I'd like to meet:
Music:
Andrew Bird, Andrew Hill, Animal Collective, The Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, The Band, Band of Horses, The Beach Boys, Beck, The Beatles, Belle and Sebastian, Big Star, Bill Ricchini, Bob Dylan, Bound Stems, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Bruce Springsteen, The Chrysler, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Clem Snide, The Clientele, The Comas, The Constantines, Damien Rice, The Decemberists, Devendra Banhart, Dexter Gordon, Dolorean, Duke Pearson, The Elected, Elliott Smith, Elvis Costello, Eric Dolphy, Feist, Film School, Frank Zappa, Gang of Four, Ghosty, Grachan Moncur III, Grandaddy, The Green Pajamas, Guns N Roses, Hank Mobley, Herbie Hancock, Hip Whips, The Hold Steady, Hudson Bell, Iron and Wine, Jackie McLean, Jackson Browne, Jefferson Airplane, Jenny Lewis, Jens Lekman, Jim O'Rourke, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Smith, John Coltrane, Joni Mitchell, Joseph Arthur, Josh Rouse, Kelley Stoltz, The Kingsbury Manx, Lee Morgan, Leona Naess, Levy, The Long Winters, Love, Luke Temple, The M's, M. Ward, Madvillain, Maestro Echoplex, The Mamas and the Papas, Mark Kozelek, Mason Jennings, Mazarin, Melpo Mene, Miles Davis, Modest Mouse, Moonbabies, n.lannon, Neil Young, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nick Drake, Nirvana, Otis Redding, Pavemet, Pinback, The Radio Dept., Radiohead, R.E.M., Rilo Kiley, Rogue Wave, The Russian Futurists, Ryan Adams, The Sleepy Jackson, Smashing Pumpkins, Sodastream, Sonic Youth, The Spinto Band, Spoon, Sublime, Subtle, Sufjan Stevens, Sun Kil Moon, Sunset Rubdown, T. Rex, Tap Tap, Tiger Lou, Tori Amos, TV on the Radio, Unbunny, Van Morrison, The Velvet Underground, Voxtrot, The Walkmen, Wayne Shorter, Ween, The Who, Why?, Willy Mason, Wolf Parade, The Wrens
Movies:
Five Easy Pieces, In the Mood for Love/2046, Masculin féminin, My Own Private Idaho, Once Upon a Time in America, Three Colors Trilogy - Blue/White/Red, Shoot the Piano Player, Waking the Dead, Yi Yi, Blade Runner, The Big Lebowski, Almost Famous, State of Grace, The Thing Called Love, JFK, Leon (The Professional), Paul Thomas Anderson, The Dreamers, The Monster Squad, Dream a Little Dream, Dark City, High Fidelity, The Journey of Natty Gann, Woody Allen, Scorsese, Kubrick, Fincher, Aronofsky, Reds, Miller's Crossing, Say Anything, Better off Dead, True Romance, Solaris, Phantasm.
Books:
Philip K. Dick, Stephen King, Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon, Clive Barker, Elmore Leonard, Jack Ketchum, Edward Lee, Douglas Clegg, John Everson, Weston Ochse, Brian Keene, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Bentley Little, Cormac McCarthy, Larry McMurtry, Donna Tartt, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Marvel Comics, Gary Braunbeck, Alan Moore, Vertigo Comics, Lucius Shepard, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Video Watchdog, Fangoria, Ed Gorman, Elizabeth Bear, Michael Connelly.