I'd like to meet:
Musicians, Groupies, Leprechauns.
Music:
This Flood Covers the Earth, These Arms Are Snakes, Coalesce, Eulcid, Cave In, ISIS, Blood Brothers, Botch, Harkonen, Faith No More, PJ Harvey, Bjork, Tori Amos, Report Suspicious Activity, Born Against, Pretty Girls Make Graves, dalek, Squarepusher, Radiohead, Dillinger Escape Plan, Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes, Bad Brains, Sweep the Leg Johnny, Shai Hulud, Sun Ra, John Zorn, Milford Graves, Miles Davis, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Baby Teeth, Playing Enemy, Deadguy, Kiss It Goodbye, The New Mexicans, Godspeed You Black Emperor, A Silver Mt Zion, Denali, Scarnella (Nels Cline and Carla Bozulich, both together and apart), teddybears, Shiner, The Life and Times, My Brightest Diamond, Beirut, Akron/Family, Icy Demons, Man Man, Butterylicious.com, Maps and Atlases, The New Trust, Zozobra, Stephen Brodsky's Octave Museum, The Saddest Member of Your Family, Casket Lottery and Small Brown Bike (together covering "Under Pressure"), Able Baker Fox, Russian Circles, Pelican, et al.
Movies:
Fight Club, American Beauty, The Professional, Requiem for a Dream, Pi, Resevoir Dogs, Existenz, Memento, Trainspotting, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks, Terminator 2 (seriously)
Television:
Queer as Folk, Six Feet Under, Nip Tuck, JBTV (Chicago cable access music show), and not much else. RIP: Headbangers Ball, Amp, 120 Minutes, Alternative Nation, and the showing of music videos in general. Death to Reality TV. Death to Realism.
Books:
Burlesque and the Art of the Teese (I think there's words in it somewhere), Think (really that's the title), The Forgetting Room, The Artful Dodger, The Museum at Purgatory, A Natural History of the Senses, The Book of Five Rings, The Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Answer to Job, Rebel Without a Crew, Paris Out of Hand, The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the 19th Century, Understanding Solid State Electronics, TAPE OP Magazine
Heroes:
Griffin Rodriguez, Nick Bantok, Marcel Duchamp, Groucho Marx, Demian Johnston, Matt Bayles, PJ Harvey, my cats Sooki and Keira.