I'd love to have drinks with Jon Stewart. I wish I could meet my brother James at age 45, and my Mom and Dad at 16. I'd love to meet Tina Fey. I think she'd be an exception. I've found it's usually best not to actually meet people you think are cool...cause they are too often not.
Elvis Costello, Lenny Kravitz, the Rolling Stones, Run DMC, Indigo Girls, My Chemical Romance, Marc Broussard, Joe Jackson, Jason Mraz, Blue October, the Beatles, Tenacious D, Sister Hazel, 2 Skinnee J's, Cake, Little Feat, Better Than Ezra, Melissa Etheridge, Bob Seger, Edwin McCain, Prince, Dexter Freebish, Keith Urban, Bruce Springsteen, The Killers, Silvertide...those are at the top.
All Cameron Crowe movies and anything with John Cusack most notably Say Anything. Raising Arizona, Napoleon Dynomite, Gone with the Wind, Old School (actually anything with Will Ferrell), The Royal Tenenbaums (and everything else Wes Anderson), Blues Brothers, The Jerk, Sideways, An Officer and a Gentlemen, Any Farrelly Brothers movie, Animal House, Shrek, the 40 Year Old Virgin.
Right now...Heroes is AWESOME. Too many people know this about me so I'll cop to it...Guiding Light. Also...SNL, the Daily Show, the Colbert Report, How I Met Your Mother, Family Guy, Entourage, Grey's Anatomy, the Office and I've been known to get a little into American Idol, Top Chef and Project Runway.
I haven't read anything worth recommending in awhile...the last one I really enjoyed was Lamb by Christopher Moore.
It's pretty simple really, people who sacrifice their time to make the world a better place. Oh, and Bebop Hobel.