I'd like to meet:
(1) People who have had cavities. I couldn't be friends with somebody who didn't know that pain. (2) Myself, by another name
Music:
Morphine. Elbow. Nick Drake. Wilco. Blind Melon. Radiohead. Portishead. Beck. Thomas Newman. Broken Social Scene. The Mercury Program. Blonde Redhead. The National.
Movies:
El Aura. Amelie. American Beauty. Leaving Las Vegas. Wonder Boys. High Fidelity. Fargo. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Rushmore. Amadeus. Bottle Rocket. The Game. Sideways. The Crying Room. Last Life in the Universe. Caro Diario.
Television:
Arrested Development. It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. The Adventures of Pete and Pete. Seinfeld. Curb Your Enthusiasm. Lost. Sopranos. Everyday Italian.
Books:
The Same Sea - Amos Oz. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver. A Good Man Is Hard To Find - Flannery O'Connor. A Relative Stranger - Charles Baxter. Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson. You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense - Charles Bukowski. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator - Roald Dahl. Meditations in an Emergency - Frank O'Hara. And W.S. Merwin's "When You Go Away" pretty much sums it up.
Heroes:
Mark Sandman. Ray Carver. Charlie Kaufman. Sherwood Anderson. Gregory Crewdson.