Parapolitics, science, ancient history, world mythologies and beliefs, baseball, art, music, remote viewing, artificial intelligence, Zen Buddhism, and any fringe topic that respectable people avoid!
Anyone who is interested in asking questions about their world, their society, and powers-that-be.
Oh god -- anything that's a unique statement and not part of the corporate music business. That should do. I listen to a lot of Beethoven, lots of world music, and Rage Against the Machine.
Too many to mention, really. Probably my favorite recent movie is V for Vendetta -- a great political statement about the necessity for revolution against an oppressive regime. I'm also a sucker for all those "machines take over the world" movies, too, like Terminator, Matrix. Who knows why!
Big fan of Lost, The Office, and My Name is Earl. Also the Simpsons. How can you not love that show? Oh, I admit to Southpark, too, although I haven't yet encouraged my kids to watch that one! :-)
Do I even read books any more? I guess I do. I'm a fan of Ray Kurzweil (Age of Spiritual Machines, The Singularity is Near), also of my buddy Jim Marrs (Rule by Secrecy, etc etc), my friend Richard Sauder (Underground Bases and Tunnels, etc.), my friend Terry Hansen (The Missing Times -- about media manipulation). I'm a longtime fan of the essays by Gore Vidal, many by Noam Chomsky, and "classic" literature -- my favorite novel ever, by far, is Tolstoy's War and Peace, which utterly blew me away. Unsurpassed genius.
I used to have heroes: people I read about in books, one or two teachers I admired, my parents. But the thing is: we're all flawed, we're all beautiful. We all -- every one of us -- have the potential to realize the spark within us and to become magnificent. So, I think we should all try to be heroes -- to our friends, to our children, even to ourselves. Why consider the stars themselves to be unattainable?