I'd like to meet:
travel junkies, vinophiles, Epicureans, hedonists, existentialists, tastemakers, culture cognoscenti, MMA fans....
Music:
acid jazz,lounge and big band jazz,soul,R&B,hiphop, classical,new age,the funky disco tunes of Ms. Minogue, opera,Latin, middle eastern,The White Stripes,Sum 41,Fall Out Boy,Green Day,Avril Lavigne,Radiohead,Matthew Good Band,OLP & Billy Talent,The Cure,U2,Bif Naked, heryl Crowe,Alicia Keys,Kanye West,Nirvana, NIN,Gorillaz,Black-eyed Peas, PRINCE! Digable Planets, The Buena Vista Social Club,Etta James,The Killers,Fiona Apple, Jade McNelis, We Are The Take, THE PINKER TONES, I could go on forever....so in other words, my musical taste covers the whole spectrum, really.
Movies:
Audrey Hepburn movies, Humphrey Bogart movies, the old Bond movies (a la Sean Connery and even Roger Moore), The Lord of the Rings (all three), The Matrix, Babe, Kill Bill, Legally Blonde, Fast and Furious, Bad Boys 1&2, The Ring, Moulin Rouge, A Muppet Christmas Carol, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Finding Nemo, The Star Wars Episodes 4-6, Hero, The Sweetest Thing, The Last Samurai, Shaun of the Dead (Hilarious!), In Good Company, Sideways, A History of Violence, Appleseed, Pulp Fiction, Pan's Labyrinth
Television:
The Family Guy, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Myth Busters, MuchMusic, The Simpsons, CSI (Vegas and Miami), The Ultimate Fighter, 24, LOST, Ugly Betty, Pushing Daisies and anything on Discovery Channel.
Books:
I enjoy flipping through the pages of In Style magazine as well as the quarterly magazines that come out of the LCBO, you know, Food&Drink. They are awesome for cocktail party recipes and beverage pairings. I've also got a subscription to Dog Fancy, Canadian House and Home magazine and the annual SpaFinder. But my all time favourite reads are Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Lady Oracle, Robber Bride, The Stone Angel, Ender's Game, The World According to Garp, Cat's Eye, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, JRR Tolkien books, The English Patient, King Lear, Animal Farm, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Of Love and Other Demons, Catch 22, CX and NUMB magazine, The Lovely Bones.
Heroes:
Pierre Trudeau, my fiance(who kills bugs and opens sealed jars for me), Madonna and to some degree my co-worker Mary who inspires me to take on new challenges on a daily basis