I'd like to meet:
Interesting AND inteligent people, people that can spell, creative people, someone that could go have a beer and shoot some pool one night and go to a gallery opening the next. There have to be more interesting people in Springsteen territory in the armpit of America.
Music:
Soul Coughing, Eels, Fishbone, Queens of the Stone Age, Fugazi, Mike Ladd, The Flaming Lips, Radiohead, Dead Kennedys, the Cramps, Filter, Reverend Horton Heat, Black Flag, Tom Waits, Robert Johnson, Screeching Weasel, Blue Meanies, Beck, Ella Fitzgerald, Pixies, Skatalites, Calexico, Sasquatch and the Sick-a-Billys, Tricky, Morphine, White Stripes, etc.
Movies:
the cabinet of dr. caligari, M, bowling for columbine, the adventures of baron munchausen, american beauty, taxi driver, seven, the reflecting skin, shrek, reservoir dogs, being john malkovich, momento, blade runner, most greenaway, I know there are more ...
Television:
Twin Peaks, Monster house, the Daily Show, Family Guy, Simpsons, the joe shmo show, carnivale, South Park, Top Chef for some reason, Mythbusters, Arrested Development, Boondocks
Books:
the fifth sacred thing, the magician's assistant, 1984, A Short History of Nearly Everything-Bill Bryson, Authors(I haven't read anything I don't like by these guys): tom robbins, harry crews, mark layner