I'd like to meet:
Tom Robbins, Dan Forest, Sienna Miller, my doppleganger, Brick Tamland, Michael's roommates, Charlie McQuaid's girlfriend, Emilio Estevez, a dinosaur, and the guy that does the bug specials on Animal Planet
Music:
A whole lot of stuff. Three Reasons, The Beatles, Talking Heads, Annuals, Blind Melon, Justin Timberlake, Veruca Salt, G. Love, Beck, Deftones, the Shapes, Tool, Jeff Buckley, Jurassic 5, Curtis Mayfield, Crosby, Stills, and Nash, A Tribe Called Quest, the Roots, White Stripes, Wu-Tang, Vast, Taj Mahal, the Shins, Ray Lamongtagne, Pharcyde, the Kinks, KRS-One, Martin Sexton, Iron and Wine on occasion, John Coltrane, Bill Withers, Gorillaz, Fela Kuti, Sonny Rollins, Blackalicious, Common, Blur, Belle and Sebastian, De La Soul, the Cure, Elliott Smith, Digable Planets, Django Reinhardt, Miles Davis, Fugees, Nick Drake, Massive Attack, Tears for Fears, and more.
Movies:
Jaws, Surf Ninjas, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Flight of the Navigator, Anchorman, Goonies, Old School, Real Genius, The Witching of Ben Wagner, Robin Hood Disney version, Indiana Jones, the Muppet Movie, Hocus Pocus, Jurassic Park, Wet Hot American Summer, Troop Beverly Hills, Short Circuit, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Tank Girl, Encino Man, Brazil.
Television:
Top Chef, Simpsons, Even Stevens, Home Movies, Cheap Seats, Sealab, Degrassi-Junior High and the Next Generation
Books:
In Watermelon Sugar, Another Roadside Attraction, Jitterbug Perfume, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, Villa Incognito, Skinny Legs and All, the Daring Book for Girls, Nausea, Scrimmage of Appetite, Botany of Desire, Rilke, Seymour: An Introduction, Nine Stories, How to be Successful with Women, pretty much everything by Richard Brautigan, Tom Robbins, Samuel Clemens, Terry Pratchett, or Charles Bukowski.
Heroes:
Good ol' Anne and Jim, Richard Brautigan, Jerry Weimer, Tom Robbins