I'd like to meet:
- Musicians: drummers, digital audio types, people into HBCU drumlines and marching bands in general. Martial Artists, especially internal types, i.e. xingyi, xinyi, bagua, etc.
Music:
Orishas, Master Musicians of Jajouka, Kodo, Idiot Flesh, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Extra Action Marching Band, Crash Worship, Coil, Critters Buggin(best goddamn band in Seattle), Amon Tobin, Pixies, F-Space, Manu Chao, early industrial, punk rock, Balkan brass, hip-hop, bhangra, taiko, samba, arabic pop, latin pop, dance hall, HBCU drumlines. And of course, TchKunG! and Infernal Noise Brigade.
Movies:
O Brother Where Art Thou, Millers Crossing, Usual Suspects, Matrix Reloaded, Human Traffic, Drumline, Fight Club, Blade Runner, Fist of Legend, Office Space, Waiting for Guffman, Waking Life, Crouching Tiger, True Stories, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, City of God, Underground
Television:
Survivorman, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Ninja Warrior, Heros, Deadwood, Rome, Firefly, South Park, Simsons, Sci-fi and British comedy in general
Books:
Cryptonomicon, Dune, Stranger in a Strange Land, Illuminatus, Cosmic Trigger, Ender's Game, The Art of War
Heroes:
Che Yi Zhai, Guo Yun Shen, Tung Hai Chuan, Keith Olberman, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert!!