Music, Movies, Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Piano, Mellotrons, all percussive instruments, syncopated / two-beat-triplets on quarters / crossing the bar rythyms, Background Vocals, Intonation, Delays, Music Engineering & Production, the Wall of Sound, Books, Nerding it up, Pedantism, Annunciation, Spelling/Grammar/Words, Videogames, GNU/Linux, Sitting with my wife on our kitchen floor and playing tennis with our dog.
Already met her. We sing together and share the same favorite Muppet performer ( Jerry Nelson ). We have rings on our fingers and cried in front of our friends and family.
Also, we have a very serious dachshund named Margo .
the Elephants, Grandaddy, Fugazi, Radiohead, Weezer, the Rentals, the Cars, Beck, Rachel's, the Flaming Lips, Aimee Mann, Fiona Apple, the Ronettes, the Chrystals, Phil Spector productions, Dusty Springfield, T.Rex, the Beatles, the Zombies, Sunny Day Real Estate, Jeremy Enigk, the Pixies, Sparklehorse, Mercury Rev, Daniel Johnston, Modest Mouse, John Vanderslice. Queen. Tom Petty (with optional Heartbreakers), Yann Tiersen. Movie Soundtracks, including, but not limited to: Dune , Stargate , & Edward Scissorhands (and any other Danny Elfman stuff), but most of all Bernard Herrmann.
Ghostbusters, the Abyss, Alien, Aliens, CQ, Pulp Fiction, Snatch, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Seven Samurai (anything with Toshiro Mifune), Terminator 2, Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away.
Dexter, Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles, Firefly, 30 Rock, Battlestar Galactica!
Orson Scott Card, Vernor Vinge, Neal Stephenson.
I'm going to have to agree with Mr. T that one's parents should be their heroes. Also my sister is my hero for many reasons, grammatical and musical. Bob Moog. Jonny Greenwood. Mark Linkous. Daniel Johnston. Sir Paul McCartney. John Lennon. Sir George Martin. Phil Spector. Jack Nitzsche. Earl Palmer. Hal Blaine. Carol Kaye. Brian Wilson. Colin Blunstone. Rod Ardent. Nigel Godrich. Shigeru Miyamoto. Akira Kurosawa. Toshiro Mifune. Nikola Tesla. Philo T. Farnsworth. Michael Ian Black. Paul Williams. Jim Henson. My wife Nickie. Also Aquaman.