I'd like to meet:
Babu
Music:
Right now: Television, AC/DC, Fitz of Depression, Feedtime, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Junior Murvin, Blondie, Seaweed, Duke Ellington,Curtis Mayfield, 10 Volt Shock, LCD Soundsystem, couple rockabilly, reggae and ska comps
Movies:
Pee Wee's Big Adventure, This is Spinal Tap, The 400 Blows, Evil Dead 2, Down By Law, Out of the Past, Seven Samurai, Dolemite, Bottle Rocket, It's a Wonderful Life (from the part when Jimmy Stewart turns into a dick on), The Wild Bunch, Don, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Spider Baby, White Lightning, Thunder Road, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Riffifi, Breathless, Planet of the Apes (the real one), Night of the Living Dead, Return of the Living Dead, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Vertigo, Repo Man, Raising Arizona, Rushmore, Conan the Barbarian, Companeros, Night of the Hunter, Cape Fear, just about anything with Samurais, zombies or pimps. Kung fu, 70s action, stuff that Tarantino ripped off, about anything with Burt Reynolds, Jimmy Stewart, Jerry Lewis/Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum or Rudy Ray Moore. The Bride of Frankenstein, or any old Universal or Hammer horror stuff. I don't think I've ever been let down by Kurosawa, Herzog or Wes Anderson. Aw hell, I'll watch about anything that looks like there's some sort of life and vision behind it and goes easy on the corny-looking CGI.
Television:
Ace of Cakes
Books:
In the pile - Phil Lynott: The Rocker, Among the Thugs, Up for Grabs: A Trip through Time and Space in the Sunshine State, Son of the Rough South: An Uncivil Memoir In the bathroom - The Essential Tomb of Dracula #2, The Essential Monster of Frankenstein #1
Heroes:
Neil Armstrong, Ben Franklin, Charles M. Schulz, my grandparents. There's lots of famous people I admire, but the more you find out about them, the more you realize what dickheads they were in real life. I mean, how did they get to be famous in the first place? Usually by screwing over their family and friends. So I guess I'll just keep it simple.