I'd like to meet:
Music:
Pretty much everything goes. Part of the tapestry, pretty much like the telly in that respect.
Movies:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Whitnail and I, The Big Lebowsky, Get Carter (the original one with Michael Cane), Bullit, Kill Bill 1+2, Chinatown, Sin City, Traffic, Rear Window, Psycho, Mulholland Drive, All About My Mother, Priscilla the Queen of the Desert, Jackie Brown, True Romance, Blue Velvet, Europa, Pulp Fiction, Taxi 1+2, Crying Game, The Fifth Element, Seven Samurais, Dirty Harry, Pulp Fiction, The Unforgiven, The Great Escape, Scarface, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver, Midnight Cowboy, Deer Hunter, Rocky Horror Picture Show...
Television:
Pretty much always on to create some noise and to give that lovely flickering glare to the room. A truly fantastic innovation!
Books:
Master and Margarita, Catch-22, Animal Farm, Archipelago of Gulags, In Cold Blood, Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Memoirs from the Dead House, Youth, the Unbearable Lightness of Being, A Walk on the Wild Side, Grapes of Wrath, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, The Wall,... The usual detective stories etc.: Agatha Christie, R.D. Wingfield, Rex Stout, Iain Banks, Georges Simenon, James Ellroy, P.D. James, Ruth Rendell, Henning Mankell, Donald E. Westlake, Ian Rankin, Colin Dexter, Graham Greene, Donna Leon, Peter Hoeg,...
InfluencesAndy Warhol, Monty Python, Gilbert and George, Alvar Aalto, Pierre and Gilles, Lou Reed, Miles Davis, Luigi Ontani, Luc Bresson, Quentin Tarantino, John Lennon, George Orwell, Ansell Adams, Sex Pistols, David Hockney, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Vassily Kandinsky, Diane Arbus, Annie Leibovitz, Frank Lloyd Wright, Kalervo Palsa, Aki Kaurismäki, Lars von Trier, Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Adam Smith, Albert Einstein, Väinö Linna, M.A. Numminen, Juice Leskinen, Edvard Munch, Friedrich Nietzsche, Tapio Wirkkala, Thomas More, Bertrand Russell, Will Eisner, the Dadaists, Walt Disney, Pablo Picasso, Markéta Luskacová, Charlie Christensen, Josef Koudelka, David Bowie, Chris Killip, The Army of Lovers, Henry Cartier-Bresson, Stefan Lochner, Titian, Caravaggio, Piet Mondrian, Alberto Vargas, Hugo Pratt, Mel Ramos, Hergé, Man Ray, Henry Miller, Nelson Algren, Ernest Hemingway, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and the Crazy Horse, Joseph Heller, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Alfred Hitchcock, The Divine Comedy, The Beautiful South, GabrÃel Gárcia Marquez, Buena Vista Social Club, J. M. Coetzee, Samuel Beckett, W.A. Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Milan Kundera, Jeff Koons,... And lot's and lot's of others - press and documentary photographers, graphic designers, illustrators, etc.
Heroes:
Don Quixote.