I'd like to meet:
See Hero's Section.
Music:
My 2 favorite radio shows are Morning Becomes Ecclectic & Jonesy's Jukebox. I like lots of artists & bands but here's just a few: Johnny Cash, Beach Boys & Brian Wilson, Eels, Wilco, Ramones, Radiohead, U2, Beck, Eels, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Dead Kennedys, Lucinda Williams, Jimi Hendrix, Josh Rouse, The Who, Sex Pistols, Casey Fallen, Moby, David Bowie, The Mavericks, Los Lobos, Anything on Motown, Anything on the old Blue Note label, Dwight Yokam, Ray Charles, B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Elvis Costello, Echo & the Bunnyman, Jack Johnson, The Pretenders, Patti Smith, X, The Blasters, Chris Isaac, Mazzy Star, Cocteau Twins, Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, The Doors, The The, Ray Charles, Arthea Franklin, Nick Lowe & Rockpile, John Hiatt, Bonnie Raitt, Little Feat, Mary Black, Aimee Mann, Spearhead, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Prefab Sprout, Patsy Kline, The Jam, English Beat, Fiona Apple, Joni Mitchell, Prince, Seal, White Stripes, Neville Brothers, Townes Van Zant, Roy Orbison, Flaming Lips, Foo Fighters, Keb Mo, Tom Petty, The Blasters, The Church, Joe Ely, Matthew Sweet, Steve Wynne & Dream Syndicate, Peter Case & The Plimsouls, Todd Rundgren, ABBA (yep, my guilty pleasure)
Movies:
American Beauty, Godfather 1&2, Harold & Maude, L.A. Confidential, Chinatown, Glory, Lawrence of Arabia, Walk the Line, Local Hero & most John Forsythe, most any thing by the Coens (No Country really got to me but I still love The Big Lubowski - Go Dude!), Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson, John Sayles, Wes Anderson, John Waters, and writer Charlie Kaufman.
Television:
Present: Rescue Me, Desparate Housewives, ER, Arrested Development, Real Time with Bill Maher, Bill Moyers Journal, Big Love, Entourage, Curb your Enthusiam, John Stewart, Steven Corbet, Charley Rose, Tavis Smiley. Past: Sopranos, SCTV, X Files, Homicide: Life on the Street, 6 Feet Under (really miss this one!), Sex in the City, Mary Tyler Moore, Taxi, Monty Python's Flying Circus
Books:
The one I'm writing.
Heroes:
Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Martin Luther King, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, anyone that stands up for what they believe in.