Poetry, belly dance, pedagogy, costume, art theory, sewing, cooking, urban spelunking, singing, and world cultures, especially Asian.
Amitabh Bachchan.
Favorite singers: Asha Bhosle, Najwa Karam, Nagat
Favorite rock band: still The Who
Favorite instruments: the shehnai, the cello, and the oud
and I like old Yiddish radio...
Mughal-e-Azam
Pyaasa
High Society
I no watch television, but I think Project Runway is transplendent.
Here are some recent books by my friends:
The Anger Scale by Katie Degentesh
Petroleum Hat by Drew Gardner
Musee Mechanique by Rodney Koeneke
Info Ration by Stan Apps
Mainstream by Michael Magee
and so many more!
Check out my friends' groovy books!
No heroes, dude.
But I love Yoko Ono, Carolee Schneemann, Clark Coolidge, Richard Foreman, Hijikata Tatsumi, and (more anon)