Jason

I'd like to meet:

Jello Biafra - for being the inspiration that brought me into political activism
Jim Morrison - for opening the DOORway to music and poetic thought for me
Henry Rollins - for sharing my perception of so much in this world Phil Ochs - for just being one of the greatest musicians whose music has ever graced my ears
Christopher Tolkien - so I can convince him to give me his father's estate. I swear on my life and the lives of all my friends that I will not exploit it. I just want to continue where Tolkien left off... :(
Tom Robbins - just to talk to him
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Jean Francois Marie-Arouet (Voltaire), Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), Greg Graffin - for religious discussion
Hammurabi, Gilgamesh, Xerxes, Ptolemy, Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar - to include in the above religious discussion (provided we have a translator), and hope that their effects on history would weaken the religious hold that is now plaguing the world.
Constantine, Clovis I - to assassinate them... sorry guys... your conversions caused Christianity to grow too quickly for its own good. Not that I have a problem with Christianity... I have a problem with it being forced upon the rest of the world as an "official" religion in empires that stretched from the middle East to Italy, and most of Europe.
Alexander the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, Sun Tzu/Tzi/Wu, Mao Tse-tung, Charlemagne, Leif Erikson, and a few select Japanese men: Musashi Miyamoto, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Oda Nobunaga - to have dinner with them at some great banquet hall while discussing contemporary methods of achieving global domination. After dinner, the Japanese men and I will chase Charlemagne down and bludgeon him to death with a club. That will teach him to force people to practice Catholicism at Swordpoint. Bastard. I think it'd be a fun night.
While we're at it, other Asian men I'd like to meet include Ho Chi Minh, Norodom Sihounak, and Saloth Sar (better known as Pol Pot). I'd tell them what they need to know to better their countries. Cambodia would have been better off had Saloth Sar not been corrupted by Lon Nol's merciless America-trained militia. His ideas were good, and Sihounak could have used them to help Cambodia, not slaughter its people during the Khmer Rouge. And Ho Chi Minh, your hope for Viet Nam lies outside of the United States. Screw the French too. Neither country will listen. If you want assistance to establish a democratic nation in Viet Nam, consult the British; don't turn to China or Russia.
History rocks.

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I want to meet the six-fingered man who murdered my father and gave me this scar on my cheek. And when I meet him I will say to him "Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
I'd also like to meet Jesus and ask him how he feels about this religion formed around his existence. Then I'd like to meet Elvis, and ask him how he feels about the possibility that in a couple of millenia he could take the place of Jesus. You know, like after the world's been nuked and civilization goes back to primitivity. Then one of these primitive tribesmen will discover Graceland and it'll be all over. Thank you... thankyouverymuch.
I like girls too. Can I meet some girls? Kinda tall. With hair. And who wear shirts sometimes. "Pres-STONE!"

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Music:

I appreciate a wide variety of music. I have spent years following numerous artists in varying genres and I've discovered one thing. I absolutely love music. I was never able to compose or play it successfully myself (aside from drumming in a few punk bands in my early teens as well as what I believe to be talented vocals, albeit ranging from deep-throated singing to all-out growling) but I have found a deep appreciation for nearly all genres.
So if anyone knows of any artists I should give a listen to, drop me a line.

Bands, Artists, Solo Projects:
311, 7 Angels 7 Plagues, A Fire Inside, A Jealousy Issue, A Life Once Lost, A Static Lullaby, The Acacia Strain, Across Five Aprils, Against Me!, Alexisonfire, Alice Donut, Alkaline Trio, American Football, And you will know us by the trail of the dead, The Anniversary, Anti-Flag, Appleseed Cast, Arcturus, Aria, As I Lay Dying, As The Sun Sets, At The Drive-In, At The Gates, The Ataris, Atreyu, Aus Rotten, Avantasia, Avenged Sevenfold, Azazel, Bad Religion, The Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Between the Buried and Me, Black Flag, Blood for Blood, Blood Has Been Shed, Bloodjinn, Bob Marley, David Bowie, Boy Sets Fire, Braid, Brandtson, The Breeders, Bright Eyes, Burning Airlines, Burns Out Bright, Camera Obscura, Candiria, Cannibal Corpse, Cap'n Jazz, The Cars, Casket Lottery, Cave-In, Choking Victim, City on Film, The Clash, Coalesce, Coheed and Cambria, John Coltrane, Cool Hand Luke, Converge, Crass Cross My Heart, The Crucifucks, The Cure, Curl Up and Die, Cursive, Dan Andriano, The Dandy Warhols, Darkest Hour, Miles Davis, Dead Kennedys, Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, Deicide, Desmond Dekker, Del the Funky Homosapien, Demons and Wizards, Dillinger Escape Plan, The Dismemberment Plan, DOA, The Doors, Dragonforce, Echo and the Bunnymen, Eighteen Visions, Elliott, Everclear, Eyes Upon Separation, Fantomas, Geoff Farina, The Fire Theft, Firebird (band/project/suite), Frank Black, Frank Black and the Catholics, Franz Ferdinand, From Autumn to Ashes, From Here On, Fugazi, Full Blown Chaos, Funeral for a Friend, Gameface, The Get Up Kids, Glasseater, God Speed You Black Emperor!, The Goodlife, Grade, Grandaddy, Green Day, Guns 'n Roses, Woody Guthrie, GWAR, Hall & Oates, Hey Mercedes, Billie Holliday, Hopesfall, Horse the Band, Hot Rod Circuit, Hot Water Music, House of Pain, Hum, I Hate Myself, Interpol, Iron Maiden, Joe Jackson, Jawbreaker, The Jealous Sound, Jejune, Jeremy Enigk, Jets to Brazil, Jimmy Eat World, Joan of Arc, Johnny Cash, John Vanderslice, The Juliana Theory, Karate, Keepsake, Kind of Like Spitting, Knapsack, KRS One, Leftover Crack, L'spaerow, The Locust, Madness, Maharahj, Malevolent Creation, Man or Astroman?, The Mars Volta, Matt Skiba, MC Chris, The Melvins, Meshuggah, Metallica (pre-Load), Mike Ness, Mineral, Minus the Bear, The Miracle of 86, The Misfits, Modest Mouse, Moonspell, Most Precious Blood, Murder by Death, My Dying Bride, Naked Aggression, Naked Raygun, Willie Nelson, The New Amsterdams, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, No Knife, NoMeansNo, No Motiv, N.W.A., Phil Ochs, Oingo Boingo, On Broken Wings, Operation Ivy, Opeth, Pavement, Pedro the Lion, Piebald, Pinehurst Kids, Pink Floyd, Pixies, Plague Thy Child, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Poison the Well, The Postal Service, Prayer for Cleansing, Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Promise Ring, Public Enemy, Q and Not U, Radiohead, Rainer Maria, The Ramones, Rancid, REM, Recover, Reggie and the Full Effect, Remembering Never, Reversal of Man, Rifles at Recess, Run DMC, Todd Rundgren, Rush, Saetia, Saves the Day, Scarlet, Screeching Weasel, Pete Seeger, Sever The Fallen, Sex Pistols, Shadows Fall, Shellac, Sigur Ros, Simon & Garfunkel, Paul Simon, The Skatallites, Sky Came Falling, The Sky Corvair, Sleepytime Trio, Small Brown Bike, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, Smoking Popes, Social Distortion, Songs:Ohia, Sparta, Stretch Armstrong, Suffocate Faster, Sunny Day Real Estate, Taking Back Sunday, The Talking Heads, Texas is the Reason, Thrice, Thursday, The Toasters, The Toots and the Maytals, Training For Utopia, Trembling Blue Stars, Tribe Called Quest, Tuesday, Type O Negative, Underoath, Undying, Union13, UpUpDownDownLeftRightLeftRightBABAStart, The Vandals, Very Secretary, The Weakerthans, Weezer, Zao
Bold names indicate that the band is one of my most favorite or most influential groups.
As of December 26th, 2004, I increased the number of bold-type names in an effort to panegyrize certain bands and artists for which I feel a certain association. For example, I feel that because I live in the Carolinas that I am apt to praise bands whom it seems I was there as they began their musical careers. Bands like Stretch Armstrong and Zao who would be found frequenting the VFW in N. Charleston or the Clubhouse in W. Ashley as well as North Carolina legends Prayer for Cleansing and From Here On. Both are, in my opinion, two underrated bands who allowed me to appreciate the style that came out of the state to the north of me.
It is likely that I will update this list again when I'm bored, possibly differentiating the list with different type-face.
Classical, Opera, & Composers:
Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, DeBussy, Dvorak, Grieg, Handel, Haydn, Monteverdi, Mozart, Orff, Rachmaninov, Roussini, Schoenberg, Schubert, Schumann, Stravinsky, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Wagner
I'm not familiar with all the work of all the composers I listed, but I love talking to people about classical music. It is such an overlooked genre of music.
***Always a Work-in-Progress***

Movies:

Lord of the Rings trilogy, Harry Potter series, The Boondock Saints, Fight Club, Se7en, Kevin Smith movies, Coen Brothers movies, the comedies of the Farrelly brothers and Terry Gilliam (including action/drama 12 monkeys), any movie with Johnny Depp or Winona Ryder in it (especially Edward Scissorhands and Heathers), Life is Beautiful (one of the greatest foreign films ever!) and many more, typically of the dramatic genre.

Television:

Jeopardy is usually all I ever watch. I will occasionally watch Adult Swim but since I've seen all the programs that run Monday to Thursday numerous times, I usually only watch it on Saturday and Sunday nights for the new stuff. I'm often found watching TV in front of the TV.
I do watch more TV now. Stuff like Fox Sunday Nights, My Name is Earl, The Office, Battlestar Galactica, and a plethora of shows that come on the Science Channel, the Discovery-Times Channel, the History Channel, and anything else that is for smart people!

Books:

The Lord of the Rings I've read numerous times, and The Silmarillion twice, and all of Tolkien's other work; The Wizard of Earth-Sea Series and the politico-, psycho-, and socio-science-fiction of Ursula K. LeGuin, the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling, The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis, all of Tom Robbins' novels, Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time and a collection of his essays, numerous Stephen King novels and short stories, many classics from great authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Daniel DeFoe, Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, and Alexandre Dumas, the fiction of J. D. Salinger, Lewis Caroll, E. B. White, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, and even A. A. Milne, as well as mostly all of Voltaire's work (I've still got a lot to read), Sun Tzu's "The Art of War," along with "The Prince" by Nicolo Machiavelli, and the work of Karl Marx/Frederich Engels, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietschze, and other philosophers including Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle; Percy Bysshe Shelley's "The Necessity of Atheism". Plus the poetry of e. e. cummings, T. S. Eliot and any other books of enlightening and intellectual nature I can get my hands on.
Currently Reading: A Phil Ochs Biography entitled Death of a Rebel

Heroes:

Henry Rollins, Jello Biafra, J. R. R. Tolkien, Salvadore Dali, Tom Robbins. Hunter S. Thompson, Penn Jillette, Teller, James Randi, Harold Houdini, Carl Sagan, Phil Ochs, Douglas Adams and many others.The TV show "Heroes" kinda works too.