Myles Byrne

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People i have had the good fortune to converse with:

  • 1969
    • Leon Orlofski
      • a Polish count who escaped the Nazis strapped under a truck
      • godfather
      • NB: not much conversation - i was an infant
  • 1973
    • Robert Redford
      • at Hammersmith Farm, filming The Great Gatsby
      • NB: conversation was a bit limited - i was 5 y.o.
    • Betty Byrne, the Marquesa de Zahara #mentor
      • wife of the Marques of Zahara de la Sierra, a key Reconquista site in Andalusia. He was poisoned by the enemies of Franco
      • godmother
  • 1983
    • William Randolph Hearst Jr.
    • Austine Hearst
  • 1984
    • Christopher Reeve
    • Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
    • Pierre Lorillard (VI?)
  • 1985
  • 1986
    • Andy Warhol - Lower East Side NYC
    • Willi Ninja
    • Ric Ocasek
    • Angelo Moore (Fishbone) - NYC
    • Madonna - Danceteria
    • Andrew Getty #extended
    • Ralph Macchio
  • 1987
    • Matthew Barney
  • 1989
    • Mark Rockefeller
    • John Todd
  • 1989
    • Tanya Donnely
    • Jim Hersh
    • Starhawk
    • Bob D’Ancona - founding cohort at Architecture Machine Group
  • 1990
    • LeRoy White
    • Duncan Laurie
    • Donald Nathanson
    • Hugh "Yusha" Auchincloss III
  • 1991
    • Bob Ballard
    • Thomas P.M. Barnett
    • Ronald F. Maxwell
  • 1992
    • Robert Bly
    • Damon Apodaca Sensei
    • James R. Schlesinger
      • Former United States Secretary of Defense (Nixon, Ford)
    • Francis ‘Bing’ West #employer
      • Former United States Asst. Secretary of Defense (Reagan)
      • taught me how to spearfish
    • Owen West
      • notable US Marine-Goldman Sachs trader phenotype
  • 1993
    • Ram Dass - pre-stroke
    • Terence McKenna #mentor
    • Brenda Laurel
    • Myron Krueger
    • Thich Nhat Hanh
    • Michael Craft
    • Chungliang Al-Huang
    • Natalie Jerimijenko
    • Michael Meade
  • 1994
    • Kathy Acker
    • Paul Di Filippo
  • 1995
    • Neal Stephenson - Diamond Age tour
    • Eric Picard #mentor #employer
    • Judd Morrisey
  • 1996
    • John Everett ‘Fud’ Benson
  • 1997
    • Frank Black
  • 1998
    • Richard Saul Wurman
  • 1999
    • DFW
  • 2000
    • Bruce Sterling - AMS
    • John Thackara
    • Tim Speed Levitch - The Cruise tour
    • Harry Anderson #mentor
      • Godfather of American Classic Yacht sailing
  • 2001
    • Mike McCurry, former White House Press Secretary #employer
    • Todd Rundgren
    • Vinay Gupta
    • Steward Brand
    • Irvine Welsh
    • Richard Linklater
    • Tim Speed Levitch - BRC
  • 2002
    • Bruce Sterling
    • Neal Stephenson
    • Wayne Coyne
  • 2003
    • Ram Dass - post-stroke
    • Larry Harvey
    • Antero Alli
    • Ulli Pruesse #mentor
      • last of the great Flying P Line captains
  • 2004
    • Lewis Lapham
    • Mary Heiny Sensei
  • 2005
    • Rick Doblin
  • 2006
    • Sasha and Ann Shulgin
  • 2007
    • Robert Nadeau Shihan
    • Michael Lerner
    • Aubrey deGrey
    • Quinn Norton
    • John Law
    • Mark Pauline
    • Vicki Vale
    • Mikael Krafft
  • 2008
    • Neal Stephenson - Anathem tour
    • Rudy Rucker
    • Cory Doctorow
  • 2009
    • Olli Kallioniemi #mentor
    • Andy McCoy (Hanoi Rocks)
  • 2010
    • Janice Redman #mentor
    • Sampsa
      • Finnish street artist and activist
  • 2011
    • Angelo Moore (Fishbone) - Montreux
    • Raoul Björkenheim
  • 2012
    • Stephen Friend
    • Leroy Hood
  • 2013
    • Riku Rantala
    • Tunna Milonoff
  • 2014
    • David Graeber
    • Howy Jacobs
  • 2015
    • Franco Bifo Berardi
  • 2017
    • Mooji #mentor
    • Sui Huang
    • Paul Davies
    • Mina Bissel
    • Yogi Jaeger
  • 2019
    • Mooji
  • 2021
    • John Bruce #employer