I'd like to meet:
walter and perry!
wealthy gadabout chilton gaines!
Music:
arvo pärt, mark kozelek (red house painters, sun kil moon), joy division, omd (i.e. orchestral manoeuvres in the dark), the durutti column, pink floyd, autechre, matmos, current 93, antony and the johnsons, simon & garfunkel, trembling blue stars, in the nursery, arovane, fad gadget, the cure, new order, anton bruckner, henryk górecki, bruce springsteen, (early) jackson browne, townes van zandt, minor threat, the clash, colin newman, depeche mode, his name is alive, covenant, boards of canada, michael nyman, randy newman, palestrina, benjamin britten, leonard cohen, john prine, coil, william byrd, philip glass, cabaret voltaire, skinny puppy, john lennon, frederic chopin, brian eno, neutral milk hotel, interpol, spk, godspeed you black emperor!, a silver mt. zion, portishead, neil young, herbert howells, thomas tallis, sergei rachmaninov, sol invictus, kirlian camera, gustav mahler, clock dva, low, the smiths, the misfits, warren zevon, pergolesi, slowdive, tom waits, david sylvian, wolfsheim, funckarma, will, richard strauss, r.e.m., haujobb, peter gabriel, bob dylan, antonin dvorak, aphex twin...
Movies:
woody allen (crimes and misdemeanors, sleeper, annie hall, manhattan, hannah and her sisters, etc.), ingmar bergman (persona, the seventh seal), billy wilder (double indemnity, sunset boulevard, some like it hot), sidney lumet (network, fail-safe, dog day afternoon, the verdict), early marx brothers (duck soup, animal crackers, a night at the opera), terrence mallick (days of heaven, badlands, the thin red line), alfred hitchcock (the 39 steps, shadow of a doubt, rear window), martin scorsese (taxi driver, raging bull, goodfellas), the coen brothers (blood simple, raising arizona, miller's crossing, the big lebowski, etc.), sofia coppola (the virgin suicides, lost in translation, marie antoinette), ratcatcher, M, the piano, citizen kane, the passion of joan of arc, network, aguirre: wrath of god, for all mankind, harold and maude, visions of light: the art of cinematography, me and you and everyone we know, the ice storm, you can count on me, midnight cowboy, the 400 blows, paths of glory, mccabe and mrs. miller, mysterious skin, the day the earth stood still, bill and ted's excellent adventure, night of the lepus, pan's labyrinth, etc.
Television:
antiques roadshow. american baseball contests. vh1 classics. the colbert report. the science channel. cosmos. jeopardy. mythbusters. great chefs. the civil war. homicide: life on the street. the twilight zone. the muppet show. nova. good eats. the simpsons (when it had a soul).
Books:
pop-up books. important literature. poetry. magazines and newspapers. zany religious tracts. books by authors. monosyllabic picture-laden affairs.
Heroes:
carl sagan , distinguished astronomer, philosopher, and humanist:
arvo , distinguished scholar and musicologist: