I'd like to meet:
julie andrews
Music:
they might be giants, jeff buckley, luna, sigur ros, devotchka, pixies, nusrat fateh ali khan, richard buckner, ryan adams, over the rhine, trashcan sinatras, nina simone, django reinhardt, elvis constello, starflyer 59, koop, my morning jacket, the decemberists, the lucksmiths, mark hollis, rufus wainwright, innocence mission, edith piaf, be good tanyas, james, charlie parker, bela fleck, yo-yo ma, vivaldi, al green.
Movies:
it's a wonderful life, kicking and screaming (Noah Baumbach, NOT the will ferrell movie), rushmore, amelie, dream for an insomniac, dead poet society, the mission, shadowlands, 84 charring cross road, haiku tunnel, office space, room with a view, impromptu, like water for chocolate, rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, welcome to the dollhouse, stealing beauty, the jerk, everything is illuminated.
Television:
firefly, invader zim, the office - BBC version
Books:
life after god, generation x, 100 years of solitude, the bell jar, raise high the roof beam, carpenters and seymour and introduction, bird by bird, chronicles of narnia, his dark materials trilogy, crime and punishment, black spring, hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world, sophie's world, dubliners, look homeward angel, the haunted tea cozy, griffin and sabine, the poetics of space, everything is illuminated, cloud atlas, jpod, the illuminated rumi, letters to a young poet
Heroes:
james hampton