I'd like to meet:
Intelligent folks, either when it comes to social situations or philosophical discussions.
Music:
Broadcast, Lansing Dreiden, Pinback, Komeda, Cardigans, Alaska, Stereolab, Ikara Colt, The Coral, Gnarles Barkley, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Sloan, The New Pornographers, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Hot Hot Heat, April March, Beck, Self, Sarah Vaughan, The Doors, Nirvana, Jeff Buckley, The Go Go's, The B-52's, Missy Elliott, Q and Not U, The Clash, Califone, Wall of Voodoo, Loose Ends, Madonna, Oranger, Pat Benatar, Outkast, Sir Mix A Lot ("Baby Got Back" in particular), 311, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Teena Marie, Radiohead, The Beatles, The Romantics, Sea and Cake, Soul Coughing, Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks, The Black Sea, The Januaries, The Strokes, Trans Am, Janet Jackson, Maximo Park, Pebbles, Thompson Twins, Culture Club, The Violent Femmes, Smashing Pumpkins, Mike Jones (he has self-confidence!), And You Will Know Us By The Trail of the Dead, !!!, Badly Drawn Boy
Movies:
The Age of Innocence, Chuck and Buck, Bonnie and Clyde, Thelma and Louise (alright, enough of the buddy movies!), Last Tango in Paris, Midnight Cowboy (oops, another buddy movie---sorry about that), Rushmore, Election, Defending Your Life, The Shape of Things, Lost in Translation, Pirates of the Caribbean, Ed Wood, Existenz, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Bowling for Columbine, Elizabeth, My Own Private Idaho (my last buddy movie), The Doors, Nixon, Bullworth, Driving Miss Daisey, Family Business, The Godfather, Dog Day Afternoon, Dogfight, The English Patient, I Love You to Death, A Fish Called Wanda, Wag the Dog, Moonstruck, White Palace, Malcolm X, Batman Returns, Pulp Fiction, Groundhog Day, I Heart Huckabee
Television:
Six Feet Under, Top Chef, Flight of the Conchords, The Apprentice, Mad Men, Land of the Lost, Newsradio, Mad Men, Southpark, Beavis and Butthead, Wonderwoman, Mama's Family, The Three Stooges, Leave It To Beaver, Three's Company, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Voyager, The Next Generation, and Enterprise, Married with Children, The Simpsons, The Twilight Zone, Reno 911, Friends, Seinfeld, Mork and Mindy, Laverne and Shirley, Good Times, Laguna Beach, Alias, Ebert and Roeper, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, The Ropers, 60 Minutes, Surreal Life, I Love the 70s, I Love the 80s, I Love the 90s, The Real World, Celebrity Poker Showdown
Books:
The Kreutzer Sonata, Plato's "The Republic", C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, Angela's Ashes, Truman Capote's Unanswered Prayers, The Grapes of Wrath, Foucault, Hannah Arendt, God is not Great
Heroes:
Plato, Donald Trump, Hannah Arendt, Barak Obama---that's about it!