I'd like to meet:
Nice people.
Music:
My top 5 would have to be: Arrogant (have to indulge myself,) The Beatles, Old 97's, Rancid (wow this is hard) & They Might Be Giants. However, the following are close 6ths: Wilco, Stretch (Provo, UT), Weezer, Violent Femmes, Catch 22, The Slackers, Streetlight Manifesto, The Samples, The Impossibles (Austin, TX), Bouncing Souls, Less Than Jake, Hot Hot Heat, Barenaked Ladies, The Ramones, Matthew Sweet, The Dead Milkmen, Dance Hall Crashers, The Trigger Locks, Whiskeytown / Ryan Adams, Slowreader, Toad the Wet Sprocket, The Corleones, Pedro the Lion, Ashtray Babyhead / The Kicks, Bad Religion, Ben Folds & Five, Todd Snider, John Prine, David Wilcox, Christine Lavin, Elvis Costello, Face to Face, The Specials, Jimmy Eat World, The Mother Hips, Ozomatli, The Killers, The Strokes, The Refreshments, Rocket From the Crypt, Reggie & the Full Effect, Scrimmage Heroes, Sublime, The Get Up Kids, The Pulsars, The Juliana Theory, Toy Dolls, outside of this list it's pretty much: ska, alt-country, limited folk, punk rock, oldies (50's, 60's, 80's, 90's.)
Movies:
Shawshank Redemption, High Fidelity, Rudy, Amelie, The Incredibles, North by Northwest, Rushmore, The Fugitive, Amor es perros, Being John Malkovich...
Television:
Lost is soooo good, Scrubs, The Office (BBC), Survivor, Independent Lens, Austin City Limits...
Books:
Harry Potters, Catch 22, The Old Man and the Sea, Where the Red Fern Grows, James and the Giant Peach, Of Mice & Men, Both Robert Langdon's...
Heroes:
My Family, Tim Armstrong, Rory Phillips, Tomas Kanolky, The Coen Brothers, Stephen Sondheim, Stormy Shepherd, Probably some other people.