I'd like to meet:
I would love to meet Chris Berman so he can create the greatest nickname for my Fantasy Football team … plus his “T.J. you say HoushmandZAYdah, I say HoushmandZAHdah, Eric Sleeping with Bienemy & Steve Kentucky Fried Chitren†gets me every time! Here are some more examples of his work: http://www.funny2.com/berman.htm pure genius!
Music:
Grateful Dead, Phish, Led Zeppelin, Talking Heads, The Velvet Underground, Dylan, Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, The Stones, Beatles, Janis Joplin, Bowie, Ani Difranco, Beth Orton, Neil Young, Stanton Moore, Skerik, Uri Crane, (anything that Ropeadope puts out) Robert Walters, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Funky Meters, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Etta James, Otis Redding, Floyd, Eric Clapton, Nick Drake, Elliot Smith, Jeff Buckley, Tribe Called Quest, DJ Vadim, Mr Scuff, The Herbaliser, (Basically the entire Ninja Tune label), Del the Funky Homosapien, Hieroglyphics , Gift of Gab, Aesop Rock, Peanut Butter Wolf, DJ Shadow, Freestyle Fellowship, People Under the Stairs, Madlib, MMW, MF Doom, RJD2, Talib, Mos Def, Common, Gangstarr, The Wu-Tang, The Duo, De La Soul, Perceptionists and Mr. Lif, The Roots, Quasimoto, Kool Keith, Aceyalone, Kid Koala, Deltron, Beulah, Neutral Milk Hotel, Band of Horses, Damien Rice, Tapes n Tapes, The Islands, Black Keys, Iron & Wine, Flaming Lips, White Stripes, Pinback, Radiohead, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Built to SPill, Calexico, Cat Power, Clem Snide, Sam Prekob...Sea & Cake, Eagle * Seagull, Animal Collective, Smokey & Miho, Horse Stories, Hotel Lights, Ya La Tengo, Fischerspooner, Juan Maclean, The Album Leaf, Alexi Murdoch, the one AM radio, Sigur Ros, Rogue Wave, Wolfmother, Wolf Parade, Fruit Bats, fujiya & miyagi, many, many more
Movies:
The Big Lebowski , Four Rooms, Caddyshack, True Romance, Fear & Loathing, Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive,The Straight story(love the imagery& insanity that David Lynch creates),Slapshot, Office Space , Shawshank Redeption, Memento, Goodfellas, Raising Arizona, Casino, Pulp Fiction, The Aristocrats, Life Aquatic, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket , Royal Tenenbaums, National Lampoon Summer,European, Christmas and Vegas Vacation, Run Lola Run, Carlito’s Way, Scarface, Blow, Groundhog’s Day, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Usual Suspects, Swimming with Sharks, L.A. Confidential, Pulp Fiction, 13 Conversations About One Thing,Squid & the Whale , Reservoir Dogs, Dogtown & Z Boys (Stacy Peralta's incredible documentary not the Hollyood Heath Ledger version), Almost Famous, High Fidelity, Kingpin , Crash, 21 Grams, Bourne Idenity, The Fugutive, Capote, JFK, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich , Adaptation, The Decalogue, 2001, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Shining, Paths of Glory, Me You and & Everyone We Know, Easy Rider,Heat, The Source, Decade under the Influence, Lost in LA MANCHA(so good), Brazil (watch Criterion Collection re-issue of this - they have both versions!) 1984, High & Low, Short Cuts, Harold and Maude, Taxi Driver, Midnight Cowboy, All the President's Men, Magnolia and all films directed by PTA Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, Verdict, Running on Empty, Doctor Shivago, 8 1/2, la strada, nights of cabiria ,la doLce vita, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, M, Everything Christopher Guest (especially Waiting For Guffman )does, Finding Neverland, Talk to Her, THank you For Smoking, The Kid Stays in the Picture, V is for Vendetta, Wild Strawberries, Persona, Floating WEeds,The Rules of the Game, Living in Oblivion, any hitchcock flick, No Country for Old Men, I'm Not There
Television:
Curb Your Enthusiasm , LOST, Law & Order, Family Guy, Big Love, Pardon the Interruption , Conan, Seinfeld, Simpsons (Conan/Hartman era), Project Runway , Inside the Actors Studio, MythBusters, Entourage , Sex and the City (reruns and all), Weeds, Gossip Girl, Tell Me You Love Me
Books:
Rum Diaries, Me Talk Pretty One Day Jitterbug Perfume, Catcher in the Rye, On the ROad, Dharma Bums, Brave New World, The Stand, From Whom the Bell Tolls, Better than Sex, Fear & Loathing, Magical Thinking, Choke, Fight Club, 1984, Emporium, Stiff, American Psycho, Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Naked Lunch, High Fidelity, A long Way Down, Another Bull Shit Night in Suck City, The Partly Cloudy Patriot, oh the Glory of it All, Polaroids of the Dead, Media Monopolies, SEllevision, the BFG, The Fantastik Mr. Fox (Can't wait for the movie), Everything is Illuminated. You Shall Know our Velocity
Heroes:
My parents, my older brother Drew, my Nanny & Poppy, and the Flyers’ all-time leader in wins (232), shutouts (50), and GAA (2.42)- the legendary Bernie Parent