Being outside. Eating sand. Laughing. Driving fast. Fighting speeding tickets. Darn.
Anyone who has been to outer space
Tom Petty, Paul Simon, Jackson Browne, Led Zeppelin, Counting Crows, U2, Pretenders, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, Lucinda Williams, Joni Mitchell, Chuck Prophet, John Denver, Neil Young, Ben Folds, Billy Joel, Roger Miller, Beatles, Greg Brown, Pat Metheny, David Gray, Disney soundtracks, Tesla, Emmylou Harris, Bon Jovi, and anything else that ROCKS!!
Um, ok, really, this is a way-too large subject. I like many, many movies, but narrowing it down would be (deep breath): Stand By Me, Star Wars, Raising Arizona, When Harry met Sally, Some Kind of Wonderful, As Good as it Gets, Say Anything, High Fidelity, Dead Poets Society, Big Wednesday, North Shore, KARATE KID, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, A River Runs Through It, Dumb and Dumber, It's a Wonderful Life, Rad, Napolean D, Swingers, Fellowship of the Ring, etc.... And ANYTHING on Super 8mm!!
A strange tube like device which emits dangerous levels of....
Anythng by: C.S. Lewis, AA Milne, JRR Tolkien, the Bible, Steve Martin's "Pure Drivel" The Dictionary, John Steinbeck - Travels With Charley, The 1966 Chrysler Shop Manual, Modern Architecture etc.. Children of Men by P.D. James
Nikola Tesla (the REAL inventor of radio, as well as AC - Alternating Current), Walt Disney (inventor of Animation, among other challenges), My friends are heroes to me, and - Dan Porter, always a hero.