Most of em' are dead, but here's my Cosmic Debris of whom I'd like to meet---with way too many left out--MUSICIANS: (to gain insight...and/or hear some groupie stories)Frank Zappa, Tom Waits, Beethoven, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, those Tuvan Throat Singers, Little Walter, Jimmy Page, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Mozart, Son House, Billie Holiday, Joe Strummer, Bono (sure, why not---Sonny and that Irish dude), BB, Freddie, and Albert King, Robert Johnson, Elvis (Presley first, then Costello, back when he was still pissed off) Nicolo Paganini, Les Paul, Leo Fender (I know, not really a musician, per se...), Django Reinhardt, Lester Young, John Coltrane, SRV, Jimmie Vaughan, the folks that play Gambalan music, whoever invented Gregorian Chants, Stravinsky, AC/DC, Michael Hedges, Otis Redding, Otis Rush, O.V. Wright, Etta James, Eddie Floyd, George Clinton, Iggy Pop, Bob Marley, Ali Farke Toure, Pavoratti, Peggy Lee, Memphis Minnie, T-Bone Walker, Nancy Sinatra, her Dad, Danny Elfman, Johhny Cash, Charlie Christian, Sonny Rollins, Janis and Jimi, Bootsy Collins, Johnny Guitar Watson...and a bazillion others, I'm sure...WRITERS: (again, for insight---and groupie stories)...Tom Robbins, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Stephen King, Sylvia Plath, Camille Paglia, Ken Wilber, Robert Heinlein, Terry Pratchett, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Carlos Casteneda, W.H. Auden, William Butler Yeats, Neil Gaiman, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Louis-Ferdinand Celine (not Dion, you fool!), the strange, sad, genious man who wrote "A Confederacy of Dunces", John Kennedy Toole, Katherine Dunn, Hunter S. Thompson---and as you've guessed, a bunch of others...OTHERS WHO HAVE CHANGED THE WORLD A BIT FOR THE BETTER--or at the very least inspire me because they have challenged the status quo in their time:Buddha, Ghandi, Plato, Marco Polo, Barack Obama, Frank Zappa (I know, I already mentioned him), Albert Einstein, that student who stood in front of that tank in China (Tiananman Square, 1989), Jesus, Joseph Campbell, Susan B. Anthony, Martin Luther King, Carrot Top (...just seeing if you are paying attention still---you must have too much time on your hands!), Socrates, Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, JFK, RFK, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, John Lennon, Stephen Hawking, Hugh Hefner (well, in a certain way...), Astronauts, great Teachers, great Lovers, Artists, Poets, Philosophers---you get the idea...and anyone that is NOT BORING!!!!!! ("Pojama People" ring a bell???)