I'd like to meet:
Thoughtful people interested in genuine progress; books, music, food, film and travel related to the previous four
Music:
Tom Waits Chocolate Jesus
..Warren Haynes, Asleep at the Wheel, Grateful Dead, Bruce Hornsby, Traffic / Winwood, Tower of Power, Little Charlie and the Nightcats, DMB, Robert Cray, Jamie Cullum, The Blasters, Etta James, Popa Chubby, Victor Wooten, Neil Young, Allman Brothers, Joan Sutherland, Bela Fleck, Janis Joplin, Charles Mingus, James Taylor, Robert Randolph, Sting, Sarah Vaughn, Rolling Stones, Genesis, Ronnie Lane, Paolo Nutini, James Brown, Willie Dixon, Joni Mitchell, Edgar Meyer, Cold Blood, Marc Cohn, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Widespread Panic, Ray Charles, Annie Lennox, Tony Bennett
Movies:
Monty Python The Holy Grail Killer Rabbit
..Harold and Maude, Wings of Desire, Life of Brian, The Spanish Prisoner, all Coen Brothers - especially The Big Lebowski, Blue Velvet, Blazing Saddles, Summer of Sam, Big Fish, Pulp Fiction, Down by Law, Stranger than Fiction, The Machinist, 21 Grams, Stir Crazy, The Straight Story, Rushmore, Magnolia, The Last Waltz, Three Kings, The Station Agent, Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, Lost in Translation, The Ref (a must-watch during the holidays), The Devil and Daniel Johnston,Shine a Light, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Television:
Book TV, PBS, The Simpsons, CSPAN, Sesame Street (c'mon, you've gotta love Oscar the Grouch and Count von Count)..
Books:
Anything by these folks: Watler Mosley, Harry Crews, Tim Dorsey, Anne Tyler, Christopher Moore, James M. Cain, Bill Fitzhugh, Andre Codrescu, Robertson Davies, John Barlow, Carl Hiaasen, Kurt Vonnegut, TC Boyle, George Singleton, Jerzy Kosinsky (yeah, he was questionable, but I still like his boooks), Anne Rice, Dave King, Malcolm Gladwell, Chuck Palahniuk (early stuff), Bernard Malamud, Hermann Hesse, Jim Thompson, Mil Millington (I just read all three of his books. I recommend any / all to fans of Christopher Moore, Carl Hiaasen and Bill Fitzhugh.)
Heroes:
Wes Clark on Charlie Rose 9/23/2002
..Howard Zinn, Ricky Jay, Steve Bailey, Charlie Rose, my mom and dad - anyone who can stay happily married for more than 50 years is a hero in my book..