Winning the lottery and moving to the Bay Area where I can start my own magazine/newspaper. Or at least meeting someone well-financed who can help me do the same.Aside from that: --writing --music (listening and performing) --all things paranormal --weather --home improvement --movies --good conversation --Anything nautical or of pirate lore --Serial killers and criminal sociology --pornography (I'm a big voyeur) --seeing the world right its sinking ship
Too many people to name...but people I'd love to have a good conversation with include John Stewart, Michael Moore, Barack Obama, Kevin Spacey, Kim Deal, Rudy Guliani, Omar Minaya, Jose Reyes, David Wright, Cameron Crowe, John Cusack, Maya Angelou, Matt Skiba, Kevin Smith, Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson.
Again, too many to name, but among my favorites: Alkaline Trio, Motion City Soundtrack, The Descendents, Bad Religion, 311, The Ramones, NOFX, The Queers, Saves the Day, Less than Jake, The Pixies, Duran Duran, Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, Yellowcard, Weezer, The Rentals, Nerf Herder, Operation Ivy and Jets to Brazil.
Top 20: 1. Say Anything 2. The Usual Suspects 3. Pulp Fiction 4. Citizen Kane 5. Fargo 6. Super Troopers 7. Reservoir Dogs 8. Big Fish 9. The Dinner Game 10. Zodiac 11. American Beauty 12. The Shipping News 13. Irma La Deuce 14. Almost Famous 15. Clerks 16. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi 17. Breakfast at Tiffany's 18. Saving Private Ryan 19. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 20. Kill Bill (both volumes)
Any New York Mets game I can catch; Ghost Hunters; Scrubs; Family Guy; Futurama; Squidbillies; Harvey Birdman; Sealab 2021; Robot Chicken; Deadliest Catch; Storm Stories; Wild Boyz and Jackass.
The Zodiac Perks of Being a Wallflower Helter Skelter And the Sea Will Tell American Psycho Sex, Lies and Politics (Larry Flynt) America (John Stewart) To Kill a Mockingbird The Preacher books
Regina Lafay; Mike Royko; Jackie Robinson; Larry Flynt; Dawn Turner; Robert Downey Jr.; Matt Skiba; Michael Moore; Nathan and the rest of the Bowerbanks; Scott and Joanna Kimberlain (if there's anyone I can say has survived more crap than me, it's these two); Edward R. Murrow; and many others