MacArthur, Lee, Grant, Patton, Calrissian, etc.
I'd like to meet:
Spider Jerusalem. People who have faked their own deaths. William Shakespeare. Pizza delivery people. Jesus. People with ridiculous anachronistic affectations. Orson Welles. People who are looking for someone to inherit their estate and/or patents and copyrights. Andy Kaufman. Elvis Presley (or Costello, really, just so he doesn't feel bad. Can you imagine being the "other" famous Elvis? Sitting in a restaurant, hearing people at the next table saying how much they LOVE Elvis... knowing they don't mean you?) Anyone else, please apply with Ms. Featherstone at the desk out front.
Music:
The Police, Tori Amos, The Cars, REM, Elvis Presley, Tom Jones, Tom Waits, U2, Dire Straits, Green Day, Frank Sinatra, Swing, Big Bands, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Tenacious D, Rachmaninoff, Harry Connick Jr., did I say Tom Waits?, Coldplay, Iron and Wine, Styx, ELO, Pearl Jam, Georges Bizet, Roy Orbison, Nina Simone, Diana Krall, Bruce Springsteen, Violent Femmes, David Gray, Stephen Lynch, The Doors, Oingo Boingo, Richard Cheese, Nirvana, Chris Isaak, Journey, Jesus Christ Superstar, Chess, Les Mis, a little bit of everything.. And you - I mean, you're great. Seriously.
Movies:
The Lion in Winter, The World According to Garp, Harold and Maude, 12 Monkeys, Requiem for a Dream, Three Amigos, early Bond films, Buckaroo Banzai, It's a Wonderful Life, Being John Malkovich, When Harry Met Sally, Nightmare Before Christmas, Star Wars, Young Frankenstein, Empire Strikes Back, High Fidelity, Henry V (Branagh's), all the Monty Python films, Cradle Will Rock, This Is Spinal Tap, Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan, Anchorman, Army of Darkness, Evil Dead I & II, Almost Famous, Blazing Saddles, Chasing Amy, Fight Club, Unbreakable, Magnolia, The Jerk, Fisher King, all the Christopher Guest films, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Cannibal:The Musical, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Xanadu, Say Anything, The Man Who Would Be King, A Streetcar Named Desire, Princess Bride, Ed Wood, Rope, Shaun of the Dead, A Christmas Story, Strangers on a Train, Citizen Kane, Popeye, Superman, Big Lebowski, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Meet the Feebles, etc.
Television:
The work thing makes it hard to catch a lot of TV, but with DVD and Tivo I try to catch the good stuff. Family Guy, Greg the Bunny, The Office (both US and UK), The Simpsons, Black Adder, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, Mr. Show, West Wing, Lost, Robot Chicken, the new Battlestar Galactica, Heroes, Comedians of Comedy, closed circuit feeds of your mother. I despise reality TV.
Books:
John Irving, Neil Gaiman, David Sedaris, Douglas Coupland, Wil Wheaton, William Shakespeare, Michael Moore, Christopher Buckley, David Foster Wallace, Steve Martin, Paulo Coelho, Christopher Stasheff, Cormac McCarthy, Garth Ennis, Brian Michael Bendis, Alan Moore, Augusten Burroughs, and you... well, I'm aware of your work.
Heroes:
My parents. Christopher Reeve. Whoever delivers my pizza. People who create things, except for people who create French food. Anyone who is unsatisfied with our C minus culture of populist mediocrity. People who won't let the audience in on the joke. You, for having the courage to be literate.
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