renaissance literature, victorian literature, modernists, (soo, that covers about 400 years of literature there, doesn't it?), literary theory, politics, the environment, sailing, other people, ideas, music, books...
I'd like to meet:
Dave Eggers. Elizabeth I."Who are my heroes? Bob Hope, Abraham Lincoln, Bono, and...God, I guess...would be the fourth one." -Michael Scott
Music:
johnny cash, june carter cash, imogen heap, rosie thomas, thom yorke, justin timberlake, the white stripes, death cab, flaming lips, ted leo, r.e.m., ani, elvis costello, counting crows, ben folds, bright eyes, garden state soundtrack, wilco, old 97s, elliot smith, guster, interpol, iron & wine, modest mouse, radiohead, dar williams, andrew bird, nick drake, snow patrol, silos & smokestacks!, bob dylan, bruce springsteen, weezer, the streets, ben harper, killers, coldplay, decemberists, beck, ryan adams, the weakerthans, the gorillaz, whiskeytown...
Movies:
walk the line, i heart huckabees, waiting for guffman, best in show, o brother where art thou, raising arizona, the life aquatic, royal tennenbaums, fight club, garden state, ice age, lilo & stitch, cinderella, peter pan, 101 dalmatians, napoleon dynamite, zoolander, dead poets society, other smart movies...
Television:
vh1 decade shows, vh1 best week ever, the naked chef. grey's anatomy, the office
Books:
extremely loud and incredibly close, anything milton, collected poems of john donne, middlemarch, wuthering heights, tess of the d'urbervilles, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, mrs dalloway, to the lighthouse, ulysses, the sun also rises, pride & prejudice, catcher in the rye, collected poems of seamus heaney, the awakening...there are hundreds more but i can't think of them right now.
Heroes:
john milton, virginia woolf (can someone who killed herself be a hero?), dave eggers, john donne, lizzie, cassie, all my grad school friends, robert, gina, wendy, and chuck norris obviously.
