I'd like to meet:
Stanislav Grof, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Fett Mahler, Thich Nhat Hanh, David Blaine, Tom Morello, Brian May, and Black Bolt.
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Music:
Down with commercial radio. KCRW, KPFK, KJZZ, Aesop Rock, Air, Aphex Twin, Autolux, Federico Aubele, Baby Mammoth, Bad Brains, The Beatles, Bebel Gilberto, Beethoven, Belligerent, Ben Harper, Billie Holiday, Black Flag, Blonde Redhead, Bob Marley, Bone Thugs n Harmony, Bradley Nowell, acoustic Brazilian, Brazilian Girls, Buddha Bar, Cake, Cellar Door, Sheila Chandra, Cinematic Orchestra, Cinematic Underground, Creedence Clearwater Revival, DangerDoom, Dead Can Dance, DJ Quik, The Doors, Dreadzone, Dzihan and Kamien, Eazy-E, The Easy Star All-Stars, erotic lounge, the afro-beats of Fela Kuti, Final Fantasy Orchestral, Fugazi, Gorillaz, Gotan Project, Gnarls Barkley, Groove Armada, Gypsy Kings, Huun-Huur-Tu, Incubus, Interpol, Jack Johnson, the psychedelic guitar stylings of Jimi Hendrix, John-A-Dreams, the sage of the tenor sax John Coltrane, John Lee Hooker, Joy Division, Karminsky Experience, The Kills, Kyuss, Leadbelly, the metallic blues of Led Zeppelin, Lemon Jelly, Manu Chao, Marshmellow Stone Band, Matisyahu, Metallica, Minor Threat, The Misfits, Mogwai, Muddy Waters, Muse, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, No Doubt, Notorious B.I.G., Parliament Funkadelic, The Postal Service, Prodigy, Pink Floyd, Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, The Rapture, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Robert Johnson, Rolling Stones, Sade, Sarah Chang, Shrift, The Skatalites, Sly and the Family Stone, Smashing Pumpkins, Sounds from the Ground, Stereolab, The Strokes, the Sublime styley, System of A Down, Tanghetto, Thievery Corporation, 3rd Alley, 2Pac, U2, Weezer, The White Stripes, xylophone music from Ghana, and the fever of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Movies:
Top is Fight Club....after that...The Prestige, Dune, What the Bleep Do We Know, American Beauty, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Truman Show, Wings of Desire, Little Miss Sunshine, Batman (I hope you appreciate the irony of this one,) Batman Returns, Batman Begins, Memento, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Machinist, Kingdom of Heaven, Live at Woodstock, Waking Life, X-Men 1 and 2 but not 3 (!), Taxi Driver, Casablanca, Scarface, Boondock Saints, La Femme Nikita, Enter the Dragon, The Untouchables, Smokin Aces, The Graduate, Star Wars Episode II, III, IV, V, and VI but not I (!), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining, Brazil, Apocalypse Now, Akira, Spirited Away, Metropolis (the Fritz Lang original and the anime modern one), A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut, Amadeus, Fantasia, The Wizard of Oz, ALL Indiana Jones, Kurosawa films (Seven Samurai, Ran, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Dreams, Rashomon), A.I., The Conversation, The Fury, Forrest Gump, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Spaghetti Westerns like The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Alien 1 2 3, Back to the Future, Wolf Creek, bad OLD horror movies, Blade Runner, Born on the Fourth of July, Braveheart, Deliverance, Sean Connery James Bond movies, The Maltese Falcon, Bourne Identity, Zombie movies (especially by George Romero), The Shawshank Redemption, Terminator 1 and 2 but not 3, The Secret (highly recommended.)
Television:
Not too big on the tube. Except for the Office.
Books:
Stanislav Grof's The Holotropic Mind
Neil Gaiman's American Gods
Stephen King's The Gunslinger Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Jack Keroauc's On The Road
George Orwell's 1984
Chuck Palaniuk's Choke + Invisible Monsters + Survivor
Dave Egger's You Shall Know Our Velocity
The Autobiography of Ben Franklin
Robert Monroe's Journeys Out of the Body + Far Journeys
The Heart of Buddha's Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Mitch Albom's Tuesdays With Morrie + The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Robert Bruce's Astral Dynamics
Toni Morrison's Sula
Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead
as for comics.....
any Batman
Grant Morrison's All-Star Superman
Josh Whedon's Astonishing X-Men
Steve Dillon's Wolverine: Origins
Jimmy Palmiotti's Jonah Hex
Alex Ross and Jim Kreuger's Justice (a two year commitment!)
Brian Michael Bendis and Brian Reed's New Avengers : Illuminati
Grant Morrison's The Invisibles
Garth Ennis's Preacher
Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns
Alan Moore's The Watchmen