Music:
Ellis Paul, Christopher Williams, Counting Crows, Peter Gabriel, Damien Rice, Sting, Train, Tool, Vertical Horizon.... good Jazz and the occasional audiobook. But i'm a music whore... over 55,000 tracks in iTunes.
Movies:
Momento, Primer, Session9, Stay, 11:14, Vanilla Sky, The Butterfly Effect, Donnie Darko, Identity, The Spanish Prisoner, and to a certain extent Fight Club, the Matrix and Almost Famous
Television:
Frontline and American Experience once in a while.
Books:
Anything by Dave Ramsey, Thomas Stanley "The Millionaire Next Door", David McCullough, "QBQ! The Question Behind the Question", Rich Dad Poor Dad, "The One Minute Manager", "The Tipping Point" and "The Go-Getter "... "Roaring Lambs", "Good to Great", "Rhinoceros Success", "The 21 irrefutable laws of leadership", "Who moved my cheese?", "The wealthy barber "...
I prob read or listen to 3 books a week. Too many good books too list. If you aren't reading you aren't growing - and you can't win. If you can tell me who was "voted off the island" and you haven't read a good book lately then seriously, what the hell? Why bother?
Heroes:
Bobby Kennedy, Peter Gabriel, Sammy Davis Jr, Joe DiMaggio, John Adams, Vaclav Havel, Paul Hawken, Andrew Carnegie, Martin Luther King, Thomas Jefferson, Walt Whitman, Dave Ramsey, Paul Hewson, Thomas L. Friedman.
All anybody can give us is an example for ourselves to follow... If we're smart, those examples outlive the short lives of the people who give them to us. They leave us an example of what we could seek, and find. For the good, and the success in our lives. Opportunities for growth and dignity for all of us. Today.