I'd like to meet:
teachers
Music:
Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Alice Smith, Dezarie, soulful house music until my ears bleed, Barbara Tucker, Sara Devine, Osunlade, MKL, Carolina Soares, Tortured Soul, anything on R2 Records, Haale, Radiohead, Sundays, Luscious Jackson, Jeff Buckley, Bill Withers, Steely Dan, The Gap Band *and* the Dazz Band, Chaka Kahn, Herbie Hancock, Sa-ra, Wayne Shorter, Zero 7, The Roots, Cocteau Twins, Michael Jackson, Thievery Corporation, Ledisi, Mary J. Blige, Mos Def, Shuggie Otis, Tribe Called Quest, Platinum Pied Pipers, Postal Service, Soundgarden, Outkast, Michael McDonald (ssh!), Stevie Wonder, Morphine, Sade, Tosca, Superhoney, Prince, Rufus Wainwright, Freddie Hubbard, K-os, Cinematic Orchestra, Jill Scott, Amel Larrieux, Wilco, Air, Bebel Gilberto, Portishead, Joao Gilberto and Stan Getz, Buena Vista Social Club, Marvin Gaye, The Avalanches, Elliott Smith, Esthero, etc. etc.
Movies:
Favela Rising, Water, Stealing Beauty, Planet Earth, Rushmore, Secretary, any Christopher Guest movie, Kama Sutra, You Me and Everyone We Know, I Heart Huckabees, Wattstax, Afro Samurai, most Woody Allen movies, Amelie, Lost in Translation, Samurai Champloo
Books:
Care of the Soul, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Shantaram, The Road Less Traveled, Care of the Soul, Jeanette Winterson, Nadine Gordimer, JM Coetzee, Pema Chodron, Thich Nhat Hanh, Isabelle Allende, Tricycle Magazine, David Sedaris, health, yoga, art, music
Heroes:
parents and teachers and seekers and dancers