books, music, art (especially modern art), learning about random things, cooking, movies (especially foreign films), traveling, history, making someone's day just a little bit better...
I'd like to meet:
Do these people have to be alive? Hopefully not... Kelly Johnson of Skunk Works, Albert Einstein, Paul Rusesabagina, Simon Weisenthal, Judas Iscariot, Takeshi Kaneshiro, William Wilberforce, Cary Grant, Jackson Pollock, and possible a few others.
Music:
Bloc Party, Gorillaz, Pearl Jam, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Placebo, The Bravery, Death Cab for Cutie, Tom Petty, Orbital, The Chemical Brothers, The Weepies, Bush, David Gray, Caesars, Metro Station, Counting Crows, NERD, Pink Floyd, REM, Frou Frou, The Cure, 30 Seconds to Mars, Taking Back Sunday, Athlete, Linkin Park, The Beach Boys, Flogging Molly, The Eagles, The Postal Service, The Killers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Matthew Good, The Police, Underworld, Keane, and any kind of Bluegrass or Classical...
Movies:
Sunset Blvd, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Love on a Diet, Snatch, Say Anything, Harry Potter, anything by Tim Burton, Shaun of the Dead, Miss Potter, Kinky Boots, Hot Fuzz, Run Lola Run, Amazing Grace, Everything is Illuminated, House of Flying Daggers, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Amelie, Infernal Affairs, Wallace and Gromit, Goodbye Lenin!, Green Street Hooligans, Southern Belles, 300, any Cary Grant or Gene Kelly film...
Television:
Big Bang Theory, Corner Gas, Monk, Passport to Europe, Family Guy, Futurama, anything on the History or Discovery Channels, Extras, Eureka, Gilmore Girls, No Reservations, Psych, Dr Who...
Books:
Oh there are so many... Fahrenheit 451, A Prayer for Owen Meany (although nearly all of John Irving's books are great), Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, The Fountainhead, Memoirs of a Geisha, War and Peace, The Great Gatsby, all books by David Sedaris, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, all of Agatha Christie's Poirot books, A Primate's Memoir, The Fierce People, Where the Wild Things Are, Garden Spells, The Sugar Queen, any book by Bill Bryson, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Moby Dick, any random history book, biographies, etc...
Heroes:
See above where it asks me who I would like to meet, except for Judas Iscariot for obvious reasons.
