The Internet (and it's many many uses) and not necessarily in this order: Life, Death, Art, Love, Good, Evil, Technology, Music, Film, Theatre, Journalism, Business, Philosophy, Comedy (similar to philosophy but subtly different), Literature, Mythology, Television, Psychology, Anthropology, Current Events, Coffee, Beer and anything even loosely related to all the stuff listed above...oh and a whole bunch of other stuff I forgot to mention.
Music:
Too Many to Name but as very SMALL random sample: Weakerthans, Bran Van 3000, New Pornographers, the Stars, the Choir Practice, Most Serene Republic, Miles Davis, Republic of Safety, Los Lobos, Buzzcocks, Towers of London, Bronx Cheerleader, Roxy Music, Bob Wiseman, Controller Controller, Cramps, David Bowie, Db's, Housemartins, Libertines, Danny Elfman, Blur, Coral, Clash, Ramones, Bloc Party, They Might Be Giants, Specials, Brian Eno, Fugees, Bob Marley, Aztec Camera, Brand New Heavies, Beatles, Boy Least Likely To, early REM, Jam, Franz Ferdinand, Boy Broken Social Scene, Sublime, Bicycles, Blood Lines, Bauhaus, Feist, Ben Folds, Bjork, Lonely Hunters, Stone Roses, Pizzicato Five, Belle & Sebastian, Barenaked Ladies, 1970's Stevie Wonder, Wolf Parade, Fatboy Slim, Cure, TV on the Radio, Style Council, Sam Roberts, Beck, Fembots, the Smiths, Gorillaz, Dirty Vegas, Magic Numbers, Violent Femmes, Junior Pantherz, XTC, Janes Additction, Jazz Butcher, Hawksley Workman, Groove Armada, Said the Whale, Kara Keith, Ella Fitzgerald, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Dirty Pretty Things, Joel Plaskett, Digable Planets, Postal Service, War, Joy Division, Talking Heads, old U2, Duke Ellington, Devo, Dead Kennedys, X, Air, Modest Mouse, Hidden Cameras, Robyn Hitchcock, Danger Bob, Outkast, Louis Armstrong, Herbie Hancock, Elvis Costello, the Outfit, Black Flag, Cuff the Duke, Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire, Arrogant Worms, DJ Champion, Parkdale Revoutionary Orchestra,
Movies:
To many to mention, but to name just a few: The Godfather, Planet of the Apes (originals), The Usual Suspects, Pulp Fiction, Lord of the Rings, the first 3 Star Wars movies - not so much the newer ones, Clerks, Dogma, Royal Tenenbaums , the Life Aquatic, Ghost Dog, Bruce Lee things, Breakfast Club, Mouse Hunt, Citizen Cane, Crash, Dirty Pretty Things (yes, it's a movie, this is not in the wrong category), They Might Be Giants (yes, it's a movie, this is not in the wrong category), the Muppet Movie, Grosse Point Blank, Better off Dead, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, A Clockwork Orange, Amelie, Marx Brothers movies, the Evil Dead movies, Pretty much anything with pirates, muppets or ninjas (all 3 would be awesome!) ........
Television:
Star Trek (original series only), the Muppet Show, South Park, the Daily Show, the Colbert Report, Zed, SCTV, the Kids in the Hall, TV Nation (Michael Moore series on NBC then Fox, cancelled despite high ratings and replaced with something called the X-Files), Saturday Night Live (first 4 seasons), Frontline, the West Wing, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Land of the Lost, Don't Get Eliminated, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Dead Like Me, The Office (BBC - not the American one), the Monkees, Dragon's Den, the Tick, the Twilight Zone, the Fifth Estate, Disclosure, Sports Night, Weeds, Boston Legal
Books:
Too many to mention, but as a very small sample: JRR Tolkien, Robert Heinlein, Mark Twain, Douglass Adams, Jack Kerouac, Jack London, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Joseph Campbell, Margaret Atwood, JK Rowling, Tom Harpur, Will Ferguson, George Orwell, Douglas Copeland, Bill Shakespear, WB Yeats, Johann Goethe, John King, Rohinton Mistry, Arundhati Roy, Khaled Hosseini
Heroes:
Anyone who believes in what they do, does their best at what they do, smiles at strangers, helps others and leaves the world better than they found it.
