I'd like to meet:
Having met my match, that only leaves Karl Rove and Diamanda Galas.
Music:
Coil, Rachmaninoff, Grails, Wire, Witch, Sightings, The Melvins, Zakir Hussein, Psychic TV, Conifer, Gillian Welch, Black Sabbath, Neil Young, Amon Tobin, Shellac, Johnny Cash, Stan Getz, Joy Division, Butthole Surfers, Cheb Khaled, Led Zeppelin, Slint, Interpol, Om, Nina Simone, Kyuss, David Byrne, Michael Gira, Fugazi, Godspeed You Black Emperor et al., David Bowie, Ween, Siouxsie/The Creatures, Mission of Burma, Mastodon, Nirvana, Debussy, Pink Floyd, Lamb, Bi Kyo Ran, Sisters of Mercy, Primus, Steely Dan, John Lee Hooker, Ministry, Donovan, Big Star, The Legendary Pink Dots, Sarah Vaughn, Will Oldham, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Judas Priest, Calexico, Beethoven, Shruti Sadolikar, Clutch, Chet Baker, Portishead, Nick Cave, Iron and Wine, Mike Patton-Mr. Bungle-Tomahawk, AC/DC, Bill Monroe, Rondellus, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Skeleton Crew
Movies:
Mothlight, Report, Bladerunner, Happiness, The Cremaster Cycle, The Corporation, Scarface (the old one with Paul Muni), The Scarlet Empress, Wavelength, The Hunger, The Big Lebowski, Lady from Shanghai, The Matrix, Kaho Naa Pyar Hai, Shakes the Clown, Ghost in the Shell, Eight Men Out, Full Metal Jacket, Naked, The Princess Bride, Raging Bull, New York Portraits, Sex Lies and Videotape, Benny and Joon, Crouching Tiger..., Ali Zaoua, The English Patient, Psycho, Pieces of April, The Hunt for Red October, High Art, The Fight, Fast Cheap and Out of Control, Stand and Deliver, Bad Boy Bubby, Road Warrior, Brokeback Mountain, The Wall, Proteus, The American Astronaut
Television:
Mine's a smoking pile of twisted plastic and darkened shattered glass sitting on Rupert Murdoch's bed, waiting for him to get home...
Books:
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (William Steig), A Canticle for Liebowitz (Walter M. Miller), The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil), Something Leather (Alisdair Gray), Stranger Music (Leonard Cohen), Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino), Manufacturing Consent (Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky), The Night Country (Loren Eiseley), Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides), West with the Night (Beryl Markham), The Sheltering Sky (Paul Bowles), Written on the Body (Jeanette Winterson), Film Sense/Film Form (Sergei Eisenstein), Introduction to Systemic Functional Grammar (Michael Halliday)
Heroes:
My folks, Arundhati Roy, Joe Louis, Dr. Vandana Shiva, Peter Hutton, Beryl Markham, Ann Hamilton, Diamanda Galas, Mark Rothko, Gary Edwards, Laurie Anderson, Emma Goldman, Bill Hicks, j. frey, Roald Dahl, my husband