I'd like to meet:
Though it's not possible at this time, I'd like to meet my grandparents all over again. I now know I never asked them enough questions while they were still here. HOT
Music:
I could tell you my favorite bands but I'd rather take this time to bring attention to a major issue: the dying art of the mixed tape.
Movies:
Henry Fool, Lost Boys of Sudan, Chopper, Sexy Beast, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Daytrippers, Nightmare Before Christmas, Buffalo 66, The United States of Leland, My Life to Live, City of God
Books:
Any contemporary poetry by Hass, Komunyakaa, Howe, Gilbert, Hamill, Levine, Li-Young-Lee, Larkin, Fay-LeBlanc, Rilke, or Roethke. Novels and Non Fiction -The Year of Magical Thinking, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay, Everything Changes, Sepharad, East of Eden.
Heroes:
Not specific people, but locations: North C Street and the local VFW in Sacto, CA and this quaint metropark in Toledo, Ohio.