm not mistaken, from what I've heard about him, he already was one! XD!
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Leonardo Da Vinci And His Sleep Schedule
Da Vinci was a painter, an engineer, a writer, a sculptor, an inventor, an architect, a pioneer in exploring human anatomy, an avid animal lover and possibly one of the most famous vegetarians (if not vegans) who ever lived. It seems that there’s nothing that this man did not do. Yet there was, it was sleeping. He wasn’t a fan of it and after conducting careful research and building up his knowledge, he started following the polyphasic sleep cycle. To put it in other words, Da Vinci’s sleep would consist of several short naps every 24 hours. Being The Renaissance man is not so easy.
glowworm2 6 years ago
I always loved the fact that Da Vinci had a pet lizard that he would dress up like a dragon. He'd then put it inside a box and scare the c**p out of his friends with his "dragon."
Hans 6 years ago
This is quite an intresting topic, and even today with research requirements. It seems that Da Vinci, very likely without knowing what that is, tryed to maximize his REM sleep.
HoffLensMetalHedLovesAnimalsUK 6 years ago
Yeah i agree, he was psychologically ambidextrous, a great mind, wouldn't surprise me one bit.
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diane a 6 years ago
My sleep schedule is all over the place. If I dont try and force myself into a routine I can easily forego a night's sleep without any ill effects. Have Tinitus so struggle to sleep without medication. However sleep-deprivation is a real horror. After 72 hours (longest I ever went) the hallucinations kick in and your brain begins to self-scramble.
Janine B. 6 years ago
72 hours?! Wow I literally fell asleep right where I was standing after being awake for 38 hours. And slept 17 hours afterwards.
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Alexandru Bucur 6 years ago
It's interesting to note that the sleep patterns of southern Italy and the whole of the Mediterranean are traditionally biphasic, night time sleep during the hours of darkness, rise at first light, then a second phase of sleep (siesta) during the afternoon, so Leonardo might have been extrapolating from there. Research carried on by several militaries and NASA seems to indicate polyphasic sleep definitely works for environments where you need to keep alert but you can't just sleep for 8 hours like long marches, or on a spacecraft, etc. Probably the most ardent proponent of the idea was Buckminster Fuller, who advocated his "dymaxion sleep" pattern which consisted of four thirty-minute naps every five and a half hours. Realistically, though, making your sleep schedule symmetrical is a bit of a weird idea, so I'd suggest a more realistic approach of having maybe two hours of sleep at night and two-three short naps during the day as required.
Naima Ivansdóttir 6 years ago
i adopted the polyphasic sleep cycle while preparing my high school final exams. would recommend
Nikki D 6 years ago
I wish I could do this, I can't seem to sleep less than 12 hours and still am always tired.
Emory Griffis 6 years ago
Most would be renewed and well-rested after 12 hours of sleep; do yourself a favor and schedule an appointment with your doctor. You may be suffering from undiagnosed depression or something easily treated such as a vitamin or mineral deficiency.
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Bobby's Girl 6 years ago
Segmented sleep is natural, and was standard practice before the industrial revolution came along, with its regimented work hours. Our current fixation on getting 8 straight hours of uninterrupted sleep (maybe using drugs to get us there) is probably hurting us.
#3
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart And His Sense Of Humour
Mozart, the sound and face of classical music. From the dramatic “Lacrimosa” to the playful “Magic Flute”, Mozart has conquered the pages of music history books for centuries. Yet there’s a little detail about the man himself which is often overlooked. Mozart really liked… Fart jokes. In fact, he was a little bit too much into this kind of stuff. He even wrote a piece which requires 6 voices to be performed which is called “Leck mich im Arsch”. If you think that that sounds similar to “lick me in the arse”, then… well, you are right. As someone put it “Mozart puts the ‘ass’ in the classical”.
Lutz Herting 6 years ago
Better than that: It actually means "Lick me INSIDE the a*s"... ;)
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Alexandru Bucur 6 years ago
Oh, there are about 39 surviving letters from Mozart that are full of scatological humour, including letters to his parents, his sister and his cousin. He also wrote another work called "Leck mir den Arsch fein recht schön sauber", which literally translates as "Lick my a**e all nice and clean". So yeah, he was definitely into butt stuff.
Mystical_Muffin 6 years ago
😂😂 This picture is hanging in the orchestra room at our school and now every time Im in orchestra I'm going to think of this...
Ryo Bakura 6 years ago
Mozart: "Leck mich im Arsch." Salieri: "How are you considered better than me?"
#4
Salvador Dali And His Wife
When someone thinks of surrealism, chances are that Dali and his pomade-covered mustache comes to one’s mind. His life was as eccentric and surreal as his paintings, but apart from driving around with a car filled with cauliflowers and walking around Paris with an anteater, there was something that seems even more peculiar. Once he married his muse and love of his life, Gala, he treated her like a goddess. He bought her a castle and was allowed to visit her, his wife, only with a written invitation.
Alexandru Bucur 6 years ago
Not sure he got that many. From what we know of Dali, he abhorred sex and he had a long standing fear of female genitalia. His relationship with Gala was certainly complex, and there are accounts that it was also abusive, something seemingly corroborated by Dali's own autobiography in which he regales accounts of physical abuse against various women. But then again, he was never a reliable narrator, so it's up to you if you take at the literal truth or if you believe he was making s**t up for the shock value.
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Gonzalo Terán 6 years ago
And don´t get me started on their private life... That was weird as hell, even for today´s liberal standards....
#5
Leo Tolstoy And His Shoes
The giant of the Russian literature, Lev Tolstoy not only wrote historically accurate books, but he himself became of historical importance while still being alive. Despite coming from the highest layers of society, Tolstoy eventually started questioning the morale of society that he lived in and started following his own path. He became a vegetarian, started following a vigorous daily routine and denounced the looks of a rich man. He started wearing peasant clothes and shoes, which, despite not being too skilled, were made by himself.
Phoebe Bean 6 years ago
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." Leo Tolstoy
Nils Djurklou 6 years ago
Tolstoy was an a-hole. He would f**k his wife seconds after she had given birth to a child to "reclaim" her. And she was only 16 when he married her. No praise for him, regardless of his literary greatness.
Alexandru Bucur 6 years ago
I can't get over the fact he managed to make Napoleon's invasion of Russia, one of history's most dramatic episodes, into a complete and utter snore-fest, because for the most part we're following a bunch of vapid, self important people we don't care much about and for which the ultimate act of resistance towards the invader is... to stop speaking French among them. The fact you need a flowchart to keep track of who everyone is, especially the liberal use of patronymics and nicknames also doesn't help the matters much. (Exaggerated for comedic purposes - I read the book when I was 16 and I would probably like it much better at my current age and with my current understanding of history...)
The Dutches 6 years ago
I tried to read War and Peace once. Indeed, I did not have (nor make) a flowchart. Half way through I completely lost track of who was who.
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Biana Weatherford 6 years ago
How did this help? "I question the morale of society!" and then just turn his back on it? He denounced the LOOK of a rich man? If I was a millionaire and decided to wear worn out jeans how would that change anything?
#6
Edvard Grieg And His Lucky Frog
The Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg is the man behind such pieces like “In The Hall Of The Mountain King”, or the famous “Morning” theme that every single one of us has heard on idyllic commercials. One must be lucky to have such talent. Or, as in Grieg’s case, one must have a lucky frog. A figurine of a frog. He carried it in his coat pocket when he was working, conducting or performing. And each time before stepping onto the stage, Grieg would rub his favorite frog for luck. Apparently, it worked.
Alexandru Bucur 6 years ago
By the standards of this list, this one is downright tame... A frog figurine is pretty normal, because many if not most of us have our own "good luck" objects, like a lucky coin, etc. A live frog though, would have been raised some eyebrows...
The Dutches 6 years ago
Reminds me of Catweazle (TV serie from 1970). He was a 'wizard' and he had a frog named Touchwood.
#7
Erik Satie And His Eccentricities
The prominent French composer Erik Satie was weird. Not just weird, but incomprehensibly bizarre. For starters, his eating habits were something else. He only ate food that was white, such as eggs, sugar, grated bones, salt, coconuts, rice and similar. Each day he rose at 7:18 a.m. and would have lunch strictly at 12:11. Then dinner at 7:16 p.m. and he would go to bed at 10:37 P.M. Also, he was a hoarder but a very specific one - he loved umbrellas and had over 100 of them. And finally, Erik Satie was such a peculiar fellow that he even belonged to a religion… That he, himself founded.
Grumble O'Pug 6 years ago
Another fact: he always wore a new shirt. When he passed they found hundreds of shirts. Another note: Leland Hayward, Broadway producer, only ate white food. Read about it in Haywire.
Agnes Jekyll 6 years ago
Is this why David Bowie only ate white food for a period (it was super gross, like milk and cocaine?)
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Alexandru Bucur 6 years ago
Interestingly, this is now a legit diagnosis in the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition) under the name - "Avoidant-Restrictive Food Intake Disorder" (ARFID). But couple that with many of his other habits, including his almost fanatical perfectionism and there are strong implications that what he had was actually Asperger’s syndrome.
Kelsey Knutson 6 years ago
So we're all just going to skip over that whole "grated bones" thing?
Ms Phit 6 years ago
He Apparently followed the Italian cure for tummy troubles, "mangiare in bianco" (eat white foods)... I would imagine that he probably had some significant nutritional deficiencies though...as we now know that a good way to maximize nutrition (without taking supplements) is to "eat the rainbow" ie: eat many colorful foods every day. As my favorite auntie says, "you gotta get your greens reds and yellows!" (No, she wasn't talking about drugs!....I think.... lol)
Biana Weatherford 6 years ago
Isn't this a form of OCD? It sounds like he had a mental health issue. But congrats for making it work.
M O'Connell 6 years ago
100 umbrellas is not enough to be considered a "hoarder" Barely even a collector!
Cesi Baca 6 years ago
Or maybe he had synesthesia. I have that and can relate. The preference for certain foods and numbers is about the color of these things. It’s the opposite for me though. I never eat white foods.
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Michelangelo And His Hygiene
The Sistine Chapel in Vatican City might be celestial, but its creator, Michelangelo, one of the most important names in Western art’s history, was far from that. And for a simple reason, which is hygiene. Michelangelo slept with his clothes and boots on, without removing them for days. He avoided showering and even considered it a health hazard. Well, he might have had a point, because he lived until he was 89 years old.
Douglas Campbell 6 years ago
Showers were not really a thing in the 16thc & baths may well have been unhealthy because much of the water unsanitary.
Sherri Mantooth Bagwell 6 years ago
Bathed when you were born & died...not too many times in between!
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Magaly Scribe 6 years ago
Yeah at that time it was dangerous to wash yourself because of the cold air and little warmth as well as the diseases running in the streets
Nia Loves Art 6 years ago
Basically just pouring or having servants pour jugs of water over your body.
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Karin Morris 6 years ago
That's nasty I wish I didn't know that. One of the greatest artists ever and he had stanky a*s
#9
Honoré De Balzac And His 50 Cups Of Coffee
‘Were it not for coffee one could not write, which is to say one could not live’ is what Balzac, the renowned French novelist, playwright and the author of The Human Comedy once said. And he really meant it, because is there barely was a minute when he was not sipping this elixir of life, it’s estimated that Balzac drank 50 coffee cups a day. You may wonder, how does one sleep, when you’re permanently on a caffeine rush? But that’s how Balzac liked it, since he woke up daily at 1 a.m. so he could jump straight into writing.
Catlady6000 6 years ago
You can build up a tolerance to caffeine. I can drink 32oz Dr Pepper right before bed and sleep like a baby. Alternatively, he could have ADHD and the caffeine actually helped him calm down and focus
Blue Cicada 6 years ago
If I can't sleep, and I'm feeling very jittery and anxious, a can of Coca-Cola helps me calm down, and I'm falling asleep within 20 or 30 minutes. Now that I'm eating very healthfully, I can't afford the extra 140 calories of liquid sugar.
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Alexandru Bucur 6 years ago
Not sure how factual those fifty cups a day are, since most accounts seem to suggest he had more like ten. It's also been speculated that it's his abuse of caffeine which directly led to the congestive heart failure that ultimately resulted in his death, at age 51, so maybe take a bit of care with that coffee habit?
R.s. Potter 6 years ago
Keep in mind that coffee cups were once a lot smaller. Equivalent to 25 mugs, which is admittedly still a lot.
#10
Igor Stravinsky And Headstands
What happens when you take a glass of orange juice and flip it upside down? The juice spills out, of course. Igor Stravinsky, the boundary-bending Russian composer, applied the same technique to get his creative juices flowing. Each morning, he performed a headstand for 10-15 minutes, in order to clean his head and be ready to write down some soon-to-become modern classics.
#11
Albert Camus And The Zoo
The embodiment of XXth Century French Glamour, Albert Camus was way more than an elegant intellectual who made smoking look cool and had a cat named Cigarette. He was a writer who won the Nobel prize, a philosopher, a political activist, a journalist, a passionate football lover and a… really, really big fan of animals. When he visited New York City, he made sure to check out the Central Park Zoo. Not once, not twice, but twenty times.
Donna Gail Myers 6 years ago
Was probably trying to light his cigarette........
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Douglas Campbell 6 years ago
I visited the Central Park Zoo everyday at lunch time when I worked on Madison. They feed the sea lions at 1:00pm, I believe.
Catlady6000 6 years ago
For real, if I could I would be at the zoo every day
Load More Replies... Biana Weatherford 6 years ago
I have a favorite zoo...the Santa Barbara Children's Zoo. I've been going since I was a child...and while I live in Oregon and have family in Seattle, it's still the zoo I visit. Often.
Jack Urquhart 6 years ago
Odd how so many of these incredibly creative people were AVID animal lovers and or vegetarians. What did they know?
#12
Frida Kahlo And Her Pets
The eccentric Mexican artist Frida Kahlo suffered from very poor health all her life, but from the way she lived, it’s sure that she was no ordinary mortal. What made her special, was her love for animals. She had many pets and most of them seemed like they belong either in the jungle, or one of her surrealistic paintings. She kept dogs, monkeys, parrots, hens and sparrows. She even had a fawn called Granizo and an eagle with a slightly different name - Gertrudis Caca Blanca. Which translates to Gertrude White Sh… Yeah, you know how it ends.
Agnes Jekyll 6 years ago
She suffered from horrible chronic pain and health issues only after the horrific bus crash
Nadja Lambacher 6 years ago
She also had Polio when she was six, resulting in one of her legs being shorter and thinner.
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Blue Cicada 6 years ago
It actually depends on which language is using the word "kaka". In some languages, it's just a polite way of saying "poop". In other languages, saying kaka is as offensive as saying s**t is in English. Arabic, Greek, Spanish, many languages use the word kaka.
Load More Replies... Douglas Campbell 6 years ago
Everyone knows she was Mexican, but few remember her father was German.
Ms Phit 6 years ago
It's not common knowledge here in the US that there was a large German population that immigrated to Mexico in the years during and after the first and second world wars. Unfortunately, it seems that us Americans of my generation (x) were taught very little about our southern neighbor, mostly that they make incredibly delicious food and music...
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Cami Ereth 6 years ago
I like this one of her, but I really love the colors of her...including the mustache and the unibrow. They made her unique and lovely beyond compare
Daniel Morgan 6 years ago
Apparently when she was cremated, the body sat bolt upright in the flames whilst everyone was still watching...which spooked a few to say the least!
Magpie 6 years ago
Although I do not agree with keeping wild animals as pets, it was fashionable for "upper crust" of society.
Magpie 6 years ago
...so not weird for the time. ( sorry I accidentally hit the enter key )
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#13
Virginia Woolf, Friedrich Nietzsche And The Standing Desk
Even though these two figures don’t seem to have many things in common, the British modernist Virginia Woolf, together with the subversive German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche could see themselves working in a modern office as long as they would be provided with a standing desk. They both wrote while standing up, considering it to be the only proper way to achieve something of meaning.
JD Cassavaugh 6 years ago
This is how I have to paint or sketch, it just doesn't work sitting down.
Freya the Wanderer 6 years ago
Too much sitting is bad for you. Maybe they were onto something.
Biana Weatherford 6 years ago
Standing desks are a popular thing these days. Are you saying that Woolf and Nietzsche were hipsters?
#14
Ludwig Van Beethoven And The 60 Coffee Beans
Ludwig van Beethoven did write the glorious “Symphony No. 9”, which is now the anthem of European Union, while being already deaf, but, of course, that’s just the tip of the iceberg of his input into musical history. Yet stellar results require astronomic discipline. Each morning Beethoven counted by hand 60 coffee beans from which he would make his perfect cup of coffee. Also, in order to restart his creative muscles after writing too much music, he would pour cold water on his head.
Aunt Messy 6 years ago
He was also cranky and went deaf....while continuing to write music. the men was a genius.
diane a 6 years ago
He could just hear it in his head as he was composing - amazing.
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Douglas Campbell 6 years ago
I'm exactly the same way, except 2 Tablespoons of coffee grounds, 2 Teaspoons of sugar and 2 ounces of milk, lol.
Marie Rousseaux 6 years ago
He was also the worse tenant one could have... He moved 80 times in his life!
Neurotic_Octopus 6 years ago
My mother has a master's in music education, and she gets super annoyed with this one. He wasn't deaf, he had tinnitus (ringing in the ears). They overlap quite a bit, but Beethoven did very much still have his hearing while composing, it was just mildly compromised.
#15
Franz Schubert And His Glasses
The elegant, sensitive Franz Schubert is mostly known because of the Ave Maria, that he famously composed. Yet, he had a problem - his sight was bad and he was required to wear glasses, which he dutifully did. Literally. All the time. He even slept with his glasses on.
FortnitePlayerGirl 6 years ago
I sometimes accidentally sleep with my glasses/contacts on (It's a habit I need to break)
diane a 6 years ago
I often fall asleep with glasses on if have been reading in bed - I buy very cheap reading glasses though as always dropping/breaking losing them. My prescription distance glasses however I treasure. And always wear on a cord.
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Kiss Army 6 years ago
I always wear my glasses too. I wear them to sleep, in the pool, pretty much everywhere. Since I was a kid, my eyesight has been so bad that I can't see without them so it seems normal to wear them all the time.
Kiss Army 6 years ago
I actually have to lay my glasses in the exact same place every time I take a shower/wash my hair (the ONLY time I take them off) so I can find them after. The few times that I have stupidly placed them elsewhere, I have had to have my husband come find them for me.
Load More Replies... Alexandru Bucur 6 years ago
Yeah, that's a bit of a weird habit, considering how expensive and hard to manufacture glasses were back then. I mean, they're not that cheap now, but at least they're not ground manually from glass... Still, I can sort of understand this, because my dad has really bad myopia (-16, decreased to -6 as he aged) and he has to wear glasses even for mundane tasks such as going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. It must have been even worse when you couldn't just flick a switch to have the lights on, even if the chamberpot was probably easier to use in the dark...
#16
Georgia O'keeffe And Her Car
‘The Mother of American Modernism’, Georgia O’Keeffe was an artist with special needs. In order for her to be productive and be able to paint whatever she wanted without being disturbed by outsiders, she had to work in her studio. And this studio was a mobile one. Oh, and she could travel around in this studio because it was the backseat of a Model-A Ford. Yes, Georgia O’Keeffe used to paint in her car.
Aunt Messy 6 years ago
It's just too bad that she couldn't have had an Airstream or a Winnebago. She would have LOVED those options.
Alexandru Bucur 6 years ago
Not strictly true, since she had a regular studio as well, but she did like to go out in the New Mexico desert to paint as it were, "on location". And driving certainly beats walking...
#17
Kurt Cobain And His Hair
The frontman of Nirvana surely smells like teen spirit. And teen spirit smells like Kool-Aid. At least it did for a while, when Kurt dyed his hair red. Because, yes, he dyed it with Kool-Aid. But to avoid any damage to his angelic hair, Kurt did not avoid hair-maintenance procedures and made sure he would wash his hair from time to time. Not with a shampoo. With a soap bar.
Daria B 6 years ago
"The frontman of Nirvana surely smells like teen spirit. And teen spirit smells like Kool-Aid." Teen Spirit was actually a deodorant.
HoffLensMetalHedLovesAnimalsUK 6 years ago
Yes he saw sprayed on the wall of a squat "Kurt smells like teen spirit", it was sprayed by Kathleen Hanna, singer of Bikini Kill who is now married to a member of the Beastie Boys.
Load More Replies... HoffLensMetalHedLovesAnimalsUK 6 years ago
Kurt the legend, RIP Kurt. I still have the ticket for the August 94 show that i never got to attend.
Ms Phit 6 years ago
Wow, that must be such a painful reminder. I remember everything about that awful day
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diane a 6 years ago
Normal soap is not good to wash anything other than very short hair. it lifts the cuticcle too much.
Tor Rolf Strøm 6 years ago
Who writes these texts? They are pretty awful. And is that true? Can Cool-Aid actually dye hair?
#18
Andy Warhol And His Wigs
Andy Warhol, the face of pop art, is easy to distinguish from a crowd. Because he indeed was a dandy and took great care of his looks, and most importantly, his iconic hairdo. Which was, actually… A wig. Speaking of hair and unusual habits, Warhol really connected both of these elements, by having the unusual habit of collecting wigs. Eventually, he hoarded a collection of 40 wigs.
Kat Khatib 6 years ago
Ha! That's the 1st thing I noticed! Surely HE saw it!!
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Marnee DeRider 6 years ago
I wouldn't call 40 of anything small a "hoard" unless it's 40 housecats perhaps.
Christine M Quigley 6 years ago
So sad, reading about his abdominal pain issues for years after being shot by a crazy girlfriend. He almost died but suffered greatly for decades. probably from all the scar tissue he had. Was petrified of having surgery again, so despite horrible abdominal pain, resisted going to a doctor until his gallbladder had turned gangrenous.
Frankenfrog 6 years ago
It wasn't his girlfriend, she was a writer whose script Warhol refused. She got mad and shot him. She was a schizophrenic.
Load More Replies... Douglas Campbell 6 years ago
He also glued a snap to his bald head and snapped his wigs on so that they wouldn't move or fall off.
C Hypercube 6 years ago
He reminds me of John Malkovich in this picture. If John Malkovich wore glasses and a wig.
Christine M Quigley 6 years ago
The point is, he suffered a great deal, just trying to eat. His gut was a mess. Having gut issues myself, it must've been a miserable existence. Didn't realize it was a nutcase, not an ex girlfriend that shot him.
Ms Phit 6 years ago
"Dandy" is a term used for someone's personal style...not for their facial structure, which he admittedly was not blessed with refined bone structure or complexion. He was a snappy dresser for sure, which gave him a confident posture and authoritative air.
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Glenn Gould And His Hypochondria
A big name in the world of classical music, the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould was famous not only for his virtuosic skills and unique playing style. He also was a very odd character with many the eccentricities of a hyper hypochondriac. He always wore an overcoat and gloves in all temperatures because of his fears of catching germs and getting sick. And when performance time arrived, he would always bring his own chair with him, no matter where the concert took place. It always had to be his own, magical chair.
Janine B. 6 years ago
He took his chair with him because it was not as high as a usual chair for pianos. It had something to do with his playing technique as far as I know.
Ms Phit 6 years ago
The soundtrack to my first few years of marriage (my husband is obsessed....it rubbed off on me too)
Load More Replies... Marie Rousseaux 6 years ago
On some of his recordings, you can hear him singing what's the left hand is playing.
2WheelTravlr 6 years ago
What does any of that have to to with being a hypochondriac? Wearing "protective" clothing to avoid germs doesn't make you a hypochondriac, it means you may be a germophobe, however, Gould most likely did it because he hated being touched and hated the cold. Using the same chair every time you sit at the piano may point to a few different disorders, but has nothing to do with hypochondriasis.
Nomadus Aureus 6 years ago
The glove thing can also simply be a pianist thing. When I studied at music school, we were forced to wear gloves from lat September 'till late March. I bloody hated it, as sometimes the weather would be mild and my hands would over-heat... To this day, I refuse to wear them unless it's lower than -15.
#20
Pablo Picasso And His Revolver
First of all, not many people know that Pablo Picasso is just the short version of his full name, which is, actually Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. For real.
But he became famous for being an unstoppable force wherever he went. He changed art forever, he was not discouraged by critics and he even was not scared when facing the Gestapo, the secret Nazi police. Yet he was unmovable in his daily life as well, because wherever he went, he carried a revolver, so that not many would dare to mess with this hot-tempered Spanish legend.
Captain Marvellous ♥️ 6 years ago
We'll get downvotes, but that's similar to what I wanted to say too. Despite his genius, Picasso was NOT a nice person. Just seeing his faces me shudder thinkif of the horrible things he's done.
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 6 years ago
When Picasso was living in occupied Paris, the Gestapo trashed his studio looking for hidden jews (he *was* hiding them, but the Gestapo could not find them). As the Nazis were leaving, an officer spotted a postcard of the "Guernica" (the painting Picasso had made about the bombing of the Basque village of that name by Germany's Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War). -"Did you do this c**p?" asked the Gestapo officer. -"No", replied Picasso, calmy, "you guys did. Keep it, A souvenir."
Alexandru Bucur 6 years ago
Well, yeah, a revolver definitely fits the image of machismo that he made for himself, which is also the reason he was such a d**k to most people, because, in his opinion, manhood is about being controlling, stand-offish and non-relational. Coming back to the revolver, apparently he got the idea from Alfred Jarry, whom he idolised, and even got Jarry's own revolver after his death in 1907. He also used to fire it with blanks at people he considered were nagging him.
Zori the degu 6 years ago (edited)
He had many dogs as well. His favourite dog was an Afghan hound, named Kabul, that appeared in several of his paintings.
Donald Holder*Doc 6 years ago
IMO, the single most over praised POS to ever pick up a paint brush.
Todd Chesser 6 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k43XjuhInkU Well some people try to pick up girls And get called a******s This never happened to Pablo Picasso He could walk down your street And girls could not resist his stare and So Pablo Picasso was never called an a*****e Well the girls would turn the color Of the avocado when he would drive Down their street in his El Dorado He could walk down your street And girls could not resist his stare Pablo Picasso never got called an a*****e Not like you Alright Well he was only 5'3" But girls could not resist his stare Pablo Picasso never got called an a*****e Not in New York Oh well be not schmuck, be not obnoxious Be not bellbottom bummer or a*****e Remember the story of Pablo Picasso He could walk down your street And girls could not resist his stare Pablo Picasso was never called an a*****e Alright this it... -Modern Lovers
Tam-Tam 6 years ago
Hahaha. I listened to that soundtrack many ‘o times :) great movie
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Gipsy Kings fan 6 years ago
The 19th century German poet Friedrich Schiller had a pile of rotten apples in his desk drawer; their smell was essential in inspiring him to write. https://therumpus.net/2014/04/rotten-apples-and-other-writerly-customs/
diane a 6 years ago (edited)
All geniuses likely had their eccentricities, many of them much odder and darker. Byron kept a pet bear in Cambridge, Tesla refused to touch anything round
Catlady6000 6 years ago
Sincere question, why do some cultures, notably Spain, have such long names ? Picasso's full name was almost longer than him.
Most-Downvoted 6 years ago
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
Lizzie the Crayon 6 years ago
Couldnt help but notice your username was Most-Downvoted...try beating TJler. He just hit -4000...lol
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ivan bolitekurac 6 years ago
When you are poor you are weird,when you are rich is becomes almost cool
John Ashley 6 years ago
I guess the reality is that there is NO line between genius and insanity.
Gipsy Kings fan 6 years ago
The 19th century German poet Friedrich Schiller had a pile of rotten apples in his desk drawer; their smell was essential in inspiring him to write. https://therumpus.net/2014/04/rotten-apples-and-other-writerly-customs/
diane a 6 years ago (edited)
All geniuses likely had their eccentricities, many of them much odder and darker. Byron kept a pet bear in Cambridge, Tesla refused to touch anything round
Catlady6000 6 years ago
Sincere question, why do some cultures, notably Spain, have such long names ? Picasso's full name was almost longer than him.
Most-Downvoted 6 years ago
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
Lizzie the Crayon 6 years ago
Couldnt help but notice your username was Most-Downvoted...try beating TJler. He just hit -4000...lol
Load More Replies... ivan bolitekurac 6 years ago
When you are poor you are weird,when you are rich is becomes almost cool
John Ashley 6 years ago
I guess the reality is that there is NO line between genius and insanity.
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