People watching, reading, goggling at the box, listening and screeching to music, hanging out with friends, playing pranks, being a speed freak, politics, religion, creative writing.
Anyone who takes life but not themselves too seriously
Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell, Janis Joplin, Hendrix, Killers, Kaiser Chiefs, Tracy Chapman, Tori Amos, Def Leppard, The Rolling Stones, Motorhead, Beatles, Muse, Marillion, THE LEGENDARY ALICE COOPER, Porgy & Bess, The Cruel Sea and many more.
Charlie and the chocolate factory, The labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, Secret of Nimh, The Big Lebowski, 1969, shawshank redemption, Arlington Road, everything Johnny Depp related, Withnail & I, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Little Shop Of Horrors.
The League Of Gentleman, Desperate Houswives, Northern Exposure.
A Prayer For Owen Meany, The Gormenghast trilogy, all things Douglas Adams, Gone with the Wind, Sylvia Plath, Bill Bryson, Bernard Cornwell's Arthur Series.
I think Nina Simone goes down as my all time hero, for the music, her politics and refusal to be anything other than she was regardless of public opinion [ an admirable and gutsy quality don't you think?].It seems after much thought that most of my heroes are musical, so I will chuck my dad in the mix for good measure!.