I'd like to meet:
Anyone I can converse with.
Music:
Principally these days my own. God what a struggle! Writing songs? Dead easy. A smidgin of inspiration then the usual blood sweat and tears and you're there. But learning the software, how to use it, what's best for what? That's what's giving me trouble at the moment.
Movies:
Bladerunner do you like our owl? I catually like the forst one better, it's more noir, The Fifth Element because it's a roller-coaster from start to finish, Meet me in St Louis, I love the family scenes in it, that's Christmas in the Nexus for me...
Television:
Where do we begin? Id like to say straight away that Buffy and Farscape rank with me as being genius-level television. Drama is what I'm moved by, these series were so touching. I'll have to fill this segment in as we go - Parker Lewis seems to have been the best ground-breaking comedy ever and I see echos of it everywhere these days. Friends has, er, "so" changed the way we all speak these days... Life on Mars was interesting because of the dual-reality aspects, I kept waiting for Roy Brocksmith to walk in and tell Sam Tyler that he was still in a chair back at Recall... I remember Roy Brocksmith when he was in Garry Shandling's Condo, there's great comedy from The Gar and Larry Sanders too, great stuff... Bilko was classic comedy, can't speak about it too highly, they knew how to do pace in those days, speaking of pace the best show ever for pace was, when it was on form, Car 54 Where Are You? Toody and Muldoon, speaking of Muldoon, watch Fred Gwynne in the Munsters, see how he makes himself comic despite his size and make-up by his mannerisms "Now Lily" and he guffaws and waves his arms around... every big guy seems to steal his licks, Frasier, with Kelsey Grammer waving his arms around helplessly in exactly the same manner - did he get this from Gwynne? I have a huge site about Star Trek TNG over at www.kruse.demon.co.uk/index.htm you might like ot look at, one of the world's biggest, I love the shows obviously but they blew it big-time with Enterprise which really overdid the milking the franchise thing, the TOS shows weren't actually about outer space, they really explored inner space which premise Enterprise completely abandoned,to the detriment of the franchise as a whole, it's interesting that they're having to bring back Kirk from being dead to resurrect not just the franchise but himself also... TNG was a great show but in different ways - I preferred Beverly, by the way - DS9 was Casablanca in space but had some classic moments between Quark and Odo, Voyager had some good science fiction - remember the one with the clown? - but Enterprise just lost it. I regarded Enterprise as the Berman/Braga pension fund, nothing to do with the original ethos at all. Before we get off ST altogether, can I just say that I thought Brent Spiner as Data got a lot of his licks from Stan Laurel? Watch Data being unhappy, then picture him in a bowler hat... see it? Gene Roddenberry, the Great Bird of the Galaxy...
Books:
Travis McGees, I have all of them, John D MacDonald obviously, Philp Kindred Dick, Larry Niven,
Heroes:
Cream, Hendrix, Zeppelin, Beatles, Kirby, Lee, Ditko, Steranko and the rest of the Bullpen - all of whom I'd like to thank for my youth :-)