I'd like to meet:
Nice people. Jimmy Carter. Hot dudes. An albino.
Music:
Crooked Still, Hakim, Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill,and consequently the Fugees, MC Solaar, Streets, Simon & Garfunkel, Kanye West, OutKast, Cee-lo, India.Arie, CocoRosie and Mr Spleen and all that junk from Emily's car, David Bowie, Jump, Little Children, Led Zeppelin, Ella Fitzgerald, Twista, reggae and reggaeton, I have a strange addiction to "We Be Burnin' " by Sean Paul, some classical, some country, some bluegrass, some white people, blues, Destiny's Child woot woot. even really really bad C-Pop is growing on me. and sometimes i don't feel like banging my head and screaming but sometimes I do. foreign people wailing.
Movies:
Forrest Gump, Y Tu Mama Tambien, I remember I liked Basquiat but only because he's hot, Team America, Willy WAnka, Bend it like Beckham, Rize, Blow, Edward Scissorhands, Don Juan de Marco, Baz Lourman when Im in the mood, Modern Times, documentaries that aren't like about birds and chemistry and stuff. Unless they are having sex.
Television:
hehe...anything crappy. Desperate Housewives, Daily Show, Brazilian teen music video channel, CCTV1's English-language astronomy show, CCTV6 when they play movies I know dubbed in Chinese, Northern Exposure, Cosby Show, Oprah sometimes, Jeopordy. And unfortunately I'm now addicted to Lost. China makes you watch all kinds of shit you never meant to see.
Books:
Toni Morrison, esp. Beloved, Kurt Vonnegut, Every Young (Wo)men's Battle, Jacques Prevert, House on Mango Street, Mockingbird, Catcher, some parts of the Bible etc., Abiyoyo! Tiki Tiki Tembo no Sa Rembo Cheri Beri Ruchi Pip Peri Pembo, John Irving, I want to read Lolita SO BAD, I read some good ones this summer but I forget, I have very sophisticated tastes..hehe
Heroes:
Deepak! and Yushi. Or most Japanese males and Korean females.