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I'd like to meet:

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Rocket Man --- Sir Elton John

A Glimpse at the Storys

Journey's End -- The Storys

TARGET LOVE - BANGGURU

Jorma Kaukonen w/ David Bromberg: Whinin' Boy Blues

Hot Tuna w/ David Bromberg: I Know You Rider

Hot Tuna w/ David Bromberg: Whinin' Boy Blues

My Opening Farewell -- Bonnie Raitt w/Jackson Brown

All along the Watchtower -- Jimi Hendricks

Bad Like Jesse James -- John Lee Hooker

New York State of Mind -- Billy Joel

Layla -- Eric Clapton

Dixie Chicken -- Little Feat's Paul Barrere and Fred Tackett

Cousin Dupree -- Steely Dan

Sunrise -- Norah Jones

Voodoo Child -- Stevie Ray Vaughan

Blowin' in the Wind -- Bob Dylan

Giving It Up for Your Love -- Delbert McClinton

A Little Help From My Friends -- Joe Cocker

Jesus on the Main Line -- Ry Cooder

Moonlight Drive -- The Doors and Jim Morrison

Roadhouse Blues -- The Doors and Jim Morrison

No Woman No Cry -- Bob Marley and the Wailers

Harvest Moon -- Neil Young

Woodstock Intro -- Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

Suite Judy Blue Eyes-- Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

Land of Dreams -- Marcia Ball with the Duke Robillard Band

My Life is Good -- Randy Newman

Elephant Beer Blues -- Tom Waits

Waltzing Matilda - Tom Traubert's Blues -- Tom Waits

Bloody Mary Morning -- Willie Nelson

Blue Eyes Cryin' In the Rain -- Willie Nelson

Pretty Woman -- Roy Orbison

The crew of the Firefly Serenity

I'd also like to meet: Dilbert, John Varley, Tom Clancy, Ian Fleming, Hunter S. Thompson, Gary Trudeau, Robert Heinlein, Ernest Hemingway, Bill Murray, Thomas Alva Edison, Humphrey Bogart, Jean-Francois Champollion, Bill Gates, Ben Franklin, Gnossos Pappadopoulis;

and Dear new Friends of brains, humor, edge and wit -- now that I have retired from my work colleagues.

Music:

Frozen in the 1970's...

Blues and old rock mainly -- Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, John Mayall, Paul Butterfield, Long John Baldry, R.L. Burnside, Susan Tedeschi, Delbert McClinton, Janis Joplin, Marcia Ball, Marshall Chapman, Bob Dylan, David Bromberg, J. Geils, Joe Cocker, Little Feat, Ry Cooder, Taj Mahal, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy, Luther Allison, Robert Cray, Albert Collins .... Reggae: Bob Marley... Some Country: old Willie Nelson stuff (Red Headed Stranger, Stardust), Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen, Jerry Jeff Walker, Lyle Lovett ... Some Jazzy: Norah Jones, Diana Krall.... Some Miscellaneous: Elton John, Billy Joel, Tom Waits, Randy Newman, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Billy Vera and the Beaters, Van Morrison, Steely Dan, old Norton Buffalo, Allman Brothers, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Neil Young solo, Melissa Manchester, Beatles, Sheryl Crow, Carly Simon, Carole King, Chi Coltrane, Creedance Clearwater Revival, the Doors, the Eagles, Glenn Frey, James Taylor (old and new), Joni Mitchell...

and where does Firesign Theatre fit in?

Movies:

Buckaroo Banzai (the greatest movie ever made)
Casablanca (almost up to Buckaroo)
Network (Howard Beale: "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!")
Lost in Translation (Charlotte: You're probably just having a mid-life crisis. Did you buy a Porsche yet?)
Young Frankenstein (Please! Remain in your seats, I beg you! We are not children here, we are scientists! I assure you there is nothing to fear!)
The Graduate (Plastics... "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?")
A Clockwork Orange (Alex: "There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.")
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Dr. Strangelove: Sir! I have a plan! [standing up from his wheelchair] Dr. Strangelove: Mein Führer! I can walk! )
Apocalyse Now (Kilgore: "I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end... ")
The Day The Earth Stood Still (Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!)
Forbidden Planet (oh, those Monsters from the Id)
Blade Runner (Tyrell: "More human than human" is our motto.)
2001: A Space Odyssey (HAL: I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a... fraid. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you. Dave Bowman: Yes, I'd like to hear it, HAL. Sing it for me. HAL: It's called "Daisy.")
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Roy Neary: "I know this sounds crazy, but ever since yesterday on the road, I've been seeing this shape. Shaving cream, pillows... Dammit! I know this. I know what this is! This means something. This is important. ")
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Don't Panic)
Serenity (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: "Y'all got on this boat for different reasons, but y'all come to the same place. So now I'm asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything, I know this - they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better. And I do not hold to that. So no more runnin'. I aim to misbehave. ")
The Matrix trilogy (Trinity: I know why you're here, Neo. I know what you've been doing... why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. You're looking for him. I know because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It's the question that drives us, Neo. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did. Neo: What is the Matrix? Trinity: The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.)
The Thin Man movies (don't forget Asta the dog)
Pulp Fiction (with Vincent and Jules)
Ezekiel 25:17 -- Jules: The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
Sin City (Marv: "The night's as hot as hell. It's a lousy room in a lousy part of a lousy town - I'm staring at a goddess. She's telling me she wants me. I'm not going to waste one more minute wondering how I've gotten this lucky. She smells like angels ought to smell, the perfect woman... the Goddess. Goldie. She says her name is Goldie." )

Television:

CNN news, PBS, Discovery Channel, History Channel, CSI's,

Rocky and Bullwinkle

Dr. Who (and the Tardis)

Nero Wolfe (and Archie Goodwin)

Sherlock Holmes (and Dr. Watson)

Hercule Poirot (and Captain Hastings)

la Femme Nikita (Peta Wilson and Roy Dupruis)

The Lone Ranger and Tonto ("Um, that right, Kemosabe.")

Bret and Bart Maverick

The Man from U.N.C.L.E,

Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum)

I Spy (Robert Culp and Bill Cosby)

Miami Vice (Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as Crockett and Tubbs)

Psych with James Roday (as Shawn Spencer) and Dule Hill (as Burton "Gus" Guster)

Kwai Chang Caine (David Carradine) in Kung Fu

Bloomberg Channel, the Weather Channel (never ending battle of the H's vs. the L's), Mythbusters, Star Trek, Babylon 5, Stargate, Firefly

Books:

Well, there is:
As a kid -- I loved the "Tom Swift, Jr." series.
I enjoy everything written by John Varley -- the Gaean Trilogy (Titan, Wizard, Demon), Steel Beech, The Golden Globe, Red Thunder, Mammoth, and Red Lightning. Varley's collected short stories in the John Varley Reader.
I am re-reading the James Bond novels. Neil Stephenson's Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash are great -- as are William Gibson's Neuromancer and Pattern Recognition.
Of course, Robert Heinlein (Glory Road, Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, et. al.).
"Wasp" by Eric Frank Russell.
Frank Herbert's Dune. Enders Game by Orson Scott Card. Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld series. Vonnegut (but he's so negative in his recent interviews). I liked some of the early Robert Ludlum and Tom Clancy books. Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe books are fun -- as are any of the Raymond Chandler books. Ernest Hemingway books are classic. Re-read "Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me" by Richard Farina.
And, of course:

Heroes:

Buckaroo Banzai, The Lone Ranger, Dr. Who, Dilbert, Tom Swift Jr., any of the astronauts (especially, Gene Cernan -- who went to Proviso East High School)

As Cernan got ready to climb the ladder of the Apollo 17 LM, he spoke these words, the last ever spoken by a man standing on the moon's surface (December 14, 1972):

As we leave the Moon and Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind. As I take these last steps from the surface for some time to come, I'd just like to record that America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow. Godspeed the crew of Apollo Seventeen.