I'd like to meet:
Someone who thinks me cooler than I am.
Music:
Elvis Costello, De La Soul, Frank Zappa, The Clash, The Who, Sly and the Family Stone, Liz Phair, Nirvana, Nellie McKay, Ice Cube, Al Green, Charlie Parker, David Bowie, Tom Waits, Dusty Springfield, Grandaddy, Otis Redding, Randy Newman, the Smiths, Desmond Dekker, Cat Power, the Pogues, Louis Armstrong, the Velvet Underground, the Replacements, Amy Rigby, Nick Lowe, Aretha Franklin, Miles Davis, Domeshots, the Pixies, Squeeze, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Lee Perry, the Band, Bill Withers, the Beatles, the Postal Service, Cibo Matto, Wilson Pickett, Fanny Pack, the Meat Puppets, Echo & the Bunnymen, Peaches, Johnny Cash, Isley Brothers, Public Enemy, the Kinks, Ray Charles, the White Stripes, Merle Haggard, Woody Guthrie, T-Bone Burnett, Kool Keith, Brinsley Schwarz, Native Tongue, John Coltrane, Cole Porter, Fishbone, U2, Stevie Wonder, and so on.
Movies:
2001, The General, Taxi Driver, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Notorious, Nashville, Dr. Strangelove, MASH, Annie Hall, This is Spinal Tap, Jaws, Bond, Blazing Saddles, JFK, The Apartment, Duck Soup, Third Man, High Fidelity, Producers, The Player, Young Frankenstein, Do the Right Thing, Citizen Kane, Being John Malkovich, 8 1/2, M, The Big Sleep, La Dolce Vita, The Right Stuff, Casablanca, Amarcord, Seven Samurai, The Maltese Falcon, City of God, Some Like it Hot, Manhattan, Red River, M. Hulot's Holiday, Sherlock Jr., City Lights, Singin in the Rain, Monty Python's Holy Grail, The Bank Dick, My Dinner with Andre, Silent Movie, My Neighbor Totoro, Being There, Night of the Hunter, On the Waterfront, Bonnie and Clyde, Planes Trains and Automobliles, Raging Bull, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Mean Streets, Ran, Say Anything, E.T., Fargo, The Searchers, Modern Times, Life of Brian, Godfather, Hard Day's Night, Rashomon, Lawrence of Arabia, many many many more.
Television:
West Wing, Twin Peaks, The Office (BBC), Arrested Development, Deadwood, Degrassi, Mr. Show, Conan, Simpsons (up til season 7), Flying Circus, Nova, Frontline, 60 Minutes, Entourage, Coupling, Rome, Lost, Sesame Street, and usually things that I can make fun of.
Books:
Invisible Man, James Joyce, Robert Graves, Pryor Convictions, Douglas Adams, Italo Calvino, Evelyn Waugh, Confederacy of Dunces, Watchmen, Lord of Dark Places, the Moviegoer, Jonathan Swift, S.J. Perelman, Albert Camus, Aristophanes, the Harry Potter series, James Thurber, Don Quixote de la Mancha, Dashiell Hammet, the Divine Comedy, the Grifters, Juvenal, Isaac Asimov, Raymond Chandler, Luigi Pirandello, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elmore Leonard, In Praise of Folly, Arthur C. Clarke, Confessions of Zeno, Mikhail Bakhtin, the Dark Tower series, the Sword of Truth series, Fran Lebowitz, Mel Watkins, Dick Gregory, The Satyricon, Groucho and Me, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, Mr. Wlm. Shakes., Geoffrey Chaucer, Horace, Sophocles, Herodotus, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Thucydides, Voltaire, Djuna Barnes, C.S. Lewis, Woody Allen, Hippocrates, cereal boxes and beer bottles, more more more.
Heroes:
Super Grover