I'd like to meet:
Nelson Mandela, probably a few other people but I can't think of them right now.
Music:
The White Stripes, the Pixies, the Clash, the Clash again, Public Enemy, Dire Straights, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, The Stooges, The Ramones, Radiohead, Marvin Gaye (particularly 'What's Going On'), Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, Jimmi Hendrix, The Beatles, Peter Gabriel, Cat Stevens, Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash, Rolling Stones, Ibrahim Ferrer, Elliot Smith, Velvet Underground (w/Nico, not so much without.)...And much much more!
Movies:
Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail, Munich, Big Lebowski, Traffic, Gangs of New York, Raising Arizona, Fight Club, Three Kings, Rushmore, Unforgiven (great ending), American Beauty, Adaptation, The Wild Bunch (another great ending), Amores Perros, The Motorcycle Diaries, Goodfellas, Cool Hand Luke,...Point Break (I'm not ashamed anymore)...When We Were Kings, Million Dollar Baby...
Television:
The Wire, The Wire, The Wire, The Wire, The Wire (one for each season. You 'Grey's Anatomy' people wouldn't understand...It's complicated, like reading a book.),Lost , and The Simpsons. That's about it. Things you watch when you're trying to fall asleep and can't don't really count.
Books:
Catch-22, Shadow of the Sun or anything else by Ryzard Kapucinzki, The Heart that Bleeds, Looking for History, Crime and Punishment, The Long Walk, 100 Years of Solitude, News of a Kidnapping, Among the Thugs, Deadeye Dick, Clockers, Walking Ghosts, The Zanzibar Chest, The True Believer, Dead Man Walking, No Longer At Ease, Things Fall Apart, A River Runs Through It, The Old Man and the Sea, Animal Farm, 1984, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wiggan Pier, The Stranger,...etc...
Heroes:
That guy who stood up in front of the tanks in Tiananmen Square. Cojones anyone? And Adrienne Wright after she gave her banned book speech, sticking it to 'the man', and leaving it all behind only to be found later coaching a small junior league basketball team at a small high school in the midwest (like Nick Nolte in 'Blue Chips'), cause that's what you do after giving an epic speech and telling 'the man' to go f*ck himself. 'Kudos Adrienne! You're so right!'