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Something Like Idols: Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo's intense, Mona Lisa-like face gazes out from T-shirts, refrigerator magnets, shopping bags, jewelry, posters, cards, mousepads, watches, pocket mirrors and countless books (including a cookbook). There have been Frida lookalike contests, music composed in her honor, Frida plays, stories and documentaries. There's even a website that espouses the religion of "Kahloism." Her iconic self-portraits undoubtedly made her face become synonymous with her work.

Something Like Idols: Larry David

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To watch a sitcom is to marry a sense of humor, and we’re strong believers in comic devotion. We praise consistency, spunk, and above all, chutzpah—so, naturally, we tip our hats to the trenchant writing of small-screen rabbi Larry David.

Something Like Idols: Bill Murray

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So we may be a little late In honoring Saturday Night Live’s 40th anniversary but we found it a great opportunity to honor another one of our idols, Bill Murray.

Something Like Idols: Kurt Vonnegut

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Worn out copies of Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater and Cat’s Cradle could be found in the hands of longhaired college students and weed-smoking street musicians throughout the country, daring them to challenge the everyday methodologies of political and social institutions and reality itself. Read our ode to the chain-smoking social pessimist and author.

Something Like Idols: Lester Bangs

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Besides the randomly intriguing long form pieces that surface from the music nerds over at MOJO magazine, not only do very few music articles captivate, but even fewer music critics have ever created a career out writing with as much veracity and unflattery as Lester Bangs.

Something Like Idols: Lou Reed

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With live performances as savage and unruly as his personality was introverted and deadpan, Lou Reed, the once lead singer of The Velvet Underground, developed and brought an avant-garde style to the often contrived methodology of rock music.
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Something Like Idols: Kathleen Hanna

There are a few reasons why we started Amadeus. We love art (all of its wild forms) and writing about it. We refuse to let print magazines fade into the over-saturated digital realm. And Kathleen Hanna.
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Something Like Idols: David Sedaris

Writing is this publications forte. So you can imagine the perplexity when we realized we had never idolized a writer. With this in mind we had to think, really take our time to pinpoint who we consider to be one of the best writers of this time, this era. How could we not choose the hilarious, self-deprecating, somewhat relatable, bizarre storyteller, David Sedaris.
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Something Like Idols: Chris Farley

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The fat guy in a little coat; the white ninja; the rhythmic Lunch Lady; the black sheep; the overzealous, auditioning Chippendales dancer. Whether boisterously portraying any number of his Saturday Night Live characters or emphatically making others laugh, most often at his own expense, Chris Farley proved one of the most animated and aggressively social comic actors in the business.
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Something Like Idols: Cindy Sherman

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Cindy Sherman is a Hitchcock heroine, the Marilyn Monroe, a corpse, a disfigured sex doll, a clown, the grotesque monster that has been seen so frequently in B rated horror films, and the list only goes on.
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Something Like Idols: Louis C.K.

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Louis C.K. is our down-to-earth, inappropriate uncle. He’s the reason we know so much and give so little shits. And, really, that’s the way to live. The Louis C.K. way.