I like stuff.
They Might Be Giants , Soul Coughing, Underworld , Chemical Brothers , Fatboy Slim , Lionrock (aka Justin Robertson ), Portishead , DJ Andy Smith , Monk & Canatella , Bjork , Gus Gus , Tricky, Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation , Hooverphonic , Lamb, Morcheeba , Skye , Beastie Boys , Orbital , Pepe Deluxe , Faithless , Gorillaz , Handsome Boy Modeling School, Lovage, Audio Bullys , Plastilina Mosh , Beck , Cornershop, Blur , The Smiths, James Brown , Jurassic 5 , De La Soul, Digable Planets, Us 3, A Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers, Arrested Development , Stereo MCs, Loop Guru , Kula Shaker , Primal Scream , Catherine Wheel, Radiohead, Air , Daft Punk , Death in Vegas , Bent , Lemon Jelly , Bonobo , Mr. Scruff , Fluke , St. Germain, Arling and Cameron, Badly Drawn Boy , UNKLE, The Postal Service , Basement Jaxx , Lo Fidelity Allstars , Mr. Oizo, Indian Ropeman, Midfield General , The The, The Sundays, The Ocean Blue , Nightmares on Wax , Supergrass , Happy Mondays, Black Grape, Stone Roses, Charlatans UK , Mint Royale , Ursula 1000 , dZihan and Kamien, Uberzone, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Thomas Dolby, Howard Jones, Gary Numan, Zero 7 , The Dining Rooms, Supreme Beings of Leisure , Amorphous Androgynous , Ennio Morricone, Le Gooster, Kenna , Har Mar Superstar , Detroit Grand Pubahs , Goldfrapp , Bloodhound Gang , Tenacious D , Kraftwerk, Art of Noise, Devo, Sparks, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Curtis Mayfield, The Isley Brothers, KC and The Sunshine Band, Booker T and The MGs, Ravi Shankar, Ananda Shankar, State of Bengal, Badmarsh and Shri, 1 Giant Leap , Enya, West Indian Girl , Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Leftfield, David Holmes, Shantel, Red Snapper , Kruder and Dorfmeister, Apollo Four Forty, Moloko, The Rentals , Weezer , The Flaming Lips , Kinky, BT , Moby , The Crystal Method, Sigur Ros , MIDIval PunditZ , Brazilian Girls , Talvin Singh, The White Stripes, Robert Johnson, Leadbelly, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Johnny Cash, Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Cab Calloway, Frou Frou, Imogen Heap , Tori Amos, Erykah Badu , Martina Topley-Bird , Lou Rhodes , Beth Orton , Beth Gibbons , Mike Doughty , Rob Dickinson , Madeleine Peyroux , Joanna Newsom, Roisin Murphy , Sia , DJ Shadow, Kid Koala........
Friends and locals: Clouds of Magellan , Totem Maples , Slang , St-Vn , ASI , Hobo Jazz , Bucksworth , Sugar Mountain Mama Serenade ,
Winston and the Telescreen , Phoenix and the Turtle , Debonaires , Ruet Tape , DJ Sleep , The Idaho Falls , Peapod , Mudville , Last Blue Film , The Pretty Scars , Asymmetrical Head , 7: Es-El , The Prix , Pushstart Wagon , Souvlakia , TheWreckingstone , Mahoney , SilverCities , Map , Enid the Dowl , The Small Doses , Kevorkian Death Cycle , Velvet Chain , DJ Jason Timothy , Matt Coleman
Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Kill Bill, Eraserhead, Akira, Shaun of the Dead, Rashomon, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness, Forbidden Zone, Star Wars (Episodes IV-VI), City of Lost Children, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Brain Candy, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Dune, Life of Brian, Near Dark, Reservoir Dogs, Raising Arizona, Strange Brew, 12 Monkeys, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Blues Brothers, Throw Momma From The Train, Ghost Dog, Jacob's Ladder, Superfly, Big Lebowski, Enter The Dragon, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Good The Bad And The Ugly, Better Off Dead, Freaks, Trainspotting, Pi, Rebel Without A Cause, The Elephant Man, Delicatessan, Forbidden Planet, Clerks, Pulp Fiction, Swingers, Brazil, Seven Samurai, Fight Club, Boogie Nights, Lost Highway, Lord of the Rings, Tapeheads, Amelie, Shallow Grave, Big Trouble In Little China, It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Dusk Til Dawn, 28 Days Later, Magnolia, Snatch, The Matrix.......
Twin Peaks, Max Headroom, Doctor Who, Get a Life, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jeopardy!, The Man Show, That's My Bush!, Insomniac, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Kids in the Hall, The Simpsons, Chappelle's Show, Ren & Stimpy, Twilight Zone, Star Trek, Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, The Tick, Reno 911, Arrested Development, Scrubs, The Andy Milonakus Show, Good Times, What's Happening!!
Dune by Frank Herbert,
Stranger in a Strange Land and Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein,
Neuromancer or anything else by William Gibson,
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams,
The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein,
Ramses The Damned, Interview With The Vampire, Memnoch the Devil and all the rest of Anne Rice's supernatural stuff,
Out of Sight, Get Shorty, Rum Punch and Cuba Libre by Elmore Leonard,
The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Time Machine and War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells,
1984 by George Orwell,
The Shining, Dead Zone, Firestarter and Pet Sematary by Stephen King,
2001 by Arthur C. Clarke,
Foundation and I, Robot by Isaac Asimov,
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury,
and anything by H.P. Lovecraft or Fritz Leiber
Currently Reading:
I don't know about "heroes", I don't particularly idolize anyone but these are some people that I find interesting for one reason or another:
Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin, Joshua A. Norton I (Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico), David Lynch, Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, James Dean, Akira Kurosawa, Chuck Jones, John Kricfalusi, George Carlin, Howard Stern, Adam Carolla, and Norman Cook