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I'd like to meet:

Wayne Newton! Or, his sister Thandie. But not their cousin Isaac... I hear that he's a real dick.

Music:

Thelonius Monk, Charlie Parker, Roy Haynes, Art Blakey, Charles Mingus, Gene Krupa, Jimmy Rushing, John Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins, Bud Powell, Lester Young, Sonny Rollins, Roy Eldgridge, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Sidney Bechet, Cannonball Adderly, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Bessie Smith, Benny Goodman, Bix Beiderbecke, Jelly Roll Morton, Irvin Mayfield Jr., Diana Krall, Duke Ellington, Lena Horne, Fats Walter, Art Tatum, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Stitt, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Carmen McRae, Django Reinhardt, Chet Baker,Robert Johnson, Son House, Fred McDowell, BB King, Tampa Red, Leadbelly, Muddy Waters, BL Jefferson, T-Bone Walker, Albert King, Elmore James, Bobby Bland, JL Hooker, Mance Lipscomb, Buddy Guy, Howlin’ Wolf, Koko Taylor, Jimmy Reed, Taj Mahal, Big Mama Thorton, Junior Wells, Sonny Boy Williamson (1&2), Willie Dixon, Joe Turner, Gatemouth Brown, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Lowell Fulson, Ma Rainey, Dinah Washington, Memphis Mennie, Magic Slim, Ruth Brown, Otis Rush, James Cotton, Mahalia Jackson, Luther Allison, JL Walker, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, James Brown, Aretha, Etta James, L Richard, early Elvis, Bo Diddley, Sinatra, Charlie Feathers, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Al Green, Bobby Womack, Stevie Wonder, Sam Cooke, The Platters, The Isley Brothers, Chuck Berry, Otis Redding, Gershwin bros., Cole Porter, Cream, Velvet Underground, Bowie, Yardbirds, Hendrix, Janis, Led Zep., the Beatles, the Stones, Neil Young, CS&N, the Doors, Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, Santana, Woody (& Arlo) Guthrie, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Gladys Night, Van Morrison, the Who, Sly & Family Stone,Rod Stewart, Fats Domino, Gene Vincent, JL Lewis, Simon & Garfunkel, Erykah Badu, LA Philharmonic, Richard Wagner, Leonard Cohen, Bernard Herrmann, Pink Floyd, Sade, the Cure, Joni Mitchell, Public Enemy, KRS-One, A Tribe Called Quest, Jurassic 5, Wu-tang Clan, The Roots, NWA, Mos Def, the Refugees, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Outcast, Desmond Dekker, Ken Boothe, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Kapena, Fiji, Steel Pulse, Sudden Rush, IZ, the Naturalities, Ho’onu’a, Pati, Ub40, Natural Vibrations, Ka'au Creator Boys, Gregory Isaacs, Beres Hammond, C&K, Bjork, G. Love, Ramones, the Clash, RATM, Joe Hunter, Queen, Portishead, Beck, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Emmylou Harris, Seu Jorge, Joan Baez, Digable Planets, Meiko Kaji, Ian Hunter, WC Handy, Kurtis Blow, Eric B & Rakim, Run DMC, Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash & Furious 5, The Fat Boyz, DJ Kool Herc, Kool Moe D, the Temptations, Depeche Mode, Nat King Cole, Buddy Holly,Booker T & The MG's, Luis Bacalov, Frederica Von Stade, David Schwartz, Georgia Wettlin-Larsen, Johnny Nash, Jo Shenandoah, Dusty Springfield, Aceyalone, Hieroglyphics, Glenn Miller, Jimmy Dorsey, Tex Beneke, Max Roach, Marvin Gaye, The Danleers, The Drifters & Jane's Addiction.

Movies:

Yojimbo, Seven Samurai, Ikiru, Dreams, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Mr. Deeds goes to Town, Rashomon, The Blue Angel, Inherit the Wind, Nosferatu, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Cool Hand Luke, The Grand Illusion, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill Vol. I & II, Girl on the Bridge, Once Were Warriors, Whale Rider, Pull My Daisy, Spirted Away, In the Bedroom, Lost in Translation, American Splendor, Godfather I & II, Network, Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 12 Angry Men, The Usual Suspects, Apocalypse Now!, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, Vertigo, Quills, Dirty Pretty Things, Pi, Amelie, Beetlejuice, Clerks, Seven, Planes Trains & Automobiles, The Shawshank Redemption, Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare Before Christmas, City of Lost Children, The Trial of Henry Kissinger, The Big One, Rushmore, Glengarry Glen Ross, Army of Darkness, Crouching Tiger, My Dinner with Andre, My Breakfast with Blassie, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Requiem for a Dream, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Punch-Drunk Love, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Professional, Clockwork Orange, Annie Hall, High Noon, Glory, Manhattan, Take the Money and Run, Stardust Memories, Radio Days, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Hustler, Magnolia, Sideways, All the President's Men, When Harry Met Sally, Drop Dead Fred, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Jazz, A Christmas Story, Good Will Hunting, Willy Wonka, Office Space, The Apt., Moulin Rouge (original), Yellow Submarine, Taxi Driver, Ragging Bull, Do the Right Thing, Finding Nemo (sadly, after seeing it at least fifty times with my niece, its appeal is starting to wear thin), About Schmidt, Dancer in the Dark, 28 Days Later, Manon of the Spring, Closer, Adaptation, Affliction, Monty Python's Holy Grail, all of Jim Jarmusch's films, the majority of Joel & Ethan Coen's films, Harvey, Being John Malkovich, Misery, Leaving LV, Airplane, Freaks, All of Mel Brooks' films, the majority of Albert Brooks' films, The Sweet Hereafter, North by Northwest, A Night at the Opera, An American Tail, Citizen Kane, Dr. Strangelove, Sunset Blvd., To Kill a Mockingbird, American History X, Strangers on a Train, The Grapes of Wrath, All Quiet on the Western Front, A Streetcar Named Desire, This is Spinal Tap, Elf, Back to School, The Karate Kid, Tootsie, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Tombstone, Best in Show, Trainspotting, Groundhog Day, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Champ, The Public Enemy, Yankee Doodle Dandy, New York Stories, The Out-of-Towners (original), the Odd Couple, The Ref, I am a Fugitive from a Chain-Gang, Faust, The Great Dictator, Gold Rush, Midnight Cowboy, The Graduate, Outfoxed, Unprecedented: the 2000 election or any other Left-Wing Pinko-Commie documentaries.

Hmm, this is one hell of a list. I have quite a few more to go; however, my fingers are numb and my memory is shotty.

Television:

Thirteen inch, black and white with no sound. Aren't you jealous?

Books:

Much like Remembrance of Things Past, this list will go on, and on, and on, and on...

Heroes:

William Burroughs: a real hero of mine. Minus the pedophilia, of course.