I'd like to meet:
Anyone with guts. There are guts, y'know?
Music:
John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Dave Brubeck, Charles Mingus, Lee Morgan, The Meters, Funkadelic, Stanton Moore, Charlie Hunter, Medeski Martin and Wood, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Orenette Coleman,Johnny Griffin, Pepper Adams, Bill Evans, Art Pepper, Grant Green, Wes Montgomery, Bob Dylan, Brad Mehldau,Cannonball Adderly, Stevie Wonder, Skerik, Garage a Trois, Grateful Dead, Danny Gatton and the Redneck Jazz Explosion, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown,John Scofield, The Wood Brothers, Paul Chambers, Ahmad Jahmal,, Ludwig van Beethoven, Jelly Roll Morton, Muddy Waters, Mozart, Antoin Dvorak, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, McCoy Tyner, Claude Debussy, Soulive, Addison Groove Project, Curtis Mayfield, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Jon Brion,The Beatles, Greyboy Allstars, A Tribe Called Quest,Thelonious Monk,Bud Powell, JJ Johnson, Kai Windig Jack Kerouac-Steve Allen and Zoot Sims, Hank Mobley, Fredie Hubbard, Ron Carter, Jimmy Garrison, Sonny Rollins, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Count Bassie, Lester Young, Bud Powell, Charlie Christian, Elvin Jones, Django Reinhart, Joe Zawinul, Art Tatum, Benny Goodman, Dave Holland, John Mclaughlin, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Fredric Chopin, Gerry Mulligan, The JB's, Madeline Peyroux, Horace Silver....look, this could go on all day. How about you try a few out first?
Movies:
Royal Tennenbaums, Rushmore, Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jesus' Son, Buffalo 66, Kill Billz, Falling Down,The Man Who Knew Too Little, Pink Panther(original) Goodfellas, Life Aquatic, 12 Angry Men, Cool Hand Luke, Bottlerockets, Slingblade, The Graduate, Sideways, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amelie, Dr. Strangelove, Full Metal Jacket, Catch 22, The Departed, Trainspotting, The Big Lebowski, Little Miss Sunshine, Godfather 1 and 2, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Casino, Taxi Driver, JFK, Scent of a Woman, Schindler's List, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Mississippi Burning, Apocalypse Now, A Clockwork Orange, Waiting for Guffman, Shawshank Redemption, The French Connection, Remains of the Day, Gandhi, I Love You Alice B. Tolkas, Best in Show, Deer Hunter, Annie Hall, On the Waterfront, All the President's Men, Dead Poet's Society, Stand By Me, Citizen Kane, Saving Private Ryan, Fargo, Philadelphia Story, Unforgiven, No Country For Old Men
Books:
On the Road, Desolation Angels, Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Siddhartha, Slaughterhouse Five, Dharma Bums, The Odyssey, Dr. Sax, 1984, Animal Farm, Farenheit 451, Hocus Pocus,Diamond Sutra, Big Sur, Cats Cradle, Naked Lunch, The First Third, Town and the City,Tuesdays With Morrie, Lonesome Traveler, Satori in Paris, the Subteraneans, Miles Davis Story, Effortless Mastery, Zen and the Art of Archery, The Meaning of Happiness, The Spirit of Zen, The Supreme Identity, The Joyous Cosmology - Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness
Heroes:
Heroes are what you have when you can't find the hero within yourself.