Comic Books, Role Playing Games, Science and Tech, Archaeology/Museums/History, A little bit of everything.
I would have liked to meet Warren Zevon, I list him as one of my personal prophets and I DID meet Douglas Adams before he passed away...so I guess I need to try to meet Carl Hiaasen next.Others include Emperor Norton, Elmer McCurdy, Lao Tsu, Doc Holliday, Quanah Parker, Ghandi, Pericles, Calico Jack Rackham, Nikola Tesla, Leonardo DaVinci, Ben Franklin, I would have liked to meet Hernan Cortes, just to kick him in the balls. Most of the people I would like to meet have been dead for at least a century or much longer...
They Might Be Giants (forever and for always my top favorite), Warren Zevon, Reverend Horton Heat, Cake, Crash Test Dummies, Barenaked Ladies, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, John Prine, Ray Benson, Monty Montgomery, Lyle Lovett, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Fountains of Wayne, Cowboy Mouth, Tenatious D, Red Elvises, Iris Dement, the Police, Liz Phair, Sublime, Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, the Refreshments, Bush, the Dixie Chicks (yeah, I like 'em, piss off), Busta Rhymes, the Gourds, really, I like a little bit of everything
A Clockwork Orange, Casablanca, Bubba Ho-Tep, In the Mouth of Madness, Shawn of the Dead, Brazil, Raising Arizona, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Blade Runner, Wicker Man (the 1973 version, thank you very much), History of the World (Part I), Blazing Saddles
I actually don't have TV... Well, I do, but I don't get any stations. Been that way for over 6 years now, and I don't really miss it that much. Most of the shows I've loved the most get axed a season or two into them anyway. Mystery Science Theater 3000, Futurama, Firefly, Daily Show, the Colbert Report, Reno 911, Strange Luck, Brimstone, the Tick (animated), the Tick (Live Action)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, A Canticle for Liebowitz, Any Terry Pratchett, Niel Gaiman, Sherman Alexie, Carl Hiaasen, Christopher Moore ("Lamb" and "A Dirty Job" should be required reading for life), and Bill Bryson, most Harlan Ellison (even if he is a dick). Like music, a little bit of everything, but I love sci/fi and fantasy most of all.
My Trinity of Personal Prophets: Douglas Adams, Warren Zevon, and Carl Hiaasen. Ben Franklin, Nikola Tesla, Richard Dawkins, St. Augustine, Emperor Joshua Norton the 1st