Vilhelm Hammershoi [sic], Dan Flavin, Peter Saville, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Minimalism, The Super Bowl Shuffle, Nordic art and cinema, Adidas, painting, DJing, playing ice hockey, Oslo, Norway, light, love, New Order, The Detroit Red Wings, The Denver Broncos, Manchester, FAC51: The Haçienda, Factory Records, Tecmo Super Bowl, talking about sports, talking about feelings, impersonating the Reverend Brown in COMING TO AMERICA, morality, austerity, pizza, being in nature, dancing, being deadpan, snow, blizzards, sub-zero temperatures, viewing sports as the embodiment of everything important in life, silence, silence expressed in visual terms, berry etymology, Italo Disco, synths, optics, afterimages, phosphenes, vitreous jelly, the retina, vision, sight, visual phenomena, visual noise, floaters, seeing "with" the eye rather than "through" it, DARTS
Fancy.
If I had to pick one person who is my hero and who I admire more than anybody else in the entire world, it is Steve Yzerman. He is the embodiment of everything I have ever wanted to be. If you want to know what makes me cry, it's this video:
For those who have seen GRINDHOUSE:
A little bit o' "O" never hurt anybody, although it may offend a few people:
New Order, first and foremost. They are one of my greatest passions.
Paul Haig, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Joy Division, The KLF,
Happy Mondays, Section 25, Front 242, Public Image Ltd., Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Pet Shop Boys, Slowdive, The Chemical Brothers, Skinny Puppy, Secret Shine, Astrobrite, Northside, The Durutti Column, Erasure, Inspiral Carpets, Yazoo, The Future Sound of London, Kariya, Orbital, The JAMS, The Timelords, The Other Two, Electronic, The Cure, Mojave 3, Peter Murphy, Clan of Xymox, 52nd Street, Marcel King, Primal Scream, Lovesliescrushing, Black Sabbath, Difference Engine, Front Line Assembly, Chapterhouse, Beefcake, The Crystals, The Ronettes, Bethany Curve, Minny Pops, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, Charles B, Cocteau Twins, Mira, Labradford, Da 85 Bears Shufflin' Crew, Black Box, The Four Tops, Albert One, Max Him, Fancy, Radiorama, Bad Boys Blue, My Mine, Bobby O, Perestroika Power, Baltimora, Miko Mission, Doctor's Cat, Claudia T., Koto, Interface, Kano, Lian Ross, The Flirts
Winter Light is my favorite movie of all-time, bar none. To me, it's the most beautiful thing ever made, really.The Good The Bad & The Ugly, 8 1/2, Love & Death, Solaris, Red Beard, L'Eclisse, Dirty Harry, Rear Window, M, Sullivan's Travels, Zombie, Suspiria, The Sword of Doom, Onibaba, Diary of a Country Priest, This Is Spinal Tap, The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Big Lebowski, Lost in Translation, Eyes Without A Face, Manhattan, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Husbands & Wives, Deconstructing Harry, Wild Strawberries, Persona, Scenes from a Marriage, Cries & Whispers, Fanny & Alexander, Ikiru, Seven Samurai, Nosferatu, The Evil Dead, Blow-Up, Vampyr, The Third Man, Unfaithfully Yours, The Sacrifice, Fletch, The Wedding Singer, Shaun of the Dead, Sixteen Candles, Edward Scissorhands, Yojimbo, Das Boot, Groundhog Day, Caddyshack, Night of the Living Dead, Pulp Fiction, Clerks, City of the Living Dead, Tenebre, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, High & Low, Coming To America, The Terminator, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Death Wish, Notorious, North by Northwest, 24 Hour Party People, Napoleon Dynamite, A Fish Called Wanda, Fierce Creatures, Battleship Potemkin, The Blood of a Poet, Hitch, Beverly Hills Cop, Music & Lyrics, GRINDHOUSE
Seinfeld, The Office (English, but the American one is choice too), Arrested Development, The Simpsons, The Critic, Futurama, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Twin Peaks, Knowing Me Knowing You With Alan Partridge, I'm Alan Partridge, The Cosby Show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, THE ADVENTURES OF BRISCO COUNTY, JR., Mystery Science Theater 3000, Newsradio, The Bernie Mac Show, Chappelle's Show, The O.C., The Wire, Scrubs, Great Moments in Hookup History, Formel Eins, Extras, Degrassi Junior High, Degrassi High, Degrassi: The Next Generation
Tao Te Ching (Lao Tzu), The Tin Drum (Grass), A Dream Play (Strindberg), The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rilke), Works of Love (Kierkegaard), Images: My Life in Film (Bergman), The Years (Woolf), Mrs. Dalloway (also Woolf), The Doors of Perception (Huxley), Metaphors on Vision (Brakhage), Sculpting in Time (Tarkovsky), The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography (also Bergman), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kundera), The Prelude (Wordsworth), Oedipus Rex (Sophocles), 24 Hour Party People (Wilson), Touching from a Distance: The Ian Curtis Story (Curtis), Freaky Dancin': Me and the Mondays (BEZ), Fear & Trembling (also Kierkegaard), Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience (Blake), Phenomenology of Perception (Merleau-Ponty)
Steve Yzerman, The Captain. He's been my hero since I was 9 years old. The epitome of class, dedication, excellence and selflessness:
Bernard Sumner, or as I know him, Barney. The greatest genius in the history of pop music - yes, I just said that:
Paul Haig. For creating truly and deeply spiritual pop music that really understands love and also taught me things I didn't know before. Also, the Interference Mix of Blue For You is quite possibly the most danceable track ever recorded:
Ingmar Bergman. Although he has frankly been a dick to the women in his life - and I don't admire that in the least - his films have changed my life and taught me an unfathomable amount about myself and the importance of love and faith. The fact that he made WINTER LIGHT alone makes him one of my heroes:
Bez, for teaching me to enjoy all things in moderation:
Walter Payton, "Sweetness", for being the hardest-working, best all-around football player of all-time, and for being completely unique and selfless while doing it:
Dan Flavin, for making completely innovative and life-changing art far more beautiful than the work of any artist I've ever seen (save only for Vilhelm Hammershøi), all while having a great sense of humor:
Lao Tzu, for being one of the wisest people in human history:
Jerry Seinfeld, for being such a damn genius:
Søren Kierkegaard, for having the best hair of all the theistic existentialists:
And finally, the greatest role model of them all, for teaching me the true meaning of fidelity and honor: Joey Buttafuoco.
...just kidding.