I'd like to meet:
The man in this woodcut (not originally colored in). This is my favorite piece of art ever.
Music:
Meshell Ndegeocello, Dusty Springfield, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Amy Winehouse (pre Back to Black), Lauryn Hill, Jay-Z, Kanye West, GirlTalk, DJ Shadow, Sleater Kinney, Led Zeppelin, Team Dresch, The Butchies, Arrested Development, Patti Smith, Tori Amos, Ani Difranco, Indigo Girls, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Blackalicious, Saul Williams, RX Bandits, Incubus, and many more I can't remember.
Movies:
When Night Is Falling, PI, Waking Life, East of Eden, Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2. Garden State, Star Wars Vol. 3-6, Fight Club, Batman Begins, Fire, The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls In Love, A Beautiful Mind, Contact, Donald Duck in Mathamagic Land, Pocohontas, Anne oF Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Foxfire, Secretary, But I'm A Cheerleader, Tiny Toons Adventures My Summer Vacation, American History X, Do The Right Thing, Back To The Future I, II, and III, The Last Dragon, Pulp Fiction, Lord of the Rings (but the books are way the fuck better)
Television:
Twin Peaks, X Files, Xena The Warrior Princess, The Boondocks, Law and Order, Mysteries of the Bible, most everything on the History channel, Avatar, Medium, PBS!!!
Books:
I read a lot. Favorites that come to mind - The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir, most all things by Chuck Palahniuk, His Dark Materials trilogy, No One Here Gets Out Alive (bio of Jim Morrison), Black Theology of Liberation by James Cone, poetry of Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda, Saul Williams, Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke as well as all of his poetry, the Sunday Boston Globe, and much more.
Heroes:
mom, dad, sister, wife, and myself.