I'd like to meet:
They're mostly dead already. There's goes that idea...
Music:
Anything with spirit and integrity!!! So rare these days... Retrograde need not apply.
Movies:
If I was trapped on a deserted island for the rest of my life these are the films I would like to have with me (in no specific order and subject to change without notice):Raging Bull, The Graduate, Contempt, Viridiana, 8 1/2, Once Upon a Time in America, The Seventh Seal or Persona, Branded to Kill, Andre Rublev, Chinatown, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Fargo.But it would have to be similar to the island Gilligan and the Skipper lived on because I would need some kind of electrical outlet made out of coconut shells to plug my DVD player and projector into...
Books:
Depends on what's carelessly lying on the floor next to my bed and how smart I'm feeling at that given moment.
Heroes:
Jesus Christ, Ernest Hemingway, Jackson Pollock, Skip James, Eric Dolphy, Soren Kierkegaard, Jean-Luc Godard, Stu Ungar, Luis Bunuel, Mark Twain, Carl Jung, Raymond Carver, John Coltrane, William Eggleston, Leonard Cohen, Martin Scorsese, Daniel Johnston, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Tennessee Williams, Federico Fellini, Nikola Tesla, Ingmar Bergman, Django Reinhardt, Jack Kerouac (though self-conscious about it being cliche'), Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Robert Crumb, Woody Allen, Hank Williams Sr., Edward Hopper, Nietzche, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Charles Mingus, Plato, Anton Chekov, Ben Gibbard, Andrei Tarkovsky, Pablo Picasso, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the list goes on-an-on... Oh, yeah, James Joyce would be my hero too if I had enough time and was smart enough to understand Finnegan's Wake?