I'd like to meet:
Robert Rauschenberg
Wayne Coyne
Kurt Vonnegut
Sophie Scholl
John Smoltz
Dennis Hopper
.. ..Music:
Relatively Recently: The National, Blood On The Walls, Sufjan Stevens, The Arcade Fire, The Go! Team, Broken Social Scene, Comets Gain, The Fiery Furnaces, Grandaddy, Calexico, M. Ward, St.Vincent, Mono.
Tried and True: Nirvana, Janes Addiction, The Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, John Cale, Elvis Costello, Johnny Cash, Bedhead, PJ Harvey, Miles Davis, My Bloody Valentine, Bonny Prince Billy/Will Oldham, Pavement, The Pixies, Camper Van Beethoven, Mike Watt, Sparklehorse, The Butthole Surfers, Radiohead, Sonic Youth, The Kinks, REM, Cat Power, Morphine, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Flaming Lips, Frank Zappa, Naked City, The Cramps, Ministry, Leonard Cohen, Bad Brains, Devo, The Monks, Nick Drake... and more, more, more (favorite music is such an endless prospect.)
Movies:
David Lynch Films, M, Pulp Fiction, Millers Crossing, Raising Arizona, The Big Lewbowski, Downfall, Goodfellas, Slacker (not slackers), Dr. Strangelove, Short Cuts, Star Wars (4,5 and 6 the original versions), The Conversation, High Plains Drifter, Down By Law, and again more than I can remember right now...
Television:
Saturday Morning Cartoons (R.I.P), The History Channel, Seconds From Disaster, Lost, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Adult Swim (I freaking love Harvey Birdman and Sealab) Arrested Development, The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Daily Show.
Books:
Recently: Blink, Life of Pi, American Gods, Against All Enemies, Assassination Vacation, Charlie Wilson's War, Three Nights In August, You Know Me Al, Harry Potter, Middlesex, Empire Falls. Tried and True: Imajica, The Hobbit, Lord Of The Rings, Most Kurt Vonnegut books (but in particular Cats Cradle), On The Road, The Electric Acid Kool-Aid Test, The Unbearable Lightness of Being... Ok, I'm tired of listing now. There are probably more, but I will just leave it at that...
Heroes:
See the who would I like to meet section...