I'd like to meet:
Dead (or alive, but the ones I like are dead) Southern writers. Jenny Saville, Lisa Yuskavage, Cindy Sherman. Jay Z.
Music:
The Watson Twins "Southern Manners" kinda rule my world right now.
Movies:
Urban Cowboy (THE classic American love story!), Coal Miner's Daughter (SO Sweet). These are my ultimate favorites. It always goes back to them.
Books:
Who has time to read anymore? Really? With So You Think You Can Dance back on? Not so Recently: The Sound and The Fury, In Cold Blood, Lately, Confederacy of Dunces, Moveable Feast, City of Quartz, Huey P. Long: Dictator, Always: To Kill A Mockingbird, Any and all David Sedaris, Edith Wharton, John Irving, Howard Zinn, J. D. Salinger, William Faulkner, Truman Capote (mainly that one audio version you hear on public radio around the holidays, that's the best one, I think), Joan Didion, Cornell West.
Heroes:
Jarom. People who know Jarom.