ACTING, reading, outdoors, singing & playing guitar (not all that well)
Most of the people I'd like to meet are dead. I would have liked to meet Muddy Waters--he's dead, too.
Blues, rock, roots, folk...almost anything that comes from the heart---Love Muddy Waters, Hank Williams Sr., Hank Snow, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Gene Vincent, Johnny Burnett, Charlie Feathers, Jack Scott, The Band, Howling Wolf, John Lee Hooker, CCR, The CArter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Rush, Luther Allison, Blind Willie McTell, Mississippi John Hurt, Louisiana Red and SO MANY MORE More modern influences include The Beatles, Nirvana, The Clash, The Stranglers, The Residents, Devo, Bob Dylan (obviously in no particular order!!)
Gangs of New York, The Godfather 1 & 2, Goodfellas, The Party, The Searchers, Laurence of Arabia, La Grande Illusion, The Usual Suspects; V for Vendetta
Cooking shows, documentaries--the odd comedy, UFC (yeah, baby)---other than my beloved Coronation Street, not much else
Mostly non-fiction--favourite books are: 1984, I Claudius, Hostage to The Devil, Slaughterhouse Five, Johnny Got His Gun, The original James Bond novels (by Ian Fleming), many many more- I also love biographies--trashy ones as well as quality ones. Love Shakespeare, Charles Bukowski, Orwell, Camus, Robert Graves, Carl Jung, Henry Miller, Dave Eggers, Malachi Martin, John Steinbeck..
I don't believe in heroes...