I'd like to meet:

The creative, the curious, the searchers, the wanderers, the iconoclasts, and the stubbornly idiosyncratic.

Music:

Too many to name; these jump to mind:
THE BLUES: Skip James, Robert Johnson, Son House, Blind Willie Johnson, Tommy Johnson, Otha Turner, Charlie Patton, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker
"PUNK": [Class of '77 and Beyond]The Ramones, The Dead Boys, Buzzcocks, Television, Clash, Stiff Little Fingers, The Exploited, X-Ray Spex, Blitz, Crass [????] The Pogues, [Hardcore] Bad Brains, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Bad Religion, Fear, D.I., MDC, Oppressed Logic, Social Distortion, Verbal Abuse, The Germs, Articles of Faith, Minor Threat, The Misfits, 7 Seconds, The Adolescents, Circle Jerks, The Descendants, Youth Brigade, Agent Orange [Third Wave] Pennywise, Propagandhi,[Other Punk] Instant Asshole, Ill Content, Wasted Again
BEST OF THE BEST: TOOL, Rage Against the Machine
Garage Rock: Dead Moon, The Detroit Cobras, The Gits, The Sonics, The Dictators, The Dwarves, Grinderman, Link Wray, The Kingsmen, The Hollies,
POST-PUNK: Joy Division, Gang of Four (some), Fugazi
THA FUNK: James Brown, JBs, Funkadelic, Mothership Connection
SOUL&R&B: BO DIDDLEY, Al Green, Otis Redding, Aretha, The Meters,Curtis Mayfield, Booker T & The MGs
REVIVAL: Sugarmen 3, Lee Fields, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, the Daktaris;
INSANE METAL: Slayer, Wolves in the Throne Room, Light This City
STONER ROCK: Black Sabbath, Acid King, The Melvins, Sleep, Motorhead
HIP HOP: Sage Francis, Blackalicious, Latyrx, Lyrics Born, Jurassic 5, Dead Prez [first album], Anticon Collective shit
[OLD(ER) SCHOOL]: Cypress Hill, Paris, Public Enemy, Tribe Called Quest
THE FOLK: WOODY GUTHRIE, Nick Drake, Leadbelly, Josh White, Bob Dylan, Billy Bragg, Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGee

JOHNNY-Motherfuckin'- CASH
Tom Waits
Hank Williams,SENIOR (The Granddaddy)
FUNKY KINGSTON: Bob Marley & the Wailers, Toots and the Maytals, Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters
NEOPSYCHEDELIA: The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Spiritualized, Dead Meadow, The Warlocks, The High Dials
AFROBEAT: Antibalas, Fela Kuti
JAZZ:John Coltrane, Khalil Al Zabar, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Louis Armstrong
THE PANTHEON: The Velvet Underground, The Stooges!!!, The Doors, MC5, Television, The Who, The Stones, The Beatles;
MASS MUSIC: Soundgarden, Sublime, Jane's Addiction, Nirvana (esp.Bleach), Alice in Chains, Red Hot Chili Peppers (some), Faith No More, NIN, U2 [I know: go to hell!], etc.
80s UNDERGROUND, 90s DARLINGS:The Meat Puppets, Pixies, My Bloody Valentine
KINDA NEW[ER] STUFF: Queens of the Stone Age, White Stripes, Interpol, Secret Machines, And You Will Know Us By The Trail of The Dead, Spiritualized, John Frusciante, Rocket from the Crypt, Murder City Devils, Against Me!, A Perfect Circle, some Elliot Smith, etc.
DRUG MUSIC: ISIS, 13th Floor Elevators, Portishead, Dead Can Dance, Kronos Quartet, Morphine, Sigur Ros, Pink Floyd, Thomas Tallis, Bach, DJ Shadow, Wilco, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Mermen, Mammatus
OTHER: Live amateurs jamming on hallucinogenic mushrooms;
PLAYING MY HARMONICA AND CONGA DRUM

Movies:

Pan's Labyrinth, Waking Life, Donnie Darko, Fight Club, Baraka, early Kevin Smith [Clerks up through Chasing Amy], all movies by Michael Moore, Wes Anderson [The Life Aquatic, The Royal Tenenbaums,Rushmore, Bottle Rocket], Charlie Kaufman, Terry Gilliam [Monty Python, 12 Monkeys, Brazil, etc.], The Cohen Brothers [O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Big Lebowski, Blood Simple, The Hudsucker Proxy, Barton Fink, Blood Simple, Raising Arizona], Jeunet [ Delicatessan, City of Lost Children, Amelie], Tim Burton [Everything], Terry Zwiegoff [Crumb, Ghost World, American Splendor, Bad Santa], and most by Kubrick; Gift, Secretary, Rivers & Tides, Jan Svankmajer's twisted little stop-motion animation films. Many independent, local, and foreign films. Documentaries. A lot of stuff playing at The Red Vic Moviehouse in San Francisco, although sometimes it's a mixed bag.

Television:

I no longer have television, but I like the Daily Show, the Colbert Report, the History Channel, and my Netflix DVDs.
Also: Chappelle's Show, Deadwood, Carnivale, The Simpsons, Strangers With Candy, Reno 911, Upright Citizens Brigade, Mr. Show, Twin Peaks, Public Television, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Northern Exposure, Arrested Development, Educational Shit, Fox News (for a dose of comedy and tragic fiction), Ali G Show, Independent Lens, Frontline

Books:

CURRENTLY READING: Open Up and Bleed:Iggy Pop by Paul Trynka, No Logo by Naomi Klein, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene, and various school books that are my main "entertainment" right now.
Robinson Jeffers;Chuck Palahniuk (Choke, Survivor, Beautiful Monsters, Lullaby, etc.);David Sedaris (Everything), Hunter S. Thompson (Gonzo Papers, Fear & Loathing, Hell's Angels); Clive Barker; Iain Banks (Everything)Michel Foucault; Jonathan Swift;The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King;J.D. Salinger; Edgar Allen Poe, H.P. Lovecraft;JORGE LUIS BORGES; Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Kevin Starr (California History);Gray Brechin; Nietzche; Pablo Neruda;Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Charles Bukowski; and many, many more. I also like Vice Magazine because it offends me and makes me laugh at the same time.

Heroes:

Nonconformists, rebels, idea people, visionaries, storytellers, interesting characters, activists, risk takers, the courageous, global thinkers.Also: Hoboes, Sailors, Pirates, Traveling Bluesmen, Lumberjacks, Bindlestiffs, Gypsies, and Circus Folk. Sorry- no Tinkers or Carnies.