I'd like to meet:
Steve Ditko.
Music:
The Smiths, Pink Floyd, Johnny Cash, Gillian Welch, John Cale, Will Oldham, R.E.M, The Band, Son Volt, Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon, Grant Lee Buffalo, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, The Beatles, Sex Pistols, Nine Inch Nails, David & David, The Replacements, Wolfgang Press, Wilco, The Who, Radiohead, Julian Cope, The Church, Deadman, Ryan Adams, The Cure, Emmylou Harris, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, The Shins, David Bowie.......and lots, lots more.
Movies:
Manhunter, Citizen Kane, Grapes of Wrath, The Graduate, Henry V (1989), The Last Picture Show, Goodfellas, Slingblade, The Best Years of Our Lives, Heathers, O, Brother Where Art Thou, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Jaws, Paris Texas, The Conversation, The Godfather, American History X, Angel Heart, Batman Begins, Saving Private Ryan, Trainspotting, Heat, Seven, The Insider, Double Indemnity, Best in Show, Dazed & Confused, Say Anything, The Rachel Papers, Vertigo....and lots more.
Television:
Homicide: Life on the Street, Millennium, The Sopranos, Buffy: the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, 24, NYPD Blue, The Shield, Simon & Simon, Mythbusters, South Park, Hardball, Rockford Files, McCloud, X-files, St. Elsewhere and anything about Giant Squids.
Books:
Shakespeare--Everything, The Cherry Orchard, The Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, The Bell Jar, David Copperfield, Perfume, Lords of Discipline, Beach Music, Carrion Comfort, Hyperion/Fall of Hyperion, Endemyion/Rise of Endemyion, Red Dragon, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Sound & the Fury, The Sun Also Rises, The Divine Comedy, The Secret History, The Alienist, Lord of the Rings, Faust, Tom Clancy novels (yep, I admit it), The Moviegoer, Last Picture Show, True West, In Cold Blood,
Heroes:
John McCain & Batman