Music, law, reading, writing, science (physics, astronomy, genetics, etc.), movies, sports (namely baseball - Go White Sox! - and football - Go Bears!), philosophy (especially eastern), religion (in a curiosity sense as to how it's so powerful, etc.), cereal, cartoons, learning (I'm a big nerd) and probably a lot of other stuff that I can't really name right now cuz it's late and I'm being put on the spot and I don't deal well with confrontation so stop bugging me alright...ALRIGHT!!!
I'd love to meet everyone...if you can breathe, I want to meet you. And if you can't breathe, I want to meet you too so you can tell me how it is that you're browsing my profile from beyond the grave. If you think we'd get along (or wouldn't get along if conflict is the sort of thing you thrive on) then I'd like to meet you.
There's also a bevy historical figures I'd love to meet, including: Einstein, Heidegger, Rilke, Confucius, Lao Tzu, the Buddha, Chuang Tzu, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Nero, Caesar, Marcus Aurelius, and a lot of other folks of that sort so we could wax philosophical over a few cocktails.
But most of all I'd LOVE to meet this girl:
Lots of punk, indie (rock and pop), hardcore, rock and even some jazz and some (alt)country: Jack's Mannequin, Rise Against, Acceptance, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys, The Shins, Tilly and the Wall, The Decemberists, Kevin Devine, Motion City Soundtrack, Dave Matthews Band, Nightmare of You, The Smiths, Morrissey, Limbeck, The Format, Northstar, Elliott Smith, Modest Mouse, Moneen, Muse, Rocky Votolato, Dashboard Confessional, Panic! At The Disco, New Found Glory, Butch Walker, Marvelous 3, Thrice, Thursday, Say Anything, Fall Out Boy, Everclear, Metallica, The Academy Is..., AFI, The All-American Rejects, old Limp Bizkit, old Korn, The Movielife, My Chemical Romance, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, The Early November, Eisley, The Ataris, Dredg, Every Time I Die, The Get Up Kids, Glassjaw, Reggie and The Full Effect, The Chariot, JamisonParker, Live, Seven Mary Three, Third Eye Blind, Days Away, Counting Crows, Tenacious D, Eminem, Atmosphere, Midtown, Name Taken, No Use For A Name, Danger Doom, Sage Francis, MC Lars, Slowreader, Something Corporate, onelinedrawing, Gratitude, Death Cab For Cutie, The Postal Service, The Cure, Fly Upright Kite, Boys Night Out, Cartel, Our Lady Peace, System of a Down, Funeral For A Friend, The Sound of Animals Fighting, Lovedrug, Zolof the Rock and Roll Destroyer, Gatsbys American Dream, Further Seems Forever, Circa Survive, Copeland, U2, The Who, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Hanson, Saosin, The Spill Canvas, Mest, Goldfinger, The Living End, Showoff, Alkaline Trio, Ivory Wire/Dovetail Joint, Exo, Ben Folds, The Blood Brothers, Empyrean, The Fags, Gym Class Heroes, Head Automatica, UnderOATH, This Day and Age, Smashing Pumpkins, The Bled, Lydia, Mae, Matchbook Romance, mewithoutYOU, Steel Train, Lucky Boys Confusion, Straylight Run, The Hush Sound, Paramore, Bowling for Soup, Pantera, The Starting Line, Relient K, Yellowcard, The Dixie Chicks, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, the guy who wrote the Mr. Belvedere theme song, fuckin a dude, I could seriously go on for days, Saves The Day, Finch, Foo Fighters, Reel Big Fish, RX Bandits, Fenix Tx, Deftones, Rilo Kiley, Sufjan Stevens, Ryan Adams, The Rocket Summer, Northstar, Death Cab For Cutie, hellogoodbye, Less Than Jake, Local H, Coheed and Cambria, Triple Fast Action, MxPx, Jimmy Eat World, Weezer, Screeching Weasel, Incubus, Radiohead and alright I'm tiring of this, but just one more...hmmm...let's see...The Mars Volta. There, I'm done.
The Wizard of Oz, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Clerks (and anything Kevin Smith for that matter), Star Wars, Singing In The Rain, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Cable Guy, Wayne's World, Super Troopers, Anchorman, Dodgeball, Wedding Crashers, Old School, Snakes On A Plane, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Fight Club, American Psycho, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Platoon, Top Gun, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Spaceballs, I Heart Huckabee's and Big Fish.
These will mostly be cartoons: South Park, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Home Movies, The Simpsons, The Family Guy, Futurama, Clerks, Looney Tunes, The Smurfs, Tiny Toon Adventures, Heathcliff, Space Ghost Coast to Coast...that's all the cartoons I gots for now...real shows, ummm Entourage, House, Veronica Mars, Lost, The O.C., Six Feet Under, Studio 60, Scrubs, Seinfeld, 30 Rock, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report.
Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters To A Young Poet, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (yes, the entire trilogy in 5 parts), Hardcore Zen by Brad Warner, anything by Chuck Palahniuk, Brett Easton Ellis or Christopher Moore. Also Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, and many many philosophical works (especially Heidegger's Being and Time and works of Eastern Philosophy like the Tao Te Ching or the Tipitaka), The Lord of the Rings trilogy for sure, The Hobbit as well, and The Chronicles of Narnia. Oh, and comics like The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes.
My number one hero would have to be Homer Simpson.
Followed closely by Andrew McMahon as he's truly inspirational (and as sarcastic as that probably read, I'm completely serious).