Music, poetry, journalism, prose, screenwriting (don't worry, I've got a line on some great tree-free paper!), acting, fertilization, cross-pollination, budding, blooming, female trees, Heavy Metal (as you can well imagine, I wouldn't have gone for "Heavy Wood"), Punk Rock, Jazz, Folk (can't get away from it anyway, where I live), Blues, cool summer breezes, quiet woodland tenants, and romantic moonlit nights
Heroes:
Louis Riel, King Diamond, Witchfynde, Mercyful Fate, Rob Halford, Frank Zappa, John Lennon, Bill Bruford, Brian Bates, Rob Roy, Robert the Bruce, William Wallace, Robbie Burns, Monty Python, Doctor Who, W.T. MacSkimming, Herbert De Ley, Arthur Brown, John Carpenter, Ken Russell, Aslan, George Romero, David Cronenberg, John Mayall, Frank Marino, William Burroughs, Edgar Allan Poe, George Harrison, Peter Criss, Warlord, Saint Vitus, Satya, Hawkwind, Rob Calvert, Nik Turner, Howlin' Wolf, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Sean St. Denis, David Suzuki, J., B., and A. Bemrose, A. Aber, Al Clermont, Steve Brown, Andrew, Adrienne, and Bruce MacSkimming, Roy and Suzette MacSkimming, David Zimmerly, Andre Bekerman, Mr. Priebe, John Black, Prof./Chair of Celtic Studies U of O Paul Birt, all from the Cwrs Cymraeg Ottawa a'r Cylch 1993, Ken Simpson, Marc Villeneuve, Robin Boers, Neil Peart, Micheal Giles, Prof. Myrkley Music Dept. U of O, Stan Clark Music Glebe Collegiate, Dave Ross, Lorenzo Cotroneo, Miran, Trevor Ferrier and Rare Air, Sabu Toyuzumi, Sun-Ra, Elvis Presley, Jean-Luc Ponty, UZEB, Peter Erskine, John Abercrombie, Kali, Billy Cobham, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Coltrane, Jones, Melissa Casey, B.B King, Marvin Gaye, Bird, Max, Miles, Buddy, Krupa, Benny, Brubeck, Morello, Thelonious, Blakey, Mingus, Jaco, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, John Crowley, H.P. Lovecraft, Greg, Mary, Sandy, Mike, John Wilson, Balthazar De Ley, John Westhaver, Melita Thornhill, Kenny, Steve, and Infernal Majesty, Bruce Cockburn, Bill Ward, Horslips, Gregory Frost, Phil Lynott, The Beatles, King Crimson, Robin Williamson, Forest, Dylan Thomas, Tom Waits, Rob Duvet, Clifton Joseph, Al Purdy, Tom Wayman, J.P. Daoust, Valerie, bill bissett, Max Middle, Sean Virgo, Art Bergmann, Rob Lang, Fairport Convention, Marillion, Fish, J.R.R. Tolkien, William Blake, Percy Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Laura Secord, King Arthur, the Beothuck people, the Warriors from Oka, Khanawake, and Khanesetake, Pentagram, Lemmy, Black Sabbath, The Tubes, Patti Smith, Lou Reed, MC5, Alice Cooper, Hamish, Max Schreck, Lon Chaney, Phil Kaye, The Dalai Lama, The Lha-Khu, Martin Luther King, Bill Wilson, all my Great-Uncles, my Great-Grandpa, and all other members of my family who served in the World Wars, all the Allied veterans of the World Wars and those who gave their lives, those ancestors of mine who spoke out against religious persecution, Jesus Christ