Music, medicine, philanthropy, learning, feminism, dictators, plague, parasites, George Carlin, serial killers and other sorts of off the wall stuff.
I'd like to meet:
Alfred Kinsey, Louis Pasteur, the guy who thought of making pot pies into hot pockets...anyone who I think had a genius idea or excelled in a field in which I am fascinated. People who are quick to compliment others.
Music:
Brand New, Dashboard Confessional, Death Cab for Cutie, Steve Burns, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Veruca Salt, 24 Karat Purple, Weezelscope, PK 180, Otis Redding, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday, Gorillaz, Micah P. Hinson, System of a Down, Anna Nalick, The Flaming Lips, Tom Waits, Cat Stevens, Fiona Apple, Nora Jones, Heart, the Decemberists, Interpol, Tenacious D, Ben Folds, Sublime, Modest Mouse, PJ Harvey, Violent Femmes, The Beatles, Nada Surf, Depeche Mode, Jack Johnson, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Smog, Beck, Poe, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Miles Davis, Jeff Buckley, The Afghan Whigs, the Weirdos, Pixies, Bjork, Fanny Pack, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, Weezer, Cake, Bob Dylan...more added and forgotten every day.
Movies:
Kevin Smith/View Askew flicks, yes even Vulgar. American Beauty, Reality Bites, Roman Holiday, Breakfast at Tiffany's (anything with Audrey Hepburn), Gummo, Fear and Loathing, Office Space, The Sweetest Thing, Chicago, Singing in the Rain, Kubrick flicks, Four Rooms, there's a million more.
Books:
Heart of Darkness, A Picture of Dorian Gray, The Feminine Mystique, Desolation Angels (anything Kerouac), A Clockwork Orange, The Bell Jar, 1984, recently: Killing Yourself to Live and Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman, nothing like some brain candy. There are many more, but I'm a bit distracted at the moment.
Heroes:
Ms. Patricia Lisowski