I'd like to meet:
Howard Roark
Music:
segovia, julian bream, elvis, jeff buckley, tom waits, radiohead, movie soundtracks, beattles, bela fleck, miles, hendrix, coltrane, bill evans, nat king cole, billie holiday, stevie wonder, aimee mann, samuel barber, grieg, bach, dvorak, chopin, mozart, the audibles, zeppelin, nirvana...
Movies:
There are sooo many movies I love, but here's a quick list of some that come to mind (in no particular order): 2001, the hustler, cinema paradiso, gone with the wind, unforgiven, out of africa, superman (the original), the english patient, biloxi blues, a river runs through it, big trouble in little china, full metal jacket, pulp fiction, eternal sunshine.., never ending story, endless summer 2, magnolia, better off dead, beetle juice, the big lebowski, the aviator, goodfellas, gremlins, always, the frisco kid, the first half of A.I., lost in translation, rushmore, the karate kid, blazing saddles, spaceballs...
Television:
big love, the office, scrubs, daily show, discovery channel
Books:
the fountainhead, foundation trilogy, the unbearable lightness of being, catch 22, les miserables, anna karenina, persuasion, jane eyre, the stand, the dark tower series...
Heroes:
superman