I'd like to meet:
Barbara Kingsolver, Joseph Campbell, Peggy Hong, Harrison Ford, Paul Newman, David Byrne, Toni Morrison, Bill Moyers, one of those creation-scientist preachers on the Jesus channel, or anyone who's mildly interesting, really.
Music:
art of noise, bjork, cocorosie, neil young, death in june, decemberists, depeche mode, dj shadow, elliot smith, electric light orchestra, elvis costello, explosions in the sky, felix da housecat, fannypack, four tet, the good life, gorillaz, lcd soundsystem, leonard cohen, juno reactor, massive attack, michael jackson, miss kittin and the hacker, moody blues, moorbeck stellar, blue jays, new order okkervil river, nin, nico, peaches, petra haden, psychich tv, public enemy, beastie boys, plastikman, portishead, queen, ratatat, radiohead, aretha franklin, ride, sigur ros, simon and garfunkel, sly and the family stone, talking heads, the streets, tangerine dreams, boards of canada, wolf parade, UNKLE, tricky, yaz, wolf parade
Movies:
harold and maude
Television:
twin peaks, arrested development, MST3K, akage no an
Books:
i'm a huge book junkie.these are the most important nonfiction books that have influenced my life:Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, Autobiography of Assata Shakur, Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, Cunt: a Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio, Walden by HD Thoreau, Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser, The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chan, How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America by Manning Marable, Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, Diet for a New America by John Robbinsmy favorite writers/series':Barbara Kingsolver, Hermann Hesse, Chuck Palahniuk, Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, Peggy Hong, Richard Russo, Alan Moore, Anne Sexton, Charles Bukowski, Luigi Pirandello, Frank Herbert/Dune series, Isaac Asimov/Foundation Series, LM Montgomery/Anne of Green Gables series, JRR Tolkien/ LOTR series, JK Rowling/Harry Potter series, Madeleine L'engle/Wrinkle in Time Seriesother books i like:Corregidora by Gayl Jones, Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski, The Romance of Lust, The Passion by Jeanette Winterson, My name is Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe, The Belgariad by David Eddings, The Dark Tower series by Stephen King, Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
Heroes:
Joseph Campbell, Barbara Kingsolver, Neil Gaiman, David Byrne