I'd like to meet:
Olivia Newton-John and Bill Haverchuck
Music:
My bloody valentine, The Swirlies, Helium, Mogwai, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Cure, Billy Bragg, The Smiths,Sloan, Evan Dando, Dinosaur Jr., Ida, Iron and Wine, M. Ward, Ted Leo, The Cocteau Twins, Sigur Ros, The Boo Radleys, The Stone Roses, Of Montreal, The Shins, Wilco, Mojave 3, The Softies, Led Zep, the Velvet Underground, Belle and Sebastian, Camera Obscura,
Movies:
Xanadu, Absolute Beginners, Delicatessen, The Shawshank Redemption, The Usual Suspects, Heavy, Pi, Some Kind of Wonderful, and Almost Famous.
Television:
Freaks and Geeks, X-files, Twin Peaks, Six Feet Under, Buffy, Arrested Development, The Wire, and Lost. . . (and secretly America's Next Top Model!)
Books:
Geek Love, Middlesex, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Grendel, The Stranger, The Bluest Eye, Huck Finn,The Giver, Post Office, and lots of poetry: Etheridge Knight, C.K.Williams, Elizabeth Bishop, Walt Whitman, Sylvia Plath, Amiri Baraka, and Emily Dickinson.
Heroes:
My Dad.