I'd like to meet:
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Music:
Death Cab for Cutie, Elliott Smith, Built to Spill, Doves, Postal Service, Shins, Modest Mouse, Bloc Party, Bob Marley, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Pinback, Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire, Film School, Figurines, I Love You But I've Chosen Darnkess, Maximo Park, Talib, Sufjan Stevens, The Roots, Okkervil River, Wilco, Common, Interpol, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, CSNY, The Beatles, and Diane Keaton singing "Seems Like Old Times" in "Annie Hall".
Movies:
Woody Allen films, Wes Anderson films, I Heart Huckabees, Good Will Hunting, Lost in Translation, the Big Lebowski and, of course, the Karate Kid (the end gets me every time)
Television:
Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiam, Scrubs, 30 Rock, Arrested Development (sniffle), The Office, History Channel, Discovery Channel and almost all sports except hockey
Books:
Recent reads: Black Swan Green by David Mitchell, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (wish I'd have read that one sooner), Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Six Days of War by Michael Oren, Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.