Music, reading, music, reading and, of course, music followed by a little light reading.
I'd like to meet:
Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Harry Potter, the purple Power Ranger, any of the original 3 Teletubbies, any of the original Banana Splits, any of the founding Archies, any of the Happy Tree Friends, you can tell them that. Who else? And ANY of the growing and majorly cool, in-crowd of the Infraction stable of artists.
Music:
Don't even get me started, OK...
1960 The Three Suns "Twilight Memories"
1969 Led Zeppelin S/T
1971 Joe Walsh "Barnstorm"
1966 The Beach Boys "Pet Sounds"
1967 The Beach Boys "Smile"
1980 Peter Gabriel "3"
1980 Harold Budd / Brian Eno "Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror"
1982 Brian Eno "Ambient 4: On Land"
1993 Pete Namlook / Tetsu Inoue "2350 Broadway"
1996 Tetsu Inoue "World Receiver"
Honorable Mentions (in no particular order):
The Beatles "Abbey Road"
Jimi Hendrix "Electric Ladyland"
The James Gang "Rides Again"
Grand Funk Railroad "Grand Funk"
Mountain "Climbing!"
John Coltrane "Meditations"
Miles Davis "Bitches Brew"
Monos "Everyday Soundtracks"
Alp "Out And About With Alp"
Richard Rogers "Victory At Sea"
Harold Budd / Brian Eno "The Pearl"
Mark Isham "Vapor Drawings"
Pete Namlook / Tetsu Inoue "2350 Broadway 2"
Paul Vnuk, Jr. "Silence Speaks In Shadow"
Bill Nelson "Crimsworth"
Bill Nelson "Chance Encounters In The Garden Of Lights"
Michael Brook "Hybrid"
Roger Eno "Voices"
Roger Eno "Between Tides"
Roger Eno "Lost In Translation"
David Sylvian "Gone To Earth"
The Mothers Of Invention "Uncle Meat"
The Mothers Of Invention "Burnt Weeny Sandwich"
Alice Coltrane "Journey In Satchidanada"
John McLaughlin "My Goal's Beyond"
Soft Machine "Thirds"
Justin Bennett "Cityscape"
Laraaji "Ambient 3: Day Of Radiance"
Jon Hassell "Power Spot"
Yes "Yessongs"
The Roches "Keep On Doing"
Individual Songs:
The Tornadoes "Telstar"
The Beach Boys "Good Vibrations"
The Beach Boys "Cabinessence"
Low (Porter Ricks remix from owL) "Down"
David Sylvian "Maria"
David Sylvian "Weathered Wall"
Movies:
Carnival Of Souls, The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus, Mary Poppins, The Wizard Of Oz, Orpheus, Ghost World, Groundhog Day, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, Brian Wilson Presents Smile, Brian Eno 14 Video Paintings and much, much more.
Just forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
Television:
Yucky-ka-ka, who watches television these days that has a brain cell still hanging on?!?!
OK-OK, the Gilmore Girls...and the Gummi Bears!
Books:
Ah! The magic portal to a universe of imagination. If you don't believe that, go watch what the boring, overpaid slackers at Disney imagined for you, loser. (See above)
Heroes:
Brian Eno (except for the balding part), Cordwainer Smith (except for the dying-at-53 part), R. A. Lafferty (except for the dying and balding parts) and many many more. Actually, YOU are my hero, the wind behind my wings!
