I'd like to meet:
Thom Hartmann, Howard Dean, Charles Bronson (RIP), Michael Moore, Future Sen. Al Franken (D-MN), Angus Young, the Clintons (Bill, Hillary and, of course, George), the Dickens, my wife's boyfriend's other girlfriend, FDR, Sen. Russ Feingold, Sen. John Edwards, Columbo (or Peter Falk, depending on how realistic we're getting), Hugo Chavez (before he goes all "Fidel"), Andrés Manuel López Obrador (before he goes all "Hugo"), Rep. John Conyers, Bobby Kennedy Jr., Richard Nixon (seriously, "Dubya" makes him look like more of a winner every day), Jeebus, Tom Jones, Adam West, The Ghost of Rick James, Bitch! ...
What I'll Be Like as an Old Man:
Music:
In no particular order: Q and not U, Fugazi, Bloc Party, Sonic Youth, Astor Piazzola, Firebird Band, Karate, Hot Water Music, Refused, At the Drive-In, Hella, AC/DC, ... And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Faraquet, GWAR, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Braid, Miles Davis, Modest Mouse, Ween, Arcade Fire, Fats Waller, The Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, The Vibrators, Buzzcocks, The Sea and Cake, Small Brown Bike, Aloha, Rahim, American Analog Set, The Clash, Paco de Lucia, Outkast, Scarub, Black Sabbath, John Cage, Dr. Octagon, Thelonius Monk, MC5, The Car Is On Fire ↓
Movies:
In a very particular, but non-sequential order: Harold & Maude, Dr. Strangelove, The Road Warrior, Office Space, Batman: The Movie (1966), Full Metal Jacket, The Big Lebowski, Rushmore, In Like Flint, Our Man Flint, A Clockwork Orange, Any Movie About Grifting, Indiana Jonses 1 & 3, Nosferatu, Debbie Does Dallas, Austin Powers, Anything by Michael Moore, Oceans Eleven, Sideways, Some Came Running, Philadelphia Story, Touch of Evil, Phallus in Wonderland, Goodfellas, Scarface, Lost in Translation, The Pick of Destiny, Little Miss Sunshine, Shaun of the Dead, I'm assuming I'll like The Simpsons Movie↓
Television:
Twin Peaks, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Seinfeld, The Office(s), Top Chef, Forensic Files, Countdown w/ Keith Olberman, The Daily Show, Arrested Development, Colbert Report, Law & Order, CSI, British Parliament on C-SPAN ("Hear, hear!"), anything else on C-SPAN(s), Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Lil' Bush ↓
Books:
I wish someone would wake up every morning and make me a book of all the interesting news and liberal blogs of the day!
Heroes:
Eugene Victor Debs , Simón BolÃvar (well, I wouldn't really call them my heroes, but they're pretty kick-ass)