I'd like to meet:
Sting would be another person who's a hero. The music he's created over the years, I don't really listen to it, but the fact that he's making it, I respect that.
Music:
The Pernice Brothers, Piero Umiliani, gamelan orchestras, Gordon Lightfoot, Luna, Flaming Lips, Flaming Groovies, Love, Michel Legrand, Os Mutantes, Magnetic Fields, Enoch Light, Vinnie Bell, Claudine Longet, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Pere Ubu, Sigur Ros, Hope Sandoval, Belle & Sebastian, Jimmy Webb, Neil Young, Jonathan Richman, Dionne Warwick, Howard Tate, Tom Ze, the Shaggs, Thee Headcoats, Neutral Milk Hotel, Cole Porter, Pizzicato Five, Yo La Tengo, Nick Cave, Dirty Three, Replacements, Burt Bacharach, The Shins, Madness, Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66, Paul Williams, Billy Childish, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, The Association, Stereolab, Stereo Total, Bongwater, Built To Spill, Pavement, Jawbreaker, Versus, Tom Waits, Tindersticks, Lambchop, Television Personalities, The Mekons, Gang of Four, Heavenly, St. Etienne, Cat Power, Astrud Gilberto, Elvis Presley
Movies:
The Conversation, Rosemary's Baby, Blue Velvet, Buffalo 66, The Brothers Quay, 8 1/2, Playtime, After the Fox, the World of Henry Orient, Ghost World, Naked, Heavenly Creatures, Band Of Outsiders, L'Avventura, Annie Hall, Magnolia, Happiness, Short Cuts, Down By Law, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, What Time Is It There?, The Ice Storm, Notorious, Orlando, Secrets and Lies, Sweet Smell of Success
Television:
The Office, Freaks and Geeks, Strangers With Candy, Get A Life, Project Runway, The Larry Sanders Show, SCTV, Sex and the City
Books:
Nick Hornby, Dave Eggers, Nick Toches, John Irving, Tom Wolfe, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Flannery O'Connor, John Kennedy Toole, John Irving, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon
Heroes:
George Orwell