cooking, percussion, learning bass guitar, learning everything, Bright Colors, haribo gummi bears, retro pictures with anachronistic captions, lava lamps, Dance Dance Revolution, cuddling, anything clever, being at a nice 70 degrees
Thomas Paine, Oprah, Benjamin Franklin, my uncle Tony, Anne Taintor, Orson Scott Card, Jhonen Vasquez, Buttercup of the powerpuff girls (not the voice actor - I want to meet Buttercup), myself at 7 years old, and any and everyone who can make me smile
Pharrel, Ben Folds, The Decemberists, Elliot Smith, Carole King, Simon & Garfunkel, The Beatles, Keane, Tahiti 80, Phantom Planet, Blue October, Ani DiFranco, No Doubt, Of Montreal, David Holsinger, Deathcab for Cutie, Erin McKeown, and many more
The Fountain, Empire Records, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Real Genius, Hackers, Good Will Hunting, High Fidelity, Gattaca, The Island, Ghost World, Abre los Ojos
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, House MD, The Class, Family Guy, Invader Zim, Futurama, Unwrapped, Anything that has Alton Brown
Orson Scott Card, David Eddings, Chuck Klosterman, Roger Zelazny, Chuck Pahlinuk, Piers Anthony, Molly Jong-Fast, and many, many others
I could say my Mom. It's true, but if feels like a cop out. My heroes change, but they're usually characters in books, not real people. But. Are the people you consider heroes real people to you?