Sex (both intimate and debased), women, Denny, Embezzlement, Blackmail, Extortion, cynicism, sarcasm, materialism, city life, little people, escort services
Myself as a child, to warn him about what's to come. I'd also like to meet myself in 20 years, just to make sure I'm still alive. Besides the mandatory literary and historical figures I would love to question, I also wouldn't mind meeting this God character, if he exists, to argue my way into Heaven, should it exist. Of course, I have a feeling that all the fun people are currently in Hell. Besides I hear there is an icy region of Hell that can't possibly be worse the Boston in the winter.
Silence of the Lambs is the last one I saw, and I recall being strangely encouraged by Hannibal Lecter.
I don't get much time to watch tv, outside of CNN or MSNBC, the local news, and of course, Larry King (but only when Denny finds his way onto the program)
Candide, The Prince, Paradise Lost, The Count of Monte Cristo, The End of the Affair, Leviathan, The Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ
I don't like the idea of hereos. Why would one choose to essentially worship another imperfect human, just to force themselves into a moral and social pattern they can hardly live up to? While I hardly believe in the divine, I can see a sort of imperfect perfection in the human animal, that strives against the nihilism that is waiting around the corner. My advice, just "emulate" yourself...or me. I wouldn't mind being someone's hero, but I would hardly advise it.