People who know more than I do and crave to share their knowledge with others in hopes that they will learn something too.
Busdriver, Iron and Wine, Mogwai, Wu Tang Clan, Del tha Funkee Homosapien AKA Deltron 3030, Mars Volta, Souls of Mischief, Aphex Twin, DJ Shadow, Boards of Canada, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Rakim, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Big L, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pink Floyd, A Tribe Called Quest, Mr. Lif, WHORIDAZ, The Microphones, Bright Eyes, Death Cab for Cutie, Kool Keith, Viktor Vaughn AKA MF Doom, Cannibal Ox, Nas, Magnetic Fields, Leonard Cohen, Medeski Martin and Wood, Bane, Bubble Man Theme, Dr. Wily Theme, Dave Miller Theme from Maniac Mansion, Battle Music from Final Fantasy 2, Minibosses, Popul Vuh, And a ton of others I can't think of right now
Jackie Brown, 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Ugetsu, Pulp Fiction, Se7en, Rashomon, Street Fighter: The Movie, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Fireworks, Woman in the Dunes, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Game, Clue, The Abyss, A Christmas Story, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, The Enigma of Kasper Hauser, Sansho the Bailiff, Hero, Run Lola Run, Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Stalker, Lawrence of Arabia, Citizen Kane, Ikiru, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Shawshank Redemption, Casablanca, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Fata Morgana, Lessons of Darkness, Blow-up, Rebecca, Dr. Strangelove, North by Northwest, Beverly Hills Ninja, Angel Dust, Akira, City of God, Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Terminator 2, Requiem for a Dream, Time and Tide, The Freshest Kid, Seven Samurai, Royal Tenenbaums, Goodfellas, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cool Hand Luke, A Clockwork Orange, Mean Streets, Notorious, The Man Who Wasn't There, Stroszek, Even Dwarves Started Small, The Shining, Friday, Half-Baked, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Twilight Samurai, Last Year at Marienbad
Mr. Show, Deadwood, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Carnivale, Arrested Development, Fawlty Towers, Seinfeld, Family Guy, Oz, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Futurama, Home Movies, Daily Show, Twin Peaks, Nature and space documentaries
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, Herodotus, Books by Kawabata Yasunari, Watchmen, Aeschylus, The Theban Plays, Herzog on Herzog, Thucydides, Hells Angels, The Rum Diary, The Stranger, Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder
My family is full of heroes, and the fact that they wish for me to be happy and successful is a wonderful feeling to have. Outside of family: Werner Herzog, Jeff Mangum, Orson Welles, Roger Ebert, Jon Stewart, Kenji Mizoguchi, David Attenborough, my high school English teacher Mr. Nickerson, and others that don't come to mind at the moment.