How much time do you have? Let's see... languages (including German and Chinese), linguistics, pottery, sculpture, art history, anthropology, SCUBA, guitar, travel, watching Looney Toons and meeting cool people
I would like to meet people who are open-minded, compassionate, kind, respectful, have a good sense of humor and can make me laugh. The person I would like to meet most would be the Dalai Lama. I think he has a good laugh. Dream destination: Tibet. Next best thing: northern India and Nepal. Other people I'd like to meet: Tom Waits, Peter Murphy, Peter Gabriel, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, all the Beatles, Maya Angelou and Janis Joplin. I want to meet Kofi Annan, Madeline Albright and Henry Kissenger. I am interested in meeting friends only.
music... all kinds. Music makes me happy. I like the Chieftans, Cranberries, Tom Waits, Dead Can Dance, Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, REM, Husker Du, Nick Cave, the Waterboys, Bob Dylan, the Cranberries, CCR, Sade, the Buzzcocks, Elvis Costello, Everything But the Girl, John Coltrane, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, the Cure, the Replacements, the Clash ("the only band that matters" -- Rolling Stone), the Stones, etc, etc, etc. Do I have to mention them all? That would be hard. Music and language are in the same part of the brain, and language is like music to me. I like listening to people speak in languages I don't know -- less stressful and easier to pick up on the rhythm.
"Burning Dreams" at the Hawaii International Film Festival, Jim Jarmusch films -- "Down by Law" and "Night on Earth", "Coffee and Cigarettes," all the Cohen Brothers movies, especially "The Big Lebowski", "Dr. Strangelove", "Brazil", "Harold and Maude", "American Beauty", "Delicatessen", "I love Huckabees", "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure", "Dr. Strangelove", "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", "The Crow", "The Magdalene Sisters"
It usually sits in the living room gathering dust, but I like the Iron Chef, Seinfeld, the news and stuff on the Discovery channel
"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "Memoirs of a Geisha", "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera, "Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse. "The Bone Woman" by Clea Koff. Welcome suggestions...
The Dalai Lama, Paolo Freiere, George Lakoff, Maya Angelou, Buddha, my uncle TJ, my grandfathers, many of my other interesting family members