I'd like to meet:
Carny shills, disenfranchised curmudgeons, Willie Mays
Music:
Old stuff basically: Tin Pan Alley Jazz, 20's-50's Blues, Boogie Woogie, Western Swing, Rock/Roll, Honky Tonk, Lounge, Surf, Stripper, Jump Blues, 70's/80's Punk, Rockabilly, Big Band, Be Bop, West Coast Jazz, Folk, Classical, Spoken Word, Hillbilly, Ska, old Gospel.. jugbands, yodelers, cowboy songs, sea shanties, field recordings, union songs, songs of lament, church house songs.. Bob Dylan, Tom Waits.. local acts like Big Sandy, The Frisky Frolics, The Royal Deuces, Cari Lee and the Saddle-ites, Danny Santos and the Savoys.
Movies:
Stranger Than Paradise, Dead End, Carnival Of Souls, Maltese Falcon, Brick, Rat Pfink A Boo Boo, Ghost World, Happiness, Rebel Without A Cause, Rushmore, Affliction, Sting Of Death, Paris Blues, Pollock, Who's Afraid Of Virgina Woolf?, Nightmare Alley, Down By Law, Welcome To The Dollhouse, Little Miss Sunshine, Stardust Memories, A Streetcar Named Desire, Vertigo, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, Taxi Driver, American Splendor, The Graduate, Pan's Labyrinth, American Beauty, Born Into This, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Let's Get Lost, Dancing Outlaw, Incredibly Strange Creatures That Stopped Living And Became Mixed Up Zombies, The Thrill Killers, The Hustler, The Big Sleep, Suddenly, On the Waterfront, The Man With The Golden Arm, Key Largo, The Apartment, Sideways, Life Aquatic, Problem Child 2.
Television:
Rescue Me, The Colbert Report, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Intervention, Real Time With Bill Maher
Books:
Dan Fante, Charles Bukowski, Steven "Jesse" Bernstein, Noah Levine, John Fante, Chester Himes, James Ellroy, Ed Lacy, David Sedaris, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Sylvia Plath, Edith Wharton, Truman Capote, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Nelson Algren. Currently reading "Dharma Punx" by Noah Levine and "Pushcart 2007: Best Of The Small Presses".
Heroes:
Bigfoot, Wink Martindale