I'd like to meet:

Music:

764-HERO, Aesop Rock, AFI, A Fine Frenzy, Alan Parsons Project, Alice Cooper, Alkaline Trio, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead, Andrew Bird, Aqualung, A Silver Mt. Zion, As Tall As Lions, Athlete, At The Drive-In, Band Of Horses, Beastie Boys, Beep Beep, Bell X1, Bloc Party, Blur, Boys Night Out, Brand New, Cave In, Chinese Stars, City Of Caterpillar, Clutch, Coheed & Cambria, Cold War Kids, Converge, The Coral, Cursive, Damien Rice, David Gray, Dead Milkmen, Death By Stereo, Deftones, Delorentos, Desaparecidos, The Divine Comedy, The Dillinger Escape Plan, dj BC, Dr. Dog, DragonForce, Elliott, Every Time I Die, Faith No More, Fantomas, Far, Foo Fighters, For Mistake, Funeral Diner, Funeral For A Friend, Galneryus, glassJAw, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Grade, Grandaddy, Grand Archives, Gratitude, The Halo Benders, Head Automatica, The Honorary Title, HORSE The Band, Incubus, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Jonah Matranga, Kasabian, Kings of Leon, Last Days Of April, Liam Lynch, Liars, The Magnetic Fields, MAN MAN, The Mars Volta, Mason Proper, Matt Costa, mewithoutYou, Millencolin, Mineral, Moneen, Motion City Soundtrack, Mr. Bungle, The Murder City Devils, Neal Casal, Neil Young, The New Amsterdams, New End Original, of Montreal, onelinedrawing, Orchid, Peeping Tom, Pete Yorn, Portugal. The Man, Refused, Reggie & The Full Effect, The Rentals, Rival Schools, Rufus Wainwright, Ryan Adams, Saetia, Samiam, Saves The Day, The Shins, The Smiths, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, The Stills, Sunny Day Real Estate, Team Sleep, Tenacious D, Texas Is The Reason, These Arms Are Snakes, The Thorns, The Thrills, Tim Williams, Tomahawk, Too Much Joy, Travis, TV On The Radio, U2, The Unicorns, The Washington Social Club, We Are Scientists, Ween, Weezer, WHY?, Will Haven.

Movies:

28 Days Later, Batman Begins, Hot Fuzz, Disco Pigs, [insert all Marx Brothers movies here], Doogal, Run Ronnie Run!, Auntie Mame, The Host, Sin City, No Country For Old Men, Shaun Of The Dead, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Brain Candy, The Last Broadcast, Sunshine, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, The Jerk, Reservoir Dogs, I (Heart) Huckabees, Garden State, The Baxter, Clay Pigeons, Cry Baby, The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, The Plague, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Caddy Shack, Ed Wood, Freddy Got Fingered, Dawn of the Dead, Wet Hot American Summer, The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Resident Evil: Extinction, Dune, Spaceballs, The Amazing True Adventures of Two Girls In Love, Auto Focus, Velvet Goldmine, Chuck And Buck, Trainspotting, The Incredibles, Secret Window, Cool World, Best In Show, 40 Year Old Virgin, Stranger Than Fiction, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, A Life Less Ordinary, Frida, Buffalo 66, Elf, Fright Night, Jesus' Son, The Crow, Dumb And Dumber, The Pianist, Pleasantville, Good Will Hunting, History Of The World Part I, Glory, My Girl, Jane Eyre, Pumpkin, Howard The Duck, Saw, Love Me If You Dare!, Dee Snider's Strangeland, Monkey Bone, Girl, Tommy, The Stupids, Scanners, UHF, Bubba Ho-tep, The Trip, I Am Sam, The Village, This Is Spinal Tap, Toys, What Dreams May Come, Dick Tracy, Wayne's World, American Psycho, Shrek, Army of Darkness, Breakfast On Pluto, Where The Buffalo Roam, Altered States, The Hobbit, Head, That Thing You Do!, Anchorman, Dummy, 21 Grams, Clifford, Saving Private Ryan, For Your Consideration, THX 1138, The Man With The Screaming Brain, 3:10 To Yuma, SPICE WORLD!, Apocalypse Now, The Time Machine (1960), Blade Runner, The Warriors, Fargo, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Rocket Man, Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, Three Amigos, Slither, Re-Animator, Baseketball, Drop Dead Fred, Silent Hill, Wild Zero, Invincible. Pretty much anything with Cillian Murphy, Bruce Campbell, Ewan McGregor, Adrien Brody, Johnny Depp, Bill Murray, Steve Carell, and Tom Hanks.

Television:

The Brittas Empire, The Simpsons, My Hero, The Weekenders, Mr. Show, Stella, Spaced, Tom Goes To The Mayor, Home Movies, Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends, Good Eats, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Weeds, Mission Hill, Jon & Kate Plus Ei8ht, Metalocalypse, Futurama, Family Guy, Flight of the Conchords, Scrubs, Arrested Development, Ace of Cakes, 3 South, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Office, X Play, Iron Chef America, and Rick Steve's Europe.

Books:

I mostly read books about The Marx Brothers... but I also like: The Sirens Of Titan, Screw-Jack, Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events (The Whole Wreck), If Chins Could Kill, The Phantom Tollbooth, All The President's Pets, Flowers For Algernon, 1984, I Am America And So Can You, The Essential Groucho, The Greedy Bastard Diaries, Frankenstein, The Hobbit, Hollywood Causes Cancer, The Learning Tree, Oh, The Things I Know!, Mouse Tales, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, Please Kill Me, Skipping Christmas, Spike Mike Slackers & Dykes, Pride And Prejudice, A Confederacy Of Dunces, Of Mice And Men, my new Batman encyclopedia.
Anything written by Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, Edgar Allen Poe, Nick Hornby, and Dave Barry.
Anything illustrated by Stephen Kellogg.
Comic-Type-Things: Batman (duh), Howard The Duck, Cheryl Blossom, The Watchmen, X-Men, Shang-Chi, Hellboy, The Maxx, Flash, Marvel vs DC, The Mighty Thor, Archie, The Shadow, The Amazing Spiderman, Jonah Hex, Sin City, Josie & The Pussycats, Civil War, Space Ghost, Sandman, Acme Novelty Library, The Hulk, Fantastic Four, Infinite Crisis, 52, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Green Lantern, Elf Quest, The Darkness, and some others I'm forgetting. NOT the 28 Days Later graphic novel. (It sucked.)

Heroes:

Ryan Adams' blog.