Music, piano, saxophone, reading, traveling, ballet, hiking, skiing, French, movies, hanging out with friends and family, having deep conversations beyond the surface of small talk and superficiality, going on drives, learning about anything new that's remotely interesting, trying new things
Anyone who can hold a decent conversation and has some sort of insight or knowledge that I can learn from- which includes most people in this world. :)
Lots of classical pieces, alt/modern rock, classic rock, some jazz/blues/funk- basically most genres. Bands and composers like Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Debussy, Vaughn-Williams, Sibelius, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, Holst, Stravinsky, Dave Matthews Band, Tower of Power, Beatles, Live, Tonic, Third Eye Blind, Bad Religion, Jimmy Eat World, Foo Fighters, Joshua Redman, and lots more... there's all kinds of songs out there that I've heard and liked...
Goonies!, The Labyrinth, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, The Cutting Edge, Boondock Saints, Beetlejuice, Indiana Jones movies, LOTR, Austin Powers, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Office Space, Ferris Bueller, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, classic movies and musicals, Moulin Rouge, Little Women, Return to Me, and probably more I'm forgetting...
I hate to admit it, but I have one addiction: Lost. Yep, they reeled me in, too.
The DaVinci Code, Sophie's World, Michael Crichton books, Brave New World, Wuthering Heights, Shakespeare plays, and more I don't feel like trying to remember and list...
My mom and my grandmother- for their incomparable strength and wisdom. There's lots of people I admire, past and present, famous and familiar, but I couldn't really call them heroes, just amazing people.