I'd like to meet:
Anna Cuthbert-Newman of Des Moines, Iowa.
Music:
(auto-biographically) The Beatles, John Lennon, Fleetwood Mac, S+G, Led Zeppelin, Oasis, Dave Matthews, Smashing Pumpkins, Fiona Apple, Soundgarden, Chris Cornell, Nirvana, Deftones, STP, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Radiohead, Massive Attack, Portishead, The Streets, Nina Simone, Rufus Wainwright, Beck, Wilco, QOTSA, Joy Division, Interpol, Hem, The Shins, Iron + Wine (and pretty much anything that comes out of Sub Pop Records) Johnny Cash, Air, Keaton Simons, Sara Bareilles, Ryan Adams, Roman Candle, Broken Social Scene, Mates of State, Kings of Convenience, Erlend Oye, Feist, Arcade Fire, Phoenix, Andrew Bird, !!!, Wolf Parade, Blonde Redhead, etc. etc.
Movies:
Wet Hot American Summer, all Christopher Guest, Ferris Bueller, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Big Lebowski and anything Coen, The Thin Red Line, A Streetcar Named Desire, Annie Hall, Wayne's World, Eternal Sunshine, Back to the Future, Children of Men (seven minute uncut steady-cam shot, Clive Owen running through a war-torn ghetto, dodging bullets. Quality.)
Television:
"Oh wake up, Christian, our cottling him and laissez-faire attitude is what led him to getting pissed on by a bunch of transexuals in the first place!"
Books:
Lolita, Atonement, Flatland (A Romance of Many Dimensions), Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Wuthering Heights, A Prayer For Owen Meany, On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Slaughterhouse Five, The Wellspring (Poetry by Sharon Olds), Pale Fire, Sideways Stories From Wayside School, The Masterpiece, Straight Man, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Bastard Out of Carolina, The Kentucky Cycle, Out, Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame (Bukowski Poetry), The Elegant Universe, Franny and Zooey, Sam Shepard plays.
Heroes:
My parents, my sister, Barb and Nell, Katie, Gene, Sam Shepard, Scheer-McBrayer, the OED.