I'd like to meet:
Jesus Christ. Albert Einstein. And Princess Diana of Wales. Along with Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters.
Music:
The Cars, Junior Boys, Zoot Woman, Ullrich Schnauss, The Dead Texan, Stars of the Lid, M83, French Kicks, The Concretes, Sander Kleinenberg, Danny Howells, Ivy, Paco, Brookville, Bonnie Tyler, Dolly Parton, R.E.M., Serge Gainsbourg, Basement Jaxx, Stereolab, Stereo Total, I Am the World Trade Center, Postal Service, Air Miami, Slowdive, Belle & Sebastian, FCS North, IQU, U.S.E., Interpol, Kings of Convience, Erland Oye, Leftfield, Smith & Mighty, Rufus Wainwright . . . I could go on
Movies:
Blood of a Poet, Safe, Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, My Own Private Idaho, L'Avventura, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie, L'Age D'Or, Rushmore, Alien, Princess Mononoke, Orpheus, Testament of Orpheus, Jules and Jim, Until the End of the World, Flirting with Disaster, American Splendor, The Big Lebowski, Blue Velvet, Breathless, Chuck & Buck, The City of Lost Children, Crash, Naked Lunch, Ghost in the Shell, Drugstore Cowboy, The Doom Generation, Nowhere, Totally Fucked Up, Dr. Strangelove, Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, The Grifters, and um . . . a lot more.
Television:
The Daily Show, Buffy, Arrested Development, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, America's Next Top Model, Sex and the City, Six Feet Under, Mary Tyler Moore, Angel, Law & Order: SVU, Alias, Dawson's, Felicity, Gilmore Girls
Books:
The Magus, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Le Livre Blanc, Nude Men, Number9Dream, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Song of Fire and Ice Series, The Collector, Dance Dance Dance, Norwegian Wood, A Wild Sheep Chase, Ghostwritten, The Man Who Was Thursday, and tons more. I just got Cloud Atlas today and I'm sure I'll be able to add it to the list.