comic strips, graphic novels, animation, fiction, 20's jazz and blues, the Internet, entrepeneurship, Asian food, comedy, novel writing, screenwriting, non-fiction
I'd like to meet:
old hippies, cartoonists, writers, artists, the usual wack-jobs.
Music:
Louis Armstrong, Cotton Club Duke Ellington, Coltrane, Miles, trance, techno, dj culture, world music, dub, klezmer, Harry Reser, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Otis Spann, reefer madness
Movies:
Godfather I and II, Annie Hall, Casino, the first 5 Marx Brothers movies, anything with WC Fields in it, Pulp Fiction
Television:
Sopranos, The Simpsons (greatest show of all time), early Ren and Stimpy, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Soupy Sales, early Saturday Night Live, ... and currently I'm hooked on American Idol just like the rest of the unwashed masses.
Books:
It can't Happen Here, Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
David Copperfield, Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
the essays of Gore Vidal
Lipstick Traces - Griel Marcus
Ullyses - James Joyce
USA trilogy - John Dos Passos
Studs Lonigan trilogy - James T. Farrell
Call It Sleep - Henry Roth
Last of the Just - Andre Schwarz-Bart
Micro-Serfs - Douglas Coupland
Heroes:
Buckminster Fuller, Thomas Edison, Sinclair Lewis, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Winsor McKay, Walt Kelly, Muhammad Ali, Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola, Pope John 23rd, King Christian of Denmark, Duke Ellington, Beethoven, Mozart
