I'd like to meet:
John Lennon, but he seems to be undecidedly unavailable.
Music:
REM, Hot Hot Heat, Social Distortion, Bad Religion, The Ramones, The Counting Crows, The White Stipes, Postal Service
Movies:
The Shawshank Redemption, Vanilla Sky, American Beauty, Donnie Darko, Death to Smoochy, Go, Better Luck Tomorrow, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, White Squall, A Clockwork Orange, Brick, The Big Lebowski
Television:
The West Wing, The X-Files, The 4400, Jeopardy
Books:
1984, The Green Book, On the Road, The Right Stuff
Heroes:
Michel Gondry, The Coen Brothers, Wes Anderson, M. Night Shyamalan, Aaron Sorkin, Roger Deakins, Seamus McGarvey, Rodrigo Prieto, Steven Poster, Jack Keroac, Mitch Hedberg