I like watching a movie, listening to music, reading a book, playing the didgeridoo, making my own beer, going to an Angels baseball game, growing giant pumpkins, drawing, painting, smoking a good cigar...
Maurice Sendak, Lou Reed, H.H. Dalai Lama, Eric Draven, David Carradine, Jerry Garcia, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Harry Houdini, Crazy Horse, Dr. Seuss, Walt Disney, Frank the Rabbit, Andy Warhol, Leonardo Da Vinci, Martin Luther, Apostle Paul, Syd Barrett, Henry Rollins, Yusuf Islam, Brian Eno...
Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd, Dead Can Dance, Lisa Gerrard, Brendan Perry, Brian Eno (ambient work), Steve Roach, Roger Eno, Michael Stearns, Ron Sunsinger, Harold Budd, Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, The Police, The Cult, Nick Drake, The Negro Problem, Stew, Bob Dylan, J.S. Bach, Cure, Phish, Gram Parsons, The Doors, Gary Numan, My Bloody Valentine, Johnny Cash, Motorhead, Cat Stevens, T-Rex, Marc Bolan, Cramps, Scottish Bagpipes, Ramones, Aimee Mann, Native American traditional, Pete Townshend, Sex Pistols, The White Stripes, David Hudson, Warren Zevon...
Eraserhead, The Crow, Donnie Darko, Bubba Ho-Tep, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Dune, The Martian Chronicles, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, The Exorcist, Blade Runner, Sin City, Halloween, Solaris (original and remake), Lord of the Rings Trilogy, A Nightmare Before Christmas, Voyage Into Space, Trekkies, Mad Max, A Clockwork Orange, Apocalypse Now, Enter the Dragon, Master of the Flying Guillotine, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Passion of the Christ, No Country For Old Men, The Big Lebowski, Sling Blade, Napolean Dynamite, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Kundun, Americana, Better Off Dead, Dead Man, Yellow Submarine, Smoke Signals, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill I and II, Taxi Driver, Adaptation, Dark Days, Brother's Keeper, O, Brother, Where Art Thou?, Genghis Blues, Harold and Maude, American Beauty, American Splendor, Memento, Magnolia, The Royal Tenenbaums, Seven Samurai, Ikiru, Sanjuro, Yojimbo, Ran, Rashomon, Grindhouse...
Kung Fu, The Prisoner, Lexx, Twin Peaks, Lost, Addams Family, Munsters, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits (original series), The Waltons, Star Trek, Seinfeld, X-Files, Adult Swim, Dr. Who (Tom Baker years), Gumby, The Office, Six Feet Under, Ali G, The Young Ones, Dexter, M*A*S*H, The Honeymooners...
"Wisdomkeepers: Meetings with Native American Spiritual Elders", by Steve Wall and Harvey Arden, "The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge", by Carlos Castaneda, "Black Elk Speaks", by John G. Neihardt, "Ishi In Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America", by Theodora Kroeber, "Siddhartha", by Hermann Hesse, "The Tao of Pooh", and "The Te of Piglet", by Benjamin Hoff, "The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living", by H.H. the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, M.D., "The Holy Bible", "The Great Divorce", "Mere Christianity", "The Screwtape Letters", and "The Chronicles of Narnia", by C.S. Lewis, "The Hobbit", and "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy", by J.R.R. Tolkien, "Where the Wild Things Are", by Maurice Sendak, "The Martian Chronicles", by Ray Bradbury, "Childhood's End", by Arthur C. Clarke, "The Crow", by J.O'Barr, "Of Mice and Men", by John Steinbeck, "On the Road", by Jack Kerouac, "Animal Farm", by George Orwell, "To Kill a Mockingbird", by Harper Lee, "The Old Man and the Sea", by Ernest Hemingway, "Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up", by Bob Colacello, anything by Tony Hillerman, anything by Clive Barker, anything by Francesca Lia Block...
I don't have heroes- just people that I admire.