I'd like to meet:
Prince Bandar, Phillip Roth, Thomas Friedman, Nancy Pelosi, and Pauli Shore.
Music:
Alright, here directly from the IPod: 10 Years, 36 Crazyfists, A Life Once Lost, A Man Called Adam, A.R. Rahman, Aesop Rock, Air, Alex Gopher, Anita O'Day, Arch Enemy, As I Lay Dying, RJD2, Audioslave, Avenged Sevenfold, Badly Drawn Boy, Basement Jaxx, BBG, Beck, Ben Ono, Bent, Bjork, Black Label Society, Bloodsimple, Boards of Canada, Bronze Nazareth, Bullet For My Valentine, Bush, Caesars, Cafe Del Mar, Cee Lo, Chemical Brothers, Chris Cornell, Coldplay, Common, Counting Crows, Cracker, Crystal Method, Daft Punk, Dan the Automator, Daydream in Blue, The Decemberists, Deep Dish, Deftones, Del tha Funky Homosapien/Deltron, Dispatch,DJ Danger Mouse, Dropkick Murphys, Dungeon Family, Eminem, Filter, Fatboy Slim, Fatlip, The Future Sound of London, G. Love, George Thorogood, Gnarls Barkley, Gomez, Goody Mob, Gorillaz, Guy Clark, Hammock, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Hank Williams Jr., Hatebreed, Hugh Masekela, Iron & Wine, Jack Johson, Jet, John Prine, Johnny Cash, Kanye West, The Killers, Lamb, Lamb of God, Leftfield, Massive Attack, Modest Mouse, Mocean Worker, Molemen, Morcheeba, Nightmares on Wax, Nirvana, Pantera, Pharcyde, Pearl Jam, The Pixies, The Postal Service, Primus, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Rob Zombie, Rodney Atkins, The Roots, Royksopp, St. Etienne, Shadows Fall, The Shins, Smashing Pumpkins, Sneaker Pimps, Sparklehorse, Stone Temple Pilots, The Streets, System of a Down, Taj Mahal, Thievery Corporation, This Will Destroy You, Tokyo Police Club, Tool, Toots and the Maytals, U2, Underworld, White Zombie, The Whitest Boy Alive, Willie Nelson, Wu-Tang, Zero 7.
Books:
Recently: The Coming Generational Storm, Bourne Ultimatum, Freedom Evolves, The Green Hills of Africa.
Heroes:
Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, Hermann Hesse, Marcel Duchamp.