I'd like to meet:
anyone cool--also the nerdy and uncool
Music:
Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, XTC, Elliott Smith, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Mozart, PJ Harvey, Johnny Cash, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, etc., way too much to list...
Movies:
I like a wide range from mainstream flicks to indie, foreign, classics, etc. Some favorite directors are Hitchcock, Welles, Fellini, Bergman, Kubrick, Bunuel, Lynch, Woody Allen, Coen Brothers, and David Cronenberg. Just a few: Dr Strangelove, The Big Sleep, The Sweet Smell of Success, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Sunset Boulevard, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Chinatown, The Conversation, Taxi Driver, Donnie Darko, American Movie, American Splendor, Crumb, That Obscure Object of Desire, Ed Wood, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Repo Man, Spirit of the Beehive
Television:
CURRENT FAVES: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Rescue Me, The Shield, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Veronica Mars, Lost, Arrested Development, The Office, Aqua Teen Hunger Force;ALL TIME FAVES: Homicide, The Simpsons, Futurama, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, the first five or so years of X-Files, Twin Peaks, Duckman, Seinfeld, Cheers, MASH, All in the Family, Twilight Zone, Freaks and Geeks... (I am sure I am forgetting some.)
Books:
too many to list--I was an English major--but here are some authors I like: Franz Kafka, JG Ballard, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K Dick, Ursula LeGuin, Hermann Hesse, Albert Camus, Mark Twain, Italo Calvino, Thomas Pynchon, Jonathan Lethem, Stanislaw Lem, Bertolt Brecht, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Chabon, Raymond Chandler, H.G. Wells, Grant Morrison, Alan Moore. Some favorites include Catch-22, The Crying of Lot 49, The Master and Margarita, Lolita, On a Winter's Night a Traveler, The Threepenny Opera, Invisible Man (by Ralph Ellison)
Heroes:
Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Barbara Jordan, Nelson Mandela, Kurt Vonnegut, Bob Dylan, Rod Serling, John Lennon, Albert Einstein, Mother Jones, Sojourner Truth, Ani Difranco, Nina Simone, Mark Twain, Woody Guthrie, John Sayles, Bill Hicks, Carl Sagan, Russ Feingold, Keith Olbermann, Ann Richards, Molly Ivins