Albert Einstein, Yoko Ono, Nancy Reagan, Walter Cronkite, Mario Andretti, Kevin Kline, Adam Duritz, Keith Richards, Jamie Lee Curtis, Richard and Kyle Petty, Ferdinand Porsche, John Wooden, Billy Graham.
Anything that rocks AND shows a bit of intelligence -- Dramarama, Soul Asylum, The Ramones (except kids keep taking my discs), Clash (but kids keep taking the discs), John Lennon and The Beatles, Counting Crows, Brian Setzer/Stray Cats, A Man Called E (he's the dude that fronts the Eels now), Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Harry Nilsson, Lenny Kravitz, Honk, Pearl Jam, Neil Young, John Hiatt, The Pretenders, Green Day, The Rembrandts, stonebobbo, R.E.M., The Smithereens, The Cure, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Traveling Wilburys, Warren Zevon, Lou Reed/Velvet Underground, World Party, Social Distortion (I want my discs back), Badfinger. Also, any Surf music (stonejoebobbo sez check out The Aqua Velvets) ... and the other early stuff that influenced everything today -- Buddy Holly, Huey "Piano" Smith, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Eddie Cochran, Carl Perkins, Richie Valens, The Wilson Brothers aka Beach Boys, The Seeds, Jimi Hendrix. And about a million more.
Help!, Dave, A Fish Called Wanda, Hopscotch, Ronin, The Longest Day, True Grit, Rebel Without a Cause, Giant, Mr. Roberts, Run Silent Run Deep, High Plains Drifter, Repo Man, Casablanca, The Gauntlet, The Maltese Falcon, Jaws, Rocky (the first one), True Lies, Glengarry Glen Ross, LeMans, Wizard of Oz, Fantasia, Mutiny on the Bounty, Taxi Driver, The Dirty Dozen, Papillon, Cool Hand Luke, The Wild Bunch, A Streetcar Named Desire, Full Metal Jacket.
I don't watch much TV but ... F1 Racing, Fawlty Towers, Nascar, The Daily Show, Southpark, and different talking heads on the news shows are what I watch.
The Pearl and East of Eden by Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, anything by Carl Hiaasen, Empire Falls, The Shipping News, The Art of War by Sun-Tzu, Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Butter Battle War by Dr. Suess, John Irving (Son of the Circus, The World According to Garp, Cider House Rules), Get Shorty, Robots and Empire (Issac Asimov), Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and Carlos Castaneda.
Anyone taking up the cause to serve and protect our country, all those who went into the World Trade Center when everyone else was coming out, Arland D. Williams Jr., Roger Olian, Kristen Cavin, Ronald Reagan and thousands of others I can't think of right now.