I'd like to meet:
"Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear." (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Music:
The Smiths, New Order, Coldplay, Chuck Carrier, Jann Arden, Sarah McLachlan, Fleetwood Mac, Everything But The Girl, Joan Armatrading, Counting Crows, Pat Benatar, U2, Sugarland, Dixie Chicks, Jamaroqui, Matt Kearney, Violent Femmes
Movies:
Shawshank Redemption, Citizen Kane, All Pedro Almodovar films (Volver, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother & Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down, being the best), Primal Fear, Good Will Hunting, Mystic River, Silence of the Lambs, Be Cool, Kill Bill, Gattaca, Upside of Anger, Boogie Nights, Bourne Identity and Supremacy and Ultimatum
Television:
The Tudors, Weeds, Project Runway, Top Chef, Boston Legal, College Football Game Day, Around the Horn (ESPN), Pardon the Interruption (ESPN), Saturday College Football games.
Books:
The Tao of Pooh, Interpreter of Maladies, Love in the Time of Cholera, Bastard Out of Carolina, Bonesetter's Daughter, A Day In September, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Crime and Punishment, Macbeth, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity, The Namesake
Heroes:
Ataturk, Elizabeth I, Lao Tsu, Winston Churchill, Grethe Cammermeyer, my friends.