Amateur perspectives 101

When one admires someone (I mean really honestly admires them), its never the person that they admire but the characteristics and skills that the person that they admire has demonstrated.

We are sophisticated monkeys and lets be honest, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If one eventually moves beyond imitation and discovers their own voice, then fucking kudos to them. Show me how. This is called a really major success in my opinion. Congratulations to genuinely successful people. I love it when people demonstrate something really impressive (that we can all learn from).

Who cares about 'the dude'. That is only an image of what you are looking for. Steal what resources you can from what they have learned, do it yourself and go beyond. Regardless of weather you get there, I reckon its better giving that a shot than letting whatever it is that you do get ossified in any particular person(s).

:-)

(Also I suspect that the art of a really crafty reading of ones heroes is to know what to leave behind as well .. its fun to do justice to one's heroes .. to take their legacy seriously .. that means pushing on in the thick snow .. and having fun)