I'd like to meet:
RFK Jr., Eduardo Galeano, Rickey Henderson, Barack Obama
Music:
live music!
Movies:
I (Heart) Huckabees, Fight Club, Sling Blade, Goodfellas, Easy Rider, Babe, Babe II: Pig in the City
Television:
Anything narrated by David Attenborough, The Simpsons, Family Guy....A's Games when they're on. There's this thing called "Sunrise Earth" that was pretty amazing.
Books:
The Prophet. Stephen King's DARK TOWER series. Anything by Herman Hesse, Douglas Adams. Confessions of an Economic Hitman, Dune series, The Golden Compass series, "Intimate Politics"
Heroes:
Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lennon, Dennis Kucinich, Paul Wellstone, Patrick Williams, Steve Gliessman, Wangari Maathai, Dad, Mom, Grandma, Grandpa. Used to be Rickey Henderson but come on, in these crucial times we need to give of ourselves a bit more. Heroes of mine inlude Einstein and Richard Feynman, who pursue their passions but also enjoy their lives, and acknowledge the vast majority of existence that is unknowable, and yet pursue Truth