What living people whom you've not met would you most like to?

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

and have a real conversation (an hour or more) with? In no particular order mine:

HH The Dalai Lama (the only person on earth to whom I grant that honorific)
Howard Dean
George McGovern
Nelson Mandela
Ryuichi Sakamoto (Japanese musician, and a genuine genius)
David Lynch
Barack Obama
Thich Nhat Hanh (Vietnamese Buddhist equivalent of HH The Dalai Lama)
Robert Fripp (Founding member and driving force of King Crimson)
Auu Sang Suu Chi
Sora Aoi (beautiful JAV star)
Daevid Allen (Austro-British jazz-rock musician)
Werner Herzog (German film director)
Jacques Pepin
Mario Batali
Garrison Keillor
Mikhail Gorbachev

Yeah, I have eclectic tastes and this represents but a small fraction of the fascinating and diverse people this world has to offer.

Cross posted from GD for all of the folks here who don't venture there.

edited to add Mandela, Gorbachev and to correct a spelling error. :)

[TroglodyteScholar]

1. I'd like to hang out with Black Francis/Frank Black for an evening...

But he's so well-read that I figure he'd make me feel stupid.

Or maybe not, who knows...but I love his music and how quirky he is.

[harmonicon]

2. more than I can think of

I'm with you on several of them: Howard Dean, Daevid Alen, Werner Herzog

I'd really like to meet Tom Johnson (a composer). There are some people who I think I'd like to meet, but I have no idea what I'd say to them... someone like Nelson Mandela - I'd be happy to just shake his hand.

[Left Is Write]

3. John Mellencamp, George Clooney, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Maria Shriver, Ann Rule...

Hugh Jackman, Maureen O'Hara, Tony Bennett, Tom Brokaw

Plenty more I'll think of as soon as I hit post.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

4. You're my Burnsville girl. Cathy!

:hi: :pals: :loveya:

[charlie and algernon]

5. Michelle Obama

Garrison Keiller
Bill Clinton
Jimmy Carter

[WinkyDink]

6. Prince Charles; Paul McCartney; Zachariah Sitchin; Jimmy Carter.