Science fiction, books, television, film, music, travel, comics, writing, DRAGON*CON Labor Day Weekend, JUMPCON.
Lessee, I've already met personal faves Harlan Ellison, George Romero, Kate Jackson, Neil Gaiman, Mako, Louis Gossett, Jr., LeVar Burton, Mitch Albom, Bruce Campbell, Ted Raimi, Julie Benz, Summer Glau, and Chase Masterson. Who's left? Chris Gardner, Barack and Michelle Obama, Ray Kurzweil, Tony Geary, George Lucas, David McCallum, Sarah McLachlan, Seal, Mick Jagger, Wentworth Miller, Stan Lee, Tavis Smiley, Jodie Foster, Jaime Lee Curtis, Cormac McCarthy, Angelina Jolie, Jeff Daniels, John Singleton, Stephen Hawking, Condi Rice, Yancy Butler, and Elisabeth Sladen.
Literally all kinds. Well, not real crazy about polka or ice cream truck music, but I like just about everything else.
My favorites: The Maltese Falcon, North by Northwest, Romancing the Stone, Memento, Contact, The Descent, Children of Men, Black Widow, The Abyss, Crash, Sunshine, Labyrinth, Mostly Martha, Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly, The Pursuit of Happyness, Groundhog Day, Ghost, The Reincarnation of Peter Proud, Kill Bill, Amelie, The Ring, The Empire Strikes Back, Yesterday Was a Lie, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, The Constant Gardener, Once, Blue Steel, Below, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Layer Cake, Ladyhawke, Back to the Future, Juno, I Am Legend, Dead Again, Jurassic Park, Run Lola Run, Renaissance, Bulworth, The Lake House, The Quiet Earth, Pitch Black, Closer, The Butterfly Effect, Ponette, Pleasantville, Inside Man, Maria Full of Grace, Say Anything, Sling Blade, The Breakfast Club, Highlander, Serenity, The Fifth Element, Spirited Away, The Man from Earth, March of the Penguins, Michael Clayton, Atonement, The Great Debaters, Under the Same Moon, Iron Man
Classic Star Trek, Stargate SG-1, Battlestar Galactica (new), Lost, Alias, Medium, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Doctor Who, Grey's Anatomy, Smallville, Heroes, Journeyman, General Hospital, Torchwood, The 4400, Judge Mathis, 24, Veronica Mars, Supernatural, House, Meerkat Manor, Jericho, The Tribe, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Pushing Daisies, Dexter, news networks, CSI: THE ORIGINAL!
Replay by Ken Grimwood, Night by Elie Wiesel, Contact by Carl Sagan, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Dune by Frank Herbert, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, Mefisto in Onyx by Harlan Ellison, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, American Gods by Neil Gaiman, Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer, The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow, One by Richard Bach
John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, Alexander Dumas, Gene Roddenberry