I'd like to meet:
Keith.
Rita.
Orson Welles: while making The Magnificent Ambersons, to warn him to not leave the country, that the film would be lost if he did and no amount of patriotic capital was worth that.
Frank Gehry: for the Walt Disney Concert Hall alone, although I love a lot of his work. The best hall to hear music in America. Has to be. Maybe the world. No recording has ever sounded as 'alive' as the Beethoven's fifth I got from the iTMS.
Jane Goodall, circa 1960, as she starts her first study in Gombe. What a babe. Serious. Totally cereal.
Phillip Pullman.
Music:
Brian Mumford, Mustangs & Madras, Coalesce, Shogun, The Mars Volta, Dragging an Ox Through Water, Chevron, Division Day, Neutral Milk Hotel, Refused, At The Drive-In, Thrice, Cave-In, Lightning Bolt, Alkaline Trio, The Dismemberment Plan, Isis, Fugazi, R.E.M., Green Day, Gnarls Barkley, The Duke Spirit, Helios, Konono Nº1, The Flaming Lips, Bloc Party, Radiohead, DJ Shadow, Adem, Russian Circles, The Pipettes, Joanna Newsom, The Replacements, Hot Chip, Telefon Tel Aviv, Adem, The Twilight Singers, The Sword, Annuals, Baroness, The Ocean, Dethklok, Justice
Movies:
Serenity, Real Genius, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Dawn Of The Dead (1979), Mean Girls, Over The Edge, 2001, That Thing You Do!, Brick, The Best Years Of Our Lives, Network, Dazed and Confused, Another Woman, Punch-Drunk Love, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Secretary, by Brakhage, Tron, Chungking Express, Sin City, Dog Day Afternoon, Logan's Run, Gummo, julien donkey-boy, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Big Lebowski, The Magnificent Ambersons, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Crash (Cronenberg), Rabid, Behind The Green Door, Rear Window, Little Miss Sunshine, Death Proof
Television:
Lost, The Office, The West Wing, Firefly, Arrested Development, Deadwood, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Sports Night, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Battlestar Galactica, The Venture Brothers, Metalocalypse, Weeds
Books:
Infinite Jest, The Stand, The Lord Of The Rings, Girlfriend in a Coma, A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, jPod, The Outsiders, Fables (the comics), His Dark Materials, The Children's Hospital, Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows,
Heroes:
is a great show.