I'd like to meet:
Lyle Lovett, Chris Crutcher, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Harry Crewe, Diana Wynne Jones, Vesper Holly, Eugenides, Psmith
Music:
Guy Clark, Lyle Lovett, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, Paul Kelly, Kinky Friedman, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Iris DeMent, Greg Brown, Richard Thompson, The Blasters, Dave Alvin, Tom Russell, The Flatlanders, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, Neko Case, Johnny Cash, Dan Hicks, The Specials, Bill Monroe, Carter Family, Hank Williams, Ryan Adams, old Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, old Liz Phair, Jonathan Richman, Gram Parsons, Slaid Cleaves, Karen Poston, Cat Stevens, Jimmie Rodgers, Lefty Frizzell
Movies:
Hands on a Hardbody, Box of Moonlight, The Station Agent, Pride and Prejudice (BBC), Dirty Dancing, Goonies, Stand by Me, Down by Law, Pulp Fiction, Born Yesterday (Judy, not Melanie), Holiday, American Movie, Shaun of the Dead, Bad Santa, Elf, 28 Days Later, Addams Family, Alien, Aliens, American Splendor, Barton Fink.
Television:
Twin Peaks, Babylon 5, Buffy, The Office (BBC), League of Gentlemen (BBC), The Young Ones, Veronica Mars, 90210 reruns, All in the Family, Family Guy, Firefly, Carnivale.
Books:
Robin McKinley, Diana Wynne Jones, Chris Crutcher, Chris Lynch, Jasper Fforde, Emily & Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, P. G. Wodehouse, Patricia Highsmith, Joan Bauer, Sarah Dessen, Josephine Tey, Elizabeth Peters/Barbara Michaels, Reginald Hill, E. L. Konigsburg, Kelly Link, Cherie Priest, Ellen Kushner, Brent Hartinger, Rachel Cohn, David Levithan, M. T. Anderson, Markus Zusak, Megan Whalen Turner, Kurt Busiek, Garth Ennis, Joan Aiken and on and on and on.