I was a big fan of all the beats (Jack Kerouac, Burroughs, Ferlinghetti, etc.) but to me Allen Ginsberg was a real deal idol. I drove hours in the snow to see him read poetry. Once eating with a friend in a Jewish dairy restaurant on the Lower East Side I saw him with a cute twink and I really wanted to approach him and gush fan stuff at him, but as a I passed by and looked at him, he gave me the a BACK OFF evil eye! So it was unrequited.